"WE RANKED UP," I yelled while lifting the Paper that Pazzo got from the judges. This is it, I'm one step closer to my goal, even though I drunk my potion which means I'll have to re-find all the ingrediencies, I still ranked up.
"Yeah, but does anyone have any shades, when was the sun so bright," Pazzo said while holding his hand Infront of his demonic werewolf-like face, I'm so glad I got to cut his antlers off because God knows how much those things would get in the way.
"In my 20 years of life, I have never seen something like," Christopher said with a laugh while looking up the sky where he fell from.
"Um rain checks everyone if you haven't noticed or even to bother to ask but, WERE ARE WE," Vinessa yelled as she looked around trying to pinpoint our location. The place we dropped in looked like a swamp due to how much water mixed with land along with the humidity of this place alone.
"Um, huh, If I remember correctly from my past jobs this would-," Christopher began but got interrupted by The RatKing climbing up his shoulder.
"Goul Town Swamps," TheRat king announced while standing up on Christophers shoulder, surprisingly Christopher didn't freak out like you'd think he would, matter of fact it would it seem like he knew him.
"RatKing, here to finally give me the full check," Christopher said while grabbing the Rat and placing him carefully on the top of the Sleigh That Pazzo was leaning on trying to adjust his eye's.
"Are going to replace the book you accidently poured water on," The Ratking scoffed at Christopher, Christopher shrugged then went over to the doctor to try to calm her down as she dropped to one knee.
"Is it possible for you to open a portal back," Vinessa asked while trying to calm herself down.
"No, All the portal mixture was used on the ground to transport us here," I said while holding up the bottle which had all the portal fluid in it. Christopher then helped Vinessa sit down and Pazzo finally managed tohis eyes adjusted and began feeling the grass between his fingers, this would be his first time feeling grass wouldn't it.
I was going to comment on what part of Goul town are we in, but Pazzo ears stood up on his helmet and his eyes changed colors from red and green to just full on green.
"I think I hear someone close by," Pazzo announced as he grabbed his Giant scythe from the ground next to him, I proceeded to climb into the sleigh and grab my mixture bag that I brought from home just in case and stood at the ready. The terrain we were on at the moment was mostly flat with the swamp Infront of us so it's safe to assume that what Pazzo is hearing is just a scout for this region due to how far out ghoul town would be from this place, the problem is that what was Infront of us was mostly water, with a bunch of trees on the other side so the person is most likely hiding behind the tree observing us.
But Pazzo wasn't facing the tree's, he was in fact facing the water Infront of us. Before I could even ask him any questions Pazzo proceeded to throw his scythe in the water, at first nothing happened, then 2 people slowly stood up from the water with both their hands up. Pazzo then extending his hand and summoned the Scythe back to him with an impressive catch, Geuss all that practice paid off.
"State your allegiance," Pazzo said with full confidence.
"What," Christopher said with the most confused expression on his face. Oh yeah, he has no social life.
"Ignore that, who are you two," I yelled at them while pulling out a vial of Pazzo's blood I had saved in my bag. After I asked that both of them slowly uncovered their faces which was covered by a bandana which revealed both of them being ghouls.
Ghouls are corpses that brought back by the flower bud of Eden, Flower bud brought the corpses back to life with all of their important organs that are needed to survive but not their souls, which means it doesn't bring back a person back to life, just their bodies. That being said, most Ghouls look like living corpses with half rotting bodies which is why almost none of them are able to speak in a human tongue (Due to their tongue most likely being rotted off).
The two ghouls that are Infront of were dressed like traveling merchants, the one on the left had a giant black backpack on with multiple items in them with a full black out fit in the June which is crazy. And the one on the left has I giant bag full of a multitude of different weapons spanning from swords to plasma energy weapons, to even a wrist crossbow. This ghoul dressed in full white outfit, so it was filled with hundreds of different stains due to the water and other things he ran into before he got here.
"grahhh, ahhh," The ghoul in the white said while pointing at his backpack.
"Is there anyone who Corpse," Pazzo said while pointing his scythe at the ghouls.
"I'm sorry, I should have been the one talking, hello my name is Mitch this is my brother Donavan, were just kind and harmless merchants," The Ghoul in the Black outfit said with a nervous laugh.
"Merchants," Pazzo said with a smile, He should really stop Smiling, his smile could scare Satan himself.
"Ignore him, you said you guys were Merchants, does that mean you came straight from ghoul town, were in need of directions," I asked while looking around to see if there was anyone else in the area, this place looks like an excellent place for an ambush, you'd think there would be more people around here.
"Um, well we can't just give you guys direction without getting pai-," The ghoul began but was interrupted by a loud Gun shot. As soon as we heard that everyone had gotten behind the sleigh in the opposite direction of were the gunshot sounded even the ghoul Merchants.
"What was that," Christopher said while peaking over the sleigh.
"Sounded like an Maschinengewehr 18 Tank und Flieger, never thought I'd here one of those again ever since the Great beginning," The RatKing said as he climbed on the top of Christophers head. We then heard 15 more shots go off in the same direction, the concerning thing was that none of the shots even came close to hitting us, matter of fact I don't even think the shots are even aimed at us.
"Are they shooting at us," I asked while looking on the side, that's when I had an Idea.
"Escalate," I yelled while keeping a lookout for anything that would come out in the trees.
"Ready for orders," Escalate announced while standing completely up in the sleigh.
"Run a scan on the organism with the Anti-tank Machine gun," I said while grabbing escalate and forcing him to get lower to the side of the sleigh door.
"Error must be within 3 yards of target in order to do a full body scan," Escalate announced.
"Just give me a run down on what you see," I yelled in frustration, it makes sense on why he wouldn't be able to do a scan at this distance, but it was still aggravating.
Escalate then peeked over to top of Sleigh and began to stare off into direction of the gunshots for a full minute, after the minute was done, he then turned in my direction and gave me the somewhat hopeful run down.
"Organism spotted, distance 1347 yards, height 12 feet tall, width 10 feet, weapon is confirmed to be an anti-tank weapon, warning organism is currently approaching at a speed of 100 miles per hour," Escalate announced.
"Wait what," Vinessa yelled while pulling out a pistol from behind her back and quickly peaked over the sleigh.
"Error, reassessing, organism is approaching at a speed of 10 miles per hour," Escalate announced.
"Why do you have a Glock isn't you doctor," Christopher asked while looking at the in Vinessa's hand.
"To much stuff be happening in this world to not have a weapon, and I didn't take the oath," Vinessa explained while holstering the pistol.
"Besides that, someone is shooting at us, and even if their aim is the equivalent to a First-person shooter enemy on easy mode, there still out to get us," I said while still looking into the tree line in the direction of the gun fire.
"Is the person who is shooting is someone you know or like a guard of ghoul town," Pazzo asked while gripping his scythe and looking at the Merchants.
"No, none of the guards would shoot on sight, and if they did, they would go for a sneak attack and would rise from the water," The Merchant answered while placing his bag down, Pazzo then examined the bags the merchants had then proceeded to ask them another question.
"You said you two were merchants right"
"Yes, I sell potions and mixtures while my brother here sells Weapons and armor," The Ghoul explained while tapping his pack.
"Do you think I could look through invent-," Pazzo tried to say but before he could finish both ghouls unpacked their equipment in record time and spread their equipment on the ground under a blanket, then proceeded to sit-down behind their bags.
"Pick what you would like, and we will tell you the price," The Merchant said while a corpse-like smile. I was going to say it wasn't the time until I saw the verity of their inventory and how most of them would actually be useful in this current situation.
"Hmmm, how much for the bow and arrows," Christopher said while looking at the Large Compound bow on the matt.
"It would be 1 gold," The Merchant responded.
"Are you guys really shopping in the right now," Vinessa said while keeping watch on the tree line.
"Well, the person who is firing that gun is still rapid firing, so they would most likely run out of ammo, which means that the person will head down hear themself, so it would be best to prepare," Christopher explained while pulling back the Compound bow string back to get a feel of it. Vinessa opened her mouth to say something but closed due to Christopher being right.
"What's up with the flag, it seems a bit random," Pazzo asked as he picked up the flagpole, the flag itself was wrapped up and the color was weird, it was somehow Black with a dark glow.
"More random than a Bunch of people and a sleigh that dropped from a random portal in the sky," The Merchant said with a nervous laugh.
"But yeah, the Flag is cursed," The Merchant explained while examining his inventory.
"What do you mean cursed, what type of curse," I asked while picking up and arm crossbow, oh yeah, this will diffidently come in handy.
"The flag is cursed to always be seen, once you open the flag, the flag will grab everyone's attention within a 2-mile radius even if you're not facing the flag, It's like the flag has a constant shine on it despite it being pitch black," The Merchant explained while looking at the flag side ways.
"Isn't that good," Pazzo asked as he continued to examine the flag.
"It would be if the flag didn't grab the attention from every anything, and I mean everything, it grabs the attention from animals, bugs, fish, heck I'm pretty sure a tree turned a little due to the flag," The Merchant said with a laugh.
"How much," Pazzo asked as he lifted the flag.
"Bahhhhw," Donavon said.
"That flag will cost 3 bronzes," Mitch said.
"Why is it so cheap," Pazzo asked.
"Because he really wants to rid of it, a group of geese attacked him last week after he had unroped the flag in our house, like he didn't un-rope it outside," Mitch said with a laugh.
After that Pazzo proceeded to buy that flag, along with a big shield and an engineering kit for Roby, I even asked how does he even have money since he was in the trash hole all his life, he responded with you have no Idea how much money be thrown away every day.
I ended up buying a wrist-crossbow and Charged Plasma Rifle, which the ghoul called it the Plasmada, The Plasmada has a total of 16 bars of power, the Plasmada also had different settings of the Plasmada also had different settings of power, the settings would be stun, wound, Kill, and incinerate. Stun would only use 1/16 of battery, Wound would 2/16, Kill would use 4/16 And finally incinerate would use all of them.
Vinessa didn't buy any weapons, but she did buy a bunch of healing potions, and medical Items, hopefully none of us would have to use them. After 15 minutes of purchasing, we were finally ready, now all we need is a plan.
"Alright, so first things first, has everyone been a fight before," Christopher asked as he walked back to the sleigh.
"Yeah, we had fought a robot army 3 days ago, that's where I got this scythe," Pazzo said while lifting scythe.
"I lost count on the amount of people I had knock out to get them to stay still during an operation," Vinessa said with a sigh.
"Escalate how far away are they now," I asked while wrapping the Arm-Crossbow across my Gauntlet, did... did I really have this on my arm during the fair?
"Organism is now 200 yards from our location," Escalate announced.
"Alright so I have a plan, and it's sadly going to require Someone to be bait," Christopher said, we all looked at Pazzo who was currently placing his shield down for a second, then without warning he sliced his whole chest with his Scythe.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING," Christopher yelled while reaching for Pazzo, Vinessa quickly grabbed a bottle full of healing liquid, but I quickly grabbed her arm and stopped her in her tracks.
"Give it a second, it's how he transforms," I said to Vinessa who was trying her best to get me off her. Pazzo then proceeded to heal and transform, the Suit he left at my dorm room quickly grew over his clothes starting from the head and as soon as the fully formed over his body he proceeded to grow bigger and scarier, alright time to get this show on the road then.