Chapter 37: Smith

Matt's POV

I rushed to the smith in order to open the last key hole we are assigned to. Senna's already in the infirmary with Percival and another woman. All of them are injured so if anything happened, they cannot protect themselves. Jane's already in the food depot too. She's out of mana, so her situation is the same as them. I need to finish this fast.

I quickly entered the 3rd and last floor. There were no knights in the hallway but it was infested with skeleton soldiers.

I used Blizzard to bombard them from afar and followed it by Ice Domain to freeze all of them. I then destroyed all of them one by one and continued.

When I'm almost at the smith, I heard metal clanking. It sounds like two pieces of metal are bashed to each other. It's a swordfight! I quickly entered the room.

When I entered, I saw a knight fighting with two demons. One demon had a spear and the other one had a sword. He stood against them on his own.

"Where did these pests came from" The knight grumbled.

I didn't asked his name, I quickly engaged the demon with the sword. I used ice chains to pull him up and stabbed him in the head.

The other demon was startled, so the knight found an opening and stabbed him with his sword. Both demons fell to the ground.

"Where's the keyhole?" I asked.

"And who're you? I mean, thank you for the help, but I haven't received any commands from the order to give anyone the directions on where the keyholes" He replied.

"You talk too much. I'm Matt. Lancelot sent me." I said.

"And where is he? Am I supposed to believe you? Cause if you're really telling the truth then you may have a letter, or a proof or anything. Man, I've just fought against demons-" I cut him off.

"He's dead." I saud.

"What!?" He exclaimed.

"We also fought some demons along the way. Then, we've found out that a resurrected Guinevere was one of them. Lancelot brought her down with his life on the line." I replied.

"You talk too much. Fine, true or not, I don't care, but I don't have the key with me" He said and I just raised my one eyebrow "It's in my safe."

"And where's your safe?" I asked.

"See that tower over there?" He said and pointed out a lone tower outside of the castle, it has a bell on top if "That's where I left my safe. I'm supposed to meet someone there this evening. Well, good luck"

"Oh right, before I go. What's your name?" I said.

"Gawain" He replied and I left. I jumped through the wall and used my mana chains, tied it to my daggers, to swing to the roof. I then jumped roof by roof to get to the designated tower.

I arrived at the vicinity of the tower. There were skeletons patroling.

"Easy enough" I said to my self and used Ice Domain to freeze all of them. I destroyed them before I entered the tower.

"Find it!!! I need all of you to search this whole damn place clean!!! F******g useless skeletons" I heard a man said. I sneaked in, and quickly searched for a place to hide.

I found a pile of boxes so I hid behind them. I glanced to where the voice came from. I saw a man, dressed in a fine red robe. He's a demon looking at his horns and wings. He also have a tail.

"Search harder you f*****g morons!!!" He shouted.

There were a total of five skeletons with him. I didn't dare to attack recklessly, I don't know what he's capable of. Looking in how the way he's dress, he might be a demon of high ranking.

"Sir, I came here to check on you" Someone knocked on the door. I quickly hid behind the boxes and watched. He opened the door.

"Ah Gor'zel, we haven't found it yet." He said.

"Sir Ha'gor, Lady Lilith badly wants that necklace. She said if you can't find it, she will relieve you of your position. You must give it to her tonight" Gor'zel said and left.

Ha'gor angrily slammed the door. He then turned around and blasted the boxes. F**k. I quickly activated my ice domain to freeze the skeletons.

"Oh, an ant managed to escape." He said "And you managed to defeat my minions in one move. You're not an ordinary ant are you?"

"Let's see whose the ant" I said and enclosed him with my igloo. He managed to destroy it, but as soon as he broke out from the igloo. I prepared my ice chains to bind him.

"Really? This?" He sarcastically said and melted the chains with his black flames.

I used my ice dance to move rapidly in the ice. I cannot use everest nor absolute zero in this tight space, or I'll might freeze myself along with him.

He keeped shooting black flames at me, burning the boxes and things at my back.

"Aren't you afraid to burn the necklace you've been looking for?" I said. He looked startled and absorbed all the flames he threw before. I glanced at the burnt things while still moving rapidly. Aha! There's the safe.

I cannot win without using everest or absolute zero. I need to get out atleast. I created ice clones and made them follow my moves, to look as if I'm still moving rapidly. Then, I grabbed the safe and rushed outside the tower. I then used everest and squashed the tower, along with Ha'gor and the skeletons in it. Now I need to get out of here.

I went back to Gawain immediately. On the way, I saw the demon named Gor'zel, she was walking towards the throne room. The barrier opened and she went in. Looks like there will be a tough fight once we went inside that chamber. I entered the smithy and handed the safe to Gawain. He opened it and revealed the key.

"I encountered some high level demons along the way. They're looking for a necklace" I said.

"Oh, you mean this" Gawain answered and showed me the necklace he's wearing. "I've kept this safe since Morgana died. This necklace holds too much power. It was made by me and Lady Merlin back then. It was supposed to be a gift for Morgana but she betrayed the order."

"You always talk too much." I replied.

"Now what?" He said.

"We'll wait for the signal. Looks like everyone haven't gotten to their assigned key holes" I replied.