“Little bastard actually took part of my power, tch.” The dark copy clicks his tongue in annoyance as the surroundings suddenly twist before disappearing completely. He lies down on the ground as he closes his eyes while laughing suddenly.
“Hahahaha, I don’t even care anymore, this is just fun!” The hysterical laugh echoes through the nothingness as the dark Reign continues laughing louder.
Back in the hideout Reign was looking straight at Aethion as he examines his body. He could feel a strange type of mana inside of it shrouding his heart as it slowly tried to merge with it. Reign quickly uses his new power to completely destroy the mana.
“Kyaa!” Aethion suddenly goes down on his knees as he vomits out blood.
“Impossible, how could you possibly be able to destroy my hex?!” Aethion shouts with bloodshot eyes as he looks at Reign who simply stares at him blankly.
Suddenly Reign disappears from Aethions view before he felt a strong grip around his neck. Reign was standing beside him and was currently lifting him off the ground with one hand.
“Ba…sta..rd.” Aethion curses as another bone spear was suddenly created in his hand. He immediately stabs Reign’s throat with a crazed expression.
“Reign!” Shadow shouts out as he tries to run towards Reign and intercept the blow, there was however no need for that. Reign’s right wing suddenly moves with a blur as the bone spear gets cut into multiple pieces together with Aethion’s arm.
“That hex of yours, it was designed to slowly contaminate my soul as well wasn’t it?” Reign suddenly asks Aethion as the latter widens his eyes in shock.
“So I am correct, you wanted to slowly use that to take over my body, or make me a slave.” Reign shakes his head slightly as he looks at the now terrified Aethion.
“Since you’re a knowledgeable geezer I thought of maybe keeping you around, but there is no need to have such a snake with us.” Reign suddenly says as his grip tightens.
“Wait, I-” Before Aethion could finish his words he stopped as Reign’s eyes suddenly changed, a dark hue overtook them as his black mana started shinning slightly.
“Begone you pitiful worm.”
Aethion’s neck was snapped as his body lost all power and now hung motionlessly.
“Soul Devour, Analyze, Submit.” A dark voice could be heard coming from Reign as formless energy starts floating out of Aethion before being sucked in his body. Suddenly Reign’s eyes return to normal as he looks confusedly at Aethion’s dead body that was being held by the throat.
“What just happened?”
In the nothingness in Reign’s soul, the dark copy chuckled slightly as it looked at the soul of an old man in front of him. The soul had an expression of pure fear on its face as it looked at the copy.
“You, you are-” ．
“Enough, you will help him from today, but don’t even think about saying anything.” The copy gives a cold stare to the soul as the latter shudders in fear before slightly bowing.
“Go away now.” He waves his arm as the soul suddenly disappears from the space.
“You can thank me later for this, Reign.”
The mana wings suddenly start scattering away as Reign went back to normal, he swayed slightly as a strong feeling of weakness suddenly overcomes him. Before he could fall down on the ground Shadow appears in front of him and holds him up.
“Reign, are you alright?” He asks him with a worried voice.
“Yeah, just sleepy, talk later,” Reign mutters out the words before losing consciousness and collapsing in Shadow’s arms.
“Reign, hey Reign!” Shadow shakes Reign’s body a couple of times before Wolf stops him. He quickly puts his finger at Reign’s throat before smiling.
“Don’t worry, he just fell asleep, I guess doing all of that really tired him out.”
“Really, so he’s okay?” Shadow asks Wolf again as he holds his friend, after reassuring him multiple times he finally breathes out a sigh of relief before putting Reign on top of Fluffy.
[Battle has been concluded, distributing experience…]
– Lvl 30 Aethion killed, 200 000 exp points gained
– Rank A Dark Tome acquired
– Rank A Staff of the Necromancer acquired
– Rank B Resistance Ring acquired
– Rank B Fallen Tear acquired
[ Special quest has been completed, giving out the rewards. ]
– 20 000 exp points
– 2 500 S coins
– Diamond Chest
“Diamond Chest?” Shadow and the others look at the rewards as their eyes shine brightly. They were able to acquire some good items from the Gold Chests before, a diamond one was sure to have some Rank A items.
Shadow quickly scoops up the items that Aethion dropped before they slowly make their way towards the exit of the hideout. The ground was littered by the fallen undead as almost all of them perished after Aethion had died, the ones left were simply too weak to even pose the slightest threat towards the party.
“Why did we get so much exp from that guy, not to mention that we got no notification from killing the undead.” Beast suddenly asks as they walk, the others were also curious, it was the first time something like this has happened after all.
[ The necromancer was the one controlling all the undead if the players had simply killed the undead and left then they would get the corresponding exp points for them if the undead were revived then the players wouldn’t get any exp. ]
[ Since you have been successful in eliminating the necromancer then all the exp and items from the undead were given out by him. ]
“I see, wait, does that mean that if we retreated we would get nothing since he would revive all of his troops?”
[ Correct. ]
“Damn, necromancers are a bother to fight against huh?” Shadow says as he looks towards Reign, the only reason they were able to win the battle was that Reign had used the mysterious ability that gave him the power to kill the undead for real. Without him, they would either be stuck fighting against the elites until dying, or they would have tried to retreat, which would have been a bad decision since the elites and the mini-boss were faster than Tank, Laura and Wolf.
“Don’t worry about him, you know better than us how tough this bastard is.” Wolf suddenly grabs Shadow by the shoulder as he speaks. Shadow smiles lightly as he nods to Wolf before they continue walking to the exit.
As they finally arrived at the exit they could see over a thousand corpses littering the entrance, they all slowly stepped over them as they made their way up towards the surface.
Leaving the hideout they were finally able to see the night sky, the trees that slightly swayed left and right because of the wind, and the over 100 men strong crowd that was waiting for them while recuperating.
Many of them were wounded but, luckily it seems that nobody died during tonight’s battle.
“You’re out,” Cameron tells them as he comes closer, he suddenly stops as he sees Reign lying motionlessly on the bear.
“Reign?” Cameron speaks out with a shocked voice while the crowd gathers around them, they all had their faces full of disbelief as they looked at Reign lying atop the bear.
“Um, ahhhh.” Reign suddenly mumbles something as he turns around in his sleep, Tank grabs his shoulder and stops him from falling off the bear as the crowd simultaneously releases a sigh of relief.
“Oh thank god, for a second there I thought he was, well, you know.”
“Don’t worry, he just overexerted himself during the battle.” Shadow smiles towards the others as they all sit down on the ground. The battle with the necromancer was truly hard and made all of them fight with everything they had, they were all still wounded as Laura needed to recharge her mana in order to heal them up. Her life force reserves were also critically low so she won’t be able to use her healing at its strongest form before replenishing the lost life force.
“I didn’t think that even you guys would have a hard time down there, it seems that we would have only been a nuisance had we gone after you.” Neil smiles meekly as he looks at the party. He never thought that the strongest people from their territory would actually be so tired and wounded after a fight, all of them knew that even if they fought them together they would probably lose.
“The necromancer was tough, well he himself wasn’t, but his weird skills and those undead were really a fcking bother to fight against, luckily we had Reign and managed to win before any of us got seriously injured.” Tank says as he drinks some water.
“Well, I guess we should go back now, Reign needs to rest, we’ll wait for him to wake up before we check the items and the chests.” Shadow suddenly stands up as they all nod in agreement.