Chapter 255: Crowded walls
An important detail about the corrupted elf growing wings was that he had been clearly looking in the direction of Sofia.
With little options left, she did two things, the first was to start channeling the graveyard, the second was to order the skeleton spiders to jump straight into the sun if the elf found them. She debated leaving Pareth alone on the roof to confront the thing and see if he could at least injure it, but ultimately decided against it. Losing Pareth now would be more than a bit annoying.
She finally phased through the roof of the small inverted pyramid section she had been on before the monster could reach her. The cold grasp of the graveyard skeletons had never felt so warm. Since Sofia had been on the border of the roof, she was currently sinking through the external wall.
Can I spot those things while Im in the spirit plane? Coming out of the wall at a random place could be dangerous. I can feel that this side section has three floors. At least theres nothing alive in there, nothing that has mana or a soul at least
The graveyard skeletons themselves could change freely from one plane to another; they were in a constant in-between, so as two of them kept pulling Sofia down, she ordered another to check if there were any elves in the first room and if so, to come back into the wall immediately. The skeleton barely poked the front of its face out of the wall before it reeled back.
Pull me down faster!
I saw when I was walking on the spider rope that the door to the lowest level was just open. Hopefully theres a closed room on the middle floor
Though she could vaguely map out the place due to most physical things being largely transparent in the spiritual plane, it also made the exact details hard to grasp. Peoples bodies and most small objects especially didnt really show up except for their soul and mana. But for thick structures like walls, trees and such, they existed as these white layers of cloudy fog in a sea of white light everywhere. Long-story-short, she had to trust the graveyard skeletons to find a safe landing point free of elven horror. And though it pained her to admit it, the graveyard skeletons were her dumbest skeletons by a long shot. They just werent very bright when it came to anything that wasnt pull people into ground.
Still, the skeletons apparently found it safe to bring her out in the central room of the second floor. Just in case, she stuck her hand with the storage ring out of the wall and as soon as it started to turn corporeal, she dumped Pareth out of there and looked through his eyes.The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.
No elves. Thank fuck
Sofias feet got caught in a bunch of metal doodads when she stepped out of the wall, [Way of the fool] narrowly saving her from falling face first on the brick floor as she stumbled forward into a gravity-defying position.
Just then, she lost connection to the two skeleton spiders which had been in the same place as her, which she decided to label the north building.
What is it now?
Pareth appeared next to Sofia, the room could host his large body without trouble as elves were usually quite tall. He pointed at something on the side of the room before disappearing into her ring again. Some kind of barred hole. Whats that, air vents? Its not like the elves can fit
The revelation of what was to come made her skin crawl, she hurriedly channeled the [Graveyard of the righteous]. The swarm!
Without any kind of scouting, she sank straight through the floor to the lower level, her head phasing through the ground just in time to catch a glimpse of the sprawling mass of bulbous creatures gushing out of the vent.
Frantically looking around, she cursed in her heart, this room had the exact same kind of air vents, she rushed to the closed door and phased through. Now in a corridor, she freaked out at the sight of even more air vents. Now that she knew about them, she could see them everywhere.
She ran randomly, phasing into every room she could find to see if any was safe. She couldnt hear the swarm crawling in the walls but more than once she spotted their presence from the corner of her eyes as she phased through the walls. She had never been so thankful for a place to be so large and to have such a complicated layout, had the building been smaller, she would have been quickly surrounded.
In a hurry, she summoned her own swarm out of the book, the 100 rats.
Spread out, map the whole place, use the vents, dispel yourself if the things so much as come close to touching you!
The rats quickly ran off, using the vents to their advantage, they were quick to spread around but also quick to disappear. Sofia hid inside the walls, this was soon to be the only safe place left on this floor.
The rats quickly found out that the swarm already occupied most of the building. The only place still relatively free was the third floor. They knew where I was from the start then, didnt bother searching up there. Thats bad news
It was then that the few remaining rats made a discovery. A single room for which they couldnt find a way in. A room without air vents. Sofia was elated by the discovery until she understood where this was.
It was the room on the third floor that Sofia had passed by on her way down. The one she had skipped because the graveyard skeletons had detected the presence of an elf.
