Death Mage with an SS-Rank Talent-Chapter 280

Deep in the Wilds...Monster Mountains...

"Abuas, I hope you have a good reason to call all of us for this meeting", an Ape monster, who is a peak Rank-9 monster, asked the one who summoned almost every high-ranking monster that was available.

There are more than twenty monsters assembled here, and all of them are either near the peak of Rank-9 or have already reached the peak.

Once they reached that rank, their only goal was to advance to the next rank, which is not so easy, but it proved to be possible, albeit more difficult than what they had experienced in the previous rank jumps.

The world may think that Rank-9 is the peak, and the human gods were just peak Rank-9, but they were wrong in that matter. There was another rank beyond that, which was labelled as Rank-10.

There are five humans that reached Rank-10, and among monsters, there are only two, but many are at the last boundary of reaching the rank, which is more than what humans have at this point, but crossing that last boundary is not easy to do so.

If it were so simple, they would have more Rank-10 than humans and could have overwhelmed humans long ago.

Humans with five Rank-10 professionals could have easily erased the monsters, but the monsters came to learn that they were guarding something, something dangerous that could erase all life from the world.

As long as the Rank-10 monsters don’t make a move, the so-called human gods wouldn’t either.

Sure, they could be pulling strings from behind, but there would be no direct action unless the humans are facing extinction. At that time, whether they guard the thing that can destroy everyone or not doesn’t matter, as the ones they are trying to protect would die if they don’t take action.

Also, even though the monsters have only two, the destruction that could happen if those two go out, even if they were fighting against five humans of the same rank, would be devastating, something they didn’t want to happen.

So, the Rank-10 from both sides don’t act directly.

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The monsters that are present today were all those who are on the verge of reaching such a rank, and they have no time to deal with the daily activities. So, they usually delegate the work to their subordinates, who are newbie Rank-9 or peak Rank-8 monsters.

In this way, the work would not lag, and they would have time to work on how to reach Rank-10.

So, unless it was an emergency where they had to intervene personally, they didn’t like to be disturbed, and that’s why the Ape monster is not happy with the Frog monster, Abuas, who called this meeting.

Abuas, has no other choice but to call for this meeting. It wanted to call the Rank-10 monsters too, but they were busy with their own things. Unless ten or more peak Rank-9 monsters agree, disturbing the Rank-10 monsters could cause the death of the monster that dares to disturb them.

So, it has no choice but to call this meeting to talk about the things that were happening and may have an audience with the Rank-10 monsters.

"Calm down, Veras. Abuas must have a good reason for this meeting", a wolf monster spoke.

"Indeed, I have a reason, a good reason to call for this meeting. My subordinates have found some rather disturbing news", Abuas said.

"Continue", the wolf monster spoke.

"Monsters near the Last Bastion fort were disappearing in a rather fast way and I am not talking about the low-ranking Rank-3 or lower monsters, but Rank-4 and Rank-5 monsters. No traces were left behind either".

"One of my subordinates became wary of these sudden disappearances and used his authority to check what was happening. It came to his attention that the battlefields are cleaned, leaving none or minimal traces of the fights".

"Monsters don’t do that, only humans do, but the point was that no professional from the Last Bastion or the Alliance would waste time cleaning the battlefield. So, when checked, the alliance human bastards have no idea who was causing that".

"They were searching for the culprits, and the most concurred reason was that someone from the Cults was doing this. They are most likely doing experiments using the corpses of the monsters, as you should know that the monsters here are built differently than the monsters elsewhere".

"Before, not even the alliance would dare to come to these lands for hunting, but with the situation, clashes between humans and monsters even in these areas became common. I believe that the cults are betting on our anger to fight the alliance to keep us all from knowing what they were doing", Abuas said.

Veras and other monsters nodded their heads in agreement.

"Tsk, I knew we shouldn’t have believed those cult bastards. They experiment on their own kind and would do many evil experiments to progress themselves, and they call us monsters", a boar monster cursed.

"We knew that this could happen, but we had no choice but to use the situation for our future. You know that the humans would go through a growth phase, and in the next one or two decades, their strength would be more than enough to wipe us out", the wolf monster lamented about the fact that they had to side with the evil maniacs.

The monsters may kill other monsters, but that was just to survive, live and grow. Even though they hunt their monsters, they avoid their own race as much as possible, and it’s not like they experiment on other monsters.

The intelligent monsters hated such humans, but they had no choice but to do what they had to have a future for their races.

The wolf monster turned to Abuas, "Was there any more news regarding what those cults were doing?"

Abuas sighed, remembering what he learned from his subordinate. This was the main reason why he asked for this meeting, not just because the cults were killing the monsters at an alarming rate.

"Actually, there is. The thing is..."