Sigma's name reveals shocked everyone but it ended on a positive note. Due to this, the girls have been hanging out more than ever. Now that they knew each other's identity, they are now more united than ever. The girls are more secretive now and they are now happier to do some night meetings and some sleepovers in their rooms. I can't say it was a very typical sleepover though as everyone is living under the same roof, more like they transferred rooms and sleep with them.
Suhei is happy that now, Pandora has friends of her age and he is more than happy to allow her to do so. After all, she has been bound to her wheelchair since childhood plus she was mute, making her not able to get friends and being home-schooled as well, which eliminates a lot of possibilities for her to have friends. Now that she has them now, Suhei can now sigh in relief for her well-being.
And so days have passed and the timer for the second wave begins. Since Sigma and the others have bonded in real life, they are now sticking together and are hunting monsters left and right since then.
The boys were mostly left behind at times since they are both tankers and with Sigma on the battlefield, their roles are totally not needed.
"Ugh, I didn't expect to feel so useless now. I choose to become a paladin so that I can support my sis in battle and yet, look at me now, left on the corner..." Iron sighed as he drinks up a bottle of grape juice that my mother freshly made from the harvests of wild grapes the girls gathered while exploring.
"Come on, man. Don't worry. You are not the only one. Hahaha!" Hagane laughed as he pats on Iron's shoulder as he also drink the grape juice as well.
"You guys look like drunkards in here. Get yourself together and prepare for the next battle. You guys should know that the second wave is almost here, yeah?"
"Yeah, yeah. We do. That's why we are relaxing here since we have to make sure that we have the energy to back it up with the next wave yeah? We are expecting a much harder enemy next so we are just hanging out for now," Hagane sighed as he goes to finish the final drop on his cup.
At that moment, Lina and Gobu returned from the scouting mission alongside Leona whom they rode to search up in the air. I sent them to scout the perimeter of the area with Leona to see where the enemies are already and also to alert everyone else.
"We have returned, Master, and we got some bad news," Gobu went down from Leona's back.
"How bad is it?" I asked.
"Not that bad, but you can say that it's not a really good thing either. That's what I can describe what we saw."
Lina also went down from Leona as well and is the one who deliver and explained what they saw.
"The monsters we saw coming from the swamp are still insects but this time, they are worms. They looked like earthworms but they have a head that looked like it was covered with lots of teeth to the brim, and their mouth looked like suction as well. Not only that but there are also some jumping leeches as well. We didn't get too close as those things jump very high but thankfully, they are not that plenty in numbers."
"What about the boss?" I asked.
"The boss is a ball made of worms. Gobu already shot it with his long-range magic attacks a few times and almost destroyed it but it immediately recovers. When we broke off several parts of its body, worms were splattered before it died. The rest of the body immediately goes to recover the lost part immediately. Not only that but we also realized that the boss does not possess the usual HP bar, making it hard to gauge its HP percentage."
I immediately knew what Lina is talking about. The next boss is what I expected and one of the bosses that appeared before the Brain Jacker. So it was the same monsters indeed. As to why their arrival is not the same, I guess it wouldn't matter much. After all, even though what Lina described seems bad, this boss is the easiest of the enemies out there. It's just that it's very annoying and will take some time before it dies. Not only that but all of its "flesh: that separates it will then spawn more of them in the process, making the process longer. They are not that hard to kill, but they are numerous, so it's just killing and killing until the very end and with everyone being proficient in the killing life, I am not worried.
"You two, prepare to go to the battlefield. Bring the supplies to the others as well with you and distribute it to them. You guys will need what I packed there for you guys," I opened my inventory and handed Iron and Hagane supplies of different kinds to them.
"So it is here."
"INDEED."
Hagane and Iron, wanting to at least find uses for themselves have steeled themselves Ready to fight. They wanted the piece of action after being left out by them. I can only laugh at them on this since I wasn't even part of that. With me being passive in this event, I am just a guy that is observing anything for them and not directly impacting the situation. The two left and are gung ho about their roles.
I messaged the others that the battle is almost here since they are not present.
"Guys, the next wave is almost upon us. I already gave the supplies to the boys so go and meet up with them and grab your stuff."
Tina and the rest of the gang grabbed their own seats as we sat down to watch for the battle that will be happening in the same swamp where the previous battle occurred.
"I could never get used to being so passive in a war against monsters, Master. Seeing that we are just doing nothing but watching them still made me feel a little bit different," Gobu sips on his coffee as he watches the current situation.
"Isn't it nice? We are so used to battling monsters that we barely have any sort of relaxation we are now not comfortable not participating in it," Lina smiled as she massage the back of Cath Palug who decided to go out of the Summon's Area just to relax. I barely saw the f*cker and the guy apparently has decided to live a lazy life like this.
"For me, it's a good perspective on a bystander how battles were going to look. We can use this chance to learn things that we barely have done due to the fact that we are always in battle. If we use this chance to take advantage of this and learn different things, we might be able to have a good chance that we will develop something we didn't expect to see," Tina added.
"Tina is right. Also, it's a good change of pace for all the constant fighting we keep on doing. We are so busy grinding in the Dark Sea that we barely did any rest. We should take this chance to just go and rest, yeah? We will go back to the grind once this event is over so just enjoy it for now."
"Well, if we are going back to the grind after this event, it's indeed a good way to spend our time relaxing. That stuff was tiring and stress-inducing. I barely have time to spend with my family due to that," Gobu sighed and gulped the remaining coffee into his cup.
It's just a little respite at the moment but I am not idling just for the sake of it. I am doing what I can while still finishing up my preparations for the next Continent and also preparing for the continent explorations soon which will be an update that will give the players an incentive to explore the massive continent rather than remain in their own respective places. After all, Alternate World is a big game and just remaining on a single continent is just not that great.
It is also the main reason why I continue to gather materials and gather more and more stuff from the material trading I did as some of this stuff will come in handy once that update comes in. That's where the real sh*t comes in and that is also the time when Kaisar will gain the most recognition in the game and the time he becomes powerful enough. I have to prevent that and to also that will be the time I have to make sure I am strong enough in real life as well. No one knows what will happen in the future after all.
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