As I inserted marchion inside the carved wall, it suddenly emitted brighter light that brightens the dark cave for seconds.
Rumbling mechanical sounds suddenly filled the surrounding, a certain mechanism must've been moving loudly behind the cave walls.
The wall in front started to move creating a passageway, Felix sensed something from inside and an arrow flashed into him, luckily he dodged it and draws his sword.
"Lina, there's enemies inside" he spoke in a focused expression.
Both of them draws their sword, Felix dashed towards the enemy in the darkness and shouted
"Lina now! Light up the place"
Lina started to chant with some language I am not familiar of.
[o light, shine through, bring forth thy brilliance in this boundless darkness, Light! ]
As soon as she stopped chanting suddenly a small orb appeared brimming with light, filling the place with brightness and the dark and dim cave was now a visible place, as they regain there vision from the dark they noticed walking bone monster holding a sword, a bow and some has armors on them.
"it's an undead skeleton horde, there's a lot of them, Lina we need some holy attributed support spell"
"I'm on it" Lina replied as she steadfastly chants another spell.
Lina isn't just a regular knight, i know she's a paladin and holy magic is something she could harness.
Using a certain spell she imbued my weapon and hers one to inflict holy attribute attacks, i know it's very effective against undead skeletons as I manage to cut them into pieces, there's a lot of skeleton present in that place, we're dodging, blocking, and counterattacking them and it took us 2 hours to completely wipe them all out.
"ahh that was tiring, i feel like worn out after all that fighting" i exclaimed, it's been long since i fought this hard, i mean it's been days since I came to this world, although we defeated them why do i still feel a bad feeling about this.
"young master, the skeleton! They're reconstructing!" Lina spoke with a focused gaze.
Damn it, i look behind and saw the skeletons are trying to come back, aren't our attacks is effective against undead? Something feels wrong in here.
"Lina this is strange, after cutting them up like butter using an holy attributed attacks, why are they still regenerating" i spoke, as I try to look more into Felix memories finding some answer.
"young master, i think the skeletons are bound by undead soul formation" Lina replied as she is constantly in action defeating them one by one.
Wait undead soul formation? It must be it, it's a formation that binds the dead's soul into its body, and those dead will be the slave of the formation doing it's simple commands, this undead cannot go out of the formation. Flesh does not regenerated but bones endlessly reconstructed, this undead lost there intelligence and now mindlessly do the formations command, to attack intruders.
"let's look for the medium in this formation let's go deeper Lina!"
"yes! " i disregard pointlessly battling unnecessary foes and only attacks those skeletons in the way as I made a run deeper in this cave, with Lina's light spell. We could easily see the surroundings.
She could manipulate the light orb finely and can keep with our pace as well as her focus on the enemies in the front, she's amazing.
The more we go, more mana veins started to appear like webs around the walls.
And more skeletons with skills and technique appearing, it started to get more harder to kill them but with Linda's imbue magic, we can still land an effective damage to them.
Skeleton mage, swordman, archer, even goblin and orcs skeleton is present yet most of them still could use their own skills when they were alive, there were only two of us and it was really a tough battle.
"huff.. Lina, at this rate we will only tire out ourselves dealing with immortal undead, they kept going back from the dead after a few minutes of being defeated" in my desperation as I continued to hack the enemies in every breath, tire as I am, death arrive the moment we stopped, these are annoying enemies specially the mage.
"young master what should we do, we've already come this far"
"let's breakthrough! Follow my lead" with my courageous determination to survive, both of us broke through the horde and continued our way until we saw a totem with an ominous orb in it, beneath it was a dead skeleton that doesn't seem to be moving.
"Lina! Break that orb! It must be the medium in this formation" I shouts the moment I saw the ominous thing.
"yes!" Lina used her last bit of mana to cast a blade skill, as she chants shortly, she manage to harness holy aura in her blade and release it in a form of a wave in one slash.
[Wave Slash!]
In an instance, the totem explode and the ominous orb broke, the violet veins that scattered around the walls vanished, leaving only a blue and green veins.
"huff.. you did it Lina, that was close, we survived at least" it was a joyous moment to me knowing I have survive yet again from another dangerous place.
The skeletons stopped and gradually vanished into dust, all of their equipment got left behind, while the bones have disentegrated except for the man below the broken totem.
I should've just take some elite soldiers with me but I know i couldn't, the fog barrier doesn't allow anyone who have no relation to the ducal family. My brother is still on the capital.
The skeleton on the ground with a dark torn cloak and a piece of a shredded paper in him, i took the paper to investigate it, the writings are horrifying as it was written with blood, this must be his last moments before he died.
[Those Bastards in the temple... THEY'VE BETRAYED US!] written in it.
"just what the hell happened in this place" I exclaimed with an utter disgust in the rotten smell of such place, feels like those skeleton didn't entirely vanish, their smell still fills the air.