Chapter 2.- Intruders

As I was following the grumpy old man we reached some kind of cave intersection where many smaller caves crossed over. We emerged from one of these smaller caves. Looking back it was clear that this specific cave walls were from some kind of crude dark red stone.

In the middle of the main cave stood small troop of skeletons that look similar to myself. Each one of them held some kind of weapon but mainly they had simple battered and old swords.

Looking at my hand i saw that I was subconsciously holding a sword. Longer than swords of my peers but shorter than two handed sword. I weighted the sword in my hand. It weighted just right for one hand. Not too light nor too heavy to carry in one hand.

Returning my attention to the skeleton mob. There were five odd skeletons.

There were three skeletons that aside from swords also had small shields and light leather armor. I deemed these three as some kind of evolved type of basic skeletons.

One skeleton didn't have any kind of weapon but through his body like through veins flowed dark blue magic. This one was surely a skeleton mage.

The last one was rather weird. Instead of weapon he held in his arms a banner. He also had lose belt on with a little rusty trumpet. My guess was that he was some kind of group buff type of skeleton.

My attention was then grabbed by the old man who summoned me as he was standing on large rock.

"Attention my servants. From that passage will come intruders that dare to kill your master. Protect me and kill the intruders !" He said shouting and pointing at the largest cave with walls covered in moss.

All of a sudden we heard loud banging from said passage. The banging echoed through whole cave system.

Right after the echo stopped the banner soldier started screeching. Suddenly I felt some kind of voice in my head telling me to move.

So I moved. Together with me moved whole mob. After short while all of the skeletons created basic formation.

In front were the armored skeletons, right behind them both the banner and the mage skeletons and then us the normal ones.

I was on right wing of formation and I saw that at the opposite end of passage was light. Right after the light emerged it started to get more brighter.

With each second the light got brighter we could more audibly hear the stomping of men that were coming in front of us.

When they were about 4 meters away from us they stopped. A few moments of total quietness. And then we heard swoosh of arrow. It hit on the ground in front of us.

Banner skeleton screeched once again but this time it felt different. He even poked the banner into the pure stone.

I felt my strength growing and also new voice in the head. Attack. Attack. ATTACK!

We all heard that voice. And we all agreed to follow that voice.

We started marching in formation into the enemy. As surprise the armored skeletons launched themselves at the enemy. Right after them the skeleton mage threw a fireball. We didn't see the enemy as they extinguished their lights but we knew they were in front of us and that was all that mattered. We attacked and killed them all.