The Ruined Death Knight

Deciding to end the awkward silence in the room, Edward coughed a few times to clear his throat.

"Could you move those...corpses away?" Edward said, his eyes glued on the two corpses.

Although he didn't have the cleanest

work out there with many kill counts under his belt.

Seeing two slightly dried corpses with blood leaking out of their head and widen eyes of the rage of members of his race.

Him showing no reaction would have been all the weirder.

But Danzel who was pissed of at him entering like that had nothing of that.

"No"

"Huh"

Both stared at each other eyes in silence, for Edwar only to slowly be scrapped out of his hollow gaze.

"Hey, if you got something to tell me, then split it out or get out of here already..."

Cursing at Danzels's rude behavior, Edward started explaining with a frown on his face.

"I have gotten new orders from master Hanson...that I got to install a magic item inside your room. I am here to do exactly that."

Edward said as he pulled a small box from the bag he was holding.

"This is the magic item?" Danzel asked curiosity.

"Yes...now where would you like me to install it in?"

"Hmm...what does it even do? I would like to take a first look at this before I answer that question." Walking towards Edward with his ethereal eyes locked on the box, Edward flinched for a sec.

"S-Sir Danzel, this item is..."

As Edward openness the small chest, Danzel saw a few blue crystals in there.

'It will be faster this way...'

Without letting Edward explain, Danzel yanked one of the crystals and read this description with a sole expression.

[Fragment Crystal]: A part of a much larger crystal, some of these parts are so enchanted that once the enchant is complete, complete communication is viable.

'So that's what it was.'

"Hey! Be gentle with it! If you were to break the enchant I will be beaten to death!

"... "

"..."

Silence fell in the room.

...

"You damn..." Edward cursed under his breath.

'That guy, or damned undead, probably doesn't even care if I drop dead or not.'

And to his credit, he was right.

"Is it big? Can you place it somewhere around my workstation?" Danzel pointed at his back.

Hearing that, Edward looked to the side where he pointed and nodded with a sole expression.

"Yes...it should be possible..." Nodding in confirmation, Edward stared wrongly at Danzel before he went ahead and started to use the magic tool upon the curious gaze of the undead behind him.

After a few minutes, Edward was done.

"I have finished..." Closing the empty box, he hastens towards the door.

Before he could celebrate leaving, he was stopped by Danzel.

"Hey, where are you going? You didn't even explain to me how to use this thing."

Trying his best to hide his displeasure, he turned around with a stiff smile.

"There isn't a need to do anything...it has been enchanted in advantage so that it can only receive a signal of master Hanson magic tool. When you see the middle top shard light up, then it will activate on its own..."

"I see...that's no fun," Danzel said as he stared at the magic tool.

"...Now if you don't have any question left, could I be allowed my leave?" Edward pleaded nicely when it actually was cursing internally.

"Mhmm, go ahead if you are done."

Seeing Edward closing the door, Danzel went closer to the magic tool in front of him.

The magic tool in question didn't seem like a tool, it was of 6 shard crystals making up marquise shape more of anything, which by a first look could be mistaken as a nice decoration on the wall.

It didn't really scream as a magic tool.

One could only recognize it as such if they notice the glow on the crystal together with the headed enchanted trapped inside.

Which the latter could practically do the mages or those with rich magical knowledge.

And Danzel who was starting at the shards was none of those above mentioned.

"Hmm...I can't see them. If I remember the description right, then enchantment is an internal thing compared to runes who were external. Since they sounded so similar I thought it would be easier to see them. but I can't I was wrong..."

Shaking his head, he summoned his status and started browsing to pass some time.

Until moments later the shard light grew stronger, making Danzel take notice.

"Is it activating?"

The blue mana trapped in the shard crystal was released into a thin layer.

The next moment, the layer started to change colors and create a barely noticeable figure of a person who Danzel knew well.

"It seems the installment has been don- what are you doing?" Hanson who appeared in the layer similar to a screen frown his eyes browns when he saw Danzel's behavior.

Putting his finger in and out of the layer, Danzel ignored Hanson as he continued doing other tests like guiding his mana in his hand or other mana crystal in between.

"Are you done..." Hanson asked in a cold voice.

"Mhmm, I was simply curious of it."

Removing his hand from the image, Danzel seated to his seat and looked at Hanson.

"Now, why did you tell this guy... How was he called again? Edman? Enward? Or was it E-"

"It's Edward..."

"Right, right, that was his name. So why did you tell me to bring me this thing here? It's not like I can use it or anything." Danzel said.

"Sigh...the tool is more for me to use, to communicate with you. It's not like I have the time to go and look for you when need to."

Looking at Danzel with a serious expression, Hanson continued.

"At least that's part of the reason. The truth is more to protect. The client who I sell you runed items is extremely satisfied with the new runes you provided. He and others like him trying to find you is nothing surprising."

'Damn I am popular.' Danzel thought bitterly.

"I see your point. But is that really why you contact me? If not go ahead and close that thing. I was in the middle of something if I may inform you"

'In the middle of doing nothing that is...'

"Is that so? Then I will be quick. I need more of those runed armors that can establish a shield. And as quick as possible at that."

Starting at the image of Hanson with his ethereal eyes. He shook his head with hands crossed.

"Impossible"

"May I ask the reason why that:s the case?" Hanson asked, unwilling to give up.

'Although undead can't tire, that shouldn't mean that we can put into working 24/7!' Danzel though.

The real reason as to why he refused though was because those particular runes were just too inefficient in XP gain.

Since [Rune of Force] practically took 2 times the time that required for him to carve an uncommon rune. Drawing them would make him now feel like wasting time.

Since the novelty of a new ranked rune has now fully gone, it would be much better to get better on other runes.

But as he couldn't explain those reasons to Hanson, Danzel was forced to come up with something on the spot.

'What should I tell him...'

Thinking of Hanson as him being his sponsor, Danzel thought of an excuse.

"Since I worked and finished the rune under two weeks. I would like to try other ideas of runes that I have...If I were to continue making them it will stall my...research by a big amount." Danzel told his nonsense.

He knew that if he stayed and did nothing, Hanson would force him or go right off to kill him. But if he were to sell him the idea of `a new product' that could be as good as the preview's big hit, that would be another story.

And as Danzel predicted, Hanson swallowed the bait like a big fish.

"A new rune you say...Alright, you can do that. But after you make another patch of those chest plates for another two weeks. I already told the client to deliver another patch in two weeks, so canceling that order will put me in a difficult position. Once the two weeks had passed, you could go on your research..."

`Dammit!`

"Are you really telling me to continue doing the same thing for another two weeks when I could be making better runes? At least give me something to motivate those bone hands of my."

As Danzel realized that he could not avoid his fate anymore, he turned into looking for rewards.

"Hmm, fine. What would you like to get for yourself? As long as it´s in my power and not too unreasonable I will get it for you." Hanson said after he thought about it.

Keeping his only supplier happy in his mind was more worth than a few hundred coins.

"If that´s the case, then I would like you to get some books for me."

"What types of books?" Hanson tilted his head in confusion.

"After staying silent for a moment Danzel answer.

"Books about magic."