Chapter 348 – Elven capitan city invasion – part 3.
[Some time ago, before the dragon army march began.]
"Eh? You want us all 3 to go together?" – asked Thanatos.
"Yeb." – replied Phantasia.
"Wait, hold up. Didn't you said that the elves are wary of ALL of "yours" movement as a Doctor?" – said Thanatos.
"And from what I know, you only have BASIC thief type classes built…. What about you?"
"Nope. I don't have even a single thief type class with an even level 1 on me." – said Maparapara.
"…"
"Okay…. So how... No. This is straight up impossible." – said Thanatos.
"I can avoid the elves' detection and their detection ability is currently at their worst, since the war has taken the toll on them, BUT NOT THE AREA AROUND THE CAPITAL CITY!"
"That area is still heavily defended, and there are a lot of scouts around."
"And even if we somehow try to avoid that dangerous area, there will still be some elves patrolling near that area."
"Pretty much, the entire great forest is a death zone."
"And you want, for us 3, to go behind the enemy capital city, WITHOUT getting spotted even once….. How the hell do you think we will do it?"
"We won't." – said Phantasia.
"You will."
"???"
"Eh?"
"[Race Transformation: Slime Mini]!" – Mapara suddenly activated her skill, changing form and shape…. Before then, taking on the appearance of a very small version of herself.
"???"
"The hell is this?" – asked Thanatos as she got on her knees.
"My mini form." – said Maparapara.
"This is more of an emergency survival form where I have to run away or fake my death kind of deal."
"This form honestly suck, since I don't have any combat abilities, nor I can't use almost all of my skills, except for some slime skills."
"…"
"Wait…. You want me to carry you or something? Like in an box?" – said Thanatos.
"Wait…. How would that work?"
"I mean….. I can affect my items with the stealth skill…. But you are a player…. Eh?"
"Wait, wait, wait. This is a real ass question."
"How would that work if I were to "pocket" you? Would you allow me to shadow dive with you?"
"Maybe if I put you on my bike and use my [Murderer] skill [Wandering In the Back alleys] would….. But that would hide the bike from being detected, not you two."
"…"
"Nope. It wouldn't work at all."
"Yeb. I know, that is why I've bought something from the "Kid"." – said ClownFrog as he took out a pyramid shaped object.
"?"
"What is that?" – asked Thanatos.
"It is the single use item known as [Abandoned Coffin]."
"It is a magic tool that the vampires are often using to stay hidden and stuff. Pretty much, this is one of the things these guys use to not get found out."
"And this item in particular is related to… "Peace"."
"Do you know the whole stenotype with the vampires sleeping in their coffins?"
"Well, they do that here."
"They do that if they are bored with the era and want to just press the skip button, or do it in order to start their recovery if they sustained some nasty damage that can't be healed with just their regenerative ability."
"If those vampires live alone and they don't want to get found out, then they will use this [Abandoned Coffin] to make them hard to detect."
"Pretty much, a perfect hiding item."
"But, it is not perfect."
"The item only hinders detection and does not make you invisible to the naked eye."
"The seal is fragile and you need to be locked in a tightly sealed place. If the place you are hiding in is no longer "tightly" sealed, then the seal will break."
"And finally, you cannot use most of your skills."
"Things like "summon monsters and command them from the coffin" won't work, nor can you launch any attacks at all. If you try to do any of those things, the seal breaks."
"Pretty much, you are hard to detect, but you are also at the same time a prisoner."
"So…. Maparapara will use her mini form, and I will change my body size and form, allowing me to be stuffed into the box just like Maparapara, and we will just attach ourselves to your bike."
"And that is why I also prepared these dummy golems."
"They will make it look like me, Maparapara and Thanatos are at the frontlines, but obviously these things can't do shit. However, if we make their presence known and make them appear near important people, like the general, then the elven spies would mistake us for these things, which would make them think that we are still at the base, preparing for the final battle alongside the main army."
"So, the plan is simple."
"We will seal ourselves into the boxes and you will transport that."
"With that, all 3 of us will be present on the battlefield."
"And then I will use my own bike that is also a golem to get to the gate."
"If all goes well, then we will hit the elves in a way they would never forget."
[Back to the present.]
"What is wrong little elves?! Are you scared of little old me?!" – said Maparapara as she swinged around her spiky shield, crushing the elves and their tree monsters, while also using her shields to block the blasts of magic.
"Hey." – said Doctor as he rushed at the spirit mages, alarming them, trying to make them change target towards the Doctor, but as soon as one of the mages was about to fire an blast of fire, Doctor used [Body Puppeteering], taking control over the spirit mage body and making change his aim towards the other mages, blowing them up alongside the mage that fired this skill.
(Oh, I just love this skill!) – thought Phantasia before then raising up his arm, blocking an elven sword, and then using his claws to decapitate the elf that attacked him.
(Still, even though we managed to get inside, we had barely managed to move away from the gate.)
(There are also those soldiers on the wall.)
(After they deal with the remaining monsters outside, then they could rain down arrows on us from above, but obviously, there are their soldier down here as well….)
"…"
(This body is also far weaker than my war form.) – thought Phantasia as he grabbed an elf with a spear weapon and then pulled him over, before then crushing the elf's head with his hands.
(I don't have any crazy weapons on me, expect for the basic body adjustment as well as my armor, meaning that I can endures less damage than before.)
(Still, we have an solid chance.)
(Most of the elves that were placed here by the looks of things were long range fighters, they don't have enough foot soldiers to confront us head on, meaning that we can break through their defenses and head to the city.) - thought Phantasia as he swinged around his claws, cutting in half multiple eleven soldier, before then getting stabbed in the back by the elven knight's spear,
The elf knight quickly retreated, dodging Doctor claws, but as soon as he dodged the claws an blast of acid flew his way, hitting the elf and causing him to scream in pain, stopping the elf for moment and giving Doctor an chance to rush in and impale the elf through his chest with Doctor claws, killing the elf.
(But the problem is time.) - thought Phantasia as he was forced to deploy his barrier to protect himself from the barrage of arrows.
(The elven reinforcement should already be on their way, since there was some flare.)
(We need to break through their defenses and run away, causing chaos.)
"..."
"?"
"?!"
"HEY WAIT A MOMENT!" - shouted the elven captain.
"Where is the third person?!"
"Shit! Spread the word! The enemy broke through!"
"The enemy is in the city!"
"..."
"Huh... I guess they realized that Hunter isn't here." - said Maparapara as she joined up with Doctor.
"Do you think she will do it?"
"Yeb, don't worry about this." - said Doctor as he blasted all the elves around the pair with a barrage of bones.
"She already accepted herself as a villain."
...
While the two monsters were going berserk and trying to break through the enemy line of defense, nobody had noticed in time that the Hunter had left the battlefield in the middle of the chaos.
"M-mommy. Will daddy be alright?" -Asked the elven child as she, alongside her mother as well as several other elven civilians, were hiding inside a safe house.
"Don't worry dear. Everything will be alright. Daddy will slay the monster to save everybody and then come back."
(I say that... But I don't know really....) - thought worried elven mother.
(The queen was saying something about dragons wanting to destroy us, but she never told us "HOW" the war started?)
(Is she hiding something from us? From her people?)
(.... After this war is over, I should talk this over with my husband and consider moving out.... of....?)
The elven mother noticed an unknown person in the middle of the room, holding a giant scythe.
"?!"
"Who-"
"..."
"..."
"?"
"Did you heard that?" - asked the guard right outside the safe house as he and the other guard started noticing some noises coming from the other side of the door.
"?!" - the two knights guarding the door suddenly began hearing screams coming from inside the safe room.
"Hey! What is going on in there?!" - shouted the knight as he started banging on the door.
"Open up!"
(Shit! The safe house is sealed from the outside! We need somebody from inside to open it up to get inside!)
"…"
"I will break the door open. MOVE!" – said the elven knight as he took out his sword and summoned his fire spirit.
"!"
"Wait!" – said the second guard as a sound of somebody trying to open the door could be heard.
"…"
Somebody opened up the door from inside the safe house…. But as soon as it was opened, the second guard was suddenly impaled right in his face with a scythe, alarming the first guard who swung his fire infused sword at the attacker.
"[Blood Blast]." – An shotgun like blast of blood flew at the elven knight, knocking him back, before moments later Hunter leaped at the knight with her scythe, forcing the elven knight to defend himself using his own sword, before moments later Hunter merged with the elf shadow, surprising and alarming him as he didn't knew what was going on.
"!"
The elf noticed Hunter coming from the shadows from behind, causing the elf to swing around with his burning sword and cut down the attacker.
"!?"
Only to then realize it was a fake, before moments later getting decapitated by the real Hunter from behind.
"…"
After killing both of the knights, Hunter just walked away, leaving behind the safe house.
"Mom! Mom! Get up!" – said the elven child as it tried to save her injured mom, as she and a lot of other elves in the room were left injured after Hunter ambush.
"Mom! Mom!" – the little girl cried as her mother stopped moving….. But for some reason, she suddenly got up.
"?!"
"Mom?" – said the worried girl who tried to hug her mother…. Only to back away as she noticed something was wrong with her mother as she started growling and twitching.
The elven mother…. She was turned into undead, alongside a few other elves.
And upon getting turned…. The infected elves started attacking other elves in the room, causing a massacre.
With that, the plague had officially made its way into the city.