Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

"This is where the defiler's took off into the seas a few days ago, or so I have heard, the people that we thrown around by them were touched by the fire and are no good to ask about it right now" speaking sternly, Pierre-Ornée stood in front of the three unwanted presences, the name otherworlders were referred to as.

They had managed to get a good lead on the movements of the heretic leader, but unfortunately, diplomacy meant that Halbardier Pierre-Ornée, said to be amongst the strongest this continent had to offer, tightly affiliated with a king, he couldn't just walk around other nations without warning them about his arrival, that would be problematic.

The entire process had gotten the four of them a bit late, allowing the defilers to take off onto the ocean.

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"Well, there is nothing that we can do about it then…" William, the blond unwanted gifted with a great affinity with light magic, expressed his thoughts, at this point, they might as well head back and start dealing with the defiler's still popping around instead.

Toby, the unwanted given the very rare present of a system with special functions, his system was actually no different than the rest, the system was singular, but this boy had been granted access to capabilities usually wholly barred from the rest of the population.

Namely, the ability to gaze into the status of others, as long as they weren't too much stronger than himself, so at the moment, it was not very useful.

The real boon was the simple access to system skills and other assets, this particular otherworlder was a bit busy on sightseeing at the moment.

"I mean, we could take another boat, could we not?" Ilona, sole girl of the trio remarked, pointing at a great vessel just waiting to be taken through dangers of the deep ocean, she herself had been taken to this world and given an affinity for the four most basic elements, fire, wind, earth and water, having many affinities might sound good, but it only meant that she had much more to learn and the study of magic and mana for someone coming from a world completely lacking in it was a rather steep hurdle to overcome.

She had to learn from scratch, lower than a denizen of this world, which was why both her and William were barely able to use their magic at the moment.

They had instead been trained in the mastery of weapon wielding by Pierre-Ornée, although, only Ilona had taken up a halberd, Toby preferring to carry a bow and arrows, whilst William instead went with the classic sword, having already had a bit of experience with it in his old world.

"Oh hell no! The ocean was already making me piss myself in fright when there was nothing but animals in it, I am not getting close to the version with actual monsters in it, how am I supposed to fight the kraken and other slimy tentacle monsters with a sword?" the blond boy made an X sign with his arms, already paling at the thought.

"Come on man, with Mister Pierre-Ornée around, there is nothing to worry about"

The three of them hadn't had much time to grow stronger, their physiques was of a different world, lesser than that of the denizens, their foundation was weaker to begin with, so the halbardier had focused on improving their bodies and getting acclimated to the different, energy rich environment of this world, as well as making use of the system and its XP and stats to get a little boost to their strength, he would have liked to get them to learn some battle arts under Lady Syklon, but the timing of their mission didn't allow for it yet.

Pierre-Ornée's way of achieving his overwhelming strength was not exactly recommended to beginners like them either, they could only keep on training, learning and earning experience, both literal and figurative.

"Toby! Back me up over here- What are you looking at? Oh" the two boys were focused on something far away.

Ilona walked up to see what could get their attention so greatly, nodding her head, indeed, it was a rather nice view.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Halbardier Pierre-Ornée shook his head, tapping his halberd onto the ground to get them to stop staring at the four ladies on the beach.

"Ah, sorry sir, It's just that I spotted the tomboy gf I've always dreamed of-"

"I don't understand anything you're saying to me William, if you three are so interested, go and ask them if they were there when the boat was taken, I would like to know the rough direction they were headed in, even if I already have an idea…" shooing his three proteges toward the admittedly very beautiful women, but they were too young for him.

The otherworlders looked at each other.

"Mister Pierre-Ornée is a cruel teacher, I can't talk to pretty women…" Toby felt even more stressed than when he was unsuspectedly warped into a fantasy world whilst vacuuming his room, as a young man that spent most of his education learning from behind a computer screen, his social skills were rather lacking.

"I feel like I should be offended by that" Ilona raised an eyebrow at that remark, looking over at William, who wasn't faring much better, mumbling about tanned abs.

Her two friendly associates were utterly worthless in this particular battle, she was not much more competent in this sort of social interaction, but she had more balls, figuratively speaking.

And so, Ilona stepped up in their stead, and walked up to the one with the most prominent mammary growths.

"Excuse me, would you happen to have been around when a ship was stolen here, a few days ago?"

The woman looked up from what she had been doing, which was endlessly shining a green-bladed katana like it was the most precious thing in the world.

She looked over at her three friends before responding.

"Yeah, what is it about?" she hugged her sword.

"What direction did they take, a-approximately?" Ilona stuttered a bit, a bit mesmerised by the sight of the thick blade getting in between the two great mounds, the otherworlders eyes visibly dilating.

Receiving her answer, Ilona quickly bid her farewell and retreated before she got any redder than she currently was.

'Oof, that took restraint to not say anything out of line…'