authors note:i name some unnamed characters
Chapter seven:
I splashed some water into my face, washing away the blood of my prey. "got blood in your eyes again Shiva" Adalaide smirked at me. "no, but i want to wash up before leaving" i remarked. "why are you going to Blighttown, you are definitely needed here with all the recent pillagers, and Ilea is not ready to take command of the brigade" she quarried me. "there is something i'm after there, something i desire most" i said. "I think you should come with me, you and Gretel should take some time off, i think the brigade can handle themselves" i continued. i got up and grabbed my bag, when she asked "who will lead us now" she asked. " i think samsung is fit, he is persistent" i answered. "but he is too reliant on magic" she whined. i put on my helmet "my word is final, Hanzo lets go" i almost shouted at her, Hanzo followed me from the shadows.
As we walked through the woods, we came upon a body, it was a knight of some sort. i want his equipment for my collection, when three giant stone knights surrounded me, i grabbed my server and lunged at the one in front of me, every hit making me stronger, one of the knights cast some spell that made everything feel heavier, this had caused me to collapse under my armor. Hanzo had climbed on the head of one of the knights and had cut its throat, it came crashing down, the last one only taken a step before Hanzo thrusted a ianto into its right knees. then into its chest. i felt lighter again, but Hanzo broke his ianto, we picked up the eight pieces.
we went to a tower that a blacksmith lived in. we meet a young woman at the base of the tower, without any exchanges of any kind she runs up the stairs, I order Hanzo to watch the entrance i also walk up the stairs. i reach the top of the stairs, to find that there is another tower across the wall, the woman cast soul mass and looks up, i instinctively look up as well, to see a butterfly so big that it blocks the moon, and it wings gave of a green powder that filled the air, the woman shoot a great soul arrow at the butterfly, hitting the creature in the torso. the butterfly got closer and a green light started amassing, then a green laser had struck the bridge, almost hitting me. Another soul arrow hit the beast as it started to lower, i selected my weapon of choice for now murakumo. it had hit the bridge, i swung, cutting of a large part of its left wing, the creature tried escaping, and had fallen off the bridge, and was fluttering to try and fly away but it sank in the river below.
the woman and i went forward to the tower. as we walked up the stairs, i notice that a sour aroma fills the hall, as we climb higher, the aroma gets stronger, then we reach the top and the blacksmith is nothing more that skin and bones, laying on the ground. i touch his shoulder and it is warm, i move up to his neck, he has no pulse.
all his weapons are brittle and breaking into dust. but there is an ember that is the only thing not tinted green. i grabbed a claymore, it was past the point of reasonable repair. i dropped it and it clanked against floor, blowing away some dust, I grab the ember and leave, she stays there observing the surrounding area.
it was a shame that the blacksmith died. i approached Hanzo and explained why his sword was still broken. we marched towards a Parish, the building was very large after all. we arrive to a basement of a building corresponding to the church. a lightning bolt hit the at the entrance as a knight ran out of the building, as he tripped and a beast with one leg and no head broke through the wall, i grabbed a flamberge a tossed it to Hanzo as he rushed forward, the beast summoned a bolt of lighting and shot it at the knight, he was hit in his hip, he fell to the ground. i grabbed a short bow Adalaide gave me after she mastered the Pharis bow. i only had seventeen arrows, i pulled back the string and released when it strained, the arrow went twelve feet forward before hitting the ground, nowhere close to the beast. I noticed that the beast had a tail, and that it was getting closer to me. i pulled the string back until i could not bring it any farther back and accidentally the arrow lost arrangement, i let go, the arrow just fell to the ground. Hanzo was then struck by the pole it had in its left arm, i used the distraction to switch to a claw i had, i thrusted it into its leg, it was stuck, i let go of the claw and unsheathed my murakumo and the beast jumped, i ran for it, the beast landed in front of me, using my momentum i slashed my sword into its chest. It was finally dead.
Hanzo returned my flamberge. i walked over to the knight, "hey get up coward the fighting is over" i demanded, he was still, i decapitated him with my server. We continued and found a blacksmith that told me that he would fix the ianto and make it divine if i gave him my ember, after three hours, he finished and we continued forward. we went though the church onto the elevator, down to the broken shrine and we rested there that night, there were four tents, and a farther there was a man sitting on a log. I approached him, "do you now where blight town is?" i asked him. "yes, go bellow and take the elevator, and look at the flooded city and take a left to a tower, a group have already opened the door for you and enter the cave you see from the tower, but it is going to be suicide ah ah ah" he remarked, i was done with the man and returned to my camp and went to sleep.
