Chapter 173: You have got to be joking
They encountered 4 more ’swarms’ of undead before the direction they were going became murky.
Unlike the times before, Lucian wasn’t able to just use his nose to move forward down the fork in the road that they had encountered. Not only was it a fork, but there were three options and according to Lucian, two of the three had fresh or flowing air. It was also getting late, but as they had gone through these passages, fighting undead over and over, they hadn’t found a nice place to stop that was tucked away.
There were no alcoves, there were no variations. They hadn’t encountered a single chamber. Everything had been a straight shot of mossy, aged bricks and a slightly damaged, slightly slippery marble stone path. It felt like they were in older style sewers from Cass’ world, but he didn’t say anything. He kept everything to himself.
He knew he wasn’t doing well. Each time they encountered undead he felt an eerie calm overcome him and he felt ill once Lady Ava activated her powers. Knowing what he knew, the book that Sam had packed him burned in his bag. He couldn’t see it, but he knew it was there, and that alone was haunting him.
Something was staring him in the face, and he was encountering more than his first corpse in this dungeon.
At the same time, Cass could tell that killing or cutting down undead humanoids was really taking a toll on Lady Fiona. She was doing her best to keep her composure, but she wasn’t doing okay. He could tell by the way she was moving and whenever he caught a glimpse of her face, her eyes were hollow. He was sure all of them looked like that, except Lucian.
Must be nice. Cass wasn’t bitter about it at all. Damn geezer.
"What time is it?" Cass asked quietly of Vespertine, who had remained at the back of the party. What that meant is that Cass kept looking behind them, practically walking with his back towards the others when they were in movement. Lord Ridgewood had become their defender on the front side of things, so Cass kept his eye on everything else.
Vespertine blinked a few times, before his face brightened slightly.