Souls...

The skeletons left John and Percy at the end of the trail and headed pack.

John and Percy got back into town easily, the guards just let them. "Hey you two! Great job earlier! hahaha. You got him good! A guard should never let his guard down. He didn't want to let you guys out because he was worried about you guys, put that in your mind next time though. He even told your parents... So good luck when you see them! and he let them go" One of the guard complemented Percy, the poor guard was made an example of what no to do.

We ran to the house and reached the ruined Stainton's household photo-finish, Mrs Stainton had just finished doing dinner. "Mooooom! I am here!" said Percy. "Percy get your ass over here!" said Percy's mom with angry voice. Percy walked to her mom. Percy's mom started smacking him and yelling "Do you think I am stupid! What the hell were you doing out in the woods! So you know what's going out, what if you died? You even brought John with you and put him at risk!" Percy's mom had finally calmed herself after smacking him a couple times.

John was sitting there playing his fork, while staring at Percy's red face the whole time, he looked like a bruised tomato and was holding his laughter the whole time. Percy looked at him with embarrassment and looked down into his plate. John looked down because he was holding his laughter so hard that anything could make burst out laughing. Percy's dad sat at the table "Percy what happened?" and started laughing. John joined in the laughter too.

The sun had fallen in the horizon and the darkness had long spread throughout the land.

Mr and Mrs Stainton went to bed and fell asleep. "Hey John... what do you think about me bringing my hunting bow next time?" said Percy. "Sure... why not?" John replied to Percy and continued reading his Tome. The more he read the Tome, the more abstract the few concepts became. For him every time he was reading the book it was like digging a hole, he either found something important or he doesn't find anything. Except every time he needs to dig deeper and deeper, in the end he was only scratching the surface. Right now he doesn't know how his progress is going, but he was stuck at the moment, he let his mind drift to see if he could fine any answers. The book fell out his hand and woke him up and when he looked at it it was upside down. He noticed that when the runes where upside down, he could also read it but the meaning changes complete What was surprising was that this time it was talking about souls.

Interface notification: "Your understanding of eldritch runes have increased by 2 stages"

Souls can live in the environment for long periods of time unaware they still exist, they either dissipate or move on, some might be able to absorb Ether and turn into Evil Ghosts or spirits and become aware, they sometimes make tricks on people and kill them. If you try to focus on your eyes with your soul pouring soul essence into your eyes, you should be able to see ghosts that are in your Rank level.

Souls can be absorbed for soul essence, soul essence is very different from ether since it can hold memories. Soul essence can grow and become stronger as the soul is intangled with ether, Soul essence can actually feed of Ether and grow stronger. The stronger your soul, the stronger and faster you can pull a soul out of a living body. If you focus your soul essence in one of your hands you should able to siphon souls that are in the environment or even souls inside a living body, siphoning a soul can be hard are it can kill the owner!

Many Necromancers have been able to survive for so long, for many reasons. They increase their survivability by doing tricks certain tricks, some of these tricks is to form a soul fragments and put it in an object and give it to one of his undead. The undead will guard the object and later become his master's container, sadly whenever this happen the necromancer turn into an undead and turning into lich. These soul fragments does not always mean a second life and are more commonly used to give information, because some information and experiences can be duplicated making these soul fragments. After making a soul fragment, the soul will become weaker because it lost part of the soul essence that composed it. Making whoever more susceptible to soul related attacks or even be controled!

'Some of these skills are dangerous, so long we are cautious enough I should be able to be fine' though John.

Interface Notification: "Four skills gained through practicing the actual

Soul vision: Able to see through the veil and see low rank spirits and ghosts.

Soul siphon: Able to forcefully pull and absorb a soul into a container or for yourself.

Create Lesser Soul Stone: A necromancer is able to burn a stone with his flame and turn into

Create soul fragments: Able to make soul fragments of your soul and souls that have been contained. Making a soul fragment will weaken your soul.

John was surprised to gain 4 skills at a time and opened his interface window:

Name: John Witherwood

Rank: Novice F

Vitality: Mediocre +

Stamina: Mediocre +

Dexterity: Mediocre +

Intellect: Mediocre ++

Strength: Mediocre -

Agility: Mediocre

Passive Skill:

1. Death Aura(Passive: Rankless): User has 1% chance to make someone die if he has a strong emotion towards it. The stronger the emotion the higher the probability for it to be trigger. The user can turn it on/off at will.

2. Soul vision (Passive: Rank [F])

Universal Skills:

The all-knowing identifying skill (Activation Skill)

Language skill gained:

1. Basic Eldritch Runes (Rank [F] - Stage 5/10)

2. Basic Eldritch Incantation (Rank [F] - Stage 3/10)

3. Soul Communication (Rankless)

Spells gained:

1. Summon Lesser Undead (Rank [F] - Stage 3/10) (Incantation Spell)

a. Mass summoning (Rank [F] - Stage 3/10)

2. Eldritch Flame (Rank F - Stage 1/10) (Control spell)

a. Flame Communing (Rankless - Stage 1)

3. Soul siphon (Rank F)

4. Create Lesser Soul Stone (Rank [F] - Stage 1/10)

5. Create soul fragments (Rank [F] - Stage 1/10)

CLOSE WINDOW NEXT WINDOW (Spatial Pouch)

When he activated his soul vision, he saw one person moving through the house, and went into Percy's room. He was attentively looking at Percy, the man was completely unaware that John could see him. The man was completely dark, but you could see his feature, this actually freaked John and he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

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Meanwhile at the skeleton camp,

"You and you, I want you guys to go scouting in the woods and on the outside circumference of it, whatever you do! Do not engage in combat with any enemies unless it's necessary. Do not let other people see you at all cost!" Ulna said while pointing at Femury and Fibula. Femury and Fibula suddenly vanished in the darkness of the night...

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Somewhere in town,

"Sir there is movement going on the West side of the town" said a hooded figure that appear behind a pompous fat looking man, he was wearing a suit that was currently shoving all kinds of food in his mouth without holding back. The fat looking man waved his hand, irritated by the brief interruption and the hooded man disappeared in the shadows.

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