In the middle of the darkness, a group of about 10 people moved through the silence that covered the world. Each of them wore black clothing that even covered their face. They also used 《Night Vision》 magic to proceed in the night with no doubt in gait.
“Is it here? There’s no mistake right?”
“Don’t worry. There has been some preliminary inspection.”
“I just want to be sure… since this time it is a big job.”
“Well, I understand. After all the rewards is 300 gold coins, it is indeed a big catch. Anyway the receptionist and adventurer of Comer city is hard to handle, we even spend a lot of time to extort the information because they don’t want to talk.”
A man dressed with face mask then pulled the cover and spit to the ground in disgust.
“This place is far from the main road and some people considered this place as a haunted house. Anyway, I wonder why the nobility and the thieves guild never move a finger. The treasure is in front of the eyes with dryad in the garden. I wonder why no one made a move. So, this time the client is the Viscount of Samantha City?”
“You know the main reason was because Yu was on friendly terms with Mussu, the ruler of Comer city. That’s why no one who dares to make a move.”
“Stop your chit chat, we’re going to arrive in the mansion. It’s already on sight.”
In front of the men eyes, despite in the darkness, they can saw it clearly. The mansion that was now covered with bushes and shrubs.
“Wow. This is the largest mansion I’ve ever seen. However ever since Yu went missing, the house was almost on the brink of collapsing. Even if that guy was here, I don’t think he could do anything since he is just becoming a C rank adventurer and not our match. The other companions were an E rank and two other C rank that are staying in the house. I think other than the black wolves there’s no other threat. Let’s used the sleep incense and spread it around the house.”
The man who said that seemed to be confident in his strength and from the other men the same expression can be seen.
“However, why don’t we move using the carriage?”
“Don’t worry too much about it. It seemed that it will be cumbersome if the horse cries is heard by others.”
“Stop!”
suddenly the man in the front raise up his arm and signaling the others to stop. The man who said that has a 『scout』 profession. His job was to prevented the annihilation of the party just in case there is an unforeseen danger ahead.
“What’s wrong?”
“The mound with the grass in front of us. It seemed that it was recently dug up.”
“There’s also a sign of someone using 【Awareness】!”
hearing the scout’s words, the other men were preparing for battle. Although it seemed to be emergency, no one was panicking and the tension was still calm. It showed just how much experience the men had and everyone was familiar with hardship.
Certainly as the scout said that, approximately 100 meters radius from the mansion, the grassland was in unnatural condition with mounds that could be seen here and there. The men vigilance finally climaxed when 「skeleton」 wielding iron swords and iron shield come crawling up from within the mound.
“What happened here? Anyway, they are 「Bone soldier」 and 「bone fighter」. It’s not even a trouble.”
one of the skeleton monster came forward but their direction wasn’t Comer city but towards the men. Without a sense of danger or fear, the skeleton monster brandished it’s swords towards one of the men.
“We don’t even need to use magic.”
“yeah, it’s only a rank 1 「bone fighter」.”
while saying that, one of the man swung down his sword and directly crushed the skeleton skull. After that he pulled his sword out again. One after another bone soldier and bone fighter brought down.
“What is this? It doesn’t even break a sweat.”
the bone soldier and bone fighter were only some light exercise for the men. However the ground continuously moving.
“Oh, right now it’s 「Skeleton knight」 and 「Skeleton fighter」.”
“Don’t panic. It’s only the skeleton knight you have to watch out for. It’s a rank 3 monster.”
in the same way as before when they defeated the bone soldier, one after another skeleton knights were defeated. Just before they were able to proceed further, 20 meters in front, the ground once again moved. This time, the men have a bad feeling.
“….「Red skeleton knight」, 《Appraisal》!… It’s a rank 4 「red skeleton knight」 and … rank 5 「Skeleton Lizardman」, be careful!”
“Every time we advanced forwards, around every 20 meters, the monster emerging gradually get stronger. I don’t want to believe that a rank 6 monster and above will appear!”
“Why this isn’t included in the earlier report? What is the preliminary inspection team doing?”
“There’s no point in arguing now, let’s focus on defeating them.”
However as soon as the red skeleton knights and skeleton lizardmen appear, the group couldn’t easily defeat them like earlier. Under such circumstances, the party was divided into two.
“Withdraw! At once, fall back.”
“Wait! What nonsen