Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord

Chapter 12 - Monster Wave

Hey, in my defense, it wasn't like I planned to spawn a deadly monster wave against the poor village. It also wasn't my fault that the woods right next door had a dungeon that could spawn it! Or at least... It mostly wasn't my fault.

Honestly, not being told the rules about my class was perhaps the most frustrating thing of this entire ordeal. If I had known about my weaknesses ahead of time, I could have prepared counters or mitigated them. If I had known about this particular feature ahead of time, I would have made up an excuse to stay outside of town or sneak out before midnight. If I had known what wrath form actually meant.. I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's get back to the part where a hidden part of my class decided to cause an assault against an unsuspecting town, shall we?

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I began to panic a bit. "Hey [Hero], are you up?"

Jake mumbled, "It's late. Go back to sleep Titus."

"Did you get a message from the system?"

He shuffled a bit, then curled back up. "Nope."

That's good. Only I saw the notification. I was relieved. Wait, no. That's bad! I won't be outed, but the town will be caught completely off-guard! I took a different tactic. "I thought I heard monster noises outside. Maybe we should check?"

The barely coherent reply came back, "Go back to bed."

Not good. I need to convince the party to help, but not give it away. I had an idea. "I'll just go out really quick and check anyway. Just to be sure."

"Sure. Whatever." Jake was back to snoring in a second.

I put my boots on quickly and opened the door. At first, I didn't see anything out of place. The town was dark and quiet. The moonless night would have made it impossible to see, but [Dark Vision] was coming in handy, and I soon spotted something. A sea of black fur and red eyes was coming from the direction of the woods. They'll slaughter the entire village and then some! I have to do something!

I ran out to meet them while shouting. "Monsters! Monsters in the village! Party, to arms!" I was glad I didn't wait to see if the monsters would respect the invisible boundary of the village or not because they didn't even pause. The wolves in the front ran up to different houses and started clawing at the doors.

I remembered my experience with the bear clawing at the tree. Those doors probably won't last long. I ran to the nearest house. "[Fire Strike]!" My flaming kick caught the wolf by surprise, and it tumbled into its comrades and breathed its last.

Their attention was obtained, I turned and ran for the next group that was trying to take down a door. Another flaming kick and I now had yet another set of wolves chasing after me. I repeated the process and kept growing the chain of wolves chasing me. "I could really use some AOE out here!" I shouted to the village. "Tim! Get your butt out here!"

I had drawn all the small fry after me, but I still saw three bears and five alpha wolves that were headed into the town. They seemed content to watch and wait, so I decided to worry about them later.

Drawing the wolves away from any houses and praying that Tim would get out here soon, I started fighting the wolves. They were much more ferocious than before. The first time I fought them, I had opportunities to maneuver and dodge. This time, I was jumped from all sides immediately. I had wolves hanging on by their fangs all over my body, and I was frantically trying to hit them off me with [Fire Strikes].

I was killing them left and right, but my HP was also dropping precipitously. I was down to 100. Then 50. What a way to go. [Demon Lord] dies to his own accidentally created monster wave. I took yet another bite and growled. "Where is the party?!" I finally realized that for whatever reason, the party wasn't coming.