The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 231: Attack of the Underground Monsters (2)

With the Evasion skills in my arsenal, I am more than sure that I can escape those monsters attacks but I am not so sure about others.

I have Evade, Dodge, and Sprint skills and these have crossed level 20. Though that may not be very high but with my high AGI attribute number, they should be more than enough for these monsters.

I don't think that Tier-5 or Tier-6 monsters appeared here. Most likely they should be only Tier-4 and below, which are not dangerous for me in the first place. There are only two reasons why I am thinking of precautions and those are the huge number of monsters and those damned underground monsters.

Even though I am very strong, these quality-less monsters could easily overwhelm me through their huge number.

There is a saying that even ants can overwhelm a snake with their huge number. I mean, those ant colonies should have thousands of ants living in there. Even though fighting a snake is stupid and the number of deaths would be staggering, they can still kill the snake by overwhelming the snake with their numbers.

Now considering my situation, those monsters are carrying out the orders from higher rank monsters. There was no way out for them, except to kill or be killed.

Unless those high-ranking monsters retreat or call for retreat, these monsters won't stop with their attacks. They would continue to attack us until they were dead. There was no other choice for them.

Being weak is the original sin, I should say that would be a very apt comparison in this situation.

Since those monsters are weak, they are easily controlled by those high-ranking monsters, making it possible for them to make those low-ranking monsters attack us first, thinning us out and weakening us before they take action.

This is their usual M.O.

First, they would send the hordes of low-rank monsters, which are of no importance. Those high-ranking monsters are not idiots. They know that those monsters would not be enough to bring every one of us down but that's not their orders anyway.

Those monsters are to clear the lower ranking humans from defence and tire out the high rankers. This would make it easy for those monsters when they attack.

Sometimes, there would even be a high-rank monster, an unseen one, which would be controlling every monster present through the visible ones. It can be considered a trump card of the monster tide.

If not for the aids, weak creatures like humans would have long stopped existing in this world.

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Even though we have those resources that improve the survivability, it was not easy to reach a high-rank as that would require that person to complete the promotion mission on their own.

This is why any high-ranking person was valued much more than others. Unless the probability of survival is higher or if there is no other choice, higher-ups wouldn't send high-rankers on such missions, especially assassins, who are the weakest of combat professionals.

The only reason they are feared was that one shot that they get and most of the time, that would be more than enough to kill the enemy.

In this tide, they are certainly not sure if those are the only Tier-6 or if there is a Tier-7 monster.

It would be a waste to send the assassins in such situations.

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My other concern was about the underground monsters.

Though I never came face-to-face with those underground monsters, from what I read about them, they are more than enough to give me the creeps. I don't want to face those damned monsters.

Most of these monsters are worm monsters, which creeps me out. Moreover, no underground monster would ever show their full bodies above ground.

If they see that the situation id bad for them, they would just slip back into the ground. Once they do that, it would be difficult to kill them and it would be stupid to follow them into those tunnels.

Following monsters into underground tunnels, which would be their territory, is nothing but stupidity.

I am not that stupid.