Level Up - Spend your 9 SP: "Invest it all in agility."
New Ability Acquired - Scythe Mastery, Passive Level 1: "By correctly performing Scythe Leadership, you deal 15% more damage with normal attacks and 5% more damage with abilities in combat."
New Ability Acquired - Explosive Soul Seal: "Mark an enemy with this seal. It lasts for 10 seconds and stores 20% of the damage taken during that time. After the time expires, it explodes and deals three times the stored damage. It shatters the target's soul and body."
Ability Scythe Vortex, level 2 achieved: "The jump now extends from 1 to 10 meters. If more than 8 targets are hit, the Spirit Scythe makes an additional vortex attack that deals 30% of the damage of the last enemy hit."
Helga came over to Mortis, embarrassed. He tried to turn the fat Hobgoblin around, as it was lying on its stomach and they now knew that these monsters possessed Mana Crystals, which they also wanted. Mortis turned and said, "Glad you're here. Could you maybe try to get the crystal through him somehow, maybe as a ghost?"
Helga felt teased as he simply looked past her and spoke to his spirit. Slightly angry, she pinched him in the side. Startled, Mortis flinched and glared at Helga as she held the Mana Crystal in front of him. He took it kindly and thanked his spirit.
After that, Mortis looked at Helga, but now she was looking past him. His spirit blushed and looked at Helga, holding her breasts up with his hands and grinning slyly at her. Helga didn't know what to think. Could the ghost really be making love to him? She asked herself.
"What did you come down here for anyway? You were supposed to gather everything and wait," Mortis asked.
"I put everything together in one place because I have no way to take things with me like you can. Besides, I was afraid something might have happened to you, since your companion is watching over me," Helga explained.
"Well, nothing happened to you. There are two more doors here that I need to check. Just wait here."
Mortis went first to the door used by the female Hobgoblins. When he opened it, a horrible smell came pouring out. He followed the stench slowly, holding his nose. At the end of the corridor was a bulge where straw lay. There lay pregnant goblins or those who had just given birth - something Mortis would rather forget quickly. But he also saw human skeletons whose bones were completely gnawed away.
Mortis slowly turned back and closed the door to get rid of the disgusting smell. When he had calmed down a bit, he went to the other door. Here, too, the air was filled with an unpleasant odor. But that didn't stop Mortis from looking to see what was hiding behind it.
After a few meters, he entered a large room where slaughtered horses lay on wooden blocks, their intestines hanging out, as well as people who had been impaled. Further back were cages made of bones, in which three people were trapped - two women and a man.
When Mortis approached the cages, none of them moved. They retreated fearfully to a corner and covered their eyes and ears, so that they did not even notice that it was a human standing in front of the cages. Mortis approached them, but there was no reaction. Therefore, he decided to throw clothes at them, hoping that they would realize that he was not a goblin.
The man in the cage started screaming while the two women were crying. Mortis then yelled, "Hey, you guys, I'm a human rescuing you! Stop screaming, you sissies!" The first to move was the younger of the women. She took her hands from her ears and eyes and looked at Mortis. Then she burst into tears, left the cage and hugged him naked.
"It's okay, just get dressed. We need to get out of here. And help the others," Mortis said. The young woman went to her friend's other cage and nudged her foot. The friend kicked out as if she were being kicked by a horse and flung the young woman backwards out of the cage. Mortis laughed and said, "You're not the brightest, are you? I figured she'd think you'd pull her out if you grabbed her by the leg."
With the lower end of his scythe, he nudged the other woman, a little harder at first. This one did not respond immediately, but then began to move. Apparently she realized it didn't hurt. Slowly, she opened her arms to peer through, and looked at Mortis in shock. When she understood what was happening, she too crawled out of the cage. However, she rather jumped towards the other woman, hugged her and thanked Mortis with a bow and many tears.
Mortis turned and motioned for the women to follow him. As he did so, he noticed how the people were shocked by his ghost, who was eating and drinking next to him and Helga. The women relaxed when they saw Mortis and Helga dining in peace.
The prisoners, Julia, Kathrin and Amir, introduced themselves. Julia was the young woman who had nestled close to Mortis earlier. Kathrin and Amir sat close to each other.
Amir thanked Mortis for the rescue, as did the others. Julia hugged Mortis around the neck, which Helga did not like. She pinched Mortis in the side.
Mortis smiled at Helga and then put food in his mouth. He was enjoying the attention of two women, but was beginning to feel bored. He disengaged and walked faster, pretending to watch for possible danger.
Mortis Level 25 Reaper
Strength 60(+25), Agility 70( 38), Int 33, Vitality 37, Stamina 50, Mana 50, Charisma 45