Chapter 96: The Vampires Crypt - II (2/2)

Merlin watched as the rest of the party quickly got into position Nora drew an arrow back and was getting prepared to shoot Zankoku had begun sprinting towards the va ready to strike Tiny and Alvira were preparing the attacks While Merlin picked the va towards hiers drawn

The second barehanded va at them with its claws out An arro past Alvira's head and embedded itself in the vah for Tiny to chant his heavy strike skill as he swung his ha its body to bend forward and its head to collide with the stone floor at an incredible speed

Alvira ran behind the vaed her new dagger into its back, ai for where she believed the heart would be

Zankoku and the sword va blades The vampire parried Zankoku's katana and used the opportunity to claw his chest with his spare hand Zankoku took a step backwards and shi+fted into a lanced over at Alvira and Tiny, and he saw that they just killed the va to assist Zankoku He also noticed that the other vahly unlikely that it was dead with just that

Merlin entered cooblin dagger collided with the va for his heavy strike skill while getting ready to attack with the wolf's fang

「Skill ⟪Heavy Strike⟫ Activated, your next attack will do an extra 30 daer effect」

Merlin barely dodged the vaer into the varunt as it thrust its claws at Merlin oncehis skin as he pushed away

"I really need to gethe'd probably want to visit the rangers guild sometime soon

Merlin and the vampire clashed once more, and the vampire immediately thrust its claards Merlin's sto about its own defence It see of Merlin's speed and decided that this was the most effective attack it could perfor for another attack, Merlin thrust his dagger into the va his body and causing it to roar in pain He parried the va at its throat

Merlin sent his vines to entangle the vaer out of the va it to fall limp He turned around just in tih the skull of the sword va it

Merlin's attention snapped back towards the last vahoul cages An arro through the air and pierced it in the shoulder just as it ripped open the lock, causing the ghoul inside to burst out of its cage

"Kill it before it opens houl

An arroith a red tint flew past his head, e itself in the va spontaneously co and onto its hair

Although its skin was visiblyout in pain, he still worked on opening the second lock, another few arroere let loose as it opened the cage One hit the va, the others hit his head and stoed towards Merlin and pounced into the air with its claws out Merlin plunged his daggers into the ghoul's chest and wrestled it to the ground using the daggers as handholds The ghoul clawed at his sides while Merlin was repeatedly stabbing the ghoul's chest with his daggers

Tiny ran over to Merlin while chanting, and Merlin barely rolled out of the way as Tiny brought his war ha its contents to spray out and cover Merlin It seeh that was the last straw for Nora, as she i it

The ghoul that had just been released burst out of its cage and pounced Tiny, who hadn't yet recovered from his last attack But Zankoku intercepted the creature, leaving a deep cut in the creature's shoulder Alvira and Zankoku worked together to finish off the creature while Merlin cast cleanse on hihoul that was still locked in its cage before doing anything else

"We didn't get a vaan searching around the room for any loot

"Well there's another room over there" Tiny said as he pointed Alvira towards a small connected rooroup collected themselves and approached the rooe double door that appeared to be made of stone

"Well, that's definitely a boss roo down in the cleanest corner she could find

The group rested up, allowing their bodies to heal before daring to attempt the presumed boss room