Chapter 12

When we finally made it to the large cave that housed all the zombies we took a break to strategize and to rest.

"What is the most powerful area-of-effect holy spell you know?" jack

"Holy inferno, although I can only cast it once before running out of mana." selena

"Hmm, let me try something" jack

I concentrate all of my will power onto my mana pool trying to move it into selena, failing that I try to move a small amount of mana into her, it works.

'Check skill mana link' jack

mana link skill type: activerarity: greatLevel: 1Exp, 2%Description: this skill allows you to link your mana pool with another mana pool. You can store mana in metals and gemstones, some metals and gemstones are better at storing mana than others. Higher levels increase range, higher levels allows you to store more mana in metals and gemstones.

I find myself smiling like a madman as I consider the possibilities.

"What are you smiling for" ghost

"A skill that allows me to connect mana pools" jack

I try connecting my mana pool to all of my companions, it doesn’t seem to be limited by number of connections only range. A look of surprise registers on everyone’s face when they check their statuses showing that they have a lot of extra mana flowing between all of us. I start to poor mana into my weapon; to my surprise it can contain exactly 2765 mana.

'Lets check that skill latter' jack

I then use every ones mana to enchant every ones weapons, unfortunately the max mana I could fit into any of their weapons is 158.

While filling up on mana we start to discuss strategy.

"We fight defensively. Protect the rear guard, especially selena as she will be in charge of taking out large amounts of undead" ghost

"Also the zombies give almost no experience, or at least the normal ones don't" jack

"Alright, let’s do this" Johanna

We get into formation and ghost turns into her wolf form. As soon as we enter the cave selena starts chanting. After about 20 seconds the zombies notice us. As soon as ghost uses intimidate we start attacking the nearby zombies that weren’t attracted to ghost. Unfortunately for us that about half of them, all heading directly toward selena.

'Their angered by the magic she’s leaking out' ghost

"Shit" jack

More and more of the zombies are coming towards selena. After ghost uses intimidate only about half of the new zombies go toward her.

'These guys are soo weak. I haven’t even taken a single point of damage yet' ghost

I laugh a little as insert my executioner's short sword into the head of a zombie. Then I see it, a blinding white light flooding the room litterly dissolving the zombies like acid. I check my mana and notice that it is empty, along with everyone else’s mana. Fortunately all of the normal zombies are dead. They were weak but had a massive advantage in numbers, like swarm type enemies in a TD game strong against strong slow attacks, but weak against area of effect damage.

"Ho ho ho, I’m impressed. You managed to destroy all these lesser undead with just one spell."???

"Who the hell are you? Santa?" Johanna

'Master, who is Santa?' ghost

'I’ll tell you latter. Lets deal with this guy first' jack

"Now now, having a telepathic conversation while I’m talking to you is rude”???

"How did you-" jack

I was cut off by a wry old man in a dirt stained suit with a shoulder length grey beard.

"Oh, the principle" jack

"Where are the other faculty?" selena

"Ho ho ho, their right here" principle

As he says that a couple hundred undead come out from an unseen hole in the wall.

'Observe' jack

greater zombie

Hp: 1500/1500 sp: 1500/1500 mp: 0/0

Description: this is the zombie of one of the teachers at your high school; it is much more powerful than most zombies as it was made by genius necromancer strengths: elemental magic

"Now, you are in for a treat. Not everyone gets to see a lich being made." principle

"Oh, that sounds like something I want to see" jack

A couple zombies bring the body of a girl over. The principle closes his eyes and starts a chant. I see some sort of energy going into the body of the girl, mana I assume. After a couple minutes of watching another force starts to pour energy into the body, this energy doesn't seem to be mana; it is colder, more hostile. I realize that it's probably whatever is going to posses the corpse causing it to turn into a lich instead of a normal zombie.

skill obtained: mana sensing

skill obtained: apt student

through observation you have learned the basics of necromancy

after about ten seconds the other force starts to pour mana in much faster while the principle seems to be drying up. the principle won’t be able to control this one. after another minute the lich stands up. she looks at the old man and smiles, cruelly. after about 10 seconds she rips his thought, and eats it.

"it's been a while since I’ve had a physical body" lich

"one hundred years right?" jack

"how did you-" lich

"that how long ago there was a lich in this world" jack

"oh, you're an interesting one" lich

as I watch the lich I realize that this is not an opponent I can win easily against. I instantly want to fight her, 1v1. suddenly she points at me and says.

"you seem strong, I want to fight you." lich

end chapter 12

authors note: sorry this chapter is so short