Chapter 187: Downwards Spiral Pt.3

Chapter 187: Downwards Spiral Pt.3

Lake watched as the girl with the bow hit every shot she fired and soon all of the Demon Worshipers on the stairs were dead and they were able to head down to the basement. There was a metal door here like the other basement they had raided so Lake used a similar move to knock it down using Crunch. The chapters is up by N0vEI__bin

As soon as the door was down Lake lifted his barriers in front of him and used Mana Vision to see where the rest of the Demon Worshipers in the room were hiding. This basement was much smaller than the last one and there were no other rooms so they were all just hiding behind small things inside.

The fact they were just hiding and not firing spells made him think of people hiding from an explosion so he figured the entrance was rigged to explode and one of the Demon Worshipers was just waiting to trigger it. Looking back Lake said. "I think there's a trap, let's back up some and then Grendia can make us a new entrance."

Lake didn't know if the Demon Worshipers had heard what he said or not but they were able to get away from the door with no problems. Lake hadn't thought about the fact that the Demon Worshipers might just trigger the trap if they heard their plan to enter another way while they were still by the door.

"Alright Grendia, open a way in." Watching Grendia start to move the stone to make a way around to the side of the room, Lake used Mana Vision to see if the Demon Worshipers moved from where they had been hiding. They didn't move even when Grandia opened the new entrance right next to one of them.

Lake started to think maybe he had been wrong about why the Demon Worshipers were staying behind things inside the room and maybe there was no trap. Walking into the room Lake saw he had been wrong and there were no Demon Worshipers left and the things he had thought were Demon Worshipers behind boxes were actually dead people or undead inside wooden coffins.

This confused him at first because Detector had shown him more Demon Worshipers down here than they had killed so using Detector again lake saw it was indeed picking up the bodies as Demon Worshipers which meant these were probably undead and not just bodies. "Sorry Grendia, it looks like I was wrong about the trap."

"With four of them it might take a while for it to work and there's a good chance that they will awake once it gets to work sealing them if there isn't something keeping them asleep so get ready to step in." Right after he said this the formation guy activated the formation and Lake watched him position the four identical parts of the formation he was pretty sure were the seals so one would hit each undead.

Once they were in position the formation shrank and broke through the wooden coffins so it made contact with the undead inside. The undead didn't react even then and after a while the undead became metal statues like had happened to the ball of flesh before. "That went well. Grendia, will you get them up to the road. We need to get back to the staircase before the people from the guild get there."

After he said that he went ahead and started walking back up to the road and thinking about the various things they had found Demon Worshipers doing in the city so far. He knew he was missing a lot of pieces to their plan but he was starting to think their plan had been to destroy the city with 1000 different small things all at the same time.

Lake guessed doing it that way had its benefits but if that had actually been their plan he felt like they were going to fail now because they had already cleared out a good number of their bases. This was making him think all these small fries were just distractions and there was something big they were missing because they were too busy with all this easy stuff.

There was no way for him to know but he felt like there was no way the Demon Worshipers would make it this easy to stop them if they actually needed to destroy this city. He knew he had a bit of an advantage in finding them because of his skills but the Demon Worshipers would know about skills and prepare for ones like his.

He had found them using a Legendary skill so other people could also have Detector or something similar and as he was thinking this he remembered a time before Detector when he had just been using Mana Vision to find things and he had stumbled upon the vault he had stolen the Holy dagger from.

Mana Vision had been able to see the things inside of the vault but the vault had blocked a good portion of the mana making it look like there were only weak things inside the vault. Lake was pretty sure if he was to look at those items without the vault in between them it would have looked a lot different.

This meant there were ways to block skills like Detector and Mana Vision and Lake was just finding the dredges that they hadn't bothered to hide with magic. Lake had also only been to a few tiers because he had been assigned to them by Masters meaning he probably hadn't even been near the actual place the real danger to the city was.

Lake was sure the sun was down by now and the second day was coming to an end. This meant his original deadline of leaving once they got down to the last day was already here and if he wanted to be safe he should get Nia and hit the road. Lake wasn't going to do that though, at least not until he had a chance to talk to Masters one last time; which, by looking at how tired the others in his group were looking, he was sure it would be soon.