Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 44: Rumble

Prepared to move and involve ourselves in the fun, I wordlessly signaled to gramps via a hand signal and we quickly poured into the rocky space the next second and slaughtered the molemen fighting the giant black and orange-colored lizards. The instant we had mopped up the molemen defenders, we switched our sights to the giant approximately 5-7 foot tall and 25-35 foot long lizards, my robots were busy holding back.

Spooling my 7.62mm minigun fired off a burst of rounds at the head of the nearest reptile. As the rounds impacted the Giant Gila Monster's head, they initially tore holes into its scaley defenses before traveling beyond them and sinking into its flesh.

No more than a couple of seconds later, the casings of the many rounds I had just fired off clinked and clattered onto the cave's floor. That was soon followed up with a thump sound of the now deceased monster's body hitting the hard stone floor.

With that lizard swiftly dealt with, I repeated that same burst four more times, effortlessly dispatching the rest of them.

That was easy.

Thinking the battle was over, we began wandering over to the corpses of the Giant Gila Monsters to take a look at them. As we were nearing them, I heard and felt a rumbling through the cave floor. Looking to where I sensed the rumbling originated from, a massive black and orange draconic looking head poked into the cave from the exit.

I didn't expect to see a Colossal Gila Monster this early on in my life. But they're basically considered a massive threat, so I better handle it quickly before it releases a poisonous breath attack.

Not wanting to start my next life so soon when I've yet to really accomplish much of anything in this one, I let my minigun go, leaving it to rest against my abdomen while I retrieved the only weapon that would be help me here in this given situation besides having my robots swarm it and self destruct themselves on it.

Making the Carl Gustaf appear in my hands from my item box, I hastily set it up on my shoulder and said. "Gramps, fall back. I got this."

Gramps, seeing the 84mm shoulder-fired recoilless rifle poofing into existence from thin air, immediately started high tailing it out here at his fastest possible speed, getting out of the way of the back blast zone along with all of my robots. With my comrades out of both possible kill zones and the pseudo dragon ramping up to unleash a deadly venomous breath attack, I took aim at its dragon-like head and waited for the perfect moment.

A brief moment was all it took for the right moment to appear, thus with my time to shine, I adjusted my aim to its open maw and pulled the trigger, firing the HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) round I had preloaded.

*BOOM*

Back blast firing out the rear of the Carl Gustaf, the round near instantly hit my desired target and when it did it blew up and sent the creature reeling back with blood pouring from its massive maw as it released an incredibly loud, pained roar. Whilst the gargantuan flightless black and orange lizard was dealing with the massive injury I had just dealt it, I brought the weapon down from my shoulder and pointed it at the ground.

Opening the rear of the Carl Gustaf, I removed the spent shell and slid in an APDS (Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot) round and closed the back of the recoilless rifle. Locked and loaded, I shouldered the weapon again and saw the lizard retreating from the exit.

"Where are you going, big guy? The fun is just starting!" I said aloud while pursuing the massive lizard out of the cave and into the wasteland.

Stepping beyond the underground for the very first time since I've been born in this world, I took the sights in and scanned my surroundings while making sure I kept more than enough attention on the Colossal Gila Monster.