These Familiars Are Strange

Looking out the door, it seemed that this place really was a normal castle.

There wasn't anything out there but a normal corridor.

This was the kind of corridor that one would find in any normal castle and it even seemed to be a bit desolate because there was nothing that was here in the corridors.

The corridors seemed like they were completely devoid of any decoration at all.

Well, it wasn't as if they were completely empty either since there were a few things that were there. It was just that none of them seemed to be special and none of them seemed to even have a trace of mana to them.

This place just seemed like any normal castle.

But the mana in the air was more than enough to show that this place was still a dungeon.

After looking around for a bit, I took out the map and asked Iris, "What can you see from this?"

She was the one that had helped us map out the Death Forest before, so I was hoping to use her ability to see if we could find anything special about this place with the map.

But in the end, Iris just shook her head to show that she wasn't able to find anything.

She could figure out where we were based on the map, but this map was just too simple to give us any meaningful information. At the same time, this map was nothing more than a map of the surrounding area.

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It wasn't as if this map was a map of the entire dungeon.

The information about this area alone wouldn't be enough to tell us anything about what was in this dungeon.

So the only thing that we could do was explore this place on our own and see what we could find.

Coming to this decision, I led the way out of the room that we were in.

There was nothing that happened when we stepped out of the room.

With how quiet this place was, it was almost as if this dungeon was completely abandoned. But since it was a dungeon, it was impossible for that to be true.

Whatever was here seemed to be hiding…

So looking around, it seemed like either side of the corridor was the same. It was even the same on the map, so it didn't seem to matter which way we went.

In the end, we just chose one side and started moving forward.@@novelbin@@

As we walked down this corridor, there really was an eerie feeling that filled the air.

It was almost as if there was something here, it was just that we couldn't tell what it was. It really felt like there was something invisible that was watching us from the dark, we just weren't able to see them.

That was until…

"Creak."

"Did you hear that?" I asked the other two and they nodded, but they had confused looks since they didn't seem to know what that sound was either.

"Creak."

It rang out again, but this time it was much louder than before.

Looking forward, we could see what it was that made that noise.

It was a set of armour that was walking towards us.

But looking at the gaps in the armour, we could see that there wasn't anything that was inside of the armour. It even seemed like there was some kind of strange energy that was inside of this armour that was making it move.

It was slowly moving towards us, but the moment that we saw it, it seemed to also see us.

It paused for a second before suddenly violently jerking and running at us.

"Let me handle this." I said before calling out the Echo Bat.

The two of them just nodded and moved back to see what I would do.

But for once…

Raising my hand, I created an opening to the Storage Ring on my hand.

When that opening was created, there were a few bones that suddenly fell out.

After these bones came out, it was as if there was some kind of strange force that lifted them off the ground. They just seemed to float there for a bit before they suddenly came together to form a proper skeleton.

But it wasn't the skeleton of a human that was formed.

Rather, it was the skeleton of a wolf that was formed and it wasn't just a single one.

After these skeletons were formed, the bones seemed to have some kind of magic flowing through them as they started to move. There seemed to be this dark glow around the bones.

After this dark magic flowed through the bones, the skeleton wolves didn't hesitate to charge at the closest set of living armour.

The skeletal wolves moved with incredible speed, half of which was because of their natural aerodynamic ability as skeletons and half of it was because they were buffed by dark magic.

They quickly made their way over to where the living armour was and then clamped their teeth down on the living armour.

"Crack."

It wasn't the armour that cracked, but rather the bones of the skeletal wolves that cracked.

That just went to show just how thick this set of armour was.

But even though their bones cracked, the skeletal wolves didn't give up on attacking the living armour. Since their teeth didn't work, what they did instead was run around the living armour and slash at them with their claws.

Their claws actually seemed to be leaving a mark, but that was more because of the dark magic that was around their claws. Rather than actually cutting through the armour, what the dark magic did was corrode the armour away.

That was why there were black marks that were left on the armour where the claws of the skeletal wolves hit it.

The problem was that this was taking too long and in the distance, there was the sound of more sets of living armour approaching.

So I called out another set of bones that formed together.

This time, it took the form of a skeleton, a human skeleton.