Chapter 24 - Where’s the clean-up crew when you need them?
The sudden ambush by the Hallowed Cabal had put a damper on their plans. They were probably only an hour or so away from Freybrook, so it wouldn't take too long to get back to the city and send for help, but they still had to deal with all of the dead Cabal members and the wrecked carriage. Kat had gotten to work on cleaning up the parts of the road that had been destroyed during the fighting, as well as moving the bodies and lining them up by the wayside. It wasn't something Scarlett could've helped with, even if her shoulder hadn't been injured. She had started putting some light exercises into her daily routine, along with training her magic, but it was becoming all the more clear that she needed to put a bit more focus on her athletic ability in the future.
Instead of helping Kat, Scarlett began trying to—somewhat—control the fires that were swallowing the carriage with the help of her [Pyrokinesis] and [Minor Hydrokinesis] skills, so that the flames didn't spread to the nearby trees and bushes. While she couldn't extinguish the fire she at least managed to make a decent job of keeping it in check. Sometime during the process, she spotted the carriage's driver—it was the same young man she'd had as a coachman several times before—slinking up to them through the surrounding thicket with a half-relieved, half-horrified expression on his face as he took in the damage and the dead bodies. For a moment he'd seemed afraid that she would punish him for running away, but Scarlett just sent him off to look for the escaped horse. It took a while, but when he returned with the horse in tow she also ordered him to ride back to Freybrook and get another carriage and some more hands to deal with the situation.
While waiting for that help to arrive, she and Kat had gathered before the lined up bodies of the Cabal Adepts to inspect them. Some of them had pretty harrowing injuries — with Kat's magic having torn holes straight through their flesh and burned their skin to a crisp. If this was still her from her previous world, Scarlett would almost certainly have retched just from the sight of it. Thankfully, leftover traits from the original Scarlett had some perks to them, and she made do with simply feeling a slight sense of disgust at the display. Kat was the one who seemed most affected by it however, even though she'd been the one to cause those injuries to begin with. She'd also been the one that had to carry the bodies. Scarlett felt a slight tinge of pity for the woman.
As for the bodies themselves, just a closer look at them was enough for Scarlett to get a grasp of the equipment they wore.
[Mask of Canon (Epic)]
{Sees the truth of the world through the scriptures of the dogma}
[Robes of the Sinless (Rare)]
{Guards from perils with the words of truth}
[Boots of the Sinless (Rare)]
{Treads forth silently alighted upon the words of truth}
[Vambraces of the Sinless (Rare)]
{Finds all weaknesses by the virtue of the words of truth}