A horned figure jumped from the crack in the sky, landed on the carrier, and crashed it on the ground 100 meters away.
"…!"
Then, another horned figure jumped and did the same with the other carrier.
Then, swarms of hundreds of thousands of demons started jumping down to the ground and one the carriers.
It was the third wave, and it started without any warnings, unlike the second one that gave time to the players to get ready.
However, that sound was not a warning. It was a signal to the demons and the monsters that more of their kind was going to join them soon, so the demons would feel more encouraged.
It was a call of hell.
One by one, all the carriers were destroyed, and only a few, including Shay's carrier, had remained.
"Can't you drive it faster?!" Shay shouted.
"No. This is the first prototype, and many of its functions are not working. The only reason I brought the aircraft carrier here was that it was the easiest and the fastest way to reach you all," Shay replied as he swiftly drove the carrier through the swarms of the monsters and the demons.
The players on the ground had already started fighting the third wave's demons. While the aircraft carrier was constantly shooting down the demons in the air.
The aircraft carrier had two offensive mechanisms. One was being controlled by the rangers and the gunslingers— that was shooting arrows and bullets. And another was controlled by the mages and warlocks— that was shooting magic attacks of various types.
However, as it was controlled by the players, firing it continuously was draining their MP and making them exhausted.
"What should we do?!" Misha panicked. "If we fall from this fight, we will lose a lot of HP."
The aircraft carrier was still far away, and it would take him more than 10 minutes to reach there.
"Should I land the carrier on the ground?" Shay asked Kayden. "It will take us around 3 minutes to land."
"No, keep going!" Kayden shot a glance at Aurora and said, "We have to get her out of here first."
A few demons dumped off Shay's carrier, but Kayden, Misha, and the few other players killed them all.
"We will take care of the monsters," they said.
A moment later, yet another horned figure jumped on the carrier right in front of Shay's carrier and destroyed it in one punch.
The carrier crashed to the ground, and so did the demon. But, the demon jumped again and destroyed Shay's carrier.
Fortunately, Shay had already predicted that, and he was prepared for it. He turned off the engine and let the carrier descend at full speed.
"What are you doing?!" Kayden exclaimed.
Shay ignored Kayden and placed his hand on the steering wheel. And when they were 20 meters above the ground, Shay turned on the engine to cushion the impact.
Sure, it still destroyed the carrier, and the players lost their HP, but it wasn't as much as they had expected.
"If I had kept the engine on, it would have failed, and we would have crashed harder. So I restarted the engine to start all the processes again. But obviously, it failed because the carrier was damaged. But it did help us reduce the impact," Shay asserted in a solemn voice as he jumped out of the destroyed carrier.
The carrier had crashed in the garden near the gazebo where the NPCs were taking shelter.
"Well, we are not getting back up anytime soon." Shay sighed and glanced at Aurora as he said, "Take her away from here. We can't let anything happen to her."
Shay unsheathed his sword and walked ahead of Kayden and Misha.
"Are you guys joining?"
"You don't say…"
Kayden, Misha, and the other players joined Shay.
They slew dozens of demons, but their quantity wasn't decreasing.
Suddenly, the three-horned demons who had destroyed the carriers in one shot jumped in the air and landed in the garden in front of Shay and the others.
Their size was three times the size of a normal adult, but they looked more intimidating than most of the other demons they had seen so far.
The other monsters also jumped beside them, and the players chased after them.
One of the three demons frowned its face and flicked its finger in the air, razing everything on its way, including the monster, demons, players, buildings.
The demon standing in the middle looked past Kayden's shoulders at the gazebo and opened his mouth to say, "I smell power."
"…!"
All the players in the garden—who heard the demon's voice, were baffled.
'A speaking demon?!' Kayden exclaimed.
"Tch!" Shay bit his lips and thought, 'According to what I learned in the past week, the monsters' intelligence level depends on their characteristics. And a speaking monster is close to the highest level.'
The three demons were the arch-demons of the first hell.
"Humans…" the third demon smirked and uttered in a raspy voice: "I haven't seen a human in 18 years after 'he' closed the gates of hell. It's always fun to crush them."
The first demon turned to the third demon and said, "Aureon. Why did you have to say that?"
"What, Nargeon?" he asked with a confused look on his face. "Don't tell me you don't like crushing humans and hearing their screams."
"Why did you have to mention 'him'? Now I am more angry."
"Hah?! I am more angry than you!" Aureon yelled.
"No, I am!" Nargeon yelled back.
"…"
"Bro/ Dominic! Tell him that I am more angry!" They both turned to the second demon.
The second demon frowned his face and said, "Shut up! Or I will kill you both!"
Dominic slapped the first and the third demon on the face and sent them flying miles away. Then. he banged his fists with each other and grinned viciously at Kayden and the others.
"I will crush them alone," he said.
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Total players in the game- 1,485,888
0 new players logged in.
666 players died.
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Author's Note- Guess who is coming in the next chapter?