The Ruined Death Knight

With the sand turning into black metal through the influence of his dead mana and his aura releasing out of his body, the 5 people frowned.

As the black metal covered his helmet and left no spot open, making one question how he was able to see.

Danzel cold voice filled with bloodlust came out.

"I will kill you, every single one of you!"

In the next second where he guided his mana into his body, Danzel kicked the ground and accelerated at immense speed toward the living.

The sand was pushed back as if an explosion took place on where he was standing and he already caught up with the draugr who were in the front.

`Fast!´ The 5 of them thought at the same time.

Moving on the front, the man wielding a double-headed axe and the two knights took up the front, while the old mage and the girl holding a whip were behind those three.

Though those guys haven´t fought in the same group except the two knights, they were experienced enough to recognize the danger in front of them.

Seeing one of them being cleaved in half was enough to see the incoming Necromancer as someone posing danger to their lives.

Of course, Danzel wasn´t stupid enough to fight 5 people of the 3rd-tier head-on while they already have built their own formation.

`Divide and Conquer it is!´ Danzel thought as he swung his sword in the air, releasing a diagonal dark green air blade towards the 5 of them, their expression turned into a frown.

Not wanting to face the unknown face of the dark green air blade, instead of facing it, frontal everyone decided to dodge it instead.

The old mage using his magic to levitate slightly above the ground moved to the left together with the two knights while the man with the axe together with the girl holding the whip moved a large step to the right.

At the same time as he did that, Danzel guided his mana under the ground, something that the old mage took quick notice of.

Seeing through his plan, the old mage cast his spell and yelled out loud.

"You two! Come back to our side! His plan is-" Before he could finish his words, a large wall made out of stone blocked the path between the two on the right.

Of course, that wasn´t before the old mage released multiple balls made out of electricity and shot them towards Danzel.

Gazing at the spell, instead of dodging it, Danzel commanded his draugrs beside him to dash directly towards the ball of electricity.

Upon contact with the old mage's spell, the draugrs let out a cry of pain as the lighting slowly was destroying their skull to the point it completely made their body explode and release them once more into the realm of the dead.

"What!?" The old mage of course was surprised to see this. He didn´t expect the dark knight to use his undead as meat shields.

`Dammit! I should even though of that possibility!´ The old mage stared at Danzel fiercely as he concentrated on releasing another of his spells.

Danzel who was glitching at the old mage accelerated his speed and moved towards the right, a way of the old mage's vision and the two knights.

`Wait till I finish with those two.´ Danzel thought to himself.

The old mage seeing that he no longer could attack the dark knight aimed his staff towards the earth wall.

But before he could even finish his spell, the knight wielding the dark sword reminded the old mage of the danger in front of them.

"Save that spell to save your own skin, with what we are facing, we aren´t going to be able to protect you..."

Hearing his words, the old mage checked what was in front of them, and understood imminently what the knight with the dark sword meant.

"Draugh!

"Grrh!"

"Gaaah!"

Hoarse screams of the unliving came ever closer to the three of them.

The one responsible was none other than over 40 of draugrs full of killing intent towards those 3.

`Dammit, he is right! I can´t afford to look after those two.´ The old mage cursed as he directed his spell towards the draugrs in front of him.

Even he, a magic caster of the 3rd-tier couldn´t be careless in front of the undead in front of him considering his body being far inferior to that draugrs.

He could see the movement of the draugr almost in slow motion if he injected his mana into his eyes and use his mana eyes. But seeing it and reacting to it weren´t the same.

Although he knew that they were playing by the palms of the dark knight, they had no other choice.

***

Moving towards the direction of the man wielding an axe and the girl holding a whip, Danzel accelerated his speed and left his 10 draugr´s that followed him behind.

Getting close enough, Danzel cast his [Cursed Blade] on his longsword in an instant. Thanks to his [Death Guarding Swordmanship], not only was it a breeze to engulf his sword with the dead mana that brought decay upon his enemies but the effect also greatly increased by it.

Raising his longsword while holding it with both of his hands, Danzel swung it down towards the man, aiming to get his head off in a clean swipe.

Of course, the man feeling the danger didn´t allow that to happend.

Swinging his axe, he stopped his sword of Danzel.

The floor that the villages had created cracked and showed the sands beneath it, making those two at a standstill, one unable to push the other away and claim their life.

"Heh~It seems my luck is on my side. I thought I would be facing a magic caster thin as bones, but seeing how strong you are, I guess our fight will be fun. Hehe~" The man with the axe said.

Though his words were full of confidence and one would be intimidated by the man's vicious face. The man wasn´t confident in himself to win against that dark knight in front of him.

He was a man coming from a tribe made out of barbarians, they were hunters by birth and fighting was their second nature. Making their instinct and body to be much greater than their peers.

Alas, even the barbarian wasn´t confident to face the dark knight, that swung so fast that he could barely see a trace of its sword. Nonetheless, the height that the barbarians were so famous for was also inferior compares to the dark knight.

`It´s like fighting a starved beast that looks towards his meal. One wrong move and that ominous sword would claim my head.´ The barbarian thought to himself.

As for Danzel, he wasn´t intimated one bit by the barbarian's words.

If he were he would have been ashamed of himself.

From people coming back from the dead, a magic caster that could freeze one's body in an instant, and a monstrous being with over a hundred of skills that weren´t from this dimension itself.

An overconfident fool's words were nothing compared to them.

The moment he clashed with the barbarian, Danzel understood the strength differences.

In physical strength alone, they were equal if only the barbarian was only slightly stronger by a few points of strength, although that was the case, Danzel crowned over the barbarian based on their speed.

`That guy is similar to that one bandit that I killed back then, it will take a while to finish him off.´

Giving the woman that was far behind the barbarian, Danzel decided what to do.

"I will deal with you musclehead later." Danzel cold voice came out of his mouth.

Before the barbarian could understand the meaning behind Danzel's words, Danzel pushed their weapons away and took a large step back using [Swift Movements].

"Wha-" Before the man could finish his words, Danzel gave the draugrs who were a few steps behind him his command.

"Kill him."

Hearing their lieges command, the 10 draugrs passed through Danzel and went towards the barbarian with clear intent.

"According to our master will!" The draugrs said with their ice-cold voice in unison.

Releasing what was happening, the barbarian got enraged.

"You!!! How dare you run away!" The barbarian said as he dodged the thrust of a Draugr wielding a spear. Before the draugr could pull back his spear, he found himself with the axe of the barbarian destroying his skulls.

Scoffing at the barbarian's words, Danzel left his undead to deal with the barbarian and he went straight towards the woman with the whip.

`Before my undead ends up getting destroyed by this musclehead, I got to finish her off!´ Danzel thought internally as his killing intent reached the woman with the whip.

`Shit! That bastard is aiming for me!´ She thought to herself as she extended her whip and whipped towards the dark knight in front of her.

She originally wanted to run away towards the other side where the two knights and the old mage were by using the barbarian to buy her time.

She didn´t expect that the dark knight would let his undead deal with the muscle head and face her directly.

Having no other choice, she gritted her teeth and injected her life force into her whip.

"Don´t underestimate me you wannabe necromancer!"

*Fsssiiih!

Seeing the whip traveling towards him, Danzel raised his blade with one hand and swung down, exactly down the middle where he expected the whip to hit him.

Doing something like that as aiming to cut a whip traveling at such speed would have been impossible for him, but for the current him such a feat was now possible.

In the moments when his longsword was about to cut the whip in half, he senses some sort of danger coming from the whip.

As the sword was about to cut the whip, the whip itself seemed to move of its own free will and change direction and going towards his left just below his ribs.

Having already sensed the danger though, he was able to put plates of armor around his armor.

Alas, the blow of the whip was no joke.

*Crack!

Being pushed back a few feet, Danzel felt one of his ribs crack, but not broke thanks to his quick reaction.

Looking down at his armor, he saw no actual damage to his armor, but a large portion of the black metal cracked and fell to the ground.

`It changed directions at the last minute...´ Danzel thought as he looked at the woman's whip with annoyance.

`If I had carved more runes into my armor, I wouldn´t have received damage from something like that.´

Except his sword having his first self-made rune that draws the blood of others out of their body, his helmet that had the [Rune of Vis], allowing him to see as if didn´t have a helmet at all, and the [Rune of Force] capable to put a barrier around his body on his chest plate. There weren´t any other runes.

Even though he could fill his armor with multiple runes, with his armor being of higher quality, he wanted to carve higher quality runes than the lower ones.

But if his armor got actually damaged because he didn´t carve any runes, he would have felt devasted.

"Such an annoying weapon..." Danzel mumbled, as his armor created sand to turn into the black metal to fill the gaps of the armor.

Hearing the dark knight's annoying voice, the woman put up a warm smile on her face and whipped the ground.

"Thanks for the compliment, it took me quite a while to master."

"Out of courtesy, allow me to show you more of my skill using your body as a target!." She yelled as she whipped once more toward Danzel