Chapter 110: “Double Biceps, For Example”
After leaving the tasks of reinforcing the royal capital and La Colline to her subordinates, Rare used [Camouflage] to go invisible then flew over to where Kerry’s group was staying.
Regardless of Rare’s presence, her people could still proceed with defense improvements and general oversight. Even if players came to attack like last time, if the entire city turned out, even without Rare they should be able to repel many times that number of players. Things could get dicey if any particularly powerful players came, but from a perspective of overall safety, then Sieg and the maids had declared that it would actually be better for Rare to not be there.
“So the attackers are undead… What kind of monster is leading them? You went and found out, right?”
Riley had gone scouting per Kerry’s orders. These girls had truly become reliable.
“Yeah. I’m not sure exactly what race it is, but it was a skeleton that seemed completely different from Deas or Sieg. If I had to guess, it was something good with magic. It had a twisted staff and a dirty robe.”
The popular fantasy monster types that came to mind were liches and wights. Rare already had wights in her army, but she had never seen one in the wild. A magic-specced one would probably have high INT, and if it also survived from that ancient kingdom, then it might be willing to negotiate.
“Nah, it doesn’t seem that smart… Every night, it just has all the skeleton minions charge straight at the town, so it’s probably not thinking anything at all. Although, sometimes there are some skeletons mixed into the charge that seem weirdly good at fighting, so maybe it’s more clever than we think.”
“Weirdly good?”
“Yeah. Ones that specifically target the guards from this town and not the sellswords who are ‘players.’ There are a bunch of them, but whenever our group or the players try to fight them, they run away first, so none of them have been killed yet.”