Chapter 113 - Reports

"I know that the town safety is our number one priority right now!" Captain Callum said that in a serious tone.

"That's why we need to go to the town gate immediately and dealt with all of the undead skeletons there." Sir Esmir said as he was about to go there but he was stopped by the captain. 

"I'm sorry but you can't go, I need you to go back to the barrack and treat those wounds..." Captain Callum pointed to the wound on Sir Esmir left arm. 

"No need, I can still fight... besides you need more experience, man, in this battle." Sir Esmir said as he lifts his war hammer with his left hand to show that the wound doesn't hurt at all. Still, there was blood coming out from the wound. 

"It's true that you had an experience but I don't need someone that could become a liability in the battle against the undead." He said that as he really didn't want Sir Esmir involvement in the next battle. 

"Foolish young captain! I once had more serious wounds in the war back then and I still fight... Compared to it, this wound is nothing." Sir Esmir still insisted on joining the battle at the town gate. 

They both kept arguing in these crucial times, Vicar and Tane cannot interfere with their argument at all as they had no chance to get talking. I know that Captain Callum was worried about Sir Esmir wound but like he said earlier that we need him for his experience in the battle. 

Besides that, the number of town guards that could join in the next battle against the undead was very little. The rest of the guards has been injured in this fight in the trade central area. If Sir Esmir joins in the next battle, I'm sure that it would help the town guards as he could handle fifty skeletons on his own. 

When they were still arguing, Captain Callum then stops and looks at us. "You both! Go to the noble district and find Lord Framer." He said to Tane and Vicar. 

"Why? I thought we would be joining the next battle..."Vicar said it to the captain as he thought that they will be joining in the battle. 

"No, you both will be not joining in... I need you to deliver this message to him." Captain Callum then handed us some sort of a missive. 

Vicar takes the missive and asks Captain Callum about it, he then told us that it was the report of this town's current situation. Captain Callum also to meet him back at the town gate after delivering the missive as they will trying to secure that area from the undead skeletons. 

"We will deliver this as fast as we could captain!" Vicar said that as he put the report on his pouch. 

"Don't need to worry Captain! You could count on us both to deliver this." Tane said that as both of them then rushed to the noble district with haste, they didn't want to waste any seconds as this was a crucial time. 

I could hear that Captain Callum wishes us to arrive there without any harm, I also still could hear they're resuming the argument but as we get far from them, their voice disappeared from my hearing range. They both run the noble district, at the same time they still need to be cautious as they might be skeletons still in the area. 

Tane leads the way as he said that he knows a fast way to get to the noble district, it just in between the alleyways. Along the way, we did encounter some undead skeletons but we managed to defeat it with ease. Luckily we didn't encounter an Elite Skeletons as it might slow us down to the noble district. 

I was wrong as not long after that, we did stumble upon three Elite Skeletons ahead of us. The undead still didn't notice our presence, we still had the chance to turn back around but it will take us more time to get to the noble district. 

Tane decided that we should just defeat them as if we choose to head back, we would be wasting our time and told us that the captain needs us to be at the town gate after we finish deliver this report to Lord Framer. We agreed to Tane's plan and decided to just push forward. 

"How should we approach them?" Tane asks Vicar how we would deal with the Elite Skeletons. 

"I was thinking to do a sneak attack as the undead still didn't know we were behind them," Vicar said to Tane as he was suggesting a good plan.

"That's nice, we could use this as our advantage... I will just be ready to shoot them if something wrong happens." Tane said as he prepares his bow. 

"Okay, just cover me... Besides I believe that I will not mess this up." Vicar said calmly. 

"Hahaha! The power of belief..." Tane laughs at Vicar's word. 

"Don't laugh that loud! If the skeletons hear us here, the plan will immediately fail." Vicar tells Tane to do not to laugh as he didn't want the skeletons to notice us here. 

"I'm sorry, I will be quiet from now on..." Tane stops laughing as we then proceed to plan.

Vicar unsheathes his sword while Tane started to pull the string of his bow, he was ready to fire at the Elite Skeletons head. Vicar silently approaches them as he wanted to do it without making much noise. He was afraid that it would attract more undead skeletons into the place. 

The Elite Skeletons didn't even notice Vicar was already behind one of them, Vicar was about to slash one of the Elite skeletons but they had notice Vicar. All of the Elite Skeletons then started to attack Vicar with their gigantic mace at the same. 

Tane realized that the plan has failed and he didn't hesitate to shoot the arrows on the Elite Skeletons skull. Thanks to that, the Elite Skeletons avert their gaze on Tane instead of Vicar. The three of the Elite Skeleton charges toward Tane. 

Tane didn't have anywhere to go as it has a really cramped space in the alleyways. He could just continue to shoot the arrows towards their skull but sadly it didn't penetrate it as their skull was so thick compared to the regular skeletons. 

I remember back then when we fight the Elite Skeleton at the trade center area, one slash didn't break the Elite Skeleton skull. Vicar hit it for around 15 times to just be able to crack it, luckily that time Sir Esmir was there to help us to break its skull. 

I still wonder why we can't break it with just one strike as Vicar strength was clearly higher than Sir Esmir, it should be maxed out and we could easily shatter it. I then realize that it might be the weapon that we were using, this was just an ordinary town guardsmen sword. 

I did notice that Sir Esmir war hammer was cover in light and it was glowing, it must be that his weapon was an enchanted weapon that imbued with light elements. Vicar should really get an enchanted weapon after this fight as it will help him. 

The Elite Skeletons were getting near Tane, he had no choice but to run from them. Their skull didn't even crack a bit even after being shot by Tane arrow in the same exact spot. We tried to catch up with the Elite Skeletons from behind. 

We somehow managed to gain the undead attention as Vicar throws the sword onto one of the Elite Skeletons that were chasing Tane. They stop and started to head towards Vicar now, I was kinda mad at Vicar for throwing his sword as now we need to fight it only with a dagger. 

I was about to suggest Vicar use his cloak spell but I remember that the undead could see through it as they had a special trait called Life-Seeker, it would be pretty useless to use it. I really thought that we were in big trouble as the three Elite Skeletons surround us but Vicar did something that amazed me. 

Vicar moves swiftly as he was about to be hit by them, he then appears behind one of the Elite Skeletons. It was almost like he teleports the undead back. The skeletons didn't move after that, it seems like the undead was a stunt or something. 

Vicar then slashes its skull with the dagger in his hand, the skull immediately shattered into pieces and it shocks me. Is this even Vicar? How could he break the skulls with only a dagger when he couldn't do it with his sword back then. 

Has something happen to him, how could he become this strong. I then realized something about it, Vicar didn't become strong but rather he just uses a skill that I didn't even know that he had.