Chapter 48: Zerg Rush Strategy
The Wrecking Crew returned looking less like a conquering force and more like a band that had just lost a battle of the bands.
Their new armor was dented, their expressions were grim, and the empty spaces where Stoney and Clobber used to be were loud, echoing holes in their formation.
Isabelle gave her report in the Throne Room, The loss of two comrades was a bitter pill to swallow.
Ragnar Vhagar, Demon King and now certified bad gambler, listened from his throne.
He felt a pang of something unfamiliar.
It wasn’t just the sting of losing a 25 CP investment and a 50 CP gacha-fail. It was responsibility.
"It’s my fault," he said, the words tasting strange in his mouth.
The admission silenced the room.
"I underestimated him. I saw a low-level Farm dungeon and assumed a weak master.
That was a rookie mistake. I won’t make it again."
He dismissed the team, telling them to get what rest they could. The new house he’d built for Isabelle and Pixia suddenly felt less like a generous gift and more like a necessary morale-booster.