Novel Full Chapter 60: Sometimes They Come To You
Chapter 60: Sometimes They Come To You
After a quick shower, Kalli headed for the courtyard, just in time for the guards on the wall to whistle a shrill warning.
At a full run, she climbed the stairs to the wall, and found that their targets for the day were already presenting themselves for extermination.
"Students, form up! Get your teams ready, the Pig Men and Rat Demons are three blocks away and closing. We need teams outside to fortify the civilian apartment, and to hold the gate area.
Healers to the walls, ranged fighters check your ammunition. Come to me if you are short."
Kalli’s shouting alerted both the students and the approaching monsters. However, they didn’t seem to speak human languages, and they didn’t make any effort to go for the only apartment that was occupied.
The residents had heavily fortified the first floor already, expecting this sort of thing.
But that didn’t mean the pig demons couldn’t get in if they were determined.
Teams quickly formed up, and the group that had been about to enter the dungeon was diverted to hold the breach around the gates, including the front of the apartment building.
Kalli took inventory of her gear, and then realized that she didn’t have nearly enough.
Her new Amulet of Mana Regeneration gave her one point every 3 seconds. But it was 30 points to recharge her Lasrifle.
30 shots would not last 90 seconds.
A quick scan of her options found the same submachine gun that the special forces were using, for a whopping 10 points. Plus suppressor. And ammunition.
Then, she quickly checked the stats on the upgrades. The Uncommon Grade rifle did 25 damage per shot instead of 20. While the standard ammunition simply stated what it was. But the Uncommon Grade ammunition added 5 points of damage to the weapon it was used in.
That would bring it to 30 damage if she bought both at Uncommon. However, it was also going to cost her 23 points for everything, with one case of ammunition.
And she didn’t have spare magazines.
Those were available in bulk, so, 24 points in total. She could work with that. The soldiers would need ammunition anyhow. Other than Sanchez, they did less per shot than she would. A disadvantage of not having the System on their side. But they were still ranged firepower.
"Hey, someone run these to the four towers. They’re going to need them," she called.
Mark, a tall and lanky Rogue, ran up to her and grabbed the four cases of ammunition into his backpack.
"They’re not moving from the back towers?"
Kalli shook her head. "They need to stay, in case something tries to surround us. One soldier per tower, at the very least. Most of the monsters have formed up on the front side, since the hill is so steep and covered in brush. But they might still try to encircle us and get over the wall.
The fact that they’re working together today is not giving me happy, joy-joy feelings."
The Rogue laughed as he ran off with the ammunition, and Sanchez came over to her side.
"I see you’ve got uncommon grade ammunition. How much?"
"Two points a case."
"I’ll take one. We’ve got a couple of minutes to load."
Kalli sat down, and Sanchez handed her a U shaped metal strip. "Slide it into the case, and it will pick up the lip of the shells. Then just push the whole stack into the magazine. It’s not the best fast loader out there, but it gets the job done."
Kalli watched him demonstrate, and followed suit, loading magazines until an entire case of ammunition was empty.
Sanchez used up the rest of the magazines, loading as many as he could until they ran out of spare magazines.
"As long as the others got the delivery on time, we should be alright. Don’t forget to fit the suppressor, if you have one."
Kalli pointed at the plain black box that the System generated the universal suppressor in. Once you touched it to the weapon, it would make one to fit what you wanted to use it on. But until then, it could be assigned to a wide variety of rifles and pistols.
The pig demons were spreading out, aiming to hit the force outside the gates from all sides at once before the second rank was in place.
"Shields forward. They’re coming from all directions. Second rank, prepare to repel a charge!" She shouted as the pig men howled in rage at having been discovered.
They were not particularly smart creatures, and their eyesight was terrible. They legitimately hadn’t seen her up on the wall until she stood up and started shouting. But now, they assumed that she was the enemy general, giving orders to her troops.
"Kalli, front us some spears! We will pay you after." One of the warriors in the second rank shouted.
Kalli sighed and purchased twenty to toss down in a bundle.
Those would be better at reaching past the warriors in the front row to hit the larger demons, and it would stop a charge much more effectively than a ninety kilo university student in composite armour.
Her Points balance was not happy with her, though.
"Riflemen, engage!"
Kalli followed her own instructions, and began to fire with her Lasrifle, aiming for the pig demons in the front row, wounding and slowing them to a stumbling jog.
A surge of mana reloaded it, and Kalli found that the exertion wasn’t as bad as it had been the first time.
But it was still too much of her mana pool.
With the monsters crowded together, two shots a second was still accurate enough to get clean hits, and sixty shots didn’t last long. So, she set the rifle in her storage and switched to projectiles.
The spearmen surged forward, driving their weapons past the front ranks and deep into the pig men.
Among the second rank, Kalli saw most of the warriors from the middle school, which was a good sign. They needed the kills for the mission and experience.
Pig men fell, and a wave of rat demons scrambled over them, only to be met with a wave of magic, and the blades of the front rank.
Then, the second rank of pig men, much less wounded from rifle fire than the first one had been, took their place, crashing into the shield line as spears stabbed frantically, looking for a solid hit.
They were too close for Kalli to safely shoot at them now, so she targeted the third line, using the three round burst function that she had scorned the soldiers for using the first day.
It might be a waste of ammunition, but it was a deadly waste of ammunition.
If all three hit a pig man on the chest, there was a good chance that it would drop. Heavily wounded, if not dead.
But there were more still coming.