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11.98% My System Powers Up My Crew Except Me / Chapter 25: Projectile

บท 25: Projectile

"Okay guys, are you ready?"

Gotang faced the Dreaded Valley with conviction and strength. This is the moment they dreamed of. Months and months of preparation all came down to this. The goals of which were only known to him and a few trusted members.

They all marched into the Dreaded forest in groups of four. Gotang was surrounded by his personal guards. Bang, Ligi, Resi, and Lobo were at the back of the main assault group. Most of the groups arranged themselves as a parabolic curve as they step foot into the dead swamp.

The fog became thicker as they advanced through the swamp. Ligi already took out his shield in preparation. He didn't want to be caught dead without his shield out. Resi was surprised at Ligi. Resi always had a 'meh' assumption on Ligi because he was silent but that shield looked strong. Resi didn't stare but only stole some glances.

Lobo kept his eye forward and followed the group. It was his job to babysit these newcomers and he would have to take the fall if they were in trouble or caused some trouble. He looked at Resi and spoke to him.

"Don't stray away from us."

"Hmph...."

Resi ignored Lobo and took one step out of the formation. He didn't want to follow Lobo's order but he wasn't stupid enough to get out of the safety zone completely.

Bang thought it was troublesome to have someone like Resi, but at least he wasn't endangering anyone. Unexpectedly, he saw some movement from Ligi.

Bang looked at Ligi and saw that he was frowning. There was a hint of anger in the reserved and quiet kid. Ligi's eyes sent electric shocks directed at Resi but Resi just ignored Ligi. Resi's smile was hidden from Ligi as they continued walking.

The quiet place was only broken by the sound of a murder of crows in the distance. Bang didn't know exactly where the crows were because the fog was impeding his sight.

Lobo suddenly stopped walking. Bang looked at the front and saw that Gotang's right hand was up, signaling the group to halt. Gotang looked around the soil and gave some hand signs to the group. They all collectively nodded and waited.

One of the groups in the front suddenly saw something moving in the ground. They weren't surprised as they prepared their swords. As soon as the object sprung out from the ground, it was already sliced in half. Bang looked at the carcass of the unfortunate thing. It was a scorpion. It was a huge freaking scorpion. It was longer than his two hands combined!

"Is that a scorpion?"

Bang asked Lobo. Lobo didn't look back and just stared at the ground waiting for something to appear.

"Be ready. They'll come in a second."

Just like Lobo said, the ground started shaking and different mounds started to pop up out of the ground. One which popped up directly in front of Bang. Knowing the danger this scorpion might posses, he dodged out of the way.

The scorpion revealed itself and showed it's pointy tail. It looked sharp and would probably inject some kind of poison into his blood stream if it pierced him. It had crab-like pincers which gave Bang some flashbacks to the first time he encountered a monster. Thank gods he survived that.

"Be careful, they can spit out poison."

The warning was too late as Bang had already thought he was safe from harm. The scorpion's tail reared back and directed it at Bang. A violet liquid spurt out from the tail and went towards Bang. In the last second, a shield deflected the liquid and it bounced away. Ligi was already cautious when the scorpion appeared, he only needed a warning from Lobo to know that an attack would come.

Lobo quickly went to the scorpion and quickly sliced it using his sword. A quick shout suddenly surprised him.

"AHH!!!!"

Lobo looked at the source of the shout and it was Resi. Of course it was Resi again. He was jumping up and down in quick succession as he fanned his shirt. There was a violet substance near his abdomen. This must be why he screamed. Thankfully, it was protected by his leather armor.

"You!!"

Resi suddenly pointed at Ligi and marched down to him.

"You did that on purpose didn't you?!?!"

The poison that was on him must have been the one that Ligi deflected. Bang didn't know if that was on purpose or not because Ligi just ignored the accusation. Ligi just turned away from Resi and harrumphed.

"YOU!!!!!"

Resi didn't like that his own medicine was being fed to him. Seeing that the danger still hasn't passed, he decided to deal with Ligi in a safe place. Ligi just smiled triumphantly which Resi didn't see.

Another scorpion jumped out from the ground near Lobo and before it could even come out of the ground, it was already pierced. Resi was busy fighting with another scorpion. Bang could tell by the way that Resi used his sword that he was inexperienced. Resi couldn't hit the scorpion and the scorpion couldn't hit Resi with the poison.

The stalemate between them was broken when Resi suddenly threw his sword away started punching the scorpion. He was punching the scorpion to death! That was very dangerous since the scorpion could hit Resi with the poison point blank, but he didn't care. Surprisingly, it worked. He seemed way more comfortable freely using his fists than wielding a sword.

Bang would stay near Ligi and just shield him from the attacks of the scorpion. All they could do was defend and wait for Lobo to kill the scorpion.

This continued for tens of minutes and the scorpions only seemed to grow in numbers as time went on. At this point, there were five scorpions per group. Bang and Ligi had to retreat near the other groups in order to make sure that they weren't attacked from the back. Lobo found it harder and harder to deal with the scorpions by himself so he started working together with another group. Even the troublesome Resi stayed near Lobo.

The attacks of the scorpions slowly became more and more harder to dodge. There was even a time where Lobo was hit by a poison, thankfully most of it was on his leather armor. A small part of his arm started to burn and corrode, Lobo wasn't fazed by it.

As things started to become harder and harder and it felt like they couldn't take it anymore, Gotang suddenly came to their rescue. With one swing of his sword, multiple scorpions died. With the swing of his sword, some kind of liquid came out of his sword and acted as a projectile. Those scorpions hit by this liquid started squirming uncontrollably until they died.

It was an amazing show of power. Is this what a leader is like? Being a beacon of hope in the face of adversity?

The scorpions became less and less until there were only a few of them left that the other groups could handle. Lobo was panting but it was clear he still had energy. Bang and Ligi was tired but not as tired as the others as they only needed to protect themselves. Resi was also clearly tired.

"Resi rest for now. Conserve your energy."

As if it was opposite day, Resi suddenly got energized and he ran into the direction of the other group. They were currently fighting a scorpion that was on it's last leg. They were surprised to see Resi running towards them so they stopped attacking, fearing they might injure him.

Resi surprised the scorpion and punched it from the back. The cornered scorpion retaliated at Resi and started to run after him. Resi dodged every attack from the scorpion. At this point, he had memorized the attack patterns of the scorpion so he was confident in dodging.

On it's last leg, the scorpion seemed like it would die any second now. Surprisingly, the scorpion suddenly pointed it's pincers at Resi as the pincers launched to him. As a last resort, the scorpion was forced to use it's trump card by catching it's prey off guard.

Resi was certainly surprised. He didn't think that the scorpion had this ability. His instincts kicked in and he used his hands to deflect the attack that was coming for his face. He didn't take his eyes from the scorpion, fearing that it would launch another attack but he saw that it died after that last attack.

Resi was relieved that the situation was over but he suddenly heard a shout.

"AHHH!!!!!!!"

Resi turned around to look at the commotion and he saw that it was from the new guys that recently joined them. It wasn't that annoying silent guy, but the other one. It was Bang.

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Bang was just cautiously looking at the ground for scorpions until he heard a warning from his system.

"I urge owner to dodge."

The warning was too late and Bang didn't react in time. The pincer would definitely hit his heart if he didn't dodge. He just watched the projectile in slow motion. He will die.

'Overriding owner. Deducting 50 wp.'

The system took over the actions of Bang and made it dodge. Unfortunately, Bang took too much time not dodging the pincer and all the system could do was to redirect the pincer to his shoulder rather than his heart.

The pincer hit Bang and he flew back because of the force. He didn't move and get up. He just stared at the sky.

Ligi saw this and became furious. His emotions were being clouded and all he wanted to do now was to just attack everything and everyone. It was Resi's fault! If that guy had just followed Lobo's instruction this wouldn't have happened!! Because of his surging emotions, he didn't notice the irony and this made him even more furious. Something took pleasure in this situation.

'HA...HA......HA........YES!!! NOW...YOU'RE .....FEELING....IT!!!!!!!!'


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บท 26: Fight

The veins in Ligi's chest started to grow more and more. The veins branched off into smaller veins and those smaller veins branched off into even smaller veins. Black sludge started coming out of his chest. It seemed to follow the veins as it devoured his body. Nobody had their eye on him because they looked back at Bang, who now sat up and looked at his injuries.

Seeing this, Ligi gained back control of his emotions. He was relieved he didn't fail in his only purpose in life. Unknown to Ligi, it was already too late. The demon got ahold of him and who knows when it would take over.

"AHH!!!!"

'FXXX, this hurts. Why do I always keep getting injured in my shoulder?'

He got injured due to the bandit's ambush and now he also got injured here. Come to think about it, he didn't feel the pain from the previous injury. Now, he could see one bleeding slash on his shoulder and the pincer which was still lodged in his shoulder.

'Using owner's natural painkiller, I alleviated some pain to prevent owner from not completing the quest. I also maximized the owner's natural healing capacity to recover.'

Bang thought that was nice. Although he still felt pain, it was more like an annoying stinging pain rather than true pain. He took out the pincer and some blood was let out of the injury.

Lobo quickly went into Bang's side and took out some ointment from his waist. He ordered someone to take some kind of cloth and bandaged it around Bang's shoulder.

"You'll be fine. We'll take a rest for now."

Surprisingly, Gotang also came to check in on Bang. He even offered his hand to help Bang up. Bang slowly got up with the help of Gotang while making sure to not move his shoulder.

"HEY! HEY!! STOP IT!"

Bang heard a commotion and saw that people were gathering on one spot. Gotang, Lobo, and Bang came to look at what was going on. It looked like some fight was occurring in the middle. Was there some leftover scorpions? No? What? Is that Ligi?

Ligi had his shield up looking menacingly at Resi. Fury could be seen by the red in his eyes. The same could be said for Resi. They looked at each other with hatred in their eyes. Ligi stood up with his shield on his hand and Resi was down on the ground looking up at Ligi.

"Hey! What happened here?"

Lobo was the first one to speak. He looked at Resi, then at his fellow comrades for answers. One guy came up to him, presumably the one who shouted and stopped the fight, and spoke.

"They just started fighting. I didn't know who started it but I saw Ligi push down Resi with his shield."

Bang immediately restrained Ligi and Lobo took care of Resi. This whole time, Ligi and Resi only looked at each other. Both knew what happened. Both knew the reason for the fight. And both subconsciously knew why they hated each other.

Bang was surprised. He didn't know they didn't get along well. It would definitely bring trouble if they become teammates. Could they even work together? They look like oil and water, they just don't mesh well.

"Let's just cool down and recover our strength. Don't waste it on fighting with each other."

Like the good leader that he is, Gotang quickly dispersed the situation. Even though he was speaking to the general public, everyone knew he was talking about Bang and Ligi.

They set up camp on a dry land in the swamp. They were relaxed but they all kept their swords in their hands. It was a sign of experience in the face of unknown territory.

Bang and Ligi were a few steps away from the main camp since Resi and Ligi just had an external strife. It would be awkward to fit in with them at this time. Surprisingly, Gotang came up to them and sat with them.

"Hey, sorry about that."

Gotang looked apologetic. He was the first one who approached them and even apologized first. Gotang knew that Ligi may be the one who started the fight but he still came here and tried to absolve things.

Since Ligi was his crew member, Bang felt a little responsible for what happened.

"No, it's our fault."

Gotang didn't say anything more. The situation was solved but he still stayed seated with Bang and Ligi.

"So, where are you from?"

"Far away."

Bang replied quickly. Truthfully, he didn't want to speak with Gotang. He could feel that the members of the Defending Tip are staring directly at him. It felt uncomfortable.

"Hmm.... you know, I've always lived in Suno town. As well as my members here. Hopefully some day, we'll get out."

Bang just stayed silent and listened to the story of Gotang. Ligi didn't face them but Bang was sure that he was also listening.

"Resi's always been.....a different kid. You know, he doesn't want to follow our rules. Always makes trouble. He doesn't embody the motto of the Defending Tip. In fact, he is the opposite of it. 'Defense is the best offense.' If you said that to him he'll laugh in disbelief. But I love that kid like he was my child."

At this point Bang saw that Ligi was slowly facing Gotang. He didn't know when but Ligi was now facing them with half of his face visible. Gotang didn't mind this and just continued his story.

"He wasn't always like that. Well, he's always been like that but not that intense. He would make trouble, but he was always serious when it comes to it. He would practice our defensive sword art religiously. But now as you could see, he threw his sword away."

There was silence and Gotang looked somber. It looked like he reminisced about something in his past. Bang didn't ask because he didn't think it was his place to do so.

"So I noticed that Ligi follows and protects you. Is he your bodyguard?"

"Well not exactly, I saved him from something and now we're traveling together."

"Hmm.....traveling to where? Do you have somewhere to go?"

Bang had to think hard about the question. This is the first time that Bang contemplated about his reasons. Why did he even go to Suno town? What happens after he completes his missions? Why would he recruit crew members? It's not like there's a war and he's building his army. Well, there's the Steel Muscle group. He had to get his revenge. What happens after he gets his revenge?

Then a thought came into his head.

'You don't have to have big dreams in order to find a reason to live. You can take it step by step. No need to rush yourself.'

These were the words he said to Ligi verbatim. Although he technically said that, it was the system's words. It's one thing to say it but believing and doing is a whole other thing. But the system gave him this thought. This must also be advice for him.

"I'll find out when I'm there. It's not the destination, it's the journey."

Bang suddenly remembered a popular quote back on Earth. He might as well say it and be thought of as a philosophical person.

"Ahh...the spirit of an adventurer I see."

Gotang closed his eyes and was in deep thought.

"That's where we differ. See, I would rather know the destination first before going on an adventure. I have to plan out every single thing in order for me to be satisfied and go out."

Ligi was now fully immersed in the conversation. He was now facing Bang and Gotang listening to the conversation. Ligi nodded in affirmation to Gotang's statement. It seems there was some similarity between Gotang and Ligi.

"Hahahahaha. I see Ligi and I have the same thinking."

Ligi felt kind of embarrassed at the remark. Ligi saw how reliable and strong Gotang was at the battlefield. He saw how he could be the pillar of strength in the group. Being likened to this mighty being flustered Ligi.

"Hahahahahahahaha it's okay. You'll learn someday."

Gotang took his hand and put it in Ligi's shoulder. Ligi felt the weight of the hand. An abnormal amount. It felt like for a moment he could see the enormous amount of weight in Gotang's shoulders. It felt like he was holding the weight of a mountain. Even though he only saw a glimpse, Ligi couldn't even try to imagine himself in the same situation. He saw the eyes of a melancholic man who had too much to bear.

As soon as Gotang took away his hand, the pressure vanished. Ligi looked at Gotang in a different way now. Before, it was a look of worship. But now, it was a look of understanding and a little bit of pity.

"I saw your shield. But you're not using it correctly. You're just a flat 2-D wall. You have to move more, be active."

"But how can I defend if I'm attacking?"

"You're not attacking, you're creating space."

Ligi thought hard at that sentence. It never occurred to him the complexities of using a shield. He had so much more to learn, but how does he even start?

"How do I create space?"

"There's a lot of techniques, but it mostly depends on on your footwork."

"Footwork?"

Bang was speechless. This was the first time he saw Ligi be this invested in a conversation. He was actually talking. Like a human being. He was even asking questions!

"I'll teach you some tricks."


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