"We’re about to arrive. All teams, you can park your car right after getting inside. We’ll immediately set up our camp and make our way to the center of the city. We’ll kill a few hundred beasts during the first day and crush the beasts on the second day."
The commander’s voice echoed on the radio. It had been transmitted to everyone, so all of them had heard the command.
Obviously, the vanguard team would focus on killing those beasts. The reserve team would set up the camp and the defense team would protect them.
The problem would be the fact that thirty of them would have to kill a few hundred within a few hours.
Clovis and his team were obviously ready for the task.
"We’ll stick to the original plan," said Clovis while looking at the front. The city was already in sight, so they prepared their weapons.
Melody said, "There aren’t any beasts around the gate. It’s better to hide the car in a safe place even if it means being a bit farther away from them. There is a building for that."
"Got it. I will engage the enemies. Kanaria gets into a sniping position. Melody will help us with the car and protect it if necessary. Only after that will we regroup with the rest of the vanguards."
All of them nodded their heads.
As they got closer and closer to the fallen base, the sound became more quiet as if they were not trying to alarm the beasts.
It seemed that Ivan’s group was raring to go, as Ivan actually came out of the car and climbed to the top as if he had prepared himself for any ambush.
"Vanguard teams. Get ready. We will immediately make our move as soon as we reach the city. Prioritize regrouping as I’ll be giving you a task."
Eliot’s voice echoed from the radio. As all of them expected, he was going to manipulate them again.
Fortunately, they managed to reach the city without a single fight.
The moment they regrouped, they were greeted by a sour gaze from a lot of people.
"You’re late." Ivan snorted.
"We’re merely doing as we ordered. Park the car and regroup with the rest." Clovis shook his head helplessly, wondering why they decided to pick on every single thing. Even if they tried to be petty, they should choose their reasons carefully or they would just be seen as foolish.
"…" Eliot looked annoyed as though he had some problems with Clovis. He took a deep breath before saying, "Anyway, you’re going to be stationed on the right like the original formation. Eliminate all the beasts you can find."
Clovis furrowed his eyebrows as if he didn’t like the order. But Eliot asked again, "What’s wrong? Are you scared? If you don’t have the ability to do the task, I can replace you with someone else."
’So, that’s how it is,’ Clovis thought before saying, "I understand. I will fulfill the task."
The other teams couldn’t help but feel suspicious. All of them had a radar with them, so they obviously saw the numerous dots on the right side.
’The captain is targeting these kids. What did they actually do?’ They couldn’t help but whisper to each other, revealing their suspicion.
However, Eliot glared at them, which caused them to stop talking. It was just an abuse of authority in everyone’s eyes to the point that they pitied Clovis.
"Is there anything else? If not, we will start immediately. After all, we don’t want to be called late or slow again." Clovis harrumphed.
"No. Just make sure that you don’t do more than necessary."
"Understood. Then…" Clovis nodded his head and turned around. Since the captain of the vanguard team kept targeting him, no one would think he was rude for doing this.
"Clovis. That area…" Melody approached Clovis while looking at the map.
"I know. There are about a hundred beasts in that direction. Unfortunately, we have no choice but to engage them directly. I bet their plan is to make us use our trump card or at least measure our current strength."
"So, what are we going to do?" Kanaria asked.
"Jay and I will be the ones taking care of the beasts. It’s normal not to use your gun right away since it will alert the beasts." Clovis glanced at Jay. "You’re good to go, Jay?"
"I have been waiting for this. Only a hundred beasts are not enough for us." Jay smirked. In the last couple of raids, they had killed numerous beasts to the point where they didn’t feel that much of a challenge when facing half of that number. So, a hundred beasts shouldn’t be that much of a problem for them since all of them didn’t rush to them.
Kanaria nodded while pointing at a building. "I will be up there, monitoring all the situations. Melody will be near me to guide you all."
"Yep. Leave it to me." Melody nodded.
Clovis smiled as he exchanged looks with Jay. Both of them had the same thought. "Go rampage?"
"Our small competition can wait. We should just deal with all these beasts to fuck the others up. I’m already annoyed by them, so I guess these beasts are enough to release my anger." Jay smirked.
Both of them were looking at the empty road where they could see a lot of beasts hiding inside the buildings.
"I have marked all of them. You may start." Melody reported.
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Clovis and Jay nodded as they stomped the ground, ready to rush forward. However, the silence in the city was suddenly destroyed.
*Bang!*
A shot was suddenly launched, startling everyone.
All the vanguard teams couldn’t help but look at the source of that sound.
"Who released that shot?"
"Did they plan to alert the beasts right away?"
"It was common knowledge that you shouldn’t shoot unless the roar of the beast had woken up dozens of other beasts."
"Who would be so foolish to actually shoot first?"
The people from the other teams frowned upon this action.
Even Clovis turned their heads around as Kanaria wasn’t the culprit.
"Huh?" Clovis frowned. The sound came not far from them, so there was only one person who would cause all this. It was Ivan’s group.
That shot completely broke the silence in the city, alerting all the beasts.
*Roar!*
*Roar!*
*Roar!*
A series of roars fully woke up the city. And the one who got the most trouble was none other than Clovis.
"Get ready." Clovis clicked his tongue. Jay unsheathed his sword while Melody positioned herself not far from Kanaria to protect her in case Clovis and Jay missed a beast.
"So, that’s what they’re planning to do. They are using that shot to bring all the beasts to us." Kanaria sucked a cold breath.
As she said, the beasts suddenly woke up from their slumbers and started running.
"Clovis. They’re splitting up." Melody said while opening the map. "Jay has to go to the other block. If not, around thirty of them will pass us and head to the rest of the group."
"Got it." Jay immediately rushed to the other blocks through the narrow alley. According to the skyglasses, the beasts were about to pass him.
So, Jay slowed himself on purpose for a few seconds before suddenly appearing before them. With a big slash, he severed three heads while shouting, "Hahaha. I’m going to be your opponent!"
He turned around, looking at the startled beasts.
Meanwhile, Clovis saw the approaching beasts. They broke the window and jumped off the building. Some came out of other blocks and gathered in a single spot.
"This is going to be tricky…" Clovis muttered. The number was a bit too much for him to handle alone.
Kanaria was observing the entire area first with her own eyes, making sure that the situation was alright for them to engage or they might end up getting cut off from the rest of the teams.
It seemed that while Ivan’s group was doing their job of alerting the beasts, they didn’t take into account the possibility of more beasts coming from a different direction.
The radar was limited by its range, so they didn’t know how many beasts were beyond that point.
And Kanaria couldn’t help but see a huge cloud of dust coming from two sides, the front and the left.
"Oh wow? There are more beasts coming from two directions. I’m afraid that they’re going to reach this place soon." Kanaria frowned. He didn’t know whether those groups could handle a few hundred beasts coming toward them.
Suddenly, the radio received a lot of messages.
"This is Team Blossom. We’ve got a problem here. A lot of beasts are coming toward us, we suspect their number to be more than two hundred."
"This is Silver Star. We have also spotted more than two hundred beasts coming toward us from the north. We suspect that they were alerted by the gunshot earlier."