Chapter 41: Blastin

Chapter 41: Blastin

Lake took aim at the undead's lower back, because the way it was crouching was keeping him from seeing its head, and he was hoping to make it lose its capability to walk after the first attack. "Fire Blast." Before the spell landed on the undead's back it took off running down the tunnel on all fours and Lake spell splashed harmlessly on to the ground.

Lake had lost sight of it after only a few steps so he hadn't had a chance to attack again. "Joy, do you think we should go after it?" Lake wasn't really worried about his safety but the low light levels did make this more complicated. "Yeah, just take it slow. This is similar to cornering an animal, so once the fight starts it will probably just charge right towards you."

Lake had been thinking the same thing. This had been another situation where he should have used Marks of Interest, the darkness wouldn't have mattered anymore. Lake could probably shoot the undead from here. Lake slowly crept forward using his ears to try and predict when the undead was going to attack.

Hearing a shuffling up ahead Lake got the spell ready. "It's going to attack any second now." Joy was spot on right after she got done saying that Lake saw a pale streak coming towards him. "Fire Blast, Fire Blast." Lake just went ahead and fired both his shots because he felt like he had a good chance of missing at least once.

Only one of his shots landed and it hit the undead on its shoulder. The spell packed enough punch to stop the undead's charge and to blow one of its arms off. Lake watched the arm spin into the air and land next to his feet. Lake took a few steps away from it just in case it could still move. Lake realized this was stupid, but he didn't want it to grab onto his ankle.

"Let's trade places while you charge your mana back up." Hearing this, Lake crouched down and let Joy dive in front of him. Lake felt safe but he wasn't going to stop Joy from doing her Job. Lake watched the undead get back up and look at him and Joy. He could tell it didn't want to fight any more but it knew it didn't have a choice but it still decided to go on the defense.

Instead of attacking it got into a defensive stance and waited for an attack to come. Lake knew it made the right choice because if it had charged Joy it would have been cut in half. After a few seconds of recharging his mana Lake said. "Duck, so I can fire over your head." Joy crouched just enough to Let Lake aim at the undead.

Lake took aim at the undead's neck but did not fire until he marked it. "Fire Bolt." Lake used a cheaper spell because he knew the undead was going to dodge and he wanted to save enough mana to use Fire Blast once he thought he could land a hit. Lake saw the undead drop to the ground to get out of the way.

Lake thought this was good enough so he took aim at its torso and fired. "Fire Blast." Lake's spell landed on the undead's ribcage and blew a chunk out of its chest; this would probably be a fatal wound for a person but Lake doubted undead could bleed to death. After the undead recovered from the blow it turned and ran further down the tunnel.

"We have to be getting close to the end of the tunnel, there's no way it went far." Joy was right, Lake was currently watching the mark he had placed on the undead and it seemed to have already run out of room to move. "Joy let me get back in the front, we'll go after it once my mana is back." Joy squeezed against the wall so Lake could get by but it was still a tight squeeze. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

Less than 30 seconds later Lake and Joy were moving towards where the undead had gone. Lake stopped before he got eyes on it because he felt they were close enough for his spell to hit and maybe it wouldn't be expecting it to happen. "Fire Bolt, Fire Bolt, Fire Bolt, Fire Bolt, Fire Bolt." Lake used half his mana in the hopes of overwhelming the undead.

Mana 30

Strength 10

Endurance 10

Agility 19

Dexterity 32

Perception 23

Intelligence 62

Charisma 6

Free stat points: 2

He was happy to know he didn't need too much more to level up again. "Hey Joy, do undead have cores?" When he was using mana vision he hadn't seen a core like he usually did with monsters or people. "They do, it gets bigger as they get stronger. These ones we're killing aren't worth harvesting even if we could find their core.

Lake wasn't sure about what Joy had said because he had been able to see cores in even really small creatures when he had been in the forest. Lake thought it was possible maybe undead didn't have cores when they first came back to life depending on if the body had a core or not. This made sense to him that they would have to grow a new one.

Lake and Joy went back to hunting for more undead, and after checking a few more tunnels they finally found another undead. Lake turned on his mana vision again, he wanted to see if this undead had a core or not because this one looked like a normal human. Staring at the undead he saw a small dot of light in its chest.

It seemed that once they looked human their core started to grow back. Lake found this interesting and it caused him to want to know more about the later stages of undead, maybe they started to become like they were when they were still alive. Getting back to what he was doing, Lake said. "Fire Blast."