"Quest failed? What?"
"Ummm… Are you sure, leader? Like did you look properly?"
Gu Zui breathed in and out like a dragon and looked at the person who had just spoken. "What do you mean by that? What FUCKING other way is there to look at something?"
He directly threw a punch at the guy's face in exasperation.
"We came all this way, spent so many resources, and even killed off an insect who had somehow managed to arrive there before us, so how could we have still failed?"
"Boss, someone sabotaged us." One of the healers hesitantly muttered.
"Oh, so now you are giving an excuse for being a colossal failure? Who is even here to sabotage us?"
"You guys couldn't fucking handle an almost dead ape and now you are bringing up a lame excuse!"
"If you had done your job properly and healed everyone, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place!"
"Leader, we were healing like always. Ughhh. If there was an actions history I would have pulled it up and shown you! You have to trust me! Someone attacked us from the side."
The healer did not know how to make this guy believe him and cried inwardly. Luckily, the others voiced their opinions to help him.
"I also saw that."
"Yes, there was a couple of fire blasts from the side."
"Hmmm…" Gu Zui finally became silent contemplating a few things.
Listening to everything silently, Liam smirked from the sidelines.
"I guess that's my cue?"
He wanted to wait and see if they would discuss more details about the quest, but it looked like that wasn't going to happen.
He also did not have much time. The portal could revoke all of them back to the nether realm at any given moment. So he decided to go in before it was too late.
If he didn't kill them a few times at least, he really wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully tonight.
Liam took a few deep breaths and then moved. Just as he did, he took out something from his inventory and tossed it first, right in the middle of the group.
BOOOM!
The next second a huge explosion rang loudly. Dust, shrapnel, and rocks flew everywhere and a cloud of fire and smoke rose up into the air.
Everything in the vicinity was blown apart, including the tombstones on the graveyard.
And the people who had been obliviously discussing something just moments ago, also found themselves blasted away, huge chunks of their health removed.
A few weaker ones directly died on the spot, but most were just gravely injured.
And before they could even begin to recover, a figure blurred past the ones who were only barely alive and slashed at them with an incredible speed.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
The entire raid team was in complete disarray and they dropped dead one after the other as Liam made his rounds.
Within a minute every single member of that party found themselves dead once again.
Before the sound, dust and the reverberations of the explosion settled down, Liam had taken care of all of them.
Not even a single member of the group remained, with only Liam standing amidst the dust and debris. His mask was still on and a smile danced on his lips.
"Not bad."
He looked at the ball-shaped item in his hand which was the same one he had just now used to cause the explosion.
This was also the second item he had looted from the treasure chest in the mecha gnome valley.
[Grade C Grenade]
He had been wanting to try out the power of this item and it was not in the least disappointing.
"If the Grade C ones are so powerful, then what about the Grade B and Grade A ones?" Liam's smile widened.
He gazed at the three mecha gnome items in excitement. Each one was more powerful than the other.
His hands were itching to try those out too, but he didn't want to waste those precious items on this bunch of trash.
He had only managed to get 20 grenades of each grade. So they couldn't be carelessly wasted.
"Alright. It should be about time." Liam's figure blurred once again.
Since the explosion, several seconds had passed and it was time for the group to start resurrecting one by one.
And as soon as they did…
"What was that explosion? Did you guys see-"
Bam. Slash. Bam. Dead.
"Is everyone fine-"
Bam. Slash. Bam. Dead.
"Wait, you guys died again?"
Bam. Slash. Bam. Dead.
"Someone is here."