Chapter 4: Green skinned
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As the wind blows in to this bright night, a howl and the sound of more then dozens of armor can be heard clamping, powerful wind at the shivering trees in the distance, a wind that blows and caught me crossing my arm both across my armpit. Smell of rotten flesh comes inside of my nose, disgusted, I tried to breathe slow and steady. And it seems that we are in our way to our desired location. We approach the incomplete walls, we are getting closer.
It fucking stinks man. Ughh, I can see the flesh of an animal or some sort? Why did I even agree again? Ah yes, it was because I felt bad for those two, well my dumbass thought that we be going on a fun road trip!
2 hour ago
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As I have made my decision, and I agree to things that I don't even know what i am agreeing for. Definitely a rookie mistake on my side. Ok, let's thought of these as positive thing, maybe it not gonna be that bad, right?
Jack gave a an order to his butler and also to the soldier that informed him just now. He clapped his hand and all of his butler, maids and the soldier moved quickly to their feet, and 1 butler have guide us somewhere.
we walked towards upstairs of the mansion, and as we walked further to the second floor of the hall, many both beautiful and confusing paintings can be seen, for instance, this particular painting has very abstract art and it is well detailed on the the clothes but quite different to the realism that can be seen in the real world. Another painting is an old man, holding his staff, while wearing a dark blue robe. Damn, this painting actually has an amazing details, and color that is used in this art is intriguing me.
I looked at Mary, and let's just say that she is not interested in the paintings, she just stared at the long hallway, focus on her thoughts. Maybe she is from a rich house and a influential family?
If she is actually rich then maybe that will explained her connection with jack, but then after thinking of the transportation that we just used. I don't think people who is rich would use a something that looks unreliable, like a cheap carriage. Things definitely not adding up, or maybe I'm the wrong one here, for judging too quickly on her personal life.
Mary noticed one of my glance, and I quickly change the direction of my eye to barry, avoiding her suspicious gaze. Yeah I am certainly not looking at you Mary...
Damn, Barry looked strangely calm, before this he looked mad for some reason. Something definitely going on with this two and I don't like it one bit.
The butler stopped and point at the three room ahead of us, it seemed like they are free room from from each of us. Nice, privacy is all I need to think this all down, and generally I need to make better use of what I have gathered in the past hour.
The butler hands us the key from our own respected room. I am In the last row to picked a room, as the group picked their key to the room first. I Finally opened the door and well... it looked nothing grand is happening, compared this to what we just saw earlier, this is just look basic stuff. The only thing that intrigued me the mostis the design on the bed itself.
Other than that, nothing fancy on the walls and appliances. But it has that magic light from earlier, I can maybe experiment with it and grow my knowledge about this worlds of magic.
A knock can be heard, wary about opening the door for some unknown guest. I opened the door, and there was Mary and Barry standing in the front, signaling to come and follow them.
"Wait, I just need to..." They gave me this serious and ready face.
I don't know what's is gonna happen tonight, and I definitely don't want to figure that out. But I still agree on making the decision on a subject that I know nothing about, so it is kinda my fault here. So I need to keep true to my words and be a man.
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"Huhhh..." I sighed and cooperate with them.
I follow them and got downstairs, and their we are awaited by a butler. But these time, a different butler showed up, he is more serious looking, with one cut across his left chick, he looks old too. He bowed to us and we followed him.
We seemed to be going at the back of the mansion, there we see a two guard, patrolling and guarding these place. We arrived at a basement, it has this lock that I never seen before, it has a crystal and a missing piece on the middle.
We got inside the basement and the serious looking butler cast a fire in just 2 second. He seemed to be experience at using magic, as I'm only able to cast small fire, it has the size of a flint and it only took him 2 second to cast a big ball of fire.
"Heh." I smirked.
Hehehe, just wait as I figure out how magic worked, and it will be just a matter of time before I completely be the best of the best!
We climbed down the stairs and see a hall that is keep cleaned, as we see no spider web at sight and no dirty smell of rodents. We climbed down for quite a while, and we see a spacious and dark place at the end of the stairs. We arrived at last, the butler put in a strange liquid at the torch and set it on fire.
As the torch flamed on, we see some kind of a storage room, the butler goes to the nearest wooden barrel and signal us to come and check it out. We cooperated and see many supplies of ten long iron sword, A bit rusted but still usable.
"Hold on a minute, a sword? Why would we need that for?" I gasp at the scene that just occured to me.
Barry ignored my surprised look and picked up the sword and swung it around, he seemed happy after inspecting the sword by swinging it and taking a closer look into it. The butler throws him a scabbard and belt, to hold his sword on his side.
Mary roamed around hoping to find something that will be a use for her, but nothing seemed to be available to her, right now she looked dissatisfied. She just picked a random dagger that she's interested in, it has this beautiful handle on it...
Man, I'm fucked! I am not ready for this. I also roamed around, and also picked up a sword and the dagger. Even though, I don't know how to use a sword. I also picked the scabbard, belt, and a leather armor for the chest, it looked like the equipment that I picked up has been used by someone in the past. I only keep them around for my safety standards, I need my life to be guarded and well protected.
Hahaha... Ok, I need to established an actual plan, or rules to better my chance at surviving these unknown event. The Rule number one is:
"To always come prepared." ok number one, I already failed this step.
"Never put yourself in danger or avoid it all completely." number two, also failed this step.
"Remember to always get a reasonable reward." There is no way, in any shape and form that I will risk my life for a reward that did not hold something equal.
Ok, after motivating my self, I come back to the rest of the group, everyone seems to be ready...
The butler gave something to us, a crystal like object. I can feel some strong fuel inside the this object. Mary looked happy, as her dissatisfaction completely healed after receiving this crystal.
We go back up stairs, all ready and stuff, everything seemed to check out. We are back to the front of the mansion and jack seemed to be waiting on us. He got eight squad of soldier with a sword and heavy armor on them, and two squad of magic users, wearing a robe and their own staff. Every squad is about 5 each, so 40 soldiers and 10 squad users.
jack hop on a horse, and inhaled his breath deep. And gave the ready warriors a speech. It start of with a with a voice that can be heard as emotional and very inspiring experience, as the times goes on. His tone slowly starts to change into a loud and very much a encouraging speech, his voice soon reach the hearts of his people.
Jack hold his sword up in to the air and gave a shout, and my skin starts to get goosebumps as all of the soldiers also followed the shout:
"GNOVYA!" The shout soon cover the entire mansion.
Woah, woah, woah... I am getting surprise every fucking time, are we going on a war or something? Fuck, I never thought that this will get ugly very fast.
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In the present time (2 hours later)
Yeah, that just happened, well I just need to be careful. I am fine as long as I position my self on the back line, away from danger. Currently right now, both Barry and me are sharing the same horse, because there is only a few of them left. Sometimes the trip can be a bit rowdy, and I don't got no choice but to hold my dear life on Barry's shoulder.
We also just comes across the town, 1 hour ago, and there seemed to be a riot in the town. Torches and long speared weapon can be seen at that place, Jack approaches them and calmly talked the problem out.
The people starts to die their voices down, at closer inspection, I can see that the town seemed to be attack. Their houses and the streets all covered with blood, and many adult and young man has been looking severely injured.
The man with the most injuries seemed to be pointing at something, he pointed left with a terrified look in his face.
We just follow the path that the man pointed at. And we quickly got ready to travel at another destination, that is the unfinished wall. Jack ordered two squad of heavy armored soldier to stay behind and keep the citizens safe from what is seemed like a failed invasion. So we are just left with 30 melee soldier.
That's really just happen 1 hour ago, even if I can't understand them I could still tell the problem that just troubling us.
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Smell of corpses soon filled my nose, and the corpses starts to resemble the body of a human... We march slowly, as we can see a bright light, and a tall green humanoid. There seemed to be 13 of them, camping around the unfinished wall.
Jack soon fully stoped the march, and ordered something from the magic users. They all cooperate and form a circle around the same crystal that the serious looking butler gave us. The crystal have different kind of colors and sizes, they all ranging from color such as red, green to gold. And with a comparable size of my hands and a big rock. Then they all started to chant something, singing silently with harmonizing voice so that the enemy could not hear us coming.
They did this for a 2 minutes and 46 seconds, the ground starts to form a body, preferably the body of a creature, such as 5 big wolfs, 3 majestic horses, and then a fucking big ass golem? They all seemed to be made of rocks and wood formed by a tree.
Then Jack, Barry and his butler? Comes and ride those majestic horses, as the horses seems like to be choosing their specific preference for someone ride them.
After jack climbed up to the summoned horse he hold his sword once a again and scream on top of his lungs, all soldier screamed making these intimidating war cry.
"Oh shit" after Barry left for another horse I seemed to be left with this one, and I want you all to know that I completely don't know how to ride of one these things.
"Whoa!" The horse spooked by the war cry of many soldiers, and run itself to the battlefield, and I'm hard holding the leash, hoping to end these ends pretty soon.
Once again, Fuck you god.