ALL NOVEL Chapter 19: Creating the Undead.
Chapter 19: Creating the Undead.
"Who are you?" Clara asked.
"You don’t need to know; we will have our revenge!"
Otis gazes at the intruder and moves his finger to control something.
Before they can attack, their bodies feel weak and collapse to the floor.
"What poison are you using?"
"The giant black mamba poison." Otis raises his arm, and several thin needles made from poison return to his hand.
"That means I can’t absorb their contaminated blood."
"Even if you absorb their blood, it's not like you can advance."
"You are right; let me help you clean up."
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In Violet Forest, Levi is surrounded by a pack of dire wolves the size of a human. The reason is because of the dead dire wolf on the ground, who dies after being pierced by his sword. Several minutes ago, that monster tried to ambush him but got killed instead.
The good news is that thanks to Clara's one-sided beating or training, he already gets used to his body's strength. The bad news is that the number of death points that he receives from killing the monster is lower than normal. That means he needs to kill a high-ranking monster to get a large number of death points.
The only conclusion that Levi has is that the death point is getting lower. Because he has become adept.
While he is observing the dire wolf's movement. The beast-type monsters are getting restless and circle around him. Until the larger dire wolf among them howled to the sky. And all the dire wolves attack in unison.
If Levi were still an apprentice rank, the wolf pack might kill him, but now is different. It’s a good time to test the new spell's efficacy. He raises both of his hands and creates a large magic circle on the ground. The ground cracked, and a flame from the wall came out, preventing the dire wolf from coming near.
Several of the beasts cannot stop in time and get caught inside the flame wall and die. While the rest of the pack got scared and leaped back to avoid the fire.
The larger dire wolf glared at the flame wall. When the fire is gone, what is left is the charred carcass of his pack member. But the human is gone. Before the beasts can give the order to chase the humans, a blade infused with mana appears above the dire wolf's neck, and a fountain of blood comes out from the decapitated head's neck.
The rest of the dire wolf pack, seeing their dead leader, began to flee in all directions. Levi, sensing that there is no more danger, converts the dire wolf leader to a dead point. The carcass turns into an invisible particle of light that only he can see and enters his body.
Levi converts the rest of the beasts' charred carcasses into death points. Except for one dire wolf carcass that has died by his sword.
He walks toward the last beast's carcass. "Let’s try the ritual formation." Levi in the Eapitha world was required to draw the formation using several materials because of the low amount of mana. But the Acheron world is different, the mana is everywhere.
A dark ritual formation appears below the beast's carcass. Many dark tendrils come out of the formation and begin to burrow inside the carcass. After a few minutes, the dire wolf's eyes opened and he started to move. The dire wolf's lifeless body is slowly standing up. Levi creates several threads of mana connected to the body like a puppet. Inside the vampirism book, there is a way to control the undead without becoming a dhampir. However, it’s hard to implement it because of the low mana in that world. There is also a way to become a complete vampire, but it requires vampire blood.
After a while, Levi stops the thread connection. And begin to give the undead wolf several simple commands. At first, the undead stumble several times but gradually move like normal. The undead wolf followed every order without any problem.
Finishing testing his new meat shield. Levi goes deeper into the violet forest, with the undead wolf walking in front to protect him. He needs to gather more death points before winter arrives and return to the fortress. Because he doesn’t know if the violet forest has a large monster tide like in Pondover Forest.
He is not stupid to think he can fight numerous monsters alone. Not to mention the powerful monster.
Suddenly, Levi stopped walking because he thought of something. "I forget I can create undead aerial scouts." He begins to look at the trees and sky to find any flying creature or monster to turn into the undead. If he succeeds, he can share the vision with the flying undead.
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At the edge of the violet forest that is full of red and golden leaves. A group of men belonging to Count Stephen, Maysey's family arrived to find their young master.
"Is there any new news about the third young master?" Asked the brawny man.
"No, I have asked around; the last time they were seen was when they entered the violet forest."
"Let’s go."
The group travels for a few days and arrives at the Violet Viper Bandit lair to ask a question about their young master. The fortress, after hundreds of years, still looks sturdy. But if you look closer, there are many parts of the wall that are in disrepair.
If the bandit refuses to cooperate, the only way is to use violence. With brawny men, adept warrior strength makes it easy to threaten them. When they arrive, the fortress gate is already open. Entering the gate, they saw an abandoned fortress.
"Search this place."
"Yes sir."
The man searches everywhere inside and outside the fortress. But there is no one, according to the report. The Violet Viper Bandit is one of the largest bandit groups in Violet Forest.
After several hours, most of the men returned. "Sir, there is no one here."
"Keep searching; if we can’t find them, we need to send a report to the count."
The next day, after searching the whole fortress, they came out empty-handed. They don’t even find any corpses in case someone attacked the bandit. It’s like the bandit ran away. There is also no sign that the third young master has come here.
What they don’t know is that Levi has ordered the captives to keep a secret about what happened here if they want to live. The captives agreed without any hesitation, and Levi also gave them some of the bandit loot. It seems like what he has done has shown a good result. And the captives also don’t know who the young master is.
"Let’s return." Without any result, the only option is to send a message to the count and wait in town for the next order.
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Maysey family mansion, the count is rubbing his forehead. He just got a message from his man telling him that they can’t find his youngest son. Beside him is a middle-aged butler.
"Send a message to the people in charge of Violet Forest to help find my son."
"Master, the winter is near, and I am afraid they will ignore our request."
"Tell them if they can find my son, there will be a reward."
"Yes, master."
In the past, humans and other races sent expedition armies to Pondover Forest and other dangerous places to control the monster nest population. However, after the great rebellion, the number of warriors and mages dwindled. After hundreds of years, their number is already being restored, but the kingdom can’t force them like in the past to enter the Pondover forest to sacrifice their life.
And to send an expedition army, required large resources and money, that the king and aristocrats didn’t want to pay. Instead, they now need to defend the border each year to stop the monster tide invasion. Because of their greed, they can’t see the benefit of sending the expeditionary army.
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A large black fur bear with one horn on its head walks through the violet forest without any fear. Ben's instincts are telling him to go deeper into the forest. Most monsters that see him begin to flee, and the brave or stupid ones die from his attack.
Ben, during the fight, found out that he can control Earth's elements using his monster core. However, it consumes a lot of energy. Because of that, unless he doesn’t have any choice, he doesn’t want to use it.
The horned bear approaches the cliff wall. He can sense that what he is looking for is nearby. He came across a collapsed entrance while searching and began digging. After moving the larger rock. The rock crumbles, revealing a hole large enough for him to enter.
The horned bear moves any rock or obstacle in the dark cave. Ben continues to explore the cave until he notices a green glow in front of him. When he gets to the chamber where the glow is coming from, he sees a small glowing green sphere inside a large monster skeleton with three horns. A human skeleton dressed in a mage's robe can be found not far from the monster skeleton.