The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

"Finally is done..." Putting the armor on the side, Danzel nodded satisfied.

[You received 8 000 XP]

"So the rare runes give 8000 XP huh..." 

Standing up, he unequipped the armor that he had borrowed from Hanson. He picked up the new armor and hid away his thick bones.

"Hmmm, it's rather on the lighter side. Maybe I should have some weights or something..." Daniel said slightly dejected.

The before heavy armor that he has turned into tiny pieces cause of that old magic caster.

"Pity, at least this one has better runes in it, also the new..."

Looking at the armor, or rather his chest plate part, he was still surprised to get something like this...awkward.

[Rune of Force]: A rune created by someone who was once known as "architect", a genius mage who specializes in the creation of artificial life in the form of golems. To compensate for the lack of will in his creation, the rune is a self-activation rune that activates a barrier in case of sensing danger. Sadly, the time it requires for the rune to charge with mana takes around 4-5 hours, as it was made in his early years.

Although it was good, he felt awkward having that rune.

To this credit, the barrier did manage to block his swings when he tested it, but the activation of the barrier was rather vague.

For example, if the earth needles were counted as sensing danger, then the barrier would be useless.

Sure, the spikes penetrating him could be a small annoyance, unless it was his head of course.

Otherwise, he was unlucky, the needles will just pierce his armor and pass right through his bones.

So the fatal wound that would have been for a mortal is for him, an undead with pure bones not so much fatal.

But contrary to uncommon runes, this rune had a much bigger effect, which was nice to see.

And he couldn't much complain of having an extra shield keeping his dear life.

What he complained though was about his new sword.

"Sigh...how I miss feeling of holding Veren in my hands..."

If he were to compare Veren and his nameless sword for just the quality, then the nameless sword would be much better.

Be it channeling mana, the sharpness, and the toughness alone, it was a class above.

With runes replacing the Veren runes, he could proudly say that it was indeed nice to have.

But the huge disadvantage that he wasn't used to was that he had to take care not to break it.

No longer could he simply pierce his stone wall to do his catapult maneuver without worrying about breaking the blade.

Remembering that, Danzel shook his head dejected.

"I got to get my mind out of Verens bitter end..."

Tapping on his status, he looked around for quite some while before deciding what to do.

"Right, since I saw that last time, it wouldn't hurt trying now."

[Lower Class Death Magic]

[Lesser Raise Undead]

[Reconstruct Body]

Of course, he meant of the remaining undead skills.

He hasn't bought them yet because they didn't seem that practical compared to the [Curse of Decay]

In a sense, he saw them as mere support skills.

Being self-explanatory, [Lesser Raise Undead] allowed him to make a dead body into an undead.

That spell couldn't compare to the Draugr skill which he fought to get Veren.

Since the skill, raised them and not created them. The ways that it could be used were very limited.

Why should he waste time in casting when he can just hack at his opponent.

As for the [Reconstruct Body], it was a spell made to go hand in hand with the [Lesser Raise Undead].

As the only thing that it did was basically restore the body of a dead.

And by restoring the body, it meant only the bones...

The worst part of it was that the skill didn´t work on the undead.

At first, when he read the skill, he was pretty excited to see a spell that could regenerate his body and not wait for hours long for a part of him to grow back with the help of dead mana.

Heck, his only healing ability as of now would only work if he died!

So when he read the limits of the skill he was naturally disappointed.

And as of now, he was hesitant to get any more skill on his name.

Though the first and second upgrades were fine and could be gathered by a week.

What came after would really open up a hole in his wallet.

If that's so, the question as to why he gets those spells comes into mind.

And for that, there is a simple and only reason.

...

He got bored.

[You acquired Lesser Raised Undead]

[You acquired Reconstruct Body]

Gripping his skull in pain, information flew through his mind and slowly imprinted in his mind.

"Ugh...I almost forgot about that being a thing..." Shaking his head, he moved away from the desk.

"Alright, this should be enough..." Crouching down, two pale corpses appeared out of thin air with eyes closed.

"..."

After starting at the two unfortunate fellows, Danzel took a few steps back and started his cast to defile their bodies.

"Dead, Rise once more~" 

Casting as the spell was imprinted in his mind after a thin dark green mist flew out of his hand and inside the two corpses.

Starting with a slight twist, the once deceased shot their eyes wide open while their emotionless face became pure ferocious.

"Gaaaagh~"

Stumbling on their feet, they soon raised up and stared at their master emotionless.

"Hmm...so that's the spell huh?" Mumbling to himself, he gave their first command.

"Move to the right..."

"Gaaahh~"

Dragging their feet to the ground, they continued walking until they continue hitting the wall.

"It seems like they are quite stupid..."

Commanding them to return where they were before, he pulled his long sword and damaged both with just a scratch.

[Status]

Name: ----

Race: Zombie (Undead)

Level: 1

Class: ----

Sub-Class: ----

Health: 247/250

Mana: 10/10

Attribute points: 0

Attributes: Strength: 7 Agility: 1 Intelligence: 1 Endurance: 4

Talent: [Undead]

Skills: ----

[Remark]: A undead who was created with the use of magic. A mere puppet drove solely by his instincts and his master orders.

Reading through the description, Danzel would even frown if he could.

"Mere puppets, huh?"

For Danzel it felt weird.

Staring at someone who looked like a living person and not feeling any kind of disturbed that comes with his undead trait to hate the living.

`That´s undead for you..."

With a swift yet strong movement, he penetrated both of their skulls in an instant.

Seeing them fall down, Danzel raised his hand and started casting.

"Sorry..."

`[Reconstrukt Body]´

Seeping out of his body, dead mana entered the two undead bodies and slowly repaired their skull.

`One more time...´

"Dead, Rise once more~" 

As the dark green mist entered their body, the unexpected happend.

Instead of the undead raising just like they did a few seconds ago, this time they stayed still with only further decay to show on their body.

"Yeah...I should guess that would happen." Shaking his head, he went and seated to the chair where he was working those last two weeks.

"Well, that end fast..." 

Noting the discovery of that experiment, he put the page into his storage ring while staying staring at the status window.

"That´s 10 000 XP for you... and I didn´t even learn how to upgrade the talent [Lower Class Death Magic] from it in the end. Does it upgrade after I upgrade the spells or how can I do it...?"

He thought of many scenarios, but as the talent didn´t point at a clear path that he could take, everything, in the end, was pure speculation.

In the first place, he just decided to get those two spells after two weeks of continuous work and thinking of solutions for the [Rune of Force] to be at least giving him XP. He honestly was mentally exhausted.

It also didn´t help with the rune by itself being harder to understand.

If it weren´t for the experience that he gained from continuously carving runes, then finishing this rune would probably have taken him a month.

*Knock~

"Ugh...should I practice with my new sword while I earn my keep? But I ain´t really in the mood-"

*Knock, Knock~

"Excuse me, I am coming in!"

Slamming the door open, the guard Edward came walking in with an angry expression.

"Hey, why didn´t you op-huh?" 

Looking dumbfounded in the ground, Edward saw two corpses with blood spilling out of their body and an undead holding a sword with blood in it staring at him.

"Why did you come in?" Danzel said with his cold voice before realizing why the man was so shocked.

`Right, I forgot to clean up...´

"You-I mean...I already knocked but heard no reply after waiting for longer than 10 minutes..."

Shifting his head to the side, Danzel asked in a deadly serious voice.

"You knocked?"

"...."