Chapter 28 Massacre At The Gate
[Quest: Kill all 30 men]
[You have been surrounded and the only way out is to kill them]
[Rewards]
50 attribute points
2x skill level ups
1x fortune wheel
Both Shaman and Elysia ignored the message as the oncoming crowed was more important.
"Elysia, No mercy." Shaman spoke to these words as any restraint could kill them.
Shaman opened up using her [Slicing tornado] as a distraction so that she could take care of one side and also due to her domain the attacks were more powerful, also due to her evolution it had risen to 30% for her and 15% for allies.
The men attacked by the [Slicing tornado] were dead as it was a lot more powerful than they thought.
Shaman activated her sword harnessing the fire element within her sword, Shaman still had time before they were close so the 5 second delay was not an issue. Also why activating it she had also spoken.
"I shall paint your blood over this field of flowers as you shall pay for hurting my girlfriend!" Shaman yelled these to try to sound cool and intimidating as she heard it from some movie. The men halted for a second hearing this and what came after was a powerful wash of killing intent that had erupted from Shaman and could not help but sweat.
The sword was ready and so Shaman used her [sword dash] closing the gap. The sound of the sword leaving the sheath could be heard as flames erupted from the blade. Shaman slashed out causing a whip of fire killing 5 men who were not quick enough to dodge. The blood sprayed out from their bodies dyeing the white flowers red.
The other men were terrified but still went to attack. Shaman used [wind crescent], although slower she intended it to be. The men saw the slow slash and were able to easily dodge it however they were met with Shaman's blade. Shaman had activated [blazing sword] and stabbed a man in the back, burning his heart to ash in an instant.
Sensing danger from behind Shaman used [iron skin] causing the attack to bounce off making the man's hands go numb. Shaman deactivated [iron skin] and turned around with her blazing sword and cut the man in 2. Due to Shaman's rather large MP she had only gone through a quarter and could still use her skill rather freely but she still deactivated blazing sword as it would suck it all up if she used it for every single person.
So far Shaman had killed 10 people and there were 6 left for Shaman to deal with. Shaman dashed forward throwing out a [Wind slash] causing the closet one to fall over. Shaman then jumped on the man's back and propelled herself off him but due to the amount of force used, it broke his spine killing him.
While in the air Shaman used her [Slash] with her wind making [Wind slash] stronger. Although the man tried to block it, it went right through his weapon and decapitated him. Shaman now was falling towards a man who was ready to attack her. Shaman expected this so she used [Shadow cloak] to obscure herself, This confused the man as it looked like she vanished but could feel like something was still there. Shaman was also lucky as it was still morning and the buildings were casting a shadow over the battlefield. In his confusion Shaman was able to stab the man right through the neck and used him to cushion her fall without him realizing.
'Now 3 more to go.' Shaman saw the 3 men trembling as they saw 13 of them being murdered effortlessly. Shaman did not pity them as the image of all the dead girls appeared in her head.
'This is for all those you have harmed.' Shaman screams internally letting out a [wind crescent] killing the last 3. A system notification also popped up.
[level up to 36]
[Wind tier 1 has now evolved to tier 2]
[All wind abilities are now stronger and tier 2 wind skills have been unlocked in the skill select screen]
Shaman raised an eyebrow as she noticed a lot of options were blurred out from last time and so she could not wait to choose some new skills when the opportunity arises.
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Elysia had been on a rampage as her [Blade arrows] killed 5 of the men instantly, their heads had fallen on the flower field painting more of the battle field. The men were now cautious of her arrows and were also afraid of Elysia.
"Come on boys I'm sure you want to ravage me, why the cold feet now." Elysia had licked her lips as she enjoyed seeing the despaired faces of the men. Without letting them answer she had used [Power shot] killing another and due to the force, made the man go flying into the building causing him to hang there with an arrow lodged in his heart.
"hahaha, filthy pigs." Elysia now was one by one killing them while running through the field as some started to run after her.
"Look at you trying to catch your prey." Elysia was taunting the men at their futile attempt at catching her.
Elysia had an idea while being chased and pulled out the tier 2 dagger Shaman bought for her. She activated [fire coat] which caused the blade to be covered in fire but unlike Shaman's it was contained and not freely burning.
Without wasting time she quickly turned and dashed towards the man causing the men to halt in their steps. While adjusting their balance Elysia had already appeared, killing the closet man by stabbing him in the neck . A sizzling sound could be heard from the stab as the [fire coat] had made a 1000 degree dagger.
Elysia enjoyed this feeling and so she continued to fight the men one on one with her dagger. She had managed to melt through some of their weapons giving the opportunity to kill them.
"hahaha, is this all you got you pathetic pieces of shit." Elysia was now toying with them but she saw that Shaman was finishing up so she decided to end it. She disabled [fire coat] that got to level 2 and found the blade had melted so she disregarded the blade. Elysia took out her bow and used [multi shot] killing the last of the 14 men that were after her. System notifications had also rang out.
[level up 29]
[Fire tier 1 -> tier 2]
[Fire skills are now more powerful]
Elysia was satisfied but also realized something.
'We need to hunt tier 4 people if we want to level up quickly but to be fair their was only a few tier 3 so we need to experiment a bit more.' Elysia found killing 14 people for 2 levels was too much effort and so they needed to hunt stronger people to rise quickly.
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On the Wolfy side of things he decided to go for the noble.
The noble thought it was a stupid pet as its appearance represented more of a dog than a wolf at the moment.
"Stupid dog go away." The noble tried to kick away but Wolfy dodged it.
"huh?" The noble was now confused as he was sure he had hit it. but before he could do anything else Wolfy had attacked the man's jewels causing him to squeal.
"YOU PIECE OF SHIT DOG!" The man then tried to swat away the dog but Wolfy started to dodge again. Due to the noble being a tier 1 and not having power himself he was unable to defend himself well. Wolfy also understood that Shaman wanted him alive so he was not outright killing him.
The pain from the chomp from earlier got too unbearable so he started to throw up and cough. Wolfy also took this opportunity to use [Shadow claw] on the man's legs making him paralyzed in the legs.
Wolfy with his job done sat nearby keeping an eye on him and watched his mother and Elysia battle.
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The quest complete sound was rung and so Shaman and Elysia made there way to the noble who was laying on the floor in pain. Shaman was a little shocked but could see Wolfy near him and could only assume that Wolfy had done this.
"Good boy Wolfy." Shaman then pampered him and gave him pats. Elysia however started to pull back an arrow.
"Hold on Elysia, let's ask some questions before we do that." Shaman's word had pulled out of Elysia's 'kill mode' and stopped what she was doing.
"Okay." Elysia looked down at the pitiful man in front of her with a cold glare as it was the same man she met when she first arrived at the underground facility. The man had shivered and was now terrified.
"So Mr. Noble, tell me why are you collecting bodies of young girls." Shaman got straight to the point as she had the temptation to melt his face away. Due to his weak will he spilled about the plans for summoning an anchor and was told by an unknown person to do it for a large sum of money.
Shaman gathered that it was quite a large sum of money and the group behind this was doing this in other cities and maybe other territories but she thought it was not her problem as she is rather weak in the grand scheme of things and would not be able to do anything at the moment.
After stealing what he had on him which was about 700 gold plus what was on the men Elysia and Shaman went to have a little fun.
"Shall we burn him together and melt his face." Shaman wanted to get her revenge for Elysia and Elysia wanted to remove his existence.
"Yes!" Elysia was happy and so they both activated flames in their hands and started burning him to death, very slowly. After 10 mins of screams and burning he had finally died, Shaman and Elysia were satisfied but Shaman noticed Elysia was enjoying it a little too much.
'Did I pick up a sadistic girlfriend? I hope it does not correlate to our nightly affairs.' Shaman gulped a little as she was no masochist and hoped Elysia would not try something without at least asking.
They had also burnt the bodies of the men to try to cover the scene. The flower field also was good at getting rid of the blood as it vanished with the flower so there was little blood. After they cleaned up they wanted to head home as they also were able to test out their tier 3 bodies and also get a lot more gold so they were ready to move on to the next city.
"Well looks like we should have enough to live comfortably in the next city, we also got quite the workout." They had both arrived home and were preparing to leave.
"Yeah, to think we would be targeted like that but it definitely saved us time." Elysia was packing furniture in the inventory and was making sure they had everything.
"Well we should be able to get a carriage to the next city which I think is called Cholden and is a city with a lot of blacksmiths and a higher beast man population." Shaman had also picked up information on cities to the west that were tier 4 - 5. She had found Cholden as it seemed like the best place since it had a higher beast man population.
"Well lets hope we are not targeted like last time but since we can hide our tails which show our tier people are going to think we are an easy catch." Elysia sighed as slave traders were everywhere and since they were heading to a higher tier city it only means more daring people to kidnap them.
"It should be fine but if we run into anyone higher than tier 4 we might want to run." Shaman let out an awkward laugh as she was a little traumatized for her flamescion skill and did not want to use it even in a desperate situation.
"Anyway no use complaining and let's hurry up and get going." Shaman shook her head.
"Yes" Elysia had just finished packing and was ready to set out.
So Shaman, Wolfy and Elysia had left the apartment to hitch a ride to Cholden to further their levels and to slowly make their way to Elfheim.