Chapter 38 - A Victory And A Friendship (2/2)
Lifting his wooden sword up high with a threatening posture as if he was ready to strike the man anytime...
”Wahhh... No, help me!” With a shrieking voice and crying for help, the man scrambled away like a cowardly chicken spotted by a fearsome lion.
Unsurprisingly, the man in question was in his 30s with casual clothes. He was also the same man who had started the chaotic mess last two times.
Even in this time of crisis, the man still tried to pick a fight with Eddie...
'He is an attention seeker?' Eddie thought annoyingly.
Shaking his head lightly at the man whom maybe, had tried to relieve his accumulated stress on him, Eddie took a brief look around at the incoming skeleton soldiers.
After seeing that the people's eyes were on him whose mouths might open and bombarded him with questions again at any time.
Thus, Eddie decided to speak first, ”They are coming closer and closer now. So, listen to me, will ya? The thing you guys have to do is, striking those damned things at their neck areas, then 'bam!', they drop dead.”
”Understood?”
Speaking till here, Eddie started to walk in the direction of the skeleton soldiers at the right passageway.
”If you still don't believe in my words, then watch me fight them as an example. After that, it's up to you.”
He only left those words behind without even waiting for those people's response at all...
Upon seeing that Eddie was walking further and further away from the group, Mitchell, who had just come back from killing the two skeleton soldiers earlier, hurriedly placed the little girl down near the unconscious man.
Afterward, Mitchell told the girl to stay there, and then he ran after Eddie quickly...
With the doubtful eyes of people around the Crystal's vicinity, staring in wonder at their backs, Eddie and Mitchell went away without turning their heads back even once.
*Bam*
*Crunch*
*Crunch*
*Thump*
Eddie and Mitchell started to fight bravely with the undead army...
Soon, after everyone else saw how Eddie and Mitchell dealt with those skeleton soldiers, their eyes started to reflect some hope from within...
The situation wasn't hopeless after all...
Just like that, the real slaughter began...
...
Almost half an hour later...
”We won!!”
”Finally! Those damned things...”
”We... we really survive...”
”Shit, it hurts like hell being hit by that bone thingy.”
”Look, there is a transparent interface popping up.”
”Right... I've got 26 SP from killing one skeleton soldier.”
With the voice of people cheering, cursing, being amazed, and so on...
They actually won the fight...
However, it was actually accompanied by five deaths and more than ten injured people. As a result, there were only 43 of them remaining now.
Meanwhile...
*Huff*
*Huff*
”So... tire... tired...”
”I think I was gonna die. Damn bones!”
”Thanks for helping me. What's your name?”
”I'm Bob, yours?”
”Mine is Joshua; nice to meet you.”
”My arm is broken...”
”No more, not anymore...”
The sounds of people making huffing and complaining noises while trying to catch their breaths echoed within the not so lively chamber. There were even people who had made new friends from this life-or-death fight.
Those people were the ones who had fought really hard like their lives were on the line a moment ago.
Parts of those such people were Eddie and Mitchell...
”Haaaa...”
Eddie exhaled a long breath from his mouth; it resulted from his heart thumping so loudly nonstop. He felt like the adrenaline rush's effects had just run out. As a result, he felt so out of breath.
Right now, he only wanted to take a short break, nothing more...
Even though he only needed one or two full force strikes to take down each one of them at most. However, It was still proved quite a hurdle for him to avoid, parry, deflect, then counterattack those skeleton soldiers when they assaulted him from every direction continuously without any sign of fatigue at all.
The one sitting on the floor beside Eddie was Mitchell, who had earlier saved Eddie more than once from being smacked in the head by those sneaky pieces of walking bones.
Whenever Eddie slipped up or fell into an unfavorable situation, Mitchell would either give a timely aid or come to help at the right time.
It could be said that if not for Mitchell, Eddie should have a bloody head by now.
So, Eddie felt immensely grateful for Mitchell's helping hand and timely save...
As for Mitchell, he chose Eddie as his buddy instead of any other people because Eddie looked more reliable than those guys.
At this moment, when most people didn't even know what other people were thinking within their questionable 'sane' minds, the things and activities that they had shown and done so far were the only indicators to specify their outer shells at the very least...
As a result, when Eddie showed his compassion to help others, together with his direct attitude towards most things around him, Mitchell felt that Eddie was more than reliable for their current situations.
That's why he decided to run after Eddie to fight with the skeleton soldiers alongside him...
Consequently, after going through a life-or-death situation together, they grew closer to one another...