Chapter 4: Separated
Lewis Stopped the Humvee as the road ahead was blocked by abandoned vehicles. Lewis looked closer and saw that there was some sort of wreck which meant that Lewis could not go this way by vehicle, before Lewis could turn around the roar of the M2 came to life. Lewis looked at the dwarf who was focused on what was in front of him. Lewis looked to the front of them and saw that there were a medium size group of kobolds using the abandoned vehicles as cover.
Lewis turned the Humvee sideways before opening the door and leaving, Lewis pulled his M17 out of the holster and began to aim at the kobolds. The two gnomes followed Lewis's lead and left the Humvee and used it as cover as they prepared for combat. Lewis's leg ached as he stood behind the Humvee, he looked at the two gnomes and they saw the pain look in Lewis and they both knew what was happening.
The first gnome Lewis walked over to Lewis trying to get him to sit in the Humvee, but Lewis refused the gnome's gesture and continued to watch as the dwarf fired at the kobolds. The group watched as one kobold stood up onto a truck's hood just for its chest to explode into a rain of blood as the 50 caliber bullet pierced the kobold's chest leaving a fist-sized hole. Blood sprayed out like a fountain, and the Kobold stumbled a few steps backwards before falling down, leaving a pool of blood on the surroundings before making a pool underneath the lifeless body.
The group's eyes widened at the sight as this was the first time witnessing the effect of the M2 on a live target. The other kobolds paused in place as they watched what the M2 did to one of their comrades, they were horrified until one kobold used the death of their own as an opening and leaped into the opening starting to cast a spell. Lewis looked to the kobold as a bright red fireball began to form.
Lewis looked to the Dwarf who was in a state of shock after seeing the damage the M2 caused. Lewis yelled to the dwarf to shoot the mage but the dwarf was unresponsive as he stared at the gruesome scene of blood. Lewis did not hesitate as jumped onto the hood of the Humvee and took control of the M2 and turned it towards the mage. Lewis was too late the mage was done casting and the kobold shot the fireball towards them.
Lewis grabbed the dwarf and dragged him out by the collar of his armor before jumping off the Humvee and landing on his stomach. Not even a minute later the Humvee was engulfed in flames as it was lifted off the ground. Lewis held the dwarf down to the ground as the Humvee went over them, one of the doors flung off and smacked into the second gnome making him drop his sword and shield.
The first gnome was swift enough to avoid the flying debris and ran over to the downed gnome who was now unconscious, the gnome dragged the other one away from the burning wreck as Lewis scrambled to his dropped M17. The dwarf was laying on the ground in surprise before regaining his composure and went over to help with the unconscious gnome, the gnome, and dwarf lifted their friend and began to run in the opposite direction of the kobolds.
Lewis picked up his firearm and ran to the group trying to catch up as arrows landed just short of him. The shouts of the kobolds made Lewis and the group run faster as the kobolds ran at full speed towards them. There were more than 30 kobolds in hiding, and they all came out from behind the vehicles and began to run after Lewis and his group some even launching arrows while the kobold mage started casting another spell.
Lewis yelled to the gnome and dwarf, "Turn right down the alley, and don't stop till you find somewhere that looks safe!" The dwarf and gnome looked at Lewis giving him a nod. The alley came and they turned as they did they heard the sound of Lewis's pistol and saw as he continued to run forwards completely missing the turn. The two of them were about to turn around till they saw Lewis give them a pain-filled smile as he soon left the view of the alley.
The two of them hid behind a wall in the alley and saw the kobold group all run by and in the distance heard the sound of Lewis's gun still firing getting further and further away. As the sound of fighting was no longer heard, the two of them continued to carry the unconscious gnome down the alley for another 30 minutes before arriving at the end of the alley. They went onto the road and continued to carry the gnome until they saw a house that had no signs of damage done, they walked to the door and tried to turn the knob and noticed it was locked, and at closer inspection, it seemed the building had its windows closed and possibly barricaded from the inside.
The two looked at each other and sat the unconscious gnome down, The gnome unsheathed its sword as the dwarf walked to the door and gave it a gentle knock. There was no response so the dwarf gave it another knock, they waited in silence as they prepared for anything. The two of them looked at each other and the gnome lowered his sword before a voice spoke behind them.
"What the fuck are you?" An older voice asked. The two of them raised their hands and the gnome dropped his sword, the voice spoke again, "now that's new. . . you arent like the rest are ya?" The voice asked and the two of them nodded. "You even understood me?" the voice said in surprise before speaking again "why are you here? Maybe you are here to kill me and my family is that it!" the voice said loudly and before it could continue speaking the dwarf pointed to the unconscious gnome.
The voice went silent, and the dwarf and gnome could tell whoever it was they were now looking at their unconscious friend. "I better not regret this, pick them up and come inside." The two of them were surprised but followed the voice's orders and picked up their friend and the gnome picked up the sword and sheathed it.
The two of them turned around while carrying the other gnome, and saw the owner of the voice was a male who was probably in his 30s holding a rifle. the man lead them to the back and he opened the door and they entered. The man placed the rifle on the kitchen table "I can carry your friend just sit down there," he pointed to the kitchen table. they listenend as the man picked up the gnome and walked into the living room laying him on the couch.
The dwarf looked to the gnome, "what if they are not friendly?" The gnome looked at him "we have no choice Pelup is hurt" the dwarf looked in the direction where the couch was and nodded. "What about Lewis? he could be de--" before he could finish the gnome shouted "NO!" the dwarf looked at him in surprise. The gnome continued "Lewis is not dead Thavrac. . . Lewis is fine he is safe and is most likely on his way out of this strange city." Thavrac looked to the gnome and spoke "You are right Wiltor he probably found a new steel horse and is already gone." The two of them laughed at the thought.
Wiltor was about to say something but was interrupted by the man returning, but he was not alone this time. With him was a woman around the same age and three children, two boys and a girl the first boy had to be younger maybe 13 while the other was in his late teens while the girl was at most maybe 10 or 11. The two younger kids were sacred as they stood behind their parents. The teenager's eyes widened at the sight of the two of them.
"Why did you bring a dwarf and a gnome here father?" He asked his father who responded "so that's what they are" the father said with a laugh before speaking again. "Your friend is not too badly hurt it seems he may just get a bruise but besides that, he is just unconscious" Wilitor and Thavrac both looked at each other happily as they stood up giving the family a thumbs up. The father smiled as the rest of the family were now calm as they saw the two of them were no threat.
The family talked to the two of them asking questions and Wiltor and Thavrac gave a thumbs up or down or just shook their heads. soon after the family got done asking questions Wiltor looked at them and cleared his throat, "c. . can. . . wgh. . . staz. . . hure. . . fo. . .nah. . ." Wilitor tried to ask the family in the best English he could say, from listening to Lewis and the soldiers.
The family looked at Wiltor not saying a word and at first, the two of them thought he said something bad, but before they could apologize the young girl ran over giving the gnome a hug. Wiltor looked up in surprise and the girl laughed as she spoke "can we keep them they are so cute!" The father responded "you three can stay here for as long as you need" and the family began to continue with what they were doing before Wiltor and Thavrac arrived.
The girl stopped hugging Wiltor and ran over to her mother who was going upstairs, Wiltor looked to Thavrac "Dont ever tell anyone that I got hugged like a teddybear" Wiltor patted his clothes noticing that he had gotten the girl's clothes dirty with mud and dried blood. The mother led her upstairs where they disappeared, Thavrac nodded to Wiltor and they were about to check on Pelup but the teenager stepped in front of them. "Sorry about her she is still young" he paused for a minute before continuing "I did not ask this earlier but was that explosion you guys or did it involve you?" The boy asked and the father turned to see their response.
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"y. . Yas. . .Our human fwend. . . Distwacted kobold. . . And led dem. . A. . Away. . .We wan teh fen hum. ." Wiltor replied, the father then spoke "he is probably dead" he said bluntly. Wiltor's face grew angry and Thavrac placed a hand on his shoulder calming him down. The two of them gave the father a thumbs down before Wiltor spoke "he is strung" Wiltor said.
The conversations ended and the two of them followed the family helping out wherever they could as they waited for Pelup to recover.
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Lewis looked at the dwarf and gnome as they looked at him about to run to help him, he gave them the best smile he could as the pain in his leg got stronger before continuing to run down the road. Lewis left the three of them in the Alley and fired at the approaching kobolds trying to slow them down, but all he did was waste his precious ammo. At least it kept the kobold's attention on him and not the others.
As Lewis continued to run an explosion erupted behind him as the mage missed his second fireball. Arrows landed all around him and they got closer every time, he saw another alley and turned down it trying to lose the kobolds. He knew though that it would take more than that and he saw them enter the alley behind him Lewis fired two more rounds down the small alley and hit one of the kobolds killing it In its track. Lewis's pain got worse and was forced to limp as the pain took control of his whole leg after limping a few times he fell down onto his stomach, he turned to his back and saw the kobolds get only a few feet away he aimed and pulled the trigger and fear filled Lewis as all that Lewis heard were clicking as his gun ran out of ammo.
Lewis was scared he looked for anything around him only to see garbage and rocks as he reached for a decent-sized rock a kobold smacked Lewis with a club making him fall to his back, Lewis's vision went blurry as the kobold swung again smashing into his chest making Lewis lose his breath. Lewis's vision unblurred and he saw the kobold had stopped hitting him and he was now surrounded by the rest of the group who were all now standing looking at something.
Lewis finally saw the thing they were looking at, it was the mage. The kobold mage walked over to Lewis and stopped above him and it inspected Lewis, once it was done it gave Lewis a grin as he spoke in the strange language to the other kobolds. Lewis then saw the Kobolds give a cheer as six kobolds walked over to Lewis and began to lift him up, Lewis was going to try to resist but he could not move as his body had no strength left.
"What do they plan on doing to me?" Was all that Lewis could think as he fell unconscious.
Lewis opened his eyes to discover he was alone in a cell. Lewis looked around and saw that there was light coming through a barred window above him just out of arm's reach, he continued to look around and soon he knew where he was. He was in a holding cell at one of the police departments. Lewis saw he was cuffed and had nothing but his clothes. Lewis sat on the bed and waited for an hour and realized they are probably not going to be back for a bit.
Lewis was bored looking at the wall and there was no one outside of his cell, he paced back and forth a few times before once again sitting down on the bed. Lewis just hoped that the gnomes and dwarf are doing better than he was. Lewis remembered that he did not bring the book with him when he left the apartments. "just great now how am I supposed to see my information." As Lewis thought that the book appeared out of thin air and landed on his hands.
"Well that's convenient" Lewis whispered as he opened the book with both of his cuffed hands to read if anything had changed.
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Summoner Class Details
Summoner Level: 2
Level Up after achieving 25 summon kills against hostile beings
Level Up after achieving 5 total summons active
Level Up after achieving 1 home for summoned beings
Level Up after achieving 2 Summonable Beings
Level Up after achieving 1 ability
Summon Amount: 3/5
Forgotten | Highdim Mountain Dwarf | Warrior
Forgotten | Greenbel Forest Gnome | Hunter-Gatherer
Forgotten | Greenbel Forest Gnome | Warrior
Beings Available: 1/2
Forest Gnome
Spells Available: 1/3
100MP Summon Forest Gnome
Abilities available: 0/3
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Lewis
Classes: 1/1
Summoner
Mana: 100/100 Mana Regen 0.01/min
Skills available: 2
Arcane Arts
Basic Summoning
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Lewis looked at the new information and he could now disable all the descriptions on the things he had already read, So he did just that. Lewis also saw there were now new details for him to read over. He also saw he had completed some of the tasks given to him, and as he was looking at the information again a message appeared before his vision.
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Gift for passing level 1
Congrats on surpassing level 1!
You have received a one-time gift to celebrate this accomplishment.
You have received the following. . . . .
100 Max Mana. . .
+5 Max Summons. . .
+1 gnome every 24 hours. . .
Book of Knowledge is now integrated with the owner. . .
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Lewis's chin dropped as he read what the message said, the book suddenly evaporated into thin air and soon there was now even more text in front of him. Instead of a book, there was now a panel that had all the information that the book had.
The only thing that was different was there were now tabs on the side for his class details and tabs for other pages. This also included his tasks and everything else. Lewis went through the pages to see if the reward was true and sure enough it was all there. Lewis looked at his updated details and read over them once again.
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Summoner Class Details
Summoner Level: 2
Level Up after achieving 50 summon kills against hostile beings
Level Up after achieving 5 total summons active
Level Up after achieving 1 home for summoned beings
Level Up after achieving 2 Summonable Beings
Level Up after achieving 1 ability
Summon Amount: 3/10
Forgotten | Highdim Mountain Dwarf | Warrior
Forgotten | Greenbel Forest Gnome | Hunter
Forgotten | Greenbel Forest Gnome | Warrior
Beings Available: 1/2
Forest Gnome
Spells Available: 1/3
100MP Summon Forest Gnome - Allows the Summoner to summon 2 random forest gnomes every 24 hours each costing 100MP
Abilities available: 0/3
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Lewis
Classes: 1/1
Summoner
Mana: 200/200 Mana Regen 0.01/min
Skills available: 2
Arcane Arts
Basic Summoning
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Lewis Smiled and saw there was a new message and he began to read it.
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Level-Up Reward
Please choose one of the options for completing one of the tasks for Leveling-Up
Heal all Injuries - Heals all injuries you have
+25 Max MP - Adds 25MP to your max mana count
5% Chance for Unlocking New Summonable Being - gives you a 5% chance to unlock a new summonable being out of 100%
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Lewis did not know what to pick but he knew he had to choose one now before the kobolds returned he looked and saw that there was still no one outside of his cell so he looked back to the message and decided to choose one of the options and so he picked the. . . .