Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

Chapter 140 Monkeys

"Oi, what's up with those monkeys?" one of the two men stationed to guard the main entrance into Muho Chitai exclaimed aloud, surprised to even see the monsters at all.

The humanoid monsters that one could encounter commonly in the wild had since long understood that approaching any construction made by the people was a terrible idea, the residents could even forget about their existence as one would never see or hear them whilst hidden within the walls of the city.

"Hell if I know, are they coming over there?" the other man furrowed his brows, the group of monsters only had five members, and they didn't seem afraid in the least, in fact, they were charging forth with uncanny determination, as though nothing could stop them.

The monsters stalking the plains in groups were colloquially referred to as monkeys by the people, since they shared lots of things with said animal, however it wasn't exactly accurate.

The shapes of their heads and body structure was certainly similar, but the monsters were much more apt at creation and utilising tools of various sorts, their jaws were more canine as well, granting them more biting force than one might expect from those little creatures, even the bigger individuals barely reached to the average man's chest, although, appearing weak and helpless against sapient species, the so-called monkey's weren't to be underestimated too much.

One trying to follow them into their caves would soon discover that the ones prowling the outside world were much like foot soldiers, the strongest members of their species rarely showed themselves, but they definitely would if too many of their precious smaller fellows didn't return from their expeditions.

Their bat-like ears perked up, the small group of Derelictus-Mens, as the system had chosen to call them, didn't back down or hesitate for even a second, running straight for the two guards, their bone daggers ready to tear into flesh, clubs raised high with the intent to break bones.

The shrill cries they constantly let out seemed to invigor and empower their suicidal resolve even further, the two guards readied their spears, not afraid to deal with them, at the last second, just as the monsters were on the verge of reaching the attack range of the two humans, they suddenly stopped and spread out to surround them.

Stepping back, he tripped onto something, his head landing right at the feet of the three other Derelictus-Mens, staring down on him, their beast-like maws dripping with saliva as they didn't stop shouting and screaming.

'Where the hell is-' he froze, his colleague was laying on the ground, this was what had caused him to fall on his back so ungracefully, an arrow was struck right through his left eye, he must have died without making a sound.

The arrow was much too large to have been shot from a bow wielded by one of the monkeys, but that was the least of his worries right now, one of them wielding a club basically threw itself down on the guard's face, as the ones carrying bone daggers began stabbing him repeatedly.

Without waiting for anyone else to come over to see what was going on, the five monsters, two of whom with spears stuck in their bodies, grabbed the corpses and dragged them off into the distance.

A few people had seen the scene playing out right in front of their eyes, none had come over to help though, they were merely citizens, and honestly, seeing some of the thugs getting attacked wasn't a horrifying sight, nobody liked them on account of their poor behaviours and highly dislikable personalities.

Still, it was rather unexpected to see them get slaughtered by a measly group of five monkeys, the arrow that had killed the first one had flown from a great distance away, from within the cover of the swamp.

One of the witnesses looked around for other guards, the screams of the monsters had already gathered some attention but he figured that they might not bother checking it out, the criminals were too arrogant to believe the Derelictus-Mens could do any damage.

Unfortunately, said bystander was readily shot in the face, an arrow landing straight on his forehead.