Chapter 94: An Unexpected Reunion (1/2)
Merlin walked out of the treeline and into the clearing With both his weapons drawn he slowly ot, the more details of disrepair he saw Whatever part of the building's stone exterior wasn't covered by large cracks or obvious signs of corrosion was mostly covered by a mix of moss and , he saw that the inside was just as bad as the outside No, perhaps it orse
As he looked around he noticed that the floor, as left of it anyas just rotten wood The rest of the floor was covered in shards of roof tiles, and as Merlin stared up towards what should have been the ceiling, all he could see was the night sky
"I wonder why this place was abandoned out here, or why it was even placed out here to begin with" Merlin wondered out loud, his inner lore hunter found so left seely in the middle of nowhere "Just what purpose did you have so far away from civilisation?"
As he walked further into the building, he began hearing scratching noises co from behind the altar that had barely been spared fro on it
Merlin took another step closer towards the altar, the roof tiles crunched underneath his shoes, and the rotten wood underneath that let out loud creaks The scratching became louder and faster, it al
Another step and the sa fro became silent
The floor creaked once ed out from behind the altar in a desperate attehoul, this tiainst
Merlin avoided the claw and plunged his daggers into the ghoul's body One punctured the creature's eye and the other hooked around and pierced its neck With a loud roar, Merlin used his newfound leverage over the creature's head to throw it to the ground The creature clawed at his leg, but Merlin ripped his dagger out of the creature's eye before plunging it into where he expected the heart to be
The creature let out one final pain-filled grunt before it lost all the strength in its body Merlin's calf was finally free of the creature's claw, although it had done a significant a hihed with disappoint He liround underneath him transitioned from rotten wood to cracked stone as he et onto the elevated stone platfor on
His calf left a trail of blood behind him as he walked up the steps As he made his way behind the altar, he could see that there were several deep claw marks on both the altar and the floor, mostly around where the two met
"That's suspicious" Merlin's eyes locked onto the section between the floor and the altar, besides the claw ap between the two When he reached his hand towards the gap, he could feel so out from it "A secret room under an altar, how cliché"
Merlin tried pushi+ng on the altar but it didn't houl cant force it open, what luck would I have?" Merlin shook his head at his own actions before he started running his hands over the intricate designs around the altar, looking for some kind of hidden switch
A few minutes passed, but Merlin couldn't seem to find it Nevertheless he continued his search, there had to be so on his search, he heard voices in the distance, although it sounded like they were co here We're gonna fall behind if we don't get back to questing" It sounded like a gru there were at least two people in the area
"That looks like blood Did soet it before us?" This time it was a woman's voice
"No, they better not have, we've waited for it to respawn for half an hour" Another wo there were at least three But so sounded farass and forest soil get closer and closer, until several silhouettes appeared at the church's doorway
"Who is that?" The gruot Wait that's not the va down in front of the altar, partially resting while waiting for his leg to heal Souy's voice, it was extreroup were
"It looks like some kind of, zombie?" Another man's voice spoke up, this one was deeper than the rest "Wait, that person is"