16 Trouble?

On the location where the men waiting on ambushing the Allen's group at...

There were numerous corpses that had recently died in a battle. Some of the remains were burning, others were frozen, while some were crushed into gory paste.

"I-I can't believe that you are already this strong!", a bloodied man was cornered by a tree by a man holding a staff and was wearing common clothes.

The latter was none other than Lord Levine!

"You have the guts to make an ambush spot that leads to my castle, so tell me, what is your true goal?", Lord Levine eyed the bloodied man. He was different from the calm and merciful man earlier.

His bearing took a 180 degree turn!

"You'll never know!", the bloodied man crazily laughed.

The wizard couldn't help but frown that there was something wrong happening.

"Hahaha... you should've killed me already! Now die!", the bloodied man's eyes glowed green and he pointed his index fingers towards the corpses behind Lord Levine.

Suddenly, the corpses twitched, stood up, gathered around and surrounded the wizard!

"Even though you're a wizard, you'll never survive these many zombies at once! HAHAHAHAHA...", the bloodied man grinned and laughed maniacly.

"Yes, you're right, I'll never survive a necromancer's dead army if I'm just a wizard.", Lord Levine said.

"There's no point of surrendering now! Die!"

However, the feudal lord's hands that was carrying the staff suddenly glew in golden color, then golden veins appeared on the staff from his hands.

His eyes became gold and he shouted, "Holy Retribution!"

With the appearance of a golden-like man emanating holiness, he lifted up his staff and pounded its bottom end to the ground.

-BOOM-

An instantaneous explosion came from the impact spot as the blinding holy light spread towards the surrounding area.

When the light faded, all the corpses crashed to the ground as greenish smoke came out of their orifices.

Meanwhile, the smile on the bloodied man froze when he saw what just happened.

"You're still right, I will never survive a necromancer's army if I'm a wizard.", Lord Levine shook his head in pity to the man in front of him.

"Y-Y-You're a holy priest?!", the bloodied man stuttered between his words.

Lord Levine then pointed his index finger towards the man, magic power and holy power condensed on the end of the finger and a beam of light shot out from it.

The beam of light pierced through the forehead of the bloodied man, the man's eyes were still wide open in horror when he died.

"How I love face slapping.", Lord Levine slightly snickered and he searched the belongings of the bloodied man.

There, he saw a coin made of black metal, in addition, there was a shield and a staff engraved on each side.

"This... it's that organization again!", Lord Levine looked at the direction of the Riverboard City. "No good!"

"Hurry up!", hasty voices of came from the wilderness.

Lord Levine gazed to the direction of the voices, and saw Melissa and some guards walking to his location!

"Mi'lord?", Melissa and the guards were surprised when they saw their lord standing amidst the bloody corpses!

'Our lord, did this?!', some of the guards were stunned, they've already saw gore as much as this, but this time, it was done by one person, and not just any person, it was done by the seemingly scholarly lord that they were serving!

They knew that they were serving a magic user, but could a magician do this by himself?!

In reality, they didn't know how powerful is Lord Levine was.

However, Melissa's countenance came back to normal faster than the others, it was obvious that she already knew about Lord Levine's true power.

"No time to talk. Clear up these corpses, immediately!", Lord Levine commanded.

"Yes, mi'lord.", Melissa and the guards bowed and started cleaning up the corpses.

Lord Levine looked back at the direction of the city.

"I hope you'll be safe. I can't help you, I still have some paperwork to do.", Lord Levine muttered.

***

Riverboard City...

The city was surrounded by the other fiefdoms of local feudal lords in the area. Long time ago, the city was just a port with a small settlement. However, due to the efforts of the surrounding local lords, they have managed to make a permanent community and even outbest the Crescent Town those times.

Now, the current city was being managed by an earl, but the local lords doesn't seem to mind about it as long as they get their benefits.

***

Drake was jumping over the buildings while avoiding the sight of the city guards. Those guards weren't to be underestimated because they were well-trained and even wore light armor during their night patrol.

The city during the night was under a curfew like the Crescent Town, one could only see the fire on the torches and other forms of lighting such as lanterns, that light up the surroundings, making the city look like a glowing monster from afar.

Drake landed in an another alley, travelling in a city even when one could jump over the buildings still took a few minutes to reach the location he was checking.

He took a peek out of the alley and saw the city square, there was a fountain in the middle while two units of guards were stationed nearby it.

"The security in this city is tight.", Drake murmured. There, from his location, he saw the inn that he was suppose to check if the target was present.

Drake pushed something on the amulet and said, "I'm at the city square, be careful, looks like the city's security is tighter than we expected."

Afterwards, Allen's voice could be heard, "Alright." 

However, Kate's voice couldn't be heard.

"Kate, can you hear me? Hello?", Drake said.

"I can hear you, now shut up!", Kate's angry voice came out of the amulet.

Drake deactivated the amulet and sighed, "She still hates me."

After which, he slowly approached in by hiding in the dark spots when possible, while cautiously checking the two units of guards.

Finally, he reached the four-storey inn and swiftly climbed up it, he searched the rooms at near the top floor until he saw something suspicious on the fourth floor; next, he found a dark empty bedroom on the third floor and quietly entered it through the open window.

He stuck his ear by the door to check if there was somebody outside the door. Hearing nothing, he slowly opened the door and saw a well-lit corridor.

'Nowhere to hide', Drake thought. 

He walked out the door and carefully closed it.

'I feel like I saw the man at the fourth floor.', Drake inwardly said. He noiselessly walked towards the stairs.

He remembered that the target's look at the image was a big and muscularly. Same as the man that he saw in a window earlier, however, he couldn't get a clear look as there were curtains covering the window, while the window itself was also closed.

Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming from the stairs that was connected to the second floor.

'Somebody's coming!', Drake immediately activated the Speed Amulet in his pockets and rushed towards the stairs that lead towards the fourth floor.

-whoosh-

He ran towards the stairs without making a sound and reached the fourth floor.

'Phew, that was close.'

Seeing that the corridor was empty, Drake went to the door of the room where he saw the target's figure earlier.

'Tch, the door is locked.', Drake brought out his dagger and quietly picked the lock on the door.

-click-

The door was swiftly unlocked. Drake opened the door and walked in the room. The room was dark, moonlight can't even enter because of the curtains on the windows.

The kid heard sounds of snoring as he entered the room.

'Wait, wasn't there a candle lit up earlier?'

-bang-

The door behind him closed with a bang. The sleeping figure suddenly awoke and looked towards Drake with it's eyes, glowing green.

Drake tried to activate his communication amulet in haste to warn the others, but his action was in vain because the signal was blocked, "It's a trap!"

"Hehehe...", the muscularly man on the bed chuckled as he pointed his index finger towards the darkness around Drake.

Suddenly, Drake felt all the hair on his body stood up as he felt bone chilling coldness sweeping towards him.

"A necromancer! And this one is just a clone!", Drake gritted his teeth and charged at the clone on the bed.

However, the coldness swept on him again, as he was pulled down the ground by an invisible force.

Drake tried to get hold of his Speed Amulet, but he remembered that it was on cooldown!

'Oh I really wish that I had those good-for-nothing blessed weapons!', Drake thought as he tried resist the grasp of the invisible ghosts.

"Hehehehe...", the clone on the bed just kept chuckling while looking at the kid.