Difference in skill

The party in front of them was composed of two archers, two warriors and one healer. It was an interesting team comp. The warrior in the front was a short man with a large build, he was suited in full metal armour. Something in Jake's gut was telling him something was off, "Why had they not spoken, why are they staring at us, why am I feeling threatened, why have they not commented on the hundred of goblin corpses".

After a quick chat, the party in front of them all readied their weapons, the warriors drew out their swords and the archers took out an hour. Jake and Rudolf saw this and did the same, they would not get a break, would they?

Jake entered his demon form and activated his eagle eyes, Rudolf decided not to give away his skill early and waited for them to come close before going a flame. The warriors rushed forward, at the same time the archers started shooting. One archer shot slowly, but each shot packed a strong punch, the other one seemingly did not have an ability except when the arrow landed, then it would freeze the floor about 2 dm radius.

For Jake dodging them was a breeze, for Rudolf he naturally countered one of the archers and could easily tank the other one. The warriors were now a few meters away from them, the shorter one's skin could be seen changing into hardened sand, whilst the longer one had a two-meter long sword.

The longer warrior swung his sword, the speed of the attack shocked Rudolf. His skills must have something to do with the sword he thought, Rudolf did not have the strength necessary to counter the sword. Instead, he stepped back as it had been at max range, the warrior had not expected this. As he tried stopping the sword the momentum of the sword made him lose his balance. He tripped over, he quickly tied standing up.

It was too late, Rudolf had leapt forward and beheaded the warrior the second he saw him lose his balance. On the floor, lay his head and body separated, there was no blood because the wound had been cauterized thanks to the sword.

Whilst he had leapt forward he left his side completely open, the shorter warrior had taken advantage of that and swung his sword towards his torso. It went in about a quarter of the way. Rudolf then went aflame, he went into blue flames, he grabbed the sword and pulled it out. As he grabbed the sword it cut into his skin, it was sharp but he healed faster than it could do anything. The short warrior tried to pull it out but could not, Rudolf's grip was too hard.

Rudolf took his second sword and swung it through the shorter man's torso. It cut through him like melted butter, he must have spent less on his amour because of his skill. Bad mistake. On the floor, the two warriors lay dead, they head not scratched, Rudolf.

Whilst Rudolf had dealt with the two warriors, Jake had run-up to the archers. They were shooting their arrows as if their life depended on it. It did. Jake, started shooting them back. He tried his powered shot, it flew through the air with a speed that he had never seen before. The two archers thought he had missed because they were unscathed, they looked behind them. Their healer had a small hole right through his heart, he fell down on his knees before face planting. Jake felt a sense of enjoyment from that, his abilities had truly become stronger. It took him four seconds before the two archers were dead. '

Jake and Rudolf went through the belongings of the adventures. They found another twenty silvers, it felt quite satisfying seeing the coins. Their money problem was solved, twenty silvers for the quest, and ten silvers for Jakes adventure coin.

They started walking back to the village, In Jake's eyes, the forest was more vivid. There was stronger colour in the trees, he could feel the dirt under his feet, he could feel the subtle wind brushing up against his skin.

They made it back to the village, they entered the same building as before. They told the chief that the mission was completed, she wanted proof. They walked out of her building, they pointed at the smoke in the distance and told her they had burnt the base. She wanted even more proof, after a bit of debating she decided she would send them the completion letter in three days if the goblins had not attacked again.

They walked back to the original village they had received the mission atIt was turning night, they decided to sleep and tomorrow they would continue trying to infiltrate Blue City. The city was large, really big and the opportunities were endless. On top of that, the distance to another city was really large.

As they woke up, they went out and continued their search. Then they saw a miracle, the fishers were sailing out to sea, at that moment they knew how they would infiltrate Blue city. They decided to walk towards the shore, and they sat down and waited. The plan would be to buy a boat and sail into Blue City.

All they had to do was wait, Jake went into his meditation. The energy was going through his body really smoothly, he started doing something completely new. He slowly started circulating death energy and black magic through his body. First, he could only last one second before it dispersed, after a few minutes it increased to two seconds. Jake kept this practice up whilst he waited.

Rudolf, on the other hand, felt immortal but weak. It was hard to kill him, but he did not have any speed or strength enhancing skills. If he would go up against an opponent that was not weak or an idiot, he would not be able to scratch them, whilst they could damage him until his energy ran out. He thought he would increase his strength the more traditional way, he started doing pushups.