The Insider System

Chapter 358: Skill Stacking Pt.2

Lake Tried to approach Hampton to activate ghost Touch on the man but was stopped by Hampton saying. "No, not on me. Let's try to use it on my eye summon." Remembering the eye thing he had been shown earlier Lake couldn't help but wonder if his skill would work on a magic body part.

The best thing he could compare it to would probably be the extra hands he could summon using his Summon Hands skill which seemed to be affected by everything his real hands were. If the eye Hampton was working on summoning now was anything like that he couldn't see why it wouldn't work.

After Hampton was done and the eye flew out of the formation he had just made, Lake got closer to it and reached out his hand while asking. "Which part should I touch?" He was sure the eye part was what he should turn ethereal but since the formation was still next to Hampton he was hoping he could turn the eye ethereal by keeping his hand on the formation.

"Just do both to see if it works." Lake nodded and after touching both things using his two hands he nodded at Hampton to say he could send the eye through. "Alright here we go." Watching the eye hover away from them and through the door, Lake got excited to hear what was on the other side but just like last time they sent something through, their hopes were quickly dashed.

"I've lost connection to the eye." Hearing Hamptons words, Lake instantly had a question. "Does it work without you and can it return with what it saw?" If either of these two functions were art of the eye this plan could still work but sadly Hampton shook his head no before saying. "No it's just a regular eye that can float and see through things slightly. I don't think I as a mortal could implement the two things you just asked me about."

Lake was a bit disappointed in this because it meant they were back to trying to send a person through. He had an idea while they had been standing here though so this hadn't been a complete waste of time. "Does anyone have a rope?" His skill said he could still interact with things affected by Ghost Touch so tying a rope around someone and then swinging them through the area behind the door would give them a way to get a person inside without them falling through the ground until the effect wore off. "I do."

Lake wasn't sure who Deklein was but after looking back he realized it was the mayor from the way the man was nodding to these instructions. After Hampton said this the man started moving forward without moving his feet which gave away how the man hadn't fallen through the ground, he was hovering.

After the older man passed through the door Lake briefly thought about using Ghost Touch through the rope to trap the man inside but decided it was a bad idea even if no one here would know he had done it with there being a real chance the old man was about to open the door using something on the other side.

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Seeing the older man go into the phantom infested room on the other side of the door Donny felt like he should have taken at least one other person but since the older man hadn't it probably meant he had some confidence in whatever he planned to do on the other side.

It didn't seem their leader cared about anything that was happening here though because a few seconds after Hampton went through the Oracle guard walked up to the mayor and asked. "Can we go? This seems to be under control."

The mayor seemed to know there was nothing he could say to keep them here that kept to their original deal since there wasn't a fight or any real threat to the city. "Alright I'll go up and tell the..." The man's statement never ended because while he was saying what he was going to do the ground suddenly shook enough that everyone was knocked off of their feet.

Since he was on his back Donny was able to see the cracks that started to form above them and watched in horror as stones started to fall towards them. He was snapped out of this waiting to be squashed mindset when all of the stone around them paused where it was. Turning to look at the oracle guard Donny saw the man's hands up and knew it had been him who had just saved them.

"Everyone move! The phantoms are still around us inside the stone and I'm using Earth magic to do this." Scrambling to his feet Donny started working on the shield formation as he helped the others around him to their feet. He knew the man wanted them to start running towards the surface but they were going to need to move faster than their feet could go if they wanted to get out of a collapsing tunnel without using Earth magic.

"Fendis get working on the wind platform." After he said this he ran towards the guy near the door who was still holding onto the rope. Making sure this guy survived was more important than the others really since he was capable of getting them through solids with his ability so letting him die because he was too scared to run was a huge mistake.

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