The Ruined Death Knight

After discussing what kind of rune Agares and Shiro would like to receive in their items, Danzel didn´t immediately go out of his way to carve Agare's sword and came up with an excuse of having to prepare beforehand.

Although he wanted everyone to have the [Rune of Harvest] as soon as possible on their weapons, Danzel forced himself to hold his urges of carving that rune till he achieved the [Good] rating.

"I will be left then, I still have lots of stuff to do and prepare for. I will notify you when I finished my preparations." Danzel said while standing up and leaving their room.

`I guess I will have to rush the [Rune of Harvest] grade... It hasn´t even been that long since I made all those runed contracts, but now I have to focus once again on runesmithing dammit.´

Being already in a bad mood for the sudden change of schedule, once he arrived in his messy room someone else followed him.

Seeing who it was, Danzel was confused.

"What is it Agares? Do you still have something to discuss or..." Danzel asked genuinely confused by the elderly.

It hasn´t even been 2 minutes that they talked with each other and yet here he was seeking him for something?

"I indeed do have something to discuss with you. And it isn´t about the runes that we talked about." Agares said with a serious face.

Danzel in response motioned for him to continue.

"Danzel...previously the thing that you talked about with my granddaughter wasn´t really about runes was it?" Agares said while looking at Danzel with his sharp gaze.

"..."

For a moment Danzel tensed up and cursed internally.

`So he didn´t buy it, huh? Well, that´s to be expected...´

He thought of what to say, but in the end, he decided to come clean with Agares.

"It is indeed as you say, we didn´t discuss all the runesmithing stuff. Although what I discussed with you a moment ago was the truth, what I truly talked with your granddaughter was about my lesson of necromancy." Danzel said while going around and cleaning up his mess, trying his best to ignore Agare's frown.

"That kid, Shiro, you should even notice yourself that she loves magic"

"..."

Having taken Velkir lessons together, Danzel would even have been either oblivious or stupid to not notice Shiro's over-enthusiastic about magic itself.

Have Velkir introduced something that she didn´t know her eyes would spark while every time he would ask Velkir for clearance she would stare at him as if he were a lazy pig that wasn´t paying attention to the lesson.

Though he learned to ignore the brat, he still felt annoyed sometimes by her.

When Danzel with the help of [Hand of Mana Affinity] skill finished cleaning the room, Danzel looked directly into Agare's fierce eyes.

"Alas, that goes on all magic. Her curiosity about Death magic isn´t an exception to that."

"Danzel, you... what have you told Shiro-"

"She asked me if such magic can be good if it were used by a good person. And since she interrupted my work, I told her how wrong she was. That's all about it. Nothing more nothing less."

Hearing that, Agares closed his eyes as if he wished what he guess was wrong, but after hearing what Danzel said he knew that one of his fear came true.

"Danzel, even though we made a deal...I will have you pay if you ever teach Shiro for such vile magic." Agares said with a serious tone.

Danzel in response would even roll his eyes at him if he could as such absurdity.

"Ha! As if I got time to teach a brat when I myself don´t have enough time. Though I were you, I would worry more of her curiosity than me teaching her." Danzel said with his usual cold voice.

For a moment Agares stayed silent in his room, staring at Danzel, but in the end, turned around to leave.

"Sorry for disturbing you."

With him being the only one in his room, Danzel sighted out loud.

"Sigh~Let´s hope that he was the last one to disturb me for today..."

Without further ado, Danzel picked one of the alchemic weapons and went right into carving the [Rune of Harvest] with the aim of improving the rune into the [Good] rating.

And in the passage of time, Danzel finally managed to finish improving the rune after working for a whole week 24/7.

[Epic Rune of Harvest successfully engraved, Rating Good]

[You received 15 000 XP]

"Finally...I finished this damned thing." Danzel said with a tired voice before letting the successful sword with the rune in the ground and staring blankly at the ceiling.

He felt as if he upgraded several skills at the same time and receive an information overload. His head felt like bursting open.

Every time he thought that he fixed a problem with the rune, the fixed problem became a completely different problem that affects another aspect of the rune. Making the rune one hell of an experience to adjust and fix till it reached the [Good] rating.

Though he couldn´t get physically tired, he was in dear need of some rest.

Even though he carved less [Rune of Harvest] than his runed contracts, the latter was much easier for him as he already knew how the runes worked, which made the work in carving those just repetitive.

But for the [Rune of Harvest] he had to continuously think about his mistakes and experiment to see what worked best.

In a way, he found it funny.

He already had the knowledge of how a [Perfect] [Rune of Havest] was supposed to be, but every time he tried to follow according to his knowledge, it never came out the way he wanted.

`At least now I can finally finish spreading the [Rune of Harvest] for good. Though a better grade of the rune would be better, for now, I am done with it.´ he thought while shaking his head to remove the headache before refocusing on the notification in front of him.

"A total of 15 000, huh? Not a bad amount gave the time I spent with each one of them. But the space in my ring seems to reach its limit with all those weapons that I used. Azrael is probably also bound to ask me to make another rune of him with the amount I took. And then there is his sister to think about..."

Suddenly after listing the few things that he had to do, another wave of headache started to rampage in his mind.

`The shield that Velkir promised should also be arriving soon. And taking to account that I don´t know when another mission is going to be assigned, I can´t even take a break to study Velkir lessons as I have to see after Agares sword. I should also forget about finishing anything of the rune combinations that I had in my mind.´

"For now I should focus on carving Agares runes so that I can be done with that for good. Then getting in touch with Velkir to ask about the shield. I even forgot to check on Skull Claws' skills, as for the other stuff..."

Shaking his head, Danzel went out of his room and walked towards Agares and Shiro's room. But before he even managed to reach their room, a voice started to call him from behind him.

"Hey! Danzel! Have you heard already!?" The owner of this voice was none other than Vanessa.

"Hmm?"

Turning around, he looked at the dark elve in confusion.

"What are you talking about? Am I supposed to have heard something?" Danzel asked.

"Oh, didn´t the boss inform you already? We all have been given another mission. And this time around I heard that it will be quite the long one while splitting the group. Didn´t you hear?"

Hearing those words, Danzel froze still, his ethereal eyes going out.

He felt like someone who was drenched with ice-cold water naked in the winter.

`No, she still didn´t mention when our mission will be!´ Danzel thought accordingly before asking what was in his mind.

"Hmm~so you really heard nothing, huh? That´s what happens if you stay locked in your room for a whole week." Vanessa said while shaking her head.

"The mission starts tomorrow."

"..."

Seeing Danzel freezing up, Vanessa patted his shoulder before waving her goodbyes to him.

`It´s still fine...I still have time to carve Agare's sword, before the mission starts. That way I can suck u- I mean benefit from his efforts. Anything else can wait for another day!´ Danzel said while hasting his steps towards Agares and Shiro's room.

And once he reached the outside of the room, Agares who sensed him coming towards them came out looking at Danzel with a confused look.

"Why have you come Danzel?" Agares said with a frown.

"I just came to pick up your sword to carve the runes I promised. I should be able to finish them before tomorrow's mission."

Hearing that, Agares looked at Danzel strangely.

"I see...but why now? It´s already late night you know?"

For a workaholic that hasn´t left his room for a whole week and additionally being a tireless undead with night vision. Danzel suffered from the same thing that many undead experiences after isolating themself from the outside world.

He lost track of time.