The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

Walking to the destination where Danzel felt one of his undead presence fading away, he and more than 50 draugrs halted no far away from a certain building.

"Hmm...I guess that´s the place." Danzel mumbled as he stared at the house not far away from him.

Even if it weren´t for losing his connection with a few of his undead, he would still be capable to guess that this is the house of the people who destroyed his undead.

As the crumpled skeleton corpses around the house were a pretty obvious indicator that many of his undead got killed here.

"No wonder so few of my draugr came back to me, they must have noticed those guys here, but ended up dying, making them unable to fulfill their orders..."

Turning his back slightly, he gazed at the many Draugr equipped with various weapons that he plundered in his time in the desert.

Most of the weapons came from the people that he and Nersan´rah killed in that secreted treasury, some others came from the people her and even few were of his own pocket...that he also blundered from some poor souls that have found their end because of him.

Compared to the equipment though, getting bodies to use for his necromancy spell wasn´t that easy.

The storage ring of his might be able to store corpses, but the space that it would take would be too much for Danzel's liking.

Making him realize the limitation of necromancy.

Or rather, the limitation of his spell.

Looking at his hand, Danzel was reminded that he didn´t know much about necromancy, to begin with.

He still remembered the blue-eyed draugr that he had fought back when he was still a skeleton. Compared to his [Greater Raise Undead], the draugrs [Low-Undead Creation] could create undead just by using his dead mana and without the need of a catalyst such as a corpse.

Of course, his spell was much superior that the draugr´s one, as he could summon 2nd-tier undead. But considering that Danzel was at the peak of a 3rd-tier, his skills compared to other wights were embarrassingly poor.

Danzel decided to put such thoughts away and focus on the current situation at hand.

`Have they already left or are they still inside.´ Danzel complained as he stared at the house.

It had been a few minutes since the connection with his undead has been cut. Those few minutes were enough if those guys decided to run away.

He could go and open the door or straight up send a few of his undead to see if there was anyone in or not.

The former though was rejected as it could pose him in danger while the second would destroy the undead he send in case of an ambush of some sort.

If there really was an ambush there, then both options would had bring him some sort of a loss.

Since those guys managed to destroy most of his undead, Danzel wasn´t willing to underestimate their power.

And while he was thinking of a solution, an idea popped into his head.

"Yeah, that should work..." Danzel mumbled to himself as he made his status appear in front of him.

Searching for a certain skill, Danzel raised his hand and pressed the upgrade button a certain skill of his.

[Sense of the Damned has Increased from Lv.1 to Lv.2]

[Sense of the Damned has Increased from Lv.2-]

...

After spending a few thousand XP on his first self-taught skill, the [Sense of the Damned] reached the maximum level.

[The skill Sense of the Damned Lv.10 this maximum level]

[Sense of the Damned Lv.10 turns into Eyes of the Damned Lv.1]

Being frozen in place from all the information that was entering his mind, Danzel was capable to grasp his wits together and understanding the improved version of [Sense of the Damned]

Much as he hoped and expected, the range of the skill increased by a whole lot, while the affected showed the livings figure much more clearly.

Before where he stared at the house and saw just a building, he now was seeing some humanoid figure made out of faint dark green light.

To be more specific he saw 6 figures inside the house.

"Hehehe~so they were inside." Danzel snickered ominously to himself.

Knowing now that they were people inside, he knew how to lure the rats out of their holes. That was necessary as he held the number advantage, and fighting into a small house was nothing but limiting himself and his undead.

Looking at one of his draugr holding a spear, he sends out a command to come to him.

"Hand me your spear." Danzel said as he had his hand opened in front of the draugr.

Presenting his spear while bowing his head, the draugr upholds his liege command.

"Good."

Brining out a piece of paper and wrapping it around the spear, Danzel held the spear in front of the draugrs face.

"Inject your mana inside the paper..."

Doing as he was told, the Draugr injected his mana into the piece of paper, which the moment it did so, the paper was engulfed in some fierce dark green flames.

As the dark green flames devoured the paper, they further spread towards the spear and started to slowly devour the wood of the spear.

Doing as such, the dark green flames, though continuously burning fiercely, the dark green color was disappearing and being replaced by the same color as the usual flames that one would see normally.

"You four, press your spear at each other spear." Danzel commanded another 4 Draugr holding a spear.

Fulfilling their lieges orders, Danzel pushed the burning spear towards where all the other 4 spears were meeting, resulting in them starting burning similar to the spear he was holding.

Giving the spear back to the draugr, Danzel's cold voice sounded inside their head.

`Ignite that building in flames.´

Nodding their head toward him, the Draugr started dashing and when they were close enough, they shot their spears like a javelin toward the building.

At first, nothing happend, but as soon as the flames started to spread, Danzel grinned to himself.

`Now all that I have to do is for the rats to come running outside their comfort zone.´

True to his prediction, as soon as the whole building was caught in flames, the door of the building was pushed open with such force that it broke.

The one responsible for it yelled with clear anger in his voice.

"You bastards! How dare you try to burn us ali-" Before the man with the double-headed axe could finish what he had to say. All words were pushed back at his throat at the sight of more than 50 undead with dark green ethereal eyes.

The one who caught this attention the most though, was the leading figure of that undead who was releasing an aura of danger that he never felt once before.

"This guy-"

"So that´s our dear necromancer, huh?" A feminine voice sounded behind his back.

Coming out of the house, a group of people stared at the sight in front of them.

"They are quite a lot of them." One wielding a dark sword said with a frown on his face.

"Indeed so, but there seem to be the same as the one of before." The one wielding a silver sword said.

"Don´t get cocky because you killed those small flies, the one in the is no joke." The girl with a whip in her hand said with a cold voice.

"That´s indeed the case." The old mage behind them said as he raised his staff and released the spell that he had prepared.

Shooting out his mana in the form of multiple missiles, Danzel who saw that raised his sword in front of him.

The next second, a wall made out of stone was raised from the ground directly in front of the mana missiles.

*Bragh! Bragh! Bragh!

Colliding with the stone wall, larges pieces of the wall fell down until the wall itself grumbled completely as the last missile hit the wall.

"The spell of the stone wall...so he must be the one who raised that undead." The old mage muttered to himself.

Looking indifferently toward the group of people, Danzel's cold voice echoed through the surroundings.

"Kill them."

Hearing his command, the Draugr dark green ethereal eyes flared up with great ferocity as they dashed towards the living.

That though wasn´t the only command that Danzel had given them.

He gave them a calculated plan on how many should focus on which person.

The group who saw this imminently raised their weapon and prepared themselves for the incoming undead rushing them.

And surprisingly, one of them decided to go into the offense that hold their ground.

The one was the girl with the pair of claws that were in her fingers.

"Hey! Come back! We don´t-" The old mage cried out seeing the girl leaving.

"Ha~! Don´t underestimate me! I will finish this in an instant." The girl said as she guided her lifeforce to enchant her body to move at an incredible speed.

'Is she an idiot?' Daniel thought honestly at her private.

But as soon as reached near his Draugr, the girl disappeared and appeared behind the few draugrs, which a second later were cut into several pieces.

The draugrs couldn't even follow her movement with her speed, but Danzel could and was honestly surprised to see how quick she was.

She easily moved through the ranks of his undead and either dodged or right of cut his undead into pieces.

As Danzel was about to dash forward to clash with her, unexpectedly to him, he saw that girl dashing toward him.

'She is aiming for me...' Daniel thought and decided to stay put and wait for her to come toward him.

The more distance she made with the other 5 the better he thought.

Soon after a few seconds, the girl reached 10 meters away from Danzel.

But instead of coming towards him, she halted and kicked the sand.

With her strength and momentum, a wave of sand blocking his vision appeared.

"..."

Standing his ground, the moment he saw something pushing the wave of sand towards his side on the right, he turned right on purpose.

As the sand cleared out, what seemed to have pushed the sand before seemed to be a small rock that was from his stone wall together with a cloth.

The next moment directly from the left moved at a speed that looked like teleportation, the woman with her finger claws appear o Danzel left side with one of her hands risen up and ready to swing it down.

The lifeforce inside was pushed outside towards her claws, extending them and even making them sharper than ever before.

"Die!"

Swing her hand at an amazing speed aiming for Danzel's head, the girl saw her victory flash in front of her eyes.

Alas, blue mana came out of Danzel's armor and formed around him a barrier that blocked the attack of the girl.

With her attack being so powerful though, her five fingers penetrate the barrier and almost managed to scratch his armor.

But that was all of it.

Naturally, the girl who was the sudden barrier was shocked.

"How-"

Turning Danzel his head, the girl managed to see a glimpse of Danzel's ethereal eyes behind the small opening of his helmet. Making her body shake for a moment.

"Die like a fool." Daniel said as he swung his sword and cut through her hip and right elbow through her body.

"Ah~!!"

With a scream of pain, her two halves fell to the ground.

[You received 87 000 XP]

Looking at her body, he scoffed at it.

He deliberately let himself wide open for such an exact situation to happen.

He of course pretended to have been played and not being able to react.

Since he had the rune of force engraved on his chest plate, he baited her to go for the kill when he was protected by the rune.

Turning his attention towards the shocked faces of the 5 people, Danzel's voice sounded almost inside their heads.

"Don't worry, you will be next." As he said that, he activate the enchant from his armor and starter to cover him in the sand.

Seconds later the sand harden till it became an additional layer of his armor.

Maybe because of his injected dead mana, the metal of the extra layer turned into a black color.

Making him appear like a dark knight who commanded the dead to do his bidding