Chapter 1727 – Don’t Look a Gift Church Army in the… Face?

Summoning an army to try and defeat a monster isn’t as simple as it seems. Powerful monsters may be large, but they are also, most of the time, quite cunning as well. Trying to engage one with a force of tens of thousands within the unpredictable terrain of the Dungeon is far from a simple matter.

If the beast senses you coming, it may well just leave the area, moving somewhere else for a time before returning to its previous den. If the monster is particularly attached to its home, then perhaps it may choose to stand and fight, but there is a limit to the number of men and women able to engage a monster at once.

This is why, when the need arises, most monsters are hunted by armies of at most ten thousand. Special training and unique discipline is required when engaging a monster of such size and strength as it is far from a regular sort of engagement.

Excerpt from ‘Hunting The Great Beasts’ by Xinci

Really now. The Church of the Path, the very people I hold the strongest grudge against, just decided to send a punitive army of thousands over here to deal with me?!

That’s… that’s… so delicious!

No. No! Down, Dark One! Back to the forbidden depths that spawned you!

Aha! You think I will slink away into the darkness so easily while my prey has delivered itself on a silver platter? Nay! Nay, I say again! This is my place, and here I shall remain!

[How many of them do you think there are?] I ask Crinis.

[At least four thousand, Master. I didn’t stop to count, I was worried they would find me.]

[Good call, Crinis. Better if they don’t know that you’re here.]

Not to mention, they might have strange monster-trapping techniques that would prevent her escape. I’m the one who wants to be trapping them, not the other way around.

Thousands of minions from the Path, right in front of me. It’s almost too good to be true. Should I just gravity bomb the lot of them to heck? If I spit out a bomb as big as I can make it, empowering the spell with the Altar, would they be able to deal with something like that?

Wait a second, I can’t do that! Unleashing a bomb of that size directly under Green Mountain could destabilise the entire city! Goodness knows what sort of damage that would do, and it’d completely destroy my peace plan while I was at it!

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Damn you, Dark Anthony! Get back to the pits!

Sheesh. Holding a grudge against the Church of the Path is only right, but letting it derail everything I’ve been trying to do here? No way.

As much as I’d like to go completely wild and unleash my wrath on this army, that won’t win me the peace that I want.

“Eldest… you aren’t thinking of doing anything… drastic… are you?” Sloan asks carefully.

“Wha… Me? Of course not!”