Another World Mall-Chapter 597: Decision

Erwin and Jay were following Christina’s movement on the radar that Melody sent secretly through the Skyglasses.

When they were approaching the Tier 6 beast’s territory, both of them suddenly turned around.

"Wait!" Erwin raised his voice.

"What are you doing?" Gillian gritted his teeth, glaring at Erwin. They had been stalled for a long time due to the previous attack of the beasts, so he didn’t want to waste any more time.

However, Erwin couldn’t help but point in the direction where Christina was coming from. "Incoming enemies."

Aileen raised her head. It would be impossible to see the incoming beasts at the same eye level since there were trees and boulders blocking their view.

Still, a group of beasts would kick up the dust on the ground, which created a dust cloud that rose up to the sky. And that allowed people to notice their arrival.

Aileen took out her swords. "Incoming attack. How many are they?"

"Calculating." One of their teams shouted while looking at the radar. "About 200 beasts."

Aileen clicked her tongue. "There are too many beasts. We won’t be able to skip them and focus on our target. It will be troublesome if they end up pincering us from behind when we’re focusing on the Tier 6 beast."

"…" Gillian gritted his teeth. "We—!"

Gillian wanted to continue, but Aileen was glaring at him. With the power of reporting his action, Gillian had no choice but to obey her.

Even though he was infuriated, he still shouted, "Get ready. There is no terrain to take advantage of here. We’ll go into a formation and engage them first."

Erwin and the others complied. However, Erwin’s team had been instructed specifically not to do anything special. In fact, they shouldn’t go all out and kill the enemies as slowly as possible.

They could use the excuse of being tired to slow down, and Aileen was planning to do the same. She was their double agent after all.

"Incoming!"

The beasts pounced on them at their fastest speed.

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Erwin and Jay defeated one beast at a time instead of going at their usual pace. Even Kanaria kept shooting the beast that was already dead for a bit, just to show she was trying to contribute.

Aileen killed some beasts, but if one paid attention to her number of kills, it was actually half of what she usually did.

"Kh." Gillian noticed that the group was having a hard time fighting. How pathetic! He thought.

Sadly for him, there was nothing he could do.

"Ah. We are getting pushed back!" Jay shouted, even though everyone in the team knew he was just playing around.

"Are you tired? Go back. I will try to give you some time to recover!" Erwin acted as if he was a good captain even though his true reason was to stop Jay from killing more beasts.

They might be too tired to continue their expedition today. At this rate, they would have to rest for the entire night before hitting their target in the morning.

Gillian was frustrated. After all, he was supposed to be able to finish this mission before 3 PM. Yet, it was already 2 PM, and it didn’t look like they could finish it before dark.

They didn’t bring equipment that would allow them to fight in the dark after all.

If Gillian continued, Aileen would report it to his family, and it would be game over for him.

On the other hand, Christina kept sending them one beast wave after another, wasting their time.

It was until Jay and Erwin determined it was enough that she finally stopped.

Meanwhile, Clovis, Melody, and Lucifania were having a hard time finding the entrance.

In fact, Luci was tasked with a different thing. Instead of finding the entrance to the underground nest, she was tasked with digging down.

She was the only one who could do it, considering her sword was big enough to act as a shovel.

Of course, she had to do it carefully since she would die if she ended up falling into the nest.

She tied herself into the tree while digging the ground as slowly as possible.

There was one simple reason.

As soon as she dug 4 meters deep, she put down the radar.

In that instant, they could find more and more signals from underneath the ground.

"Hmm…" Melody frowned. "This nest is bigger than I thought. How could one make such a big nest without collapsing? A limestone cave? It’s unlikely. Nevertheless, we should be able to fight in this nest. There should be a lot of space inside, judging from the positions of these beasts.

"What do you think, Clovis? There are about 400 beasts underground. And that’s what can be scanned right now. I’m assuming there are at least twice that number underground."

"Is it possible to kill a few at a time?" Clovis asked.

"Maybe. If Reolf is here, we could confirm it with him, but I can only give you my opinion from the radar alone. It’s like an ant nest. There are a lot of tunnels underneath, but I’m unsure what’s keeping the entire ground intact.

"Considering the surface beasts are still staying here means they should be strong enough to hold the full power of a Tier 6 beast."

"Ant nest, huh? Doesn’t that mean…" Clovis frowned.

"Yeah." Melody smiled. "That’s good news. Most of the time, the ant nest will only have one entrance. It means we don’t have to worry about the beasts coming out of the nest and messing with Jay and the others."

"Got it." Clovis paused for a moment, thinking, ’800 beasts, huh? This is still too much. While my Perfect State is powerful, its downside is that I can only activate it for 30 minutes. Longer than that, or getting frustrated in battle, will gradually turn me insane…’

"In that case, let’s find the entrance and coordinate our attack with Jay. Recall Christina once she is done."

Clovis knew that at this rate, he might have to push himself.