The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

"10 000 XP for a single rune..."

`With such an amount of XP, I would be able to increase my skill levels by a ton too! Damnit!'

"Sigh...at least I found a way to learn runes now. As for the cost..."

Shaking my head bitterly I pressed towards the buy option.

[10 000 XP have been used to learn a common random rune]

[You acquired the normal Rune Ese]

"O-Oh...!"

The newfound knowledge which strained my mind flowed through me.

"This is..."

The Rune symbol, the mana flow art, and the use of the rune was gradually being in branding in my mind.

"Agh...I will never get used to this feeling. Even though I am one of the undead I somehow feel exhausted..."

After taking a break to short out all the information that I got. I glanced towards the description of my newly learned rune

[Rune Ese]: One of the most simple runes amongst the common Rune language. It slightly increases the shock/Impact absorption of any kind of armor part.

"Ohhhh~ that doesn´t so bad at all. If I were to put this rune in my armor I would be more resistant against blunt-like weapons or attacks!"

Probably!

"With this in my hands, I can finally say goodbye to the days with cracked bones!" Just moving my body low noises of bones being ground together could be heard.

Although as undead I technically couldn´t feel any pain. Well...not the physical pain that´s it.

But even though the lack pain that I felt I still felt uncoverable with my whole body being in such a mess. After all, the feeling of weakness was still lingering through my body, which honestly wasn´t much appealing.

Well, I can say all that cause I am one of the undead of course.

If by chance someone of the living were to get similar wounds like my I bet he wouldn´t be as ignorant as I were currently.

The feeling of weakness that I was feeling would probably be a 24/7 torture course for them.

Anyways, while ignoring the `small´ wounds of my body.

I secretly felt amazed at how runes were made.

"It´s such a relief of me picking this sub-class. If it weren´t for that, I probably would never have found a such how to create runes..."

3 steps go into rune creation.

The first one being the symbol of the rune.

It was the process of marking the place where the mana will flow and how the rune will look like in the end.

It could also be referred to as the Logo of the rune.

The second and the most important step was putting the mana flow into the rune.

It was the part where you had to channel mana into your rune which in end gave this effect.

But simple putting mana wasn't enough.

The process needed extreme precision of mana control which you had to change the power input of your mana constantly in a given way.

If the symbol was the capacity, the mana flow would even be the code of the whole rune.

And the last step would permanently imprint the rune by activating the whole rune with mana.

In short, it was...

"Drawing with some extra steps in it huh? Should be easy enough."

'With the status already giving me the method and the knowledge. There is no way I would mess this up!'

While un-quipping my body armor, I suddenly remembered another talent that I got.

Slapping my forehead I opened my status again.

"Right...I forgot about these. Maybe I have been the too excited cause of the rune." While hiding my embarrassment with some excuses.

I opened the status window and read the next description.

[Rune Vision]: This allows you to ender a state of full concentration, which shows you where runes are capable to be build on.

"Entering a state of concentration...? Giving it a try wouldn´t hurt I guess."

Standing up from the ground my ethereal glow eyes lighted intensely up.

"[Rune Vision]!" Suddenly, everything seemed to stop moving as if everything was time froze.

And within the next second, everything around me lost its color and everything started to move again.

Confused by this colorless vision, I tried to explain it outloud.

But...

´What the hel-!?´

With complete silence around me that I couldn´t even voice out my thoughts. I somehow felt creeped out.

`So that´s what [Rune Vision] does, huh? Doesn´t seem like it would be useful in any battle...´

Looking around me, I tried various things such as throwing rocks around, pulling grass, and such. Everything that came to my mind could potentially create a sound.

But to no avail...

Getting frustrated, I raised the Veren sword, ready to throw a [Wind Blade].

To my surprise though, the Veren sword was surrounded by a red and some small pieces of green aura.

`Why does Veren have color and anything else not?´

After fulfilling some tests with no response from the red aura, I didn´t have a choice that to simply appraise it!

[Rune Vision Limitation]: Through the use of talent [Rune Vision] you can understand which spots on any items can contain runes. With red meaning impossible for either too damaged or an already printed rune in that spot. Yellow meaning that only certain runes that either fit or are small can fit in that spot. And lastly, green means that there is a free spot to curve runes.

`Ohhhh~! And here I wondered if there are limitations on the number of runes that an item can have! That talent is the answer!´

And as if a thousand-piece puzzle finally started to form up in my mind.

I excitedly threw all my armor in the ground while gathering my mana in my index finger.

Right about when I was to start and curve some runes in my armor...

All pieces of my armor showed a bloody red aura at the whole armor!

Not even a spot that didn´t have the red aura was to see!

`Why!?´

Seeing the intense red aura in the armor I knew what it meant. And I felt cheated!

Suddenly the thousand-piece puzzle that was forming in my mind turns out to miss the last piece of the puzzle!

Which turned out it was intentionally made to miss a part!

If this wasn´t a low blow then I don´t know anymore!

Putting my frustration away, I tried thinking of the reason why the red aura was emitting in the armor.

And though some inspection of my armor, I soon found the reason why.

With an awkward tone, I said `Well, now that I take a better look at the armor it is indeed quite damaged... That damned arsonist! To think he would even melt my armor!´

De-activating my [Rune Vision], I gripped my armor off the ground and started to re-equip myself. After finishing putting on my armor I pulled out the remains of the map.

"Sigh...If I were to curve some runes I might need to get myself a new piece of armor and maybe...a sheath for the Veren sword would even be nice..."

Glancing upon the map, I mourned.

"Let´s hope that this village has something to offer..."

Putting the map away, I started walking towards the village of the map.

And in the final two days of marching towards the village.

Since with a trait of the undead race, the travel was quite easy to make, with no hunger, no exhaust, and with my current strength. There was nothing that was able to stop me except my boredom.

Finally reaching the edge of the forest with a village in front to see.

But the current site of the village wasn´t as I expected.

"I didn´t even reach the village yet and it is already burning(Not like I was going to start a fire)? Did the flames of that arsonist Rapha already reached this town...?"

`This shouldn´t be the case...I don´t see any trees of the forest to have burned down.´

`Maybe they are having a festival over there...?´

"Anyhow, the reason behind the fire doesn´t matter. As I went through all this trouble to found you, it would even be rude of me If I weren´t to introduce myself, wouldn't it?

"After all, I am a `True Gentleman´"

With a vicious grin on my face, I rushed towards the village.