chapter 3
After he informed Erik about Clementine new status, the news instantly caught on fire to the staff members who were working at the castle.
Most of the staff members already had a suspicion about the little girl that Leonard brought back, however, when their lord, the duke confirmed her status, everything changed.
"Hey hey, did you know that the Lord has put a new status on that little girl that the young master brought back?" one of the maids gossipped to Claire.
"Yes, I heard of it, what about it?" Claire asked the other maid.
"Do you think that the little girl an illegitimate child of his grace? Or else how could the duke be so easily of accepting to adopt her?" the maid whispered.
"Don't be crazy, do you honestly want to keep your job?" Claire warned the maid.
The maid that was whispering and gossiping immediately zipped her mouth.
"Besides, the chance of her being an illegitimate child of his grace is close to impossible, we all know that his grace has been quite disinterested in…*ahem his love life for years now since the third young master birth, you're thinking too much- perhaps his grace just adopted the child out of his goodwill," Claire told the maid.
Leonard who was totally oblivious to the gossiping that's happen within the castle.
Laying on his bed, he had more important things to worry about.
Such as for example how to level up The Dark Art magical technique.
"System- interface" he commanded.
Name: Leonard Welser (human)
Title: Survivor of the Dead World.
Technique: Dark Magic Art- Level 1( can be upgraded to another level through gathering a certain type of materials.)
Level: 10
EXP: 0/1000 (magic exp can only increase through absorbing concentrated magical consumable. (example magic stone) )
Physical Attribute: 5.5
Magical Attribute: 20.1
Magical Affinity: Necromancy
Special Function.
[Inventory] [Achievement Store]
"How do I advanced into the next rank of The Dark Art magical technique?" Leonard asked the system.
[Please gather ten Negative Energy Stone] the system message told him.
"Negative energy stone…..OHHHH It's that thing!" Leonard had a rough idea of what the system was talking about.
"What the system referred to as a "Negative Energy Stone" is what called a Death Crystal!" Leonard was enlightened.
From the knowledge he gained from the memory crystal, the crystal can only be formed through a dark mage (Necromancer) gathering up concentrated Death energy.
"Death energy huh….look like this is going to get really dirty soon." Leonard thought.
From that piece of knowledge, to gather the death energy, he first needs to find a spot that has a high concentration of it first, these spots usually referred to Graveyard, and the aftermath of a battlefield.
"....should I make a trip to the graveyard tonight?" Leonard thought.
"Sure, it's ethically and morally wrong, but it's me getting more overpowered after all…" he added.
"Done, a trip to the graveyard it is!" Leonard made up his mind about committing the deed.
Later that night at a graveyard near the outer part of the city.
Leonard has made his way to the graveyard in the dead of night, when he got there, the graveyard was dead silent for the most part, other than a few owl chirping and crickets making noises, it was dead creepy silent.
He made pass the gate and ventured into the deeper part of the graveyard, feeling the tingling of the "Death energy" along the way like how the memory taught him.
When he reached the spot that has the most concentrated amount of death energy, which is unsurprisingly the middle of the whole graveyard.
Leonard then pulled out a magic stone that he had purchased earlier that day and immediately began using the gathering spell to channeled in the surrounding Death energy from the surround and focused it into the small stone.
The process did not take very long, and quickly he manages to fill it.
Now the magic stone no longer a clear blue glass like texture, but instead it has turned black and with a tint of purple.
"Oh, that's nice! One down, and nine more to go," he said with a cheerful tone.
Just as he was about to retry gathering energy for one more stone, he heard voices from the distant.
"You sure that the body is somewhere around here?" one of the voice, which sound like that of an older male called out.
"Yeah, definitely! The one that was buried around here was quite rich when he was alive." another voice of a much younger male told the older one.
"Graverobber?" Leonard thought and sneered, he sneakily followed the two men from behind until they reached a somewhat new and recently erected grave.
"Time to dig this one up little Timmy." The older one tossed the younger man name Timmy a shovel.
"Time to get rich!" the younger one said cheerfully and took the first step to dig up the grave.
The two men spent hours digging up the soils until they heard a *clunk of metal hitting against wood.
Leonard who was hiding behind a gravestone was bored out of his mind until he heard the sound and immediately peered over the gravestone to see what's going.
There, he saw the two men slowly pulled up a wood coffin.
"Bingo, now let pried this one open." the older man then pushed the shovel blade into the crack of the coffin lid, and then pulled it apart, revealing a somewhat "Pristine" corpse of an old inside, decorated with few pieces of jewelry.
The two graverobber laughed merrily as they reached their hand into the coffin and rummaging through the poor old, now dead woman clothes searching for value.
"I'm going to teach you, shitheads, a lesson, to not try robbing people graves!" he grinned and extended his index finger out while pointing at the corpse of the old woman.
"Raise zombie!" he called out, and subtly black gases began to seep into the corpse mouth from the surrounding.
"Did you feel that?" the younger graverobber name Timmy suddenly asked the older man.
"Feel what?" the older one asked.
"I just suddenly felt really cold just now," Timmy told him.
"Probably just the wind." the other one replied.
Suddenly the eyes of the old woman flickered wide open and she used her hands to grab each of the robber's arm.