Master Of None



'Brutal mummy

The brutal mummy is a mummified soldier that was over saturated with darkness and death mana. The manas were forcefully added causing the mummy to become more violent and able to be controlled through mana with much more ease. Those that allowed this to happen were the most loyal corrupted soldiers. 

This has caused them to maintain some of their muscles, especially since they were kept from the cursed white sands. They also have the ability to poison others with decaying aura when they strike with their bone claws and sharpened teeth. This causes a decaying effect on the body of the living that also causes the affected to weaken for some time with debuffs to their healing abilities. 

These mummies are tougher and will recover at a faster rate the closer they are to the source of their control. The wrappings on their bodies are also made with small bits of bronze to help resist magical attacks. Especially fire elemental attacks since they could be weaker to them. 

The best way to defeat them is from a long range position. They are mainly close combat monsters because they desire to tear apart their enemies up close and personally…'

Many more things came with this all around appraisal. It seemed that this undead was a little special since it had been kept in a place where the white sands had not been able to penetrate. The looks of them were very different from the starving mummies or the mummified worshipers. 

These brutal mummies were muscular to say the least. The musculature could be seen moving underneath the wrappings. The added decaying scent that came with them was enough to throw some of the more sensitive demi-human soldiers off. If anyone were to find these monsters in the wilderness, then they would smell them for a mile away at least. 

"I will try to manipulate the natural mana to wrap some swords. If I can make a natural mana attack buff or something then-"

"Forget that, we need to beat them down and seal them. I hope you can manipulate the stones here." Remey took the lead with five dragonkin following her. She had equipped the light affinity knuckles which pulled in the light elemental mana from Alice's song. 

Along with this, two swords of light appeared since Alice had started her song of blades. The song had been refined more and more as Alice had time to think about them. She had put different meanings between her song of swords and song of blades. Some were refined while others were rough. Both had the same purpose but at different qualities. 

While Remey was still a few steps from punching the first brutal mummy, Alice had already stabbed in to one with a light sword. The result was not what anyone expected. The brutal mummy just ignored the blade of light elemental mana stabbed in to it and kept moving towards Remey who was unleashing a heavy defense breaking punch with light elemental mana on to the head of another brutal mummy. 

The fact that even Remey's attack seemed to do only a little damage brought everyone to another level of focus. These brutal mummies were boosted by the closeness of whatever ruler was here. On top of that, there was the fact that they had some special wrappings to resist elemental mana attacks. It mixed with their tougher bodies to be able to survive these attacks constantly. 

"Back off, let us get to them with swords!" Su took the lead while Remey fell back behind her. With Su came the Rize empire angels with their swords cloaked in light elemental mana. But it came with a bit of a boost. 

Walker had pulled at the natural mana and was already supplying some of it to the angels. However, he was forcefully pushing it only at the light elemental blades that the angels held. While they felt that the light elemental mana around them grew, Walker did not feel that he was doing anything that could make the natural mana more offensive in nature. He was just using it as a booster for the light elemental mana already there. 

While it was a frustrating failure to create an offensive buff for the angels using natural mana only, the light elemental mana that surged was more than enough to be able to penetrate the bolstered defenses of the charging brutal mummies. 

The angels were very adept with their style of light swordsmanship. They could easily dodge the violent attacks of the brutal mummies. Especially since they were more rudimentary considering that they only used their bone claws and attempts to bite them. What stopped the angels from most of their progress was the simple fact that they actively saw the brutal mummies recovering from the attacks on their bodies. Even the wrappings seemed to repair as well. 

"Midnight, think you can add in some… And there she goes." Walker gave Midnight the multi buff boost and watched as she was already in motion. She easily took in a breath of light elemental mana before she released the white flame breath. She didn't care for a second that the brutal mummies were resistant to fire. This was a dual elemental attack that used light and fire. It would be able to weaken them enough for the angels to take the lead again. 

While it was only a quick attack, the blinding white flames were enough to shock the brutal mummies. This was something that they were weak against normally. When the wrappings on their bodies were somewhat burned away and forcefully cut by the blades, the bodies underneath were exposed. 

The soldiers at the front managed to see the skinless and dried bodies of the brutal mummies. A horrible appearance would haunt their nightmares for some time. Yet, this did not stop the angels from attacking. They burst forward with their swords and an added boost from their wings. 

The slicing of light infused swords caused the mummies to lose their hefty limbs in just a few minutes. Even the dragonkin with light elemental sword styles were impressed by the decisiveness since that was also something they prided themselves on. 

"This will not be enough. The earth mages can not break the stones here. They are protected. That means we will have to keep fighting these undead." Rise saw the issue immediately. The earth mages had become very limited. Walker had also sensed the massive resistant force when he tried to reach out and manipulate the stones that made up the pyramid. 

"Then that means we will be leaving soldiers behind to keep them down." Walker didn't hesitate. He knew splitting up was on the list of this battle already. They had many steps to take to get to where they needed to be. The massive platform on top of the pyramid was where they needed to be. The amount of mana gathered there was all too telling about where the ruler of these undead was. 

"One group break off and keep cutting the undead apart while we move forward. Prepare to march in to a larger chamber." Current gave the order while a few dragonkin began to push forward and away from the current undead. However, no one was prepared for what was in the central chamber. 

In front of everyone, a massive space was opened up. Ornate carvings that related to crops dying and the dead rising again were everywhere. It was a twisted show of what had happened to start all of this. Yet, what Walker noticed was one thing that connected all of it. 

"There is one thing in every single stone wall here. An undead with dark stone wrapped around it. It's hiding there while the crops die. It's raising undead there, then it's leading a group of others right there. I think we might be seeing how this all happened." The rest of the party were also looking around. But they also focused on the undead before them. The undead that had been waiting for them. 

"So, I know you want to understand everything and all that. But we already figured that this undead ruler caused all of it to happen somehow. Evil is evil, they don't just happen to show up at the right time to be evil. They have plans and grow when they accomplish it." Gil shrugged before he prepared an arrow. The large open space would help him fight. 

"Gil's correct. It's time to focus on fighting instead. Try to use natural mana more. We will need to fight a lot here before we can start climbing one of the staircases behind that massive shrine." Su looked ahead at the shrine that the undead were guarding. This was where they offered sacrifices. Where their high mummified priests were. Where some of the angel's bodies had been brought. 

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