Ultimate Gamer System: Factory Must Grow!-Chapter 87: If you are smart enough, survive!

"To be honest, if those guns weren’t enough to deal with monsters that couldn’t even get to the extreme level of threat with those numbers, it would be rather disappointing," Theo muttered, despite knowing there was no audience to his words.

He was simply letting his deepest thoughts escape from his limbs, almost involuntarily, while he fully focused on the second stage of the battle.

And after a moment of relative silence, when his guns spoke again, the battle started anew.

This time, however, the counter didn’t jump by leaps and bounds the moment the first salvo landed.

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No.

This time, it moved only a little.

[Challengers killed: 4/100]

A number that quickly jumped to seven and then eleven, right as the second and third barrages cut through the air and struck true on their targets.

’So they are not swarming all at the same time?’ Theo thought, carefully observing the traces through which he could extrapolate the movements of the monsters invading his lands.

Some, if not most, of his guns continued to pick their targets near the outer wall, picking off the targets as they either squeezed through already collapsed portions of it or somehow made their way over it.

It was a tactic that yielded immediate results, allowing the majority of the guns to remain focused on the monsters still trying to make their way over the wall, with only a fraction dedicated to those that had already slipped through the net.

Those few, however, quickly proved to be just a bit faster than the aiming speed of Theo’s guns, forcing him to switch over from a constant barrage of their path to slower but better-aimed shots.

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This change came to be while there were a total of four targets his guns would shoot at already within the inner perimeter of the claim. Within the time they needed to cross, his now slower barrage only managed to reach them twice, effectively removing two out of them, only for another one to already get through the suppressing fire at the wall.

’Now, the moment of truth,’ Theo thought as the monsters finally emerged from between the dense woods, allowing him a first realistic glance at what he was against.

’Fucking arachnids,’ Theo cursed under his breath, watching with bated breath as the eight-legged insectoids crashed straight through the few trees that still stood in their way, sprinting past the open area between the woods and Theo’s moat…

By now, the two monsters went near the aiming limit of most of the guns, forcing just the few directly ahead to react.

The monsters sprinted over to the edge of the water and then jumped… Only to crash into the water just a few meters away from the shore, roughly midway through the moat.

’Weird…’

Theo thought as he pulled the lever connected to the respective section of the moat.

’It’s like they were mindlessly dedicated to just storming the hell out of this place,’ he thought, watching how sparks shot up from the monsters, freezing them in place.

One died to electricity, something Theo could tell when his counter moved up by one even with a momentary lack of the sound of explosions.

The other one, however, locked in place by the overwhelming current coursing through every fiber of its being, got mercy-killed when one of Theo’s guns splattered it into a mist with an almost point-blank discharge.

’Damn,’ Theo gulped his saliva down, ’that’s brutal.’

By the time he raised his eyes, the kill counter reached above seventy. Most of the stragglers that managed to make it through the suppressing fire didn’t even get as far as the moat, squashed like the bugs they were by Theo’s kinetic artillery.

And yet…

A little bit less than thirty monsters still continued to attack his compound, caring not for their lives or deaths.

Still, up until this point, his guns and his moat did their job well enough. Or so Theo thought when one of the stragglers appeared from a direction that put it on a direct course with the group of strangers Theo had decided to temporarily forget about!

’Shit!’

There was hardly any time to react. After but a second of thought, Theo realized he didn’t even have the time to try again.

He only had one shot that he had to make as soon as possible to get the group to relocate away. But, at the same time, this would be a shot not aimed at the monster!

And so, having no other choice or the time to come up with a new trick, Theo decided to do… nothing at all.

After all, with the monster now having to contend with only two shots before it would reach the moat, those shots would land well in advance over where the party was, while the other would strike down already deeper than their position.

’It’s up to you now,’ Theo thought as he decided to keep his guns working as usual. ’If you are good enough to get the hint, you will survive. And if not… Then it’s not my problem.’

Right now, Theo only cared about stopping the invasion.

It was a vital threat to all that he had built and, most likely, his livelihood itself.

And as if that wasn’t enough, this was merely a second wave! And if the current pattern were to develop into the third and last wave as well, then rather than facing huge groups of monsters… Theo would come head to head with just one extremely powerful boss!

That’s why, despite his earlier attempts to keep those strangers out of harm’s way, he couldn’t afford to sabotage his own strategy just because they got in the way.

’This place is known as execution grounds for a reason. So, if you want to survive,’ Theo squinted his eyes, only for his ears to then pick up the single sound of the gun firing, the very same gun that aimed just a hundred or two steps away from the group of strangers.