The Ruined Death Knight-Novel

"Hey, Shiro, how about this?"

"E-Ehm....what is this?"

"Liver, you think you can eat this?"

"I-I don't think so..."

"How about this?"

"T-That is...?"

"Lung."

"No..."

"How about the heart? Seems like a fruit that I saw before. It should be eatable, no?"

"I-I can't..."

"Sigh, such a picky eater." Danzel shook his head as he continued separating the eatable and the uneatable meat. The latter being mostly the organs. Despite Shiro looking at him in horror, which he didn't realize.

Of course, what was eatable and not was for Shiro to decide as he didn't see the difference between them other than the color and shape.

Thanks to his skills, he was able to make the waste disappear by draining the meat's vitality, decaying it, and burning the dust.

The rest of the haired buffalo's meat was cut and put in one of his storage rings for preservation purposes.

All that was left in the end was the bloodied hide and the skeleton of the buffalo.

Though Danzel wasn't able to feel cold for being undead, he still had the minimum awareness to recognize that Shiro shaking body was from the cold.

"Hey, Shiro, can you come and see if this is warm or not?" Danzel asked as he made 2 mana hands keep a large piece of the haired buffalo hide in the air.

"Mhm." Shiro nodded her head upon seeing the long and fluffy hair of the hide.

Walking neat the floating hide and stroking her hand at the hair, she put a smile on her face from the sensation.

"It feels nice to touch."

"Is it warm?" Danzel asked solemnly.

"I-I believe so."

"Alright then, let's make this into some kind of robe or something for you." Danzel said, making Shiro look at him with surprise.

"A robe? But...this thing stinks?"

"Stinks?" Danzel asked back while tilting his head to the side.

He circled around the hide, inspecting it before looking back at Shiro.

"Can you remove this...stench? Got any spell for that?"

"I-I don't think so..." Shiro said awkwardly."

Danzel stared at the little girl for a full 3 seconds before shrugging his shoulders.

"Well, then you will have to deal with it. It's either that or freeze to death outside." He said as he picked all the hides and put them on top of the ribs of the haired buffalo.

Shiro had her mouth open as she wanted to say something, but before she could, Danzel went and sat at the fireplace, gazing at the fire.

More accurately though, it would be he stared at his status window.

'There are so many things to look after in my evolution into a death knight. From the talents, upgrading my main class and upgrading my other skills...' Danzel thought for a moment wherever he should dive into the rapid hole of upgrades.

From his massacre and killing of the Archmage, he had saved quite a generous amount that he could spend on stuff, but after thinking about it, he decided to postpone this for later and focus on the task at hand.

'Now, where was it again...ah, found it.' Danzel stopped scrolling through the skills he could purchase at a particular old skill he unlocked, but never found the necessity to get it.

[Deceased Bone Shaping]: 2500 XP required

The skill wasn't anything special, to say the least, and was self-explanatory as what it did by its name alone.

With his use of dead mana, he could simply stretch bones to the form he wanted but only worked on corpses that weren't undead or non-undead. He also had a pretty good idea of what the evolution of the skill could become from the few records of undead in his books that could shape bone into their armor.

A skill that was only useful on that poor undead that couldn't effort armor. Not only were bones more fragile and his runes weren't to be used on bones. Only the great runes that he got were capable to be used on bones.

For that skill, he had other plans.

'It's cheap anyway...'

Getting the skill to his arsenal, he closed his status screen and walked to the bones of the haired buffalo.

Raising his sword, he cut through one particular large bone and grabbed it in his hand.

"Let's see..."

Using [Deceased Bone Shaping] on the bone, Danzel found that his mana was being resisted, but he still was able to slowly bend the bone without it breaking.

"Still fairly difficult for my purposes..." Danzel mumbled as he went ahead and upgraded the skill into the 2nd tier.

Turning it to [Bone Shaping].

The skills evolution turned out to be just an upgrade from the previous one with the restriction of shaping non-undead bones now gone. Nothing special, but that was enough.

Trying the skill once more, shaping the bones to his will was fairly simple now.

He made various shapes and tried to stretch the bones as far as he could, but at some point, the bones broke from them.

"So it doesn't get strength by it, huh?" He mumbled to himself as restored the bone with [Necromatic Restoraction].

"What are you doing?" Shiro asked as she got closer to see Danzel's magic. Forgetting for a moment him butchering the haired buffalo right in front of her.

"I had an idea of how to make that robe of yours. Though if you ask for my magic, it's necromancy."

He then cut several bones of the dead-haired buffalo and placed them together with the hide.

"Hmm, come over here." Danzel called out Shiro, who nodded in response.

He then picked up the hide stinking hide and wrapped Shiro with it like a roll.

"H-Hey! What are you doing!?" She yelled while struggling to get out of the roll, albeit with little success.

"Stop struggling..." Danzel said before freeing her from the roll of the hide.

He then proceeded to do the same thing with her arm, legs, and feet.

Having taken the measures of the little girl in his head, Danzel started to work.

He cut the leather pieces according though his measurements of Shiro while also looking at Shiro's clothes as a reference so that it wouldn't impact her movements.

The hide was tough, but with his strength and his sword, it was a piece of cake to smoothly cut it.

Once he was done, he was left with cut pieces of the robe.

That was when his new skill, [Bone Shaping] was going to take action.

Danzel never made some time of clothing and never used a needle and string. Heck, he didn't even have those things on him.

So, he had to improvise.

And what better way would it be for a death knight like him to use necromancy to reach his goals?

He asked Shiro and even used his skeleton ethereal hands to hold the hide in a place he got to work.

He then cut a large bone into pieces and shaped half of them in the form of 4 needles and the other with 4 holes. He then pierced the hide and connected the two bones with the holes and then used his [Necromatic Restoraction] with [Bone Shaping] at the same time to completely seal the holes.

He did that a total of 4 times, completely sealing the chest pieces. Thankfully, the hide was sturdy enough to not get messed up with this process.

Next, he did the same with the rest of the hide.

The arms were two pieces, one on the wrist and the other upper limb. That area proved to be the most difficult of all of them, taking most of his time as it was bigger in the wrist area than he originally wanted.

To make it tight, he used 1 rib of the haired buffalo to connect the wrist with several bones. Turning it to look like a wrist guard made out of bones.

A similar issue came from the legs, but the annoying part was to see how to shape the bones around the armpit, but in the end, he successfully made a leather piece connected by bones!

Though he aimed for a robe, it became more of a winter cloth that was reinforced with bones.

"Alright, try it." Danzel said, and Shiro nodded awkwardly.

Shiro struggled to get in the piece that Danzel made, but after a few tries, she managed.

"Is it warm?" Danzel asked.

"Yes, but..."

"But?"

"It stinks, it's awkward to move around, and heavy."

Danzel looked at Shiro and she looked back at him.

They gazed at each other for a full 3 seconds before Danzel shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, then you will have to deal with it. It's either that or freeze to death outside." Danzel said before moving to the fireplace and bringing 2 full pieces of armor.

"T-That is..." Shiro wanted to voice out her complaint, but with Danzel activating [Rune Vision], the world became silent and colorless.

The only colors to see were in the armor in front of him.

Seeing the death knight ignoring her, felt quite helpless.

​ "Sigh~, at least now it's warm." Shiro said as she walked in front of Danzel and inspected their hand movement of Danzel.

The next few hours went in complete silence, with only the flicker of the fire making noise.