Chapter 25: Teamwork
Skeleton soldier was here because it could sense the killer who had killed one of his members, was beneath that tree but seeing 5 humans suddenly appearing from there, it stopped.
Both skeleton soldier and skeleton warrior had the same strength, the only difference was that the skeleton soldier had some memory of it before dying while a skeleton warrior didn't.
Since they had some memory from before, most of them prefer gathering instead of wandering alone.
When two or more skeleton created a group, they elected their leader, who could get a sight of the killer, if member skeletons were killed.
If dying skeleton could sacrifice its whole body, then it could mark its killer for an hour.
After that leader could track it, by easily following that mark and that was how this skeleton found Zynx, though he was inside the invisibility barrier.
Mortal skeleton soldier had intelligence similar to 8-year-old while Level-1(Earth realm) had that of 9 years old. He was level-2(Earth realm) so his intelligence could be compared with 10 years old.
With 10 years old brain and his past experience, he could conclude that among five of them, the only wizard was at level-1(Earth realm), others were at just mortal realm.
If he could get that wizard, then killing other would be easy.
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When 5 of them got out from invisibility barrier, knight and the young boy holding dagger began running at skeleton soldier, followed by spear user and behind them was wizard and archer.
After realizing that, the skeleton was just standing still, knight slashed at its head with the sword he was holding. Skeleton blocked that attacked by the sword it was holding in its right hand and attacked knight with the left hand.
Although Knight was fighting with earth realm, since skeleton had low agility compare to same realm monster, so he easily blocked it with a shield.
The young boy had never seen earth realm fighting, so when he saw knight not falling back while fighting with earth realm, he thought he could also do that as he was only little away from leveling up to earth realm.
He then lunged toward skeleton neck from behind with dagger he was holding, trying to get some merits.
When his dagger was 5 cm away from skeleton neck, he saw it rotating its head and looking at him and kicking him at right part of the chest, knocking him away.
He started coughing blood after halting as his chest was caved in. He was sure at least 5 ribs were broken.
He tried to get up but couldn't, so he crawled away from the skeleton.
Skeleton wanted to finish wounded one first, but he knew he would die if he was to neglect other because when it was focusing at the young boy, it got hit by spear cracking 2 ribs and arrow from archer hit his leg.
After hitting skeleton soldier one time, spear user pulled it out and push it at the same spot, trying to completely break it because if you didn't break it, then it could heal that cracked bone in short time.
Before spear user could land another hit, skeleton pushed back knight and blocked spear with sword and attempted to attack it with another hand but skeleton saw arrow from the archer, moving straight toward his eye, so it blocked it with that hand.
Skeleton took back the sword and swing it vertically towards spear user. Spear user dodged it by jumping left, but he was weaker than the knight, so he could not completely dodge it, it made the large cut from soldier to the elbow.
Skeleton wanted to follow up with another attack but it got knocked down to the ground because of shield attack from the knight.
Skeleton was in the process of standing up, but then he heard sound from the earth realm wizard.
"Mana Shot !!"
Mana started to gather around the staff of wizard and after gathering a certain amount, it got fire towards the skeleton, with the speed of 50 m/s hitting its neck, completely disintegrating it.
Wizard was only at level-1, so he could only shot maximum of 3 mana shot. Each mana shot needs huge mana and its speed was slow, so he was waiting for the right opportunity.
Due to wizard attacked, skeleton soldier head got separated from its body so fire from its eye only burned down its head.
After defeating skeleton soldiers, 4 of them collected information parchment from it and returned, completely ignoring injured young boy.
When they got inside, Hari ran towards his son. He could see his son getting injured, but he didn't move at that time because his task was to watch over Zynx. Hari didn't dare to disregard the order, as both his and his son life was on the hand of the wizard.
Hari arrived at his son and carried him back inside barrier and started nursing his wounds.
From what Zynx saw, he understood these humans was much more powerful than him, as they could defeat the skeleton soldier who killed his poison ward in a single hit and more than their power, he was impressed by their teamwork if he neglected that young boy.
As the fight had finished, the wizard was studying Zynx. Zynx became nervous as a single sentence from wizard could get him killed.
"Hank, find out its poison quality."
Knight nodded. He approached Zynx and took out metal gloves from storage pouch, hanging on his waist.
He opened Zynx cage and caught Zynx head, then forcefully open his mouth and placed jar near Zynx fang.
Zynx knew they only wanted to test his poison, so he didn't resist, even though he was in distressed because of metallic hand on his head.
Zynx didn't know how they would check the quality of poison, but he released about 10 ml of concentrated poison inside the jar as he needed to show his usefulness.
Knight then gave that poison to the archer. Archer dipped arrow inside the jar, which absorbed all poison leaving nothing behind.
Archer then shot that arrow towards the patrolling bone penetrating ants little far from the barrier, penetrating its skull and killing it.
[Level: 4/5(94.2%)]
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