Grey village
Arriving at Grey Village, Ash walked down the path and reached the village chief house.
As Ash approached the village chief's house, the villagers paused in their activities, casting curious glances his way. Elder Griswold stood at the entrance, his weathered face betraying a mixture of concern and hope as he beckoned Ash forward.
Before Ash could speak, a shimmering notification materialized in front of him, glowing with an ethereal light. It read:
[Quest Notification
Difficulty : B+
Quest: Defeat the Undead at the Back of the Mountain, occupying the Grey Iron mine.
Objective: Help Elder Griswold and the villagers to vanquish the undead threat lurking in the depths of the mountain.
Rewards: 10 bronze coin and the Safety of the Villages]
The reward was shittyy compared to difficulty of quest, it was also the reason why no one one accepted this quest.
"we only have this much to give you" Elder bitterly smiled as he thought once again he will be rejected. but to his surprise the handsome man accepted his request.
"thank you" Elder bowed and Ash waved his head and asked for direction.
"I will personally lead you" Elder said and started leading Ash to back of their village.
"Thank you adventurer for aiding us"
"If we were still a prosperous village I would have given you plenty of reward but those undeads have occupied our mine leaving us no way of income" Elder sighed as he recounted what happened.
Turned out one day a injured knight reached their village, the villagers tried to help him but then suddenly he screamed and ran away and next day they found their mines infested with undeads.
They hired many adventures but all of them died and their money slowly consumed leaving them with nothing.
"we are here" The Elder pointed at the abandoned mine entrance and said.
"I can only lead you up to here" The Elder said and Ash nodded and then entered the Mine.
[Skeleton Knight graveyard]
As Ash entered a notification flashed and Ash thought " hopefully there are 100 skeletons"
he need to hunt 100 of same monster to use Guardian spell.
As Ash was walking suddenly clanking sounds echoed as menacing eyes looked at him from darkness.
"Magic Missile" Ash used basic spell but it was more than enough to kill the skeleton soldiers.
[Skeleton Soldier killed]
[10,250 exp acquired]
[Skeleton Sword Acquired]
As Ash delved deeper into the abandoned mine, the air grew stale and musty, the darkness pressing in around him like a heavy cloak.
"if not for my resistance, I would have been in trouble" Ash mumbled as he received various status abnormalities which he easily resisted.
Soon killing various Skeleton soldiers he reached the Heart of Mine where a lone Dark Skeleton wearing a Heavy Armour is sitting quietly.
Ash sighed seeing this as he have only killed 59 Skeleton Soldiers, "I still need 41 to use Guardian Spell"
Clack, Clang
Suddenly the skeleton Knight moved, bone clicking and iron clanging sounds echoed in the empty chambers, he raised his head and looked at Ash and then two blue pale fires ignited in his hollow eyes.
Roarrr
He roared and then picked up the heavy sword near him and rushed to Ash, "Oh, a good swing"
Ash mumbled as he used Blink Dagger to parry.
[A Perfect parry]
[SkillFul Parry Skill Learned]
Deflect a attack by perfectly breaking it's momentum
Cost : 200 mana
Cooldown : 5 minute]
Ash looked at the notification and then changing the trajectory of the dagger he attacked the eye socket of the skeleton knight, and used Elemental blade and from his dagger shadows erupted and formed a coart around his dagger blade and Ash sliced the Skeleton head with it.
Elemental Slash was the skill he got after he reached level 50, as he reached level 50 he entered the second boundary of magic doors and acquired it along with Shadow Mage boots and Shadow Spike spell from Shadow Door.
[Critical!]
[You have dealt 250,501 damage to the target.]
[Target has lost his eye]
[Visibility is reduced by half]
Ash then quickly blinked as in rage skelton knight performed a wide swing with his great sword and Ash used Magic Missile on his second eye too.
[Target is in blind state for 10 seconds]
Ash then quickly used Demon King's tail fire , Shadow bolt and Magic missile in those 10 seconds.
[You have defeated a Skeleton Knight.]
[700 gold has been acquired]
[Rusted great sword has been acquired.]
[Rusted Knight Armour has been acquired.]
[266,000 experience has been acquired.]
[Your level has risen.]
Ash nodded and then putting the stat points in his INT, he looked at the other side of room.
"It was like he is protecting something" Ash mumbled and going towards the wall, he inspected it and then..
tring~~
[Hidden Dungeon Necromancer-Archillus Lab]
[First Discoverer, +15% increase in exp and item acquisition]
As Ash entered the room, his footsteps echoing off the walls, he was met with a chilling sight. Glass tubes lined the walls, each containing a preserved body—a macabre collection of humans and beasts, frozen in time. The dim light from the magic stones cast eerie shadows across the chamber, lending an otherworldly atmosphere to the scene.
Approaching one of the tubes, Ash peered inside, his curiosity piqued by the strange spectacle before him. The figure within was perfectly preserved, its features locked in a state of eternal slumber.
"It isn't damaged a bit" Ash mumbled seeing this.
he thought since it's Necromancer abode the bodies would be experimented upon but it seems all of them are perfectly preserved.
Ash then walked to next room where he found a dead body remains resting on the side of a wall, his hands also have a Diary,
Ash looked at the room and saw it is actually a bedroom with a body of beautiful lady preserved in a glass case.
Ash looked at the bottom of the glass case, it reads " Leah"
"leah?, probably her name" Ash muttered and then reached to skelton to take the diary but just as Ash reached him, the skeleton eye sockets lit up with Crimson Flames and a name tag appeared on his head " Skeleton Mage : Archillus"
"I guess it's boss battle now" Ash said as the Skeleton looked at him and then fired a fireball, Ash counters with his own magic missile, the magic missile destroying the Fireball attacked Archillus.
[you have dealt 16,007 damage ]
Archillus screamed and tapped the flor and a huge magic circle appeared from which Skeleton soldiers emerged.
"yes" Ash said and then swiftly killed the 20 skelton soldiers.
"Come on where is the next batch?"Ash said to Archillus who once again tapped and this time 20 skelton soldiers and a Skeleton knight appeared.
Ash laughed as he destroyed all the skeletons soldiers.
[Skeleton Soldier is now available for guardian Spell]
Ash laughed and then used Shadow spike to interrupt Archillus and then using Elemental Blade, Shadow bolt and magic missile in succession he killed Archillus.
[Skeleton Mage : Archillus slain]
[Archilus Diary has been Acquired]
[507,052 experience has been acquired.]
[Your level has risen.]
Ash then looked at the diary and sitting at the bed he started reading it.
Summer, Year 359 of the Empire.
I married Leah the most beautiful girl of our village.
Finally I married her, for her I worked hard and become a Mage.
"leah? So she was his wife" Ash mumbled and then continued reading the diary.
Winter, Year 359 of the Kingdom.
Leah is pregnant with our child soon we will be parents
Winter, Year 359 of the Kingdom.
One day wahile Leah was working in the field a Passing by Knight spotted her.
He tried to force himself on her, fortunately other villagers were present together we killed him and buried him in the mine.
Spring, Year 360 of the Kingdom.
It was devastating news, our child was born dead, it was due to injury she faced while that knight tried to force himself on her.
Spring, Year 360 of the Kingdom.
Leah face has no longer that smile she used to have.
I heard her crying in middle of the night.
I want to help her.
Autumn, Year 360 of the Kingdom.
Another news totally broke us, Leah can't get pregnant anymore.
She wasn't able to take this news and commited suicide
I lost her too
Autumn, Year 360 of the Kingdom.
It's been three days since Leah have died but I used Magic to preserve her body, I will bring her back even I have to sell my soul to devil
Winter, Year 360 of the Kingdom.
I started dwelling in Black Magic, and cursed the Knight's family who is responsible for my child and wife death.