My Necromancer Class: Part 11 - Birth of the Void by Aero Revian

Author:Aero Revian [Revian, Aero]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-23T00:00:00+00:00

Necrotic Circulation

Jay sat by the fire as he watched Dark dig out a few more sword molds under his supervision. Red glanced over every free moment, seeming discouraged at having to lend its new sword back for the molds, or so Jay guessed. But his guess was better than any as he had been gaining a sense of his skeletons’ attitudes over the last few weeks, if one was brazen enough to suggest such abominable creatures even had feelings.

Before Blue returned, Dark had finished three molds in total. With no other orders it joined the skeletons in slaying rat-moths, keeping them from bothering their supreme by the edge of the fire.

Jay admired how Dark preferred to stick to the edge of the light, wavering between the border of the shadows as it cut open its fluttering enemies. Its bones were stained a few shades darker from the corrupting swamp water, giving it extra stealth, but the necrotic mana that permeated through its body betrayed it.

Dark’s green beady eyes were like two glowing fire flies caught in a romantic dance as they darted about in the darkness. It could control them to shine less at the expense of some of its shade vision, but the biggest betrayal of its stealth was under the skeleton’s ribcage.

At the heart of all Jay’s larger skeletons was a binding pool of necrotic mana holding them together.

“Dark, come over here.” Jay said. The dagger-wielding skeleton appeared and Jay crouched down, looking under its ribs.

Like all the other level three skeletons, it had a small lobe of glowing necrotic mana in its chest, a heart that didn’t beat. Small tendrils branched out from it like a poisonous growth, going to the inside of the ribs, into the shoulder blades, and down the spine towards the legs, all of them entering the bones at various points and disappearing underneath, giving the creature its life.

A slightly thicker artery went up along the spine and into the skull, where there were the familiar glistening flickers of intelligence, a mesh of mingling stars of green lights, speeding back and forward like a nest of hungry ants.

Jay knew it was a necessity for his creations, keeping them held together, making the inanimate, lifeless bones into functioning parts of its own body. He guessed that the smaller skeletons must have needed less of these internal strings of life, and could mostly hide it within the bones themselves, which meant that larger skeletons would need larger mana circulation, becoming more apparent the larger they became.

“Red.” Jay said, pointing at his side. He dismissed Dark and the level five skeleton sprang over. He stashed its shining armor away and checked over its skeletal body.

“Thought so.” He murmured to himself, seeing a larger lobe of necrotic mana resting on the back of its spine.

The branching tendrils spreading from it were not only thicker, but more numerous. The only comparison Jay had were the endless trees he had marched underneath, all separating to smaller and smaller branches until spreading their leaves and vying for a sliver of light.

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