The roof came crashing down with a loud sound. Leo landed on the rubles and instantly looked around, trying locate the skeleton. A cloud of dust covered the whole floor leaving Leo without any vision.
Using Mana on his eyes Leo instantly caught sight of the archer, but didn't try to sneak up on him. Putting his sword in the inventory Leo pulled out a dagger and threw it.
Crack...
A dagger pierced into the back of the enemy's skull killing it.
[ Undead { Skeletal Archer } Defeated...]
[ Reward +80Xp ]
Relaxing his body Leo let out a sigh and went to retrieve his weapon. While collecting his dagger Leo noticed that the archer had a quiver with a symbol on it. The symbol was shaped into a black skull. The skull looked normal except for two canine teeth that were longer and sharper than normal.
After inspecting the remains Leo stood up and climbed back on the roof. He moved his arm to make sure that his injury healed. Not feeling any pain he smiled and jumped on the other building.
Now Leo's plan was to advance towards the castle as well as kill every single guard in the vicinity, so he would not be ambushed or overwhelmed when fighting the vampiric beast responsible for massacre of beasts and humans.
Thinking about the boss of this place Leo suddenly heard a screeching sound resound across the village. Lifting his head above he saw huge black lines connecting with each other and constructing a cage above the village.
Leo knew that he would not make it in time, hence shook his head. He didn't knew if the cage was resistant, but it looked like it was made out of Darkness element, hence will be hard to break out of. He wanted to test it, but didn't know if he could stand on top of the wall to reach the black net.
While looking at the nearest wall Leo heard a galloping sound. Lowering his body Leo hid himself behind a chimney.
Soon a horseman appeared in the street Leo was spectating. A huge skeletal horse with a knight on top of it was running at fast speeds towards the castle. The knight didn't even look around and its two eerie red eyes were locked on the castle.
Seeing the knight being absent minded Leo stepped out of his hiding spot. He took one of his daggers and threw it at the horseman's head. Previously Leo would not be able to pierce the knight's helmet by throwing a dagger, but now after he added Stat points in his Strength he was able to perform such feats.
Whoosh...
A dagger flew like an arrow and hit the horseman right in the side of his head piercing the helmet. The skeleton fell off of his mount with a loud sound. The horse, not feeling the rider's weight, got confused. It stopped and lowered its head and saw an unmoving undead. Jolting out of its place the horse tried to run off, but soon another dagger pierced into its skill killing it.
[ Undead { Skeletal Horseman } Defeated...]
[ Reward +80Xp ]
[ Undead { Skeletal Horse } Defeated...]
[ Reward +40Xp ]
Jumping off the house Leo picked up his daggers. After inspecting the knight's sword's condition Leo dropped it at the side of the road and once again climbed on one of the houses. While looking at the remains Leo felt uneasy, he descended from the building once again and hid the skeletons.
' Just to be safe '
Leo thought while jumping back on top of the building.
After a few minutes of running Leo noticed that the garden and the castle were getting closer and closer. When he reached one of the last houses before the garden he noticed that there was a huge metal fence circling the castle and the garden. Guards were marching back and forth around the fence in fixed intervals.
Leo calculated the time guards marched to one side and found out that it took roughly 2 minutes. He counted that there were 10 guards in total doing same rotations. Leo needed to kill 2 guards and enter through the locked gate for him not to be noticed by others.
Thinking about how to proceed, Leo's lip corners curled up.
' Nobody will notice if there's no one to notice '
Repeating a quote with a deep meaning Leo pulled out two of his daggers and waited for two guards to approach the part where he was hiding.
Whoosh... Whoosh....
Two projectiles flew through the air and pierced deep into the skeletons' skulls, shattering them in the process.
Leo quickly jumped down the building and dragged two guards behind the house before removing the weapons from their skulls.
[ Undead { Skeletal Knight } Defeated... { 2 } ]
[ Reward +150Xp ]
[ Level 6 Reached ! ]
Quickly assigning every single additional stat point into Agility he closed the Status page and felt his body become lighter.
' This could be addicting '
Leo thought while trying to shake off the strange feeling. Clenching his daggers he now descended from the house's roof and hid in one of the shadows. While he was waiting for another group of guards to come, a system message popped out before him.
[ New Skill Learned... ]
[ Stealth { Passive } - Allows one to hide their traces; Used to hide from enemy's senses ]
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One hour ago...
A creature was looking at three of its knights lying dead on the ground. Its face was cold and emotionless. Looking closer one could see its lips corners lightly curled up. The being was inspecting some blood puddles all around the fighting site.
Walking around it tried to recreate how did the fight go and seeing the result, sneered. The strength of a human was pitiful compared to him. Suddenly an idea popped in its mind. Walking closer to the black wall creature put his hand on it. The wall should've corroded it, but nothing happened. Suddenly the black wall started pulsating and its upper part started to extend upwards.
Humanoid creature looked above and saw a huge cage being built above the village like a spider's net. Preventing everyone to leave or enter the vicinity. While smiling the being entered one of the shadows and disappeared.