Chapter 128: A Cry for Help - V (1/2)

'That explains the clear difficulty spike' Merlin thought as he watched the notification disappear 'But what issue did we solve? We just destroyed the statues, it's not like we saved the villagers'

Merlinheavily and holding her wounded fists

He reached down and grabbed his goblin hexer's staff, throwing it back into his inventory before taking out his herbalist kit, placing it on the stone floor beside her

"I didn't bring any water with me, damn" He mumbled to himself He turned towards Callisto and asked her if she had any water

He was instructed to grab the waterskin attached to her belt, a water bottle of sorts made from animal skin Merlin shook it around and found that it was almost full

He reached into his herbalist's kit and pulled out the h his inventory once more

"I don't have fuel for a fire, so this'll have to do" He sighed as he pulled roughly ten grams of falsofal froe pink leaves, Merlin balled the theround up, they began releasing a slirael Merlin reached into thefor Callisto's hands

"Thisher bloodied and shredded hands with the gel Her blood wasall over Merlin's hands, but he didn'tsensation at first, but el had taken over

Merlin cast cleanse on hiunk, before he went back to thewater into it He el in thethe mortar to Callisto

"Drink it" He said as he held theher sit up

Callisto drank the contents before laying back down, it seeh it was only aeffect, as he didn't have the equipment to boil water and make a proper potion

'All the tools required, what a scaht to himself when he stared at the herbalist's kit

Merlin began running around to each of the rangers, providing medical assistance where necessary And after about one hundred grams of falsofal later, everyone in the room had been treated Merlin returned the waterskin to Callisobfore he started wandering around checking up on everyone's condition

A large group begantheir way into the temple with their weapons drawn, but they were quickly identified to be the other group of rangers, those who stayed outside

Once the other rangers realised there was no threats inside the te out within the temple Merlin had ers froinal expedition team approached her

"Boss, I'm sorry" He said as he dropped to his knees beside her "We suddenly got attacked by an ogre while searching the surrounding forests"

The ranger signalled a couple other rangers to approach, there were three of the what seemed to be a body each, but two of the bodies were covered in a black robe

"Yolal was the first to fall, he was hit by the ogre, and we couldn't save hire, ere attacked by two individuals They were surprisingly powerful, but truthfully they caught us by surprise while ere dealing with the ogre All the enemies have been subdued, but we've suffered losses"

The three bodies were placed on the ground, and by this ti the bodies

Merlin recognised the ranger called Yolal He was the jerk who started treating hie when Merlin mentioned the silhouettes in the distance

His eyes then locked onto the hooded figures, and he felt a strange sense of familiarity

Callisto tore one of the hoods off the dead assailants, only to find that what should have been a hureen and covered in warts One of the eyes was bulging out of its socket and the nose was bulbous