763 Another Necromancer?
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“Come, the spirits of the dead! Come and fight them once more! Through the Divine Power of the Tower of Skadi, I call back the bound souls of the fallen! Frost Generals, your prey is once more within your grasp!” Laughed the Vampiress.
Her powers and the snow itself melded together. This snow… wasn’t just snow. Once it reacted with someone that possessed a certain control over the tower, it became a divine material, something to… create.
And through her Necromancy, which seemed different than mine, and combining it with the powers of the Frost Queen, the Vampiress summoned them all back, yet they were much different.
All the Frost Generals we killed except Claw!
Zero, the Witch of Eternal Winter. Frost, The Armored Ice General. Valkoinen, the Divine Frost Dragon of Blizzards. And lastly, Argus, the Ice Giant Hero.
However, aside from these four suddenly materializing out of her dark energies and the divine power of the tower, two other figures showed up, Julio the Hero of Darkness and Anastasia, the Blazing Sorceress!
But this shouldn’t even be possible, how come she can summon them back as Undead when I am fairly sure all of their souls died back then?
“Hahahaha! HAHAHAHA!” She laughed. “You’re probably wondering how this is even possible, right?! Well, there’s more than just one way to use Necromancy, Maria. You’re really naïve to think the most direct way, your way, is the only that exists. As long as you create a Contract that binds someone’s Soul and Origin to someone or somewhere, the Necromancer possess the authority of summoning them anywhere, and use them as materials to create something even better!”
“Origin?” I asked in surprise. “What… is that?”
“Heh, so foolish.” The Vampiress giggled. “With the Divine Powers granted by a True Evil God’s Fragment…” Her hand suddenly shapeshifted, showing black tentacles and red eyes. “And my own latent talents, I’ve been able to surpass the mere mortal’s realm, I can conjure Magic that can even manipulate concepts and the deepest parts of a Soul, the Origin. You’ve killed them, and even destroyed their souls, yes, but not their Origins, that’s not something mortals can destroy. I can manipulate such Origins… And, well, heheh, bring them back! Though, they don’t look the same, huh?”
Their bodies began to distort constantly and transform, they were all groaning like monstrous zombies, having lost their souls and bodies, it felt as if they were just the husks of themselves…
“G-GRAAAAGGH…! AAAAHHH…!” Zero groaned, her once beautiful body now having become a mass of twisted flesh and tentacles, only her face popping out of it as her hands moved around, a staff emanating Magic Power.
“OOOOOHHH…. R-REVENGE… KILL!” Frost groaned, his slime-like body merged with his armor and the body of Zero, both chimeric abominations becoming a single… thing.
“DRAGON… KILL THE DRAGON… THAT KILLED ME… GRAAAARRGGGHHHH!!!” Valkoinen roared, his gigantic dragon-like head popping out of the neck of Argus as both of their bodies melded atrociously. Half of the dragon’s head looked like it was melting, while Argus back was distorting, covered in multiple red eyes. His bulky arms merged with his the claws and scaled legs of the dragon.
“JO… NA… THANNN…! KILL…! KILL YOU! TRAITOR!” Julio and Anastasia groaned, both of their faces distorted into monstrously elongated jaws and eyes, spread across a mass of black tentacles and eyes, and both of their weapons stuck into their bodies, flowing with power.
“W-What have you done?!” Jonathan cried. “T-This isn’t at all like Maria’s noble Necromancy… You’ve turned them into abominations, they’re suffering! How could you do this to your allies?!”
“My allies?” Laughed the Vampire. “That doesn’t really matter, I couldn’t care less about how they feel~ As long as they’re useful, that’s all what truly matters, isn’t it? Fufu…”
“YOU BITCH!” Partner roared, flying towards her, and pointing her two spears against the Vampiress body. “DIE!”
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!
The Vampiress entire body was covered in countless slashing attacks… only for her sliced body to dissipate into mist and disappear.
“Fufufu~ Did you thought it would be so easy?! I won’t waste my time with trash like you! Now go on and fight these slaves first… I am sure you’ll enjoy it.” She laughed. “Please, make sure to die, okay~?”
FLAAASH!
And then, she fully dissipated into nothingness, like Mist itself. I had heard higher ranked Vampires had the power to become Mist, but this was insane… How could we even fight her if she just turns into mist all the time? Ah, well, that should be for later.
We have to take care of some old friends first…
“GRUAAAGGH!” The furious Zero roared, her staff, fused with her body and Frost, glowed brightly.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Dozens of enormous Magic Circles surged in the skies, summoning enormous Icicle Spears, which fell down like a deadly rain of giant needles.
“Careful!” Lucifer roared, rushing forward, and protecting us with his gigantic wings.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CRAAASH!
His swings were pierced several times, bleeding all over, and then beginning to freeze and gain cracks, wait, Zero’s magic wasn’t THIS strong before… Is this because she has been remade with Divine Materials all while being fused with Frost?
“Unnggh…! My wings…” Lucifer muttered. “Well, this is nothing anyways! ROOOAAAARRRR!!!”
Lucifer unleashed a ferocious roar, a powerful shockwave of Darkness and Death Energy surged, materializing into Abyssal Death Flames that spread around, generating a Domain!
FLUOOOOOSSSH!
D i n g!
[Lucifer has created the [Abyssal Death Flames Domain]!]
ραndαsΝοvεl ƈοm [All foes will take constant damage to their HP and MP, while allies compatible with these Flames elements will receive a +25% boost to All Stats and MP Regeneration Speed.]
“GRAAAARRGGHHH… IT BURNS…!” Groaned Frost, fused with Zero, their gigantic body, almost the same size as Lucifer’s body, stepped back in horror. “IT HURTSSSS…!”
“Alright! Well done!” I said with a smile. “Everyone! We’ve all grown much stronger now, don’t falter, and defeat them!”
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