Chapter 372: DO NOT READ
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As the giant Blattagriff took the air, its passengers knew they were fucked.
Josh and orc were struggling to keep their footing. The thing had gone so quickly into the air that the momentum had flattened them on its back like pancackes. As they finally managed to raise their head they became livid.
The thing hadn't just started to fly, but had been so damn quick about it. The pillar was now becoming smaller and smaller in the distance.
"Tch— retreating is fucking impossible now." Josh complained.
At this point he wouldn't have minded breaking both his legs in the fall if it meant returning to land.
"Oh crap! Is this how it feels to be on a rocking ship in the middle of a tempest?!" The orc cried out, trying his best to hold on.
Josh turned to inspect his surroundings. They needed footholds or they'd get thrown overboard any second. There were a few protrusions remaining and whole at the few spots they had already destroyed.
"Let's try this."
Josh waved his hands akin to an orchestra maestro. With every wave he sent a few threads, quickly creating a wannabe spider web.
The orc gave him a grateful look as he used his large hands to grab unto the tiny thread, regaining his balance.
But that's when the buzzing sound intensified. Hundreds upon hundreds of deadly insects were heading their way. They wanted nothing more than to devour them.
Thus began one hell of a fight. They had to avoid destroying their foothold yet destroy the enemies. It was one goddamn shitshow.
Their only saving grace was that they had plenty of reserve of healing pills. #Moneybags #Pay to win #Kill with money!
At this rate Josh would easily get addicted to this. He could understand how there were so many pills junkies in this world. A good thing he was making bank with D.L. or this would have dug a hole in his pockets.
"We got this, there are plenty, but not as many as earlier. I guess there's a limit to how many it can create in a given time!" Josh uttered happily.
"Hehe, you're right master!" He gently nodded before bellowing: "Bring it on your disgusting creatures! Nothing stops a proud orc warrior!"
Everything went well, it really did. But then heard a powerful shriej coming from the Blatagriff.
— SHRIEK! —
This seemingly simple thing changed everything. The insects suddenly began to act differently. Before they had been mindlessly attacking them, but now they began to...attack the threads?!
Oh god, no! It could order them?! The insects got to work very efficiently. They completely ignored the juicy looking mammals and ripped the threads apart.
"Master, what now?!" the orc's panicked voice echoed.
"We try and get some of these next time we do a spring cleaning." Josh uttered seeing quickly they were getting rid of the fake webs.
"What?!"
"Don't worry, I have a plan." Josh chuckled.
He had just noticed that the insects didn't seem to be that smart. They could follow easy orders, but complex ones were a no go. How did he know? Well, there were a few of them chasing after threads that had gone flying away.
"Here, it's feeding time." He enthusiastically called out.
Josh made tons of small thread balls, before throwing them as far as possible. Instantly about half their attackers went after it. Just like that they had gotten rid of many of them.
— SHRIEK! —
The creature's shrieked once more, seemingly updating the orders it had given the insects. By now they were weren't leaving the creature's wide back anymore.
"Master, I'm afraid it won't work anymore. It's fine. I will show them how powerful an orc—"
"Says the bloody orc that seems about to kick the bucket any second. Just sit still, I'm not done."
"T-that, I—" The orc endured the uyrge to shout a war cry.
Josh took his morphing weapon. The range on it was limited, but hopefully it would work for his purposes. He focused, to make it as large and ans thin as possible.
A few seconds later, he finally created an abomiunation that looked like a children's metallic playmodule. It was only thin metallic bars that couldn't be used as a weapon at all.
The whole thing looked like a metallic web, just barely, but it was enough to get the insecst to cahrge at it to devour it. But as they collided with it the critters had the surprise of their lives— one that was ending.
On all its surface there were tiny sharp barbs. The insects were now literally trying to devour a weird-looking sword and actively killing themselves on it.
At this point most of the group was dead or lost. What had been an impossible number of enemie was now relatively manageable.
"Hahaha, this is my master's power! None of you little things stand a chance!" The orc thundered as if a personall achievment.
— SHRIEK! —
What now?!
Suddenly they felt the world flip completely. The two felt their bodies float. Josh barely managed to hold unto his morphing weapon stuck in the thing's carapace and the orc barely grabbed unto his master.
— SHRIEK! —
The monstrosity was now trying to forcefully shake them off. As long as it made them fall they would 100% perish! Thus began an extremely weird contest of strenght.
Josh VS Blattagriff
Blattagriff used "Do a barrel roll!"
It's not very effective.
Blattagriff used "Shriek!"
It's very annoying.
Blattagriff used "Spawn more insects!"
It's super effective!
The insect were the absolute worst. It felt like they were riding a mechanical bull from hell, trying to hand on for dear life, but with people shooting at them at the same time.
Josh hurriedly took out his branch, summoning the grass elemental once again.
"Help us with the footing." Josh ordered.
It extended its grass tentacles, giving them a respite— but it was short lived.
— SHRIEK! —
Following the creature's orders, the insect all flew toward the grass elemental, intent on getting rid of it. Howq long could it even survive?
"This won't do." Josh grumbled.
"Master, I think it is time for an ancestral orc strategy."
"Let me guess? Go berserk and smash?" He sighed.
"Exactly! It's worked for orcs for centuries!" He nodded wisely-looking. "Let's destroy as many protrusions as we can and—"
"No, we won't be in time." Josh objected. "We're destroying the wings instead."
The orc simply nodded before he went crazy with his hammer, winging it toward every wing in sight— there were so many after all.
— Shriek! —
Combat kept going, with wave after wave of enemies attacking them and the creature doing tons of aerial maneuvers. All until they managed to cause enough destruction to force it to land.
— Shriek! —
At this point, the creature had no choice but to begrudgingly return toward the pillar. It already knew what it would do. It would smash itself against the thing, back first, and would squash them completely.
It wouldn't be as easy as the plan to throw them off but this one didn't seem to be working. It even had a few reserve troops to finish them off using the moment that they would be stunned from the shock.
It had it all figured out— or that's how it should have been.
"Alright, we're almost done!"
"Here's another Orc Smash!"
— Shriek?! —
In the creature's scream, there was incredible puzzlement. They were still attacking its wings?! Right now?! Were they crazy?! If they destroyed them right now they would all fall to their death together! Why would they do that?!
It made sure to accelerate until they could see a pillar in the distance. Now they would stop and— or not?! The two crazies were still smashing!
It couldn't understand what was happening. Since it didn't know about the Tower, it couldn't know that they would have the option to teleport out after killing it. So what if they fell to their death?
— Shriek! —
It suddenly accelerated as it sent the last of the insects it had, even using a special technique to increase their power. It was done playing with the pesky guys!
The insects were now attacking with incredible ardor. With every bite they drew blood, removed flesh and even chipped the bones. They felt like they were in a meat grinder, and yet they kept attacking the wings.
At this rate they would die before they finished destroying the wings for sure. There was no other way than this. But the Blattagriff didn't know it. It was still fearing their for its life even if it wasn't logical.
Josh realized how scared their mount was gettting, figured that they would p
"Wow, this is a dream come true. This is even better than first class! There are only two of us and so many attendants! Well, they could be prettier but I won't quibble on the details." Josh relaxedly said.
Even then, their party was fighting for their life. They were absolutely not going to destroy all the wings before dying.
n his wake, there remained only a scene of destruction and a Tower falling to pieces. As soon as he was out, he quickly realized that the outside world was going crazy too... G G G G
The stick emergency finally stopped. He would survive, and so would his item sets. He patiently waited for his dimensional belt to be available and activated it while crossing his fingers. As he disappeared from the Tower, he sighed in relief.