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“You can come out now Dandelion, it’s dead and, by the Gods, stop screaming!” the chosen undead shouted toward the bard who was hiding from the Taurus demon between the bridge railing and the entrance.
“That was amazing!” he said as he crawled out of his hiding spot
“You were facing away from the fight the entire time” the chosen undead replied coolly
“You just killed a beast that was three times bigger than you, on a narrow bridge!”
“It’s almost like she also had a professional monster killer on her side” Lambert scoffed “what’s with the body disappearing like that?”
“It turned into souls for me to absorb” the chosen undead replied
“So let me get this straight...every time you kill something, its souls are transferred to you and souls are used to strengthen thus tougher enemies have more souls for you to then use to toughen yourself?” Lambert asked
The chosen undead nodded “yeah that’s correct”
“That’s kind of fucked up”
“Just wait until you hear about infusing weapons with the souls of the fallen” she laughed “the bridge up here is called ‘Hellkite Bridge’ needless to say, we’re going to be sprinting across it”
“We have only one life, chosen undead” Dandelion reminded her “Should we risk it?”
“I have a crossbow” Lambert added
“Actually” she replied “there’s a glitch I can exploit”
The two men watched in awe as the dragon walked off the bridge, not even bothering to fly off.
“Wait for it” she said “just give it a second”
After about 5 minutes, the mass of souls floated toward her.
“How did you do that?” Lambert asked “in all my years as a witcher, I’ve never seen a beast fall to its death, especially if it could fly away!”
“It’s interesting” she started “enemy AI is oddly exploitable in some areas”
“What?” Dandelion and Lambert asked in near perfect unison.
“Don’t worry about it”