Chapter 1667: Hot Arrow
The sudden explosion and gore caused many to scream in horror. No one had expected to see such a scene out of nowhere. Even Ning hadn't been prepared for such a huge scene of destruction.
'Holy shit!' he thought at the sight. 'For 3 Points... this is amazing.'
Scroll of Fireball came in packs of 3, costing 9 points in total. He had used one of the scrolls, so now he had 2 more to work with.
<Ding!>
<You have successfully defeated the Earl, Visand>
<You have received 10 Points>
'Hmm?'
He was surprised at the notification. '10 points? When did i-"
He vaguely remembered a quest screen covering his vision when he had just been hit. That had been what led to him losing his left arm.
'Damn you, system!' he thought in anger. 'You take away my arm, and for what? Measly 10 points?'
The only thing he could buy with that would be the Minor Scroll of Constitution. For a man without an arm, that was useless.
He wanted to grumble a bit more, but grumbling wouldn't bring his arm back at all. For now, he needed to get out of here. "Are you okay?" Ning asked Shara who seemed too shocked to give any response.
"I... I..."
"Look at me," Ning said, grabbing her by the arm before shaking her violently.
Shara broke out of her stunned state and looked at Ning. "You did not kill someone today. You saved your life. Do not let this ruin you."
Shara took in a deep breath and nodded. Although why she nodded, she did not know herself. The situation was just such a shock to her after all.
The first thing that Ning heard after the silence was movement behind him. He turned around and saw the few troops that had arrived begin to move to engage them.
A massive explosion of fire and light erupted at the center, sending out a wave of hor air in all directions. All the soldiers and the people in the crowd were forced to look away.
Even Altunia had to turn to the side to not be directly hit by the hot hair. When the hot air passed, she looked back toward where Ning and Shara had been standing and her eyes went
wide.
They were gone.
Both of them had vanished.
"Where did they go?" she asked. "Where are they?"
The soldiers looked around, trying to find Ning and Shara, but no one could see them
anywhere.
"Stop standing around! Go find them!"
Upon that order, the soldiers spread all around, searching for the two. However, no matter how much they searched, they couldn't find it.
Altunia went to check inside the house and noticed Visand's vice commander frozen and most certainly dead. Visand himself was dead as well, and his undead corpses had gone back to
being dead once again.
It was a great failure all around.
The soldiers returned, unable to find anything. She went ahead and asked a bunch of people what had happened here, and they all collaborated on the same story.
Not a single one of them knew who they were. The old woman had just taken them in because they were young and all alone on the road.
Altunia sighed in the end. She had traveled so far away, only to end up as a failure. She
couldn't return with just this.
No. No matter what, she had to go out and find them.