chapter 35

"Old man, you know that I do not hate you right? Even if you are the general in charge of leading the invasion toward my homeland." Leonard stood before the old Necromancer.

"I have an offer for you…" Leonard asked the old man.

"What might it be?" the old man look curious at Leonard for a moment.

"Swear your allegiance to the Welser family-"

"I cannot accept that offer, while I am still alive, I must fulfill my duty to the Republic." Just before Leonard could finish his suggestion. The old Necromancer already had made his choice.

"I see...so that's the case, it shame me to do this, but you...have to die." Leonard face turn cold as he spoke the final sentence.

"That I am prepare." seeing the changes in Leonard, the old Necromancer readied his staff and the gem in the mouth of skull began to glow ominously.

"Thousand bone lances!" he yelled out the name of spell, and immediately a thousand of sharp bone shards poked out from the earth and launched toward Leonard at lightning speed.

Leonard reacted by first activating his power word: shield and try to soak in the attack of a thousand sharp bones fragment shooting at him with lightning speed.

To his surprise, the barrier conjured up by him were only able to mitigate some of the attack, but after a short while it was shredded under the barrage of bones shards like a hot knife cutting through butter, after the bone shards passed through his barrier it immediately made contact with his own armor- luckily for him, the armor manages to negate some force from the attack while knock him flying in the process.

"Argghh, what the hell! That's probably going to leave some marks." Leonard lamented.

It was then that he notice a group of spectral figures charges at him with their spectral weapons and shield, they are ghosts, probably called over by the old Necromancer to assist him.

"Ghosts? You're kidding me right?" he used his fist and punch through the body of an incoming spectral knight shield and destroying the undead creature.

"Weak! Have a taste of this! By the light- be purge!" he unleashed a radiance of light from his fist, the light itself shine like a miniature sun, the spectral knights began to scream in horror and burned to ash the moment the light touched them.

Seeing how proficient Leonard was in the art of light magic, it greatly surprised the old Necromancer as he thought it was impossible to use light attribute magic as from rumor and report, Leonard was too well attuned to the dark art.

"How is this possible?! You know light magic! And Necromancy?!"

"Just a few minor tricks, nothing too noteworthy." Leonard answered to the old Necromancer surprise and astonishment.

"Hohoho… look like my long life has been in vain…" he chuckled as he gazed upon Leonard shining figure which was enveloped by a holy aura after using his light magic spell.

"I have a feeling that you have been holding back against me, may I ask why?" the old man asked Leonard.

"Of course I won't go all out unless you too- going all out against me as well, I haven't seen what you can do yet, the only thing I see so far was you able to control ten thousand undead troops and somehow discover my presence from kilometers away when I spied on you a few days prior." he told the old man.

"So that was you? I apologize for that, I thought you were just an apprentice of Pater Tuus when I sense your presence using clairvoyance magic, it's nothing much." he replied while launching a black fireball straight for Leonard, who answered it back with a shadow lance of his own, the moment the two spell clashed, it caused a small explosion of negative energy.

"Is that so? Just clairvoyance magic? Nothing else?... I'm shocked...here I thought that I'm undetectable just because I'm watching your movements from kilometer away- eat this! SMITE" Leonard threw a radiant hammer made of light straight for the old man face.

*Bang! The just when the hammer was about to make contact with the old man body, a barrier appeared right before him and deflected the blow before it shattered.

"Not happening! Dark binding!" Leonard followed with another skill which summoned a mass of shadow tendrils beneath the old Necromancer and pulled on his arms, preventing him from using his staff and Leonard darting at him with a fist readied to pulverized his head.

The moment Leonard was near the old Necromancer, he could swear he saw a smirk on the old man face, mocking him for a moment.

"Explode!" the moment Leonard heard that word, he felt a powerful impact pushing him away from the old Necromancer, the force was powerful enough to shred the binding placed on him by Leonard a moment ago.

Leonard was knocked to the ground a good distant away from the old Necromancer.

"Damn, that was a good play you put up there, old man." Leonard pushed himself up and looked at the old Necromancer- now surrounded by a horde of summoned minions.

"And hey~ you brought in more friends, where did you hide them? I'm curious- I thought it's impossible to raise the undead without a corpse."

"They won't stay for long, I summoned them directly from the realm of the dead and supplied them with enough magic while they're in this realm, the realm of the living- it took me a bit of effort to attuned myself to the realm of the dead for it to happen...not many know of the tricks sadly." The old Necromancer told Leonard of his trick.

"Why don't you have a little bit of fun with them, I'm sure they can entertain you better, unlike the useless crap given to me by the Shadow Council." he waved his hand a bit and immediately set loose the small horde of strange zombie, skeleton and spectral figure.

They are swarming themselves for him, all he could describe for the scene right before his eyes.

Just when they were just a few meters away from Leonard, a large bulky figure dashed and stood between him and the swarm of undead.

"Roarrrrr!!!!!" the figure roared at the swarm of undead with it dried and rough voice.

Strangely, the roar from this figure manage to put a stop to the swarm of ravenous dead summoned from the depth of the realm of the dead.

"Huh?! Wait- I know you!" Leonard looked at the figure before his eyes with full of astonishment.

Uptil now, he had almost completely forgotten about this thing.

"Tyrant?! What the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be with Clementine?- wait if you're here...then does that mean Clem is also here as well?" he asked his minion, the hulk like corpse that was his forgotten servant.

"Me...here...help...master...requested!" Tyrant once again gave Leonard another great surprise, the thing actually talk, albeit the words might sound weird and somewhat broken, but it still words! Comprehensible language!

Leonard was not the only one who was surprised by the turn of event.

"T-t-that an intelligent zombie!" the old Necromancer body was shaken as he lay eyes on the body of Tyrant.