The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

[You received 40 000 XP]

[You received 42 000 XP]

[You received 65 000 XP]

Seeing the notification in front of him, Danzel wasn´t happy at all.

"I failed...I even let them escape..." He said as he stared at the stone wall he raised.

Jumping off the building, he turned his head and looked at the big hole in the building.

"To think that an arrow did that, that´s a first." Danzel mumbled to himself, noting to himself to be careful around archers.

He was pretty confident that he hid pretty well, but the archer proved him wrong.

Shaking his head, he walked towards where his undead was devouring the man whose path was blocked by the stone wall.

"First was that earth magic caster and now that swordsman...If it weren´t for him I would even manage to kill them off by now." Danzel cursed under his helmet.

He regretted not reading through the magic caster information more clearly.

Having his mana being seen made his [Stone Wall] lose much of his effectiveness of using it offensively.

Not only would he had probably severely injured their priestess by growing a massive wall under her legs, but it would also have cut off the escape path of the three melee combatants, effectively isolating them with their archer.

Although the archer could choose to run away, Danzel was fairly confident that he could chase her down or at least throw his curses at her.

"Maybe I should step up personally..." Danzel said.

But watching his missing arm he quickly shook his head.

Although he recognize that those guys were slower than him, it wasn´t by a lot.

Even if he had his minions to support him, that holy magic that their priestess used took him really off guard.

Not only that, but he doubted that he could go against that great swordsman without his arm left. Of course, he couldn´t judge the strength difference between him and that guy.

Danzel guesses by the weapon choice alone for that man to hold great strength. As he invested all his attribute points on his agility, he quite lacked in the strength department.

So he wasn´t that confident to block the great sword without his shield.

As much as he hated to admit it.

"At least those guys saved me quite some time." Nodding at the increase of his XP in his status, he looked ahead to his undead.

And the two still living skull wolves.

"I totally forgot about those guys..." Danzel said slightly confused.

The fact that they were standing beside his undead and even showed hostility towards him the moment they managed to lock their eyes on his body. Danzel found it very strange.

`So they are stupid enough to not even recognize their brethren to have turned undead.

"Whatever..."

Pointing his finger towards the two, Danzel sends out his command.

`Kill those two´

Not a second later, the two skull wolves who were groaning towards Danzel were jumped by the undead skull wolves.

Confused about what was happening, the teeth of the undead dug in their flesh, making them cry out of pain.

Without being able to react, they soon find their gruesome death.

[You received 30 000 XP]

[You received 28 000 XP]

"Ah...I should even have told them to be more gentle with them." Danzel said as he looked at the two pitiful-looking corpses.

"With them like that, I can´t raise them as undead..." Danzel said, Scratching the back of his helmet.

After taking a better look at his surroundings, he noticed that this wasn´t the only case.

Though he raised all the undead skull wolves as undead, this wasn´t the case for the humans as he reached his limit of how many he could raise from that range.

Even if he could if they could be raised or not as undead was put in question.

All he could say was that those skull wolves were way miles away from being gentle with bitting those people to their death.

Every corpse that he could see was at least cut once into pieces.

Be it an arm or leg missing, or heck even their head.

Those were the less damaged out of all the corpses of the humans.

The worst one that he could see was once that had his half missing and only his legs remaining.

`If I were to cast [Raise Undead], would he raise as a pair of legs?´ He joked internally.

But the idea was quickly shot down by his knowledge of the undead that was in his Necronomicon and of course his own experience.

"Without their heads, that wouldn´t work."

As he essentially would die instantly from having his head crushed, if his spell didn´t work he wouldn´t be surprised.

"Now what should I do...letting all those corpses rot here would be such a waste..." Danzel thought to himself.

Not much later, an idea came to him.

"Right, I still have that."

`Gather all the corpses in a straight line in front of me. Make sure not to damage the body any further.´

Obeying to their liege's command, the undead skull wolves carefully dragged the human corpses.

Some of them would gently bite the leg of the corpse, while others would gently kick the course to make it roll towards him.

Every undead tried their best to uphold their lieges command, each in a different way.

Danzel who was looking at that couldn´t help but think of how cruel...and somewhat cute way of following his command.

If one could describe the scene would be like a puppy bringing back the stick to their master. But in that case, the stick was a corpse that had some of his limbs missing.

Not a sight that many could comfort to look at.

"Maybe I should even do that myself..." Danzel said as he looked at the corpse who were lined in front of him with weird poses.

"Whatever..." Not caring anymore, he went towards the first corpse and raised his palm in its direction.

"[Reconstruct Body]" Danzel cast.

With his dead mana leaving his body and entering the body of the corpse, Danzel was...

Disappointed.

"The damage is too great, huh?" He mumbled to himself.

Thinking about what to do, he raised his hand and summoned his status window.

"I guess spending a few XP on those shouldn´t be that bad."

Staring at the [Reconstruct Body] skill, he pressed on it to upgrade it.

Watching his XP to be drained, several notifications appeared before him

[Reconstruct Body level has increased from Lv.1 to Lv.2]

...

[Reconstruct Body level has increased from Lv.9 to Lv.10]

[The skill Reconstruct Body has reached this maximum level]

[Reconstruct Body Lv.10 turns into Undead Reconstruction Lv.1]

[Undead Reconstruction]: Through the use of dead mana and your knowledge you managed to find a way to completely repair the bones of a corpse within a short amount of time.

With the information flowing into his mind, he realized how crude and inefficient his previews method was.

"I see...I could probably figure it out myself if I had put my mind into it." Shaking his head, he decided not to dwell on this any further.

His XP was already gone, with the knowledge remaining in his head.

Only the deed to be done was missing.

"Although the flesh won't be repaired, I should be able to raise them." Danzel thought out loud while the dead mana was swarming to his remaining hand.

Casting the spell, the dead mana went and engulfed the corpse.

Not much later, signs of the bones regenerating were to be seen.

After the spell was done, Danzel looked at the fully 'repaired' corpse before going into the next one.

Corpse after corpse, not much later he has finished the repairs of the corpses.

"Hmm...maybe I should remove their flesh instead of having them half zombies, half skeletons." Putting that aside though.

Daniel raised his hand and cast his spell.

"Be made to serve~"

With his dead mana entering the body of the human corpses, they all soon started to tech before long the first corpses started to rise.

As one of the Undead.

"It worked after all." Danzel nodded his head as he looked at the small army that he raised from the dead.

"Although there is nothing put some pushover that can only serve as meat shields. Their numbers alone should be useful. The skull wolves could even be used in combat"

Overall, except for letting four guys escape his grip, he was satisfied with how things turned out.

"Maybe I should probably check the whole ruins to see if they are any more of those skull wolves there. Not only would they make for some good undead, but their XP will surely help me a lot."

'But let's put that aside.' Danzel thought as he turned around.

Starting at the huge tower ahead of him, Danzel stepped forward.

"I guess I should secure my base before doing that."

Stepping forward, Danzel gave out a command to his undead.

'Follow me, fellow undead.' 

Hearing theirs pieces command.

Danzel personal army of the dead started to follow behind his steps.