Chapter: 80

Immediately, he fired an arrow at them, but he missed as they were small and agile targets. The arrow only served to reveal his location.

“Shit, I’m fucked now” he jumped off the back of a tree, pulled out his dagger and began sprinting into the forest – yet the skeletons were quicker.

Running out of options, he threw his bow and quiver at the skeletons rapidly catching up to him – though this only served to slow one of them down. Suddenly, a pain came from his right ankle.

Looking down, his fear started to grow.

“Shit!”

One of the creatures had successfully thrown its dagger at him, hitting him in the leg.

Another two daggers came flying, yet they missed as he continued to run – yet now at a slower pace.

The feeble creatures simply picked up the daggers as they ran, scraping their claws along the ground and hardly slowing down at all.

He slowed down more and more from the injury as he realised he could no longer outrun them.

“I can only try and fight ’em, how hard can some tiny skeletons be anyway. If I finish them quickly I may still be able to hide before the adventurers get here. Maybe I could even go back and rob those brats” he thought, preparing himself for the fight.

At this point, Jay and Anya were way out of sight. ‘Looks like they didn’t chase me. Pretty stupid’ though the bandit.

As he turned around to fight, a feeble creature was already in the air, jumping at him with it’s rat-jaw open, black decaying teeth threatening to snap at him while it had both daggers pointed towards his chest.

“Faah!” he had no time to swear as he side-stepped and parried a dagger, though he stumbled and had trouble getting up as his leg was wounded.

Before he knew it, another skeleton was flying at him with its daggers pointed, a similar attack to the first one.

The bandit simply dived under this one as it jumped too high, successfully evading it.

The first two feeble creatures were larger than the third smaller one, so it was last to join the fight with it’s single dagger.

It didn’t jump at him like the other two did, instead it ran up to him. The bandit simply scoffed at the tiny skeleton and did a spartan-kick, sending it onto its back, forcing it to drop it’s dagger.

Seizing the opportunity, he grabbed the bone dagger that the creature dropped.

“Surprisingly lightweight” was all he could think about his new dagger as he turned around, ready to parry the attack from the first skeleton-creature that leapt at him – yet it was nowhere to be found.

“What the fuc-? AHH!”

Two sharp painful stings hit him on his right side, just under his rib cage.

Gritting his teeth, he did a reverse kick as he hit the skeleton away, the daggers still in his side.

“Sneaky fucker!” he coughed up some blood, a lung pierced.

“Arrow!” he yelled, using an ability. A magic arrow was summoned out of nowhere, glowing a translucent purple as it immediately shot off into the skull of the sneaky feeble creature – yet it managed to survive through even that. What shocked the bandit more was that it didn’t even respond to the damage, it’s attack speed and actions being just as fast and concise as before.

Seeing that his trump card had no effect, his adrenaline began kicking in.