The Ruined Death Knight

Chapter 187 - Holy Magic

With the dead mana traveling to the corpses, the skull wolves rose up to the surprise of the explorers and the living skull wolves.

As the body was lying to the ground around them from their fight. Once they have risen, they surrounded the explorers.

"Gweegh!"

Howling at their hatefull enemy, they imminently jumped into action.

Although they were now in the bottom of the 2nd-tier as being merely a zombie through the core. Compared to a human's body that Danzel was used to animate, those skull wolves had a much better body, making them reach the second tier in strength without evolving into an undead who was of the second tier.

With their jaws still as deadly, even if they were a lot slower than the living ones.

They had the numbers.

The two other explorers who were at the front together with Sean and Isamu who killed lots of the skull wolves found themselves regretting killing so many and not moving places.

As both were near each other, the corpses who they let rot before were no charging beside one living one!

"What the hell!?"

"You can´t be serious!"

The moment they stepped to the side to dodge the leap of the living one, they imminently pushed their blades inside his body. Killing it with a swift movement.

But before they were even able to draw their blades, 8 of Danzel undead were having their mouths open to bite a piece of them.

They discarded their weapon and tried to realize against the untiring undead, but unfortunately were overwhelmed.

Once one of the undead skull wolves tackled one of them and made him fall, the other soon jumped in for a meal.

With his comrade looking his back now dead, the other one soon enough fell into the same fate.

"Aghhh!

"H-Help!"

His desperate plea for help was ignored by his fellow explorers as they still had to fend off the attacks of the undead.

"Dammit! Sean! They coming!" Isamu jelled as he got rid of another of the living ones while sweeping his greatsword and releasing a wall of wind, pushing the undead who were rushing at him a bit back.

`If this continued we will be wiped out´ Isamu cursed as he saw Sean struggle of holding his own against the undead.

It was only him, Sean their guardian in the front. With Sylva and the priestess giving support from the back protected from another explorer that they weren´t acquainted with.

Although the undead was much weaker, their bites were lethal.

Not to mention, they had only Sylva give support fire while their priestess was preparing her magic.

Not to mention, that undead is being controlled by a necromancer hiding somewhere around them.

Having to be wary of a magic caster throwing a spell at you while you were such difficult put a lot of stress on both him and Sean.

`Those damned beasts...they didn´t even realize that those things are undead!´ Isamu cursed internally.

The most frustrating thing for him though was that the living skull wolves hadn´t even realized that their kin became monsters who hated the living!

"Priestess! How much longer!" Isamu jelled as he cut another undead, shortly to be replaced with another one.

The priestess in question, who had her eyes closed raised her staff and channeled.

"Oh Goddess of the endless light, please grant the pitiful souls that we are with your guiding! [Holy Light]!"

Opening her eyes, a golden glow appeared out of her staff, until it illuminated 20 meters around her.

While her comrades felt a warm feeling counting around their bodies, the undead skull wolves had a more extreme reaction.

"Gweaaagh!"

"Gwaaaaagh!"

"Gweeagh!"

Screeches that a living thing couldn´t even hope to make came out of every undead who were inside the warm and tortures light.

It was as if the pain of the living came back at them and having been put into a stake to be burned in a fire.

Although it was looked like any other light that you will find.

For the undead, it was their bane.

Holy Magic.

Magic that rejected dead mana itself and was granted by a holy Deity.

Reminded once again by their mortal pain, the skull wolves dragged themself to the ground and left the light radius.

Glaring at the Priestess with enough killing intent to drow someone.

"Fooh, finally a break-" Sean said, regretting even spouting those words out.

The remaining living skull wolves who weren´t affected by the warm light at all were still in to get a part if not ahead in their mouth.

Staring at Sean struggling, he wanted to help but shortly stopped himself as he saw another one rushing towards him.

"Tch, Sylva! The necromancer! Find him!" Isamu said as he jumped to the said, now facing a skull wolve.

"Mhmm." Nodding her head, her eyes turned into green light.

With now not worrying about her comrade dying and herself, she finally had time to look around her for any hints telling there was a necromancer nearby.

Shortly after, her eyes landed on a building that had a large crack around his window.

Noticing a small movement in the shadows, her eyes turned sharp.

'Found you'

Pulling an arrow from the quiver, she pulled the string of her now with an arrow with it and channels her mana into it.

Clear blue mana surrounded her arrow.

Letting the strings go, a loud wind-cutting voice was released.

Flying through the air while surrounded with mana at incredible speed. 

*Fsoooou!

It went towards the house who she saw a movement in.

*Grbaaah!

Making contact with the wall, the wall itself exploded, raising a dust screen through the air.

"Sylva what was that!? Did you find him! Or rather, did you hit him!" Isamu asked as he couldn't see because he was focused on his fight.

"..."

Instead of answering, Sylva stared in the direction of the dust screen intensely.

A few seconds passed with only the fight of the two with the skull wolves to be heard.

Until that silence was broken by Sylva.

Seeing the dust screen clearing, a tall shadow was to be seen.

"No! I didn't get him! He is still alive." Sylvia yelled as she draw another arrow to shoot at the necromancer.

But to her surprise, the necromancer moved to the side, letting the arrow fly past him.

"Huh!?"

The necromancer in question ignored her disbelief and raised his palm high similar to a stop motion.

Confusing those who saw him to that.

While Isamu was fighting the skull solve though, as if his senses slowed down, his eyes moved to the ground with a grown building in his face.

'Why is mana going through the ground? Is it the magic casters?' Isamu thought as he got warry of it.

But once he notice the mana to continue moving to the ground towards a sorted person, his eyes were wide open.

"This guy!"

Guiding his life force through his body, he forced it to increase his strength and speed to a whole new level.

"Die! You ugly beast!"

As the will was able to swallow him whole, the skull solve was cut into pieces.

Without any time to celebrate, he turned around while shouting at Sean.

"Sean! Fall back! Now!" 

Although confused, Sean wounded one of the skulls wolves he was facing and run away without a second thought.

Even if those two fighters most of the time with each other, they did trust each other.

But the other three didn't.

"What are you-" the explorer who was protecting the two was about to say before he was interrupted by Isamu.

"Move back!"

"Huh?"

Dashing forward, she jumped into the priestess who was channeling the [Holy Light] spell, dragging her and him to the ground.

Stunned by what had just happened, she yelled at Isamu.

"No! Without me continuing the spell, the undead will-"

Before she could finish her sentence, a wide stone wall was beginning rising in the exact position where she was channeling the spell a moment ago.

"If I didn't do it, now you would have a damn wall raising between your legs." Isamu said at the silent priestess who recognized the spell in front of her.

'Using a defensive spell such as [Stone Wall] to actually attack someone...'

If Isamu didn't move her away, she could very well get injured by the fall or fall to the other side of the wall, completely isolating her and the party.

'Huh, wait second' realizing that something was wrong, she scanned her surroundings before turning her head at Isamu who helped her get up.

"I see Sean and Sylva, but where is the one of before?" She asked Isamu.

Not a second later, her question of before was answered.

"No! Stay away! Aghhhh!" With screams coming from the other side of the wall, the four of them who were on the safe side with no undead to see felt bad for him.

Isamu tried to warn him, but even he didn't expect a whole stone wall to appear.

As he wasn't very knowable of magic, his imagination wasn't that created.

He expected a spike of earth to appear under their priestess, not a wall separating the streets all tougher together with their comrade.

"Everyone...we got to run, though we could probably manage the skull wolves...facing a necromancer after that is beyond dangerous.* Isamu said with a depressed look.

Not only were they exhausted of the journey already, but facing such an amount of unknown beast with q necromancer on the loose.

Everyone shortly agreed and started running away from the ruins that are this city.

'I will have to complain to the informant for this one.. For all, I know that necromancer could be a Lich or something if he were to live here.'