Dead/Lost: The Knights of Frozen Sea

Story IV / Part L: TRDOCS (XVII) / The Wicked Fate That Awaits Us (IX)

*Gallop*Gallop*

I rushed to the encampment camp with my horse, Nida. Beforehand, I asked Anna to tend our "fallen" friends by giving [Special Full Recovery] Potion that I had made for them. Well at least...it can lessen the effects of [Aracia Mushroom] in their body within 15 minerval. Somehow, I feel guilty because I forgot to tell them not to eat too much food that I made.

But what done is done, I will ask Queen Anne to postpone our mission as well as beg her not to punish my friends. If she is going to punish us, I hope I am the only one who will receive the punishment from her because I was the one who made my friends incapacitated right now.

The United Forces Main Encampment is located south of the villages or from our basecamp, I need go to north passing through the forest, now it has become a demonic forest already. When I reached there, I stored Nida back to my inventory and started jumping between the trees. As usual, I activated my [Anti-Gravity Walk], [Tumble], [Presence Concealment], [Detection], [Eagle Eyes] and [Acrobat] skill and passive ability before jumping between trees.

While travelling between the trees, I looked at my right and left side to check my surrounding and I found a lot of demonic monsters and beasts here. Moreover, I need to kill the monsters that suddenly appeared in my way or the monsters who chased me. Sometimes, they also tried to block my routes by wrapping spider web or using Treant's vines. It was sure hard to fend them off alone while evading without someone who can watch your back or watch your surroundings.

"I can't ride Nida in the forest...OH SHIT—!!!"

When I jumped from the last tree, a Forest Giant appeared and tried to catch me with his hand. I quickly evaded it and cut his fingers with my sword. After that, I run on his left arm to his neck while evading his other hand attacks. Since his movement is slow and easy to read, I can easily evade them and reach his nape.

I immediately activated my original skill [Refeakhia: Regaos Selviar] (True Slash: Silver Sword) to cut his neck and as I expected, my original skill cut through his neck cleanly. Before he can regenerate, I activated [Holy Fire] to burn his body. The fire should also prevent his corpse to rise as undead. After I finished, I continued my travel again.

I took almost 48 minerval inside the forest before I finally reached a vast grassland. Well, this grassland isn't a common grassland with green color and pleasant wind anymore, this beautiful grassland has turned into crimson colored grassland with very awful smell and eerie aura.

I quickly equipped the gears that I needed to use in such environment such as gas mask, eye protectors, boots, gloves, robes and armor that has enchanted by [Light] Element. I designed and created this equipment by myself because the normal equipment is kind of lame and stupid. Well, what I did is pretty normal, even the Dwarven Soldiers also created their own creation of [Chaos Gear] with cool looking shape and god-like STATs.

"Somehow...I kind of looks like an Assassin...wait, I'm actually an Assassin. Oh, whatever, let's summon Nida."

I summoned Nida from my inventory and equipped him with [Chaos Gear] that I made too, but why he looks like a warhorse, right now? Whatever, I need to reach the encampment as soon as possible. Otherwise, The Queen will hang me for sure.

Under The Red Dawn of Crimson Sky, I was galloping through this Crimson Grassland of Death to The Fortress of Humanity where The Last Bastion of Hope stands to protect the weak as well to protect the hypocrites. If they won, The Frozen Reign of Radiant Ice Queen will be glorious and The Sea of Praises will come to her.