Dungeon of Niflheim

80 Chapter 80: Assaulting the compound

Leo’s declaration generated an eery silence as Adam and his group were stunned. They couldn’t believe what they just heard, looking at one another with gazes saying, ‘did I hear him right?’

“Hahahahahahah,” the silence was quickly extinguished by a roaring laughter. Adam was laughing so loudly and so honestly that he almost pulled a stitch. He hadn’t heard anything so hilarious in his entire life. His nephew would forcibly drag him from his balcony hahahaha, he really must be an idiot.

With the boss loudly laughing the goons swiftly joined in, mocking Leo and his group.

“I guess you’re not coming willingly then Baron Adam.” Leo looked up at his uncle with contempt as if he was the fool.

“Tch” annoyed by his nephew gaze, Adam loudly clicked his tongue, and his expression became vicious. Halting his laughter, he looked down at his nephew and his entourage as though they were annoying pests before releasing a sigh.

‘Oh well it’s not as though I’ve got much choice given the circumstances. Even if he’s got some kind of trump card does it matter?’

He gave his nephew one last look before giving an order to his goons.

“Kill them!” Adam really didn’t have any alternative, who would willingly offer their head, especially when they are so close to achieving their goals. He already planned on killing off his family, so doing it here and now made no difference.

.....

With that simple order uttered with a cold tone, the goons surrounding Frost and the rest roared with joy, they’d be given permission to go wild.

“Goodbye nephew” with his eyes still filled with anger, Adam bade farewell to his nephew and turned around, heading back into his manor. He didn’t need to be out in the open to see his death.

His three elite bodyguards followed behind him.

“A pity, I kind of wanted to fight against those two old geezers.” One of the three bodyguards mumbled under his breath as he followed behind Adam. Without them interfering many of the low-level goons would be killed if not all of them but Adam didn’t care. Low-level grunts such as them could be found anywhere and given that he’d soon inherit the viscounty title, he couldn’t be seen employing such trash as his guards. Having them all killed would actually be a blessing in disguise.

‘Perhaps I should thank my nephew for dealing with them.’ Adam released a slight chuckle at the idea.

Bang!

The heavy wooden doors slammed shut behind Adam and his bodyguards, leaving Frost and the rest surrounded by dozens of goons.

“Well looks like the first part of the operation has been cleared.” Frost muttered with an excited smile on his face. Adam was definitely in the compound and the declaration had been made. It was time for the blood bath to begin.

“I believe you are correct young Frost hahahaha little Leo wouldn’t you agree?” Ryuu laughed evilly as his eyes scanned their surroundings, finally he could let loose and kill wantonly.

Leo released a sigh as he understood the lack of patience within his elders.

‘I know you’re desperate to let loose but have none of you seen our situation.’ Leo looked around 360 degrees, goons covered his entire vision, madness clear on their faces and moving towards them while licking their lips and drawing their weapons. Leo and Luna were only entry level E-rank adventurers, they struggled to handle a dozen bandits yet now they were faced with over 10 times that number. Regardless of the powerful people standing next to him, he still felt anxious. Lamenting his weakness, he turned towards his uncle Ryuu.

“I agree uncle... do it.” At the same time Leo spoke, the surrounding goons started to make their moves. All of them were close combat types and not a single mage so they couldn’t all attack at once.

In a short few seconds, they reached a consensus on the attacking order. The weakest were sent in first, each of them wielding an axe, a simply weapon to use, requiring very little technique.

Bastion and Frost drew their weapons in anticipation, sheltering Luna and Leo behind them.

“Understood little Leo.” Ryuu smiled before channelling his mana.

Swooooosh

A bright light somewhat like a firework erupted from Ryuu’s staff shooting up into the air and releasing an explosion of white light.

“Aahhhhhhh” A few of the goons who followed the magic screamed in pain as their eyes stung and were temporarily blinded. The rest of the attackers were momentarily stunned by the action before filling with anger.

“Bastards!” They felt shame, stopping their movements in defence, thinking it was a magic attack yet all it was, was a bright light without any offensive power. With their eyes filled with anger and a belly full of wrath the weakest bunch of axe-wielders roared and charged at the group with their weapons raised high aiming to cleave their opponents in two.

Swoooosh

Suddenly as one of the attackers drew close towards them, Frost heard a high-pitched sound caused by the air in front of him being pierced. A blink of an eye later an arrow flashed past his face, burrowing deep into the attacking goon’s skull, killing him instantly.

Frost rapidly turned around in the direction of where the arrow was shot from, but he couldn’t see anything but a blurry shadow. It was far too dark for him to see the archer but thanks to Ryuu’s beacon of light spell the archer could clearly see him, as well as the dozens of goons.

The goon with the arrow sticking through his head, plummeted to the ground his axe was still raised above his head and when it followed its master.

Squelch

The axe head landed on the goon’s neck severing a good chunk of the way through, creating a fountain of blood that painted some of his comrades red.

“Eh?” The death and subsequent painting of red was so sudden that the goon beside couldn’t see what happened, his vision was covered by his comrades blood.

Shwiiiing

A moment later the blood cleared but his target the masked man dressed in white and blue robes was somehow upside down and looking over him with a smile.

‘What?’ He couldn’t register what happened so Frost helped him understand by rotating his head to face his now prone body

‘Aahhhhhhhh!’ the goon screamed internally in his last moments as he could see his body lying next to him without a head. Frost had decapitated him with his glaive in a single strike while he was temporarily blinded from his comrade’s blood.

‘And that’s another dose of DP.’ After seeing the pure horror in his victim’s eyes during his final moments, he kicked the head away, smashing it into another goon’s face before channelling his mana

“[Ice bolt]”

shortly after kicking the head, a bolt of ice was send flying towards the targeting goon piercing him through the chest as he raised his hands up to protect his face from the flying head coming his way.

Frost felt another dose of DP enter his body, filling him with pleasure.

Similar scenes were happening all around him, Bastion while swinging around his giant battle axe was cleaving goon after goon in two without much effort as though he was simply stretching. Ryuu was casting low-level wind blades with such speed and accuracy it left the goons without any chance to defend themselves. Even Luna and Leo were occasionally able to strike and kill a goon each, although not as easy or as graceful, a kill was still a kill. However, at this rate they’d be exhausted of all strength, there was just too many for five people to effectively deal with by themselves. Luckily though they weren’t alone.

The moment the archer adventurer sent her first arrow into an attacking goon the rest of the 14 adventurers made their appearances from behind the shadows. They chose to strike the backlines were the more powerful and high ranked goons were.

“What?!” A higher ranking goon, roughly equal to a D-rank adventurer exclaimed in shock as one of his direct subordinates was stabbed from behind by a large spear and lifted off the ground.

“Ahhhhhh” The subordinate screamed in agony and fear as he saw a large metal spearhead puncturing through his chest. His pain amplified as the spear user lifted his body upwards off the ground causing blood to surge up through his mouth, effectively drowning him in it.

“Up you go” The spear user spoke from the shadows before chucking the goon upwards with his spear, releasing his spearhead from his body and sending him several metres into the air.

Tears and blood covered the goon’s face as the spear left his chest with such force that his internal organs were shredded. His body promptly returned to the ground with a loud thud next to his killer. He managed to get a good look at the man who killed him before his vision darkened permanently.

“Thinking you’ll be safe if you hide in the back, ptuah.” The spear user spat on the dead goons face. From the darkness the man’s appearance and body became visibly to the rest of his prey. What was revealed was an incredibly tall and muscular beastman with bright red fur, he smiled as though he was a predator.

“Who’s next on the menu hahahaha” He laughed before launching himself towards another of the many goons before him, only the goons at D-rank would pose a small challenge, the rest were simply lambs to the slaughter.

All around the 14 adventurers were making their moves, attacking in ambush taking the many goons all by surprise. Each of them had their own battle style, some used swords whereas another specialised in blunt weapons, a couple where even magic users, casting several spells of different elements. The manor’s courtyard became a battlefield with blood and guts flying everywhere, a gruesome sight indeed.

With the addition of the adventurers Frost and his group instantly felt less constrained, the number of goons attacking them had reduced allowing Frost especially to no longer have his attention divided between attacking and defending.

“Gyahhhhh” a goon screamed as his arm was lopped off and his chest was caved in, he received a strong punch to his sternum. His heart exploded from the impact killing him in a matter of seconds.

“That makes eight.” Frost muttered as blood ran down his face-not his blood obviously. However even with him killing eight goons their numbers seemed to be endless. For every one he killed, another would simply take its place. Frost could already feel a slight strain on his muscles, cleaving through human bodies and swinging his heavy glaive was beginning to have an affect albeit only slightly.

‘Tch this is more strenuous than I thought, if I have to cleave through every one of these goons, I’ll have no strength left to play with Adam.’ Frost lamented this feeling of weakness, when he was in the dungeon with a constant stream of mana filling his body, he could fight 3 times this number without a single drop in strength. His body was clearly designed to use up a large amount of energy when out of the dungeon.

‘I should have eaten more food.’

Swinggg

While reminiscing about the feast he enjoyed a few hours prior Frost deflected the axe of an attacking goon, chipping the axe blade but doing little to stifle the goon’s aggression.

“Tsk annoying bastard” Frost clicked his tongue and frowned as the goon seemed to be crazy as he swung down with his axe with little regard for defence. Due to the mass battle, the majority of the goons had entered a frenzy, filled with adrenaline the effects of aura, and killing intent no longer had any bearing. Bastion was finding that fact quite irritating given his older body.

“Bleurgh” The attacking goon belched out remains of his last meal as Frost thrust the glaive’s duram metal pommel into his stomach. However, he was only momentarily stunned before continuing to swing down his axe, but that short moment was enough.

Immediately after smashing the pommel into the goon’s stomach, Frost rotated his glaive 180 degrees, bringing the blade edge inches away from the goon’s groin.

Shwiiiing

In a single rapid movement Frost swung his glaive directly upwards with incredible force.

“Gyahhhhhhhhh!” An ungodly scream arose from the goon, his adrenaline filled body wasn’t enough to eliminate the pain of such a brutal attack.

The glaive starting at the groin, split the goon’s body in two, slicing apart any armour and organs on its way up before finally escaping from the top of his head covered in flesh and blood.

The goon’s screaming was quickly brought to a close as a full length crack began to appear on his body. The crack slowly widened, and the two parts of the goon fell on opposite sides.

‘That makes nine.’

“Blerughh” several sounds of throwing up could be heard nearby. Luna had just been observing Frost when she was suddenly greeted with the insides of a human body. The image was too much, and she threw up almost immediately, her face appearing as white as a ghost’s. A couple of the adventurers also throw up, even for them that scene was too gruesome.

“Damn maniac bleurgh” The archer who took the first kill was one of the people to throw up, she bemoaned Frost’s actions struggling to not throw up for a second time.