The Ruined Death Knight

It was like an instant.

The guards only managed to see a dark green light come out before their gate exploded into pieces.

That was shocking enough, but the death aura that they felt made their bodies shake in fear alone. One of the guards who gate directly in those flaring dark green eyes had his legs give up.

Though they were guards, such a position wasn't counted the same as a warrior. It was merely a role for those who will become warriors in the future.

Mere seedlings hoping to become warriors.

Their job was merely to notify the village of approaching enemies.

Though they could fight, it wasn't to the level of facing a being like Danzel.

"M-Monster!!!" The guard on the ground yelled struck in fear before awkwardly running back inside the village.

"Hey, you! Don't run!" The other guard yelled, but his comrade was long gone.

"Tch! Ahhhhhhh!" Dashing forward with the spear in his hand, he went to impale Danzel despite his fear.

Danzel with the others didn't stop walking toward the village.

And once the guard was close enough, he thrust his spear toward Danzel's chest.

*Tring!

Alas, the spear shaft broke as the tip of the spear only left a tinny tent to the platting.

"Fearless...but weak." Danzel said as he went and grabbed the guard's neck and lifted him up.

"Guagh! L-let go!" The man struggled though with no success.

"Rue..." Shiro said in worry as he gazed at Danzel.

"..." Danzel didn't gaze back at Shiro, but he understood what she meant.

Using some of his strength, he tossed the guy he was holding inside the village.

The guard felt the world itself turning to him before rolling to the ground and laying down to the ground. Not dead, but in pain.

Danzel and the others followed suit inside the village, where were met with a crowd of people looking at the gate and trying to help the guard he threw at them.

"T-That's the monster! That thing broke the gate!" The other guard who abandoned his previous colleague yelled while pointing at him.

"So loud..." Danzel said as he raised his free hand, before closing it.

And at the same time, a skeleton hand appeared around the other guard's neck and raised him up to the air.

Before anyone could understand what was happening, the dark green skeleton hand dragged the guy away from the crowd into Danzel's grasp.

Although [Grasp of the Undying] of undying would shortly after stealing their vitality disappear, that was only if he used it to steal it. If used only physically, it was like mana arms, though the way is stronger and more durable.

Essentially it was made to bully the weak while also being useful against any opponent.

Having his new victim on hand, dead mana began coming out of his hand.

"I am far more than a monster, living one's." His cold words weren't loud, but despite that, his words were nonetheless heard by everyone.

Using the loudest guy as an example, Shiro looked away.

"N-No!!! Aghhh!!!Aghhh!!!"

Under the watch of the village, the guard's body was quickly decaying as his skin turned black and into dust.

Though Danzel wasn't just going to kill the man, his dead mana kept the bones intact and turned the guy into one of his Draugrs.

Once turned into an undead, he knelled down to Danzel.

"My servitude to my Liege." The newly created Draugr said, making the villagers turn pale at what they saw.

"I-Impossible!"

"He became a c-cursed warrior..."

The warriors of the village had a disgusted expression while the others had one stricken in fear.

Not only have they seen someone of them become just mere bones in a matter of seconds, but he also became a cursed warrior.

And from the crowned, suddenly an old man started to dash with a short axe towards Danzel.

"How dare you do that to my son!!!" The old man yelled.

Moving extremely fast, Danzel recognized such speed at someone of the middle 3rd-tier level.

'He also utilizes his mana well to move faster, but...'

Danzel coldly gazed looked to the old man before stepping forward.

"Rue! We aren't here for this!" Shiro yelled back, making Danzel turn and glance briefly at Shiro with a cold gaze, which made her shiver for an instant.

As for the old man with the axe, he had already come close and had raised his axe up and was only needing to swing it down to hit Danzel.

Though the next moment, moving twice as fast as the old man, without hesitation he cut the arm of the old man with a swift swing.

It was so fast that the others who were watching and the old man himself didn't realize it.

Only when the cold wind from Danzel's swing burst towards them did they came to the realization that the old man's hand fell to the ground.

Having lost his hand and the pain starting to kick in, the old man fell to the ground and used his other hand to put pressure on the wound itself.

"Gghhhhh~!" The old man ground his teeth while tears were flowing down his face. Though his gaze was aimed at Danzel.

"Not bad." Danzel commend, slightly impressed by the old man.

Despite his sword decaying part of his shoulder and his [Soul Nemesis] talent doing its work. The man still had the strength to look at him with such an expression.

Though he didn't know, that old man was a retired warrior who was respected though the village. Even with age catching up to him, he still held such strength.

"I will kill you~! Harsch Death!" The old man said before collapsing from the pain.

Seeing that, Shiro walked towards the old man and stared at Danzel for a moment before she hover her staff on top of the old man's hand.

Mumbling a spell behind the mask, a golden light started to fall on the wound of the old man.

And in a matter of seconds, miraculously his hand started to regrow with first the bones and before flesh coming together to create a new arm.

Though Shiro didn't know how to make her spell to remove the pain, healing a body part wasn't impossible. Albeit she found it difficult to heal herself as the healing of a body by itself brought new pain, making her focus waver.

Of course, the villagers were completely dumbfounded at seeing a whole arm being regenerated. But their focus was drawn back to the being who cut the arm, to begin with.

"Mortals who have stolen from me, bring out your representative at once! Unless you want to serve for all eternity with your bones alone!" Danzel's ice-cold voice was heard by everyone, bringing a chill to their spines.

Many of the people were panicking and even a few run away and hidden in their houses, some were also encouraging the warriors to fight, but the latter realized the difference in strength by just Danzel swinging his sword.

As they couldn't even follow the swing when it happend!

Alka who was behind the group of warrior's had the palest of expressions of all the warrior's and her shoulder started to be etched in pain.

"It's him..." She mumbled as she step back in fear.

She remembered how the troll bent down and had his head cut in an instant and how her axe did nothing against the armor he was covered with.

Maxxren who was beside her heard what she said and leaned toward her.

"Hey girl, is he the one you were talking about...that thing?" He whispered to her.

Alka nodded at him, and Maxxren gulped his saliva.

'Damn, just looking at him makes my left nut shudder, I can't believe that I am going to do this...' Maxxren cursed internally before walking in front of the crowd and staring at what looked like the manifestation of death itself.

"Ehm...by stolen from you, what are you referring to?" Maxxren said in hopes to buy time.

Though he guessed what he was referring to, he prayed on his other right nut to be not the case.

Sadly, his prayers were unfounded.

"Playing ignorant I see, maybe those few will answer you." Danzel said as, in a brief flash of light, 7 familiar corpses appeared on the ground.

The Warriors had their eyes widen as they recognized those 7 as the ones who died against the cursed warriors.

Worse of all, the corpses started to stand up on the front in a line with the use of [Blood Puppets] spell.

"Bring the Lady here!" He yelled as he saw his mistake.

Maxxren bit his limps before going to his knees and bowing his head into the snow.

"O great one, please forgive us of our ignorance...but please, can my life enough request your mercy on my people?" As he finished speaking, he went to take a peek at Danzel reaction, but once he did, Danzel used [Phantom Phase] and moved in front of Maxxren.

Then, he gripped Maxxren face and raised him up, barely his feet touching the ground.

"You think I am so easily deceived, mortal?" Danzel said as his flaring eyes stared directly at Maxxren eyes, which were currently feeling like his head was about to be crushed.

"Not only once, but twice you lied. That alone is worth your deat-"

As Danzel's killing intent was increasing and together with the strength of his hand. Making Maxxren scream in pain, Danzel felt some pressure around his leg.

"Rue! You can't kill them all! Please~!" Shiro said as she pushed his leg with one of her arms while looking up at him.

Gazing down at Shiro for a few long seconds, Danzel sighted internally.

Hearing Shiro's plead he let go of the man.

"Bring me to your representative at once."

Despite his pain, Maxxren went up to his feet and started the others to make a path.

"Thank you-I will guide you to her..." he said before briefly gazing at the fox masked girl before gazing at Danzel

"O great ones...what should we refer to you as?"

Danzel scoffed at his request.

"You don't deserve our names, but for you all, I might as well be your Death."