System Overload by Mark Cheverton

Author:Mark Cheverton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2016-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

BATTLE TO THE SURFACE

Gameknight charged toward the exit, his eyes stinging as tears blurred his vision. Spinning like a dual-bladed pinwheel, he carved his way through the monsters that were trying to cut them off from their escape route. But every time he destroyed one zombie, two more quickly stepped up to take its place. They were coming at them from all sides, and there were too many of them.

As he fought, he glanced about the cavern and was shocked to see the floor of the chamber nearly covered with green monsters. Pain erupted along his arm. Spinning, Gameknight slashed at a monster just as a flaming arrow struck the creature in the shoulder. Gameknight continued to hit the creature with his swords, but it didn’t seem to take damage … it just stood there. And then, after a delay, it was suddenly gone, disappearing with a pop.

What the heck was that? he thought.

Jumping over a crater, Gameknight finally reached the tunnel entrance, slashing and chopping at a few zombies directly in his path, keeping the monsters away from their escape route. Digger popped up at his side, smashing the creatures with his dual pickaxes. Hunter joined them, quickly placing two blocks under her to gave her a height advantage. She then fired down upon the creatures, protecting the NPCs who were most in need of her help. Stitcher then followed suit on the other side of the opening, her arrows adding to the storm of barbed rain coming from her sister.

As a result, more of the villagers were able to make it to the entrance and help set up a defense. Some were placing blocks of cobblestone on the ground as a makeshift wall to keep the monsters back, as others fired their bows into decaying bodies. Every arrow seemed to strike, but the damage increasingly seemed to arrive later than it should have, giving the monsters the opportunity for one final attack before their HP was extinguished.

“Hurry, everyone behind the barricade!” Gameknight shouted.

He ran out and pushed his way through the crowd of monsters, placing blocks of stone and dirt around the opening, creating a wider defensive wall. Some of the villagers were now climbing on top of the makeshift fortification, firing down upon the monster horde. There were so many monsters charging toward them now, they simply could not miss.

“I hope we don’t run out of arrows,” Stitcher said. “There are too many monsters here to take care of with bows.”

Gameknight shoved a monster aside as he slashed out with his diamond blade. He ran back behind the stone wall and sealed it behind him. They could now hear the zombie’s claws scratching away at their defenses. Blocks of dirt shattered under the onslaught, but hopefully the stone would last a little longer.

“Conserve your ammunition!” Gameknight shouted. “We won’t stop them with just those arrows.”

He then peered up at the cave wall above the tunnel entrance and smiled. Blocks and blocks of gravel sat just above the entrance.

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