Castaway Core: A LitRPG Fantasy Dungeon by Fransa Stone

Author:Fransa Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-26T00:00:00+00:00

Uno

I nearly started giggling seeing the sentients’ expressions. Their shock-filled faces and sudden change of tone were very satisfying.

No more laughs and jests.

No more disrespecting my creatures.

Or they’ll pay the price in blood.

Most of the soldiers took a few steps back, instinctively gathering into a large blob of flesh and pointy armaments. Clearly, a human herd behavior at work. They stared wildly at their nearly dead companion.

The unlucky soldier gasped a few times his body still desperately clinging to life, before gurgling and slowly sliding down on his knees, falling into the bloodied dirt. I noticed that his crotch, chest, and face had been completely obliterated by the explosion, flesh shredded from the bone. It was both a vicious and effective way of getting rid of the opposition.

Not counting the death of a Ratling pilot.

Speaking of which - the state of his mini-mech was much worse than those of his victim. The upper part was completely gone, the strength of the explosion turning the metal into murderous shrapnel. Bent and sharp metal shaped outward like a gruesome flower was a piece of clear evidence that the explosion originated inside the machine. Its two arms were still barely connected to the destroyed shell but could only dangle helplessly. The ‘egg’ insides were completely melted and covered in green glowing dust pretty similar to how radioactive waste was depicted in various sci-fi flicks I saw in my old world. Only flecks of flesh and bone remained of the rat pilot, the smell of burnt fur filling the surrounding air.

All in all an expected outcome for something that looked similar to reactor overload.

There was one thing that confused me, however, and that was the reaction that the Ratlings had. Instead of capitalizing on the invaders’ inability to act and attacking they too stared at their former companion metallic grave while squeaking to each other.

My social skills were lacking even when it came to reading humans, not to mention the bestial faces of rat-kins with their whiskers, fur, and squinty eyes. But there was something even I noticed.

Confusion.

Fear.

Hesitation.

These emotions were clearly present in each of their actions. It slowly dawned on me that the mech pilots were as surprised as me, or even our enemies, by this explosion. In short, this course of events was an accident!

This changed my mind quite thoroughly.

While having self-destructing creatures in my roster was certainly nice (Lebir Exploders being a perfect example) it was a completely different case if I couldn’t control when they burst into a blaze of glory.

A ticking bomb - that’s what it was! Nothing more!

Even worse - if one of them could start a chain reaction…

I shuddered considering the consequences.

While I was in my own little world another Ratling force arrived as two sides were busy staring at each other, neither of them all that keen on starting the battle. An unusual commander was accompanying the army of reinforcing egg-mechs. Unlike the others of his kind, he was not piloting a metal contraption, but rather moving through the skillful use of spider-like limbs attached directly to his back.

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