Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 42: Hunting The Moleman King

What appeared in our collected vision was a few dozen molemen that were much larger than the ones we've been encountering up to this point. Along with their bigger builds, they had better guns and actual armor that wasn't just a few thin pieces of metal attached to leather that most of their brethren were scurrying around in.

All those six foot tall molemen guards were surrounding one huge moleman that stood at a bare minimum of eight feet in height. That particular moleman was equipped with its own set of makeshift armor too and a DMG-15 Double Barrel Machine Gun which was far superior compared to the weapons its guards were using.

Good, we've found the moleman king. Once I get rid of it, mopping up the rest should be no issue with their leader gone. Although it will still take me quite some time since I'm going to need to scour every inch of the cave system and clear it in its entirety.

Wanting to wrap things up here so I can get back to clearing the cave system and locking it down, I charged into the chamber with everyone while unloading my NPDM that was getting rather low on ammo again with all the molemen hunting I've been doing. In the midst of firing at the many hostiles within the chamber, I made the decision to leave the guards to the old man and my robots to take care of while I focused on the number threat amongst the molemen.

Thus leaving it to them, I took aim at the moleman king's head and shot a controlled burst of three rounds. Within far less than a second, they struck his helmet, digging into it but not making their way through its armor.

Mm, his armor is thicker than I expected, smart. Let me disable his weapon first before I figure out how I want to kill him. I don't particularly want to get laid into by two 7.62s simultaneously.

Not able to penetrate its armor, I swiftly adjusted my aim the very next instant to the moleman king's weapon and fired another burst, putting three sizable holes in the receiver of his double-barreled machine gun. The vermin, not knowing I had made his weapon inoperable, attempted to fire its weapon at me, but when it pulled the trigger, all it provoked was a click and no other response.

As it was about to begin inspecting its weapon to see what was wrong with it, I realigned my weapon with its head; however, instead of just targeting its skull as I had done previously, I aimed for the eyeholes of its helmet because they were the only weak point I could take advantage of. All while this was going on, gramps and my robots were keeping the approximately six foot tall armored molemen entertained, easily taking them down one by one.

Pulling the trigger once again I fired one round and after it left the muzzle brake at the end of my NPDM's barrel it sailed through the air and right into the moleman king's eye taking it out and causing a burst of blood and bits of the annihilated eye to fly out of the helmet's socket. The following instant, the big fucker started screeching and moving erratically as it was experiencing the pain of losing one of its essential sensory organs.

Damn, this bastard's durable. I was expecting that round to pierce right through its eye and deal massive damage to its brain. However, seeing as it hasn't keeled over and dropped to the floor of its den, it must have a pretty thick skull to stop a whole ass 7.62x39mm round.

After firing that last round, I was out of ammunition, so I tossed my light machine gun aside and went to engage the moleman king in melee combat. I could've swapped to the two laser assault rifles I had on my back, but if my NPDM couldn't penetrate its armor, there is no way those two energy weapons would be able to.

Super heating it with continuous laser pulses was an option however, it would've taken quite a lot of time to do so hence why I'm not. Sprinting ahead, I pulled the combat knife from the holster on my war belt and held it in reverse grip with the blade facing downward.