Chapter 261 - Survival of the Fittest(2)

Unwilling to let danger approach any closer, Osira aimed at the charging Ratbug Queen and tried to shoot it on the head. However since the target was around 15 meters away, and she shot a foot wide Fireball thinking it will burn her enough until she drops, the Ratbug was fast enough to escape the shot in the last second.

However, the fireball did fly and hit another Ratbug Queen behind this charging one, on the shoulder. The shot painful indeed, it made the Queen howl in pain. Apparently they can do more than squeak! However a foot wide fireball wasn't enough to make its way to the bones, it barely burned off the skin but the fur it hit had a different fate.

With her shoulder fur still set to a Blaze, the Queen she just hit started charging towards the enemies. Bad enough she too came with a clan, however they were slightly less in number only counting as 4!

This really is a bad place to fight, they obviously can't shoot all of them at once so they have to run a little bit to avoid being pounced by one of these disgusting creatures and shoot whenever they find an opening. But the problem here is the risk of amputation, there are rotten planks and rusty Iron on the floor on every few steps they take! One slip, they can get cut rather easily and risk a terrible infection or any form of bad penetration.

He started taking steps backwards and shot 3 Fireballs one after the other first on the right, afterwards in the middle and at last on the left! It took a couple of seconds, but it sure left an impact against these 12 charging enemies!

The Fireballs were tail less and 3 feet wide except for the last one who was only 2, he has used quite some stamina today and last thing he needs is to run completely out in a middle of a battle, Osira shared a same fate today Stamina-wise.

The first Fireball hit a Ratbug right on the head and due to the sudden shift of momentum the rat faced, it was forced to tumble down for a few feet before it stopped on his spot for eternity.

As for the Ratbug Queen, the shot hit her mostly on the chest, partially on the left right side of the shoulder and a couple of inches hit the neck! Impactful indeed, it stopped her on the spot for a couple of seconds and she could even see her own start of the ribcage when she bent down to lick away the pain!

Its always hard to kill an animal but at the high mountains, survival of the fittest is taken on a whole other level! You either eat or get eaten, and from the looks of it the Ratbug would eat them too if it had the chance.

The third and smallest Fireball hit the Queen again, partially on the leg and the rest of the Fireball blew the near by Rat's leg off before it too was sent tumbling like its brother or sister in territory. Good shots indeed but there are still 10 Ratbugs charging towards them, 2 of which are equivalent to the size of an over grown or demonzied Wild Boar!

Osira has ran towards the right to get another angle of shooting and possibly get the second queen's attention, she wants to kill these beasts as fast as possible because it isn't certain how many of them can join the scene, Their rate is 250 Ratbugs per clan or differently described per queen. She doesn't want to wait for more of these creatures to bundle up in the scene and make survival difficult.

As she ran on the side she directly shot at the biggest Target, but this time didn't want to be savvy with her shot! Getting a better angle and having to act quick enough in order not to miss the shot, she blasted a 4 foot wide mild tailed Fireball from her right palm, even using the additional sumo squat known to help burn better thanks to the firm foundation.

It hit the Queen's behind, forced it to take a sharp turn to the left from behind and it no longer had the capability to walk even though she is still alive. The shot cracked through her insect like shell and burned half of her h.i.p.s into bits!

They sure have durability, no Human could withstand such a shot equally with this Queen. The toppling over took another Ratbug victim, although not noticable its neck was broken and it faced a quick death compared to every other here.

She made a finishing 3 foot wide shot on the Queen's head and put her out of her misery. Now all she has to do is kill her 3 remaining followers, less difficult but not easy either.

Meanwhile, as the Queen is still chasing Eric he shoots one final 5 foot wide Fireball against her! Terrible idea when Stamina is taken into consideration but it did the job more than well! The Queen's head was blown off all the way to the start of the spine, she fell down and tumbled around 5 meters from his feet and another Ratbug who was unfortunate enough to stand by her right side got half of its body burned into nothing but ash.

6 killed and 6 to go, this situation became a bit more tammable for a moment at least but as if they are carrying Mogranius' horribly bad luck, the moment they thought that they are closer to winning a new problem occured but it was indeed predictable!

The third queen likely hosting another clan but had some sort of cooperation with these two others, decided to join the scene with her 5 other soldiers behind! "Well shit!" Eric whispered as he heard the Queen's shout for back up!

"Where are these Ratbugs coming from?" Bittore shouted from a distance as she shoot two out of the three little remaining enemies. "They weren't here before!"

Being chased all the way to the end of the storage room and given an option to either flee the place, take any sharp turn to the sides or... Well seeing it as the best option he decided to fly above the head of these remaining Ratbugs.

Terrible idea! Ratbugs are known to be great at leaping, one of them took a quick turn backwards and jumped towards Eric, clinging on to his leg! It worked to his advantage as the Fire he was blowing from his feet torched the Ratbug's neck!

The bad part is that the extra weight and the Fire power he put on the Ratbug instead of against the air made him loose balance! With the Ratbug still clinging on his feet he was forced to meet with the hard ground!

He didn't want his nosebleed

go to waste though! A split second before he went down, he shoot two Fireballs from his hands. The left one blew the Queens leg off and the right one contributed to the leg damage but also mostly hit its head.

Both of the Fireballs were 2 feet wide, especially that he flew know it is all he could spare. But it thankfully did the work, a sudden missing leg stopped most of her speed and the damage to the face contributed a lot too! The Queen dropped to the ground and was facing a few final breaths before Osira made the finishing blow on this one as well, blowing her head off completely.

She has killed one Queen so far and 4 of her companions too, as for Eric he shot down two Queens with the help of Osira at the end, along with 4 smaller Ratbugs!

The only remaining enemies are the two Ratbugs from the first Queen's clan and the five yet untouched Ratbugs from the third Queen's side. As he lifted his head up, realizing that he almost lost his life thanks to almost receiving a small curved pole on the head.

He gave attention to the other two Ratbugs chasing him from behind, he saw them took a leap to fight him at such an uncomfortable position, but was quick enough to shoot them both as they were on mid air.

Trying not to be caught under 40 Kilograms of carcass, he reached for his toes and afterwards priyed the Ratbugs hands off his foot! Turning around he saw 5 Ratbugs running towards him, actually only 3 meters away at the moment!

Timing perfect enough, Osira shot one from the right and got the attention of two others! The shot enemy fell to the ground, twitching to death and the two remaining leaped towards Eric!

Pissed enough of these Ratbugs already and further getting angry because of the nosebleed, he stood up swiftly and aimed to grab both of their necks! With success he managed to strangle them for a couple of seconds before he pinned them down and burst Fire from his hand, cutting both their heads off as his palms touched the cobblestone flooring he heated in the process.

Osira was shocked of such a bold move, focused on him to the point of distraction so Eric had to shoot the last Ratbug for her! "Damn!" He murmured under his breath. "Do you think there is more?"