Few passengers were still praying but unfortunately it seems the heavens has decided not to answer their request as a giant centipede ejected from the ground beneath the road ejecting corrosive poison which melted the road and other nearby flora.
The tyres of the cars screeched to a halt. As the two cars faced the brown toxic centipede, a level 2 fierce beast. Such a mishap on this good day.
Although they know the hot weapons have low effects on level 2 species unless used on sensitive areas, they still decided to try their best, the two mechanized infantry trucks trained the machine gun to centipede, hoping to hit a weakly defended area successfully.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Unfortunately for the guards and the passengers, none of the bullets except three hit the areas surrounding it's eye but they caused no harm but infuriated him the more.
Woooooooooooooooo
A loud angry roar was made by the centipede which feels offended by the mortals who were stimulating him. The tattering of bullets still continued as they were determined to at least cause a harm to this humongous creature who seemed to defy nature.
The centipede turned 360 degrees to face the city guards who were already out of their trucks, except the guards who mounted the machine gun.
All passengers started to pray for a chance to live.
"God, all I ask for is a chance to live and I will pay ten percent of my entire net worth to the poor", a wealthy business man vows vehemently as he hopes that there is a God who can answer his prayers.
After a while, the shooting stopped but the situation is still the same, except for the bruises here and there, there was no major injury to the fierce beast.
Three men, one from each truck then jumped out of the truck each holding a long knife. All the other guards holding their rifles stepped back obviously out of respect.
The Captain stepped followed by to other men as they discussed their combat strategy.
"There is no chance where one as an individual cam successfully kill this beast. It's best we attack together", One of the other two men said.
They were all level 1 warriors, there were only five level 1 warriors in the whole of Rosette City, the three present in addition to Adolor and the Rosette Clan Head. All the other practitioners were apprentice warriors and they unfortunately happened to meet a level 2 fierce beast.
"I attack from the front, and you will attack from the sides", the Captain ordered as the centipede was moving closer to them. They had to safeguard the life of Dofy even at the expense of their lives.
"Boss, we were attacked by a level 2 fierce beast. A Centipede specie", Zero said.
"It's like you are a carrier of bad luck", Louis replied in a funny way.
Zero didn't take it to heart as he knew the habit of his master. "Should we involve ourselves in the fight?"
"Do you think you can handle it?" Louis replied his question with another question.
"My strength is equivalent to a level two warrior while the other liquid robots after use of few milliliters of the Illumination Portion, already have the strength of a mid-grade Level 1 warrior. So I think we are capable of facing this", Zero replied.
"I trust you. Use your discretion but I would love a bit of it's blood and flesh for research purposes", Louis replied as he intends to use the samples to get the unique characteristics of the evolving species. (Of course the system will do the analysis).
Zero motioned the other robots to stay at ease and not involve themselves in the battle outside, not just yet.
The battle outside has started, Captain ran to attack, suddenly he turned to the left and the two people who were coming from both sides slashed him and dashed off again, their weapon made of alloy caused a gash as blood began to gush nonetheless the injury was not fatal. They continued to rotate the attack, while one of them serve as a decoy. They continued to bully the foolish beast for a while until it went on a rampage. The two attackers this time lost their knives as they were not able to withdraw it until a pair of legs hit each of them sending them metres away from the beast who was gathering momentum.
It had to eat to regain stamina and he had set his sight on the leading buses containing the wealthy and influential people and of course, Dofy.
"Thorny Rose Battle Array", the Captain who was breathing heavily shouted and once the guards made a level 1 defensive plus attack military array.
"Aaaaaaarh", the Captain roared in defiance trying to divert the beast attention to gain few minutes for the two other warriors and the regrouping guards.
The guards in an array moved towards the beast and soon gashes of wound began to appear on the body of the centipede. Of course most of the wounds were exchanged as the legs of the centipede continued to turn slashing the guards who were trying their best to bring the Centipede down.
The other two warriors soon joined the captain who was commanding the battle. They soon got armed with level 1 alloy spears, their second weapons.
"Retreat", Captain ordered the array of guards as many of them were already wounded, some were dead with their bodies ground with their corpse nowhere to be found.
The tired guards seem to have been waiting for their Captain's order. They retreated almost immediately in response to the order. The people in the bus could not help but acknowledge the hard work of these guards even though they knew the the reason they tried their best was because of Dofy who was on this journey, nevertheless they were grateful for the efforts of the guards.
The two other cultivators went to harass the beast who was already on it's last stretch, wriggling on the road corroding all the dead bodies and wounded who were not able to retreat.
At that time, fate smiled at them as the Captain threw a spear which pierced through an eye of the beast piercing through to the brain and instantly the mighty beast dropped dead.
"What a heavy loss?" Captain soliloquies in sorrow as he looked through the surviving guards with various levels of injury.
Zero who was on the verge of taking action rested back and a thought crossed his mind. "What if I transform into a fierce beast and the only way to allow people to pass is to pay ten percent of their loads".
"We would try it if that plan is feasible".
They need initial fame and he has decided to use this unfortunate occurrence as a springboard...( a plan in mind).
"Four, transform to an aerial fierce beast and take away a large chunk of that corpse and rake it back to the base".
"Yes Boss", 004 replied as he transformed to a little bird to leave the bus then into a large vulture after exit.
"Thank God, this beast is only concerned about this corpse", the guards and passengers thought as they saw a large vulture taking the centipede away.
"Let's get going. The time is far spent", Captain instructed.
The surviving guards returned to their trucks, ready to continue the journey.
The journey continued as they maneuvered the vehicles around the corrosive blood.
The rest of the journey was uneventful as there was no occurrence of attack for the rest of the journey. The hot sun was setting while the scouts noticed the giant gate of Dusk City. Passenger began to shout for joy as they neared the giant gar and it became visible even without the use of the telescope.