Dagger

Allen was currently at a top of a building, looking towards an eight-storey building from far away. The eight-storey building was none other than the hotel.

The kid continued jumping over the roofs of the buildings while avoiding the sight of the guards, until he was upon the building.

"Good thing I"m better at climbing now.", Allen jumped onto the building as he used the broken gaps to climb and inspect every room through the window.

He didn"t have the convenience to check from the inside, only stupid people would try to check their targets from the inside of the building.

After a few minutes later, he suddenly noticed a green light, which instantaneously disappeared.

"What was that?", Allen checked the room from where it came from, which was at the seventh floor.

Allen looked towards the closed window and saw that it was covered in curtains, though one could see a light coming from inside the room.

"This is weird... I better tell this to the others.", Allen turned on his communicator, however, it doesn"t seem to work.

"The communication is blocked!", Allen looked through the window and got into a conclusion.

"They are waiting for us!", the kid immediately retreated away from the window and ran away from the hotel.

When he was already several buildings away from the hotel, he checked his communication amulet and saw that it could work again.

He activated it and said, "h.e.l.lo, can anyone hear me?"

"I can hear you, what is it, Allen?", Mr. Sanchez"s voice came out of the amulet.

"I feel like they are waiting for us to go to those three locations!", Allen cut straight to the point.

"I already figured that out earlier kid, I can"t seem to contact the three of you earlier.", Mr. Sanchez said.

"How about Drake and Kate then?"

"You go help them, I"m a bit busy here.", Mr. Sanchez deactivated his communication amulet.

***

Meanwhile, inside the tunnel...

Mr. Sanchez deactivated the communication amulet and calmly looked towards the vast swarm of giant insects, bandits and brigands approaching onto him from the depths of the tunnel.

"Hais, that organization was prepared for us, and even helped that newly established criminal group.", Mr. Sanchez sighed. "Or maybe... they"re the ones who established it.

"There are even giant centipedes in the swarm, whew.", Mr. Sanchez frowned in disgust and unconsciously covered one of his ears.

After a pause, he added, "But I hope you insects could help me have some fun while you distract me."

***

Meanwhile, in Drake"s location...

"I can"t believe it, looks like your other companion is smarter than you are.", the ghost necromancer"s clone chuckled. Of course, he was referring to Allen.

"d.a.m.n it!", even though he couldn"t see the ghosts, Drake could feel that there was a lot of them in his surroundings pinning him down on the floor.

Earlier, he still could hold on to the Speed Amulet, but he couldn"t activate it due to it"s cooldown.

"The cooldown"s already over, but I can"t reach it!", Drake gritted his teeth and tried to resist the invisible force, however, he felt that more ghost pinned down, almost fully rendering his movements.

He couldn"t understand where did the ghosts came from? Were they brought over here or this place was once a cemetery? If it was the former, then the ghost would rely on the energy of the one who brought them here to keep existing, if it was the latter, then that means they had an unlimited amount of energy supply!

The ghost necromancer"s clone, who was still chuckling, waved his hands on the air and spikes made from greenish smoke appeared, pointing towards Drake.

"Looks like I"m going to have an another clone... or should I say... a body!", the ghost necromancer"s clone chuckled even faster.

"Am I really going to die in here?", after Drake"s thoughts, the spikes launched themselves towards the kid at a very fast speed.

-click-

Suddenly, the kid heard a click.

-clang- -clang- -clang-

As the spikes were already near him they were suddenly repelled by an invisible force.

Light came out from one of Drake"s pockets and swept the whole room.

"Eeek...", the ghosts let out a shrill scream. Afterwards, Drake felt that the ghosts" grip on him loosen.

"H... H... Holy Light?! W... w... where did you get a blessed weapon that could release that kind of a powerful Holy Light?!", the ghost necromancer"s clone stopped chuckling as bits of greenish smoke came out of his orifices. It was obvious that the Holy Light even affected him, even though at the first place it couldn"t affect beings with bodies.

Taking the chance that the ghosts" grip loosen, Drake didn"t talk and rushed towards the clone! He then sliced off the head of the clone in one go.

The head dropped and the ground while it"s eyes were still open, after which, the eyes stopped glowing, indicating that the clone was killed.

Then, the feeling of coldness on his body left him, meaning that the ghosts around him either dispersed or left.

"So they brought the ghosts here.", Drake found a lantern on a table and lit it on. After which, he stuck his ear onto the door to check if the battle attracted people. He then heaved a sigh of relief as there was not a single commotion, "Looks like there was a sound barrier around this room."

He fished out the Speed Amulet from his pockets, he had a guess that this was the object that saved him.

"The ghost necromancer"s clone said that this was blessed weapon, and could release a powerful Holy Light, but why would Lord Levine even reward me this?", Drake pondered.

The kid knew that the blessed weapons made by Holy Priests were effective against necromancers" undead powers, but it was never this powerful! Not just that, blessed weapons were much more expensive, but the one in his hands would be even more expensive than a normal blessed weapon.

"It almost means one thing... that Lord Levine was once a graverobber and stole from a tomb of a powerful Holy Priest but didn"t know that it was one.", Drake concluded. After which, he felt that he was forgetting something.

"Wait! I need to tell Allen and Kate that the enemy set up a trap!"

***

Allen was jumping from a roof of a building towards an another and another to go the tavern where Kate was suppose to check for the target.

Finally, he reached the tavern, but waited for the unit of guards to first pa.s.s by the street. When they finally pa.s.sed by it, Allen entered the tavern through the front door.

The interior of the tavern was well lit, but the tables, chairs, and even the counter were badly damaged, a serious fight just occurred in here.

As soon as he entered it, a figure was thrown right at Allen.

-bang-

Allen didn"t have enough time to dodge and the figure and it him, luckily, he already closed the door behind him, and was just sandwiched by the two of them.

"Ehh, Kate?", Allen saw the figure was none other than Kate.

However, the both of them didn"t got to speak further as a large axe swinged towards them.

They got out of the way in time, but the floor they were just standing on was broken into pieces!

"Whew!", Allen looked towards a muscularly figure, his upper body was naked while he was wearing pants on his lower body.

"A barbarian?"

"Not just a barbarian, but also a necromancer.", Kate said.

"So, you already found out that it was a trap?! No matter then, I"ll just kill the both of you!", the barbarian made a gesture with his hands.

"Look out, he"s going to summon invisible ghosts!", Kate got out of the way. Allen reacted in time and got out of the way too.

They suddenly felt coldness spreading upon their body, indicating that there were ghosts nearby now.

"His ghosts will only last for two minutes, but it"s exhausting to avoid all of them!", Kate while continuing to retreat.

"We need a blessed weapon.", Allen said.

"Do you think I didn"t get that idea yet?", Kate said. "Are there any other ways to destroy those ghosts? You read a lot of books, any ideas?"

"Well, we could kill the one that summoned them.", Allen said.

"I already tried that, but I can"t seem to get him off guard with my flicker!", Kate said.

"Stop talking and fight!", the barbarian necromancer swung his axe down again, which made Allen and Kate split from each other.

The barbarian then pointed towards Kate, commanding the ghosts to go and stall her. As the ghost were ethereal dead beings, they can"t hurt a living being, so they could only stall someone.

After which, the barbarian charged towards Allen, with his axe slashing towards the kid.

"Die!"