CH16: Invasion

We found the herd's camp for the night and stepped back to build a fallback camp. After digging a trench and knocking over a few trees, we built a barricade that would be easy for us to get behind. On the other hand, Equines would snap their legs trying to chase us. I sharpened some stakes to line the pit to ensure any charging monsters would meet an unpleasant end. Armed in her new armor, Alice kept watch along with Helen and Lily for support. I hadn't seen what they could do, yet Alice could burn those centaurs with her black flames.

Alice stared at me while I checked the perimeter for the fifth time. "Do you remember where the grenades are?" I asked.

"For the thousandth time, yes, partner. Are you sure you don't need me with you? I can be very stealthy when I want to be." Alice said.

I smiled; she had begun practicing hiding her qi signature, but that wasn't the problem. "We need a strong place to fall back to. If everything goes well without alerting anyone, we should be in and out."

Alice sighed. "What you're doing sounds more fun than staying here. If I'm lucky, I might get to kill a few rouge monsters who sniff out Helen." Alice said.

I smirked at my black dinofu. "We'll be back soon with a new addition to the team. Then we'll travel east to find two more members."

"Ribbit, do you need help taking the edge off?" Lily asked. The tsufu licked her lips and stared at my crotch.

"If she gets a snack, then you better pound me good before leaving. This is normally our time, and you left me empty and twitching." Helen said. "We both know something will go wrong, and you'll come running back here. Centaurs are tricky bastards." Helen said.

"Come on, our partner can be sneaky when he wants to be. I'm sure he'll snag a boss mare without them knowing." Alice said.

"Ribbit, be careful; centaurs have a great sense of smell and can hear a tree fall in the woods when no one is around."

With that admission, I didn't think silencers would be very useful. Sure, they wouldn't be as loud, but the centaurs would know something was happening. Would it be better to go with something loud to disorient them?

"If we have sex, they will smell my heat on you," Helen said. "But if you plan on going in loud anyway, it won't matter."

Centaurs weren't the only ones who could smell Helen's swollen dark gold cunny lips. All three of my waifus needed to be ravaged tonight, but I couldn't because there was a job I needed to do. I shook my head, and her golden ears sunk, breaking my heart. I almost went to her, but Matt called from across the camp.

I unrolled a belt with a holster and gun attached and handed it off to him. He looked over the high-caliber pistol and stared back at me.

Matt licked his lips before he spoke. "This is an expensive gift. Even I can't buy one in Jackson without paying some major lip service to Professor Cacao." Matt said.

"I stole it from one of the gun-running gangs in the city. My mom's boyfriend was a member of the hangmen, so I stole his piece and robbed one of their caches." I said.

"This is a 1.00 caliver weapon with the make and model filed off. The greater mobs will send hitmen after us if we get caught with them." Matt said.

"That's why we aren't wearing them in a city. Besides, you can pay them off because you're rich." I said.

Matt looked troubled. "Maybe after Carthage, if my plan works out. But until then, I'm not rich enough to pay off the Wheeler family." Matt stared at his gun before nodding his head. "Thank you, and I know of a village just out of the forest built by the republicans."

I froze at the mention of the unpopular faction. They were synonymous with empty promises and a dream that could never happen. Dealing with them could only lead to a slow decline into doom.

My feelings must have shown on my face. "I don't like them, but they will trade legal guns for our filed variants. If you have some change to spare or sell them a waifu, we might be able to pool our resources together and buy an old Jokr." Matt said.

That perked me up. Even an old Jokr could damage to a rank three. They were rocket launchers that fired a 9.7-inch-wide rocket. Anything bigger like an Elite model gauss rifle or a hydra anti-air handheld canon for rank 2 tamers was out of our reach financially and physically. Hydras were for physical specialists to take on air-born monsters. Hydras belonged more on city walls than in a tamer's hand. However, there was another weapon that had my interest.

"Titan builds high caliber miniguns. Some of them could even pose a threat to a rank 4 if one of us had skills to bolster it."

Matt smirked. "And I thought you didn't have any ambition. Not many tamers go after a rare waifu during mating season. Do you have an idea about where it should be?" Matt asked.

"No," I said too quickly.

"Interesting," Matt said as we crept out of our fallback zone.

The first thing we noticed when we closed in on the camp was the number of guards. Since we saw them last, their number doubled. The camp was massive, with more than a few horses grazing around the camp. At the same time, the intelligent monsters and waifus took shelter in massive tents. We needed to pass by dozens of wild horses and bypass their guards. The smell of roasted meat filled the air along with shouts. In some ways, the camp was more defensible than the walled city the goblins enjoyed if not for the trees.

While trees were sparse around this area, one was in the center of their camp and a few more near the camp. It would be simple to climb up one before jumping to the other. Fortunately, Sandy could help Matt with the jump. I pointed to a tree on our 9, and we climbed up it to the top. Fortunately, a mighty wind blew away from the camp, masking our scent and hopefully our jumps.

I looked back at Matt, who wore a pensive look. "It's easy once you get the hang of it. All you have to do is pour power into your legs and jump. Let me show you how it's done." I said and approached the end of a thick branch before bracing myself.

Adding Dragon, Leviathan, and Giant power had transformed my body into a limber, dense, and powerful tool. Even if I wasn't completely balanced yet and the urge to complete the balance grew stronger each day, I was in control. My body didn't burn itself like it used to, and when I jumped, it felt fluid and almost like I was flying. I cleared the top of the tree and landed gracefully. The tree tipped back and forth but showed no other signs that my landing was anything but wind. I climbed down a little as Sandy and Matt arrived.

Sandy slammed hard against the tree's base and gripped it with her claws. I relaxed at seeing her and turned my attention down below. No alarms had been raised, and many of the centaurs ran around their camp drunkenly grinding against each other. One male mounted a big white mare centaur and stuffed his cock up her ass. I licked my lips and imagined what I would do to that blonde-tailed waifu.

This was going to be so much fun.

Matt grabbed my shoulder before I could move and pointed to my 3. The centaur with tamer hair on his lance walked into a tent where another centaur mare waited for him. I was glad it wasn't my target. She was a little way past the tents with another centaur. So there was no doubt about where I was going. But Matt dragged my shoulder again and patted the tree.

The message was clear meet back at the tree; it was our escape route. I nodded my affirmation, and we both leaped down lightly. A wintery chill ran off Matt and Sandy, and he went after a tent containing a lone virgin waifu centaur.

I moved through the shadows of the tents dodging centaurs as they drunkenly made their way to their own tents. No gunshots yet, so Matt should be well on his way.

I found the two centaurs in the moonlight, hidden away from the other centaurs. The centaur girl with the blonde hair raised her tail and pissed on the ground. My body carried me closer before I caught myself and stopped to remain hidden. Another centaur moved behind her and rubbed her thick horsey lips as his monstrous member hardened.

"Are you sure this is a good idea? What if your father figures it out?" The male centaur said as I crept closer with a knife in hand. Before climbing the hills on my elbows, I hid in the tents' darkness to keep out of sight.

"He won't care when he learns he's about to be a grandfather. So I doubt your status as a new member will matter after that. But that isn't your problem; you're scared."

"The tamer, you pissed in front of him. What if he attacks the camp or comes looking for you? They destroyed my tribe; they could come here and do the same to get you."

The girl snickered. "Have you seen my father's lance? They have tried, but no one is stronger than my father in the same rank, and that baby tamer wasn't even rank 1. Come on and mount me already; the tamer won't touch me if my big bad stallion takes my virginity." The centaur male said.

I watched the centaur waifu flag her tail to the other side, exposing her wet hungry hole to the moonlight. My want made my body shake. It wasn't the right time, but I would endure. When I struck, it would be swift, and then I would subdue her before returning to the tree.

The male centaur stepped forward and moved to mount when I jumped. My feet landed on the centaur's back before I wrenched the male's head back and sliced his throat from ear to ear. I sucked in a breath letting myself taste that sweet nectar between the centaur waifu's cunny.

To tide me over, I leaned in and licked her. "Oh, you want to have some fun, huh." I pulled back and licked my lips before the centaur behind me collapsed.

She didn't smell the blood thanks to a heavy wind blowing in the opposite direction. I slid my fingers in and watched her hungry snatch swallow them whole in the moonlight. Then she ruined it by turning around from the noise. I pulled away and covered her mouth as she tried to scream.

I licked my fingers clean of her juices before admiring her soft hair. She was too frozen by surprise to do anything before she suddenly relaxed. Her eyes gained a look of superiority.

She used her horse half to push forward with all her might, and I punched her in the gut. Then I started subduing her. Symbols spread from my arm around her body much slower than most other waifus. So, I punched her again for good measure. They spread a bit faster before finally she was subdued.

Finding Matt and then getting out of dodge was my next goal, but I hadn't finished the job. My body bent unnaturally at an angle to avoid a powerful kick. Night qi floated mid-air, and I felt a stirring in Night Rite to make it mine.

It was another problem that could only be solved with counter skills. Fortunately, Night Rite was an active skill, unlike the body enhancing power skills or regeneration. It could tempt me with its quick and easy power, but I didn't need it.

Zoran

Skills

Regeneration III: Beginner 54.91%

Dragon Power: Apprentice 1.98%

Giant Power: Beginner 89%

Leviathan Power: Beginner 75%

Night Rite: Beginner 0%

Even without the glow to anyone who could sense qi, it was obvious that I was closer to a rank 1 than a baby tamer. Using skills like Dragon power constantly was the mark of a rank 1, but I didn't have the qi to maintain it passively. That only came from advancing in cultivation, something I needed to reach Corinth to get. All this effort was for a pit stop to make the rest of the journey easier.

My hair blew out of my face as I stepped to the side, as the centaur leaped up on his back legs and kicked with his front while holding the wound on his neck. Night qi swirled around him before I heard a crack of thunder.

The wind picked up some more, and out of the corner of my eye, I could see some clouds moving in along with the qi of something powerful. I licked my lips as the thought of snagging something rare opened to me. But decided to set aside my greed until I was sure my girls were safe.

With the wind blowing like it was, the centaurs probably wouldn't hear a silenced shot. I rolled the silencer on my gun as the centaur stumbled as more night qi gathered around him. His hair morphed into tentacles. That's when I knew what the centaur was up to.

I laughed at the centaur's misjudgment. The correct action would have been to pretend to attack before fleeing to warn the others. But, really, I might as well clean up before I go; I can't see why I shouldn't kill monsters when they were vulnerable. Soon enough, they would recover their population anyway. The horses grazing would rank up into centaurs or other variants with enough qi gained from eating grass.

I aimed my gun and fired. But, on the other hand, killing the centaurs would create a power vacuum in the forest and cause the horses to be eaten by goblins or trolls.

I felt the powerful rank 2 centaur charge in my direction and thought about meeting him with bullets. But why fight when I can work around him? Bragging about how much I was going to fuck his daughter sounded great; I couldn't do that to the ogre.

Seeing the hair on his lance and knowing he killed tamers fresh out of the city didn't make me feel merciful. So, I walked over to the corpse and sat on his rump. His legs continued to kick and twitch like he was dreaming of running. Maybe he was with the girl I was going to fuck and name. That sounded like a pleasant dream, and I wished him a happy trip to whatever afterlife would take him. In the meantime, I cut off his balls sac and all messily tied them closed with some horse tail hair and hung them from my trigger guard. Then I lifted my gun to ensure the dangles were easy to see.

He arrived practically foaming at the mouth lance pointed in my direction before his mind registered the sight. "Where is she?" The centaur chief bellowed.

I raised my left hand, and the small glow of her light appeared. "You'll pay for capturing her and killing the boy. He was a good warrior, and you've dishonored him."

"Can you talk about dishonor with beginner tamer hair on your lance? I can tell it isn't from a monster or a rank 1 by the lack of qi." I said.

The centaur flared his nostrils and pounded his hooves. "I'll force you to free her." I shot him in both knees before he finished his sentence. Then I put a bullet through his shoulder. He bled profusely before his lance fell limply from his grip.

"For a rank 2, you are a tough one. But you aren't a rank 3. Do you see that storm and feel that qi. Griffons are coming down to feed. Some are rank 4, and I think the one controlling the storm is rank 5. Being here when the storm arrives isn't a good idea, but don't worry. I'll get the waifus to safety."

He tried to move with his good arm and even grabbed for his lance, but without his front legs, he was a sitting duck. "You can have my daughter if you warn my people. I'll even give you my blessing."

"So, your people are more important to you than your own daughter. I like it, so I'll give you a chance." After removing the centaur ballsac from my gun, I thought about what to do with them. "Maybe I'll give these to your daughter as a good luck charm," I said before tossing them over my shoulder to be forgotten about. I reached into my bag and pulled out a bottle of nanite healing spray. My power skills raised to their maximum output while I moved close to apply the medicine.

"Why did you come for my daughter? Was it because of what she did?" The centaur chief asked.

"We were originally going to grab a horse to help us get through a difficult area. So you probably wouldn't have missed them. But then your daughter made a show, and I saw that lance of yours. That first impression made out decision."

"It's common in most tribes to wear the hair of our foes on our weapons. It signifies respect, especially if you leave the foe alive." He reached for his skinning knife, but my pistol was already pointed at his chin.

I stared down at him and felt my admiration for him dry up. "If that knife isn't a gift offered in friendship, then my friend here will have something to say," I said and pressed the barrel in for emphasis.

The centaur swiped for my scalp, and I bent out of the way before pulling the trigger. Blood covered my face as it started to rain, and thunder rumbled. I kicked the centaur's corpse knocking its ass over tea kettle in the air. "You stupid fuck, I was trying to save you and your people the griffins will eat your people and spit their bones out as pellets."

A centaur charged over to find me with two downed centaurs. I grabbed the lance out of the dead chief's hand and threw it between the centaur's hooves. Under the fading light of the moon, I could tell it was the big white centaur boss mare. Some tamers were into milf waifus with miles of centaur cock run through them. I could see the appeal of experience, but I preferred virgin soil.

"Griffons are about to literally rain down to feast on your tribe and offer some of you to the waifu driving the storm. If you don't want your people to die, you'll lead them out of here before it's too late." She picked up the lance, and it glowed with ethereal light.

I raised my gun, unsure if she had any buffs to raise her speed enough to be relevant. My body was filled to the brim with energy from my power skills. If we fought, I could punch into the top of the first rank, and my guns could take out any rank 2. With long-range, I had the advantage.

"Did you kill my daughter too?"

"No, she's one of my waifus now," I said.

"Your kind won't rule this world forever. When the legendaries awaken, they will evict you from our world."

I heard the crowing of the griffins and knew the attack would happen soon. Resting at the base of a massive tree was a good decision. It would slow the griffins down enough to counter-attack. The herd might have had a chance with someone like the chief leading them. Unfortunately, nature was a brutal bitch.