Chapter 13

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

"Very well, but I would like to know my challengers name" jack

"Lucy is my name" Lucy

"You can't be serious?" sally

"Its master, he loves this kind of fight" ghost

"Don’t worry I’ll have these mindless keep you company” Lucy

"Sounds fun" ghost

"It would be a good chance to test to my speed" Johanna

"Not that I can control them and fight anyway" Lucy

"You mean we have to fight all of these greater zombies?"Selena

"And all the other undead I’m keeping at bay" Lucy

As I approach the lich I feel a kind of aura. It doesn't feel bad, in fact it feels pleasant.

"How?" Lucy

"How what?" jack

"How are you unaffected by my death aura?" Lucy

"Maybe it's because I grew up close to death" jack

"That would...make sense" Lucy

As I approached Lucy she smiles, starts to cast a spell, and all hell breaks loose. By that I mean all of the undead start to attack everyone, luckily ghost uses intimidate and they all start to flock her.

"Are you prepared for this?" Lucy

As soon as she said that an orb of dark mana, very similar to the energy that was being pushed into the corpse earlier, came flying at me. I dodge at the last second but it destroys some my hair, the orb then smashes into a small group of undead killing them instantly.

'That was close, just a couple inches to the left and my head would have been taken off.' jack

I rush her before she can cast another spell. At the last second she sidesteps and I land a grazing hit on her arm. She counters by clawing my arm, doing surprisingly little damage.

"Damn, the previous occupant of this body had a habit of biting her nails" Lucy

I laugh a little and dodge one of her spells. I quickly counter attack with a lunge which catches her by surprise, impaling her gut.

"I’ve become sloppy over the years, must be the new body" Lucy

Before she can recover I slice at her arm, making a thin line that doesn’t bleed. She attacks with a fist clocking me on the left arm making it go limp for a couple seconds. I jump back to recover. She fires another orb of mana, I jump back and kick off of a nearby zombie using it as a springboard to propel myself up over the spell and landing in front of Lucy. Not wanting to waste this opportunity I attempt butcher on her arm. When her arm falls down I laugh through my nose and leap back barley avoiding another strike to the arm. To my surprise she was breathing heavily, but so was I.

"Want to take a short breather before we continue?" Lucy

As she said that she picked up her arm and reattached it.

"Damn, this one's going to take a bit to heal" Lucy

"I don’t see why not, I mean I want to see my companions fight a little" jack

"As do I" Lucy

I look back at the fight between the undead and ghost&co. currently about half of the zombies that were there at first remained, and half of those were attacking ghost. Ghost had a very interesting fighting style in my opinion, anytime she got hit by one of the zombies she would impale it with her fur, somehow magically extending. This attack had a really high damage and could even kill a zombie in a single attack, the only problem with that was she couldn’t attack any of the other zombies with her fur while doing that. Johanna would run around the outside of the group and pick off stragglers.

your pet/slave Johanna has obtained the skill pinpoint strike

your pet/slave Johanna has obtained the skill assassinate

I smile as I continue to observe the scene in front of me. Philip was using a skill similar to butcher, or maybe the skill butcher, as he was cutting the limbs of zombies while jacobe was finishing them off with his bow. sally was healing the wounds everyone, mainly ghost surprisingly. selena was using a spell similar to holy inferno only a scaled down version of it, disintegrating about 10 zombies every time.

"you have some interesting companions" Lucy

"I quite agree" jack

I laugh silently as I look around for something. finding it I walk over to it, killing a few zombies on the way.

"what are you doing?" Lucy

"a test" jack

as I reach the large pile of rocks I hold my hand out and put mana into the same way that old mana put mana into Lucy.

"necromancy? but that’s a pile of rocks not a corpse" Lucy

"close, I’m trying to make a golem" jack

"animation magic? don't you need a magic circle to animate a golem?" Lucy

magic skill obtained: animation

"nope, apparently not" jack

I mentally tell my new golem to go Shrek the zombies, which he gladly does. well technically he is a stone cold golem without emotion or intelligence of his own.

"lets us continue our fight from earlier now" jack

"very well" Lucy

as soon as she says that a mana orb grazes my right arm causing my clothes to burn up where it touches. I laugh and leap in to attack her, I manage to get a solid strike on her arm. to my despair I notice that all her previous wounds had already healed, and the one I just inflicted had begun to heal. there is no way I can win this fight with conventional means, nor can I use magic to attack as I have almost no mana left. I start laughing, loudly. when I see her confused look I explain.

"this is fun" jack

I jump back cast invisibility, deaden sound, and mask presence. all three are spells from the illusion tree. at best I have ten seconds, which is more than enough time to win this fight. I get behind her and use assassinate+backstab combo, but I don’t stop at that. I then use my enchanting magic to detonate all the mana in the sword. I go deaf and get blown back against a wall, much to my surprise as the closest wall was several feet away, and I black out.

skill obtained: mana bomb

end chapter 13

authors note: i was in a writing mood today so definitely expect another chapter tomorrow (as i refuse to post more than one a day)