Chapter 28: Chapter 28.

“Good shot with that firebolt, Summer,” I said. She had probably missed, but it was perfectly timed and positioned for me to take advantage of.

She smiled nervously. “I-I … actually- .. yeah. Thank you.”

We didn’t have time to celebrate. The sounds of fighting were still going on in the direction we had came in from. We exited the passage just in time to see their lieutenant get thrown.

He rolled, and stopped at my feet. His armor was battered and gouged. Blood marred his chest, trickling out from between the cracks in a large dent, as if a horse had kicked him in the chest. He breathing was labored. Arina ran up to check on him, started healing him. I lowered my hand to his breastplate, shaped the steel back to help him breathe.

“Run ... fools,” he said with a strained voice, coughing.

Ahead, a grotesque behemoth of a man stood naked over a pile of bodies. Large gashes crisscrossed his chest. Muscle layered upon muscle, he held the lieutenant’s broadsword that looked small in his hand.

His face wasn’t recognizable any longer. His lips were pulled back, stretched out over a jaw that had grown to a hideous size to fit all the teeth that protruded at odd angles. I wondered if he was capable of speech after such a transformation. His completely black eyes bulged out his sockets, glistened like marbles. It made hard to tell which way he was looking.

He was the only undead left standing, but where were the rest? Where was Stefan? I saw the torn remains of two of his five friends on the ground. And I just killed the one behind us. Where was the fifth?

Dandee winced. “Oi, that’s a big one.”

I pointed to the exit from the crypt. “Take the injured and run. I’ll keep him distracted.”

The brotherhood men hesitated, but then the behemoth roared. The thunderous bellow echoed through the crypt. The brotherhood men grabbed the lieutenant and ran for the exit. It took all six of them to carry him.

“Go,” I yelled at my party, but they ignored me.

“You’ll need a healer for this one,” Arina said.

“I ain’t leaving,” Dandee said.

Summer nodded too.

“Alright, but be careful,” I said. “I’ll keep him distracted. Do whatever damage you can, and don’t get hit.” I had a feeling if that guy hit any of us we’d need more than a healer.

Arina and Summer fanned out to the left, Dandee went right. The giant just stood there as an easy target. What I wouldn’t have given for an elephant hunting rifle for this fight. One to the head would have done the trick.

I waved my hands, laughed at him. “Are you blind? I’m over here.”

The giant grabbed random weapons off the ground, flung them at me. I brought the shield about to block them. They collided with a loud clangs, sparks flew. He picked up more and more, but I blocked every one of them.

I cast [Ethereal Blades] right back at him. He didn’t bother to move out of the way. However, the blades didn’t penetrate at all, and he didn’t even flinch. But, it seemed to have made him pissed off at me.

He growled and clacked his jaws. Finally, he spun, threw the broadsword. It whirled, hurtling through the air. I moved the shield to intercept it. It cut through the shield, but careened out of control, flew up in a high arc. I winced. Holy crap that was some hit.

He roared as if out of frustration. Then charged, kicked bodies aside in his wake. The ground shook with every step. He was aiming for me. I walked out of the passage to stand next to the wall. He came barreling down, gaining more and more speed.

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At the last moment I blinked past him, and turned around. The ground trembled as he crashed into the wall. Dust sprinkled down from above. I sliced at his hamstrings as hard as I could. The strike was strong and true, but only made a shallow cut, skin deep.

What the hell was he made out of? I had hoped to cripple him, but that wasn’t going to work. Unless just like [Haste] he used a temporary buff? I didn’t see any special glow or sheen to his skin to indicate it. Still, I needed to wait him out a few minutes and see. Maybe if I ran him around he’d get tired too?

I backed off, sent the three disks to surround him. He lashed out them, but I kept them at range. Did he have any weak spots? Maybe the head? The eyes? I tried to attack him at the head with the disks, but didn’t have any luck. He managed to fling one aside out of my control range.

I knew of one way to stop a cavalry charge. I sheathed my sword and picked up a fallen spear. It looked and felt to be of great quality.

Against this guy I needed Blink and I needed it more often than what the cooldown allowed. I opened my Status and bought the t2 upgrade. It lowered the cooldown from 50 to 40 seconds. Burst of Clarity came off cooldown. I’d need to wait for the right moment to use it.

He leaped high into the air, went flying in my direction, and moving faster than he had any right to do so. I jumped aside, cast Ironclad, hit the ground and rolled. He slammed down next to me. A shock wave hit me. Rocks and debris pelted my ironclad armor. I grabbed the spear and put some distance between him and myself, back to the wall.

He stood up from the crater in the ground, as a pillar of flames erupted around him with an intense heat. Twenty feet high into the air, swirling. And just as quickly, the flames vanished, left a glowing after-image in my sight.

He roared in pain. Steam rose from his body. His skin was charred.

I needed to grab his attention again. I picked rocks that had crumbled out of the wall when he charged it before, flung them at him without stopping. Moved the disks to annoy him too.

He charged again, heading for me. The seconds on Blink’s cooldown ticked down to zero.

Perfect.

Bits of skin was flaking off as he ran, left a trail after him. He drew close. I cast Burst of Clarity and dug the butt end of the spear into corner of the wall behind me.

His head bobbed and weaved in slow motion. At the last moment, I raised the spear up, aimed the point for his open maw. If he was surprised, his black eyes didn’t show it. I waited for the spearhead to enter the back of his mouth and blinked aside.

[Essence gained: 25,582]

“Yes!”

I turned around to find exactly what I hoped. The spearhead had pierced through his head and out the back of his skull. His head was sliding down the shaft.

Everyone gathered around the monstrous body. Stefan and another was somewhere down here. Were they hiding, were they watching right now and planned to attack at any moment? I didn’t like the atmosphere one bit.

“You got one minute to loot whatever you can,” I said. “And we’re getting the hell out.”

Nobody protested, they probably felt the same as I did about this place. All the corpses piled up around the chamber didn’t help the feeling one bit. Clean up duty wasn’t for me – someone else would have to come down here and burn them.

It took some effort to collect his head, and it was too big to fit through the opening in the backpack. I grabbed another cloak and wrapped it. On the way out I stuffed my backpack full of steel.

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