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Chapter 29: Guilt..

I put some [Seal Talismans] outside the door and on the floor, covering the original patterns and runes.

I also took the chance to understand the runes and spells that were used here.

"Do you understand them?"

"Not yet, but I only need to remember them for later."

"Right, your memory."

"Yeah..." Arella and I were the only ones here; the elders are still investigating who tempered with the Great Door.

"Arella, if and only if something happens here, don't doubt going to earth; I will take care of both of you."

"Thank you, Isaac, but Master Azar, give me a responsibility, and I intend to keep it."

"Raven will need her mother."

"And Azarath, a leader."

(Sigh.) "Understood, I will take care of her."

(Giggle) "I know, you will."

******************* 

After two days, I finally decided to leave Azarath. Although Raven wasn't happy, she understood why, and having Nayru by her side helped a lot.

"You're leaving.." 

"Yes, little sister, don't forget to listen to your mother, and if anything happens, Nayru will tell me, and I will come, ok?"

I remember when she was just a little girl; now she is a lot more mature and, best of all, a little more expressive.

"Yeah." She looked a little down.

"Good." I just put my right hand in her head.

 *Pat* *pat*

{Take care of her, Nayru}

~Yes, Master~ 

I turned around and walked to the portal. I had already said my goodbyes to the elders and Arella.

The destination of my portal was my old room on the Kent farm. Stepping out of it, I got rid of my robes and put on more casual clothes.

"It's that you, Isaac?" I heard my mom downstairs.

"Yes, mom!!"

 "Come here" 

"Coming!!" Some things don't change.

Going downstairs, I saw my mother baking something.

{By the smell, I guess cookies?}

 "Cookies?"

"That's correct; these are for a charity event here in Smallville."

"I see"

"How have you been, my boy?" She looked at me in the eyes.

"Pretty well, mom; although some things have been hard, it's not something I cannot take."

"I'm glad," she said, grabbing my hands.

*Smile* 

"indeed..." 

*Creack*

The front door just opened, and my father came to the house.

"Isaac, how are you doing, son?"

"Hha.ha..ha..pretty well, dad."

"What?" 

************** 

I only stayed two days with my parents; after all, I was just there to check on them, but I got useful information about Clark.

{Everything has been smooth sailing for my brother}

He is soon graduating from Metropolis College, and according to my parents, he will get a degree in journalism there too.

{So i got two or three years top, until he applies to the daily planet, and soon he will become superman, not much time left...}

"I need to pick up the pace with the dungeons."

***** 

After a couple of days of resting and reading, I finally decided to go to the dungeon. I'm in one of the many houses that I own.

{My first expert dungeon, and I guess it will be more difficult.}

[Necropolis Dungeon Key (lvl. 35–lvl. 45)]

{Necropolis, so undead, and maybe even litchy or dark mages. I need to prepare some light runes and talismans}

After preparing the runes, talismans, and potions, I used the [Dungeon Key] to open the door of the bathroom.

In a flash of light, I was transported to somewhere else. I was on the floor with my eyes closed, but my other senses worked perfectly.

I smelled something moist, something old, something... rotten.

{Well, this is the first time that this happens}

I tried to move my arms, and I could move them, but barely. That's how I knew that my eyes weren't closed; instead, I was in a dark, closed space.

{Maybe a coffin or a box, well first [Dark Vision]..} Now that I can see better, I was indeed in a sealed box, unfortunately.

{Hmm...why am I here like this?}

"Wherever, let me get out of here first."

*Crack*

 *Fwip* 

*Crash* 

The top of the box was cut in two, and one of the parts went flying, impacting itself on a wall.

I observed my surroundings, and I noticed that I'm in an old house with a bunch of rotten corpses on the floor.

"Lovely ..." 

************

 POV Eric

{It was my fault}

Our party arrived at the Necropolis City of Aldur. Here,  our mission is to recuperate the elixir of life that the [Elder Litch Rathaar] stole from Yssar.

{It was my fault}

We had traveled for three days straight, so we are taking a rest outside of the city.

"What's the plan, Eric?" Tannya, the new addition to our party,

"Plain and simple, we locate the litch, kill it, and recover the elixir."

"I second that plan."

"Thanks, Guts"

"Boys, please be more tactical; are we going to fight the entire city?"

"If that's necessary, yes!"

"That's suicide, Eric, and you know that."

"Then you have a better plan, Mary!" Without realizing it, I was raising my voice to the point of screaming at her.

"I'm sorry, Mary."

{It was my fault.}

 "...."

 *Clap* 

"Ok, everyone is tired. Let's go to sleep. I will take the first guard."

"Thank you, Tannya." I stood up and went to my tent.

After a couple of hours, Guts woke me up to replace him, not that I could sleep much either.

I still remember that day as if it were yesterday. Why did took that decision? I knew something was wrong. Why?

{It was my fault}

I took a seat at the campfire, and apparently I was the last on guard, because after a couple of hours I could see the sun rise on the horizon.

"Did you sleep, Eric?" I looked to the side, and I saw Tannya.

"A little. I'm worried about our mission."

"That's all you are worried about?"

"Yes, that's all."

"You stink at lying, you know." She took a seat next to me.

"I killed her. Tannya. I killed Ari."

********* 

*Aaarww* 

*Raagghhrrt*

 *Crac..crac..crac*

{This is a horror movie with zombies and skeletons everywhere. I hate the smell and the sounds.}

Luckily, I put my usual talismans for infiltration. I have been exploring this city for a couple of hours now, and I still can't find my objectives.

 [Dungeon Quests] 

[Skeleton Warrior killed 0/10]

[Gouls killed 0/15]

[Litch killed 0/5]

{I guess I need to keep looking}

I moved closer to the center of the city. This city was big—not as big as a modern one—but I'm pretty sure that it can have at least ten thousand citizens at once.

The architecture remains to me of medieval Europe; it had a grand cathedral and, I assume, a governor house in the middle.

 *RAARRRWWWAARRGGH*

I heard commotion in the outer layer of the city, fighting, and that fighting was agitating the horde of zombies and skeletons.

 *Thud* 

*Thud*

 *Thud* 

They were marching to the origin of the sound; whoever they were, they are fu***d, but then I received a notification...

[Random Quest]

[Help the party kill the Elder Litch 0/1]

{F**k}


Chapter 30: RuneCrafting

The undead, according to the magic on earth, were a product of death magic, soul magic, and life magic.

I don't think it's any different in this world either, so this presents a wonderful opportunity for me to study those three runes.

My [runecrafting] skill allows me to comprehend, manipulate, and bind concepts.

To be precise, my skill allows me to comprehend [Elementary Runes], [Body Runes], [Cosmic Runes], [Chaos Runes], [Order Runes], [Law Runes], [Life Runes], and [Death Runes].

Each of them consists of various runes on themselves, so an extensive amount of runes. That's why my skill is only at level 10; it's slow progress.

*********** 

I didn't interfere with the horde or the party of adventures, at least not yet.

*Slash* 

*Crack* 

*Crash* 

*Raaaghh*

I don't think they even need it at this point; I can see bodies of zombies flying and skeletons getting crushed to dust by only two male adventures.

One of the adventures was wearing shiny knight armor with a metallic medium-sized shield and a platinum sword, while the other had leather armor with fur and a colossal sword made out of metal and metallic-like bones.

At the back of those two were two female adventures, one with a white robe and a golden scepter, while the other had a very reveling leather armor that only covered her breasts and pelvis, with two green daggers at her sides.

{I think I know those four, but where's the Archer girl?}

I decide to lend them a hand at this point; after all, the horde is getting bigger, not smaller.

{[Rock Golem]+[Minor Protection]+[Enhance]+[Light Rune]}

In the middle of the horde of zombies and skeletons, a giant golden rock golem came to be, alerting the party of four to my interference.

 *Raaawwwrgg*

My golem used [threat] like always, getting the horde attention, and it shows in how they began to attack my golem, which in response just started swinging its arms around.

 *Fwip* 

*Crash*

 *Crack*

 *Raaawfggg*

{My turn, [Boost]+[Cracking Lance (Light Infused)], [Flame Pillar (Light Infused)]}

 *Boom* 

*tzi..tzi..tzi* 

*Hhuuuagh*

 "Arrggghhr" 

I devastated the field with my spells, destroying buildings along with zombies and skeletons.

{I'm not done yet, [Fireball(Light Infused)]x10} I covered my vision with fireballs, which I immediately launched at the horde.

 *Boom*x10 

"Arrggghhr" 

"Rraaawwrr" 

I made enough room for the party to reach my position.

"We really need to stop meeting like this, guys."

"Oh, Isaac, it's been a while." (Mary)

 "Isaac...."(Eric) 

"Hmm"(Guts) 

"We see each other again, mage" (Tanny

"We need to move from here; the horde is getting bigger; let's go; put this on your clothes."

I handed them [conceal talismans] and [silent talismans] for each one of them.

We all put the two talismans, and using my golem as bait, we booked to the inner part of the city, to a big house.

I cancelled my golem. {[Haste]+[Rock Golem], there you go, I refreshed it}

Now that we are all in the house, I can properly see it. It was old, the furniture was decaying, and the walls were molding, but beside that, it was intact.

Now, I can finally chat with them.

"So, what's going on? Why are you guys here?"

"We are looking for something." (Eric) 

"Oh, what is it?"

"The elixir of life..." (Mary) 

{Now that I look at them, they look tired, and this atmosphere is depressing. Something happened, and I guess it has something to do with the Archer girl}

"For the Archer girl?"

"Her name is Ari!" (Guts) The big guy said it in a low, threatening voice.

{Bingo} 

"What happened, Tannya?" I focus my sight on the dark elf with a reveling outfit.

*Sigh* 

"Ari was ambushed in a trap set by the Demon Race; she suffered a fatal wound. A friend of ours tried to treat her, but he said that the only cure was the..."

"Elixir of Life"

"Correct," she said, taking a seat on the floor.

"That's why we are here, and you, Isaac?" Mary asked as she tried to sit on one of the decayed wooden chairs in the house.

"Extermination Quests, to be precise, [Ghouls], [Skeleton Warriors], and [Litchs]," I answered as I sat on one of the smelly sofas.

The big guy, Guts only leaned on one of the walls of the house, while Eric was still standing in the middle of the living room.

{Hmm... something is going on with him}

"Are you ok, Eric?"

"I'm...." "No, he's not," said Tannya, interrupting our conversation.

 "...Tannya!!" 

"What? You're not okay, and everyone here knows it."

"You.." "She's right, Eric; I know how you feel, but you're not useful to us like that." (Mary)

"Ok, stop. Tell me what really happened."

 *Sigh*

"We received intel that a cult had a nexus with some demons, and according to the intel, they were low-level scum, but..." . Mary was the one who answered me this time.

"It was a trap."

"Yes, not only Ari was on that mission; several knights, warriors, and priests were there. Only five of them survived; Ari was fatally wounded; as for the others, they were missing limbs."

"And what is the reason for his behavior?" I point at Eric.

"I think he blames himself; after all, he authorized the mission, and he was the one who reviewed the intelligence."

"I knew that something was wrong. Why f**k!" He dropped to his knees and started to punch the floor hard.

 "Stop!! You're going to alert the horde; Tannya, restraint him!!

Soon Tannya and even Guts held Eric; he didn't have the strength to fight back.

"Put it on the sofa." I stood up for them to put him on the sofa I was on.

He went limp; apparently he was sleeping.

"He hasn't slept well."

"Yeah..."(Tannya)

"Well, let's take a rest; we can talk later." I went to the other sofa.

"Thank you, Isaac(Mary)

 ***************** 

{Guilt, huh, Indeed, if I were in his position, I will feel the same}

It has been a couple of hours since Eric fell asleep, and I have been capturing zombies and skeletons for studying.

I first put on each of them a [silence talisman]. To not alert other zombies and skeletons, then I used [Binding] to extract the concept; after that, I used [Infusion] to trap the concept into my tool, a [Runic Carver]; and lastly, I used the [Carving] skill to draw the rune anywhere I wanted.

The process is slow, but the pay-up is huge [Runecrafting (LVL.11)] and a free rune, and depending on the concept and rune, I can use different effects.

"What an interesting thing, are you doing there?" (Tannya)

{Hmm?} I turned around only to see the four of them watching how I was working with the undead.

"I need all the experience I can get; runecrafting is hard, after all."

"Indeed, that profession, along with artistry, is hard to master." (Mary) 

The four of them moved closer to where I was.

"So, are we ready to move?"

"?"x4 

{Ha, they thought I would not accompany them}

"We need to get an Elixir, don't we?"

"This is our quest, Isaac; I cannot ask you to do this." (Eric) 

"You didn't; I'm doing it because I want to, so let's go." I destroyed the captured zombies and skeletons, and I joined their party.

 *******

"Do you have any idea where this elixir is?" We are currently moving stealthily in the city, trying not to get the attention of the horde.

"Yes, an Elder Litch has it" (Eric)

{So, that's why the random quest said that}

"Then what about this elder litch?"

"No, we only know his name.(Mary)

"Hmm, there are two probable places that he could be."

"The cathedral or the governor's house" (Tannya)

"Correct" 

"Stop," said our big friend Guts.

"What is it?"

"Look," he pointed in front of him. On the streets in front of us, we saw two different types of zombies: skeletons.

For the zombies, one of them has gray skin and long red claws; the other has many zombies fused together on his body.

As for the skeletons, one of them was wearing armor, and the others were wearing robes.

"We found your warriors and ghouls, Isaac." (Tannya)

"What about the other two?"

"Zombie Blob" and [Skeleton Mage" (Mary)

 "Great..." 

"What's the plan, Eric?" I looked at the party leader.

"They are too many for us to take them head on; we need a distraction, but first we need to decide where to go—the cathedral or Governor House."

"I say Cathedral" (Mary

"Why is that, Mary?" (Tannya) 

"For this to happen, you need to corrupt the land itself,"

"That's correct, Isaac; the elder litch is a powerful mage that corrupted this land more than a hundred years ago." (Mary)

"What does that have to do with the cathedral?" (Guts) 

"The cathedral's a beacon of light; if you don't get rid of it, you can't corrupt this land, right, Mary?"

"Yes, Eric, that's correct."

"It's decided then to go to the cathedral. As for the distraction, let me be the one; after all, I need to complete my quests first."

"..."x4 

"Now go; I will be there later, and don't die before I come to you guys, understood?"

"Yes, thank you, Isaac.(Eric)

 "Thank you"(Mary) 

"Hmm"(Guts) 

"Don't die; you still owe me one" (Tannya

"Yeah, yeah." They went past me in the direction of the cathedral.

{Ok, it's showtime}

 


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