Burning Soul - Chapter 179

Waking Theo wasn’t enough for Milot that he started running away from the camp, nearly waking up Sylph who wasn’t a bit drunk like others.

Seeing this Theo jumped into the shadow realm to escape right away, gaining a bit of distance he sensed Milot and jumped out in the forest that led to the ruin.

“How are you able to move so quietly?” Theo asked him in surprise while running.

Indeed Milot was moving much easier and quieter even in that dense forest, being trained as assassins class his whole life, even Theo wasn’t that efficient.

“Did you forget I’m a beastmen, my class allows me to move with such efficiency?” He then continued to run effortlessly through the forest.

Chasing him wasn’t easy on Theo even with the help of all the training, the reason was his missing arm. Though using shadow realm and boost, he was able to keep up.

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After running through the forest for a while they both came to a halt just a little bit away from the ruin as they spotted something.

To begin, they were right next to the entrance to the ruin and it looked a little bigger than Theo had anticipated it to be.

From the looks of it, the entrance was made up of stone. It didn’t have the height, but the structure was wide, it was almost as big as the castle in Arnor, the structure showed the signs of Beastmen involvement. The monuments and the carvings on the entrance were of ancient Beastmen.

The thing that puzzled them both was the source of light, a fire!

“You know what a fire in the forest means, right?” Milot asked Theo in a low voice, not to startle anyone.

“Humans!” Theo, without looking away from the entrance, replied and continued, “Though this place is big! What was it used for before turning into such a state?”

Milot closed in to reply, “As per history, here people used to gather to worship the ancient deities.

Beastmen are known to worship only the Goddess of war, for some reason or another!

Also, as I said people used to gather here, this place was used during festivals. Not sure when but that surely was a long time ago.”

Theo pointed towards the entrance and said, “I suspect there are Bandits like this place was abandoned for a long time, right? So, this is the best place to hide from sentinels in this forest.”

Milot thought for a minute before replying, “So basically, these are just runaway thieves, no big deal then.” Before he took a step, Theo stopped him and reminded him, “No killing though, we are not sure who they are and if they are accused of any crime.”

With a slight sigh, Milot agreed, “Okay, let’s knock them out and start exploring, I’m sure there’ll be more of them inside.”

Closing in from the front would alert the bandits, it was a no go thus Theo decided to use his skills and shadow realm to launch a surprise attack on the Bandits in the entrance.

Theo jumped in the shadow realm while Milot got the advantage point near the entrance, the idea was to launch a pincer attack. A two-way attack that’d be able to not only surprise but deal with the enemy in lesser time.

There were 4 bandits at the entrance, they were holding no crazy weapons. One bandit was bearing a sword while others were carrying spears only. They were all standing around the small fire casually talking.

It was nice that nobody was on the guard, easy to deal with.

On Milot’s cue, Theo jumped out of Shadow realm, right in front of the bandits, before they could prepare Milot pounced over them from the other side.

It took no longer than a second for both of them to knock out all four of them, “See I’m still kicking, ain’t I?” Theo showed a smug on his face as he managed to knock out half of them.

“Hmm, as they are just guarding the entrance I suspect they have even been a bit inside!

Their equipment is too mediocre to even explore the outskirts of the ruin.” Milot pointed out immediately.

“We should be more careful while moving in, if they had 4 of them to spare at the entrance, there will be more inside and even stronger!

Let’s head in stealth.” Theo commented, both of them were in an unknown ruin and if it was taken over by the bandits, it was a better idea to be on toes and both of their skills were able to help out in such surprise attacks, better for exploration.

Taking a good look at the entrance, it was an imposing structure. Though they had no idea how huge it really was, if the entrance gave off such an aura there was a high probability that they were going to need all the time to explore before dawn.

The structure had a hallway that ran around the inner building in the ruin. From the looks of it, the hallway had no roof and at parts, there were signs of walls falling in the hallway. AS it wrapped the main building from the sides, there were two ways to head in. Even though the central building was visible, it was huge, and they were in the rear entrance and not the front. Maybe the front entrance had more people guarding it, this way Theo and Milot managed to skip past fewer enemies making zero to no fuss.

“How big the main building is anyways if I remember it correctly, Amara told us there are almost 20 chambers around the central hall and has no less than 10 hallways including diversion and traps.

Looking at this hallway, it’s just surrounding the main building that has all these bells and whistles!” Theo was still mesmerized by the magnificence of the structure.

“Yeah but that was when it was in its full glory!

Right now most of the structure is in a mess and if Bandits have taken over it, we need to worry about them more than the structure itself!

Oh, and there might be more hidden traps set up now thanks to these thugs!” Milot replied as he searched the Bandits for weapons to dispose of them.

“Okay, we will now head in from the right side of the hallway, looks like there is some more fire and that means more people. We will follow the train to the inside!

Cause if we didn’t deal with them all and they found their companions knocked out, it’ll be over for us!

Also don’t speak, use some sort of hand signals! We don’t want to wake up anyone do we!” Theo advised the move.

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After dealing with the mob, they decided to keep moving in the hallway with more caution.

Just moving a bit further they encountered another mob on patrol, this time around the bandits were carrying short swords, better suited for fighting in the low roof structure.

Theo signalled Milot to wait for his signal and attack from behind the enemies just when he distracts them.

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Theo, using shadow domain skills crawled under the bandits and emerged from the other side of where they stood.

Just when he appeared and caught the attention of the bandits, Milot immediately pounced onto them knocking all three of them in an instant, again with no noise.

“Hihi,

I dealt with three more than you now!” Milot was proud of his achievement,

“Is it a competition now?” Theo narrowed his eyes onto him, of course, he wasn’t able to deal this time but for sure he was a bit irritated by the fact.