The Ruined Death Knight

Seeing me walking slowly at him, Serran pointed his finger directly at me.

"You! Where were you!"

"Hmm?" Tilting his head, he confused stared at the agitated Serran.

`Why is he yelling at me? Did he maybe realize that I stole that sword?´

"What do you mean?" Danzel asked with a cold voice.

Hearing that, veins appeared in Serran's forehead.

"I asked you where you have been the whole night!"

"Didn´t I already mention that I will go train yesterday night?" he replied, still confused about where his temper came from.

He clearly remembers telling him that he was going in the woods to train his mana.

If he already forgot then either this man was suffering from a short-term memory loss or was partly deaf.

Whichever it was, Danzel didn´t know.

Annoyed, he crossed his arms together and looked at Danzel with a frown on his face.

"You really aren´t telling me that you kept practicing the whole night long until early moring, right?" Serran scoffed.

"Didn´t I already answer that? I heard that old people become senile by age, but looking at you now you seem to prove me wrong..." Moving past Serran, he went and inspected the corpse of the Alpha on one of the carriages.

More veins started to appear as he was called senile like an old man.

If it weren´t for his rationality speaking up to him, he would already start casting his own spells on Danzel.

Knowing his place though, he guessed that the one that will get his a*s kicked would be him if he were to do that...

It wasn´t that Serran forgot what Danzel said to him yesterday night that lead him to question him. It was rather his own misunderstanding.

Since Danzel suddenly cut their conversation short and left the party, he thought that maybe it might be too uncomfortable for him to be together with stranger´s

Which lead him make the excuse of going in the forest to train.

Serran could understand if this were Danzel mindset.

After all, he thought the same way.

Although he thought that his story to be true.

In the end, Danzel was still a stranger who by chance found them smuggling weapons from Bernes.

With the risk followed by smuggling weapons out of kingdom to another while they were in a state of war binded together with the mission reward in the end.

He couldn't help but be carefull enough and suspect Danzel being a spy of some sort.

I mean... Who would call himself a mercenary if they had no clue about that association to begin with?

Having that mindset, he stayed all night long just to make sure that he doesn´t do anything suspicious.

What happend though was him not appearing in the camp at all.

Which brought forth another possible situation in Serran's mind...

What if he already run away?

Since he probably knew what we were smuggling outside the kingdom, he could decide to just snitch them out and benefit from it.

Such thoughts were plaguing his mind all night long.

The only reason why he didn´t mention all those things to his comrades was just for the sake of the benefit of doubt.

What if he was wrong?

He doubted Danzel to have a communication device since how expensive they were sold in the market. So even if he decided to run to Bernes and report that, they would have the time to escape, even if it were to get quite to a close call.

The second reason was because he left that huge wolf behind and mentioned his destination be Nercana.

Which was one of the main branches of the association.

From the equipment that he had alone, this best guess was that he was a knight that has fallen from grace until recently and decided to become a mercenary without knowing anything...

Giving the benefit of the doubt, he decided to wait till morning and if he weren´t to show up, he and his group will have to make haste on their journey.

This resulted in him going sleepless though the whole night.

Walking like a zombie, he grumbled to himself before preparing his own things like everyone was doing.

Watching everyone else preparing their own staff, Danzel stared at them with boredom.

Since he couldn´t train or read since that would expose his [Ring of Spatial Storage] he couldn´t do much other that watch the mercanaries prepare.

After removing the traces of being here, everyone continues their journey at Nercana.

While some were sitting on the carriages, some others walked beside the carriage serving as guards.

Und as a tireless undead that Danzel was.

He was one of the former ones.

It wasn´t like he especially went out to say that he wanted to sit on the carriage or anything, but rather them wanting him to sit...

Though he didn´t know the reason why they let some outsiders have an easy time, he didn´t reject them.

I mean, why should he?

If those guys wanted to walk so much, why should he stop them?

But now that he was sitting in the carriage he had nothing else to do other than stare aimlessly around..

Deciding to pass some time, he stared at his gauntlets with the help of [Rune Vision].

With the help of [Rune Vision], he was able to see through the gauntlets and observe the rune clearly without having to remove the gauntlet.

`I will have to get better at learning the [Rune of Eniv] as the current quality is quite bad, literly...´ Staring at the quality of the rune being [Bad], he couldn't help but grumble internally.

Since he had to draw the rune in the inside of the rune to avoid exposer, he didn´t have much room to move his finger to carve the rune itself.

Heck, if it weren´t for his talent [Rune Vision] he wouldn´t be able to see a thing while carving.

What made him feel worse was that the effect on the rune, although the quality was bad, the effect was already good enough to be of use.

He didn´t know how much the talent [Undead Carver] affected the skill, but the fact was, the power difference compare to common and uncommon runes was a league of his own.

And that was me comparing them with when the uncommon one was at the [Bad] quality.

Just imaging the effect with the same runeat the [Perfect] if not [Beyond Perfection] quality made him quite excited.

Alas, currently the best he could do was runes of the [Good] quality...

Since he was lacking stuff to practice and was where people could see him, he could only stare at the rune and try to figure out how to make it better.

At least that was the plan...

"Hey, Danzel! What are you looking at?" Hannes walked in together with a tired Serran.

Seeing the two coming inside, he de-activated the [Rune Vision].

"Sorry, did you say something?" He asked, since [Rune Vision] removes all sense of noise and makes him colorblind to some extent.

Though Serran frowned, Hannes didn´t mind much.

Sitting opposite to him, he asked again while pointing at the gauntlets.

"What were you look at was my question."

"...I was just thinking of how I should repair the damage that the wolf cause on my armor. Nothing more." He raised his arms, showing the holes that were made from Alpha´s bite.

Since the metal went innards, they couldn´t see my skeletor arm.

"Uwagh, that seems nasty. Are you sure that you are ok?" Hannes said as he stared at the bite mark with interest.

"Yeah...wasn´t anything serious except my armor getting damaged." He said while looking at Hannes directly to his eyes.

`He does look like a human, but why can´t I feel the same feeling of disgust from him`

The man in front of him although looked a bit bigger with a more buffed body than others, couldn´t find anything else that would say he wasn´t a human.

"Hey, can I ask you two a question?"

Without being able to solve what does two were, he decided to simply ask.

Even if they refused or lied about what they were, he could simply scratch them or something to be able to see their status.

Before Hannes could open his mouth, Serran has already replied.

"What is it? Serran said with a frown on his face.

"Is just out of my own curiosity, but what are you guys? You aren´t human right?"

Looking at each other, Serran and Hannes turned to Danzel slightly stunned as if they didn´t expect that question.

"Well..." Pointing to himself Serran said as he move his hair back for his ears to be seen.

"As you can see I am a half-breed. My mother was an elve while my father was a human. Making me a half-elve."

"Although he doesn´t look the part of it, Hannes is half-orc, half-human. Making him stronger than you usual guy."

"Hmm..."

`Although the guy's pointy ears aren´t like the dark elves that I had met, they are somewhat similar. As for this guy...´

Though he didn´t know what an orc was, he wasn´t that much interested to ask.

Losing all his remaining interest, he moved his gaze outside.

"Anyway, how long will it take us to reach Nercana?"

Putting his hand on the chin, Serran replied.

"If everything goes well with no setbacks, then it should be around two weeks before we reach Nercana."

"Huh?" Hearing that Danzel turned around in surprise.

Seeing Serran´s serious face, Danzel knew he wasn´t joking.

`Two weeks, huh....´ Knowing that this boredom will continue for another two whole weeks, he faced the outside looking aimlessly around.