The Ruined Death Knight-Chapter 24: End Of Exploration And The Call

In the Shamans cave.

In the current cave that I was in.

Low echoes of ringing noises were coming out of the cave. The sounds were similar to when some wind was getting cut.

But more loudly.

"..."

I focused upon the mana inside my body and slowly guided it towards my sword.

And the next moment the mana in my sword spiked!

I raised my hand and slashed towards to opposite wall.

"Wind Blade!"

*Fsheeen!

And what appeared was almost a projectile made out of mana and wind. As the projectile met with the wall it raised the remaining dust all over the place.

After the dust dispersed, there was a clean-cut to be seen in the wall.

Although it was quite a small cut, it didn´t matter.

What matter was that I finally hit the target.

"Finally I somehow familiarize myself with this think..."

I had to say that using the [Wind Blade] skill wasn´t that easy. Controlling the right amount of mana needed for and using effectively was quite the hard job to do.

If I provided too little mana the blade would either too weak to actually matter in a fight or right off not activate, thus wasting a limited amount of mana. But at least it would be easier to focus to actually manage to shoot out the wind blade.

Too much and there would be too hard to control, making it a game of luck to where this thing would go.

Even though having all those difficulties I actually managed to shoot a wind blade at full power!

Well, that was while I was standing still and burning my head from the amount of focus that is needed of course...

"Maybe it should be around time to increase the levels of my skills..."

Maybe that´s the limit of level 1 skills. I can´t see how I should be able to shoot a fully powered wind blade while I am in a fight.

Although practicing wind blade was somehow hard.

In the end, all the hard work that you have done will be paid back!

[You received 500 Experience Points through training]

"..."

Ehem...was burning my no existent brain cells worth only 200 XP more than the regular training?

It´s not like I would complain or something but...

Aren´t you too cheap!?

Was my whole mental pain worth a little more than a level one goblin!?

I even spent all my mana!

"Sigh...forget it, at least now I have enough to learn this magic scroll."

Giving a mental command, the storage interface came to my sight.

[XP: 1100]

"Good enough..." I walked towards the table and put the sword to the table while gripping the magic scroll with my other hand.

And without further ado, I pressed towards the confirmation button and prepared myself for the sudden information to come.

[You learned the Spell: Curse of Vigor]

But the only thing that came was just the notification and nothing else.

"Where is the information...?"

Even after waiting for a while, nothing came.

Seeing that nothing was coming I slightly panicked.

Did I just got scammed?

Weren´t I suppose to finally wield some magic!?

What the hell did you do with the 1000 XP just now!?

Sorry for calling you cheap!

Please refund!

...

Pretty please?

And as I waited...

Nothing came.

"Wait a moment... what did the notification say again?"

[You learned the Spell: Curse of Vigor]

...

"Why does it say "learned" and not acquired?" And as I say that a sudden thought came to my mind. I hastily opened my status window and pressed towards the skill option.

And there I found it!

[Curse of Vigor]: 2375 XP required.

"So it´s like that huh..."

It seems like the 1000 XP were there to make the spell available for me to acquire.

Tch, it´s like paying to just get a glimpse at the product in the end...

Truly cheap!

"Well, it seems like I should get going and find some other goblins to kill."

I picked up my luggage and went out of the gave to explore the remaining paths. I am saying luggage but I only held my shield with the helmet goblins spear on my left arm while having the staff in my right arm.

Counting the sword that I had in my vast thanks to some cloth holding it that would mostly be it.

I could replace the staff with another spear but I finally decided not to.

Since I was about the learn some magic I thought it would be more useful than carrying a spear weapon when I already have two on me.

With such thoughts in my mind, I headed outside the cave and made my way towards the lake.

After some few hours, I finally reached where everything has begun.

"Sigh...You really can´t get a tired look at this sight." Seeing the similar sight that I have first seen a little more than 6 days ago really bought nostalgia.

"No, I shouldn´t get distracted by that. I already seen it yesterday anyways" Turning my head to the side I saw the path that was near where I came from.

"I guess I should start with this one since it´s closer by." Saying that I headed towards the second path.

Unfortunately this path a lot more complicated than the one I was before. This one had many twists and turns which made it exploring it quite annoying. The only things that I was capable to see are some dried-up blood to the ground and nothing more.

At first, I tried to follow the blood leads in hopes to find some juice XP waiting for me, but that quickly backfired...

The leads ended up leading into just some mere walls with no goblins to see. I continued to follow the blood leads of the other turns but they end up the same, which made me quite annoyed.

"From where did all that blood come from? Did a goblin run around while being wounded and naked?" After imaging this sight I quickly regretted even saying that.

And like this, I spend about 5 hours walking around all the different paths until I managed to reduce the number of paths to one.

"This one, in particular, has a lot of more dried-up blood than the others..."

Seeing that I hasten my speed towards the path.

And what I found shocked me.

"What the hell happened here?"

The path that I grossed upon had a pile of goblin corpses stacked up to each other in the middle of the room. And they weren´t in a good shape either.

Some corpses have already mummified and become almost only bones, while other goblins had large wounds in their already cold bodies.

"Who was able to do such a thing?" By the look of the different body states of the goblin corpse, they didn´t all die at the same time. The one that probably done this was just collecting the corpses and piling them up in this place.

But the question is why though?

For what reason?

"Still...to be able to kill so many goblins it means that the one that had done this is probably strong." After being stunned for a moment I turned back and headed back to the lake.

"Since the goblins are already dead there isn´t much to do here. Tch, all the juice XP has already been taken..." After sighing internally I headed back to the lake and prepare myself to head to the last path.

"Well, that was quite pointless if I have to say. At least there is only one more path left to explore."

After observing the lake for a little while I headed towards the third and last path.

"Hmm? This actually goes up?" The way the path was made was similar to some roughly shaped stairs which made me realize where this path goes.

"Does this actually leads to the top of the lake?" Even though I expected it a little bit, I was still honestly surprised and excited to go up above.

After a short while, I finally reached the top of the stairs.

But what I saw made me freeze suddenly.

"Why is a group of skeletons here?"

Seeing the group of 6 skeletons I was honestly surprised. Since other than the Fellow, I haven´t seen any other skeleton yet!

Are we like some rare undead species or what?

But as I was thinking of stupid stuff in my head I noticed a skeleton which had a nice looking sword and dark blue glowing eyes. Which was looking towards me!

"Why is he looking at m-" Before I could even finish my sentence a cold voice came out of the blue-eyed skeleton.

"Obey the Call....." The cold voiced said