The Ruined Death Knight
chapter-279

Naturally, for the sake of his mission Danzel wasn´t shy about sharing some clean cloth with the injured miners.

At first, the miners were surprised at possessing a spatial storage ring even though he already used it to bring out his shield.

And they were right to be surprised.

As the spatial storage item were most of the time, illegal items that none other than those of the higher society could possess. And even they were limited to having their names written down in a list of all who possess such an item.

Such items were the optimal tools for smuggling out resources after all.

In the case where rare resources were to be found such as the highest quality mana crystal, it would end up as a disaster if it were to be stolen and brought to another kingdom.

Of course, Danzel and all the other members of the Deathfull Skulls group had gained their authorization to use them in the Dynasty.

Nevertheless, ignoring the stares from the miners, Danzel decided to move inside the mine to check all the other presences that he saw.

The miners did complain to him about leaving them alone while enemies could still lurk inside the mine.

To their complaints, Danzel decided to compromise by giving them a minimal amount of safety.

And that was by turning the dead miners and mutants into undead.

Of course, he had to fix some of the corpses by using [Undead Reconstruction], but that took only a bit of his mana.

The miners weren´t very happy with him, raising their colleagues as undead and turning the mutants into top-class nightmare material.

But what else could he do for those miners?

He even found it funny how they cursed at him and prayed to be smitten by a goddess or something. Here he wants to go and potentially save your colleagues while providing them with some insurance.

He didn´t even bother to argue with those people and left to find other mine.

His undead was instructed to protect the miners and not to kill them. But he didn´t lay any orders that his undead was restricted on beating them halfway to dead.

Of course, his thoughts were filled with his will, so the undead understand that they should show restraint.

So if anyone was beaten up to that state, they had themself to blame.

Running across all the different pathways of the mines, Danzel managed to see many presences thanks to his [Eyes of the Damned] skill.

And what he met there was as he expected, survivors.

They were 5 dead miners on the ground with large scratch wounds were 3 others were alive. The 3 of them were at first intimidated and scared of the dark knight who came, but after explaining the situation they were relieved.

That relief though didn´t last long as they saw the 5 miners turn into undead.

They felt like those kids that asked if there was a monster under their bed and the mother would return to them that there wasn´t a monster under their bed. But as soon as their mother leaves their room and they check under their bed, expecting to find nothing.

They come to see a monster with several jaws staring at them back!

To make it worse, the mother knew all along that there was something under the bed!

Annoyed by those overreacting, he gave them a sort of explanation to follow the undead before going to find other survivors.

And in a matter of 10 minutes, the whole mine was filled with echoes of miners screaming out of horror.

Alas, Danzel managed to gather all the survivors into a single spot.

If it wasn´t for him having to explain the situation to each group, he would even take half the time to find everyone.

And the fact that he managed to find every surviving miner was thanks to his [Eyes of the Damned] to thanks.

He was so satisfied with this skill, that he even decided to push the priority a step up.

On the miner's side, they were glad to see other surviving miners meet up again. But at the same time, the new survivors brought another wave of sadness with the undead they were escorted by.

Danzel though wasn´t there to see that scene.

As he currently was standing near the mine entrance and observing the fight of the 4th-tier by using [Eyes of the Damned].

Observing isn´t even the right term as he couldn´t probably observe what was happening. The lights that represented the presence of the 4th-tier were hazy and too fast for the skill to properly pick up their exact location.

So all that Danzel could observe was wherever one party lost or not.

After all, he didn´t want to go out and end up as a target for the 4th-tier!

Sure, he was at the peak of 3rd-tiers.

But after observing Agares cleaving several 3rd-tiers with a move he knew his place on the food chain.

Though in the early tiers the strength difference wasn´t as overwhelming. But the higher one went, the bigger the gap there will be between each tier.

And the difference between a 3rd-tier and a 4th-tier was enormous.

It was to a level where the former couldn´t hope to beat the latter.

For that reason alone he waited till the two lights were extinguished.

And soon enough, two lights disappeared with only two remaining.

Going out of the mine, Danzel sighed mentally as he watched Agares with Shiro being the victorious ones. The paladin was also there, but he didn´t though much of him surviving.

"Have you finished?" He said towards Agares.

Once the paladin heard his voice, he turned around and stared daggers at Danzel.

"Yeah, how about your side?" Agares said while putting Shiro down and rubbing her hood.

Seeing Shiro giggling to her grandpa's touch and not even a single wound on Agares himself, Danzel didn´t know if those 4th-tier they fought were too weak or Agares was too strong.

"I have gathered all survivors and had my undead guard them for now. Sadly, some died by the enemy."

Turning towards the paladin who was showing a hint of killing intent, Danzel pointed at the cave entrance.

"You might want to go and treat some of the miners inside. Some might die from bloodlust any moment." Danzel said in an apathetic tone.

Gritting his teeth, the paladin sheathed his sword to his scabbard.

"I will remember you, Necromancer." The paladin said before dashing towards the mine.

`I would rather not for you to remember me.´ Danzel thought to himself.

By his tone, it didn´t take a genius to figure out that the paladin deciphered him. As for the reason, Danzel's guess was because of his necromancy.

For him who uses holy magic, necromancy is probably an unforgivable sin. He also guessed that some of the corpses that he raised were probably his soldiers.

`Even if he hates me, he shouldn´t be able to do anything about it.´

With him being a discipline of the Archmage who was helping in the war, if the Dynasty were to touch him they will risk losing Velkir, a powerful Archmage.

`At least that should be the case...´ Danzel thought unsurely.

Were Velkir would react or not was a mystery to him.

And since he didn´t want to let his fate on other people, he had to think of the worst possible scenario.

But considering the value of being a runesmith, Velkir wouldn´t want to lose him by something that could have been easily avoided, such as the hate of a lone, 4th-tier paladin.

`Nevertheless, I will have to deal with it when it comes in my way, there is something more important to check.´ He thought as he brought out his status window.

`Status´

[Status]

Name: Rue Danzel

Level: 100 [Max]

Race: Wight

Class: [Black Guard Lv. 1]

Sub-Class: [Runesmith of Undeath Lv.80]

Health: 32 680/39 960

Mana: 3500/6050

Attribute points: 24

Attributes: Strength: 729 (200) Agility: 1146(+300) Intelligence: 600 Endurance: 671 (200)

Great Rune: [Great Rune of Undeath Existence]

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[XP: 8 300 300]

Imminently after checking his status, Danzel couldn´t help but grin to himself.

Staring at his current XP in the storage Danzel couldn´t help but laugh quietly to himself.

Unbeknownst to him, Agares and Shiro were staring at him as if he was a weirdo.

But even if he knew, he wouldn´t care at all!

Originally he only had a few hundred thousand in his storage.

Even though the mutants and the magic caster gave him lots of XP for him to reach 1 000 000 XP.

As of the other 7 300 300 XP that was laying on the bank, weren´t done by himself at all!

`Now I can finally upgrade a good amount of my skill!´ He thought in joy

Thinking of who the culprit for the sudden appearance of the XP was, he couldn´t help but be thankful for this person.

`O Azrael, I knew that you will bring a bountiful harvest!`

Without even realizing it, Danzel's ethereal eyes gazed at Agares's scythe sword and the corpses of the 4th-tier that Agares killed.