Dragged Into Another World Because of My Otaku Friend-Chapter 78: Save Face

I gripped the [Spiked Club] tightly in my hands, breathing heavily. My body had reacted instinctively when the beasts closed in. Somehow, in that moment, my mind flashed back to the fight with the elite goblin. Even though I wield a powerful gunblade, this crude club had saved me twice now. First against the goblin, and now here.

My eyes locked on the creatures in front of me. They might be blind, but they clearly sensed danger. Their bodies tensed as they tried to locate me by sound. I could feel it, they were losing track of my position.

Carefully, I moved closer to where Bob lay unconscious on the ground. Still keeping one eye on the beasts, I gave him a sharp kick to the hip.

"Hey, Bob. Wake up," I hissed, keeping my voice low. The last thing I needed was to draw the beasts’ attention again.

I keep kicking him, panickly.

Come on dude. This monsters will attack again any soon.

Bob then start to move slowly.

"Ughh, my head" Bob wake up, and he hold his head, shaking it.

He then tried to sit and upon looking me holding big club, he was flinched.

"Alan?"

"Come on, man. Get up!"

Mina cast [Soothing Pollen] on Bob, and his headache slowly faded.

"Thank you, Mina-chan," Bob said, getting back on his feet beside me.

His eyes shifted toward the wall where several beasts were stuck, embedded like broken statues.

He looked stunned. "Did you do this?" he asked, jaw dropped, pointing at the smashed monsters.

I nodded. "Pretty nice, right? Now... what do we do next?"

We both turned our eyes to the remaining cave beasts in front of us. They stood still, as if waiting for an order. We also standing by, ready if the beast started to roll again.

As we squinted through the dim lighting of the cave, something shifted. One of the beasts began to move. And then I saw it clearly.

One of them had three eyes.

Unlike the others with only two, this one had a third eye right on its forehead. And it was staring directly at us with clear, seething intent. We must have missed it earlier because of the poor lighting.

So... the other two eyes were just a decoy?

"Bob! That one has three eyes!" I said, pointing at it.

Bob followed my gaze. "That has to be the leader. That one’s giving the orders! Take it down and we win!"

Finally, a breakthrough, our chance!

But it seemed the three-eyed beast had sensed our intentions. It opened its mouth, that familiar flickering light glowing deep inside, as it about to issue a command.

"Not so fast!" Bob yelled, activating our trump card.

"HERO GRACE!"

A red aura enveloped him instantly, and in a blink, he vanished, becoming a streak of light that zigzagged through the cluster of beasts, heading straight toward the leader.

I was speechless.

There was no need to activate Hero Grace this early... This guy just really loves making a flashy move.

Anyway...

In less than a second, Bob was already in front of the three-eyed cave beast. Its central eye widened in shock just before Bob shoved a [Granitecracker Bomb] straight into its open mouth.

And just as quickly as he arrived, Bob vanished again, leaping away to safety.

The bomb lodged itself deep in the beast’s throat. It tried to claw at it, but its arms were too short to reach. After a few seconds of desperate struggle, its arms dropped helplessly to its sides, as if accepting its fate.

BOOM!

The explosion was massive, far greater than the last. The shockwave sent debris flying in all directions. The leader of the cave beasts was gone, blown into chunks of stone and dust.

The debris struck the surrounding beasts, blasting several of them into pieces.

I ducked behind a stone pillar, shielding Mina in my arms. The explosion shook the entire cave, and a creeping concern settled in my chest, if we kept turning this place into an explosive party, the whole cave might collapse on us.

After a few tense minutes, the shaking stopped.

I peeked around the pillar. Dust blanketed the entire chamber, thick and heavy in the air. And from that cloud, a lone figure emerged, his cape fluttering dramatically behind him, his face plastered with a proud, arrogant grin.

Bob.

He was singing some sort of victory song... in German.

"Showoff," I muttered with a smile. I gently released Mina from my grasp and began walking toward him.

But just as I was halfway there, I noticed something, movement in the dust behind him.

The cloud shifted.

A shadow lunged forward.

From the dust, one of the cave beast had survived the explosion. Its massive arm was raised high, ready to crush Bob into the ground. It must have been drawn to his stupid singing.

"Bob! Behind you!" I shouted.

Bob froze mid-step, his smile vanishing in an instant.

The beast’s arm swung down with full force. I was already preparing to activate Hero Grace, but before I could move—

"STARFIRE LANCE!"

A brilliant streak of light tore through the air and pierced the beast mid-strike. Upon impact, the creature disintegrated into shimmering golden dust, dissolving like sand and vanishing into the wind.

Bob and I stood there, jaws hanging open in shocked at the sheer power of the skill we just witnessed. That blast, that was dangerous.

"Never, ever let your guard down in battle," a calm male voice spoke from our left.

It was Beltimore, approaching with Alice by his side. Her left hand still glowed faintly with golden light, the same light from the spear that had just disintegrated the beast.

Bob and I walked toward them, our eyes still scanning the smoke-filled area, just in case another beast had survived.

"Don’t worry," Alice said casually, her glowing hand dimming. "The rest of the beasts were obliterated."

"You didn’t have to interfere," Bob muttered, trying to save face. "I could’ve handled it."

"Oh really?" Alice replied, a wicked smile curling on her lips. "Because from what I saw, your face just now was hilarious."

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