While Taichi was distracted by Silas and Mike's melee assaults, Sasha would hope to be able to sneak around quickly in attempts to get a Sneak Attack off, drawing her Tanto and Wakizashi in the process.
Sasha Stealth: 55 - 42 Stealth - 4 Skill Bonus = 9
Taichi Observation: 24
Sasha's attempt at stealth was indeed successful. With Taichi being distracted by the large slash across his chest from Silas' Daichizan, Sasha would be able to sneak up behind Taichi and, using the Dual Wielding Skill's extra affect of using 'Dual Attack Skills', she was able to execute Daichizan with two blades, having to slash with the Wakizashi first since it was longer before moving in to slash again with the Tanto, able to do this one after another with great speed.
Wakizashi Daichizan: 57 - 32 Ban Family Sword Technique - 14 Skill Bonus + 9 Dual Wielding Penalty = 20 (Max Damage)
Damage Dealt: 159
Tanto Daichizan: 69 - 32 Ban Family Sword Technique - 11 Skill Bonus + 9 Dual Wielding Penalty = 35 (Hit)
Damage Dealt: 156
The first slash hit dead on, slashing right across his back. The second hit was a powerful upward slash from the dagger, digging deep into the man's back, the Sneak Attack damage being added here from the small bladed weapon. The damage from both attacks made his HP drop down to a -175, below 0 even. The attacks were bloody, blood having gotten on both of Sasha's blades and on Silas' blade.
The mage coughed up blood, the hood falling off his head as it revealed his face. He just gave a smirk, despite looking as though he was on death's door. "Con... gratulations". He coughed up blood once again. "You're now killers... blood is on your hands..." He stumbled backwards now, laughing a little. "To think these little fish would have fangs, still... its not like you didn't have help from much stronger sharks... so you're still weak... and have now stepped into a world of much..." he coughed up blood once again. "stronger predators... I hope that you... enjoyed it".
With that, the man fell over, dead. Windows appeared before each of the gamers, stating the following.
Well, for Sasha, Daichizan and Sneak Expertise leveled up. For Ominal, Mike, and Ren, the following window appeared.
For Sasha and Silas, a window appeared similar to that, but only half of the EXP that the first three earned was what they earned, probably because they arrived late. All of them probably would have gotten more if Touma and Nero hadn't dealt that 500 damage to the mage. The bone cage around Galkyr shattered as the space around all of them began to crack. Ren, after the cage shattered, aimed his palm at Galkyr. "Dismiss Summon". With those words, the demon dog disappeared, revealing to those who didn't know that Ren was the one who summoned that demon. After a few moments of the space cracking though, it shattered, revealing a much larger room with a desk at the end, the enforcers also in the room.
"Well... you all did pretty good". Henry walked over to them now, his staff vanishing as it turned into a ring on his finger. "Provided you all did have help, numbers, and an opponent who underestimated you, but you all still did good nonetheless".
"As for your original purpose in coming here..." Keiichi spoke up now, moving over to the desk as he began to search through it. "The answers are probably in here, the reason why the Void Wizard wanted you all to come here". He searched through the desk, searching through every part, but there were no signs of anything.
Nero walked over to it. "Let me take care of this". He put his hand on the desk, and after a few moments every compartment and hidden compartment was burst open. Nothing dropped out of the desk except for a single key, which Nero picked up. He threw it to Ren, who caught it. "The answers probably lie with that, go search around while we clean up things here". With that, Nero left the room in a cloud of black that enveloped his form before it vanished, along with him. Some form of Teleportation skill most likely, one that Ren was very interested in, before looking down at the key.
"Henry, you go with the Gamers. The rest of us will make sure there are no remaining enemies or any other secrets here". Keiichi spoke now, him, Keiko, and Touma leaving the room. Henry walked over to the gamers.
"Well, looks like we're still together for a little longer. Lets go check out that storage room, we may find something there".
Ren agreed with this plan, walking out of the room and, if the others followed, they would soon arrive at that locked room that they had bypassed before. Ren put the key into the hole and turned it, the door unlocking with a click. Henry stepped forward now, staff appearing in his hand. He opened the door now, slowly peeking in as he opened it a crack. "Alright... its all clear..." He opened the door fully, walking in.
In the storage room there were alot of crates, about a couple dozen of them, along with a bookshelf and a filing cabinet. "Ill check the cabinet..." Henry moved to the filing cabinet, opening it up as he started to rifle through it slowly.
Ren, in the meantime, moved to the bookshelf and began to scan over the shelf, using Observe every now and again.