Luke's clothes were quite ripped and bloodied by the time the first group was wiped out. The soldiers couldn't have imagined that a single man managed to do such a feat, making them yearn for powers even more.

The soldiers then noticed the mountain of coins on the ground and they couldn't help but pick them up especially after the officers ordered them to do so. Luke was still in bliss after upgrading Reactive Armor so he was too late to notice the soldiers picking up gold. A soldier passed a few pieces to Luke who worked the hardest in the fight, but after Luke received it, a window suddenly appeared in front of him.

You have garnered 1,093 gold coins in the battle. Do you want to transfer the coins to your coin storage? Yes

He couldn't help but smirk as he watched the soldiers happily picking up the gold coins as he secretly clicked 'Yes'. As soon as he did so, all the gold coins on the ground along with the ones picked up by the soldiers vanished to thin air to the Soldiers' surprise and anger. He didn't bother with them as he was the one who killed the creeps anyway so he was the rightful owner of the coins.

Luke shrugged at the Soldiers and happily sauntered towards the next group of creeps; he wanted to see how much damage he could take now.

Roy and the officers then helplessly shook their heads at Luke's behavior as he seemed to be the only one having fun fighting the monsters.

While Luke was upgrading his ability, his stacks of Reactive Armor disappeared so he had to repeat the same process he did earlier.

The second group of creeps was basically the same as the first one, the only difference being the additional camp of ogres.

With a smile on his face, Luke once again charged towards the ogres first. Not bothering to dodge the club of a bruiser, he received the hit to his chest that immediately made him want to vomit blood as the force pushed him two meters back.

Clenching his teeth, he retaliated immediately as he rushed back towards the ogre's side and after lowering himself, slashed at its ankles. Compared to the cuts he did to the ogres in the first group, the ones this time were visibly deeper after leveling up. He didn't know how much his stats increased but he was sure that his agility was the one that increased the most as he was always agile ever since he was a kid.

He dodged the next few hits for a while as the damage to his chest healed up. When he felt that it was safe to take hits again, he once again charged towards another ogre. 2 clubs were about to reach him so he once again clenched his teeth as he received it and roared while slashing an ogre's thigh.

The other creeps wanted to hit him too but with how many ogres were surrounding him and with how he was constantly moving around, they were unable to hit him especially with how large they were.

With Luke's small build, he moved between the ogres as he constantly slashed at their ankles and legs while allowing a few hits to reach him. Reactive Armor was now level 3 so he could now get 15 stacks of Reactive Armor that gave him 21 armor; increasing his effective HP by 126%, effectively more than doubling his HP! At the same time his HP regeneration increased to 19.5 HP per second!

Since the other creeps couldn't reach him while he was in the middle of the ogres, he decided on finishing off the ogres. He didn't focus on one ogre but rather he did his best to do the same damage to each one of them so that he'll kill them off at the same time. He could focus on one creep but that wouldn't be efficient for him, which is what he learned in playing DotA for many years.

He dared to do so since his Reactive Armor is lvl. 3 now, with the additional 21 armor, the damage the ogres did to him was basically negligible now.

Being surrounded by the ogres, Counter Helix activated twice and in no time the ogres were all killed. As soon as the last ogre dropped, he then charged towards the mud golems as he stabbed the one closest to him.

With his Reactive Armor still at 15 stacks, Luke felt that he still had almost full HP; so he didn't see why he had to go back to the soldiers now when he could still handle the golems by himself.

Killing off the golems proved to be harder than he thought as there were only 4 golems, the centaurs could slip in and hit him. Even though he had high armor now and high HP regeneration, he wouldn't dare underestimate the damage the giant centaur conqueror could do which was more than twice the damage an ogre bruiser does.

Playing it safe, he quickly rolls away every time a centaur tries to even get close to him. Due to the giant size of the conquerors, it was easier for Luke to dodge them as he could clearly see the attacks coming at him.

While rolling on the ground and stabbing or hacking at the golems, the mud golems eventually died after Counter Helix activated a few times and got replaced by shard golems that were even easier to kill off.

With the centaurs being the only creeps left, Luke then ran back to where the impatient soldiers were waiting. They didn't know what took Luke so long but upon seeing that behind Luke were only 6 centaurs, they became even more confused since Luke told them that the 2nd group was larger than the first one.

Then it hit them, 'This guy probably killed off the rest by himself'. They all drew their breaths thinking that Luke probably grew stronger after the fight earlier since he was now able to take on the monsters except the centaurs without their help. 'His clothes are clearly ripped and bloodied yet he still looks so energetic, doesn't he feel pain? or get tired? what the hell is up with this guy?' they couldn't help but think.

Reaching the group, Luke then dropped to the ground and the soldiers immediately fired a round of gunshots again, immediately killing off all centaurs, to Luke's dismay.

Luke comforted himself with the fact that the medium centaur camp gave one of the least experience points among the medium camps anyway since it only consisted of two centaurs.

"Hey, did you level up again?" Roy asked with a sour expression as he patted Luke's back.

Luke didn't reply but simply had a wide smile on his face, to Roy's annoyance.

"You mind if I punch your face just once?" Roy asked as he smiled back at Luke.

"Sure, if you let me punch you back"

Roy grumbled at Luke's pettiness as he stepped back.

The soldiers wanted to pick up the gold coins the centaurs dropped but after remembering what happened earlier, they didn't bother anymore. Laughing at the soldiers in his mind, Luke was about to head back to where the 2nd group of creeps were at earlier since his gold coins was gathered over there when he suddenly felt that something seemed off.

Roy and the officers noticed Luke stop in the middle of walking and wondered whether anything was wrong.

"Can you feel that?" Luke asked.

"Feel what?" A frowning officer asked.

"The ground. It's shaking. As if..." Luke wasn't able to finish his sentence when he widened his eyes in horror as he looked behind their group.

Nobody was there but the broken concrete on the ground were obviously shaking and the magnitude was visibly getting stronger.

The soldiers then also noticed the ground shaking and they all drew their breaths as they realized that monsters were coming.

"TAKE YOUR POSITIONS! PREPARE FOR COMBAT!" an officer shouted as the soldiers shuffled around to prepare themselves for the monsters that are about to arrive.

"This doesn't make any sense" Luke mumbled to himself.

"Why doesn't it make sense, Luke?" Roy asked as he was getting worried.

"In the game, jungle creeps are supposed to spawn where they're assigned to stay in. I mean, the creeps I killed earlier were standing over there on the road so after they got killed, they're supposed to only appear there. Why are the new creeps coming from behind us?"

Roy couldn't answer his question as he knew almost nothing concerning the game as he smiled wryly.

Luke was getting worried, two groups of creeps just got killed, does that mean they're about to face 2 groups of creeps at the same time now? Sure, he'll definitely survive but as the number of creeps that would focus on him would be limited, some of them might attack the soldiers. Sure they still have tanks and lots of ammo for their guns, but they only killed off two groups of creeps so far and there are still hundreds more they have to kill, doesn't it mean that once they kill off these 2 coming groups, it would eventually be replaced by another 2 groups?

Even with their tanks and guns, it would definitely run out of ammo in no time and they would get nowhere near the hospital.

Luke racked his brain to think of a solution to the problem but the monsters didn't give him the chance to do so, on the road in front of them were large creeps! Luke had a face of horror after seeing the creeps, there were obviously from large creep camps!

The first creep he saw was a wildwing ripper! A giant pink and white bird that can call on the spirit of the wind to create a tornado, it can control that and could cause havoc to its enemies! It was the creep that can deal the highest damage among all jungle creeps. Beside each wildwing ripper were 2 wildwings that have the strength of an ogre.

Besides the wildwings were trolls! It isn't the same as the trolls he had killed before as this camp has a dark troll summoner that's almost as strong as a wildwing ripper. Besides that, a dark troll summoner also has the ability to ensnare its enemies so even if you try to run, you'll definitely find it hard to do so!

There were only these 2 types of camps but they were the replacement of the ones that got killed earlier, meaning, the 15 medium camps they killed earlier were now replaced by 15 large camps now! They have a huge difference with how strong they were! Luke wouldn't dare tank the damage from all those creeps with how small his HP is.

'Should we leave after killing them?' Luke couldn't help but think.

They can definitely kill them now but once they run out of ammo, they'll be like sheep in a lion's den. He may be able to escape but what about the soldiers? how about Roy? He can't possibly face Sunny and tell her that he ran off leaving her brother behind.

From where they were in right now, they had to run about 500 meters before they reach the hospital. Who knows how many creeps they'll have to pass through before reaching the hospital.

With a resolved look on his face, Luke grabbed Roy and told him his idea.

"ARE YOU INSANE?" Roy immediately shouted after hearing the plan. The soldiers stared at the two men and wondered what's wrong.

"Sir, I'll leave the incoming monsters to you, they'll be coming in waves so please do your best to last before we come back" Luke told the highest ranked soldier.

The officer stared at Luke in the eye and after seeing the decisive look on his eyes, he nodded and said, "Don't worry and just rescue everyone inside the hospital"

"It would be better to inform HQ to check where these monsters are coming from and thin them out before they reach our location"

The officer agreed and asked for a radio from his men to inform HQ.

Luke then gazed at Roy who was frowning at him. "Maybe I am insane, but this is the only way for us to reach the hospital. No matter what, two groups of creeps would be constantly rushing towards here, so we can't kill any more creeps from now on. The only way for us to reach the hospital would be for me to attract the attention of all the creeps on the way and lure them away from the road as you and a few men enter the hospital"

Roy stayed silent and pondered on the plan. He knew that it was the only thing they can do but Luke had a very dangerous job and he felt a bit uncomfortable with that.

*Ratatatatatat* Luke and Roy were startled by the gunshots as they watched the soldiers deal with the charging creeps.

"You don't have to worry that I might get killed, After chasing me for a while, the creeps would eventually go back to where they were originally standing in, so the pressure on me wouldn't me that big. You and probably two other men would have to pass through before the creeps go back to their positions. Once you enter the hospital, I'll be staying outside and make sure that none of them will also enter" Luke assured.

"I don't think these creeps are of the same level as the ones you have killed so far" Roy said in a low tone.

"Good eye, these are the strongest jungle creeps in the game" Luke admitted.

"Then how the hell are you supposed to survive being chased by these strong creeps?"

"I'm not sure. My Reactive Armor is currently level 3 so I can handle taking a few hits from them so I'll just hit and run. Don't worry, I killed 30 kobolds back in the mountain with just a hammer even when I was so weak and had no abilities. I don't think these creeps can kill me now that I have my abilities"

Roy shook his head and sighed helplessly "Goddammit, you better not kill yourself. My sister would definitely hate me for letting her new friend get himself killed"

Luke grinned at his words as he thought of Sunny. "Don't worry, I haven't had enough time hitting on your sister yet so I sure as hell have to survive this. Get two of your strongest men to follow you, we have to leave now"

After Glaring at Luke, Roy then left to choose who'll follow him.

Luke was preparing to leave when the officer he talked to earlier approached him and handed him a small axe. "You'll probably need this one, with how many monsters you'll have to kill, you might need a second weapon" he said and immediately went back to deal with the incoming creeps without waiting for Luke's reply.

The axe had a dark green handle and a black blade, looking a bit ghastly with the scratches on its surface as it clearly has been used for a long time.

Roy returned with two fit men behind him. "They're one of my fastest men too so I think they're the best choice"

Luke nodded and led them to the direction of the hospital.

"I probably won't have the time to tell you when to leave, just make sure to pass through before the creeps come back. I'll do my best to clear the road of creeps as you pass through, but if there would be some creeps that I don't manage to pull then don't think twice and use Frozen Sigil and run as fast as you can towards the hospital. I'll do my best to enter the hospital if I can."

Roy and his men solemnly nodded as they mentally prepared themselves for whatever might happen on the way.

It didn't take long for them to see the 3rd group of medium creeps composed of 3 centaur camps, 3 ogre camps and 3 golem camps. Charging at them, Luke roared to attract all of their attention.

"LEEEEEEERROOOOOOOY JENKINS!"