The battle lasted for only a short amount of time, once Beast had killed the man next to Raz everyone went all out to kill the opponents, the three wolves were brought out from the alternate dimension and joined in on the killing, with their low levels they were not very useful in high-level battles right now, but for low-level enemies such as these, they were a walking nightmare.
Reign moved to Raz right away and incapacitated him by breaking both of his legs right away, leaving him on the ground whimpering in agony while his men were getting killed around him. The poor raiders didn’t even have a chance to flee as each that tried got killed by the party’s long-range attacks, mostly Beast’s arrows or Shadow’s daggers.
Once the dust had settled Ronny and the others could only see corpses in the field in front of them, what was supposed to be an ambush for them turned into a slaughter fest for Reign and the others, they were all shocked as they didn’t even imagine their strength was so large, compared to them they were just ants and were not worth mentioning.
“Well, you’re the only one left bossman.” Reign crouched in front of Raz and broke his hand as the latter tried to stab him in the face with a hidden dagger. Raz’s cry was filled with tragedy as he knew there was no way out of the situation. He could only look straight at Reign and ask.
“W-who are you, how could there be people so strong in the town?!” Raz cries out the words in agony while Reign just smiles at him. “Well that’s the thing, we only got in the town today, and since these guys seem to be normal compared to you bastards we decided to help them out, simple as that.”
“J-just arrived here, what fucking luck, cough!” Raz coughs out blood as Beast shoots an arrow at him, hitting him straight in the chest. The arrow had pierced the heart and his life was slowly fading away. Before he finally closed his eyes Raz took a deep look at Beast and widened his eyes before dying.
“Alright, what was that?” Wolf comes up to Beast and asks him while seizing him up. Beast had changed for the better ever since he came out of the first dungeon, nobody really spoke of what they did inside of it but they all saw the difference in him as he was no longer nervous while fighting and would kill monsters without remorse.
“I knew them, both of them,” Beast utters through his teeth, his hands were firmly clutched and were turning into a deep red color while his face looked like the embodiment of anger.
“When I was in my 3rd year of high school a tragedy struck my city. There was a series of murders that took place in 3 weeks.” Beast’s lower lip starts bleeding as he bites on it to recollect himself. “Two killers had murdered sixteen people during that time, most of them were high schoolers like me and it seems they preyed on girls the most, usually raping them before they killed them, sometimes they even did the act after the murder.”
Everyone looks at the two men Beast had killed straight away, they could connect the dots immediately, not like it was hard to do so. Beast pauses his sentence and slowly walks towards a cement block that was nearby, putting his bow down he sits down and continues with a dark expression on his face.
“As you have already realized it was these two, they managed to get away at the end though, and killed three police officers during the escape.” Beast takes a deep breath and looks straight at Raz’s body. “They ran a student café and were well-liked by students, I was one of the regulars there as well.”
“Their final victims were killed after the chase, a guy with his girlfriend, those two broke into their apartment to take supplies and decided to kill them, but not before they broke the guy’s legs and forced him to watch his girlfriend being raped by them, the fucks even took a video on his phone and shared it on social media, everything was there, the ****, and the murder.”
Beast’s eyes start watering as he recalls the video, he was one of many that saw it, thinking it was just a normal post at first, before he knew it however his eyes were glued to the screen while his hands were frozen in disbelief over what was there.
“Their names were William Jones and Emilia Stockton, Will was my best friend, we had known each other since our childhoods and he was someone I would have taken a bullet for if needed.” Beast wipes his tears as he remembers his friend, even after a couple of years had passed he had never forgotten about him, nor the killers.
“Emilia was my cousin, we were distant relatives and were not really close but, she was family, and so was Will.” Beast finally erupts into an agonizing cry, he never thought he would see the killers of his two friends after so long, knowing who they are he could not control himself and decided to avenge the two by killing them personally, he wasn’t bothered by it, even if they were humans, and it was his first time he felt nothing towards it.
“Fuck, I never thought that something like that had happened to you man, I’m sorry man.” Tank sits next to Beast and pats his shoulder while trying to comfort him, Shadow looks down at Raz’s body and spits on it in anger, knowing that the person lying dead there was a murderer that took countless innocent lives.
“It’s alright, I’ll be fine in a bit, it’s just, I never thought I would have the chance to avenge them, never.” Beast calms down a bit and takes a couple of deep breaths, as he does so he remembers the first time he was so agitated, it was when he first killed a goblin and when he was alone in the dungeon.
He never told anyone what happened there, he was terrified at first, knowing that none of his friends could help him and that he had to kill monsters by himself. In the beginning, it was hard, he mostly hid and only took out normal goblins that strayed too far from their groups, he doesn’t even remember how long he was in the dungeon as time passed differently inside and he had no day and night cycles to count.
After what felt like months he finally got the courage to kill small groups, usually getting too scared when one or two goblins got close before he could shoot them. One even managed to take him down to the ground with an injured arm, even without a weapon the goblin would not stop trying to kill him. Beast was forced to take an arrow out of the quiver while the goblins were punching him and scratching him. With the arrow in his hand he plunged it deep inside the eye and finally killed him, it was the first time Beast had killed a monster at such close range and it was a terrifying sight.
After some time he managed to find a hobgoblin that had two wolves in a cage, the green bastard found it very amusing to whip them and punch them while they were chained, it seemed that was the primitive type of taming the goblins did. Killing the hobgoblin was easy, an arrow to the back of the head of the sleeping monster was enough to do it. After that, he spent some time trying to bond with the wolves that were still not tamed, and by some luck he was successful.
With the wolves by his side, he was confident of killing bigger groups, even those with wolves in them. The slaughters that happened afterward changed him, no longer was he scared of killing monsters, he even felt a bit happy doing it. 𝘦𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝑙.
“Beast, you alright man?” Shadow shakes Beast a bit as he had dozed off completely while looking up to the sky, Beast shakes his head to clear his mind and reassures Shadow.
“Don’t worry, I was just reminiscing about some things.” Beast smiles weakly and turns around to face everyone. “So, are we going to the dungeon now?”
Reign nods his head at him before going to Ronny and the others, he was going to invite them to their party for this dungeon, of course, he wasn’t going to share all of the exp with them, immediately telling them that they were each going to get only 2% of the total amount. Cameron nods right away as he was happy to even be invited in it, 2% might seem a small amount but the reward they would get from clearing the dungeon was more than enough to make up for it.
The notification rang earlier, notifying them that they had finished the battle, they didn’t even know that you could get exp from killing humans, they decided to transfer all of it to Greenie and the wolves as they didn’t need it right now.
Everyone checked the bodies of the raiders, maybe one of them had a good item that they were secretly wearing or holding somewhere, but luck was not on their side as most of the raiders didn’t even have items on, just civilian clothing and some knives and metal pipes.
Finishing everything up they decided it was time to go inside the dungeon.