131 They are coming
An hour earlier…
Two members of the Immortal Knights seemed to joking around while standing in front of a cave mouth covered by a giant snowball, preventing anyone from entering it.
The two men tried to stay warm by moving around the place they guarded so their bodies wouldn’t freeze. It was difficult for a non-beast bloodline to survive in such a cold place, like the forest in Moonspire City.
The cave they guarded was a path to a hidden dungeon that could only be accessed at night. Although the atmosphere in the forest was already dark because the weather in that place was often cloudy. It looked like the city was always at night.
“Please bring my body back to the guild base if I am dying because of this damn cold weather.” One of them was a man wearing heavy armor with a large sword and a rounded-shield. He should be warm in that kind of outfit, yet the man was shivering because of the cold.
“Stop joking about your death. It’s not funny at all, you know!” said a blond-haired young man with slightly tan skin. His condition was not much different from his comrade. He wore a thick jacket and a scarf in the shape of a sleeping fox wrapped around his neck.
“How long do we have to stay here?”
“Until they arrive.”
Achooo!
The young man couldn’t help but sneeze. He felt like he was getting a terrible cold.
“Why does it have to be me?” he grumbled, feeling unlucky about his condition.
After a few hours standing on guard, their health points were significantly declined. Even though they used health potions to restore the health points, still… Their health potion supplies were running low while the people they were waiting for had yet to arrive.
“This is crazy. Are they planning to kill us?” the young man spoke through his gritted teeth and frozen lips.
“Shut up, you new kid! If you didn’t do something silly, I wouldn’t be in this cold place with you. Remember your position.” The man in armor seemed to have brought out his true nature, as he felt that his life was on the brink of death.
Crash!
The young man who had just been angered by his senior had quite sharp ears, and he was sure that he had heard a rustling sound from nearby.
“Do you hear that?” he asked in a whisper. His face was turning pale with worry.
“What? Did you just ignore me—-!”
“Shhhh!!!”
The young man covered his senior’s mouth harshly when he felt that something was approaching.
Someone appeared from behind the trees. Alone. He hid his form in a black robe that had a hood covering his face. A faint smile formed on his black lips.
“Who the hell are you?!” The young man pulled out his two long swords to threaten the uninvited guest.
However, the person in the robe still walked closer without the slightest bit of fear.
“This place belongs to our guild!” shouted the senior in armor, ready to attack the person with his weapon and shield.
“Leave!” He snapped, clenching his teeth.
The person in the robe heard their threatening words, but the more they threatened him, the wider the smile grew on his lips.
“Bivind…” he mumbled words that the two men standing in front of him couldn’t understand.
At the same time, black smoke suddenly swirled out from under the robe, then it flew towards the two men in front of him.
“What are you doing?! Shit!”
Cough! Cough!
It was too late for them to realize that their enemy was a mage who possessed some deadly lost magic.
The two of them coughed violently as the black smoke forced its way through their breaths, mouths, and even the pores all over their half-frozen skin, as if the smoke had the power to penetrate their bodies.
Crash!
[health -2500]
Crash!
[health -2500]
Crash!
[health -2500]
The two members of the Immortal Knights couldn’t breathe, their throats were burning, and their health points kept dropping drastically.
There was no longer any hope for them to survive, let alone survive the attack.
The senior immediately sent an emergency message through the Guild Chatroom before it was too late.
[S.O.S]
He then fell unconscious due to low oxygen levels in his respiratory system.
Although this world was a virtual world in the game, the game developer LSO had adopted a real life system, so everything that happened in the game was adopted from the real world.
Thud!
“No! Seniors, endure it!” The young man had better resistance from poisonous smoke because he was a rogue who preferred swords as a weapon.
One of the basic passive skills possessed by rogues was [Untoxicate], reducing the side effects of poison from various sources by 10-50% depending on skill level.
At least with that basic skill, the young man could last a little longer. And he certainly couldn’t stand still.
Clank!
He shot forward and slashed at the mage using his two swords at once. However, it turned out, the mage was hiding a scythe under his robe.
The size of the scythe was only the size of a keychain, but in split seconds, the weapon got bigger. It became a scythe the grim reapers usually used.
“Tch. You think you can beat me with that skill?” The person’s hiss made the young man even more furious.
Clank!
Splat!
The fight was unavoidable. The young man swung two swords at high attack speed. He really knew how to control his avatar’s power, even with a sword.
As his health points continued to drop, and he had just drunk his last health potion, he realized he would be defeated. Even so, the young man wouldn’t let it happen so easily and quickly as the uninvited guest had planned.
Splat!
One of his swords managed to rip the ropes off the opponent’s robe and made his hood droping down.
“How dare you touch my precious robe!”
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind came from the forest. At the same time, another figure in the same robe appeared at the side of the young Immortal Knights who were jumping and…
Slashh!
The dagger used by the figure managed to slit the young man’s throat and made him collapse while holding his bloody neck.
“Dimitri, you came.”
“You’re getting soft, Jack.”
The mage man who was called ‘Jack’ covered his face with the hood back.
“How many people?” His voice turned calm again.
“13.”
The two of them looked back towards the dark forest.
After three seconds had passed, dozens of people in robes appeared, emerging from the darkness. They walked with rhythmic steps and looked straight ahead.
“They’re here.”