A ghost village and the definition of this settlement, as we approach the buildings, I can see the remnants of the innocents who lived here before the red sparrow killed them all.
Farming tools dropped by the covers carelessly show signs of wear from the environment, leftover crates and decaying food looks like they were killed during harvesting a part of the fields still have a few intact greens that are starting to rot.
Not even a common animal will get close to them to eat the food and the element of death that is spreading through the settlement will kill all the common plants here, from afar I can see what should be their graveyard it shouldn't have been very big probably no more than ten bodies buried far from the houses, but now it's a handful of churned earth.
It seems that the undead have already started eating the dead, I thought they would still be feeding on their victims, but it appears that the undead appetite or necromancer's intention is different than we thought it would be. He's powering up his undead and not putting them into hibernation or economy mode which would be the normal move if he really wants to stay in hiding for the next few months.
When Taric got close to the house where a few undead were, we still don't know the type, we waited until the moment that the thunder caused by Mia's magic would end the silence of the night. I was completely focused on the undead inside the house while waiting for the signal, the three level three undead in this house don't think they'll be too much of a challenge as Taric will have the upper hand against them in a small room like this.
The only problem is if they try to escape through the walls of the house, but that's a little unlikely since they're idiots. At least that's what I hope, it would be really bad luck if there was a lich inside this house.
Thunder rumbles through the village alerting everyone that a thunder element mage has bombed one of the houses, even though I don't have a clear line of sight to where Mia is, I can see the light her beams have released. The door in front of Taric is knocked down as he enters with his shield raised into the creaky undead house, a clear aurora was released from Taric's leather armor and gave his shield.
Seeing Taric's lit shore, I see that he used his shield as a flashlight releasing a wave of aura combined with his light element against everything inside the dark room, the rays of light enter piercing the darkness revealing that inside the room there were two black metal armor and a lich wearing full leather armor and holding a short spear.
Shit, that's the best word to describe our situation, I was expecting zombies or something of the same level and not two living armors. This is a rare undead type as it is a mix of wraith and death elemental armor which is considered a defense-focused type of undead, both armors wielding a common sword and a turret shield.
The undead that had been wounded by the cleansing light formed up before Taric could get close enough to them to attack them with his light-shrouded sword. With the two armors in frenzy protecting the lich warrior their defensive formation was ready, the lich still slashed by Taric's light element prepared his spear which turned black from the death element he released, Taric got close enough to attack the armors he was attacked by the black spear to stop him from continuing his attack.
Raising his shield that released even more light to block the black spear Taric lost his initiative, but he was not alone. The moment the black spear slammed into Taric's shield two fire arrows passed over Taric's shoulders, my weakest arrow going straight into the black metal armor's helm, even though I couldn't kill them with a single shot. firing my explosive arrow would be able to damage the armor's helm when it hit it directly.
The second fire arrow that was really strong came from Milena, she didn't really hold it while aiming directly at the lich's skull that was defenseless, when the lich was blinded by Taric's strong light and her weapon was crashing into the shield's defenses. of the lich disappeared completely.
The fire arrow directly hit the lich's head as he tried to defend himself with his arms, but the moment he dropped the spear the fire arrow was inches from his helmet. The lich's leather armor should be level three as upon being exposed to the fire element concentrated in the arrow it was completely destroyed, the lich's wrinkled white face was completely burned as the arrow pierced its skull which was completely shattered when the arrow exploded. when reaching the center of your skull.
I already expected Milena to be the member of the team with the most firepower since she is an orange core warrior, but I didn't expect her to have no intention of holding back on the expenditure of her energy. That fire arrow would be capable of wounding a red core warrior, there was no way a level three undead even if modified and high quality could resist the raw power of Milena's fire element.
My explosive arrow barely dented the dead knight's metal helmet, that kind of defensive undead really is hard to deal with when you don't completely overcome their defense with ridiculous offensive power. My arrow would have been capable of wounding had this armor been a warrior normally, the shards of metal would have wounded his face as it entered the helm's opening, but an undead didn't even flinch having my explosive arrow detonated in front of his visor.
Without the tip of the black spear pushing his shield back, Taric charges at the undead who have formed a shield wall to contain Taric's shield and sword that release a considerable amount of light. As both Milena and I took a new arrow I heard a sequence of huge explosions outside, I was expecting that, but the fact that the sounds came from three different sources surprised me.
I already expected Mia to cause a big commotion, but I didn't expect the red sparrow to cause an attack that created a sonic boom.
It took a while for the two black knights to notice that the lich wouldn't rise anymore, Taric's light actually impairs the undeath's ability to perceive. Both black armors entered survival mode when they realized that the lich was dead for good.
Even though I'm not sure I feel like the two undead don't know what they should do now, their mission was probably to protect the lich without him the two armors must want to kill Taric but they can't lower their stance focused on defense against the unknown enemy who killed their leader.
Milena fired her second deadly arrow at the undead who, realizing the danger, changed their defense, a black shield was in front of the other and both undead solidified their mana and death element energy in the shields forming a black shield that covered the two.
The fire arrow pierces the black shield but is not capable of destroying it, these two were actually created to be a defensive wall. The flames started to come out of the black shield forcing Taric to go back to avoid being hit by the wild fire, Milena's lock power is out of control his last arrow went through the wall after killing the lich, but this second arrow looks like It will set the whole house on fire.
The undeath's black shield crumbled as the flames devoured them both, I looked at Milena only to find a figure beside me. Milena is already a few meters from the door while Taric still admires the flames that are starting to fade.
I think she ended up here, but I'm not the least bit interested in following her. Especially when outside, I dare another wave of explosions.
"I can finish killing them, Wolf. You should go help another group."
Guess I don't have much choice now, I back away from the fire that is now being lit by a beam of concentrated light. It was strange to see Taric lighting fire, but the molten armor that looked like when the flames started to fade, I could see that the element of light was breaking it down completely.
I think Milena's fire element may have melted and damaged the armor of the two undead causing them to lose their combat capabilities, but it seems that the light element is needed to finish the job. Underneath the flames and light, I'm still able to see the core of the undead intact, weak but still whole.
Upon leaving the house I see something I didn't expect, the night eaters didn't look anything like humans anymore. Raven had commented that they could do that, but I expected a tail, claws, wings, or horns from the devourer that is attacking Sean and a deformed seven-foot monster, he even has a wing that shouldn't be of any use.
These undead are very weird.