The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Now the greatest problem I have to solve is to survive the monsters. Ah, I shouldn't have taken this mission, but this is a lot of EXP, which I couldn't ignore.

If I hadn't taken the mission, I would have regretted it but taking it also is making me regret my decision.

Who would have thought that a monster tide of the Tier-6 category would escalate to this?

Every preparation was done in terms of defence. I mean, there are formations and extra defence walls built to stop the monsters. Most of the town was covered in an extra layer of concrete or defence formations, which were supposed to slow down or even stop the underground monsters from entering the town, but everything went wrong.

First, the scouts didn't inform the town that the monster tide appeared before the estimated time. Many should have thought they were dead, which is why no information was sent.

Why are they dead?

I don't think with Tier-6 monsters present in the monster tide, they would have sent someone weak to spy on the monsters. We all know that the senses of monsters are excellent, much better than humans.

Many monsters have smell detection skills, which is what helps them to survive in the wild. Some have even better eyesight than Tier-9 beings. Read the latest on m_v-l'e|m,p| y- r

So getting found out by the monsters is very high unless you send experts from our side.

Even with that, either those who made a mistake that made them get caught but even then every one of them getting caught is of low probability. At least one should have survived, or long enough to send a distress signal.

Even if there was no information, a distress signal is a shorthand for danger coming. The higher-ups would have gotten alerted and we wouldn't have been caught with our pants down in the first place.

It means that the monster's sensory skills are almost perfect or there is a Tier-7 or above monster hidden in the tide and it is the true master of all these monsters.

If that is true, we are fucked. There is no way that anyone here can fight a Tier-7 or above monster but that may not be true. If there was such a monster, they should have sensed the human powerhouses stationed here.

They would have personally attacked and obliterated the human powerhouses. It would have been quick and easy. They wouldn't need to go around like this, unless that Tier-7 or above monster has a handicap.

Just like how not human awakeners are good for combat, not all monsters are good for combat but those types of monsters are usually scarce as the strong would be the only ones that survive in the wild.

Other monsters would have obliterated their species, if there were such weak monsters with the potential to reach such a rank.

Even my pet Asya, which is not good at combating face-to-face, can control the minds of its opponents. It is how it wins a fight and grows.

Sure, being my pet it leaches off some of my EXP but monsters grow by eating. This is why they were always on the hunt to kill other monsters to evolve themselves. Eating unique monsters is not something they would let go of.

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Anyway, if the fault for the failure of the scouts was not the monsters, then that means someone has turned a traitor.

Rather than the monster leading the tide being a unique monster, the chances of human traitors among us feel more realistic.

Yeah, there are human traitors who believe that the monsters are what should rule us, not other humans, demons or any other race of the world.

Humans who believe this belong to Monster Cults and there are more than one. Only people such as them would have betrayed could have weakened the human measures against the monster tide.

I mean, all scouts failing to report!

Monsters broke through underground into the heart of the town and no one was able to sense their arrival!

Now while fending them off, no one was able to sense them until they were upon us.

How was that achieved?

I don't think that the monsters have such knowledge to do things. I know some higher-rank monsters are intelligent than humans but intelligent doesn't mean knowledgeable.

Something very fishy is going on here.

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"Don't give up. We have already called for reinforcements as a precaution when the monster tide showed up and something felt off back then. All you have to do is to hold on until then", the commander shouted raising up the morale again.

It was not easy to hold on against the influx of the monsters. A few of us died but those positions were quickly filled by the ones who came from the front line. This is causing some gaps in the frontline defence and that is something that we can't let happen anymore.

We can only hold with what we have and hope that the reinforcements appear in time.

The higher-ups have already called for reinforcements from the capital and that is very good but it is not easy to do so. Sending away troops to another place means weakening the place where the troops were.

The higher-ups in the kingdom have to make a decision that wouldn't cause damage in another place, trying to save some other place. It is not an easy decision to make.

Monsters are not the only enemies that the kingdom has. Other human nations may take this as a chance to poke the bear, hoping to get some benefits. So the kingdom can't recklessly send reinforcements either.

It also means that the reinforcements may take time to arrive if they were sent. So, we are hoping that they will send some reinforcements, and until then, we can only fight and survive. This is going to be a long day.

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BOOM!

"Ahhh, reinforcements", some shouted.

Huh, it looks like reinforcements are here. So this would end soon and I can get out of this hell, sooner than I thought.