The Ruined Death Knight
The Ruined Death Knight - Chapter 3: Rewards

"If I run away now I will probably getaway, but..."

Looking in front of me there is the one with the club and the one with the dagger. Both were injured so if I run away they will either get tired of chasing me or ignore me.

By one look you could clearly see that both of them were breathing heavily and sweating. It was the perfect opportunity to either run or finish them off. If there wasn`t this hot feeling I might have chosen the former but...

"This will be for Fellow!" I didn`t wait for them to recover and I struck while the iron was hot.

"You with the sword will be the first one!"

I tried to do the same thing but this time aiming this neck similar to how Fellow had done it, but to my surprise, it was able to block my swing. Although it did block the first strike...it let itself an opening for my next following strike. The strength differences between us were simply too much.

Even the rusted sword was able to cut through the soft flesh of this neck.

"Kgh!...ahhh!" Seeing the creature grabbing this neck in desperation to save itself from this demise. The feeling of my body burning came back stronger but it quickly disappeared upon seeing the one with the club sneaking behind me.

As if I fall for that!

I turned around swinging my rusted sword to hit the one with the club. But the only thing that I achieved by this was hitting the empty air...

The one with the club stared at me and I stared back with a dump face. Not like I got a face...

"..."

"..."

After like 3 seconds we both realize that we were still in a fight of life and...death? Wait, aren`t I suppose an undead that lives after dying? So this fight would be for life and undeath?

Sadly the one with the club interrupted my nonsense by striking back at me. Which was blocked by me.

After a few exchanges, I realized that it`s getting the weaker cause of Fellows previews wound.

But that quickly changed...

"Kual keah!" a faint green light came out of these legs, after the faint green light ended the thing that I next saw shocked me.

The one with the club jumped at me with incredible speed with the intent of smashing my head!

I raised my rusted sword in a panic to block the club from hitting my head. The rusted sword wasn`t able to handle the strength from the club and got destroyed into pieces!

Although I blocked the attack from hitting my face it allowed the club to hit my chest bones!

"Dammit! You useless piece of junk!" What the hell was that!? The strength and the speed are totally different from before! Was it because of the ligh-"

[Status]

Name: ----

Race: Goblin

Level: 3

Class: Warrior Lv. 1

Sub-Class: ----

Health: 78/400

Mana: 8/30

Attributes: Strength: 4 Agility: 1 Intelligence: 3 Endurance: 7 Stamina: 12

[Talents] ---

[Skills] [Sprint Lv.1] [Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1]

Status!? But I didn`t think of it. Wait, that status isn`t from me but the one with the club! That dammed thing is called goblin!

"Hm... the Attributes are lower than mine except for Endurance and it also got stamina which I don't, is it because I am an undead?" If the sudden strength didn`t come from the attributes then it can only be from these skills.

[Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1]: You learned what purpose weapons of any kind should be used and how to handle them.

[Sprint Lv.1]: By Forcing mana into your leg you are able to surpass your limits thus being able to move at extreme speed for a limited amount of time. Though this method brings a heavy burden to your body.

"So that was it...although it seems dangerous if it uses it again, but...."

Seeing the Goblin falling with this shaking knees with a pale expression place on this face It probably can`t move right now.

"So that was a last-ditch effort? You probably didn`t think that I will be able to block it right? how..." I walked towards Fellows "corpses" and pick up this sword and slowly approached the goblin which had a despaired expression on this face.

"Foolish"

*thud

Seeing now the headless goblin falling down like a puppet whose strings had been cut, a feeling of satisfaction came towards me. As if a great burden has been lifted off my body.

[You received 300 Experience points]

"Huh?"

Experience points? what are those?

[Experience points] By using experience points you can Increase your current Level, Skills and possibly being able to gain new Talents.

Experience points can be gain through doing specific actions.

So that is how I can increase my status? Sounds rather simple, right now I have 400 experien- ah let's call it XP for convenience sake. Right now I gained 400 XP from the goblin with the club and...

"Wait a moment...!" I turned swiftly checking my surroundings only to see the goblin that I cut barely breathing.

"It`s still alive huh... let's check this status"

[Status]

Name: ----

Race: Goblin

Level: 1

Class: ---

Sub-Class: ----

Health: 5/300

Mana: 0/10

Attributes: Strength: 3 Agility: 1 Intelligence: 1 Endurance: 5 Stamina: 7

[Talents] ---

[Skills] ---

"To believe its still alive..."

I walked towards it and pierced this heart.

[You received 150 Experience points]

"Weird, I was able to pierce this skin easier than before with Fellows sword" At first glance of my current owned sword it seems like the trash of a rusted sword that I had but at a closer look this edge is still there except for some small pieces.

[Iron Sword (In the state of decay)]: A sword forged from iron. Although the material is of the lowest quality, the craftsmanship to great this blade is of the highest class. Currently, the blade has already decayed and lost most of this quality. A truly sad fate for any sword.

"No wonder that Fellow was able to damage them more...with such a treasure in this hand everything is possible!"

Now that I got myself a new sword I should see what all this crap with the XP is all about. As long as I understood it correctly I can use those to somehow reinforce myself...Let us see if there is something that I can use that 450 XP for.

"Status"

[Status]

Name: ----

Race: Skeleton (Undead)

Level: 1

Class: -----

Sub-Class: ----

Health: 200

Mana: 10

Attribute Points: 0

Attributes: Strength: 5 Agility: 2 Intelligence: 1 Endurance: 3

[Talents] [Undead] [Sin of Wrath]

[Skills] --

[Remark: Weakest Undead that there is...Although there are spooky and scary their Strength is at rock bottom!]

Nothing changed...ah If I think of how much XP I currently it shows up similar to the status window. Well at least I can check how much XP I have, otherwise, it would have been quite awkward keeping count of it...

Let's see what I can get with 450 XP, first of all, let us see what the skills have to offer!

[Skills]

[Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1]: 1000 XP required

[Miasma Corruption Lv.1] 5000 XP required

"Oh! oh...." Seeing that I can actually get something out of the XP and I can get similar powers to that goblin sudden strength boost excited me for a moment, but only after seeing that I cant buy them do I feel cheated... That's too cruel!

"Well, If I can get enough XP I would be able to get [Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1] pretty soon, but what is that Miasma skill? Let's see.

[Miasma Corruption Lv.1]: A rare trait is seen upon the undead, to the lowest ranking undead at least. When an undead with a considerable amount of time existed, they begin to release dead mana to their surroundings which slowly destroys the environment around them. Undead in such an environment experience a small amount of improvement over time.

Increase of all attributes by 5

Lowerst the cost towards Dark, Curse, and Death based Skills by 5%.

Every 10 years, 1 attribute point is being granted.

"Increase of all stats by 5 sounds so good...but expensive as heck! of course, the discount sounds good if I get any of the affected skills.

This income of attribute per year should be the small amount of improvement over time that was mentioned before...It is alright since as I undead I am an immortal being but...isn`t that too pathetic? Seriously! In order to gain the same amount of stats that I have right now I would have to wait for what? 110 years!?"

After complaining for a while, I sigh heavily and dropping to the ground while holding my head.

"Sigh, I can't get anything from only 450 XP. I would have to somehow get more to get these two skills. let's see what there is on the talents to buy..."

[Talents]

"...Seriously?" Nothing? Like...at all?"

"No talents and no skills, what's left are the levels, please be cheap enough for me to effort" With trembling hands, I reached out and pressed on the level screen. And seeing what came out made me jump from my butt instantly.

[Level]: 400 XP required

"Ohhh!"

I instantly pressed on the window without any second thoughts.

[Level has increased from Lv.1 to Lv.2]

[Strength increased by 1, Agility increased by 1 and Endurance increased by 1]