The Earth After Rebirth

"We haven\'t forgotten, can\'t help that the boss keeps these minions coming. Besides you\'re getting the legendary herbs, aren\'t you?" They\'ve had the argument for some time, he wasn\'t in the mood for another round.

Hiro didn\'t think he should\'ve accepted the challenge without everyone\'s input. Not that he cared about that, the only thing that was important to him, was getting the legendary potion ingredients and possibly some crafting material.

Kiro on the other hand, was almost certain that not accepting would\'ve been more detrimental for them. If this thing was truly a god, which he didn\'t doubt it was, since it knew the monkey King, it had all the power to summon stronger monsters to fight them.

For now, they\'d had low level monsters, it was as if it was testing their strength. The minotaurs they were fighting now were the first monsters that leaned more on the stronger side, but they were still not a match for them.

What made the monsters seem more weak in front of them was the fact that, they didn\'t value teamwork. They were stubborn, independent bulls. They moved and attacked as individuals.

Which was a strategy that was completely destroyed by the guardians. Even though their teamwork was very new, they still were very strong and the more they fought, the more they got used to each other, and were starting to look like a well oiled machine.

"Mm." Hiro answered.

He thought this would be a breeze, almost, and if it wasn\'t, they\'d spend more time collecting than fighting, but it was turning into a fighting frenzy by the minute.

The minotaurs didn\'t have special skills unless if you get the full blast of their horns, not only stunning but bleeding effect that lasted for over 5 minutes.

If it weren\'t for Saanvi and Felix, but mostly Saanvi. Ishaan would\'ve died a couple of times. He didn\'t have as much of a large mana pool as the guardians did, so that 5 minutes was a death sentence for him.

But they were well equipped, so the 5 minutes passed as if it were nothing. One thing that threw them off about the minotaurs was the fact that they could speak, not always a coherent sentence but they did anyway.

"Crash, eat, stomp."

Those were about the only words in their vocabulary. As thick as they were, their strength and constitution was something that should be admired.

It still made not much of a difference. With Hiro, Isaac and Ishaan in front, forming the triangle formation they seemed to be unstoppable. Even with one of them not being a guardian, the side he was defending wasn\'t lacking at all compared to others.

It took all of them a couple of hits to make a single minotaur disappear but that didn\'t seem to be the solution, because they appeared as quick as they were to disappear.

"Any minute now, number two!" Saanvi yelled, escaping almost getting sandwiched between two bulls.

And since they weren\'t too good at partnership. They ended up slamming into each other, one of them wasn\'t so lucky as the other\'s horn drove through their forehead. And it spent quite some time trying to get itself free before Isaac severed its head completely.

"What the hell do you mean?" Kiro asked with an eyebrow raised. Your next chapter is on m v|l-e\'-NovelBin.net

"Don\'t act confused, you\'re the one who always figure this game out, this horde keeps growing." If she wasn\'t too busy trying to avoid getting impaled or crashed, she\'d have rolled her eyes.

"So?" Kiro wasn\'t going to let her off easily. He knew what she meant but he played dumb on purpose.

"Serious number—I mean Ki. Are you seriously gonna make me say it? You\'re the smart one, figure out an end to this nightmare, I don\'t know how long I can last." She said seriously.

"Oh. But I thought I was just number two?" He grinned, majestically punching the bull in the gut. Holding it by the hairs ontop of its head, then pulling really hard.

Everyone gasped in surprise when the head came out. Nobody was dumb enough to try it, they understood that, for some reason, Kiro\'s constitution ranked even higher than the minotaurs\'.

"Dammit Ki, just spit it out." It was Isla this time who yelled from atop a big rock.

Kiro still wanted to play around, be petty for once. But when he saw how tired their archers were, he felt sorry for them. He didn\'t have a plan, there was no beating them fast enough before they reappear.

"This is just what I think, there\'s no strategy, I think the voice is testing our stamina here. So hang tight as long as you can." He said with much confidence, not looking at them or stopping what he was doing.

They all groaned. It wasn\'t that hard killing them but it was still a hassle. One that they might be doing for days if they don\'t drop dead first.

"In that case, we should all stop using potions. It\'s not a limitless stock everyone." Hiro complained, not knowing when this charade will disappear from their face.

"Oh but it is, we have you and an abundance of herbs surrounding us." Kiro laughed as he said.

"Hiro isn\'t your servant!" Saanvi chimed in, joking around.

But not everyone was used to that side of Saanvi, so the likes of Ursa looked at her painfully. She noticed this but chose to ignore it. Saanvi had nothing to complain about, she thought for sure Ursa and Isaac would be dead weight, but she was surprised that not only were they getting kills, they were keeping up.

"You know Saanvi, in a way, your boyfriend is our servant, we\'re his servants too. In After Dark we\'re servants of the group." Kiro explained, proud to have come up with something like that on the spot.

Saanvi snorted in return, she didn\'t want to challenge whatever Kiro was trying to normalise.

The horde kept coming, the fight seemed infinite in their mortal eyes. Just as they were at their ends wits, the minotaurs stopped reappearing.