We were after a mission and we were walking through the town. With who? Witch Richard of course! He is a great friend and I am pretty embarrassed of how I treated him when we met for the first time. I got my humor bad few times and then he would came with his big smile on face telling stories about his adventures or just some random jokes.

Well jokes were very clumsy and seem to be funny only for nobility, but the way he was saying those was enough to make me laugh.

Um, well… we were walking through this town… holding hands. I have told you already – I really like him! Even as he said already that soon he will have to leave and go back to capital I am ok with that. In the end, I will go in the same direction after few day. I didn’t tell it to him. I want it to be a surprise.

There were small restaurant mean for nobility… not because of some strict dress-code but simply because of prices of food served there. Richard push me there almost by force telling me that he will not listen to rejection and he want to treat me with it.

I was red all over my face. I am only some witch out of village that was far from everything that could be called civilized. And here I am – in most expensive restaurant in the town.

Even as it was called restaurant the dishes they served here were strange. Not like food you usually get on dinner. More like desserts only.

I was given a apple-pie with coffee. COFFEE! I drank it only once in my life when one of Hanna friends step in to greet her as he was on the way back to capital. He is a bit… overprotective.

In cute way, so don’t get me wrong, but I don’t like being treated like damsel that can’t do anything alone… well… we will fix it, I guess.

It was really great day for me. we have visited many places and I was told stories about them that I would never suspect to even exist! Like there is an inn called “Under demons tooth”. I found it pathetic… but then Richard told me that ancestor of owner and the one who build it was on the war 200 years ago and bring a tooth of enormous devil he killed with himself…

Oh, I am getting distracted am I… He walked me back to the adventure guild, where I have my room. He is not sleeping there, one of his relatives is living in the town and he stayed there.

- Thank you for your company Ruby, all those places are not as funny when you are not nearby. I hope that we would..

I silenced him by kissing him in the lips. We stayed like that for a moment. As we parted our lips I run into inn section of guild, rush into my run, jumped on bed and covered my red face with hands. What have I do…

Pov change

The raven who was watching the lovely couple for the whole day was moving his wings furiously, yet he was still staying on the branch he was sitting at. The orders were clear. Wait for your comrade to return and then come back to report. It was still about 2 days more for him to return and then it would take two days to get to the master. It will have to wait. For now.

Pov change

I.Am.An.Idiot. Why? For I head back to house without checking what they have! Moneys are good! Even as I am now in the forest and it will have no use for now, I can store them! And who knows when I would leave it again or found some smuggler who would want to sell some of his goods!

I was almost under my tree-house but I was forced to turn back. After this sick slaug… I mean after the battle I was able to distress myself and get calm once again. But here I am mad once more.

~what the hell! Why am I pissed off because of such small matters!

~Be at ease. The process of core absorption will end soon. The creature is not pleased to be devoured… it fights even on DNA level. Usage of his Trait may be a bit… problematic. Wolves usually are guided my most primal greed… the greed to own territory, the greed to have most wonderful meals… or mating partner… they are really easy to walk from this path to gluttony, lust or pride… but this anger in extraordinary… I may not completely dominate it…

~SO NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT I WAS MEDITATING FOR WHOLE DAY ONLY TO NOT BE ABLE TO USE IT!

~calm down master. It is not your anger.

Shit! Even if I know it, it does not make me even a bit calmer. Tell me you have something useful bastards!

]Ring of WitchThis ring is given to someone as he is being chosen to be a Witch Hunter. In Holy Kingdom everyone who would show this ring would be treated with respect and have certain privileges. If someone would be found to use this ring without permission the strict punishment would be served.

[/color]Light magic based spells are 10% more effective

[Appraisal level 3] skill is contained in the ring

]Ring of InquisitorThis ring is given to someone as he is being chosen to be an Inquisitor. In Holy Kingdom everyone who would show this ring would be treated with respect and have certain privileges. If someone would be found to use this ring without permission the strict punishment would be served.

[/color]Light magic based spells are 15% more effective

[Appraisal level 4] skill is contained in the ring

And here it is. Useless garbage. I have no Light magic and I already have Appraisal at this level.

I tried, skill does not stack, so my appraisal didn’t raised even by 1%. But now I do know how do they find witches. It would be a bit funny if the situation would be same as in medieval Europe. Woman drown – innocence. Woman swim – let’s burn her on stack. No moneys. I also don’t like those swords. Daggers are same quality so I took two of them. You never know when one would be damaged or lost…

But I picked rings. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t want to walk into this whole fanatic lair saying left and right I am witch hunter… It’s a memento. I think that in future that will be nice… “persuasion token”, if I would find someone to threaten… You know, men is screaming: “it’s a blasphemy! Witch hunters will get you”, and then I would show him a necklace of those rings saying “tell them where to find me”.

Damn I have to get my shit together. It is evening and I have to go to sleep already! I have no idea what I will do from now on. They are not so strong so maybe… I am trying to convince myself about something that did not happened. I won probably only because one of them was lying half dead, another one was not fighting at all, one was immobilized through almost whole battle because of an arrow in his stomach, and last one was taken by surprise. I actually didn’t fight back them at all. It was only a one side hunt. I may have no so much luck in the future.

But this spell of chaos magic… Dark binding was it? I am curious how it works… and shade as summon… what the fuck the shade is anyway? I am a bit afraid of wasting my summon slot for some random monster… in the end I have only two more. I doubt I will summon more ravens, but I may be in need to ask for help few more hellhounds… they are really useful… but it is so tempting… AH SCREW THIS

- Oh, darkest black, Who creep through the night

Whispers of Heavens, The place where we die

Disgraced by sins, Forsaken by Light

Raised once again, to seek for the Life

Answer my call, Oh, stalker of Void

To live once again, so we will rejoice.

The mass of darkness crept to one place. It looked like the shadows of everything in vicinity moved into one place – in front of me. It started raising from the ground, and transforming in humanoid shape. Extremely creepy, extremely thin human. Actually it looked more like one of those aliens from shitty sci-fi movie. Big head on extremely frail body, with long limbs ended with something like claws.

]You have summoned [Shade]Those creatures were not living before and were bring to semi-life state by the user. Those were made of random soul-parts, that were not yet putted to purification process. [/color]This being is considered as undead-evil spirit. If origins of this creature would be linked to the user, he would be considered to be a necromancer, and then – an Dark Mage, or Evil Mage

THE FUCK! NECROMANCY! NO!NO!NO AND NO! undo! Undo! Unsummon! Abra-Kadabra! Bannana! Whatever! Fuck! Take it away! This is all I need to make even more enemies then I already have!

- Greeeetiingsss Maaaasterrr – IT CAN TALK! FUCK! – Thaank yooou foor graaantiing meee a liiifeee… I wiiill seeerveee yoooou weeell…

~Ho? You made a shade? To be honest I never expected you to do it… something like stupid morality or frail fear. You did surprised me, in good way. It is good to know that you are not afraid to study the most frail of forsaken knowledge… I am so exited right now! It was ages… wait nor, actually millennia since last time my user actually studied the path of the Spider arts… But you know how do you use it, do you?.. HAHAHA! You don’t! You have summoned him out of pure curiosity! IT IS WONDERFUL! To break laws of natures just to find what would happen! You are truly amazing! Here me now. The shade is creature without any battle capability. It is used mostly as spy… were you have plenty of those, but they can’t do the same thing that shade can – it is a parasite ghost type. It clung into body of its target, stealing life forces and weakening it... well, at last is should. They are weak. Very weak, if they are not empowered in any way, if they would be attached as they are to the newborn body of human, then by whole process it would shorten his life spawn by 10-20 years… not anything spectacular. But you have to know that by this process they would evolve into more cruel forms… they will become ghosts, specter, phantom… after ages if they would be not founded earlier they could become even a nightmare… They don’t um… “level up” in same way as others. After they absorb enough life power they would just simply evolve.

But use them carefully, they are very vulnerable on holy and light… they are so fragile that they can barely exist in day light… ah! Stupid, forgetful me! There is one other usage of those. You can force a curse into them, they will be more powerful and as they would find a host they would add another effect.

I am a necromancer… I am a necromancer… I am a… huh, someone said something? I have enough. Simply enough. I am going back to the house… wait, I am here with a motherfucking undead that can get hurt only by light… it’s a nigh… I have no light magic… I kinda doubt that light generated by fire will be this effective… Well, I was told he can’t even last in daylight… but I was never told he would die… what if he would come back? Hehe, fuck. Let’s be nice for him… yiss, let be nice

- Welcome in our small family… please get along with each other… Do you have some name?

- Fa…mi…ly? – FUCK! DON’T YOU EVEN DARE TO SAY “ED..WARD”, EVER! DON’T! – I am… haaapy…. Naaamee iiis…Greeeg.

Fuck… did I just turned into low undead village hunter I met in dungeon? In what kind of shit I will steep now!? Come on! Bring it! Send me a fucking dragon just to…

A violent roar shook the whole forest. Whatever it may this sound, it is big, it is bad and it is hungry… okay, I am sorry, forget the part about dragon, please…. To the home now… I am tired. I want to wash and sleep.

The shade was levitating in same direction as I was walking… I think I will give him some order to, umm “get some power in order to protect each other in the future”… please make him fall from this…

This was a bad day. I did absorb whole core, yet for now I will try to avoid dangerous situations for now… I get shitty equipment that has no usage purpose for me, and I became a necromancer… from the name, thanks god I don’t have my class upgraded.

And it was but a beginning of whole whit that was about to happen.