Jake walk towards the center of the water and saw square drawn on the floor and he smile and pondered, I need to sing that song? then he sigh:
"Out on the lawn by a village street a young cat sat one day, and there he sat till the dreary day then sung a mournful day. The wan, the old moon rose quickly up a gentle zephyr blew. The flowers that were on the lawn were soaking wet with dew. Up on the fence, the young cat sang a doleful song: He had not been there very long when a lone man came along."
Terry, Annael, and Diane had a weird gaze on Jake. Jake bent over and touches the center of the square and immediately, a circle of light illuminates from the ground, then a light yellow shine on the square line and the ground, within the square the ground begins to crumble and little cat statue floats up until it levels on Jake's line of sight. He gently grabs the artifact and walks towards his team.
"So this is the artifact?" Annael lightly pokes it. Diane faintly smile, "Why did you sing that song?" "I need to sing it because it is the key to the first barrier on the ground so that I can freely touch the center of the square." Diane nodded and continue to talk, " Never heard about that song though. Even in some big towns with bards roaming around still never heard of it." Jake had gentle look at the statue, "I am a wide reader, I read everything including those books that your church branded as forbidden." Diane frown and did not ask any follow-up questions.
Jake felt like someone is sneaking behind his back, he glances towards and saw Terry and Annael's serious faces then he thought, seems like they knew. Jake nodded and immediately look back and use the javelin skill on the empty wall and a person appeared with a spear on his forehead then he cast a fireball to throw it to the direction where Terry threw the ball of sulfur and it exploded just a few inches away from the head of the other stalker. Annael, on the other hand, uses charge towards the entrance where they came from, then just a few meters away from the hidden person he uses cleave and her head appeared on mid-air, then her headless body is spurting with blood all over the place. Annael turn back and uses charge towards his previous location. Jake already went to the body and remove the spear from the forehead.
A 6-footer muscular man, black hair, with trim beard and mustache, immediately appear just 8 meters away from them. It seems that he was about to kill Diane based on his direction. He looks back and saw the headless mage and two other slayers body on the ground.
Jake thought this must be the Erudite. I can feel the same energy that Annael releases. Jake knew that in the game that man was the one who killed Diane and the two slayers were the one who backstabs Annael during the time that he loses his composure plus the fact that in the game their realm is lower than the killer.
The black haired man smile sinisterly, "Never thought that you reached Erudite level Annael." Annael frowned, "Who the fuck are you?" Jake saw a tattoo at the back of the hand of the low tier Erudite warrior and he thought, this is bad…..so he was hired from that organization? Jake saw his remaining team mates which is the priest and the warrior silently walks backward. Jake has grim expression, "Annael! You deal with this man!" Terry deals with the priest and I will face the other warrior….. Guys! Kill them! Don't even waste your breath talking to them!" Jake's teammate and their stalker were surprised when Jake's gave their stalker a death sentence.
Jake closed his eyes and uses the prayer skill. The black haired man raises his eyebrow, "You are an acolyte? It seems you don't know your place, young man." Jake glances towards Annael and Annael immediately uses charge skill towards the black-haired man. "Diane you stay away from Annael's fight, just help Terry!"
Jake is now pursuing the warrior who used charge skill on his way out while Terry is now fighting with the priest on the same room as Annael.
Jake was pursuing the warrior and saw that the warrior stops on the room where they killed Draken. The warrior laughs when he saw Jake almost pant pursuing him. "Never thought an acolyte want to fight one on one with a warrior." The warrior who is wearing a mortal realm brown leather armor is grinning at Jake. Jake smile, " I never said I am a warrior." Jake immediately cast fireball towards the warrior. The warrior manages to evade was a surprise, "I never thought that there is someone dumb enough to trained several classes." Then he immediately charges towards Jake's direction. Jake immediately cast water ball and placed it a meter in front of him then cast another fireball. The steam made from the impact of both spells spread and hit the warrior's face. "Shit!" the warrior shouted. Jake immediately lunge with his spear but the warrior uses cleave and repel the attack. Jake jump back and cast fireball but the warrior uses hilt of his sword to repel it.
The warrior laugh out loud and grab something on his pocket and drink it. Jake felt that the man in front of him is getting stronger and thought, that is a red mane potion. It increases at least x1.5 of base strength and vitality for 2 hours. Toxicity level is at least 200 ml. Side effect: body malaise for 2-3 hours and increase intestinal peristalsis. Almost like a prelude to diarrhea. The volume of the usual potion is just 50ml.
"Kid! I will cut your head!" The warrior angerly shouted and uses charge skill, when he was about a meter away from Jake he uses cleave. Jake uses his villager's shield and was knocked back for about 15 meters, he was about to maintain his balance when the warrior again uses charge then cleave. Jake uses his shield and his shield was cut into half while he was knocked back.
Jake saw that the front of his cheap armor was slice so deep that his right and left upper quadrant of his stomach had a superficial laceration. Jake staggered to stand, "Hey….Do you a person name Randol?" The warrior glared at Jake, "That bastard! Don't you fuck mention his fucking name!" Jake faintly smile and murmured, " I just need a small bit of time....."