Awakening: I Ascend As A Legendary Ranked Necromancer-Chapter 65: Right

"What if I use Hermit for sensing?" And so I did again, turning Hermit into my hearing and sight. The swampy forest was brought to me in crystal clarity, the dull brown green of the leaves and the clattering of the insects.

The air looks sharp and crisp it’s almost hard to imagine this is inside of a game.

"Well? Do you sense anything?" Litha asked.

I blinked, brought back to the present.

"Not yet but wait..." My eyes dilated as I listened intently, then I caught a sound, a bit of cluttering and clattering. "I hear something. Follow me!"

I led the way. Even as the swamp tried to sink us we still managed to walk on it with as much dignity as we could muster, we are Iron rank after all. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Is this where you are leading us?" Tim asked.

I had stopped moving immediately we entered the clearing and I nodded. "I’m hearing movement inside there."

"Are you sure?" Litha asked because what I was pointing at was a mold of hard earth joined together several feet taller than us and it took up the whole clearing.

"I don’t think this is the monster we are looking for." Temur said quietly. "Damn that spirit why don’t it tell us that there’s more than one type of monsters here?"

Too late." I sighed because if I could hear them and this close, the monsters inside the nest mold could hear us too as well.

I was proven right when the nest exploded outward, spraying earth and debris around. Monsters poured out and the clattering I had been hearing since finally made sense.

The monsters were shaped like spiders with hard brown skins, six equal legs and ten eyes that circle their head in a ring, and the head itself is a mouth facing up, sharp pincers rose up and down, turning towards the Awakeners.

Cele ran forward and jetted twins bellowing flames at the monsters but all it did was make their body turn red as if they are made of metal. "Impossible! I can melt steel with that!"

"Let’s retreat everyone." Temur called, fghting here when they don’t know what else is waiting for them is unwise.

But the monsters, half the size of Temur, refused to let us go as ten of them skittles behind us, they are far faster than the Awakeners and soon surrounded us.

"What should we do now?" Cele asked.

"Come." Green flames bellowed from my mouth as I called he three remaining goblins. "We fight!"

Temur didn’t need to give the go-ahead as everyone flunged themselves at the monsters. I took on four by myself and my sword hand cut the air with my numerous fangs flashing.

But the monsters are tougher than they look, their skins are as tough as metal and their spider hands sharp enough to make a hole in a metal, not to talk of their pincers.

Since my sword wasn’t going through, I transformed Hermit into tentacles then I coiled it into a punch and I began to hit the one I was facing. It was a bloody work because I had to crush the monster’s armour to get at the soft flesh inside.

Sharp legs and pincers clawed at me, tearing my clothes to my flesh but I continued to pound the monster until it could only twitch on the ground.

I turned to the others to see they are not doing much better, Cele has managed to melt part of her monster but the rest was still crawling towards her.

Tim was having the most success, he just lifted two up and began to slam them against each other again and again, using their bodies against themselves.

Dile and Temur are trying their best to slice through their bodies as we but the monsters are tougher than they look.

Litha held her own down with a shield.

I shook my head as I turned to my goblins, ’they can handle themselves’.

The goblins are doing far worse take I thought, the two warrior goblins are on the ground while pincers fell on them like fork on dinner.

"Stand up." I growled. This would be the first time I would be studying them fight in a real battle and I wanted to know just how capable I could make them do.

I felt a dip in my Unholy magic as the goblins drew it to heal themselves as they stood, one of them caught three of the monster’s legs from under it and then the goblin rested his body weight fully on it.

And although their body is strong, it still couldn’t resist a good old bending and with a sharp crunch, three legs bent. The monster hobbled back.

I nodded in satisfaction. ’Advantage of undead like this is that they don’t die easily. If I can keep my unholy magic going like this then I’m sure I can keep them fighting.

And when they flatter then I can just cancel their summon.

The warchief was having it easier, it easily kept the monster away from it’s by tearing it slaps. Once the monster got close to it then it would pounced and slap it, the sound ringing like iron on iron.

I focused on my connection to the goblins, I specifically focused on one – the warchief then I carefully imagined what I wanted and where I wanted it.

The warchief jumped back and immediately let out an ear splitting roar that tore through the whole forest as if it was air force mixed with razor.

All the monsters froze at once, body stiffening.

"Okay, I’ve put them in a limbo for now. You can kill them with leisure." I nodded.

Temur grunted as his aura infused attack only left a little bit of mark on the monster’s hide. "It’s not about killing them! It’s about how absurdly strong their bodies are."

"You are right." Cele said, turning her flame to melt the rest of her monster’s body.

"Ehmm, guys?" Litha asked. She sounded as if she didn’t know if she should panic or not.