"Damn, there must be a mage hidden somewhere, use smoke bombs and try to get closer to the mage, we can easily overpower him in close-combat." said the leader.
Multiple smoke bombs were thrown on the ground, shrouding the entire place in smoke, but it was of no use as Carter was capable of thermal imaging.
'These fools, okay let's do some close-combat' Carter thought.
"Initiate battle mode, long sword modification", he told.
{Initiating Battle mode}, said Lucifer in a robotic voice. Suddenly, the gun morphed into a long metal sword.
From what I gather, every mecha is loaded with different combat styles based on their class, and also some necessary basic combat programmed in them.
Lucifer's an A-Grade mecha of the 'Hell Breaker' class, so it has a very powerful and versatile combat style programmed in it.
Carter dashed towards the group of people who were running towards him. He swiftly beheaded two people before continuing towards the rest.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
"Boss, there also seems to be a high level Aura warrior with the mage." yelled a bandit panickily.
By this time, everyone started to panic, the enemy's in the dark and was slaughtering them like pigs. They all stood together not knowing what to do.
"Men, don't lose morale and brace yourselves for a battle, don't let your guard down", roared their leader, but you can hear trace of fear in his voice.
They waited for the enemy for a while, this tense situation lasted for 15 minutes. By this time the smoke had already mostly been cleared, and they can see a black tall figure come towards them slowly, it's red shiny eyes glinting dangerously in the dark.
"Wh..Who are you? What do you want", asked a bandit timidly, trembling.
"I am Lucifer, I have come from hell to reap your cheap lives for all the sins you have committed." said a robotic voice, which further alleviated their fears.
"Please lea-", just as he was about to beg for mercy, the black figure dashed towards them swiftly and started chopping their heads.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-1 Aura Warrior, Obtained 100 energy points.]
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Everyone was massacred except for the leader, "What do you want from me?!", he asked looking towards the black figure covered in blood.
"Nothing, I just wanted to use you guys for battle experience", said Carter, smiling.
"Wha-", he was not able to finish his sentence before he got beheaded too.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for successfully killing a Tier-2 Aura Warrior, Obtained 500 energy points.]
'It is finally over', he looked around the carnage he just caused with a look of exhaustion. Operating the mecha needs the user's magic source, as just solely relying on the in-built energy capacity is not recommended.
He checked his status,
Name: Carter Grayson
Race: Human
Affinity: Middle-level fire element affinity
Realm: Tier-1 Peak stage Mage
Energy points: 2432
Gundams owned: 1
And Lucifer's,
Name: Lucifer (Level 1)
Race: Archeobot
Class: Hell breaker
Grade: A
Affiliation: Carter Grayson's camp
Energy capacity: 1000 Byatts
Progress: 87%.
It seems to be near levelling up.
"There doesn't seem to be anyone else, I'll go back", he put lucifer back and went back to the camp. But what he did not know was all of this was watched by someone in the dark, it was none other than Uncle Ralph.
As a Tier-4 Warrior, he long noticed the disturbance in the surroundings and went to check it out, that's when he saw the sight of a black figure mercilessly butchering all the bandits. He stood there in awe and curiosity.
He was about to leave sneakily, but was dumbstruck when a small boy jumped out from the black puppet, 'What the hell is Carter doing inside that!!?', he thought, not quiet believing what he saw.
Even though he was full of questions, he quickly recovered and left the place quietly. 'There must be a reason if he wants to hide it, he will tell me himself when he deems it is time.' he thought to himself.
The next morning, at the entrance of the dungeon
"John, be sure to stick with us and don't wander off on your own, understood?", asked Uncle Ralph.
"Yes sir, I understand", John replied energetically, he was so excited about this adventure.
We queued up for entering the dungeon and eventually paid up the fee and went inside. Dungeons are national properties, so you will need to pay for entering any dungeon within the borders. And if we happen to chance by an undiscovered dungeon, we can sell the rights to the Kingdom and obtaining an amount corresponding to the value of the dungeon.
We were walking along the safe zone, and had to walk some more to the reach the area where the monsters spawn. After a while we spot a group of three wolves coming towards us with salivating mouths.
Uncle Ralph explained to us about the wolf's weaknesses, how to fight and some basic stuff like that.
Only we three people entered the dungeon while the rest of the servants were still waiting at the camp, we didn't want to add unnecessary burden during exploration.
Uncle Ralph easily disposed off the wolves and motioned us to proceed. The same routine continued for a while, then he finally told us to give a try.
John did not join the fight as he did not have much power, I too easily fought and burned them with fireballs using my Tier-1 Peak stage power. I had already learned quite a few spells back at home.
'I can't take out my mechas in the open, so let's wait for the right opportunity', he thought.
With this thought, we proceeded to go inside further.