“This is bad, I did not expect a wide open area right in front of the fortress,” Jin and his bellators were hiding behind an extremely large rock after getting in through the cave entrance of the dungeon and descending a few levels.
Right in front of him was a spacious clearing that created at least one kilometre between Jin and the front of the fortress. Also, there were guards standing on the outer fortress walls. Thankfully, unlike medieval castles or other important fortresses, there were no moats or drawbridges, though the fortress did have a portcullis, which was a latticed grille gate made of mainly metal.
“So…Master, how should we proceed?” Peppers was itching to create an explosion right in front of the gates but Jin stopped her from chanting by putting his hand over her mouth as he grabbed her by the waist and pulled back to the rock.
“I need you to conserve your strength. Although you have an unlimited amount of mana, I do not want you to vomit rainbows before the boss fight. If your explosive powers can rival even a fragment of the Fish God, I think you can pit yourself against a demon well enough.” Jin whispered to Peppers but noticed her face blush red. Jin thought that she was angry because he did not allow her to fire her explosive spells but it was actually something else. Peppers had not expected her master to forcefully grab her by the waist.
‘Ahhh! Peppers is growing. Being so conscious of her own body.’ Milk thought to herself and chuckled quietly. “Alright then Master, what are we going to do?” Milk asked Jin as Peppers was clearly not in the mood to talk at the moment.
“Remember the Great Wall of China dungeon instance?” Jin smiled wildly as he took his phone out and checked it once more. He had captured thousands of zombies from the desolate Shanghai Tower incident and if the minotaurs in this Subterranean Fortress of the Roleplaying Minotaurs did not have any siege defences apart from the guards, he might just be able to pull his crazy plan off.
However, Jin took his time to read through the Dungeon Reviews and one reviewer revealed a tidbit of information about the first gate of the fortress. It was indeed protected by siege defences like bombards, oil pots, and ballistas. It did not have much effect against high level adventurers who used simple tricks like high jump or teleportation but it was deadly against a massive army of low level adventurers.
To the minotaurs, the zombies would be like practice targets if they did the same thing they did in the Great Wall of China Dungeon Instance. However, the concept of piling the zombie bodies up to reach the crossover wall parapets was indeed something that interested Jin.
“The distance to cover in order to reach the base of the wall will prove to be a problem but I think we can handle that,” Jin asked his bellators to return into his phone and he summoned Shu. The moment he did that, the minotaur guards spotted an unusual tree sprouting out from behind a large rock and growing massive within seconds.
“Intruders!!!” The minotaurs shouted and the fortress walls were lit up and some even cast light magic onto the ceilings of the cave so that the area would be brightly illuminated. Despite this, all they saw was a tree, but they did not take any chances as they began to adjust their bombards and ballistas.
“Now!” Jin shouted at Shu and with magic imbued on his vines to store elastic energy for maximum draw force, Jin was flung out from the branches and leaves like a projectile leaving a slingshot, travelling at breakneck speed towards the fortress. As Jin flew out of Shu’s vines, he immediately unsummoned Shu and started to curl up into a ball, allowing him to execute Panda Tumbling, which caused Jin to move even faster.
The minotaurs, who had just aimed their siege defence weapons to focus on the tree, did not have the time to readjust their defences to prevent the projectile that was flying towards them so the guards quickly cleared the area, which allowed Jin to fly and cross over the first gate effortlessly.
As he landed, Jin realised he had landed in the middle of a regiment of minotaurs… in cowboy costumes. “Shit!” Jin thought to himself as he immediately slammed Boo into the ground. Stalks of Bamboo began to grow out of the ground and surround Jin like a shield to protect him while the cowboy minotaurs drew out their revolvers and started to shoot at him.
Thankfully, the bamboo shield was up fast enough and Jin only received a flesh wound from a lucky bullet. However, the shield would not last from the barrage of attacks so Jin only had seconds to think of his next move.
“Ahhh! Screw this!” Jin took out his phone and began to summon the zombies. Similar to what happened during the release of the zombie horde in their own home instance, the zombies crawled out of the phone with haste and like a black tsunami of bodies they crashed into the cowboy minotaurs. The minotaurs were overpowered by the sheer numbers and they were unable to retaliate.
“Zombies! To the second gate!! Quick!!!” Jin took out Boo from the ground and transformed it into a bamboo cannon. He hurriedly aimed it at the wall when he saw minotaurs trying to carry a pot of hot burning oil to deter the zombies that were currently piling up at the gates.
Using the accumulated chi, Jin released a shot from his bamboo cannon and like fireworks, the top of the second gate exploded as the oil reacted with the chi energy that was produced from the cannon shot. The minotaurs on the gate were burnt and unable to deal with the zombie body pile.
This allowed Jin to climb up the wall by literally walking on a pile of corpses and he managed to ascend over the parapets of the second gate. There he saw the fortress and the panicked rush of minotaurs arming themselves.
“Zombies! Bite, grab, scratch and eat any minotaurs on sight until they are captured by the system!” Jin ordered the zombies to create as much chaos as possible between the first and second gate as he jumped over the wall to face another regiment of cosplaying minotaurs.
“The real fight begins now!” Jin summoned the werebeasts when a regiment of costumed minotaurs created a bull wall in front of them to prevent them from proceeding any further.
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