12 Level 2 (1/2)

As Mike muttered the words the burly man that was still laughing quickly turned into a dried corpse, halfway though he seemed to realize what was happening and let out a scream, as a result the dried corpse had a rather scary death mask, Mike however was not in any condition to admire his handiwork as he attempted to let out a scream while his shattered collarbone was forcefully restored but as he had no air in his lungs he was unable, Mike's shoulder was quickly restored as a pale scar was left behind on his shoulder where the blade had cut through him, his other minor injuries also stopped bleeding, but only just.

After an unknown amount of time passed Mike gradually got off the ground, he was deathly pale and his shoulder arched so much he seriously considered cutting it off to be spared from the pain

”Fuck…”

As Mike cursed her walked over towards the other burly man and stabbed his knife into the corpse before he muttered

”[Drink]”

As the other corpse also got drained of blood Mike felt a little better and the pain in his shoulder lessened somewhat making his movements speed up

'Someone is bound to have heard that scream… no time to loot other than the swords…'

Mike quickly grabbed the two swords and their scabbards before he tore a piece of igniter paper and dropped it on the dried corpses and picked up his backpack as the two dried up corpses was set alight before he quickly made it towards Morkove… A few minutes later after Mike left the area a group of adventures showed up, one of them quickly kicked some sand onto the corpses while the others looked on as one of them commented

”Save your strength, there's nothing to save there”

”Shut up, I need the money!”

The one adventure kept kicking on dirt and sand to try and save the burning equipment and when the fire was finely out he dug out the still hot bodies before he suddenly stopped moving and suddenly yelled to the other adventures that were jeering him on

”Hey isn't these corpses kind of strange?”

The other adventures looked closer at the corpses before they fell silent, after some time one of them spoke

”Let's report to the guild, we have a vampire on the loose”

Mike returned to the Inn, he had no need to go to the guild and turn in his goblin ears today and instead brought them with him to his room and laid them on the desk, no not like that they were still contained in the pouch that kept most of the smell at bay, Mike laid down on the bed for a bit with closed eyes before he suddenly sat up and looked over the poncho that was beyond repair this time

'Well you served me well…'

Mike tossed the poncho aside and laid down again, this time he fell into a light dreamless sleep that lasted until his stomach woke him up in the early morning as it screamed out for substance and so Mike, slave to his stomach gradually woke up and got dressed before he went downstairs and quickly found out it was too early for breakfast, thus he went back upstairs to his room and grabbed the pouch with the goblin ears as he had decided to go to the guild and turn in his bounty, after wearing his holed poncho(as he had no other alternative) Mike left the Inn and walked towards the guild, on the way there he snacked on some street food from some of the few still open stalls before he reached the guild which never closed and just as he was about to walk inside he saw Julie walk out of the guild

'What's that bitch doing here?'

Not liking the look of the [Paladin] Mike took a step back and let her pass, Julie didn't even look at him she just walked onwards with her escort of temple knights, Mike gave a snort and walked into the guild and after standing in line for a little while he exchanged his 38 goblin ears for a total of 1900

'And with that done let's go shopping for a bit…'

Mike went shopping and bought a few sets of clothes and wore a new shirt, then he went to a blacksmith and brought a sheath for the knife before he made his way back to the Inn and dropped off the clothes he had brought

'Well then… time to head to the temple and level up…'

Mike was still a little nervous about visiting the temple but didn't let it show as he made his way there but when he reached the temple he saw that people were queued up in three lines as there seemed to be some sort of inspection going on, Mike paused before he decided to go on a line up in the left most queue, after waiting for a bit it was his turn to be inspected

”Alright open you mouth please”

”...sure”

Mike could see that Julie sat further in and kept an eye on the inspections so he decided to be civil about the whole thing and did as he was asked, after all he was not able to smack her around… Yet

”Let's see here… Nope you are free to go”

Mike gave a nod and asked

”What are you guys looking for?”

The man that had inspected him gave a slight smile and spoke

”Vampires”

”...Okay, good luck I guess”

”Thanks kid, now move on”

”Sure”

Mike walked into the temple and up to the reception, or at least that was the plan as when he was about to walk past Julie she called out to him

”Stop”

Mike stopped walking and answered her without looking at her

”...What do you want?”

Julie sat in a comfortably in a recliner chair that was placed in the middle of the reception hall wearing her armor and with her sword standing next to her leaning against the chair