Chapter 119 - More Skeletal Mages?!

"Vicar! This is bad..." Tane shouted at us. 

We looked behind and we realize why Tane said that there was more skeletal mage behind us. The number of skeletal mages in our area right now was eight including the one that we were currently fighting. The situation had become much worse now. 

It's not like we're having a hard time fighting the skeletal mage but what makes it worse that we can't break its dark shield. What makes it worse that they will cast a fireball at us, which will make it pretty hard to evade if the purify effect was over. 

"Tane...! Please flee from here, I will cover you while you escape." Vicar said. 

"Why should I run away? I can still fight with you..." Tane said as he doesn't know why Vicar asks him to flee from here. 

"If you get hit by the fireball, you will be done for. I don't want you to get killed..." Vicar said as he just wanted Tane to be safe. 

"You think that I would be hit! There's no way... I'm fast enough to dodge the fireball." He said it confidently.

Vicar tried to convince Tane to escape from this place a few times but Tane decided that he will stay here. He said that he wouldn't leave his friend behind, he also said the Vicar would need all the help he gets to fight the skeletal mages. 

"We fight together and die together..." Tane said it aloud as he shoots his arrow towards one of the skeletal mages. 

"I would like that we would not die here, we should fight and make it out alive together," Vicar said as he was also slashing the dark shield with his dagger. 

The rest of the skeletal mages started to shoot a fireball at us. Tane easily dodges one of the fireballs. On the other hand, the skeletal mages really focus on us as most of the fireball were aim at us. Luckily we didn't get any damage as long as the purify was still in effect. 

We still couldn't think what to do to destroy the skeletal mage's dark shield as we couldn't land any hit as long as it was still activated. If we could destroy or disable the dark shield, we could easily defeat the skeletal mages as it's HP was not that many at all, only 1000HP. 

Maybe with a single hit with Vicar dagger or Tane arrows, it would completely kill the skeletal mage. The problem now was to just think of a way to destroy the skeletal mages' dark shield. I know that our only choice was to test it with a spell whether it would shatter the dark shield or not. 

While both Vicar and Tane were still busy, I took the time to see my skills and system whether they're something that could help them to break the dark shield. All of my skills were pretty much useless as not a single skill allow Vicar to use a spell. 

I then check on the talents and somehow discovered one talent that may help us to disable the dark shield. It was the Disrupt Talent that us to disable any magic casting within a 10-meter radius from the user for 5 minutes. Increase user perception of any magic caster nearby by 60% for 8 minutes.

I don't know whether it would work or not but I think we had no other choice other than this, it's worth to try and there nothing to lose here. 

"Hey, Vicar... Could you activate my talent Disrupt, I think it might help to deal with the skeletal mages' dark shield." I said it to Vicar as he was still trying to break the dark shield. 

"Really? Will it really break the skeletal mage dark shield..." Vicar asks as he wanted to confirm whether it would destroy the dark shield or not. 

"Well to be honest with you, I'm not sure but I think that it would work... but again I'm not sure about it," I said to Vicar as I myself didn't sure that it would work. 

"If that the case, might as well try to activate it..." Vicar said that as he was ready to activate it. "Like this right... Active Disrupt!" 

Vicar has activated the talent Disrupt and I quickly look on the Skeletal Mages dark shield, whether the dark shield was gone or not. I was surprised that it works, the skeletal mages' dark shield has been disabled and this was our chance to defeat them. 

The skeletal mages were surprised that their dark shield was gone as Tane could hit the skeletal mages with his arrows. Vicar dashed forward with his dagger, I could see that the skeletal mages were panic as they can't seem to cast their fireball spell on us. 

Vicar quickly slashes one of the skeletal mages skulls, hoping that it would break it skull and kill it. But something weird happens while we tried to slash it. The dagger just went through the skeletal mage skull and the skeletal mage still alive. Vicar slashes it once again but the same thing happens as the dagger just went through the skull. 

"Tane I need your help! Could you shoot your arrows right into the skeletal mages skull?" Vicar said that to Tane. 

"Sure..." He said that as he shoots his arrows right into the skeletal mage skull. 

But the same thing happens to as Tane arrows just went through it like there nothing there. It makes me very weird to see that happen again. Is this one of the skeletal mages' spells? I ask myself that but there no way that they could activate any spell right now as the Disrupt effect still active. 

I then realized something about our attacks, it might be because our attack was physical and a physical attack couldn't hurt them. We might need spells to be able to touch or hurt them if what I was thinking were true. We would never able to kill the skeletal mages. 

Now it proves to me that why the skeletal mages were on the second rank of all of the skeletal monsters. Even though their HP was only a thousand, I never thought that the skeletal mages would be this hard to kill. 

When I think that we have solved the current problem, another problem appears and that problem would be much harder than before. Vicar and Tane keep trying to break it skulls but their effort was futile as all of their attacks just went through it. 

"Damn! Why all of our attacks just went through its skull." Tane said as he was frustrated that his arrows didn't even hit it. 

"Don't give up Vicar, just keep on and we eventually will find out to hit it," Vicar said as he still didn't give up on this. 

I then told Vicar about my theory. "Listen, Vicar, I think we could only hurt the skeletal mages with a spell..." I said to Vicar. 

"That was just a theory but I do think what you said is true, all of our attacks just went through it," Vicar said as he believes that my theory about the skeletal mages could be hurt by spell only. 

Tane started using the guard sword as he has run out of arrows, the only thing he could do to help us now with using the sword. When I think that this would not get any worse, hundreds of skeleton and elite skeleton crawl up from the ground. 

We were completely surrounded by the undead now, this has made our situation more difficult. We still didn't defeat the skeletal mages and there hundred of skeleton and elite skeleton around for us to defeat. The effect of Purify was already gone a few minutes ago. 

"Look like we in a tough situation, I kinda regret that I didn't take your offer to run away from here," Tane said that as he let out a short laugh at the end. Does he try to make a joke at this time? 

"Regret of your own choice?" Vicar asks Tane. 

"Kinda... but still I didn't think that the decision that I take is wrong." Tane calmly said that to Vicar. 

"Why?" 

"Friend always sticks together and me because I believe in your power..." Tane said that. It kinda makes me wonder what makes him believe in Vicar, was it my power?"

There no way to go as we were surrounded, I realized that Vicar could use the last teleport talent to escape from here but it seems that he wouldn't do it. There no way that he will leave Tane alone here with all of the undead. 

I will not blame him if he uses the teleport but I think I will be mad if he uses it. But I know Vicar wouldn't do it even though he can as Tane was his only human friend in this world. There's no way he let Tane died out here.