Chapter 7: Blue Sky, Green Earth

Striding up the hill in as few strides as possible, you look down on a lone lightly armored Mendevian Crusader locked in battle with four skeletons. He is parrying their blows as best he can with a staff, but it is clear that he is outmatched and overmanned. Further away on another hill you see a robed figure sitting astride a great big zombie megaloceros. He is silently watching the battle.

Artesia moves forward and tosses a slingstone in the skeleton's direction, but the distance is just too far.

The Mendevian soldier smashes at one of them desperately with a dagger, though it is the only weapon he's holding, it proves an ill suited weapon to dealing with skeletons. While he is the better fighter, and able to go toe to toe with them, it seems his weapon will be his downfall.

One of the skeletons slashes several times at the soldier, and one of the strikes hits him in the side.

Iroven follows Tomas in running forward, but he’s not as fast as his companion.

One of the skeletons keep up the assault, and while the soldier dodges most of its strikes, one sword swing catches him in a glancing blow of the shoulder.