{Dungeon town}
It had been fifteen minutes since Emira and the rest stood on the gate waiting for the imminent attack on Dungeon town.
"What is taking them so long?!"
Minako yelled out her frustration.
"Well, armies don't just appear out of thin air."
Geoff said.
"They have to walk."
She glared at him, and then looked at Daley.
"How much longer?"
Daley put his pointer under his chin.
"Not easy to say, but if I were to guess, I'd say thirty, or so, minutes."
"Half an hour!"
He shrugged.
"Or so. Look, I'm just gauging by how far my goblins are."
"And you couldn't wait to tell us they were coming a little later?!"
He gave her a quizzical look.
"You wanted me... to... to sit on the info that a big group of heavily armored beasties are headed this way?!"
"Well, when you put it like that it sounds bad, but yes."
She gestured towards the forest.
"At least wait until they're only fifteen minutes out. The wait is killing me faster than they ever could!"
"You know patience is a..."
"If you finish that, I will stab you."
As Daley was wondering if provoking her was worth it, Rake came running up with a big capacity bag held in his hands.
He quickly climbed up to them, and placed the bag at Emira's feet.
She opened it up and started taking out...
"GUNS?! You have guns!"
Minako yelled.
"Oh, good, I don't need to explain how to use them then I take it."
Minako blushed.
"Just because I know what they are does not mean I know how to use them. I mean, most don't."
Daley raised his hand.
"I do."
Minako looked at him in shock.
"I thought you were Canadian!"
"What does me being Canadian have anything to do about guns?"
"Because Americans are the gun fanatics!"
"A) that's racist, and B) Canadians have guns too. We hunt, have gun problems, and everything else that comes with having guns. We just aren't as gun crazy as our neighbors to the south. I think they have more guns than kids!"
As they continued their banter Emira pulled out her armor she made.
Thick leather with steel plates and riveted rings sewn on with metallic fiber, a vee-shaped gorget attached to the breastplate that curved backwards making it look like two horns surrounds her neck, a gun scabbard on her back to hold her rifle, a holster on her hip for her pistol, a sheath for her modified iklwa, and two vambraces with the left one having a capacity gem embedded into the underside for easier loading of her gun.
It was expensive, but she bit the bullet and brought it.
She would not be caught unprepared like before.
She quickly got equipped, and refocused on Minako and Daley's conversation.
"And another thing, twenty ounces is their small!"
Daley exclaimed.
"Twenty ounces, that's like point six liters, right?"
"Oh, yeah, and most of them go for the large."
"A liter worth of soda, how unhealthy can you be?! But that's nothing, one time an American businessman came to our head offices to seek a merger - he got turned down, and brought food with him on his plane. The meat was too salty, the bread too sweet, and if you bothered to look at the nutritional guide on the back, you'd wonder how any of them are still alive!"
Emira realized they had bonded over shiting on Jay's home country.
Not that she cared.
"If you two are done, do you want one?"
She asked aloud.
"Yes, please!"
Daley excitedly said as he snatched one up.
Minako instead pulled a crossbow out of her sword.
"No need. As scouts, we always have a ranged weapon handy."
As she was saying that she looked at Geoff, and frowned.
"Where's your bow?! You forgot it again, didn't you?!"
"No, I didn't forget it."
She sighed.
"Alright, sorry, I didn't realize that you have a capacity gem now."
"No, need to apologize, I don't have one."
"Then, how..."
"I don't have a bow anymore."
"How? They give them out for free!"
He steepled his fingers.
"You remember last week when I was late? Well, the reason for that was because as I was coming back from the woods I ran into a bear. I escaped by climbing a tree, but dropped my bow. Which was taken by the bear's cubs. I asked Dag for a new one, but she said that since it was my third one in two months I'd have to buy one myself. Something about teaching me responsibility for the tool that could save my life. I forgot to buy one. So, here we are."
He turned to me.
"I would like one too."
He grabbed one, and Emira looked at Minako.
"I know that you don't want a gun, but what about some armor?"
Minako was in a simple leather jerkin, a belt that held her sword sheath, and leggings.
"That won't do you much good."
"I'll be fine, trust me."
She looked back at the town.
"More to the point, why aren't none of the other adventurers coming to fight? They had to have heard us talking about it."
"Because it's not their fight."
Geoff said.
"Worst comes to past, they'll just flee."
"That's just stupid!"
"No, it isn't."
Emira told her.
"First rule of staying alive is don't fight when you don't have to."
Geoff nodded.
"Exactly. Also, if things turn south, you better believe that we are gonna hightail it outta here."
"No, I won't."
Emira said. Which earned her a few shocked looks.
"This is my land, and I will defend it."
"Alyd is gonna try her damnedest to claim this land. So, I say it wouldn't be so bad for her to have to fight a small army to get it."
"Alyd is not getting my land."
"Wow, you must really have faith in your friends. You really think that they'll pull it off?"
"I didn't say that. Three fifths of them are incompetent."
"Isn't there only four of them?"
"I'm counting Thonie, and she's one of the competent ones."
"But how would you fight her? She has the town guard at her fingertips."
"I have my ways, and let's just leave it at that. Now,"
Emira picked up her own gun.
"before they get here I'm going to go over how to reload and everything else about these guns. Also, what to do if they breach the wall."
For the next half hour they talked strategy while Daley cracked jokes, and everyone wondered why he was even there.
Finally the first of their enemies stepped out from the forest, and from the paved path rolled their siege weapons and a couple escalades.
The mini army is comprised of multiple kinds of nonhuman races.
From elves to the wildfolk - simian hominids that are more heavily built than humans, with tails hanging over brightly colored asses, pronounced facial features, four inch long canines, and an innate relationship with nature.
And before any of you get the wrong idea... Yes, it is most definitely sexual.
"Oh, great, they brought along some tree fuckers."
A male cat beastman said.
"Your not supposed to call them that."
Geoff told him.
"Why not?! That's what they do."
"It's a slur."
"Why do you even care? Don't you humans hate them?"
"No."
Wildfolk and human relations are like family gatherings at major holidays or events.
Both sides that hate each other have agreed that they'll never like each other, or even pretend to try and see the other side's point of view.
They're family, however, so they won't try and ruin the other's life, but will gladly beat the shit out of each other given half a chance.
"We all just know they're crazy as shit."
The next person to step out of the forest is the same armored man they saw a month ago.
Except this time he was close enough to get a good look at.
He was covered fully in black leather, on top of that leather was blackened metal armor, and strapped to his side was a metal cudgel with spikes sticking out of its sides.
Not single piece of flesh was exposed.
Behind him walking out is an ogre who is carrying a huge slab of rock.
Next came a group of witches. The lead witch has burgundy hair shaved into a braided mohawk that trails down her back.
She's short, with the other witches dwarfing her, but yet they kept their distance.
This witch is the one called Briai, and she's as violent as she's short.
After them came a mix of monsters and elves.
Including a gnome wearing a stupid looking helmet.
One elf that would give any a pause stepped out last. It is completely bald save for some whiskers on its face, it has no eyes, and is a sickly pink color.
"Earth elf."
Geoff mumbled to himself.
The elf waved its hand, and a part of the ground compressed on itself making a square pit the size of the slab that the ogre is carrying.
The ogre then slammed the stone slab into the pit.
Carved onto the surface of the slab was a teleportation circle.
"A teleportation circle? That's impossible!"
Geoff said.
The elf meanwhile was making a squeezing motion with its hands, and the earth melded with the slab.
Then, the witches surrounded it, and one of the - I don't care enough to name - witches used her magic to power it.
Through the portal came grey wolves, imps, more orcs, and more monsters than any sane person would ever try to fight.
Though to be fair some of the monsters that arrived out of the circle arrived in bits, but we'll just ignore that minuscule bloody (so, so, bloody) detail.
The armored man pointed to Briai, and she in return snapped her fingers.
A golden orb appeared between them and Dungeon town.
"What is tha..."
Daley started to say.
"Listen up, Dalian."
The armored man said.
"You are now the property of the Faction Against Retarded Terans! The only reason we haven't smashed through that wall and killed everyone is because my masters want this fort for themselves. So, unless you want everyone here to be ripped limb from..."
"Before we get into any of that, we need to discuss the rules."
Daley stated.
"What are you..."
The armored ma...
"Listen up. The first rule is simple; after we defeat you, we will only spare the cute girls (preferably monster girls). We prefer if said girls are single, but if not, we are willing to NTR them. But their SOs have to either be abusive or some kind of unlikable douche bag so that we won't feel bad. The second rule..."
A male fire elf shoved his way to the front line.
"What if we are men, and want to live?!"
He asked to the looks of discomfort his fellow warriors were giving him.
"You'll have to be a trap then."
Daley responded, and Minako looked at him in disgust.
"What's a trap?"
The elf asked.
"A man that looks like a girl."
"Will we have to fuck you?"
"No, but you have to have a heart of gold."
For the entire time this was going on both the armored man and everyone else were looking back and forth at the exchange between Daley and the elf.
"What the fuck are you..."
He started to say.
"Now!"
Daley yelled.
"Stop interrupting m.."
Before he could finish talking, an arrow shot out from the branches above him, and hit his helm.
Unfortunately it just got deflected with a crackling sound.
Knowing where his quarry was the armored man swung his hand in the direction of the arrow.
A spout of flame erupted from his hand, but at the same instant a whizzing bullet hit his arm. The hit forced his arm downwards in an arc, messing up his trajectory, and caused him to incinerate members of his own army.
"What the fu..."
SPLAT!!!!
Before he could finish his expletive the fire elf that spoke previously got a bullet to the brain. Which caused his brains to splatter all over those behind him.
A water elf pointed at Daley.
"Kill the filthy hu... Aaaah!"
As their attention was turned to Daley, Gobiee in leather armor jumped down from the tree branches with her ax, and slashed down the elf's back.
Before the elf do anything Gobiee buried her ax blade into her skull.
Three enemies turned their gaze to Gobiee, and three bullets found their home in their skulls.
As the army brought their attention to the enemy amidst them a plentitude of other goblins dropped down on them.
"They are just goblins, kill them all!"
A wolf beastman yelled as he ran for Gobiee.
She let go of the handle of her ax, took out a dagger, stepped sideways, sliced his ankle as he passed, and then embedded her dagger into his throat when he fell.
As she ripped it back out his piping hot blood showered her.
She sheathed her dagger, pried her ax out of the slain elf's skull, and rejoined her brethren in the fight with a battle cry.
Back on the wall Minako, Emira, and the rest were stunned into inaction by Daley's display of power.
He's using an extended magazine of thirty rounds, and each bullet is finding a target.
At five hundred yards, each bullet is almost hitting their target instantaneously.
"Avoid the big bad, his Armor's too strong." Daley said out loud."Duke watch out!" A goblin with dual swords dodged to the left, just barely dodging a downward heavy sword strike from an orc.
"Zev take him out." A female Goblin with a spontoon stabbed the orc in the back of the neck.
As he was speaking, Daley was also shooting. One bullet hit a blade out of the hand of an orc swinging at Saitama, allowing him to punch a hole through its chest.
Another winged an elf, opening up his defense to allow a goblin to jump onto him, and repeatedly stab him in the face.
"Ignore the goblins, charge the wall!"
Armored man yelled.
Two goblins came at him.
He let their weapons hit him, and then he grabbed them by their faces.
A surge of electricity flowed through their little frames.
"Hahaha!"
He laughed as he dropped their fried corpses to the ground.
The nearest goblins started towards him. Seeking revenge.
"No."
Daley commanded them.
"Avoid him. That's an order!"
Angry, but not going to disobey their master, they headed for the vast majority of monsters headed towards the wall. Seeing that, the unnamed witch pumped more mana into the circle to get more monsters out faster.
Daley then aimed his rifle at her.
The bullet he fired whizzed its way through the air towards her. Only to be blocked when Briai used her magic to lift a row of unfortunate monsters, and placed them in the bullet's trajectory.
She then pointed at Daley.
"Shoot at him now!"
She yelled at an elf carrying a bow.
"But that's too fa..."
Blapht!
His head imploded on itself, and she pointed at another elf carrying a bow.
"You..."
"I'm shooting, I'm shooting!"
The elf woman yelled while shooting off an arrow.
As the projectile made its way through the air Briai snapped her fingers, and it gained not only speed, but a sickening aura that fouled the air as it flew.
As it almost hit Daley, he was summarily shoved out of the way by Minako.
When it got about an inch from her skin a thick mana armor materialized, and halted the arrow.
However a scant few seconds later the armor dissipated, the arrow dropped, and she was left huffing.
"Dang... it!"
She gasped out.
"I still can't keep it up as long as him!"
"Here."
Daley said to Rake.
"Catch."
He threw the spent rifle to Rake, who - in order to catch it - threw Daley his rifle.
"Reload that one. I'll be needing it shortly."
He told Rake as he took aim, fired, and killed the elf that shot at him.
He then preceded to take pot-shots at Briai, as to keep her from using her magic against him again so soon.
"No need to thank me."
Minako deadpanned.
"Exactly. If we are to hold this army off, we all have to do our part without expecting gratitude. Like so."
He switched his aim to the ballista that a group of wildfolk was rolling into place.
He shot the first one in the chest, and it fell down.
The others lifted their heavy shields in defense, but that only slowed the inevitable down.
He shot their feet, and then as they fell down he shot them in the head.
Then, he took aim at the ballista, a bullet to the torsion rope took it out of commission.
Druuuuuuw!!!!!!
A massive ogre roared, and then started pushing an escalade toward the wall.
"Saitama, take that bastard down!"
Daley yelled as bullets from his gun peppered the ogre.
Not that they did much, or any, good.
Saitama blitzed his way to the ogre.
Using his fists and feet to land vicious blows.
By the time he reaches his target the ogre is nearly right upon the wall.
Saitama kicked the knee of a charging orc, as it fell he jabbed its throat with two fingers.
As it laid there with a broken spine Saitama kicked up its spear, and threw it at the one hole he knew would stop the ogre in its tracks... its ear.
The spear sailed through the air, and struck gold.
DRUUUUUUWWWW!
The ogre roared in pain, ripped the embedded spear out of its ear, and glared at Saitama.
DRUUUW!!!!!!
With an angry roar the ogre slammed his fist against the escalade, causing it to roll forward at a tremendous speed into the wall.
The two metal pikes on the escalade peirced the the wall.
It tried running at Saitama, but lost its balance and fell over.
"Now, make it count!"
Daley yelled, and Saitama ran towards the ogre.
DRUUW!
The ogre smashed down when Saitama reached it; but Saitama sidestepped it, jumped onto and ran up its arm, and kneed it in the eye.
DRUW!!!!!
As the ogre threw its head back to roar in pain Saitama grabbed its horn, used it to spin and vault up into the air, power his arm with every last ounce of mana left in his mana heart, and slammed his fist down onto the ogre's head.
The ogre fell with a thud, and Saitama landed loosely on his feet and rolled.
His breath ragged, he completely drained his core killing the ogre.
Gurg! Gurg!
A heavyset orc came up from behind Saitama wielding a sword.
"Saitama dodge!"
Daley yelled, but the warning came too late.
The sword was already on its downward swi...
Thunk!!
A bolt embedded itself into the beast's throat, throwing it backwards.
Daley turned towards Minako, whom had shot the bolt from her crossbow.
"Thank..."
He started to say, but Minako shook her head.
"No thanks needed. We're all just doing our part, right?"
He nodded, and they went back to shooting.
The bulk of the monsters narrowed in towards the escalade that was embedded too deep for Emira and the others to pry out in the minuscule amount of time given to them before monsters had reached the top, and started attacking them.
Geoff tossed his gun to Daley, took his spear in hand, and met them head-on.
Slashing and stabbing.
The others on the wall kept firing into the mass of warriors.
But the monsters just kept coming, eventually they would run out of ammunition, and then they'd tire and get killed.
MOOOOAAR!
As if the throng of enemies weren't enough, a minotaur wielding a very large sword stepped through the circle.
It surged forward at the wall, just letting the arrows, bolts, and bullets bounce of its skin.
As it neared the wall it sped up, and rammed straight into it. Letting the electric glyphs shock it.
The force of it hitting the wall caused a beastman to fall off the wall, directly beneath the minotaur.
But just before the minotaur could kill him...
"Taste death!"
Minako yelled as she used an air blast to propel herself upwards into the sky above the monster.
As she was falling she turned into her minotaur form, bursting through all - save the belt - of her clothes in the process.
She pulled out her svärdstav and pumped her mana into it.
Has she fell the blade sliced straight through the minotaur at an angle of forty-four degrees from the shoulder to the hip.
With a disgusting sound it fell apart.
The monsters directly near by froze for half a second in awe that a monster so much stronger than they could die so fast, and in that half a second Minako acted.
She grabbed the beastman, and threw him back up onto the wall.
She then swung her blade in an arc, slicing five opponents of hers in half.
A wildfolk punched her in the tit.
"Ow! That freaking hurts!"
In revenge she punched straight through his chest, grabbed his spine, and ripped it out.
An elf slashed her back with a sword, but it barely left a mark on her hardened bare skin.
She backhanded him in the chest, crushing his lungs, and sent him careening into the wall.
With a zap he fell down dead.
"She can turn into a monstergirl!"
Daley yelled out, in complete jealousy Minako was sure.
"Why didn't she lead with that?!"
She turned to glare at him, but no soon as she did some chick with an enchanted ax took a swing at her head.
She barely dodged it, but as it scraped across her skin the enchantment took affect.
It didn't cut her, but the heat did burn her.
"Ow! You motherfucker!"
Splat!
She hit her face so hard that it disappeared into a fine red mist.
In her current form Minako was as strong as a Mid-rank second tier, easily able to kill any who are dumb enough to step up; but this form does consume a lot of mana.
She'd have to turn it off soon if she wanted to keep fighting with magic, but she wasn't getting a chance.
For everyone she killed, two more appeared.
She just needed a second to breathe, but it didn't look like she was going to get...
Bang!
Geoff's shield bashed away an incoming combatant, he threw his spear into the leg of another, and then pulled out his sword.
"I got your back."
Geoff jovially said, and Minako took the seconds he brought her to revert back to her original form. But then immediately changed again.
This time she borrowed from Squall, she grew wings, spots, fangs, and claws.
"Hey, that's coo..."
As Geoff glanced at her transformation a wildfolk thrusted a spear at his head.
BANG!
But Emira shot the wildfolk in the head, holstered her pistol, slide her iklwa out, sliced an elf's belly open, flipped her weapon in her hand, stabbed another one in the chest, and finally palmed someone's face and used her crafting magic to make the metal on her left palm form a spike.
Impaling their face.
"We need to put that circle out of commission."
She told Geoff and Minako as she turned her palm guard back to normal, and the corpse fell.
"I'MONIIITTT!"
Minako said as she moved forwards at super speeds.
She moved like a fish in water... flapping about all over the place, but you still can't catch it.
She sped through the masses, going left, right, up into the air, and came back down. Her katana flashing faster than a pit viper's strike.
She was steadily killing everyone in her path when a mace caught her in the chest.
The metal on it glowed a dull orange, and a small fiery explosion propelled her backwards.
She landed hard on the ground, and transformed back into her human form.
The only thing that saved her life was that in the split second that the mace connected her mana armor was activated.
"Y'all killed the fodder faster than we thought,"
A big felidien said.
His enchanted armor so strong that the bullets, bolts, and arrows just bounced right off of it.
"but that doesn't matter. Those slaves atop the wall there have stopped shooting that earth magic and arrows as much. I'm gonna guess that they're running low on mana."
Actually they are running low on ammunition.
Almost none of them could hit the broad side of a barn (a big one, mind you), so instead they opted for the tried and true method of shoot enough at something, and it's bound to get hit at least once.
"Maybe they should have saved some for us."
More warriors with enchanted gear stood beside him.
Each looking to be stronger than Emira and the gang.
"You done fucked u..."
"{Solar burst}!"
The already bright day grew ever brighter as an arrow cloaked in light flew through the air, hit the felidien in the chest, melted his enchanted armor, and flew into the ground.
The rest of the enchantment wielding warriors looked at the origin of that arrow.
It was an adventurer, just a run of the mill adventurer, but she wasn't alone.
Dozens of archers, mages, and others were piled atop the wall.
"This isn't your fight!"
A sea elf in some more enchanted gear yelled out to them.
"Just turn back, and we will let all of you leave here unscathed."
The adventurer pouted.
"Oh, we'll go unscathed."
She said in a mocking tone.
"Well, here's our answer. OPEN THE GATES!"
The huge stone block was lifted, and the gate opened.
Then, an outpouring of fully equipped adventurers came rushing out.
Flowing past Emira and the others to engage with the enemy.
Emira was stunned that they were fighting on her behalf.
"Don't be thankful."
A voice said from behind her.
She turned to see Jungo walking up from behind her.
"They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. When he woke up, Claude found out from the others you went to defend this place. He then spent the rest of the time convincing the other merchants to give away free shit in exchange for the adventurers coming to help you."
"Oh, yeah, he sees me as a fat hog."
"One he can't sell if it gets killed."
"Why are you here though? You don't need free shit."
He was about to answer when a Mid-ranked warrior charged at him.
"You should've brought a weapon old man, I'm gonna kill you!"
Jungo sighed, slightly dodged to the side while tripping him, grabbed his pike, and stabbed him in the back.
"Then it's a good thing you brought me one."
He looked back at Emira.
"As for why I'm here."
He shrugged.
"I just like you kid. Now, shall we?"
He said motioning toward the raging battle. Instead of answering Emira just charged at the enemy.
Jungo chuckled and joined her.
With the help of the adventurers, the enemy started to be pushed back.
"I'm going to kill you all!"
The armored man yelled.
Seeing him as a threat, the female adventurer that spoke before took aim at him with her bow.
"{Thunderwave}!"
BOOOOOM!
Her arrow shot out with a deafening boom, and instantaneously reached its mark.
But the man just batted it away faster than the eye could perceive.
BOOOM!
WHOOOSH!
The arrow hit the ground then exploded into a wave of sound that flattened trees, and men.
With a blur he was in front of a heavily armored adventurer.
The adventurer slammed him in the neck with his sword.
Only for the sword to shatter.
"How..."
Sherlack!
The armored man slapped the man on the side so hard that his upper body separated from his lower in a really gruesome way.
Blood showered him completely.
"Hear me! To fight me is to die!"
Clang!
The armored man turned around to see a girl who had hit him in the back with her sword.
Some enchantment on it cancelling his.
"Are you kidding..."
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Without letting him finish, she kept striking him with her sword.
Wham!
Sploatch!
He hit her so hard that her entire body came apart.
The only thing left of her was a sickly burgundy puddle.
"Who's nex..."
Clung!
A muscular man in heavy armor bashed his hammer onto the armored man's helm.
Wham!
He kicked the adventurer in chest, sending him flying backwards.
The only thing that saved his life was the imbued chest plate that he had gotten from his grandfather.
"Hah! It'll take more than that to..."
Crack!
His chest plate cracked.
"What the fuck! This was a fucking gift!"
"You should be thankful that the gods have seen fit to grant you a scant few more moments of life. For I shall..."
"No, really asshole, I don't know if I can get this repaired!"
The armored man killed three more adventurers, and then attacked him again.
The adventurer threw himself out of the way, and brought his hammer up to bear.
"You will never win! Because I fight for..."
"Fighting for love, friendship, or anything else of the like giving you strength is complete and utter dragonshit!"
"Of course it is! I'm fighting for free shit. After I kill you not only do I get to loot your corpse, but I get to pick one of anything I want in those shops!"
The armored man shot off electric arcs at two more adventurers that ran up from behind him, frying them instantly.
"You're not getting anything free. Because you're going to die right here!"
He wreathed his body in flame, burning away all of the gore that has accumulated on his body, and leapt at the insolent adventurer.
The adventurer ducked to the left, and swung his hammer.
It hit the armored man in the side, but didn't do anything to him.
He swatted it out of the adventurer's hand.
The adventurer took a few steps back, and pulled out a dagger.
The armored man blasted him with a spout of flame. Throwing him onto his ass, and causing him to drop his dagger.
He started to crawl backwar, but the armored man slowly followed. Killing all in his path who tried to stop him.
The adventurer started to pray.
As he stood over the adventurer ready to stomp him to death, he laughed.
"Great, that will do you so much good. Hehehe. I'm going to enjoy..."
Clang!
Gobiee hit him with her ax.
He swung at her, but she rolled out of the way.
She stood on her feet glaring at him.
"Oh, great, another worm wants to di..."
Again he didn't get to finish his thought.
"Gobiee, get away from that freak!"
Daley yelled out.
But she just shook her head to clear his voice away, and gripped her ax tighter.
He was going to die this day!