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Chapter 24 - Cockroach Hater Amon

-120!

+3!

Roark winced slightly as he too saw his health bar go down.

-19!

As for Amon, he had lost a huge amount of health and regained a mere 3 hp from the lifesteal due to damage reflection. He grabbed Roark's wrist with one hand and placed his other hand on his head. 

"Thank you for the meal, Roark. Shock Touch."

Roark felt his mind go numb in an instant while his body seemed to have gone into a seizure. His hair stood on end and his clothes charred before catching fire. 

+17!

Amon wanted to go on for longer but he immediately let go of Roark. The man's skin had charred and peeled in certain areas. 

A single glance was enough to tell that he was in a critical condition. 

"Just how low is your vitality stat for fucks sake?" Amon cursed as he made his own calculations, 'If I got 17 health back… multiply by five and that's 85. So using fifty mana deals 85 damage. Anyways… this guy is a fucking glass cannon. So useless.'

He wanted to earn more mind points but Roark ended up being a paper. 

Clicking his tongue in annoyance, he spent one stream point and and poured the red liquid into Roark's mouth. 

A FFF rank health potion gave 100 hp. It was a cheap option for any glass cannon guys like Roark. 

His skin healed in mere seconds but his hair seemed to have been lost for now. 

Amon downed a potion himself and slapped Roark awake, "Oi, come on. Let's continue our fight bitch."

"Nope, you won. Do you think this is a game?!" Nyx yelled as she grabbed Amon and pulled him away while Roark silently watched. He had lost all confidence to fight. 

Amon on the other hand sulked but let himself get dragged away for a few meters before putting in some resistance. 

"Alright, no more fighting. I won." he said and Nyx stopped pulling him.

"Let's split the loot. Roark distracted it after all." he said as he looked at the giant cockroach lying on the ground.

With a nod, Nyx took out the monster core from her pocket and presented it to him, which was tossed towards Roark. 

"It goes for 90 coins on the market. Pay us 40 and you can keep it." Amon said as he looked at the regular humans nearby. Becky had healed while the rest still seemed injured. 

Roark gave a nod and send the 40 coins to Nyx. 

"You can keep it. You killed it after all." Amon said as he walked away from the group with Nyx and Mike following behind. 

A few minutes later, the trio stopped in front of a giant hole that led underground. Multiple cockroach monster bodies lay outside, partially rotten. 

"This is dangerous…" Mike muttered as he looked down into the dark hole while Amon silently smoked his cigarette. 

A few seconds later, he chuckled, "Yeah it is. But with a high risk comes high reward. Most of these monsters have been hunted by us for the past two years so their numbers are somewhat manageable now."

"We still can't kill them all. Even though they're FFF ranked monsters, we'll need a proper team to take on just one of them. Two would be risking our lives but you're planning on taking on the whole group… are you mad?"

Nyx seemed pretty frustrated as she glanced at Amon. First, he treated the fight with Roark like a joke and now he was being unreasonably reckless. 

"I expected more from… what are you doing?" 

Amon turned to look at Nyx as he brought out large wooden crates from his system shop.

"Preparations. I'm not an idiot to fight them head on." he said as he bought even more stuff. A one time use fireball spell that came in the form of a paper, three yellow potions, three complex looking gas masks and a large metal barrel.

"Bring all the corpses together. Put these masks on first by the way." he said and the other two got to work. One by one, they brought the corpses to Amon and he used his spider silk to tie them all up into a ball after pouring a generous amount of transparent liquid on each corpse. 

It came from the metal barrel.

Once the primary preparations were done, he tied the crates to the ball of cockroach corps and pushed it into the hole with the help of Nyx and Mike. 

"Drink this." he said as he gave them the yellow potions and drank one himself before he used the fireball spell. 

The paper burned away while a medium sized fireball appeared in front of Amon. As the user, he had full control. 

As he injected his mana into the fireball, he heard sounds. 

'Hmm, they're not coming towards us.' he thought as he focused on the sounds and then continued putting in more mana. Once the fireball reached two meters in diameter, he sent it flying down.

"Ah fuck, I forgot about the entrance!" he exclaimed as he hurriedly checked through his shop and spent even more stream points. 

A new paper appeared with white symbols and markings on it. With a thought from Amon, it burned away and formed an invisible wall that blocked anything from coming out. 

"Let's run." he said without hesitation and ran with his team. Almost five hundred meters away, they stopped and set up a small camp. 

"Our agility will be high for the next hour but our defence will be stuck at zero. It's better to just rest here for now. If we see anything come out from there, we can run further away." he said as he sat in front of the fire that Mike had just made. 

Nyx nodded, this time she didn't look as annoyed or frustrated with him. 

"So, what did you do?"

"Just a makeshift biochemical bomb." he said nonchalantly as lay down on the ground with a brick under his head. 

Seeing Nyx's expression, he smiled wryly, "What I mean to say is that the cockroaches will decompose quickly thanks to the liquid in the barrel. The crates had poisonous spores that multiply due to rotten matter. I used the fireball to hit the ball of corpses and crates. We'll have to wait for a few hours though."

Just as he said that, he saw a notification. 

[Congratulations! You have Levelled up!]

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