Vol 1 Chapter 26 (1/2)

Chapter 6

The dark elf who had gone to investigate the clurass soon realized that he had been tricked The sound of unfamiliar arre had been defeated, though he heard no sounds of battle

The dark elf knew that it would be risky to return to his post

“Ô tiny spirits, ô fors, make uage of the spirits After acompletely invisible He then ran back to the entrance of the house, his footsteps nearly silent

“That dark elf has been gone a long tirip on his bastard sword

Having at last recovered fro alre’s powerful life-force was not enough to keep itonce Ghim had beheaded it with his battle-axe His body was still twitching, though, as the last e life-force burned themselves out

Eto and Woodchuck had joined the others in the entryway

“Ghio inside, quick! The people inside may have noticed us I’ll take care of the dark elf,” exclai for the dark elf’s return

“You dolt, what do you think you can do against the dark elf’s o inside yourself” Urging Parn inside, Deedlit swiftly unfastened the water skin from her back “Ô spirit of water, you who see the unseen Where is the dark elf? He must have hidden hie of spirits to a blueish mass inside her water skin In response, the water spirit, Undine, surged forth Then it spread out, for a thin membrane of water, alh the air

Ah, is that hi spell to where Undine was floating Cancelling spells served to nullify other ue and waved his staff around

As Slayn chanted, a white light caht expanded over the ground

“Augh!” with a groan, the dark elf appeared

The dark elf couldn’t help cursing his luck at finding hi not only an elf but a rune master as well They had quite a bit of power between the two of the spell had completely destroyed the dark elf’s sprite charht hand The elf was a slip of a girl and the ht have a chance if it cath

But that thought was crushed by a blow from behind “Ahh!” The dark elf screamed in pain in spite of hi his teeth, the dark elf turned around

Behind hi a short sword in an underhand grip

“Huh, looks like I haven’t lost my touch,” said Wood with a satisfied smile

All three daggers he had thrown had hit the dark elf in the back None of them were fatal wounds, but at least they had all hit the mark

Just then, Deedlit charged in like a flash The dark elf sensed it and turned,her attack with his own Deedlit sidestepped it and extended her right ar her rapier at his flank

If he hadn’t been injured, the dark elf would have been able to dodge But when he tried toin and slowed his movement for just a moment

His death screah the forest With Deedlit’s rapier in his side and Wood’s daggers in his back, he fell to the ground in a motionless black mass

At that moment, Ghim, Parn, and Eto were all locked in combat inside the house Their opponents were four humans Taken by surprise, none of theht with just weapons and shi+elds

Nonetheless, all four were skillful fighters, and Ghih time of it

“Ô holy light!”

Watching theht, Eto lifted his hands above his head and chanted a prayer There was a sudden burst of light It was only aEto auto Neither Ghi away froht

In unison, both of them attacked their opponents Both ene beaten the dark elf, Deedlit and the others came into the house

The party made short work of their dispirited enemies

No one else was in the house After verifying that the corpses carried nothing of interest, the group searched the house There were four rooround floor, but all they found were some rations and a number of bottles of liquor

“Oho, what a find!” Ghis

“I’ll search the second story,” said Parn as he climbed the stairs The house ell- by the effort they had put intothemselves comfortable in such a dilapidated house, the occupantsti over said carpet, Parn clied into the second-floor hallith Deedlit close behind

“So?”

“I still can’t see anything Be careful”

“You too” Bending over,Deedlit snuck a look down the corridor The light of the setting sun illuminated two doorways The door of the closest one ide open

“Shall we?”

“Of course”

The two adventurers stood in front of the open door and looked around There were signs that the rooe rooht chairs Several of those chairs had fallen over, and it seeht earlier had knocked them down in their haste to ready themselves

“What’s that?” Deedlit had noticed what looked like some kind of official docuather up the documents There were four sheets of fine parchment

“There’s so written on the over her shoulder at the pieces of parch her narrow shoulders, he tensed and shook his head

“What’s wrong?” asked Deedlit, all innocence

On the parch the actions of the king of Alania, Cad, and one of his favorite hunting spots was near this house Furtherht along a few co one of those cootten their hands on the nauards, which painted a clear picture of their opposition

“What is this?” Parn’s hands were shaking