Preperations for the fight

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Root Parasite/Worm

Class Insects

Sub-Class parasites

Root Worms are rare, green, small worm creatures which could be found in tropical dungeons or deep forests/tropics outside of the dungeon. These creatures are known among all races because of their temptation to attach and grow to their host, slowly taking over their nerve system and then reaching its tentacle/root to the host's brain, which leads to its quick death while the worm gains a new body.

Many mages and healers tried to find ways to separate the worm and its host but it only led to hosts and worms death.

Many aristocrats, demons, dungeon masters and powerful creatures use these worms to kill their opponents and then gain a perfect puppet with its memories. However, worms can't mimic their hosts' lifestyles perfectly, which leads to it acting SUS and exposing itself to others. It's not hard to guess what will happen to them when they are caught or exposed...

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Humans!

Edgar's eyes widened with surprise and slight bewilderment.

Edgar: 'Humans!? What are they doing in this dungeon…? Actually, that's a stupid question to ask.'

Edgar: "Guys, we need to retreat as quickly as possible before humans can attack us and do not question me because currently, we can't fight this group!!!"

As soon as Edgar gave the order to his team. Margan, Izbor and Riku instantly turned around and started to run away from the battlefield. Margan and Izbor weren't quite sure why Edgar told them to run when they could have killed them all, but Riku clearly felt and saw it with his skills. Four out of 8 humans were outside of their league and would require 2 to 4 of them to take even one of them down.

They heard multiple roars behind their backs and knew that the fight had started. Edgar wouldn't usually run from the fight, however, he had to care about his 3 companions. Deep inside he knew that he had a small chance of winning, yet that only fuelled his temptation to challenge them next time they met.

*Human group pov*

???: "Why are there so many monsters at the dungeon entrance?"

???: "Who knows but we better kill them quickly before more of them come."

???: "This reminds me of a dungeon break that happened a few years ago. When a huge horde of monsters broke out of the dungeon, I believe this might be the beginning... "

???: "Who cares if this is a dungeon break? I see a chance to get rich and drunk haha!"

???: "Don't get excited yet, we don't know how much we'll get paid when we deliver all these bodies and cores to the guild."

???: "Hey, scout, can you search this area for any rare monsters while we clean up here."

???: "This scout has a name, so please use it when you speak to me."

???: "Yeah-Yeah, just go already."

???: "Listen, we need to inform the guild first! So please let's go ba…"

???: "Shut it little priest, we aren't some nobodys who can't hold weapons. Time is money so let's keep going haha."

They prepared their weapons and quickly formed a formation to fight the horde of monsters while scouts simply sneaked past the horde. However, one of them rushed forwards swinging his mace(club) at the goblin head, killing him instantly.

???: "Drake gets back into the formation or you will screw us up!!"

Drake: "OHHH, are you worried about me my dear archer! Haha, I told you that she's fallen for me haha!"

???: "That idiot!"

???: "Come down, he might have rushed forward but I don't think he's in a danger yet. He acts like this because none of these monsters are strong… If it was a strong beast he would have acted differently compared to his usual 'him'."

??? "Yeah, yeah, yeah like we ever meet this type of monster."

While members of the group spoke between each other and Drake discombobulated weak monsters. They were silently watched by the insect monster from the top of the crystal monolith.

Edgar's group pov

Edgar's group kept running away from the battlefield while looking around to prevent any sudden attack from other monsters. While they were running Edgar tried to analyze the human group strength.

Edgar: 'There were 8 humans, two of which had Endomorph and Mesomorph body builds each having different types of equipment. One was wielding a mace with light, leather armour that had few areas covered by metal plates, yet it still exposed most of his upper body. The other human had a knight our feet with a rectangular shaped shield and a spear. I guess they both are tanks or tank and a warrior? Then there was 1 more human with a double hand sword, a few knives and a one-hand sword. He was wearing leather armour with more metal plates covering his shoulders, knees, hands, back, front and shoulders with a helmet to protect his head. He had a mesomorph body build and if I remember correctly he had a strange whistle on his neck. I guess it's a way to show how a leader is or to represent a hierarchy. The rest looked more like scouts, support(priest), mage, baggage man and archer who for some reason had a map I always thought scouts meant to do that type of job... We need to find more monsters who are willing to join us to fight them or set up a trap. Even though I don't want to use the second option, however, it's probably the best one we currently have.'

Edgar: "Team we need to get to our hideout before humans and prepare for them."

Riku: "Why!? I thought they came for monsters at the dungeon entrance."

Edgar: "They have a huge group with good equipment therefore they can try to kill the boss. Our hideout is probably next to the dungeon's boss room. So we better be prepared for them to find us.

Riku: "I-i guess we could try to find that b-b-butte-erflly. She probably could kill a few of them by herself."

Edgar: "Let's not waste time talking about a future which might never happen and there's no guarantee that she's still alive and hasn't died to some creature in this dungeon."

Edgar's group kept running back to their hideout while occasionally stopping to rest or fight some monsters which were on their way. During this journey, one of them kept stressing out and cursing inwardly at his luck.

Riku was an anime fan and knew that this world will have a dark side and from the fanfics, he read he remembered how many monsters were sold, butchered or turned to slaves by summoner contract or suffered worse fates than those. Those thoughts kept bugging him all their trip back, yet when they reached their destination his worries shot above the clouds because he remembered Edgar's words. Their hideout is close to the boss room. lots of sweat started to form on Rikus head and he will kill Edgar if he doesn't have a plan.

Edgar: "You want to say something?"

Riku: "Ah-hh Yes, Yes I do. Do you have some sort of plan? Please say you do."

Edgar: Well I do have few ideas but they have to be adjusted a little bit. After all, we will be forced to retreat and reposition multiple times."

Riku: "What do you mean by retreat?"

Edgar: " Do you really believe we will be capable of fighting head-on against 8 people? Fine, let's take 2-3 of them out and label them as incapable of fighting, but we are still left with 5 to 6 who are well armed and probably have some skills to back their look. After all, we aren't in our previous world where people dress up for cosplay with cardboard swords and armours which were painted to look real. These are wearing real equipment and probably are really skilled with it."

Riku: "Fair enough… So what's the plan."

Edgar: "Where are the imp's?"

Riku: "They went outside to get some water from a nearby lake."

Edgar: "You mean that blue slime thingy."

Riku: "Yeap."

Edgar lazily turned around and started to stumble to the cave exit to quickly find his group members and prepare for the upcoming battle. He rolled up and zoomed down the hill while manoeuvring past rock and crystals.

Hall trip took him around 1 minute and he noticed two imps sitting by one of the crystals while eating an unlucky croller. Crollers are insects that roll up and travel in that position most of the time. They have quite the tough outer shell and usually don't come out, only sometimes to drink or eat some plants. They were named Crollers by Edgar after he caught and killed it on their way to the dungeon entrance.

Edgar: 'They are so lucky to kill one of them!!! They taste like lasagne or roast chicken with some cheese on top. I really want one too but I have a bigger issue to solve now…. I'll catch one later."

Edgar: "Morgan, Izbor we need to go back to our hideout."

Izbor & Morgan: "Yes Sir."

Edgar: "Don't 'Sir' me and start moving."

On the way back to their hideout Edgar felt something watching him from the other side of the crystal bridge, yet he couldn't see anything there which confused and worried him. He quickly sent a message to imps so they would stay on alert all their trip.

Edgar: "Lads we are being watched by somebody, don't turn or try to see where it is, most likely your actions will inform it or them that we are being watched."

The two imps nodded slightly and continued walking, listening to any rustle, and also trying to notice the slightest movement of the stalker who could be hiding near the crystals next to the walls. When they reach their hideout Edgar sends the message telling Riku to be prepared for guests which will arrive in a few minutes. When Both imps entered the cave, Edgar bit the rock and drugged it over the entrance.

Edgar: "It's time to discuss our strategy for the fight."

Said Edgar while bitting up a sharp crystal and started to draw on the sand. He quickly drew the map with some key points and the path they took from the lake, as well as Edgar drew the area where he thought the creature was.

**Map here**

Edgar: "This is the area where we currently are at and as you can see I marked some areas here and there so you have a general idea where is what. Now, as I said before, some humans might come over here and try to kill us or the dungeon boss, therefore we are going to make some traps and prepare areas for us to fight them. We will not face them in open areas however we might have to retreat to the crystal arena later on. So our main objective is to make small tunnels in our fighting area. I and Riku will go around digging holes in the ground to prevent them from moving freely around the cave. Riku tries to make them different depths so it will be even harder to walk. You two will have to make multiple small tunnels all across the pass so when they come Riku can shout at it to crush rocks at them. Now here you can see two fat walls that are fake and we need to dig tunnels in this area to connect passes. It will buy us time to set up new traps or finish them off if necessary. When we are done with this, Riku, will you have to dig a few tunnels connecting two different sides, so when the front line passes you can use those tunnels to make a clean shot at their backline. However at the start of the fight, you will be behind me already prepared to take a shot, you need to aim at the ceiling where Our little friends dug a few tunnels. I don't think I need to explain why or do I?"

Riku: "Explain please."

Edgar: "We want to make chaos among the group and if we are lucky some rocks will be big enough to wound them. After all, only two members of the group are wearing helmets, as well as, they most likely will send one person forward with a shield to prevent any sudden attacks. Don't forget those in the dungeon and if they bleed it will attract other monsters buying us even more time"

Riku: "Ok!"

Edgar: "Now go."

With that said all of them rushed out to do their tasks.

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So I have few questions?

Firstly do you want me to find pictures for each monster/human I have used so far?

Secondly, Which style of writing do you think is better for their speaking

The one which I'm currently using For example:

Riku: "Explain please."

or

Explain please said Riku with a shaky tone

Thirdly I make errors or forget to mentions something because I don't keep track of every world in the novel and might miss a few out. So can you tell me where I made an error or left something out?

Thank you for reading have a good day/evening