<h4>Chapter 212: Break It Down</h4>


    Lake decided that they had had enough sleep for one night and went to wake them up. Once they were all ready to go he led them outside saying he had cleared the area around them and it was time for them to escape. A lot of them had seemed excited until they realized he didn''t have a way out yet.


    "Alright go ahead and grab a weapon. I don''t want you all to break it, I just want to observe what it does while being attacked." After he said this they all got to work like he had asked and Lake pulled one of the dwarves from the Metal temple to the side and started to ask them questions about the formation that made the barrier.


    They had been in the room while the Temple Head had been deciphering it so he was sure they had been given a good look at it and understood it at least a little. "Do you think it''s safe for us to touch it?" Lake wanted to know what the dwarf had to say because if it was safe he could just have the others return for a break and take down the barrier before they returned.


    "I don''t know, the Temple Head said he couldn''t fully read the formation meaning there could be a trap set for anyone who brought it down." Lake nodded he had been worried about something like this as well so he asked. "Do you think we should just wait?" It would most likely be the safest thing for them to do so he would agree if the dwarf said they should.


    "Maybe until we get a message from the Temple, but there''s always the chance the ones whoe to let us out won''t be the Temple." Lake guessed that was true but he felt it was unlikely because there would be other people here that would be around as strong as he was. That would go for the Demon Worshipers as well but the defenders should have an advantage.


    Plus he had already taken out a huge part of their n by killing everything here. This meant the Demon Worshipers would be missing a decently sized army they most likely nned to use near the end as some type of trump card plus with the fact that arge percentage of it was the gargoyles that could make more undead it would have been even bigger than it had been when he had destroyed them.


    "I don''t think we need to worry about the Metal Temple losing, but I do think it would be best if we could get out of here because I could help quite a bit if I wasn''t here." Lake felt making himself sound important to the war effort in front of one of the three people that he knew were close to the Temple Head would help his perceived importanceter.


    "Yes I think that as well but you have already done a lot with clearing out all the gargoyles that you did. At the moment you have probably killed more enemies than anyone else in the city so even if you don''t contribute anything else you have done your part. It''s not worth dying trying to get through this barrier."


    Lake could tell the dwarf was trying to talk him out of trying to break the barrier because it was probably dangerous. "Yeah we should just wait. Alright stop hitting the barrier!" Everyone stopped like he asked so he said. "We''re just going to wait for rescue because this barrier seems to be trapped. If we open it up so we can leave it will most likely kill us."


    After he said this he waved and said. "We will just try and hunt down any monsters I didn''t getst night until we get freed." There were probably one or two around that they could waste their time looking for and it was better than nothing.


    Leading them towards the center of town, Lake activated Detector to look for gargoyles. He would worry about the undeadter since he nned to drag out thisst task for as long as he could. "There''s one." It was on the roof of one of the buildings they were passing by so he didn''t notice it right away with it being so high up but one of the people must have been looking up and noticed it.


    "Alright I''ll get it." Lake jumped and drew his sword. Landing on the roof he saw the Gargoyle was still looking down at the rest of his group. It must have not seen him move or was just keeping its eyes on the prize either way he used Crunch and sliced its head off. Landing back on the ground he waved for the others to follow him again.


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    Donny looked behind him and pushed his legs even harder. He wasn''t sure what had happened but right when they were about to kill thest Demon Worshiper all the bodies got back up. He knew this meant there was some Demon Worshiper big shot in the city but all he was worried about was losing the few undead that had managed to keep up with him.


    It seemed even the ones personally raised by this big shot still lost a good amount of their strength because he was not the fastest person in that battle. Turning another corner Donny cursed as he started climbing another staircase. There were stairs all over the city because of the way it was built and normally he didn''t care because it was the same as walking once your stats hit a curtain level but it was very different when your legs were tired.


    At the top of the stairs he looked back again to see the undead had had no trouble with the stairs and were actually getting closer. This meant he would probably be better off just risking a fight. He could take three even if they were much stronger than the undead he had killed earlier.


    Running around another corner Donny waited till they came running around it after him and took one of their heads off. That just left two and with them being so close he was able to turn and strike again before they were able to react to him. His second hit wasn''t as lethal but it would still make the fight easier.


    Ducking under the first attack from the undead he hadn''t hit yet, Donny went for its leg and seeing it fall to the ground decided this fight was over since these three wouldn''t be able to chase him right away.


    Finding a building with an intact door while running, Donny tried the handle and found it locked. Using his mana he opened it by messing with the lock. Walking inside he could tell he probably wasn''t the only person here but with them hiding they were probably just people who lived in the city so they shouldn''t kill him if they found him sleeping on their chair.


    He was clearly just a normal person so they would understand he was a fighter that had needed a ce to recover. Using his mana to relock the door Donny grabbed the chair and brought it further from the door. He didn''t want to open any doors because it might cause whoever was hiding here to attack him so he just put the chair behind the only pir in the room and sat down.


    He could feel that he would be asleep in a matter of seconds when he closed his eyes but it didn''t seem like he would be so lucky. Something was at the front door and while he didn''t know if it was the undead or just someone who was trying to get in because they were running like he had they were clearly motivated to get in.


    He couldn''t just stay in his chair and let them break down the door so he got up and pulled his sword. Sadly this house had no windows he could use to look at what was at the door so he had to just open it and hope he could handle whatever it was. Waiting till the door stopped moving Donny swung it open and backed off.


    Seeing a person he didn''t drop his guard right away because undead looked like normal people sometimes. The fact that they weren''t already attacking him was a good sign that they were just a normal human though. "Go away please." Donny didn''t want to get involved in their struggle to survive so he just made it clear he was hostile in the hopes the person would realize they were better off moving on. "Just let me in for a little while."


    Donny didn''t understand how that would help them if he was just going to throw them out again in a few minutes so he said. "Go to that house over there. It''s empty." He didn''t know that for sure because the door had been torn down meaning anything could be inside but he didn''t really care.


    "It doesn''t have a door." Donny shrugged and said. "Doors mean nothing if something wants to get inside a thin stone door won''t stop them." He was pretty sure they had been about to smash this door when he had opened it so they should be able to ept this as truth. "Just let me in."


    Donny was starting to think he would be better off leaving and letting them go inside and take his ce. He could find somewhere else to sleep. "Fine,e on in." After the person walked inside Donny closed the door behind them and used Magic to make it get stuck closed. With this he would know if they had bad intentions towards him because they would have to break down the door to follow him into the streets they had been begging to get away from.


    Looking down the street Donny decided to just move in the same direction as earlier to look for a ce to rest. This part of town seemed pretty quiet at the moment even if it had signs that something had happened here earlier so it was safe enough to walk around.