I could feel my life being shortened just by standing near this being. It was a thing full of death, the personification of death and life at the same time!Undead!The flesh started to drop off from the decayed corpse as black bones covered with runes appeared in my sight, the skeleton moved slightly as it fell to one knee but then glared at me with two eye sockets filled with blue fire as I unconsciously kneeled in front of him as he got up."I can't believe my body weakened so much for not being used, I thought this shouldn't matter when I became an undead..."I stayed down there and avoided eye contact, but the skeleton made a chuckling sound as it looked down at me and said:"Stop being so scared, your arrival broke the barrier that sealed me underground, so I guess I should reward you for that, unfortunately, your talent is so lacking that you wouldn't be able to learn even my simplest technique, and I'm currently as broke as I can be, keep the cracked sword I guess?""Unfortuna
I left the hole and entered the cave before making my way outside using the path I memorized when I entered.I wasn't sure how much time it took for the death knight changes to affect my body, but I could feel that the aura on the battlefield was getting heavier, which meant that soldiers would soon arrive in this place!However, the dreaded aura that would inspire insanity was slowly receding as the lich below the ground had already become half-free.There was no reason to exert its influence to guide people down there anymore.Maybe I could use this to my advantage...For starters, I decided to find the path that the other Churches would take to arrive on the inner battlefield and make a hiding spot there.It took me a while, but I found the place, it was parallel opposed to the location of the Fire Church base.However, it was hidden between a thick layer of trees and shrubs, and further away I could sense the barrier of one of the other Churches, but my elemental senses weren't so
The journey back to the city was uneventful. The secret path taken to the battlefield was only used by other soldiers from the Fire God Church who returned from the city after their temporary leave.The speed on the path was also accelerated, most likely because of a unique barrier that was constructed along with it, making me arrive at the city in around 6 hours of constant running.With Aratas's help, we took way less time, but this was already pretty good.I arrived at the city and showed the guards my Fire God Church pin before entering and going straight to the mage guild.After entering the guild, I saw the same long-eared lady at the receiving desk. Seeing that it was me again, the woman looked at me and asked, uninterested why have I came back again:"Welcome to the mage guild. What can I help you with today?"I responded curtly:"I want to meet the head doctor once again."She glanced at a small scroll that she took out of her desk before saying:"The head doctor has an appoi
I would lie if I said that I didn't find Shira attractive. Her body was perfect, her face was nice, but her personality was... well, a zealot.She was indoctrinated since she was a baby to become a weapon in the hands of the Church, and I couldn't do anything to change her view on things. Thus, she was useless to me, at a point in the future, she won't be so easy to manipulate anymore, and the sole reason she was sleeping with me right now was that she wanted to strengthen her will and get some comfort before she went to the battlefield with me tomorrow.Despite her constant training, she had no battlefield experience, and I doubted she killed too many people.She still had that look of pureness in her eyes.Even when she went up and down on me, she was still looking as pure as ever, her eyes directly looking into mine as she smiled at me and continued.As superhumans we had quite the stamina, so we were able to go at it for hours on end. However, we knew that continuing for too much
Even though Shira was naive, it wasn't to the point that she didn't understand that I and the necromancer weren't unsheathing our weapons to fight the owner that was oozing darkness from the cave.Her expression crumpled as she glared at the both of us before looking at me and asking:"Have you been bewitched by this necromancer bitch?! Why are you trying to attack me?!"I shook my head. There was no need to explain as she would learn everything the moment the lich would have integrated with her body.I put both of my hands on the handle of the sword as I approached her using the knife footing technique, the necromancer had already summoned a staff with a human skull on it which she pointed at Shira as she chanted:"Darkness coming from the soul, power from the dead, unleash your Grimmy claws and smite this advocate of light!"She couldn't summon undead due to the vow she made, but necromancers were versatile on plagues, curses, and other types of diseases that could weaken people on
I looked at her unconscious body as Ludeus started his ritual.It was a pity that we were from two different worlds. She was talented and beautiful, a woman who anyone would appreciate for who she was, but unfortunately, she had been brainwashed by the Fire God Church to become one of their loyal weapons, which was rather sad.In a way, she was just like me. Stripped of her free will because she wasn't strong enough when she was young, becoming someone else's belonging, and unlike me, she was unable to break away from those who captured her.Runes started to leave the black shoulder bones as they rotated around Ludeus while he made an incision with his sharp finger bones on Shira's foreheadAn incantation left his jaw as he kept it wide open, but it was soundless to the point neither the necromancer nor I could hear it.It was a foreign language of the souls that we couldn't hear at our meager strength levels.The wind started to appear around the underground as it was emanated by the
We left the cave behind us as Ludeus took a deep breath of the fresh air from the surface. "It has been such a long time since I had seen the sun that I almost forgot how it felt on my skin." They stretched their body as popping sounds came from all over Shira's body, the bones that were previously dislodged, due to the fight and integration popped right back where they were supposed to be as Ludeus looked around before they said: "Follow me, we will get fifty kills, then move out of this battlefield, there is nothing for us here." "Minato, I guess you wonder where we will go after, right? Well, we will go to the fire church and defect before we will make our way to the ruins of the Wind God Church where we will raise our army to prepare for the invasion of the north." "Killing that Mirato will inflict a huge blow to the fire Church, and we will be one step closer to the conquest of this continent." The green light flickered in Shira's eyes as the influence exerted on her body in
Ludeus's eyes were closed for a few seconds as flames appeared all around his body before he unleashed a ring of fire that covered around 600 meters front, back, and the sides of the plain we were on. It wasn't much, but the heat from the fire was stopping snow from gathering on the ground, and melting the one on the ground at the same time, he created three such rings and sat down on the ground after all the snow melted around us, he then took a meditative position, and all I could do was wait and watch. It took thirty minutes to melt all of the snow without attracting attention. The fire rings continued to stay active as Ludeus got up and looked around before frowning and saying: "There are no ruins, but they shouldn't know about the secret chamber that I left. You guys wait here, I will be back shortly, do notify me if anyone comes through." Ludeus disappeared, leaving me and Maria alone. It was an awkward silence that covered both of us, the snow continued to pour down from th