Ed didn't bother to check if the trap had indeed worked as intended. Why? He didn't doubt it would. Plus, if he made it past the regular skeletons the adventurer would end up reaching a dead end.
There was a reason that Ed chose this room. One might think that the middle rooms would lead to other rooms but what type of crappy labyrinth would that be? There was only an office at the end adorned with crappy furniture.
'Let's get back to it then' Ed rely glanced in that direction before quickly shifting gears back to the adventurers. He just needed to choke them out.
'I wish I could use other elents' Ed lanted his lack of offensive spells. He could have easily ended the whole thing with a teor rain if he had the right elents.
'Although it might just be called teor drop while in here.' The ceiling wasn't sufficiently high.
Felix, Scarlet, and the rest didn't check for Mort's safety either. It was more so because they were unable to. Felix could easily slice the skeletons but his broken foot was making it hard to properly balance himself and perform his swordsmanship.
At the mont, he only managed to kill one skeleton before that one was quickly replaced by another. As the other adventurers died, or in Mort's case escaped, the worse things got for him.
That was what made Ed's strategy especially sinister. He didn't target one's like Buster at the start since they could easily dodge or resist the spike. No, he targeted the already struggling C-classes that held back his minions. That is unless of course, the opportunity presented itself as it just had.
'Let's have fun' Ed transmitted while imagining the various new sets of equipnt he would acquire. He was also looking forward to seeing what his skeletons attained.
'My mana reserve is at half' He hadn't cast many spells yet it had already reached such a state.
[Mana Manipulation has leveled up]
Ed rose the ground to swallow a C-class adventurer granting him a quick death. He was being held back by three skeletons so his mind had been preoccupied. It was quite easy and Ed couldn't help but ntally shudder. Being buried alive could not be pleasant.
"Damn it! We need to kill that thing!" Felix yelled anxiously as he finally eliminated one of the skeletons. Unfortunately, the three from before ca to him.
"Go, I'll provide support." The earthen mage from earlier said.
She was having a relatively easier ti since Ed's attack couldn't easily reach her without her notice. The skeletons could also be pushed back among other things. She couldn't deal much damage but the number of deaths she had prevented was already nurable.
"My leg!" Felix yelled to signal his plight. He then jumped back as four cleaving swords cut his previous location.
Ed was on the other hand leisurely eliminating more and more C-class adventurers. The count had already gone down to 13 in less than a minute. All he had to do was get reasonably close to conserve mana as well as pressure the adventurers.
The others could only watch this all happen.
That was until Felix decided to grit his teeth and squeeze out so more mana. His surroundings were suddenly covered with heat. This was close to Drake's own heat field but not quite there. The main difference was that it was an actual fire.
Flas were ignited from Felix's body which burned brightly and dangerously. The four skeletons had their swords break from the oppressive heat as well as their body turn waxen.
"I'll give you an opening! Soone get in there!" Felix yelled mainly referring to the remaining two B-class adventurers who didn't seem to have much of a presence.
The move he had just perford pained him as the bright flas could not be easily withstood. But he still perford a follow-up attack.
His sword suddenly seed quite holy as the yellow fla that usually coated it turned white. With a fierce slash, these white flas shot forward. Their aim was the skeletons lined up and fighting the many adventurers.
The intensity of his flas was sothing that Felix had never witnessed. But he had no opportunity to relish in its appearance and the feeling of breaking through one's limit.
That was because Ed wasn't having it. He hurriedly attempted to raise a wall.
Ed felt so interference likely coming from the earthen mage but he dealt with it swiftly and decisively. More mana!
'I knew that guy couldn't be left alone!' The Felix person was quite mischievous! Doing things without Ed's permission.
The wall of earth withstood the raging flas but the heat it radiated could still be clearly felt. Felix's attack seed like it could make a potent flathrower but it was unfortunately entirely dependent on the speed of his swings. With his current state, It could only co in bursts leaving much to be desired.
"F*ck do sothing, you people!" Felix was seriously losing his cool as his irascible personality kicked in. He started to feel like he was the only one capable of doing anything there completely disregarding his broken foot.
"Felix, calm down!" Scarlet who was next to him fighting a single skeleton told him. If he kept wildly swinging like that he would only be wasting mana so she tried to warn him.
But...
Carelessness, even when backed by good intentions, brings disaster.
Ed took advantage of the opportunity to send a stake through her chest. Ed did so as quickly as possible exhausting more mana than necessary. That's because it was completely worth it.
"Sc-Scarlet!" Felix who was shocked by the sudden occurrence failed to notice the approaching Ed.
In his mind, there was only Scarlet throwing up blood with a ghastly expression. His heart tightened at the thought of what usually ca next. He could already picture Scarlet's eyes rolling to the back of her head as her organs are rcilessly pierced by the white nace.
"Felix!" Soone yelled causing him to blink in confusion. Why did he suddenly feel so light-headed?
He looked back towards the front only to see Ed's chilling appearance. At that mont he knew what had gone wrong! There was a sword in his chest!
"No…!" He unwillingly yelled as he suddenly burst into white flas. His mana burned briskly as he desperately tried to shake off the skeleton and remove the sword that pierced his body.
And it did work to so extent. Ed's sword rapidly lted and his armor clung to his bones painfully but…
[You are burning. -3 hp]
[lting surface. -5 hp]
Those two ssages repeated themselves quickly in that imdiate second but what did such ager numbers matter for?
Ed let go of the grip on his sword and grabbed Felix's blazing body with both hands. It happened too quickly for him to even react.
"Awk...!" Felix was lifted into the air by the neck properly matching his gaze with Ed's tall body. The lted armor coupled with the raging white flas which he still so desperately clung to for salvation struck paralyzing fear into his heart.
The empty eye sockets seed to hide malicious intent as Felix's fear kicked into high gear and he wriggled furiously. He tried to loosen the grip amidst the raging flas and reinforce his neck but...
Ed mustered strength into both hands. Felix's neck then crumbled as if it was made of nothing more than sticks. The white flas that surrounded the two dispersed revealing Ed lifting Felix's horrified corpse.
His armor which had lted apart coupled with his burnt bones and hollow sockets created an image directly from hell. The molten armor still glowed in the eerie and dimly lit room.
'Let's wrap this up' Ed told them. All semblance of rationality was thrown out the window so adventurers tried to instinctively run away. This only helped them receive a couple of sword wounds to the back or having their spine directly crushed by Brutus and his morning star.
With the simple elimination of Felix, all of the dominoes fell into place. The battle had suddenly turned into nothing more than a cakewalk.
"Ah!" The earthen mage who was used to leisurely defending herself and others was suddenly faced by an onslaught of the undead as the anti-skeletons all finished their designated foes.
The 20 plus skeletons didn't leave any room for rcy as they assaulted the do of earth she hurriedly cast creating holes through mad hacking and vicious pounds.
The petrified adventurer didn't need to fear much longer as Ed walked over to finally eliminate one of his biggest headaches. He simply punched a hole in the structure causing it to almost imdiately crumble.
The skeletons who were originally in a maddened state yearning for the living suddenly turned passive as Ed approached the terrified adventurer. She had long since collapsed on the ground tripping on her robe.
'If you look at I'll feel bad' Ed thought as he borrowed one of the skeleton's swords and pierced her throat.
The room was finally overco with silence. The flickering torches and the clacking bones were the only sound that entered his ears.
'27, not bad' Ed assessed how many of the skeletons survived. The amount was more than half although by a small margin.
Nonetheless, it was an acceptable result for their first fight.
Ed then surveyed the battlefield. So of the corpses were still hung up by the earth. The ground was charred a deep black following Felix's mad outburst. The floor was also painted red by the various pools of blood or the ones coughed in a hacking fit of the least fortunate.
'This is what I did huh…' He glanced at Felix's lifeless corpse and could help but feel… nothing.
[ntal Fortitude has leveled up]
The worst pain ca from the knowledge that he felt nothing.
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