Elder Blood Witcher 179 More Skeletons, Who Would've Guessed?

The death of Leeroy seems to have been a big shock to Rhea, that or the almost comical way he had died. Either way they head into the nearby cave entrance further up the path, Reima recasts his Light spell and the trio are greeted with an almost sandstone colour cave with a large pit nearby and many stalact.i.tes hanging from the ceiling. The group don't get a lot of time to admire the scenery however as Solaire parries a couple large arrows being shot from the darkness ahead of them, Reima's spell isn't able to move aside from hovering above him... He gets an idea and covers his hand in Armament Haki while trying to grasp it, he feels as if he's got a hold of it and throws it at where the arrow was shot from. The ball of light is thrown into the darkness and light up the path ahead, revealing a giant skeleton wielding a bow as well as a couple wielding heavy looking shields. The ball of light that was just thrown seems to gain control of trajectory and quickly hovers back to Reima, reverting to it's rightful place above his head.

Reima wasn't idle though, as the light reveals their enemies he casts a Crystal Soul spear at the archer, it hits and scatters it's bones everywhere making it unable to fight for a few short moments. Solaire sees this and runs ahead no longer fearing being sniped from afar, Rhea tries to keep up to him but isn't fast or strong enough to keep his sprinting pace. Reima quickly pa.s.ses her as the best thing to do for now is clear out the enemies before anymore can appear, Solaire had just severed a shield wielding skeletons leg below the knee while Reima blinks behind another and decapitates it leaving only a few left.

The duo destroy the rest of them only to hear a feminine scream from behind, turning they see Rhea on the floor shuffling backwards away from another towering abomination, she has tears running down as face as she shakes her head while muttering "No, n-no not again!". Solaire launches a Sunlight Spear at the tower of skeletons before Reima blinks in-front of Rhea and slices it in half like he had done previously. He sighs, wondering what could make her act like this towards those towering skeletons? Solaire helps the girl up as she tries to regain her composure.

Reima "Look, if you can't go any further I will take you somewhere safe." She shakes her head at his, "I-I'm sorry, I over reacted. I really hate those monsters." Reima looks at Solaire and shrugs, "Ok, I guess."

The group enter another cave-like entrance and see many skeletons that seem to be praying? Reima gives them a nudge with his foot causing it to collapse and turn to dust... He's brought from his thoughts as Solaire pulls him aside, a soul arrow whizzes by his head causing him to get gooseb.u.mps, they look at the direction where the spell was shot and see many beings that look like Pinwheel? Are they clones of some sort or just copy-cats? Reima blinks forward and starts cutting them down like chaff, unfortunately these are not the only enemies present. Solaire and Rhea are left behind on the previous platform as almost forty child sized skeletons start emerging from the shallow water on a lower floor. A single swipe from Solaire easily kills one but the rest move, not allowing him to kill more than one at a time, as they slowly start to surround and flank him they start turning their attention onto Rhea. As the skeletons approach her she tries to jab at them with her Silver sword but they dodge and seem to chuckle at her as their skulls make clicking and chattering sounds.

Eventually she loses her nerve and starts channelling a Miracle, the skeletons try to stop her but she's finished before they can interfere. A shock-wave impacts them and causes their small bodies to be brutally thrown at the nearby walls, shattering their fragile forms and causing bone fragments to fly everywhere. Solaire loses his balance momentarily due to the spell accidentally hitting him in the back but he just rolls forward with it helping him deal with the impact.

Reima who had almost finished with the Pinwheel clones senses something shooting at him at high speeds, he performs a flip and kicks it, only now realising it's a mini skeleton that somehow had shot itself towards him. The unfortunate skeleton shatters in to thousands of bone shards as Reima looks over to his companions, only to find them almost finished with their enemies. He blinks over and helps them deal with the rest of the annoying things, afterwards they all hop over a small hole and come face to face with a large wooden barricade of some kind... Reima casts Aard at it and successfully destroys it, they go forwards and see a Fog-Gate blocking their path, the Fog-Gate to GraveLord Nito.

Rhea stops the group for a moment and starts casting many helpful Miracles, increasing the parties Strength, Speed, Resilience and Health Regeneration. Solaire casts Sunlight Sword and Reima uses Chaos Blade to enhance his own weapon, he also distributes a healthy helping of Green Blossoms to everyone.
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Reima "You guys ready?"

Solaire and Rhea nod and the group walk through the Fog-Gate before jumping into the dark hole leading to Nito.