Mosquito Cloud
Joe dragged the hobgoblin back to Blake's cave. But when he arrived, he saw Blake's body unconscious on the floor, with his undead surrounding him.
He got worried, but Joe knew that if it was dangerous to Blake's life, his body would be teleported, so it probably wasn't serious.
He tried to get near to check Blake's situation out. But the moment he got near Blake, the undeads attacked him.
Joe didn't want to affect Blake's strength by damaging his undeads, but he also didn't want to leave his friend lying down on the floor without knowing why.
Therefore, Joe dodged the incoming attack, and close his eyes to focus fully on his instincts.
The undeads were attacking without a strategy, so Joe could easily dodge all the attacks while moving slowly in Blake's direction. After a few seconds, Joe was already near Blke's body and discovered that Blake's heart beats as normal.
Joe then just left Blake there and went to drag bad the hobgoblin that had tried to escape during the commotion.
However, since one of his legs was severely damaged, he couldn't run too far.
Joe imprisoned the hobgoblin and keep guard on the cave. He knew that if a group of hobgoblins attacked the cave, because he just captured one of them, just Blake's undead wouldn't be enough to protect Blake.
...
Meanwhile, Absko and Michael had just destroyed another goblin camp.
"Hey, Absko, did you notice that it has been taking less and less time to finish cleaning those villages." Michael commented. But Absko didn't answer.
"I think we are making a good time. But those goblins are getting too weak to help us develop, right?" Michael continued.
"You've been saying this since the first village. Just focus and you will continue developing." Absko answered.
At this moment, in front of the destroyed village, some other creatures appeared. They were humanoid and the same size as normal humans. The only difference was the eagle like head.
When Michael saw them, he said.
"Are they the eagle eyes race from the game? Shit, they used to be incomparably stronger than the goblins."
"There are only, five of them, it won't be so difficult as you make it sound"
"Let's see."
Absko and Michael prepared to fight. While Absko prepared to go to the front line, Michael prepared to give him support.
However, the eagle eyes race didn't stay idle. They had already seen both of them from far away and made preparations in advance.
Out of nowhere, an arrow passed a bullet in Michael's direction.
When Michael sensed the incoming attack he didn't have time to dodge, so he moved his body in order to prevent a mortal injury.
The arrow pierced through Michael's shoulder. He ignored the damage and used the other arm to point exactly in the direction the arrow came from and said while accumulating energy in the point of his finger:
"I can see you bitch."
Afterward, the energy accumulated condensed in a small bullet and was released at where Michael was pointing.
Michael then felt the presence, he felt far away with his superb perception, disappeared.
The other eagle eyes were horrified and decided to run away. The attack that Michael just displayed was at least ten times stronger than the arrow, which they considered to be their trump card.
Seeing them run away, Absko wasn't in the mood to chase them and Michael wanted to prioritise treating his injury. The former wanted to take a break after destroying a goblin's camp, while the latter wanted to make sure to not be teleported to the hall, since he felt it would be too embarrassing.
"I get why you said it would be easy. It was because you knew they were already intelligent enough to focus on the support first. So, if someone was sacrificed, it would be me. You Shit!" Michael said angrily. However, Absko didn't answer and looked at him as if Michael was nothing more than a clown.
...
Blake woke up at night, and explained everything that happened, including his discovery on his research, to Joe.
After chatting with Joe for around an hour, he decided to finally check his improvement.
'I guess I am already Tier 5, let's see the improvements in my skills.
'System'
[ System Window:
Name & Level: Blake - Starter Tier 6
Class: Necromancer
Passive skills:
Life and Death Energy Perception (20%)
Undead Energy Manipulation (10%)
Death Energy Manipulation (1%)
Active skills:
Undead Creation (40%)
My Undead Creation (30%)]
'No way! Am I Tier 6 already? That's crazy, I didn't feel the second breakthrough.
'Besides that, all of my skills increased greatly. That looks just too abnormal, but I guess it is natural since I practice all of them since I last brokethrough.'
Blake was still very tired from the overuse of spiritual energy and went to sleep.
...
The next morning, Blake and Joe woke up and eat breakfast as usual.
Afterward, Blake did not lose time and decided to create some mosquitoes. Each time he make the process sing his blood, he would get around 70 to 80 mosquitoes. He did this process a few times until he could form a cloud of mosquitoes. He already had more than a thousand.
He felt that it would be good to continue, but his body was already full of mosquito bits, and that was far worse than uncomfortable. So he would wait for those injuries to heal before continuing.
Now he was going to deal with the goblins.
Since the cave wasn't too big, the goblins could see most of the process of the mosquito's research. They were horrified by how he could turn some experiments that looked inoffensive at first, into a horrifying weapon which was that mosquito cloud.
Blake went to the goblin leader again. But the goblin still did not respond. What intrigued Blake was the fact that the goblin didn't answer at all. The goblin did not even try to communicate in the goblin's language.
Blake that is very skeptical, doubted the fact that the goblin really did not know the human language and said.
"So, since none of you goblins can communicate with us, I will just torture all of you to death as an experiment for my class."
At this moment the goblin leader reacted. He showed fear on his face, which would be reasonable if he didn't understand Blake.
Blake noticed it and said frankly:
"Hey, I know you understand me. You don't wanna die, right? Cooperate with me then your life will be speared."
"I will never reveal my comrades to you!" The goblin said with determination in his eyes.
"I don't want that. Tell me, do the other goblins also understand me?"
"Oh, so what do you want my help for?"
"Answer the question."
"No, I am the only one. Just the leader of each team learned your language."
"Ok, so help me with my experiments by communicating with them?"
"You want to make us your slaves and work in your experiment?"
"No, I want a test subject"
"Will you ready spear me in the end?"
"Sure."
"But when will the experiment be over?"
"Hopefully by night time."
"Today?"
"Yes."
"Ok, what do I have to do exactly?"
After getting the collaboration of the goblin. Blake decided to experiment if the undead keep their memories from when they were alive.
Firstly named each goblin to make it easier to organize. He named the normal goblins number one, number two, number three, and number four. The goblin leader was named the last.
He then ordered the king-cobra to bite the number one to death. Just after death, he was transformed into an undead. Blake then asked the goblin leader to communicate with it to see what it still remembered.
The first surprise was that the two of them could actually talk with each other.
After a few minutes of talking, the leader went to Blake and said:
"He remembers just a few things, such as his name, origin, the goblin's language, and a few other things from defining moments in his life."
"Nothing else?" Blake asked.
"Actually, he mentioned that he felt a spiritual connection between him and you. He said that he could feel that if you die, he also dies. Moreover, he has an inexplicable respect toward you that he didn't have before."
'Great! That's good information, to begin with. Based on it I may be able to find a way to transform the undead with its memories intact.
'Moreover, the second part of the "last"'s report, should be the effect of my implementing spiritual energy during the transformation.'