With the door opening by itself, the tension was imdiately heightened. This was felt by everyone present. Even the previously confident magician couldn't help but crease their brows.
True confidence was opening your door knowing there was an attack, not in surrender, but afraid that the idiots attacking would wreck your nice door. For so reason, every adventurer present felt that the undead was taking them lightly.
"Stay sharp" One of the party leaders muttered audibly to his party mbers.
"We might be strangers but let's try and get so teamwork, ok!?!" Another shouted.
"""Yeah!""" Everyone agreed.
"Ok, those with shields upfront, swordsman close behind, finally magicians at the back!" The other person continued. Surprisingly enough, there was no dispute about following the orders.
The people here were not needlessly proud, they were young and reckless but they appeared to have a good head on their shoulders. If they were cunning enough to plot against one another, they were smart enough to have their priorities straight.
The adventurers re-arranged themselves accordingly when a young man at the back suddenly spoke up.
"Wait! I can use the sense spell!" He shouted from the back. Everyone else seed to instantly beco elated, this was a good magician! So party leaders were even eyeing him as a potential adventurer to poach.
The C-class magician who said he had a great plan ca up to the front. Two adventurers wearing knightly armor quickly stood in front of him to protect him. The magician could now use sense past the portcullis with peace of heart.
"Da- Damn!" The magician said, widening their eyes. Suddenly an attack ca hurling at them.
"Arrows!" The knights promptly grew closer to one another and braced themselves. The magician behind them was to be kept 100% safe!
The arrows pelted the shields, causing the knights to grunt. This was a surprisingly strong attack all things considered.
"Th- This is the rumored freak skeleton!" The human adventurers were not great at naming it seed, but no one thought of a better na than freak skeleton and it got around all the sa.
The magician's sense spell was no longer needed with the skeletons showing themselves, but he didn't step back.
"That must be the arrow arm!" They shouted having been done their howork. The freak skeletons could be siphoned into subcategories or more like nicknas. The arrow arms were freak skeletons with an arm integrated into a bow.
The magician then muttered so chants and quickly cast the sense spell. The location of the arrow arm skeleton was highlighted in his mind thanks to the power of the wind. He pointed his elegant-looking black gold staff towards a wall inside the fortified room.
"Move aside!" The knights made an opening and a blade of wind cut forward sharply. As soon as it landed on the wall, the blade of wind created a large gash. This caused the wall to collapse and reveal the arrow arm in full.
At this point, the shield warriors and swordsman then all took the lead and ran past him.
"Wait-! The ceiling!" The magician then shouted, having cast the sense spell again.
"""ROAR!!!""" Skeletons fell from the roof roaring viciously. The warriors were stunned on the spot by the skill.
"Tsk!" The magicians behind the warriors hastily cast a variety of elental shields. The skeletons fell right on it and stuck to it like monster bugs on a shield.
The adventurers persevered past the macabre sense of fear the skeletons instilled and quickly launched a counterattack. This involved lots of sword-swinging and spell-slinging, but they eventually got everything under control.
"Phew…" The battle was over.
"he, I thought you had a plan" One of the magician's party mbers said putting down their sword exhausted.
"Well…" The magician's mouth curved into a smile, "Maybe we just didn't need it" He said in response.
They took so serious damage with only 2 parties remaining intact. There were about 13 actual adventurers left, so in mourning and others looking forward to the treasure. With his plan, the numbers might have looked a bit better.
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Now it was finally ti to collect and distribute the spoils.
"These bones are rather sturdy…. tallic almost…" Soone said looking poking at one of the scattered limbs.
Another adventurer grabbed the bow arm of the arrow arm as they dubbed it and tested the string's tensile strength and other small details.
"It lost a few strands…" Bowstrings were usually made up of multiple strands. For this bow, so of them had been broken in combat but if those were replaced it could still fetch a decent price.
[Broken Bow Arm (Armant Skeleton)]
In the distance, Ed was observing the actions of the adventurers with so hesitation.
'Should I kill them?' Reforming the skeletons would be much harder if they started breaking them apart. But after so ticulous thinking, Ed fell on sothing.
'I guess I'll let them go' He hadn't made many raid forts, this one was the first outpost. That ant Survivor and the others were murdered.
'Luckily I happened to pass by' He would obviously spawn where he last left his body so the trip to this fort was sothing he did of his own volition.
But back to the topic at hand, letting the adventurers go was for the best. Since he made few outposts, their fa was likely low. The parts mixed in the system were also good quality materials, but he could only get more interesting and better mixes if more adventurers ca in. It was just in his best interest.
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The dungeon had recently told him not to let go of any intruders, yet Ed had already failed to rember. Similarly, the 3 dots alert was also quickly forgotten by Ed. Well, it was more like it never even entered his mind. Ed just started to make his way back to the main outpost, the place where he would grow his legion.
'They were supposed to gather more skeletons for ' He would be able to make a lot of armant skeletons then.
'Wait, that reminds … weren't those regular skeletons roaring?' Ed thought, reminding himself to check the skills of the armant skeletons when he had the chance. It had to be so sort of leadership skill.
'Maybe one that inspires other skeletons' Ed muttered inwardly as he continued to adeptly make his way around.
Knowing the crypt like the back of his hands, Ed had just about made it to his destination.
"AAAARGH!!!" Ed suddenly heard the cry of a man and his senses were instantly heightened. There were adventurers attacking!
He quickly ran down the last few corridors and turned towards the fortified room's entry hall. There he saw a man crushed onto a wall.
"ROOOOOOAAARRR!!!" The juggernaut that was Hulk had just turned the man into a paste before letting out a vicious roar and charging out towards another party of adventurers.
anwhile, other skeletons were also getting so real work in. Blaze was turning people into human torches and Trench was giving people an early grave.
The likes of Scavenger and Zephyr were darting about quickly stabbing and poking at the adventurers in intense conflicts. All the skeletons were working together to eliminate what appeared to be less than 40 or so adventurers.
'Wow' Ed was really quite amazed by the size of the party. It turned out the popularity of the dungeon had grown past his expectations. It also highlighted an issue though.
'There are really a lot of humans huh' The maps he learned from the book he assimilated painted wide expanses and flourishing kingdoms but for there to be so many adventurers in a single area… it was simply unexpected.
The raids against him made sense to him, but such numbers to raid a simple fort he made...
'They could be coming from other places but it's just likely not worth the effort' Ed thought as he spectated the battle which was reaching its climax. The humans were being eliminated and as soon as so of them tried to flee, they were t by an exterior army of regular white skeletons.
They weren't enough to kill anyone, but they slowed the running enemies just enough to be killed from behind. The skeletons Ed had created were growing rather rapidly.
'I should upgrade them so more' If he was a father, he was a distant father. Though often present, he was still sohow absent. With his distance, he couldn't claim they were learning from him yet...
'I still feel sowhat proud' But the bloody scene of crushed bodies and torched corpses quickly brought Ed back to reality. Hulk was now red hulk thanks to the splattered blood.
'Do I need to install showers here?' Ed jested before making his presence known to the skeletons. They all stopped what they were doing and bowed with great respect.
'Hmmm… I should be more careful now' Ed thought to himself realizing that he had sohow missed this powerful force of adventurers. It was now more clear than ever what he had to do.
'Ti to make many more skeletons' The dungeon was too large for him to comb through it alone. He would need many new friends to help manage it.
Ed's imagination was quickly taking flight and all sorts of new skeletons entered and left his mind. The vision of the dungeon being slowly turned into a hub of people made Ed flash a daring smile.
'I can't wait to see what they'll bring in the future' The adventurers were probably not expecting that they were the ones being fard by Ed.
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