The Ruined Death Knight

After acquiring the new rune, [Rune of Harvest], Danzel immediately went out and brought out all the mediocre weapons that he collected to practice carving the rune.

The few weapons with the rune came out as a failure, but that didn´t disappoint Danzel at all. Since he received the information inside his head and his intelligence was more than 600, he was quick to adjust and improve the rune.

Alas, it was revealed that [Epic] runes are much more complicated than the [Rare]. Of course, Danzel expected that and didn´t feel bad for such failures. Knowing the effect of the rune brought it enough motivation to try and bring the [Rune of Harvest] to the [Beyond Perfection] grade. Although he still hasn´t managed to create a rune out of the [Perfect] quality as of yet.

The motivation was still there.

By now he was confident that he could make a [Perfect] quality rune if it was of the [Common] runes. But with better stuff out there, he found such achievement lacking to take pride in.

Instead of learning old stuff to perfection, he might as well go ahead and learn the new stuff which was miles better than its predecessor.

Not only that but he was also excited to try his luck and improve his blood sucking rune with the knowledge he gained from the [Rune of Harvest]. Heck, he could even try other combinations and create his own abomination of a rune with his new knowledge.

Nevertheless, all those things had to wait till he is able to carve the rune to the very least [Good] quality.

His other dreams and plan had to wait till he finished with that task.

To Danzel's disappointment, such a task though wasn´t going to be finished overnight.

Without even realizing it, the whole day passed and the sun rose to greet both living and dead.

In fact, If Danzel didn´t hear his name being called, he wouldn´t even notice that it was morning.

"Rue!!!! Rue Danzel!!! Good morning!" A loud feminine voice called, to Danzel's annoyment.

Turning his head, Danzel saw the dark elve girl walking towards him while waving her hand towards him. Right behind her, was the giant of a guy who rested a halberd worthy of his body size.

`If I remember right, that is the sister of that Azrael guy.´ Danzel thought to himself, but deep down he was having doubts, as those two didn´t look the slightest similar to each other.

Knowing that such a remark could be seen as rude, he was smart enough to not voice out his though.

"What is it...Vanessa was it right?" Danzel said as he turned his head towards the big guy. Not sure what to call him.

"The big boss told me to tell you to go to him. So you better get going."

Moving past him and Skull Claw, the two made their way towards the deserted.

"We are going to have a short spar over there. So don´t worry if you hear something."

"???"

Ignorant of what she meant, he watched them leaving through the distance before jumping off Skull Claw.

As he walked towards where Velkir's house was, he saw Skull Claw right after following his tracks.

Turning his head, Danzel lamented about bringing Skull Claw or not.

"Hmm, I can ask him as to why this one became so strong compared to the other ones."

Giving her permission to follow him, Skull Claw's steps became more playful.

Ignoring her behavior, Danzel soon reached the house of the Lich and entered cautiously.

"He isn´t here? Did that woman lie to me?" Danzel thought with doubt.

The next moment though, he heard a cold voice ringing inside his mind.

`Come behind the house.´

Recognizing the Lich´s voice, Danzel followed the instruction as he was told, but found nothing to see behind the house.

"Did he mean this house?" Danzel mumbled to himself as he kept walking behind the house.

To his surprise, he meet a barrier which made his hand disappear without him noticing it!

Pulling his arm back, he found his missing arm still attached in the place where it was supposed to be.

"..."

Watching closely in front of him, he notices faint traces of mana.

"A barrier of sorts?" Danzel said out loud.

Trusting his none existent guts, he stepped forward and entered the barrier.

Once entered, he found the two exotic people and the Lich appearing from tin air.

Guessing Danzel's confusion, the Lich's decided to enlighten him.

"Don´t fret, it´s a simple illusion to keep the gaze of others away. Nothing much." Velkir the Lich said in a cold voice worthy of an undead.

`You call that simple!?´ Danzel cursed internally at the Lich.

If such an illusion was something simple, he couldn´t even imagine what was the criteria for amazing.

Of course, Danzel refrained from saying such things and instead bowed slightly to the Lich who would be from today on his teacher.

"I have I arrived, Master."

"Seeing you remembering our conversation of yesterday, I can see your potential." Velkir the Lich said with a satisfying tone.

Noticing his new discipline and looking toward the other two, he quickly put his worries away.

"As I mention yesterday, I will be teaching you and Shiro magic. Agares over there will be just observing us. Treat him as isn´t here in the first place."

Hearing that, the little girl that was named Shiro turned her head and stared at Danzel.

"Are you here to learn magic too, baddy fish?"

"..."

For a short instance, Danzel froze in place when he heard what the little girl called him.

It was a first to be called with such a silly name.

Knowing not to argue with a child though, Danzel decided to ignore her as well.

Which resulted in the little girl pouting her cheeks.

"Hey! Don´t ignore me! I will fry you with my magic if you ignore me!" She said in a childish manner.

The Lich who was watching by the side shook his head and sighed before turning to Shiro.

"Shiro, you can go ahead and take a break for now. We will continue our lesson later."

"Yay!"

As if hearing her favorite two words, the little girl jumped with joy and imminently rushed with her little legs towards her Grandpa.

Seeing that, Agares showed a warm smile, but Danzel who was warry of that old man saw for just an instance how their eyes met with each other.

`What have I done to receive his grudge!?´ Danzel cursed internally before focusing on the Lich.

"Alright, before I start teaching you. I would need to know what you are capable of and if you got some questions, feel free to let me know. I will answer them without any doubt." Velkir said with confidence.

"Well, most of my spells require a body to perform." Danzel said awkwardly.

Without wasting any time, Velkir made a corpse appear and fall like a dead fish to the ground.

"There you go."

Nodding his head, Danzel gathers his dead mana and sends it out towards the corpse on the floor.

Watching the spectacle in front of him, Velkir frowned.

"This is [Greater Rise Undead] and as you can see I can only use it on corpses. I hoped to learn how I can create similar undead without any corpses." Danzel said.

"Hey, can you tell me where you learned this spell?" Velkir asked with a frown.

Noticing the Liches expression, Danzel knew something was wrong.

"Why? Did I do something wrong?"

Velkir shook his head in response.

"No, I just found it odd how you cast your spell. If I had to explain it to you, it was like reading a book explanation. They are way too many unnecessary things going on in the spell. Be it how the mana enters the body, or how it activates the corpse to turn into an undead. Even the enslavement part is quite a mess. If you undead were to gain consciousness and break off the enslavement cast upon them, you might find yourself facing your own creation."

Hearing Velkir´s explanation, Danzel felt like someone who had a bucket of old water thrown over his head.

He was impressed how the Lich was able to see that many flaws with a simple look.

Hearing that his undead could break through their enslavement instead made him unconsciously look towards Skull Claw in doubt.

Just imagining his legion of undead turning on him made him have a headache just thinking about it.

"Show me your other spells too." Velkir said with a much cold voice.

Following Lich´s instructions, Danzel cast all the spells that he knew.

Once done, only the heavy sigh of the Lich was to be heard.

"Sigh, tell me. Can you replicate this?"

Raising his hand, a ball made out of dead mana appeared floating on top of his palm.

Copying Velkir´s actions, Danzel raised his hand and tried to wrap his dead mana in the form of a ball.

Though he succeeded after a few seconds, it was clear that by how it was shaking, the ball was both unstable and not as dense as the Velkir ball.

Without saying anything, Velkir pointed his staff to the distance and created a small target made out of stone.

"Watch."

Without moving his arm at all, the dark ball flew towards the stone target with a speed similar to a crossbow bolt.

*Brough!

Crashing into the target like a ball of water, the stone seemed like it melted like ice until the dead mana lingering on the target disappeared.

Trying to achieve the same feat, Danzel sends out his own dark ball.

Once he did, the sight was truly sad to see.

Compared to the speed of Velkirs dark ball, he traveled like that of a fly facing his last moments before joining death.

The saddest part was how the ball disappeared before even reaching its target.

"It seems like we have to start with the basics, hub?" Velkir said somewhat awkward.

"Do you know how you can heal your body using your mana?" Velkir asked with an empty tone.

"No..."

"How did you even manage to learn [Greater Raise Undead] if you don't even know that?" Velkir said in confusion.

Not sure how to explain to him using the status to gain such knowledge. Danzel said the first things that came to his mind.

"By feeling it..."

"...We will start with the basics."

As Velkir raised up a stone wall to use a blackboard.

Danzel for the first time after three years of coming out of the cursed lake started to learn necromancy the correct way.