Master Of None

’Death knight

This undead has been raised with various materials added to its body. Specifically focusing on materials related to other undead and death mana affinity. This is due to the greater strength of the bones added to the skeleton knight while it was being acclimated to the manas within it. Because it has a greater affinity with death than other manas, it is able to resist many of the attacks related to death and more destructive undead focused skills. However, that makes it slightly weaker to those using healing magic and life mana. They are opposing natures. It is physically more powerful because the bones and armor it wears are made from tougher skeletal remains of monsters. They were also condensed using various elemental manas to ensure that it hold greater elemental mana resistances. Normally, a skeleton knight will be naturally weaker to light mana than the other elemental manas. However, because of the tempering method, the death knight easily resists the basic light mana attacks that can be done to it. Physical strength and swordsmanship are ingrained within its body due to it being a skeleton knight before gaining death affinity. Its usage of single armed shields is also greatly boosted. Some will even regain or gain some intelligence from their past life or of their undead life. This is normally depending on how they were created and by what being. There is a chance that it can grow and be formed in to a death knight rider, using a skeletal or undead type horse!’

Walker could look more in to the additional information about how the monster could still progress in the future, but that was not of his concern right now. He had no intention of raising undead. The idea of becoming even somewhat like the immortal king was enough of a turn off. He did think for a moment that it would be very likely that he would see a necromancer born in to Genesis. Especially with so many different races growing together within the city, many of them were going to research the world and even the elemental planes.

Not to mention that the vampires were technically a partial undead and living race. They were unique in the way that they were not entirely alive and had unique affinities. They could definitely be more focused on potentially raising undead. Not always a bad thing since they could be a lot safer to use for certain dangerous jobs. The dwarves could use skeletons to explore mines that collapsed or might collapse, along with other various dangerous tasks. Where things would be complicated were how the undead were raised. None of this was what he should be thinking about right now though. He was watching Remey step ahead again to fight the death knight which had managed to block her first attack without much damage at all. That was an impressive feat since Remey could wield a lot of power. Not just with her fire mana, she could deal a great amount of physical damage alone. Her focus had been on strength due to her being a brawler. Now she was an alchemical brawler, but over time she had gained more.

The physical strength from being related to dragons in any way would allow many people to be very powerful. But because Remey had both focused on strength and become a dragon soul. Therefore, she had better adapted to match her strength with magical attack too. The punch hadn’t penetrated the bone shield. The party could see that the bone armor dyed black and gray was also somewhat made of metals. Infused with materials that couldn’t have ever been alive but still mixed with bones to make it a part of the undead. The death knight slashed its sword at Remey, her speed was faster though. She leaned backwards so that she could dodge then made a few quick bouncing steps back as she realized that the sword was longer than what she had understood.

The deceptive nature was due to the planet of the bones making up the arm of the death knight. Its armor also hid the proper length that it had making its reach greater. But Remey had not stopped her movements to attack.

She knew very well that the death mana could deal very detrimental damage to her. However, she easily moved away from it while focusing on the shield which was turned to defend against her fist again.

The defense breaking fist was sending some damage through the shield and breaking bones slightly. The chips being broken off were signs of Remey’s strength compared to the much stronger defenses a death knight had over a regular skeleton.

”Is this how a dragon soul battles within the world?” This was very different from what the light devouring dragon had seen. He had curiosity about what the world was like along with general learning. ”A dragon soul isn’t possible right now in the world. The manas are too thin. That might change over time.” Walker found. The curious look he received to be somewhat comical. Especially since Remey was darting around the death knight dodging every attack like nothing while delivering constant attacks to the shield.

”She has grown very close with the royal fire dragon Ignus. He managed to discover some ruins detailing how to become a fire dominator again. They had lost some of their history until that point. Now they have found the methods to become a dominator dragon of all elemental affinities.”

”When Ignus began the process, Remey worked with him. She had already become the first alchemical brawler. His own unique class related to fighting and alchemy, but now, she followed the same process.”

”They shared the same purer and denser fire mana to go through the process. It was harder for Remey and held Ignus back for a while there. But they managed. Now, she is the first human to become a fire dragon soul that we know of. And she is also still an alchemical brawler.”

The casual way he explained this did not match the vicious onslaught of punching combinations that Remey used to completely outplay the death knight. It was a powerful undead! The light devouring dragon was shocked to hear all of this. Nothing that these people from the world said made sense. So many things like this happened? ”We didn’t know there were devouring dragons until we came to the elemental planes, but to be fair, it’s mostly because of the density and purity of manas here.” Walker leaned forward as he felt fire mana surge. Remey had prepared for a bigger attack.

She had been purposely moving slower when attacking the death knight. She did so, allowing it to block with its shield. The very reason that she had been unable to deal a larger enough amount of damage at once to the main body. The fire folded around her fist while she struck again. The fire mana surged forward through her attack since she had focused it much more. Because she also used the defense breaking fist, it perfectly melded to push the fire deeper through the defenses.

The metal and bone shield shattered as for mana surged through the arm bones right to the ribs where her mana was finally stopped by the natural defenses the death knight possessed. ”There we go, she took a while setting that up because it had better defenses. The small cracks gave her the path for flames to travel. Good thing undead can’t feel things really.” Gil’s interjection proved his keen eyesight. Something that was greater than what the light devouring dragon could see in detail.

”It won’t last long, Remey already prepared her next attack.” Su’s additional calm response was right before a much louder cracking sound reached their ears. Remey had used fire to reinforce her fists as she clasped her hands together in to a hammer slam. The cracking was the undefended armored head being split in to pieces. It had only taken some fire man to boost her physical defenses to ensure that her full force broke through any defense the death knight had.

”That thing was definitely tougher. If there were multiple I might need help.” Since Remey was admitting this, it meant she really believed it. She had to focus to set up proper strategy in that fight.

”I believe I understand more now. Our deal has already been proven worthwhile.” The complete honesty the light devouring dragon had was all due to him wanting to know more. He knew that the more powerful dragon he served would want all this information and more.

”We need to keep moving, the immortal king is still trying to get away.” Onyx hissed out in frustration after saying this. He could sense that the manas around Were less balanced by comparison. It meant that this would be tougher going forward.

”We will start moving again, Midnight, take the lead.” Walker saw Midnight focusing on the way ahead. She was sensing mana more clearly now too.