The Insider System

Chapter 216: Drag

Chapter 216: Drag

Once the man's wounds had closed Donny got him onto his feet and helped him into a place he could try and hide. Donny couldn't just stay with him forever and he planned to try and save a few more people from the hands of the gargoyles and bring them here so they could watch each other.

Even if they were wounded he was sure one of them would have an actual Health potion and after Donny had given some it to all of them he would be able to lead them back to the battle. It would be a nice little reinforcement force he had snatched from the Demon Worshipers. He wasn't stupid so he could guess what they planned to do with the people the Gargoyles were dragging away.

He was sure they would be back in the fight as undead soon after they disappeared. "Alright I'll be right back." Donny could hear another person screaming so he wanted to chase down the Gargoyle before it got too far. Following the sound he saw the man that was screaming had his hand on a railing while the gargoyle was trying to pull him into a building.

Running over Donny used Mana Control to rip the Gargoyles Metal body apart before grabbing the man to inspect his injuries. This guy was in a lot better condition than the first guy with his only big injury being to one of his legs. "Oh thank you, thank you." Picking the guy up Donny started to carry him towards the first guy while asking. "Do you have any potions?"

"The man started to look down and said. "Only a Mana potion." This was actually good news because it meant Donny could go around and kill Gargoyles with his mana for longer. "I need it." Donny wasn't asking but thankfully the man had seen what Donny had done to the gargoyle so he handed it over with no fuss.

Getting the guy back to the other man Donny said. "Take care of him while I'm gone." The first guy he had helped seemed to have passed out so he was completely helpless at the moment. This second guy was a mage so Donny had hope he could take out one enemy if they just happened along.

"Wait where are you going?" Donny just ran off towards the only other scream he could hear that wasn't taking place from the large battle that he was working his way around. Finding a woman that seemed to have gotten the gargoyle's hand off of her leg and was trying to crawl away from it Donny once again destroyed it with his mana and Helped her up.

She seemed fine, so he asked. "Health potions?" Because with her being ok she should have at least an empty bottle of one. "No, I drank it while it was dragging me. There's still some at base I think." Hearing the word base Donny was interested but he said. "Follow me." Before he started asking her anything about this base.

Once they were moving towards the first two he had saved he asked. "Where's this base at?"

"It's in the center of the light. I think it was a market before the Temple put up the walls."

So it was the light he had seen earlier. "Ok I need you to help me with something. I plan to save people who are getting dragged away but some of them are in bad condition so I need you to help me guard them while I get the guy we can hear screaming." After he said this he pointed towards the alley the first two were in and said. "In there."

After he said this he rushed off towards the screams. There was a new one every minute or so so he had plenty to do and lots of people to save before he went and joined the main battle.

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"Do you think they would mind if I took this?" Lake had found a cool bottle that had somehow survived the fall off of the shelf it had been on. It looked like it was made of emerald and he couldn't help but think it was perfect to put poison in when he got around to making some. "I don't think they'll notice."

The dwarf was obviously saying they would see the pile of shattered glass and just assume this bottle had shattered as well since all the broken ones were green as well. "You're right." Lake also knew there was a good chance whoever had lived here was dead since the door had been knocked down so they wouldn't be needing it.

Putting it into his bag Lake found he was unable to put it into the Booster Bag space and took that to mean they were dead since this didn't count as stealing. "Ok I'll get its legs." This was the fourth time he and this dwarf had carried a body out of a building and they had called the feet every time.

It was fine because Lake could probably do it himself with how high his strength was but Lake was pretty sure they were doing it because Lake had used fire when he had killed these undead and it had burned most of their upper body leaving Lake to grab a handful of cooked meat while they moved it.

The little guy was being greedy not grabbing the gross side even once and Lake decided he was going to put a stop to it. The next one they went for he was going to call the legs as soon as they got close to the building. Throwing the body out onto the road Lake watched as one of the people that could use fire magic set the corpse ablaze and said. "Next."

Walking to the next building Lake made sure to be the first one in the door and said. "I call the legs." Hearing this the dwarf stopped and said. "You can only call once you can see the body." Lake started shaking his head and said. "I can see it." Lake couldn't really see it very well even if he used Mana Vision and Detector really only showed him what it was shaped like and where it was but it was still enough to claim he could see it.

"You can see through walls? That's not really in the spirit of the game." Lake shrugged and said. "All I care about is winning." Running into the back room Lake grabbed the legs like he said he would and waited for the dwarf to find a good hand hold on the upper part of the body. They went with a rib that had been scorched clean of flesh but still had enough strength to be used as a handle.

Seeing the man's short stature was making it hard for him to lift the upper body far enough off the ground that it didn't drag, Lake started to realize the man had a reason to want to get the feet. The best way for the man to do this would be to lift it above his head but Lake could understand why the man didn't want to hold a dripping corpse above their head.

Getting it outside Lake pointed to someone who was as tall as him and said. "It's your turn, come on." Lake had originally asked the dwarf to help him to give himself a chance to talk to them but the third dwarf was much younger than the other two and didn't seem to be as interested in talking.

It made perfect sense for him to switch out his helper if this was the case. "Alright, the next one is in here." Lake was pointing at the next building that had a dead undead in it. Leading the guy in Lake said. "It has an arm so let's just drag it out." There was already a blood trail through the building so whatever mess they made didn't matter.

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In the last few minutes Donny had been able to save another five people and brought them back to the alley way he had the others in. This last guy had had a health potion but it was the cheap kind again so he was still unable to actually get the people that were really tore up back up and fighting.

He would find one eventually though, all he needed to do was keep at it. "He's asleep, help me feed him this." The Last guy was knocked out while Donny was saving him because the gargoyle had used him as a weapon so they needed to get the potion down his throat without choking him.

Hearing another scream getting closer Donny said. "You've got it so I'm going to go." Running towards the noise Donny saw that the person that was being dragged was actually someone he knew. He didn't know them very well but he had worked with him the first day he had arrived. He could also see the man was in terrible shape. It seemed he had been hit with a spell before the gargoyle had gotten him.