<h4>Chapter 209: Odd Behavior</h4>


    Lake eventually started to see undead and gargoyles head towards them from the summoning area. They didn''t seem to be after them though with quite a few of them passing right by the building they were in. He guessed neither type of monster were able to sense that there were a lot of people in the buildings they were passing.


    This was very good because it meant he would be able to let them group up more before he went out to kill them. He knew these were still just the early birds and most of them had still yet to emerge so going out now would just be a waste of time.


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    After another hour Lake started to see some undead that had armor and weapons strapped onto them and thought that it meant thest of the undead wereing out now. The fighters had been thest to be dragged away so it made sense to him that they would be thest to emerge.


    Waiting until the road was empty Lake jumped down from the roof and went inside. He nned to start another hunt soon because he wasn''t tired yet and there were now enough monsters to make it worth his time. He needed to know if the others wanted toe with him though so he needed to wake them up.


    Everyone was asleep except one person Lake assumed was a guard that was supposed to wake the others if something happened. "Have you slept yet?" Lake wanted to see if this person had gotten any rest at all since they were one of the dwarves that had skipped sleep before the first hunt as well.


    "Yes we switched about thirty minutes ago." This meant they had gotten around two hours if they had gone to bed around the time they had gotten back. "Who was on the first watch?" The dwarf pointed at Grandy and said. "Grandy said you told him to get you if something happened so he would take the first watch."


    Hearing Grandy had gotten to sleep for less than an hour, Lake decided he could go out and get the hunt started without them ande back in a few hours once he had cleared out the monsters a bit and they were more rested. "Ok well I will be leaving for a while. I won''t go far but I''m going to start killing the monsters around the base so we don''t get attacked."


    Lake made it sound like it was a necessary thing for him to do but he really just wanted to get to work and doing it while he was alone would let him do it at his max speed instead of the speed he capped himself at while he was around other people. "How far will you be going away from us?"


    "I''ll make sure to stay close enough that I can hear you if you yell." In an underground city like this he should be able to hear them from almost anywhere since the people were either all dead or hiding making it much quieter than normal but he didn''t n to go more than a couple of streets away because the monster should alle running as soon as they saw him.


    This meant it didn''t really matter where he went, all the monsters shoulde to him even if he was just right outside the door. He didn''t want to do it so close though because he was sure the noise would cause the people here wake up and try to join the fight thinking they were under attack.


    "Ok, well I''ll yell if we are under attack." Lake nodded and after making sure there was nothing outside that would see him open the door, Lake went back outside. Once outside he jumped onto the building across the street and then did the same twice to pass over the next few streets.


    Three streets over was probably enough since the gargoyles didn''t really make much noise and while the undead''s voices would probably carry if they were able to speak like the one he had killed earlier he didnt think they would speak much when they could just attack. Now he just needed to draw the monsters towards him.


    Lake wasn''t sure what the best method to do this was but he decided just to run ap around their base until the monsters started chasing him. Once he had a good amount he would deal with them before doing it again. He felt like he might not need to do it more than once though because there was a chance the noise from the first fight would draw more towards him.


    A few seconds after he started running down the road Lake attracted the first gargoyle then another came out of one of the alleyways he passed. He stayed at two for a few seconds before the next then his first undead. Like he had expected the undead didn''t try to start a conversation with him likest time and he was pretty sure it was because he was already being chased by the gargoyles. If it had been just them he was sure the undead would try to trick him.


    After a while Lake lost count of the number of monsters chasing him, all he knew was it was a massive group and all the feet hitting the stone was making a nice amount of noise that was drawing more and more each second. He felt it was a shame because he wanted to see just how many he could draw in but he decided it was time to start the fight.


    The noise was making it so the monsters knew where he was before he saw them and they kept popping out in front of him and a few had gotten close enough that it made him think of the monster movies he used to watch back before he died. He didn''t think they could kill him but he was worried he could be affected by whatever the gargoyles had used to turn the bodies.


    Turning Lake used Imbue Fire and Crunch and took his first swing at the swarm behind him. He hit a few different gargoyles and undead with this strike and all of them fell back with a small fire burning in their wounds. He didn''t know if this would kill the gargoyles but he knew it would work on the undead over time.


    With the first attack working he saw no reason not to keep doing what he had but he did hold back a bit since his new skill had made him swing his sword much harder than he had meant to. Crunch doubled his Strength but because of Overpower it now made it six times higher during his attack and he had felt his sword handle bend slightly from the force behind his first swing.


    After a while of starting fires on everything his sword sliced he felt the first Exp start to trickle in from the first undead that had sumbed to the spreading effect fire had. He also started to have repeat customers in the form of gargoyles that had been wounded by him already but were able to survive because his attacks hadn''t gone deep enough or hit an important part of their body.


    He wasn''t worried about killing them though just keeping them back so he continued to just swing into the crowd while using Crunch every two swings. Eventually he started to get surrounded since he had stopped moving much and it made him wonder what would happen if he never ended his atack.


    If he was to hold his sword out and spin while Crunch was active could he just turn himself into a monster blender forever without having to use Crunch again or would it eventually stop working. He felt it was worth a shot so doing a 360 degree swing first before he just went all out Lake found Crunch worked the whole time.


    With his first test working Lake saw no reason he couldn''t just drag his attack out forever so that was what he did. Spinning as fast as he could with his sword out, Lake started to move his way into the mass of monsters until the pile of bodies got too high for him to pass without stopping his spin.


    He had been able to kill twenty or so monsters every second like this but the bodies piling up was something he couldn''t really stop from happening so it wasn''t really possible for him to drag out one attack forever if he was spinning. It did give him another idea though; He could just run while holding his sword out beside him.


    He wasn''t sure if this would work though since he wasn''t actually swinging his weapon but he had enough leeway to try it out because there weren''t many monsters left now after he had killed so many when he was spinning. Holding his sword like he would a knife when stabbing down, Lake started to run.