Gruuaaahhh!
The monster roared loudly and as if calling his subordinates a few more trolls came out numbering over a couple dozen. Some are normal trolls while others are high trolls.
"Things got even more complicated and as that happened."
Monsters came running to James. But they were unsuccessful when fangs were summoned.
"Haaa, good thing is Fang's here, that means he is still conscious."
Summoning a familiar is a normal thing and among those is the continuous use of man during its summon.
That is why it is important to cancel the summoning of ones familiar when not needed unless they don't have a beast zone of their own in this world.
As for me before it seemed that titan has a semi zone in him making it the reason for his continual hunger.
I only learned of this during the time Prof. Philip told one about familiars. And there I thought that maybe Titan has a storage of mana to keep him here in this world.
Either way he was able to stay in this world without my mana acting as a constant battery. Kinda like a solar powered creature I guess.
Now that our formation is broken we need to regroup fast.
"Everyone retreat!"
"""Okay"""
They all run back to the base as for me I assist in their escape.
"Over here!!" I yelled loudly to them that type voice manipulation techniques are very useful. With just a yell I have their attention pulling the agro to me.
They then bombarded me with tons of attacks and dodged those throws. And along the way use those trajectory to create self inflicting casualty.
Now the enemy was dwindling to almost a hundred. Now all that's left is to retreat ones they are able to get back at the base.
~~~~~~~
"Where's Bolt?"
"He's out there and covered us from the attacks."
"What happened to James?"
"We got hit by a surprise attack, mostly James."
"He left some potions right. Can you give me some?"
"Here you go."
Kurt then took the potion to James. technically they all have a few supplies of potions with them but from the last attack the troll destroyed his supply.
"Thankfully Dustin left a few dozen potions for us before the battles started."
"We really need to thank him for this; he gave us high quality potions."
"That's true."
Gruahhh
Boom
Bakin, bakin
Dadan
Boom, boom
"From the sounds of it the battle is still ongoing."
"What happened?"
"I don't know, let's look."
"Okay."
They all stood up and watched what was happening outside. and when they did they were amazed.
~~~~~~~~~
The monsters rushed to me seeing that I continuously dodged their attacks.
And upon seeing this I gathered mana in my weapon and this time I activated my domain and upon doing so blasted all of my enemies with a few explosions.
Now I changed my core usage to full blown mage. 'Let's see if you guys can last long or this would be fast.'
Now that my core has become a mage type I have to do heavy attacks since I can't fight in close quarters easily without physical advantages.
As I keep my distance more and more of them are being blasted to shreds. Making it possible for me to take distance from most of them.
Although I said they get blasted to shreds, the ones dying are the creatures who attacked first. And as for the current number which consists of trolls, they are alive and kicking.
'From the looks of it I need to one shot these undying b*st*rds.'
I learned that trolls have fast regeneration abilities. And they are used for potion making specially the high grade ones.
But since this is going to be like this I need to counter their healing ability and one of their weaknesses is extreme heat and cold. Which stops or slows down their regeneration ability.
'Let's see if my idea will work.'
Gruaaahh!
Seeing that I stopped attacking, they became fearless and continued to attack me.
As they moved near me I overheated my chainsaws. since the earlier explosion I created from my discharges contains heat that could burn them. But it seems that the heat isn't hot enough so let's see if they will regenerate from this.
I face them as I smash down my chainsaw to them.
"This is looking good."
I continued the exchange between me and the trolls. I dodged and sliced some of their body parts.
Although I already changed one of my cores to a warrior type, I still have trouble doing their attacks not like before at the start where i am fighting the full blown warrior cores.
And this continued for a few minutes until I noticed that I neglected one monster, the mutant high troll attacked the base.
~~~~~~~
"How is it possible that he is taking down all those monsters with ease?"
"Not really, he is taking some hits here and there."
"That's not what i-."
He stopped talking when he noticed that their leader was looking annoyed. And noticing the second in command ask their leader what to do.
"Ma'am should we take care of him."
"No need, from the looks of it he can transcend ranks. The best action is to let our monster take down the target. we need to make our existence not be known as much as possible."
"Yes ma'am."
"I expect great results."
As she said she left again expecting the plan to succeed with no more unnatural disturbance.
"So that guy can transcend ranks huh?"
"Well the high ranking people on our side can transcend ranks as well. What's the big deal?"
"Haaa. That's not the same as this guy transcending rank at just being rank two. But those higher ups stayed for a long time at their rank and were able to transcend their current ranks."
"Well, is that guy young?"
"Ah. you're right, maybe he is an old geezer inside that helmet."
'I don't expect you guys to be like this but please if you want to dig a grave don't include.' "I'll be attacking them with the Mutant. You guys make sure that guy stays put okay."
They nodded and took their full attention on controlling those monsters to take Dustin's attention far from his comrade inside the base.
~~~~~~~
"Amazing, it was the right call to make him our leader."
"Yeah."
"It is not the time to be amazed there are still more monsters around us."
They return to their senses when Kim reminds them of the monsters around them. Then they continued to finish those running towards them.
"There are already a mountain of them outside. But the flames are burning them quite fast."
"He did say that the flame that he is using is fueled by an alchemy flame."
"It might be because of that. Not to mention there are no smells."
"""...."""
When the guys heard Kim said that they turned quiet.
"What? don't tell me it smells bad?"
"Worse, I almost puked, good thing we were wearing a mask beforehand."
They continued to exterminate the monsters around them and as they were getting the hang of it something smashed to their base. And it was the Mutant High Troll.
Bam
"What?"
"Why is it here?"
"Bolt is still occupied by the other trolls, maybe that's why it's here."
"Then that means."
"There is a monster tamer."
"How can they be so brutal?"
Bam
Creeaakk
"Get your stuff ready, it's breaking in."
When they heard James yell they moved fast and took what they could get and prepared for the worst.
Bam
Then as if waiting for them to be done the Runes of the base shattered and lost its brilliance.
Clang kling kling
Gruaahh
"Gibson let's take the Hit"
"I was just about to do that."
They both took the troll's punch with the huge shield and surprisingly they took the hit pretty well.
"Guys wear it out."
Hearing the command the others also attacked the monster at every given opportunity.
They attacked and attacked the mutant high troll. But to no avail it kept on regenerating and the stress on James and Gibson's arms are already taking a toll on them.
But they still strive forth and take on the attacks as the others give it their all just to scrape a bit of its skin.
"James, we can't do this anymore."
"You do know that me and Gibson here are tanking for you guys and we are not complaining."
"Look, Gibson can't complain because he is losing breath."
"It's the same thing we need to hold on until the proctor or Bolt manage to return. Have some faith."
'I know I said all those but like them I am losing hope in this situation.' As this thought came to James' mind Gibson was flung away hard.
"Wha-!"
"Gibson!"
James tried to block the other attack for Gibson to recover but it was too late as the second attack came rushing in.
"NO!"
[ Fireball. ]
As the attack was about to come straight into Gibson's defenseless body. A blast of magic hit the troll making it halt its attack.
Grruah! Grrr.
When they took a look, Talia was there with a resolute look on her face.