The Ruined Death Knight
chapter-237

After rejecting taking part in Nersan´rah´s quest to revive and build anew the kingdom of his father as one of the pillars. Danzel made his way out of the Sashia village together with his sole remaining undead, Skull Claw.

Frankly speaking, Danzel didn´t have to take Skull Claw with him. Since he was much faster than Skull Claw, taking her with him would mean that he would have to wait for her to catch up.

Well, that is if Danzel were to travel at his top speed, which for an undead it wasn´t that hard to do 24/7.

And yet he still chooses to take her together and use Skull Claw as his mount.

Not that he was just too lazy to walk or anything, but he found that there wasn´t a need to rush things.

Nonetheless, as of now, he was studying the book that Nersan´rah gave him.

Even when a full week had passed since he separated from Nersan´rah, he found it difficult to understand the content of the book. Most of the content seemed to be straight-up gibberish even though he could read every single word in the book.

But after staring at the book for days, Danzel was able to grasp at least what the book was for.

"I see...that´s a really great gift that Nersan´rah gave me." Danzel muttered while he was riding at Skull Claw´s back.

Bringing out the mana crystal Nersan´rah has given him per their trade from his storage ring, the crack that was before had now fully closed without any hint of damage to see.

The reason why he brought the crystal out was that the book contained information as to how to improve the crystal itself by making the user´s mana interact with the mana crystal at a better rate, that of course with the cost of other kinds of mana to be less effective.

That brought many disadvantages as it brought advantages in that kind of technique.

Naturally, since the input of your mana would be much better, the enchantments would be much stronger than usual, and that effect gets strengthened if the enchantment in question has the same affinity with some sort of element.

If for example, the crystal had an enchantment that would shoot a fireball, then the power of the fireball would increase tremendously, if the user input his mana and had an affinity for the fire element.

So if that mana crystal were to be used on any of his equipment, the effect of said equipment would increase by a lot, essentially making equipment only for him to use.

As for the disadvantages...

Since the user´s mana would work better than any other mana, that will make the mana crystal recover much slower naturally. And other than sharing an item that has such an effect on the mana crystal, they weren´t any other downsides.

"Maybe I was too hasty in rejecting Nersan´rah´s offer..." Danzel grumbled to himself as he shook his head and put the book together with the mana crystal in his ring storage.

The knowledge that such a book contained was to say the less, amazing.

But the problems with it were as clear as day.

Danzel couldn´t use it.

Not only did he never once try enchanting, but he also couldn´t understand the knowledge that the book contained.

Because of that, Danzel felt extremely bitter about having such treasure that he couldn´t use it.

`Maybe that was Nersan´rah´s aim for giving such a book.´ Danzel sighted internally.

It was like having a treasure chest that only Nersan´rah could open.

No matter how fancy and all the cool treasures were inside the chest, one could only dream of them.

Doubt started to fill his mind, thinking it was the wrong decision of leaving Nersan´rah´s side.

Not only was Nersan´rah capable of enchanting on his own, but he probably also knew how to put the information from this book into use. Otherwise, he wouldn´t give it to Danzel so easily.

And remembering all the books that still were in that treasury, Danzel couldn´t begin to imagine what kind of other amazing knowledge lay there to be learned.

The temptation of being taught such knowledge and even Nersan´rah magic was huge to say the less.

Alas, the moment such doubt´s formed inside his mind, they imminently vanished right after.

Yes, he could learn all those things and become a magic caster that he could never dream of ever achieving.

Alas, the risk contained in Nersan´rah´s offer was too big for Danzel's liking.

Maybe if he had chosen the [Lich] option, his temptation would have bested him and made him join on Nersan´rah kingdom building.

But as he hadn´t and chose to become a [Death Knight], he could resist the temptation.

It wasn´t like he found Nersan´rah to be a primordial evil or something that he had refused his offer.

It was because of one of the talents that a [Death Spirit] had, that he decided to part ways with Nersan´rah.

And that was the one called [Yielding Death Detaining].

The talent that was responsible for taking over the wraith´s inside his body and making them follow Nersan´rah´s orders.

Not only was the talent capable to capture the soul of both the undead and the living to make them serve his cause, but it would also increase Nersan´rah´s power by the quality and the amount of the prisoned souls inside his body.

Although the living that had their souls captured would straight up become mindless undead that followed every order, for undead it was different.

Instead of becoming mindless, they would straight up retain their memories and knowledge even after losing their physical body. Nersan´ran could either then feed on that soul and make himself stronger or guide the prisoned souls back into their physical bodies while still having control over their souls.

Of course, the downside to that was that Nersan´rah would start losing his sanity the more he uses this talent.

That was the reason why he gave Nersan´rah a warning to not lose his sanity. Even though it wasn´t a long time that they have spend, he found himself and Nersan´rah forming a good synergy with each other, be it fighting or conversing with each other.

But his fear of being enslaved and possibly dying by Nersan´rah made him unable to bear the risk of associating with Nersan´rah.

It was ironic.

For an undead to fear death that is.

While Danzel was in his own mind, Skull Claw walked over a sand heel.

And over through the distance, they were some small buildings to be seen.

Seeing that, Danzel pushed all his useless though to the side and focused on what was in front of him.

Bringing out the map that he had inside his storage ring and briefly looking at it, Danzel nodded to himself.

"So I finally arrived...I guess luck is on my side." Danzel said to himself.

Having been though by Nersan´rah how to navigate through the desert by using the shadows to figure out where is where Danzel reached his next destination.

It was the same method that they used to find the sacred treasury in the first place.

Even though he wasn´t that good at it and it was rather vague, it was better than nothing.

"I guess next time I meet Nersan I will have to give him a gift or something." Danzel mumbled to himself as he draw his new long sword out of his sheath.

Opening his [Status] window, Danzel looked at the quest progress.

[Currently achieved: 442/10 000]

Raising his sword up high, the sand from the ground rose slowly. Because he didn´t start making the sand take a complicated shape or making it tougher by pressing it together, he was quite capable to raise enough sand from a small wave of sand that if looked at from the distance, could be easily mistaken as a sand storm.

Pointing his blade toward the building through the distance.

Opening his mandible, a cold voice bearing his command sounded through the distance.

"Heed my call~"

Hearing his command, a total of 56 figures were trenched with bloodied clothes and bearing the weapons that once the living had wielded.

Their ethereal eyes indicated that they weren´t some lowly Skeletons.

"My Undead~!"

Danzel voice echoed through the surroundings as the aura of death was leaking from his armor.

The sand that had risen up through the air slowly pushed itself forward and started to go pash though and hiding the Skeletor figures for only their dark green ethereal eyes to remain to be seen.

Receiving his will, the undead every single one of them was a [Draugr] that was created by the spell [Greater Raise Undead].

One of the skills that Danzel decided to upgrade with his remaining XP from his before the state was the [Raise Undead].

The spell that previously only managed to make either skeletons or zombies was now capable to turn corpses into 2th-tier undead.

The corpses that came from a village that he raided this week were now going to be used to raid and massacre the village that was in the distance.

One might call him a cruel and a terrible monster for doing such a thing.

He, though, was one of the dead.

An undead.

"Go forth and kill everyone~!"

"Gawwh!"

"Gweah!"

Danzel's command was the trigger that made all the Draugr sprint towards with their unholy howls. The wave of sand now covers the march of the unliving towards the village.

With Skull Claw taking his first towards the village, the cold voice of her raider sounded through the distance.

"Rather, leave them to the very edge of their death~!"

And for his goal.

"As I shall be the deliver of their death!"

He would do everything to achieve it.