The Quest appeared instantaneously in front of all three of them. "Woah, we even get quests!? Are you sure we're not just in a game Lin Hao?" Richie said, oogling the sudden notification.
Lin Hao then turned to the two of them.
"Have either of you received a quest from the system before?" He asked.
He needed to know if they received the same mysterious quests as him from before. Richie however only shook his head, "Nope! This is the first time. Did you get one Lin Hao?" Fu Mei as well shook her head.
"When we were fighting that bear...I got a strange quest. It gave me the chance to either run away and leave you behind. Or fight the bear. But when I received the quest everything around me just stopped."
Richie's eyes widened, "Wait, you got a special quest! Man you just keep getting luckier and luckier."
"Well. Let's just keep an eye out. It seems we can get a quest for almost anything we do." Lin Hao said, as the trio stood at the back entrance of the Cultist's "Fortress".
He took point and was the first one to enter, holding his golden glaive within his hands. Richie followed behind him, and Fu Mei hesitantly held her crossbow with both hands.
This would be their first fight as a group against other human beings.
They had prepared as best they could. Lin Hao himself felt confident, but he couldn't say the same for those with him. He was prepared to handle most of the fighting himself, Fu Mei would most likely hesitate upon seeing someone.
And Richie's ability didn't work best with pure offense.
The inside of the Cultist's Fortress was a sight to behold.
It was dark and dreary, almost appearing abandoned. The wooden flooring was ruined, yet had stood the test of time. Lin Hao would have to fight carefully here, out of fear of burning a hole through the infrastructure. The party snuck carefully into the Cultist's Prison.
Nobody stood in the main hallway, and several people were behind bars, chained and shackled behind individual prison cells.
"There might be a key of some kind, we can just use that to break them out." Lin Hao suggested, but Richie came forth with an idea of his own.
"Wait wait, I got an idea!" He eagerly went over to one of the prison cells, and used his Cubic Power.
A golden shine appeared within his hands, as it created a golden metallic key which fitted into the lock. Smoothly, Richie was able to unlock it without any problems.
"With this, we don't have to steal the key! I can just unlock the rest of them." Richie said, as he began to unlock the rest of the cell doors.
"We should probably be quiet about this, otherwise they'll know something is up."
Richie's voice, despite his attempts to be stealthy possessed a natural penchant for being loud. It was then the trio began to hear some loud footsteps descending down into the prison.
"Oh no! Clearly someone's heard us." Richie exclaimed, as a tall intimidating figure stood in the stairway leading up.
They resembled a hooded executioner, carrying a long blood stained axe in both of their hands.
Their height had to at-least be seven feet, as they appeared much taller than anyone else in the party.
"Well, Well, Well. What do we have here?" The tall figure began to slowly walk forward, brandishing his axe. "A bunch of idiots think they can break into my prison and come out alive as always."
A menacing dark aura exploded from the man, filling the prison with an intense unholy energy.