Harem Reborn

Chapter 106: Like I Just Went To Sleep

As we reach the end of the canyon, there were only four monsters left. They looked like praying mantis of some sort but with glassy shells covering them. Mikota's clones cut through the first three in a hail of red beams, while Tilly destroyed the last one with a pair of rockets.

I was sure someone or someones was yelling at the screens of their monitor, crying about how that isn't right and how it must be against some rule. I wasn't worried, nor did I care; it was their own fault for letting the bugs push the carts down here with us. It wasn't our fault that we got creative with what we had!

The last parts of the glass bugs were disintegrating into black particles as we pulled up to the end of the cave. There was a crack in the wall that continued forward, but it was too small for us to fit thought, of course. Somehow I felt that the Game Master must have changed around the place just to give us some challenges.

//I do admit that this is not how I imagined this trip would go -Alta.

/I agree with you there, but something tells me that inside that crack is something to make up for our quick work of the first ninety-eight percent of the dungeon

//I think you may be right; I am picking up a large abomination type monster, Titan class -Alta.

Titan class? In that little hole? Now I was feeling less excited about this encounter. Titan sounded huge, so this wasn't something we could rush into. Tama was about to pull over to the crack, but I leaned forward and put my hand on her shoulder, using the other hand to point out a good spot to rest.

/Alta says there is a Titan class monster up head, so I think we should take another rest; both Mikota and I need some more sleep before confronting whatever is inside of there

Everyone agreed, and we pulled off to an enclosed place not far from the crack entrance. Everyone piled out of the Mega-Buggy, and I dragged myself to the corner. Iona said she wasn't tired, so she and Tama took the watch, while the rest took another three-hour power sleep. 

Tilly curled into my side and rested her head on my should while Mikota took her place back, putting her head on my lap. It took me almost ten minutes to fall asleep; I was stuck thinking about the crack in the wall. What was going to be inside of there?

Maybe a giant glass spider or a spiked centipede? I wasn't sure, and the thoughts about what I didn't know were keeping the needed sleep from me. I finally drifted off, only to be woken up by Tama.

"Wah? Hmmm? Is something wrong? I feel like I just closed my eyes," I said while rubbing my eyes through my helmet.

*BANG! CRACK!*

I hoped up fast, spilling the girls off me. That was coming from the crack! I willed my visor down and turned to look at the gap.

*BANG! CRACK... CRACK!*

/We need to get moving! Leave the buggy, and maybe if we get it away from it, then whatever is coming out of there won't destroy it!

I helped up Mikota and Tilly, then started to run. Iona and Tama joined us, and we began to run across the sand to the opposite side of the valley. I angled us away from the crack, but we didn't get far.

*BANG! BOOM!*

The crack exploded as a massive arm over ten meters long reached out, digging into the sand. The giant arm was cover in sharp crystal deposits that look like they had grown on it. I stopped and turned thirty meters away from the arm, and the girls started to spread out and get into their positions.

The massive hand dug into the sand as it started to pull the rest of itself out of the cave. A gigantic head half-covered in crystal poked of the hole, looking around. When its eyes fell on us, it left out a deafening otherworldly scream that I could feel in my bones.

/FIRE!

The Clone had detached the dual barreled turrets Mikota had made and now held them like miniguns, peppering the monster's hand, but had little effect. Thin yellow beams of light and a hail of rockets from Iona and Tilly had more impact but only slowed the monster down as it dragged its body out.

The thing was massive, and its head almost touched the ceiling as it pulled its body upright. The dungeon roof was over fifteen meters high, so the half-monster towered over us. I call it half because it had no legs, just an enormous body with crystals growing out of it.

Suddenly the creature roared again, and the crystals started firing shards at us. 

//DIAMOND PLATING ACTIVATED

/Tama, you stay behind me, everyone else take cover and give us some suppression fire to slow that thing down!

//Confirmed! -Girls

I dashed to Tama, pulling out my naginata, then arcing in front of her. She closed in behind me, and we start to run into the barrage of shards.

//MONSTROSITY DETECTED, ACTIVATING GRAVITY DYNAM, REVERSING 

Instantly I could barely feel any weight of the sword at all. I slash through the oncoming crystal with fury and the help of Alta's targeting systems. The crystals stopped as another round of fire from the other girls tore into its side.

/Now, Tama take that things energy, and ill kill it, okay?!

//On it! -Tama.

We both turned on a boost of speed, and I ran up the stunned creature's arm as another round of Iona's yellow beams burned shallow cuts in the body. I could see Tama running below and then around back. Her Hair cords latched on, and I could see the glowing blue filled line pumping the Dynam from its body.

//SYSTEM OVERRIDE ACTIVATED, DAMAGE X4, SPEEDX2

I dropped and slid under the arm now swung over the top of me. The speed boost helped me dodge in time, so I got up and jumped up to used the other arm as a bridge. I ran to the half-glass face across the arm and leaped at the monster's face with my sword raised.

//GRAVITY DYNAM, ENGAGE