The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

As if looking at the past and had a feeling of nostalgia, was a knight standing in the side of the road looking aimlessly ahead. Though this armor was best described as scrap with some cloth hiding the holes in the armor. Many who passed him thought what kinds of battles he had fought to get this armor in such shape.

While this knight looked like a veteran who has lived this whole in a battlefield.

"Dammit, If there is a thing between the status or whatever system this is I bet it´s laughing this a#s off! How could I even spent 98 900 XP already!"

In reality, he was cursing at the fact of these expenses...

Looking currently in front of me at the number I felt like I could spit blood out of my mouth at any moment!

And the fact of not having a drop of blood inside of me should speak on how shocked I was!

Sure, in front of [Miasma of Corruption Lv.1] costing 6000 XP and the whole 120 825 XP that I had in my storage at that time it looked just a small drop into the ocean.

But that wasn´t the case at all!

I totally underestimated the cost that I will be needed to max the whole damn thing at Lv. 10 and even if I knew somewhat that it wouldn´t end cheap.

80 000 whole XP was like an anvil falling to my head and taking whatever I had left in my wallet with it!

"Sigh... Maybe I should write this kind of stuff on some kind of paper..." Although somewhat depressed, I moved my gaze towards more important stuff.

Like my current Status.

`Nothing to be done I guess, I should distract myself of the cost and look at the benefits

"Status, Let´s see what we go-"

Appearing in front was what I would have expected was the status, yes.

"The heck is with those numbers!" I cursed out loud.

[Status]

Name:

Level: 20

Class: [Undead Guardian Lv. 1]

Sub-Class: [Runesmith of Undeath Lv.1]

Health: 3850/3850

Mana: 484/484

Attribute points: 0

Attributes: Strenght 90 Agility 70 Intelligence 44 Endurance 69

Talents: [Superior Undead] [Sin of Wrath] [Reinforced Soul] [Superior Uniqe Concioness] [Rune Vision] [Dead Rune Knowledge]

Skills: [Intermendiate Weapon Master Lv.1] [Undeath Corruption Lv.1] [Dash Lv. 1] [Shield bash Lv.4] [Wind Blade Lv.3] [Sense Danger Lv.3] [Curse of Vigor Lv.1] [Piercing Lv.1]

[Remark: A Undead of Superior Strenght. Though you completely merging your Lifeforce with your Undeath nature, you now became an Undead fuelled with pure dead mana and hate on the living. Such an achievement can only be seen by either talented or long-lived Undead.]

"Crap." Thanks though my sudden outburst many eyes were on me.

After walking away to where I previews was and making sure that no one had these lust full eyes on me I re-opened my status to see from where everything went wrong.

"Now I understand why I felt the sudden surge of power, it's because of those numbers! The multiplier is different too..." Even though I currently was very confused by the current state of events.

I wasn´t clueless!

"This two has to be the culprit..."

It had to be either [Undeath Corruption Lv.1] or [Superior Undead]!

If not both!

Clicking on the names of both skills the truth came upon me!

[Undeath Corruption Lv.1]: A Undead that fully merged this Life Force with this Dead Mana! Reaching this point the Undead is capable of the extent the time of the released dead mana on these surroundings, but not completely prevent it.

All Attributes Increase by 15.

Lowerest the Cost of Dark, Curse, and Death-based Skills by 20%.

Every 8 years 2 attribute points is being granted.

"So that´s where the remaining stats come from. An increase of all attributes by 15 isn´t bad at all, but for 80 000 XP, it´s still kind of a waste if I think of putting such an amount of XP into my level or my classes. That doesn´t matter though, since my aim was that sweet 20% cost reduction! Although I currently possess only 1 spell that makes use of it it will still be worth it! As for the 2 attribute points per 8 years..."

I know that technically I am an immortal being, but isn´t for 8 years of waiting just to gain 2 attribute points kinda pathetic?

"Hmmm, although this explains the sudden stats increase, it doesn´t explain the sudden increase of scaling multiplier on my attributes?"

Since I only had 1 culprit left to interrogate, I quickly pressed at new talent as my curiosity reached this limits.

[Superior Undead]: By fully turning the remaining life force into dead mana that resides in an Undead's body. With the superior quality of dead mana inside the body of the Undead, this overall capability has increased.

All your attributes multiplier become 1.1

"Found- Cough~Cough, So that's the one..." The talent was so amazing that I almost screamed out loud again.

Just by having this talent made it like having the [Sin of Wrath] effect permanently on me!

Just thinking of a world of having [Sin of Wrath] and this talent effectively increase my attributes by a whole of 20% made me grin sinister.

And the fact that I was living in such a world made me the more so excited!

"Alright, I have to calm down. Those amounts of attributes should be enough for the time. Compared to my stats, my skills seem to lie they have been neglected..."

With my examination done, I bought the XP storage window in front of me.

[28 625 XP]

"Sigh..."

Looking at the pitiful amount that remained in my wallet I couldn't help but shake my head helplessly and start roaming through the side of the streets.

"Still, if I want to quickly raise my XP the best method would obviously yo begin a genocide..." I murmured to myself.

It was the best method to increase the XP in my storage, but if it were the smartest choice I doubt it.

Sure, I could even kill whoever I wanted far outside the city, heck I even killed that egg head Oliver inside here.

But I only dared to kill him and these slaves inside the city cause we were inside the slums where poverty was at its best inside the city.

The days I traveled with the slave merchant I wasn't just sitting there and pretending to be dead or something.

To lessen my boredom- I mean to gain the most information that I could use I asked him about the place that I am currently in.

I currently am in the middle district where most commoners and small-time merchant do their trade here.

While the slums that I came from are in the left part of the city near the walls.

I remember the slave merchant saying that cause of the sunlight that the huge wall is blocking and a greedy noble was the main cause of the slums.

I found it ironic.

The walls that were supposed to protect this people and the noble who did everything to raise their own pocket was nothing but a curse for the people living there

Just thinking of such people made my now pure dead mana inside my body come slightly outside my bones.

"That was close..." Realizing what I just had done I cursed internally.

'Being with the living, no. With humans, it's indeed dangerous. Although I know it was quite easy to suppress I need to be more careful.'

Since as I, an Undead who hates the living walks beside the living, this bough forth the burning feeling in my body to be constantly there bringing a slight mix of anxiety and stress in me.

Shaking my head to remove the remaining thoughts.

'I should quickly find this place and leave already from here.'

With me regaining focus on my surroundings I glanced at the two-man talking in front of a stall.

The One had similar-looking clothes of the now-dead Oliver while the other had what I would say average clothes to that of a commoner.

What I noticed by walking around through people was that almost everyone had some sort of a feather build in their clothes or accessories.

The most common were men having a feather necklace and women having a feather holding their hair in place.

I walked towards the man with the orange-red feather in this neck and common clothes.

"Excuse me, Could I ask where the 'Ouru'Fire Smith' is?"

"Hey! Don't just come in while we have a-" The man who looked like a merchant quickly shut this mouth upon seeing a massive knight in front of him.

The man with the feather was also stunned with sweat starting to show up in this forehead.

"Sir...what kind of business do you have with me..?" Said the man with the feather in this neck nervously.

"Do you know where the 'Ouru'Fire Smith' is" I said slightly annoying by there reaction.

"Oh... it's just just up ahead in the end of the middle district. Turning at the right would be it..."

Looking at the direction he pointed at I nodded at him.

"Thanks..."

Saying my goodbyes at the stunned man I went my way to the location the man has pointed at.

Looking at the scary knight leaving both men sighed in relief.

"I though we were done for..."

"At least he wasn´t from the Union...."