Chapter 20

After walking for a couple hours we come across a slightly stronger creature, a troll. Before anyone can react to it Lucy freezes it, and then smashes its skull with her fist.

"Impressive" mr smith

after a couple minutes of walking in silence Joe decides to break it.

"hey mr smith, what is your favorite magic?" Joe

"hmm, good question. I guess the one I use most would be illusion magic, the only reason for that though is to hide from the church some of my other enemies." mr smith

"why is the church your enemy?" sally

"I did a couple things to piss them off a while back" mr smith

"like what, anything that you did to piss them off must be good" jack

"I killed 50 of their high inquisitors during a raid on the capital" mr smith

"wait, that was you 3 years ago?" jacobe

"why would you do something like that?" sally

"simple, the church preaches human superiority and extinction of everything else. I plan on doing much worse things to them in the future." jack

"I did not know that" Joe

When it starts to get dark we approach a house that seems good to spend the night in. The door is locked, by the window next to the door is wide open. After a minute of trying to unlock the door through the window we walk inside and jacobe goes to the kitchen while the rest of us enter the living room. I check out all of the rooms in one of them I find a couple people. There are three men and 2 children, one of the men looks suspiciously like a bishop.

“who are you” man# 1

“names jack, who are you people” jack

“I’m cath and my brother here is Mathew, these kids are his” cath

“and I am father marks” marks

“a friend of mine is cooking downstairs, there is more than enough food for everyone here” jack

“is this place yours?” Mathew

“no it’s not, just stopping here for the night leaving first thing in the morning” jack

When we go downstairs I get questioned by jacobe.

“who’re these people?” jacobe

“they were here first so it’s only natural that we feed them before moving on” jack

“fair enough” jacobe

‘are you really fine with that one being here?’ Johanna

As she said that she looked at marks.

‘nope, but I’ll deal with that later. For now I want some food’ jack

Food turned out to be sausages, Much to the delight of ghost.

“tell us your story” sally

To summarize what they said shoot monster, run from big monster, and survive. It really wasn’t very interesting or important.

after eating I called out to marks.

“hey marks I want to talk to you outside for a minute.” Jack

“very well, I wanted to talk to you privately as well” marks

When we heeded outside he turns to me with anger in his eyes.

“how are you alive, I thought we killed off the last of the shadowlings” marks

“interesting, you will never know” jack

As soon as I said that I killed him, mortal combat style. I ripped his heart out and crushed it with my bear hands. As soon as I did that I saw some rat type monsters. This particular type of monster likes to swarm their meal in massive numbers. I clean my hands off with some magically created water. As soon as the blood stained water hit the ground all of the rats perked up as if smelling prey, which they had. A second latter they attack me and started eating the dead man at my feet, a perfect cover up. I killed a couple rats, which got eaten by other rats, and got bit and scratched once or twice. I retreat inside while casting a spell to prevent infection.

When I walk in Mathew approaches me.

“hey where is marks?” Mathew

“he was eaten, by some rat creatures” jack

“I, I see” Mathew

“he was a good man” cath

“what were you talking about out there?” Mathew

“something really boring that has to do with religion and- oh shit their coming inside” jack

It was just me, the kids, Mathew, and cath in here. Everyone else was in the living room, and by the sound of it they had it worse. as the rats started pouring in through the front door the brothers took out identical handguns and started shooting the rats, the only problem was that they haven’t, hit, once.

“bah, just give those to me” jack

I take the guns out of their hands, much to their surprise. They start to protest but as soon as I start shooting they stop. I run forward into a melee with the rats using kicks, strikes, and the occasional shot from the gun to kill the rats.

“so how are we supposed to fight then?” cath

“use your fists, I guess. Just kill anything that gets past me. Also, give me your ammo.” Jack

As soon as I said that a two clips of ammo appeared in front of me. I caught them and reloaded the guns faster than I ever have before. These inflated stats at work again.

After about 15 minutes we had killed all the rats on our end. I look toward the guys and notice that cath

is lying down, heavily injured from the fight.

“bro, tell my wife I love her” cath

Where have I seen this before?

“you say that like you’re going to die.” Jack

“I am, my health is at 10 with a heavy bleed effect” cath

“you’re not going to die, you know why? Because of this.” Jack

When I say that I snap my fingers and use some high level healing magic on him to restore his hp to about ¼ and remove the bleed effect. His wounds start to visibly heal.

“thanks man, I owe you my life.” Cath

“it was nothing, mana regenerates, lives do not” jack

That line was total bullshit, I don’t care if he dies, but I can use him latter because of this.

End chapter 20

school is out for the summer. i would normally type during school, so now i don't type as much (blame rrl) so chapters will most likely be shorter.