A pool of blood formed from the corpse of the green creature as Arthur slowly laid it down on the ground away from sight. Arthur looked over the knife it had, it wasn’t a proper knife meant for combat. It was more like something you would use to cut food, but it was still sharp enough to stab and that was good enough for Arthur.
‘Now I have a clear path to their leader’ Arthur periodically took quick peeks over the table and only when he was certain that no one was looking did he move closer and closer until the only thing in between the two of them was open space.
Arthur took a deep breath and slowly unsheathed his sword as he readied himself to run towards the leader and kill it. ‘Run up, kill it, and rush the others before killing them as well.’ Arthur thought to himself as he mentally prepared himself, after what felt like hours of encouraging himself he stood up and ran towards the green creature sitting atop the chair.
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The creature looked up at the sound of loud footsteps coming towards him to see something wearing thick metal armor with a very large weapon. Out of pure instinct it jumped out of the way as the thing missed and crushed the chair it was sitting on instead. It quickly turned to face him and readied its weapon once again.
This time it was ready for him to try and dodge and instead of an overhead strike it swung the weapon horizontally and left a deep gash across the creature's chest that started to bleed. But the big tall thing did not stop and it brought the weapon back across from the other way before the creature even had the time to react and left a second larger cut.
This time the green creature fell to the ground and attempted to raise its large knife to defend itself. All it did was delay the inevitable, the creature was beaten by the creature and its weapon like it was holding a club rather than a sword. Eventually the green creature stopped moving and it died. The remaining two green creatures had rushed over to help their leader out of both fear and a desire to take over themselves, but they stopped as they saw their leaders bleeding corpses and the thing standing before it.
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Arthur looked down at the bloodied corpse of the green creature, it almost looked like a wild animal was what killed it rather than him with a sword. And the other two nearby creatures clearly felt the same with how they were looking at it, the knives in their hands slightly shook out of fear and they started to slowly walk away from him.
Arthur turned towards the creatures and raised his sword once again as the creatures shouted and tried to run away, but Arthur was both faster and taller. With his superior strides he quickly caught up and swung his sword down on them with a little more precision this time. In a matter of seconds they were just four dead bodies in the room along with their weapons which Arthur quickly placed on the one upright table in the center of the room.
Now there were just three more of the creatures farther back into the room where they dragged the body. Slowly Arthur followed the train of blood left when they dragged the body until he found what appeared to be a kitchen. It was a rather spacious room with another off to the side that Arthur assumed was a storage for meals and raw ingredients. But the most shocking thing was the three creatures cutting up the body on the one they dragged over.
Using the knives in their possession they sliced off the flesh from the bones and tossed it into a few nearby bowls. Arthur nearby barfed whatever was in his stomach at the mere sight of it, after a moment of heavy breathing he managed to calm himself down enough to keep from gagging.
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‘If I didn’t have any good reason for killing these creatures before, I most certainly do now.’ Arthur raised his sword to his right with both hands on the hilt as he walked towards the three creatures cutting up the body. He nearly managed to walk the whole way before he was spotted just two meters away from the body they were cutting up. The creature that did notice him shouted out when it saw the blood on his sword. They had all heard the screams but had just assumed their leader was stabbing someone else and were just waiting for him to call them over. But this big tall thing had a weapon that was covered with blood, so that ment…
The creature never did get enough time to finish any trail of thought as Arthur brought his sword down again and severed its arm. It fell to the ground screaming and the other two attempted to stab Arthur with their knives, with two clinks the knives harmlessly bounced off and Arthur retaliated with his left fist into the face of the closest one. The second one was not any more lucky as Arthur fixed his grip on the sword and swung from the ground up towards its face, a large cut went across its face as part of its jaw was severed from the rest of its head and it let out a blood curdling scream not unlike that of a child.
With all three of the remaining creatures disabled killing them was of little difficulty, the only problem was how loud they were as they lay on the ground bleeding, but soon enough that was no longer an issue.
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+ 50 Exp
+ 100 Exp
+ 50 Exp
+ 50 Exp
+ 50 Exp
+ 50 Exp
+ 50 Exp
Level up - Level 2
+ 10 Points
+ Long blades Level 0 (New)
+ Long blades Level 1
+ Sneaking Level 0
+ Sneaking Level 1
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The room was now silent and was now filled with the smell of blood and death. Arthur hastily left the room not even willing to bring the knives the creatures used, they had been tainted by being used to cut each other up.
Arthur also left the weapons used by the other four on the one upright table and exited the room, odds were those knives were also used for just as terrible things as cannibalism. The hallway was still clear of any signs of life and Arthur continued on his way towards the right. After what felt like hours of walking past doors, skeletons, and dead bodies of the short green creatures Arthur eventually found something. It was a staircase leading both up and down, and this was exactly what he was looking for.
‘A way out of this place? Finally, I hope this leads all the way up to the entrance because I really don’t want to walk down any more hallways illuminated by glowing crystals anymore.’ Arthur smiled for what felt like the first time in eternity as he began to climb the stairs for whatever was at the top.
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It could have been days or even hours that Arthur walked up those stairs and he would not have been able to tell. But eventually he reached the top and found another albeit small hallway. But this one was far different, for starters it looked like it was once full of traps as there were several skeletons of various sizes along with old arrows, boulders, and even a few weapons sticking out of the walls. But at the opposite end were two large double doors and a large lever off to the side.
Arthur slowly navigated the hallway avoiding anything that might kill him towards the doors and the lever. He first tried to push the doors to see if they would open, but alas they did not. They were either too heavy from the yellowish metal they were made from, or they were locked with some sort of mechanism, likely one connected to the level. As such Arthur then tried to pull the level and managed to get it a quarter way before it got stuck. Arthur tried to push it back but it wouldn’t budge, so he put all his strength into pulling it down and eventually as his arms were starting to go sore the level shot down. As it did Arthur could almost swear he heard a loud hiss and the doors slowly opened giving him access to the outside.