The Ruined Death Knight

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I ignored the report of me killing the level 4 goblin and focused on my surroundings instead.

"This voice...from where?"

Recalling the voice that I heard it was somehow a gentle and yet a fierce voice. As if someone with a gentle voice tried to yell with all their strength, begging to stop...

But what puzzled me the most was that the voice sounds so familiar and yet so foreign for some reason.

As if you could remember someone's voice, but not their actual name or who they were.

The longer I tried to remember whose voice that was. The stronger my headache was becoming until the point I couldn´t take it anymore.

"Ah!" Holding my head with my hands I turned around and started walking towards the cave exit.

"Right... I should focus on chasing the remaining goblin. The way this group behaved was as if they were trying to buy enough time to let the remaining goblin escape..." Shaking my head off the headache. I walked out of the cave to chase the goblin but...

"Tch, It got away..." Seeing no traces of the goblin I felt troubled...

"If only I didn´t take that long killing that damn goblin I would even be able to chase the last one but now" Seeing that there was no hope at catching the goblin I could only do what everyone else would do..."

"Welp, I guess I will give up" Without a second thought I turned around and headed back to the gave.

It wasn´t like I couldn´t catch the goblin If I ran after it.

After all, as an undead, I wouldn´t get tired and there would be no need for me to rest. But that wasn´t the case for the goblin. Not even considering the difference between our stats I would easily be able to catch up to him.

But I didn´t do that chase for various reasons.

First of all, I had no idea where it went. There were three paths that I haven´t explored yet and the chance of taking the wrong path is relatively high.

Secondly, my body is still damaged and the only way to recover my body currently is simple by waiting.

Without recovering I wouldn´t be able to be in my prime while fighting another goblin with skills such as [Sprint]. This fight made me realize that stats aren´t everything and with the correct use of skills or talents even the weakest enemy can be a threat.

"I guess I should practice more in using my skills. If I master how to use my mana I would be able to use [Sprint] multiple times at a time as the helmet goblin did. But the only difference between us will be that I will be able to [Sprint] as many times that my mana allows me without having the disadvantage as the goblin did have in the end!"

Just thinking that every step that I make will be reinforced with the skill [Sprint] makes me excited.

Speaking of skills...

"Right, I should have enough XP by now to get [Shield Bash] right?" With just thought the XP storage window came to my sight.

[XP: 3000]

Seeing the amount of XP in my storage I somehow felt awkward.

For a mere fight that didn´t even take five minutes, I earned 1100 XP and training like crazy for a whole seven hours earned me just about 1900 XP!?

Now understand what it meant that the amount of XP wouldn´t be much!

"Sigh, Although I don´t regret it does bring a sure taste in my mouth...Not like I have one"

After laughing at my lame joke for a little bit I went of to train more...

"I should probably learn how to use the two other skill´s too while I am at it"

[Shield Bash aquiered]

[Piercing aquiered]

***

POV of the Shaman.

"Rise! Rise I command!" Dead mana was filling the whole laboratory. As if small black flames were dancing in the air and slowly moving towards a single position.

The place the dead mana was moving was the experimentation table which contained a skeleton. To be more precise, I former undead Skeleton.

The dead mana was a circle around the "dead" skeleton and slowly entering this body.

"Yes! It is working! Just a little more and I will finally be...Wait, No!" As he was about to celebrate this hard-earned success, the body of the skeleton started showing signs of breaking apart and leaking the dead mana that it had absorbed until yet.

Seeing this the Shaman's face suddenly turned pale and put this whole focus to control the dead mana around him, so that the skeleton doesn´t break apart.

"Why!? Why wouldn´t you rise!? Rise and obey! Obey my cal-" Sadly these wishes turned to be rejected by reality.

The Skeleton that was until now holding the dead mana in this body started to break down until only dust remained.

"Dammit!" Cursing out loud. The shaman went to this working table and picked some green-looking paper that had some kind of language written on it.

"All calculation and measurements were all correct but why didn`t it work!? What I am doing wrong!" The Shaman picked from some nearby box the same green paper that he had in hand together with some dark red liquid that was used to write on the paper.

"Now I have to start all over again and find replacements for the experiments! And I also have to make sure tha-" As he was cursing out loud a sudden screech came behind the cloth that was hiding the entrance.

"What do you guys want!? If ain´t in a good mood right now so if it isn´t important I will make sure that you will be the next experiment of my!" As he says that.

The two goblin guards together with another goblin which was holding a axe.

"Hmm? Weren´t you one of the groups I send to retrieve my brother's corpse? How come you came back so fast?"

Under the question of the Elder, both the guards and the goblin with the axe got cold sweat crippling to their backs.

The goblin gripped this axe even tighter than before and started telling what they met in the warrior's chief cave.

The clean cave, the ambush of the abnormal skeleton, and this usage of mana.

When he finished the shaman´s goblin had a confused face.

"Wait, you said you saw a skeleton use mana?"

Seeing the goblin nodding by this question the shamans face darkened suddenly, making the three goblin´s treble slightly.

"Did this skeleton had blue eyes?"

Seeing the seriousness this elder was making the goblin thought of the events where they met the skeleton. Even after thinking for a while, he couldn´t remember seeing blue eyes.

So he shook this head.

Upon that action, though he froze in fear.

No.

He and the two-guard goblins were frozen too.

And the reason was out of fear!

The shaman's eyes suddenly turned mad and he started laughing as if he was crazy.

"MUahhahah! Finally! I found the key to my research! Heheheh, an undead skeleton that is ever so close to evolving but has yet to start this evolution! If I am able to get my hands on that I will finally be able to break through my bottleneck from my research!"

He hastily ran to the side of this working table and picked stuff that had a skull attached to it together with a small dark crystal.

"Gather everybody and tell them to prepare their weapons together with a bunch of supplies!" He passed through the three stunned goblins and put on this cloak.

"We will start marching towards my brother's, the warrior chief's cave, and reclaim it as ours!"

Wait for me Skeleton!

As You will open my first steps towards Immortality!