The Ruined Death Knight-Chapter 7: Countdown

"I don't see any more cracks from my body and I can see all my bones. That means that my body has been restored completely, It's time to put the plan into action."

I started running.

My goal was the goblin cave!

"I don't know how much water they have inside their cave but I am sure they don't have an infinitive water source inside there, If they had there wouldn`t be a reason for them to go out their way to secure water from the lake. As long as I can keep them away from the lake they will be dehydrated sooner or later, which should at least give me an opening for me to kill 1-3 goblins."

Even though I already made a plan inside my head I actually thought that the plan was way too slow. Since the goblins were pathetically weak I could easily crush a group of 5 and if given the room to maneuver taking 10 goblins would be still possible.

"As long I can get enough XP to require the [Miasma Corruption Lv.1] skill those goblins shouldn`t be able to be much of a threat with their small daggers. Although if they had clubs as a weapon like the one with the movement skill it would still be dangerous for me."

After some time, I hid between some nearby rocks near the goblin cave and inspected my current equipment before I raid the cave.

In the cloth that I carried were the best 3 small daggers that were among the goblins and the remaining cloth that they weari- cough cough I mean caring around.

I decided to wrap the remaining cloth between my ribs to hide my front bones. I did this in hopes that they might attack me between my front bones.

I ain`t doing this because I feel embarrassed that my handsome-looking bones are being exposed to the whole world! This is purely a tactical decision in order to raise my chances of victory!

Definitely! Surely!

...

Maybe!

After finish the wrapping, I got out of my hiding spot and rushed towards the cave.

Two goblins were standing at the cave entrance which I presumed were the guards. Seeing a skeleton rushing towards them with full speed they both freaked out. Sadly that didn`t stop them from calling for help.

"Kghaa! Kghaaa!"

Seeing them call for support I cleared all stupid thoughts that I had and started to focus on the current task.

"You think calling for help will save you!"

Although they already called for reinforcements, that didn`t change the fact that I already reached them!

"I will bash your skull in!" With the momentum that I build-up, I kicked one of the goblins in the face and sending him flying towards the wall.

*Baakck

The sound of the wall cracking together with the blood on the wall clearly showed that the skull of the goblins was broken. Seeing the fallen goblin caved in the face I hastily turned around and pulled two daggers out of my cloth bag and rushed towards the second goblin.

Seeing the face of this fallen brother together with the skeleton that instantly turned around made it terrified beyond belief!

Out of panic he stabbed in front of this nightmarish-like skeleton in the hope to kill it, but after piercing through the cloth... he felt no resistance!

And before he could pull this dagger out of the cloth I pierced both my daggers towards this chest.

"KGHHHA!"

While both my daggers were inside the goblin's small body I dragged the goblin high enough until both our eyes(eye socket) met with each other.

"K-kGha!...kha!" The sight in front of him made it ahead tears from pure horror while this bodyweight dragged him down which made the remaining daggers make the wound bigger and more painful.

Seeing the action of the goblin I further confirmed another difference between the living and the undead.

"You acted upon your fear and not for your reasoning. If you had run away inside the cave you might still have survived but you instant choose to be a fool with a hope which never existed".

*kgha, kgha, kgha

While I still kept the goblin high several other goblins showed up but what they saw made them freeze in place.

The sight of a skeleton holding one of their brothers while covered full in blood was a terrifying sight to see.

"Faster than expected...but your group shall be enough!"

Pulling the daggers out of the body of the goblin made it fall like a puppet that had these strings cut but I don`t pay attention to that.

"I shall make you guys my nourishment!" With blood all over my body and my daggers, I rushed towards the goblins!

******

In the city of Nexvarres

One of the territories from the Berum kingdom is focused on mining natural resources and rare magical ingredients from nearby dungeons. Which makes it a place of high importance.

Although natural resources are important for the Berum kingdom it is nothing comparable to the rare magical ingredients that the dungeons offer.

The reason being that dungeon can only be created when the nearby mana is constantly being flowed through a specific place for a long period of time. Which might take over several decades or even a century!

But that isn`t the reason why those places are being called dungeons. The name comes from the monsters that are being generated inside those places.

Though the constant mana that is being flowed down there allows the various life forms to mutate and evolve.

The most famous cases were when a normal lizard was able to evolve into a mighty dragon or when an enormous fight between two different kingdoms has turned into thousand of casualties inside led into an extremely powerful elder lich to be born and resulted in the downfall of both those kingdoms.

Although those are the extremes of the extremes.

Usually, corpses will become skeletons and lizards will mostly turn into salamanders, but the fact that those very dungeons can produce such natural disasters as liches and dragons gives all kingdoms no choice but to put some military in those locations to secure the rare resources and to eliminate future disasters.

How the Berum kingdom does this is by sending a powerful noble house on those very locations to serve as the military and oversee these very locations.

Meanwhile in the city of Nexvarres.

The streets were lively with people going out and talking to each other while merchants were showing their goods to the people. In the center of this lively city was the mansion of Darcy. The noble house that oversees the city of Nexvarres with the symbol of a hand and an orb.

Currently in the mansion...

"Why can`t I go too, father!"

The young master. No. Allen Darcy together with the blood knight Rapha were currently in the presence of the family's head, Darius Darcy.

"Son, you should know the reason why I don't allow you to go back inside that place."

"But..."

"No buts! Do you realize what you have done!? Forget about the sword, you could have lost your life down there! If you were to go a little deeper inside that dungeon you would have already been dead and leaving none to inherit this Damm household!"

Hearing this, Allen could only lower this head by this father's words. After all, that was simply the truth. If he were to go to the second layer together with these knights they would already have died.

"I... am sorry father, I know it was my fault and my ignorances but... I still need the sword! I promised him that will take good care of it... it wasn`t only enchanted but the sword also had runes! We can`t just let that sword rot in the hands of this damned draugr!"

Seeing the obsession that this son was having he could only sigh internally. He thought that weapons are only tools to be used by the hand of their masters and that it wasn`t worth risking your life for just mere tools.

But he also understood the worth of those very tools.

"Sigh...tell me Rapha, will you able to go down to the dungeon and retrieve Allen's sword?"

Hearing this lord question Rapha scratched this with awkwardness.

"Of course my lord, I am fully capable of killing some mere undead that took the sword of the young master but...My teacher, the swordking will arrive by tomorrow morning for our lessons. Leaving now might bring him dissatisfaction and-"

Seeing Rapha´s troubled face Dariu interrupted "It´s alright Rapha if it were for you to lose your lesson just to get a mere sword it would be against our contract."

"But father!"

"Allen! although the sword is indeed precious, we can´t just offend a swordmaster and disrespect the contract that I and Rapha have made!" observing Allens face it was clear that he disagreed with my chooses...

"Cough, cough, but I heard that the lessons don't last that long, am I right Rapha?"

Realizing that this lesson with this teacher wouldn´t be interrupted this expression made a turn of 180 degrees with a smile similar to a child's first time eating sweets.

My lord is the greatest after all!

"Of course my lord, our lessons usually take about a week to end. After that, I would be able to go down to the dungeon to get young masters sword."

"Then after you finish your lessons with the swordmaster choose some soldiers and go down to the dungeon to get the sword"

Glancing at this son "Would that be alright for you, Allen?"

"But..." Seeing this son pouting he couldn´t help but be happy.

"How about it? I let you follow Rapha down to the dungeon, with you guards of course"

Hearing that he was allowed to go back to the dungeon he made the same expression that Rapha had.

"Thanks, Father!"

Seeing Rapha and Allen getting so excited about swords and swordsmanship training he felt a little sad inside...

Tch.. These muscle heads with their swords. Magic is way better than swinging those metal sticks around!