NOVEL WEB Chapter 19: Rescue
Taiga: What happened?
Volk: They lost Ariya.
Sapphire: 
Taiga: Damn it
Taiga: this is bad
Volk: It's super bad. She was caught by the guard.
Taiga: we need to extract pad and schmorge
Volk: What about Ariya?
Taiga: lets get Ariya's body too
Volk: We don't know if she's dead.
Sapphire: 
Taiga: oh they got separated
Taiga: hmm
Taiga: this is bad, we dont know if we can escape with sapph and save Ariya and find Schmorge and Pad
Volk: Sapph how long until you can move again?
Sapphire: i don't know
Sapphire: 
Taiga: huh...
Taiga: well
Taiga: lets try to make it to the closest shrubbery covering
Taiga: then we can conceal sapph in it and then head back on a rescue mission of the rescue team
Volk: Let's go then,
Volk: Sapph. Please don't move okay?
Sapphire: hai
Sapphire: 
Taiga: ok lets carefully put sapph's body here
Volk places Sapph's left arm and leg down in the shrubbery. Taiga carefully lowers and conceals Sapph's right side.
Taiga: Sapph listen carefully, if you can move and we aren't back by then, leave without us. You must survive.
Volk grabs some of the nearest giant leaves to hide the rest of her body.
Sapphire:
Taiga: 
Taiga: we won't die on you yet, we'll make it back to you
Volk: I love you sapph.
The two adventurers start walking away from the bush and start planning a way to get everyone.
Taiga: volk
Volk: yeah
Taiga: we know what to do
Volk: Wait, Taiga.
Taiga: yes?
Volk: I actually have a spell book on me.
Taiga: oh wat
Taiga: can i see?
Volk: I was saving it for a rainy day. But this looks important.
Volk: You know how spell books work right?
Volk: Once you read them, they disappear. And you learn the spell.
Taiga: ah
Taiga: wouldn't that be more akin to a scroll since its one spell?
Volk: You learn the spell.
Volk: Meaning you can use it again.
Taiga: ah true
Taiga: ok
Volk: If it's stored in your memory
Taiga: should you learn it or should I?
Volk: I think you have more mana than I do.
Taiga: true
Taiga: ok I'll do it.
Volk: Okay. Let's calm down a bit.
Taiga: understood
Volk: Let your mana flow freely.
Volk: Are you ready Taiga?
Taiga: I am
Taiga focuses his mana and starts reading the spell book.
Volk: The spell is "Blizzard".
Taiga: This can be useful.
Taiga: Do you know how effective it is and it's max effective range?
Volk: The range is 100 meters and it uses up 100 MP. It only freezes their legs.
Taiga: understood
Volk: Alright. Let's go back in the mansion.
Taiga: lets get them
They peer around the corner to spot fifty guards patrolling the front door.
Volk: That's a lot.
Taiga: hmm how should we go about this.
Taiga: if we try to sneak around, they might overwhelm the interior of the mansion and it'll be much harder to find the others
Taiga: not to mention that pad and schmorge are separated from Ariya.
Volk: Let's just try to listen to their conversation first.
Taiga: ok
Volk: Can you hear anything?
The two adventurers made out some words like "... There were ... window ... stench .... bathroom ... basement ... girl... the shiny one", but it wasn't clear what exactly the guards were talking about.
Volk: hmmmm.
Taiga: girl... shiny one... are they referring to Sapph or Ariya?
Volk: I think Sapph.
Volk: She's a gem right?
Taiga: yea
Taiga: and the locations describe our path to rescue sapph
Volk: What about the basement?
Volk: We never went there?
Taiga: oh wait
Taiga: you're right
Taiga: hmmm
More key words were flowing out of the guard's conversation.
"Patrol time! ... East ... 4 ... hours ... per ... 5 .... wednars"
Taiga: 4 hours?
Volk: They're going on patrol for 4 hours?
Taiga: hmmm
Taiga: doesn't seem right
Taiga: we just caused a commotion
Volk: Anyways.
Volk: Let's see if we can climb on the roof.
Volk: We already did underground and windows. So they might be looking at those places.
Volk: So let's go from the top.
Taiga: understood
Volk points at the balcony at the top of the mansion.
Volk: I think we can get in through that.
Taiga: ok lets climb those vines to the left
Volk: Alright.
Volk climbs onto the vines, Taiga following. At the top of the vines, Volk grabbed on the ledge and pushed himself up. He then extended a hand for Taiga to grab on. Taiga took his hand and pushed himself up too.
Taiga: alright
Volk: Let's do this
Taiga: wait volk.
Taiga: didn't you say you were able to contact schmorge through party chat?
Volk: I can't connect to him right now for some reason.
Taiga: damn
Taiga: you wanna retrace our steps and make our way back to the places we've been?
Volk: Let's just continue into the mansion and sneak around the guards.
Volk opens the door and Taiga peeks left like he would in counter strike.
Volk: All clear.
Taiga: Same.
Taiga: ok lets scout out the second floor before moving down
Volk: We don't have time, Taiga.
Volk: I'm going straight to the basement as that is our only lead right now.
Taiga: ok i'll follow
The two adventurers walked towards the basement and finds a broken basement door and a broken stone sledge hammer. There is also blood on the ground.
Taiga: shit
Volk: Probably Schmorge.
Taiga: How long ago has this happened?
Volk: He was holding that sledge hammer after all.
Volk: I have no idea. Let's go in.
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Guard: Have you found her yet?
Sapphire:
Guard 2: No. Have you?
Guard: Keep searching this area.
Guard 2: Okay. But there's nothing but leaves in this weird spot.
Guard 2: Huh?
Sapphire: 
Taiga
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Class: Magician
Level: 0
Skills:
Fireball
Blizzard
Inventory: None
Volk
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Class: Elementalist
Level: 0
Skills:
Fireball
Lightning Strike
Inventory:
32 Wednars
Sapphire
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Class: Paladin
Level: 0
Skills: None
Inventory: None