They walked a good distance with nothing of interest happening. There were occasional sounds, though whether it was screams or the forest making strange noises was unclear.
While they walked, Kiro had entered a meditative state, he was in Paradise training his jump skills. That's the kind of training he preferred when the skills were just too dangerous for the game world.
This time, it was Nikolai who spotted them first. For some reason, vibrations was acting up he couldn't get a perfect read, he surmised someone amongst those had a skill that could potentially cancel out vibrations. It was a scary thought, as he was already used to sensing things that certain way.
But he also accepted this as a challenge, he didn't want to depend entirely on one skill. That would be a detrimental mistake.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here, just a couple of mutts we can easily defeat!" The one at the forefront said, wearing a stupid smirk on his face.
Kiro looked around with pretend confusion, "wouldn't it be fitting to call you mutts, since you reek like a pack of wild dogs?"
His expression changed to one of contempt, "this one has quite the mouth on him, you'll be the first to die then."
Kiro hadn't even taken the chance to reply when something flew right past his peripheral vision. It landed on the talkative guy's neck, coiling itself around it like a snake. Felix then yanked the man towards him.
This caused his head to do somersaults in the air. His shock was still etched on his face as his lifeless body hit the ground with a deafening thud, immediately when it did the light came for him too.
His comrades were still in shock when Hiro took two more from their rankings, with his shield and axe.
That shook them out of their stupor. The ground rumbled as if an earthquake was attacking them. Kiro noticed the drop in his HP when this happened, he was about to comment when several skeletons broke out from the concrete ground.
He didn't need to be healed, but his comrades did. He had his own ways. He doubted any of them had regeneration abilities like he did.
Felix saw and could hear the pleading tone. He decided to stop being stubborn, he retreated to the back of the line, but not without lynching about 3 of their members first.
The necromancer Kiro wanted to kill with his bare hands was hiding at the back of the many members. He was clearly only good at long range with his summons.
He couldn't reach him at all, not that, that was causing a hindrance in his combat skills but the constant disturbance was like nails on a chalkboard. It ground his gears. He was too used to sensing everything so this rubbed him the wrong way.
Nobody understood why he was so annoyed in the battlefield but no one wanted to ask either. He looked really pissed.
Him and Ryu were combing through the defense with difficulty but they were doing it nonetheless. He had to remind himself every time not to use anything to alter reality, that last time of creating a whole star almost killed him. He didn't want to take his big guns, not for this.
Of course he wasn't doing this alone, his team was right behind him. Nikolai used the shadows to get to impossible distances at an instant.
As he got closer to the necromancer, he was laughing maniacally, muttering gibberish. Then something, an invisible force repelled Kiro. His chest felt heavy as he flew to the air, he managed to stop himself midair using whirlwind.
The peculiar guy started laughing loudly now, "I am Lazarus, leader of the Grim Reaper guild. Your defiance and participation in the guild wars is hereby revoked." He laughed as he said.
"What a delusional guy!" Nikolai cried.
"An atrocious laugh too." Hiro agreed.
Kiro stood in the air, looking closer, now that he had an aerial vision to the ground he noticed a thin layer dorm surrounding Lazarus.