Silence follows that sentence. The man that was asking to co inside is confounded. I bet he doesn't expect that soone will totally disregard the words of his leader and say that he will kill them in broad daylight. And the bandits holding the shields neither. But fortunately for , my skeletons warriors have no thoughts like that, preventing them to do their job. The mont number one say my sentence, they imdiately try to hack the shield wall in pieces. And that small period where the humans are not concentrated enough is sufficient.
Two are already dead and another one is injured. The two remaining are now under the assault of my entire army. Blood is spilled on the ground and nothing that they are doing is preventing more to co. A few seconds later, five dead bodies are laying on the ground, their shield broken and their leather armors are torn apart. The five bandits were clearly abandoned by the rest of the gang. The door is now closed and I can see so movents near the different windows. The glass is broken, letting the crossbows take its place and granting a direct vision for the magicians hiding inside.
As for the crowd, after the first casualty, everyone has fled. Beggars, passer-by, mbers of the others gangs or even the guards. What will happen here and right now is the problem of Shadow and his problem alone? As for helping him or warning the guard? Well, the guards have seen what happen and decided it was not their business, so that solution is not possible anymore. And helping a soon to be a dead man, that brings no profits or anything. Only a lot of danger, because I am now officially a magician capable of destroying bolts with my mind alone. And it is just the first thing that they have seen doing.
But now, I am facing a fortress, with a locked door and a garrison. Seeing the fact that number one is incapable of breaking in, I am forced to make another move. Good thing that this house was quite far from my weapons stash, that way, I still have enough mana to cast so spells. I lightly approach the door and inspect it. It is not a usual door, it was reinforced with many iron nails and a reinforced plank of woods. Only with a real battering ram can it be taken down with conventional ans. Otherwise, it is just wasting the energy of the assailants. But that's nothing to . But before this, I knock three tis on the door, like I am a guest wanting to enter. I expected an answer or a reaction but was disappointed. Nothing ca out.
But before lting it and getting completely exposed to anything behind it, I cast [Nightfall] on the door. And finally, after using it a lot recently, the spell gains another level. I still haven't see the limits of it, and still don't really know what will be improved. But the joy of getting sothing better is still present.
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Oh, soone releases a bolt. Too bad, the door is strong enough to not even move after that. So, piercing it and hitting is even less realistic. But I guess that he thought the sudden shadows that appeared have removed the sturdy door. That's not the case but I still have to be careful about a sudden reaction like that. I ask my four skeletons warriors to step aside and don't be on the trajectory of whatever will co out of the house. Then, I release my acid once again lting a door. This ti, however, it is barely a second longer than my usual lting. That makes sense, normally the front door is the strongest and I never really entered a building by its main entrance. Those not so sweet mories of eating wood and digging into a weak wooden wall. Blargh. Just thinking of that makes taste that horrible thing again.
By now, the door is already gone and I just need to prepare my next step. And no matter how I call Oslo, that lazy god doesn't answer .
(I can hear you, but like I said I take my holidays and that ans today, except the location of the house, you have no help from . You know I still have a planet to manage and sothing have been done that I need to fix. And I trust you to not die, maybe not succeed, but you are the most cowardly Hero of the universe. So good luck.)
Can I at least know how many people are inside? No? Just an approximation? God of Holidays? Apparently, he doesn't even bother to answer now. That ans sothing quite big happened on Forslo. I wonder what, I just hope that will not make him any weaker than he already is. If I lost my godly detection and tracking device, the road will be a lot harder than I supposed. And now I am kind of blind and in front of a little army, I have no idea how I should kill it. God of Betrayal, that what his na is.
The funny thing is the lack of counterattack coming from the bandit den. I an, I know they have magicians, and I know that they have a huge firepower, just thinking about the number of spells they threw at back at Ronta. So why, inside Atria, I have never seen a magician attack. They only defend themselves, mostly with their magic shields. One of the reason could have been that they never saw , and during my night assault, it was true. But today, I was clearly alone and in front of them, so why no one threw a fireball at or even sothing weaker? Just a simple spell, but nothing was cast. Maybe there is a rule saying that nothing harmful should be provoked by a magician, or maybe they are hunted by the authorities and if they cast sothing, they will be found.
Such a rule would make sense, especially in a fantasy world. You can't expect to have a standard and civilized society without so basic rules preventing accidents. Like a magician losing control of his spell and devastating an entire district. But the people still fear the might of a magician, seeing how everyone quickly get away the mont they realized that I was one. That probably ans that if the spells created by a magician are accurate and doesn't hurt so innocents, the guards will maybe close their eyes. Well, that's good for , I never miss a single spell. But for the others, in such a restricted environnt, inside a house, and with more bandits than enemies, they have to be careful. And therefore, will rely more on the crossbows that are extrely good short to mid-range weapons instead of the unreliable magic.
If only I had Oslo, I wouldn't have to think about such things. Now, it has been twenty seconds since I lted the door, and I can hear behind the wall of shadows soone talking. Not to , but to the others. I can't really understand what he is saying. But I still don't know what is behind my spell. So let's create another shadow. I create a silhouette with [Nightfall] that looks like . And then, I move it behind the wall that I created.
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Wow. Looking at all the bolts stuck on the ground behind , I would say at least twelve, no thirteen people fired. And maybe so didn't, but now it's ti for to enter before they reload. That's the main issue with such weapons, very good penetration, dealing a lot of injuries to his target, accurate at a close distance, but unreliable past a point and slow to reload. I activate my aura and enter, asking all my skeletons to follow my lead. Only number one is inside my aura, but my control over it is increasing, I think. I really have to train that. What I see in front of in a very long corridor, with multiple bandits, protected by many open doors and reversed table. Only a few are still targeting , the rest are desperately trying to reload. Near two groups, I can see the particles aning a shield is surrounding them. The magicians are not in sight, and the man that talked to before is in one of the groups.
At my arrival, everyone stops for a fraction of second, looking at . They still are trying to figure out whether or not I am another of those shadows, a doppelganger without substance. Only after seeing my skeletons appearance and them breaking the weak walls inside the house, do they realize the true threat is near them. As for , since there is no danger, I cancel my aura. No need to waste any mana. Seeing two big holes inside the walls at my flank, I know that my undead servants have infiltrated the house and are no longer an easy target for the crossbows. As for , I stay here, capturing all their attention, diverting them from the undead. I see so of the closest criminals drop their weapons and unsheathe their swords. Now the true battle is starting.
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