The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

*Creak

The door of the Ouru´Fire Smith opened slowly with a creaking noise.

Appearing in the door was a two-meter tall figure with a dark cloak around him and a long sword in his right arm while his left arm was dragging a corpse through the ground.

*Bah

Throwing the corpse in front of him, the tall figure removed this cloak, and who appeared was Danzel with this dark gray heavy plated armor with his helmet having only four small holes, it brings the question of how he even saw.

"Ugh... wearing a pauldron with those spikes on me sure is awkward..." Danzel complained as he inspected his cloak..

Though the spikes weren´t particularly long, their sharpness wasn´t to joke to laugh about. 

If it weren´t for the fact that this cloak was of high quality, he could say goodbye to this cloak already.

Heck, they were already signs of damage inside the cloak around the shoulder area.

`I will have to ask Gerak where I can get myself a better cloak after I got brought this stupid sword.´ Danzel thought.

Even if we decided to leave Bernes, learning if there is a better quality of equipment wouldn't hurt to know in the long run.

There might be other forbidden items that are banned for common people to use like [The Ring of Spatial Storage].

´Though the ring was an exceptional item that could revolutionalize the transportation of goods among the common people.

Even I can tell how badly this will go if made in public.´

Releasing the ring would remove the manual work for good but at the same time allow for items to be easily smuggled out.

Just the imagination that a sole guy can carry all items of a blacksmith shop outside the capital by just walking like you every day Joe would be enough for the officials of the army to pull their hairs out of their roots.

Since in the times of war, losing around 50 swords at first doesn´t sound much with the scale that the kingdom of Berum and Arcana kingdom is.

But if that were to be an everyday thing though, sooner or later they wouldn´t be able to take part in these wars.

But in my opinion, the most useful use that the ring had was...

Hiding corpses.

"The ring sure is convenient, if only the space inside the ring was a bit larger I wouldn´t have to carry that guy inside here," Danzel said while bringing the corpse of the soldier who was called Tedric.

Though the [Ring of Spatial Storage] wasn´t capable of holding living things that had a soul in them.

Putting soul-less corpses inside was no problem at all.

That point alone was enough for me to increase my favorability by +1 towards the ring.

"After I get rid of those weapons inside the ring, storage issues would be of no problem in the future." Imagining the golden future of me no longer having to scrap around for just a tinny bit more space in that damn ring, was a future worth looking forwards to.

Instead of dreaming of the glorious future ahead of me, now were more important things to think about.

For example...

Going behind the counter table, I broke the floor in the area where Gerak specifically says and what revealed itself was a small brown cloth bag of coins with two small orange mana crystals and a giant sheath with a sword in it.

"Sigh...why is it so big? How am I suppose to fit all that damn thing?" Danzel cursed at the sword's length.

Comparing the two swords, the one that Gerak made seemed to be 8 inches longer than Veren was, which in other words was a damn big sword.

Drawing the sword out of the sheath, I was quickly surprised by the shape of it.

"A flamberge huh," Danzel said unconsciously as he could stare at his image on the wavy sword.

Though there were no lights inside the smithy, once the blade was out it showed orange light.

[Flamberge of Bleeding Rage]: A blade crafted by the journeyman dwarf blacksmith. The wavy blade was crafted with the sole intent to cut deep into the flesh of others while with the middle tier enchantment on it. The enchantment inflicts [Scourging Wounds] and [Running Bleed] effect behind. The material of the blade was craft increase greatly the flow of mana with the fire affinity and an extremely sharp, yet sturdy blade.

[Scourging Wounds]: Upon wounding an enemy, infect the area of your target with mana which will continue to burn the flesh and increase the difficulty towards healing effects.

[Running Bleed]: Upon wounding an enemy, infect the area of your target with mana, which will continue guiding the target's blood to the outside, leaving the enemy with continued bleeding. Increase of difficulty towards healing effects.

`Damn, that's even nastier than the other sword of before! Does Gerak give a hidden fetish with inflicting the most amount of pain to someone?´ Danzel shook this hand as he look at the sword.

Though he wasn´t the best example of it, since he sucks both blood and vitality of his enemies. Geraks sword was of another level of pain...

I think?

He thought that his runes were a lot less painful than this sword, but he couldn´t cast the doubt that was lingering inside of him.

After all, he was undead.

He didn´t know how it felt to have burning flesh or having one's vitality sucked up.

Since, well...

He was just bones.

"Putting the Flamberge aside... Let´s see what does two things are."  Grabbing both crystals, a window shortly appeared with the help of an internal command.

[Medium Fire Crystal (Small)]: A stone that finished the process of crystalization that holds the affinity of fire. It´s currently in the process of Removing his impurities.

"Oh, a medium crystal. That´s a first." Seeing the description of chance in the crystal, Danzel was slightly surprised.

From the last months, he only saw Lesser crystal and at best one was normal crystals. Seeing a new type of tier on the crystal was a pleasant find.

Since his shield and armor used only dark crystals that crystallized around 90%. The next tier which was the medium was 100% crystalized.

Though he didn´t know much of the use of such crystals other than that they were used in crafting items, it didn´t take a genius to figure which one was better than the other.

"Sadly those two are of the fire attribute and not of dark. And compared to other crystals, those two make two-thirds of a normal crystal."

Nevertheless, it seemed worth it coming back here.

After all, two crystals that you can't find in the market should translate to being forbidden for common use.

Yet, it was just a guess of mine.

Putting the crystals safe in the ring. 

I quickly gathered the 36 remaining gold coins which were pathetically few compared to what I had to spend on the dwarfs.

Still, it was better than nothing.

Preparing to leave the smith, an idea suddenly struck my mind which made me hesitate.

"Should I... Begin my class advancement here?" Danzel asked himself.

Though he avoided it for quite some time because of all the work that he had, with no more work left to do. It was time to proceed into the next class.

The hesitation that he had thought was that he was still in the smithy where enemies could come and check on those two guards.

If he were somehow distracted in the process he was afraid to mess things up.

What he was most worried about was the seat mana leaking out of this body and leaving traces behind.

If he were to refrain to upgrade his class though until he was going to be alone. He wouldn't be able to upgrade his class.

"Sigh..let's see first what we got on our wallet before purchasing."

Opening  the status window.

Danzel information shows up.

[Status]

Name: Rue Danzel

Level: 20

Class: [Undead Guardian Lv. 20]

Sub-Class: [Runesmith of Undeath Lv.10]

Health: 5500/5500

Mana: 1012/1012

Attribute points: 9

Attributes: Strength:140 Agility: 118 Intelligence: 92 Endurance: 99

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

Skills: [Intermendiate Weapon Mastery Lv.1] [Earth Wall Lv.1] [Leap Lv.1] [Silent Steps Lv.1][Undeath Corruption Lv.1] [Dash Lv. 1] [Shield Bash Lv.4] [Gale Mana Blade Lv.3] [Sense Danger Lv.3] [Curse of Exhaustion Lv.1] [Piercing Lv.1] [Mana Arms Lv.1] [Riposte Defense Lv.1] [Armor Preserve Lv.1]

[Remark: A Undead Carver of Superior Strength. One of the strongest natural draugr that there is. Though his tier undead far surpasses this strength. For your current tier of strength, you can be considered a powerhouse.]

[Storage: 200 325 XP]

"Such a huge amount of XP..." Danzel looked at the numbers as if he was mesmerized.

He had a hard time not spending his hard-earned juice to strengthen himself.

But he still decided against it.

"I am strong enough for now... It's not like the XP will run away."

Reaching his conclusion, he put on his cloak and left the smithy with the two corpses behind.