The Ruined Death Knight
chapter-274

After several hours had passed, Danzel walked out of Velkir´s room with the newly accuired knowledge.

The mixed mana aptitude or affinity seemed to be of huge importance for those who mainly use mana instead of life force.

According to Velkir´s words, everyone possesses some sort of attribute. One might even have more than two or three if they were born lucky enough.

But what really matter was if one had his attribute mixed and unlocked a completely new path of one ability, which most of the time was unique to the person.

For example, both he and Azrael had a mixed affinity for life and death, but the affinity itself came out completely different.

Danzel being his [Soul Affinity] and Azrael his [Blood affinty].

What he found the most confusing part of this was the fact that he didn´t have anything like a life affinity or something the like.

Velkir's answer to that was that one's race plays a part in contributing to one natural attribute.

Which taking to account what races he and Azrael were, such a combination did make sense.

Undead were beings born after death, which gave them a natural attribute of death. And according to his Necronomicon, the undead is more likely to be naturally born if they have a strong desire to live., thus giving them a life attribute.

Or at least the latter part was mostly his guess.

As for Azrael, all he knew was that dark elves had a particular talent towards dark arts, where necromancy is a part of said arts.

In other words, their mana is extremely special which could make unique spells that others might not know about.

Of course, someone could replicate the combination and build his own spell with it, but such feat for the more difficult attribute such as [Spatial], [Death], [Life], and many more.

There were only so many combinations that resulted in two combinations. Examples are the fire attribute and earth attribute.

That mix for the most case was focused more on explosive firepower or the creation of some sort of metal. They were other usages such as extracting the impurities on oars, but the combination had some clear limits.

The most important point of it all was, that spells of one mana aptitude are much stronger than other spells, as one has a natural talent for that.

Making Danzel ponder his future decisions according to his skills evolutions.

Taking also to account [Soul of Death Essence] that increased the effectiveness of his death and soul skills, it would be more logical to aim towards evolution paths that have either one of those elements.

But taking to account his [Superior Unique Concioness] talent that further increased the strength of soul skills, Danzel thought that it would be much wiser to make all his skills soul affinity focused.

`No, there are some skills which might not suit such attribute, but making my main skill into [Soul Affinity] doesn´t that bad. At least [Mortal Reminder] hasn´t disappointed me yet.´ Danzel thought to himself.

Originally he wanted to test the waters by evolving his more useless skills towards having a [Soul Affinity], alas now he thought otherwise.

"I do have some XP left to use for a skill, but for now it could wait for tomorrow after our new mission arrives."

While immersed in his though, he arrived at his original destination.

Azrael room.

Entering the room, the first thing that Danzel saw was Azrael stabbing his own arm with a bloodied dagger.

"Did you come for resupply of weapons, Danzel?" Azrael said with a blank tone without even looking at him. He talked as if the dagger piercing his arm wasn´t even there.

"...No, I didn´t come for that. I cam-wait, what are you even doing in the first place?" Danzel asked in genuine confusion.

Raising a small bottle with a crimson liquid inside and purring it on top of the dagger that was piercing his arm, as if the crimson liquid had a mind on his own it moved straight towards the wound and into Azrael´s arm.

Once that happend, Azrael´s arm started twitching abnormally.

"Mhm, in simple terms, I am currently trying to improve the quality of my blood. But..."

Watching his veins start swelling at an alarming rate, Azrael took a piece of paper with his free hand and started writing using his finger.

"Another failure..." He mumbled as he placed the paper into another pile of papers.

Drawing the dagger out, Azrael draws the foreign blood out of his arm and regenerates his arm in ways unknown to Danzel.

"So? Why did you come here? Just to watch me?" Azrael said while closing and opening the fist on the arm that was injured a second ago.

`Is every one of the 4th-tier capable of such absurd regeneration?´ Danzel thought to himself.

Not letting his thoughts out, Danzel brought out the whittled spear that Azrael entrusted to him.

"I just came to deliver the finished product."

Hearing those words, Azrael's eyes widen up and focused on the white whittled spear.

"I see...what kind of runes did you carve on it? Looking at the symbol...you carved two runes?" Azrael said while walking closer to Danzel, his crimson eyes were inspecting all the symbols which weren´t there before.

"...Quite the observation. You are right, I managed to put 2 different runes. Or more precisely, 1 rune is made up from combining 2 runes." Danzel lied through his teeth.

"Oh? May I take a look at it?" Azrael asked.

"It´s yours now." Danzel in return shrugged his shoulder at him.

Even if he kept the wittled spear, it was such a strange weapon design that he couldn´t make good use of.

Taking the white wittled spear in his hand and equipping it, Azrael swung it around a few times.

"What can the runes do?" Azrael asked while his eyes were glued on the white whittled spear on his arm.

"As you request, I carved the blood-sucking rune into the white spear while doing a slight modifying it with another rune. Not only did the nature of passively sucking blood by own will remain, but the range of that ability can be increased by the use of mana."

"Hmm, an activation and passive effect in one rune..." Azrael muttered while looking towards the wall of his room.

Swinging his free arm, blood was shot out and splashed towards the wall with limited force.

Raising the white whittled spear, for a second nothing happend.

But after that second, the inside part of the white whittled spear lightens up in a faint crimson light, resulting in the blood on the wall being sucked towards the spear.

"The mana cost is really low for being able to suck the blood at such distance. I will have to test the limits of it and see up at what it isn´t efficient anymore."

Once again, Azrael started muttering his thoughts out, completely forgetting that Danzel was there watching him.

"Ah, right. What does the other rune do?" Azrael asked, ignorant of the fact that he was muttering to himself for 5 minutes straight.

"...Cause of the lack of spaces that I had to work with, I had to carve a lesser rune on it. The effect itself inflicts more pain from any attacks that use mana. Of course, the mana has to go through the spear for the rune to work." Danzel said in his cold voice.

Hearing Danzel's explanation halfway though, Azrael brown frowned before finally turning to face Danzel.

"Wait second, does this effect get activated by the effect of the other rune?"

"Correct, I carved that certain rune for the sole purpose of this combination. Though it doesn´t damage one's opponent, I believe that a certain amount of pain could make them lose focus." Danzel said with a stone-cold voice.

Azrael in response was quite speechless about it.

"That some vicious weapon that you created." Azrael said while glancing at the white whittled spear.

"Do you not like it?" Danzel asked

"No, I love it." Azrael answered while staring at the whittled spear.

`For such a weapon to have such effects without any enchantments at all. Just the idea of putting my own enchantments on it makes me excited.´Azrael thought to himself.

"As I will be using this as my weapon from now on...I guess a name is called for. You got any ideas, Danzel?"

"Why do you even ask me..?" Danzel said in annoyance. Having finished his business with the dark elve, he wanted to go and continue his work before going to the next mission.

"Well, it´s the truth that I crafted the spear itself, but since you were the one who carved the runes, I believe that your opinion of the name of this weapon is well earned."

Wanting to go back to work, Danzel answered with the first name that came up in his mind when he thought about the white whittled spear.

"Just call it Cursed Blood Spear or Spear of Thirst for all I care. I will be going now."

Seeing Danzel leaving his room, Azrael put the white whittled spear on the table and brought out all kinds of tools and materials for enchanting purposes.

"Tch...he couldn´t pick a more average name for a weapon that will become of the highest tier." Azrael muttered to himself, before placing a crimson barrier around his room.

As his pair of eyes burned like two crimson suns, Azrael began the enchanting process.

´Though you probably weren´t serious about naming this spear, I will respect your choice. But since I will be using this spear, allow me to butcher those two names of yours.´

With his crimson mana entering the white whittled spear, Azrael muttered to himself.

"I even decided, I will bestow you the name of [Cursed Spear of Bloodthirster] and you shall be the spear that will bath beneath a river blood, just like I, you master Azrael has done."

Azrael's will seeped through his crimson mana and entered the white whittled spear.

The more mana entered the spear, the more a wicked aura was starting to appear around the spear.

And hidden beneath that aura, a dormant consciousness was born and resided inside the spear.

Once the enchanting finished, the [Cursed Spear of Bloodthirster] was born.