Elder Blood Witcher 171 Begone With You!

They make their way down into the catacombs and immediately have to use the Cast Light sorcery to illuminate their path... While Reima is able to see in low light areas, pitch blackness still makes him unable to see more than a few meters ahead. The light travels through the darkness and allows them to see almost an army of skeletons heading straight for them...

Solaire "Isn't this just grand my friend!" he happily says as he dives blade first into the h.o.a.rd of skeletons, easily destroying many with each swipe of his sword, Reima spots a cloaked skeleton in the far corner of the large room trying to revive the undead, but being unable to due to their divine weapons. He blinks forward while sending a Haki infused fist to it's skull, shattering it completely along with the wall behind it.

After Solaire cleans up the other skeletons he comes over to Reima and looks through the newly made hole and almost grimaces. They look through the hole and into what seems to be a large long cavern with multiple stone bridges zigzagging across the perilous drop into complete darkness, what makes them both dread actually going down their is the thousands of undead travelling across the bridges in an attempt to get to them... Apparently punching a hole through a wall will get their attention alright, Reima notes that the long lines of armed skeletons seem more uniformed than the group they'd just fought. Maybe Nito knows they're coming?

Solaire raises his s.h.i.+eld as an arrow wheezes by and slams into it, they're in range and are taking pot shots at them... The duo back away from the wall and head down the path which leads to a bonfire and a large stone door which seems to be opened by the large switch nearby. They could just leave it closed and not have to deal with the army of skeletons but "Where's the fun in that?" as Solaire had said.

Reima opens it while Solaire readies his s.h.i.+eld for the veritable onslaught about to breach through the doors, once open hundreds of red eyes are visible and charge through the open door like a tidal wave, were it not for Solaire's strength and skill he'd be instantly trampled by the h.o.a.rds of skeletons. Reima a.s.sists Solaire by waving his sword at them and like a light sabre it slices the fragile undead apart like b.u.t.ter, this helps slightly to alleviate the burden on Solaire who's barely holding them back, scratches becoming prominent on his silver armour. He backs up quickly and casts a spell that causes a golden circle to explode from him and envelop both Sun-Bro's, Reima feels the small wounds he'd taken st.i.tch themselves back together and can see Solaire's armour losing the scratches it'd obtained... What?

He doesn't have time to question the logic of such a spell when a dozen glowing red heads fly out from nowhere and start shaking nearby. Reima uses Aard to knock them away and into the group of skeletons as they explode, dealing a large amount of damage to their allies. Many skeletons were knocked off of the bridge from the explosion and fall into the abyss below.

The armies of skeletons seem to never end, Reima guesses there is probably more enemies here than in all of Oolacile. They lose track of time as they continue to cut, crush, slice and stab through the groups of undead, they do however find many items that'll be useful in the future. This includes a skull lantern specifically enchanted to resist Nito's death domains darkness, a Miracle called Tranquil walk of peace that Solaire hides away in his pouch and luckily the Dark Seance ring that they needed to confront Gywndolin. The ring was hidden away behind a wall that Solaire had been knocked through, quite lucky considering Reima didn't really have any idea where it was supposed to be.

They continue down the cavern, cutting down some of the remaining skeletons that hadn't followed the rest of them, idly dodging the statues that'd shoot out spear-like blades at anyone who'd dare walk past them. Eventually the duo find themselves nearing the bottom of the cavern, they accidentally walk on some fragile floor and fall into a long hallway that has some peculiar noises coming from it. The clicking of metal stops as something approaches them, it's a large skeleton wearing a helmet and wielding a large hammer... Solaire readies his sword for more combat but Reima just nudges him while giving a meaningful look.

The skeleton slams his hammer onto a nearby wall, "You're spoiling my focus! Begone with you." it says and stomps back to it's forge at the end of the hallway.

Reima quickly catches up to it and begins trying to talk to it, "Greetings, I am Reima Ludvig and this is my companion Solaire, may I ask for your name?" he asks politely.

The skeleton turns to him and spits a hoa.r.s.e "No." before turning around and continuing his work.

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