BXBX NOVEL Chapter 63: Double
Until words spoken in an unknown language rippled over them, Faraday was pleased with the results, Loimos had learnt the death tongue already, which was more than enough to properly communicate.
What took him aback however, was his voice, it was only natural for an undead to carry no tone or emotions in their voices, but never had he expected himself to be dumbfounded by such an utter lack of everything. Find more adventures on mvl
’That even got me to pause for a moment, this will get the living thinking back on the choices that led them to this’ in any case, it was now time to get down to business.
"The pale tongue was unlocked too" in the same truly dead tone, Loimos informed Faraday that they were doubly successful.
After settling down, Faraday truly began explaining things, though knowing that Loimos could speak, but didn’t was even more off putting than simply having him be mute, he ignored this as he quickly explained a few basic things, Faraday and the living seemed to share the same ideas of what the categories to classify energy talent were.
"Do not bother with those however, death force manipulation will become as natural as killing to you, that is for certain" Faraday instead began explaining about other stuff in quick succession, teaching from undead to undead was rather simpler than living teaching to living.
Undeads couldn’t really forget things, Loimos being pretty much the ideal version of one meant that Faraday could just ramble on without stopping and without caring, Loimos would just remember everything as clearly forever.
"There are sixteen stats that I know of, however, we undeads only have fourteen, vitality and endurance have no meaning to us, endurance is literally meaningless in its effect, as for the effects of vitality, which is to increase HP and HP regeneration, as well as regular health, well, for us it is added to the effect of constitution, that’s another advantage we have"
"Let’s talk about HP while we’re at it, that is pretty much the most meaningless thing, no matter how much they have, if you stab a living them in the head, they die, some of us undeads can also be instantly defeated by having our head crushed, though, not necessarily, some of us need to be brought to zero HP to be defeated but that is unusual, generally, we can get to zero without any problem and still operate the same, we have to be destroyed entirely and have our death force eradicated to be dealt with" Faraday went on and on about how HP was a useless value.
He kept at it for an indeterminate amount of time, all the while with Loimos not saying a word.
"Now, for the more important stuff, I am a mage, my element is this chromatic metal, it looks shiny, but is also an excellent conductor, lightning and electric mages stand no chance against me, I am not kidding in the least, I have told that I was a god slayer, yes?"
"Well, back when our glorious king and the lords were all active, we naturally waged war on all that lived, I don’t really know how but some priests or clerics or whatever really didn’t want to die, they must have been praying very diligently because their god came down in person" he waved his arms around as he recounted the tale.
"Normally, I should have been vaporised, but I wasn’t a fool, I had been solely targeting the lightning affiliated groups for efficiency, so it was a lightning god that came down, he probably could have still bludgeoned be to paste with his fists but he took too long just standing there majestically, so I casted a spell, my cage, my Faraday cage if you will"
"Which drained him of all his lightning, which being associated with his divinity, drained it as well, he turned into dry piece of whatever and died, let me tell you, everyone was freaking out, I was hit with a tidal wave of XP and the system started speaking to me and all, you slayed this, you earned that title, blablabla…" he clapped his hands.
"So anyways, for this affront, the other gods locked me into a seal and put me there, it got quite a fair bit weaker since then, allowing him to turn the seal into a dungeon"
He stopped as if to gather his thoughts.
"Ah yes, what I meant to say is that elemental interaction is very important, for you, you mostly only have to worry for life users, be it the life element or life force, it really is the only element that can rival you without necessitating an overwhelming amount of extra firepower, not that you can just block everything thrown your way anyways" he pointed in the distance.
A pillar of metal rose from the ground, standing about twenty meters away from the both of them.
Faraday could tell that Loimos could already feel his death force clearly, so he skipped the first part and asked him to shoot something straight away, the metal mage took a few steps back just in case.
Loimos had heard him say a lot of things, he had already explained what was necessary to use any sort of energy, feel it inside of oneself, make it move a bit and then visualise the desired effect.
Loimos only aimed to fire pure death force, without shaping or transmuting it into anything else, he raised one arm and pointed his index finger at the pillar.
Nothing happened for the next few minutes.
The death force was circulating around quite well, without any hindrance and was going where Loimos wanted it to, but shooting it out of his body wasn’t as simple as willing it, one needed to try for quite a while to accomplish it.
Thankfully, he could try indefinitely, without suffering from any sort of exhaustion.
Faraday stared up, focused on something only he could see, he had noticed strange activities up in the dungeon for a little while now, a certain group of young livings coming in and out.
He brought his attention back to Loimos as death force exited from his finger, only to dissipate chaotically in the air.
"Seems like your death force is too good, it is trying to go ahead and reach for something alive rather than be shot in a straight line" that wasn’t too unusual.
"Let us see for body reinforcement and conversion next"