( I will not talk about the inheritance , not because it's a secret or something , but to build suspense . I just realised that I can't lay all secrets in one go so enjoy the wait )
( leaving aside the inheritance , I was presently directing the undead to build tunnels around the pit . by the way here is a fun fact about wolves of this world. they are known for their habit of digging pits deep in the ground for a variety of reasons such as disposing carcasses , or storing meat .not only wolves but most of the animals in this world had a tendency to do that . )
( all this information came from the archers who were pretty open about it . it seemed their master was not exactly the best of generals. they were actually ready to follow my command as long as I gave them the head of that man , whose name was Black sword . I have been spending the last three days , every moment with them , gathering general knowledge , military capabilities of different forces and naturally about that man trying to kill us . )
( this black sword guy had a extreme hatred for undead , who rose to fame due to his extreme policies when it came to being that belonged to the dark order ( you will know soon enough ) . he was mystery . nobody knew where he came from , all they knew was that he was capable enough to lead armies though he was a seeming commoner . most people speculated that he was the last Scion of a dead Noble family . )
( it meant that his background was very unclear , he could have a very powerful man supporting him or he could have nobody behind him . hearing this I decided not to kill him unless necessary . rest all of the information was semi useless and had no definitive use .)
( another piece that interested me was the generals recent behaviour . he seemed to be behave extremely ruthlessly , almost as if he was losing his emotions . this is what happens when you are conversing with devil.this was actually a phase in which the devil's plant hypnotic thoughts in your head ,after a while you can't refuse anything the devil ask . often you don't even realize that you are doing what they want. now most of you must be like , how are you so confident that it was the whispering of a devil . then I would like to remind you that this was a planar war where one of the participating forces were those of a devil , naturally devil's would participating in this war . I was actually surprised that there was almost zero presence of the now I just needed to find out if the devil was a ally or a enemy . I would rather it be a enemy then a ally , because it would be easier to get rid of them . working with a devil is scary business)
(meanwhile the defences we're going well, jack had almost completed the wall , who was giving it a few finishing touches .)
( over the course of three day I have been breaking down the teleportation formation made by jack . that formation made me cry . I have never seen such shoddy formations . around ninety percent of the materials used were ruined beyond recycling . the remaining material could be used to make a few basic formations , but that's about it . if the workmanship was bit finer , I could have used these materials to make a formation that would help our present situation .)
(a couple of days later )
(the last few days have been monotonous but have kept me busy . it mostly involved converting corpses into undeads , stoking up on my trivia and directing a part of the army in their hunts. i had to wait another five days before we could go to war , which according to jack was the day something crazy was about to happen , he wouldn't tell me what it was and believe me when I say tried every trick I had . )
( jack was more open these days and he seemed to have begun to trust me . his deal was to take care of the successor and to prepare him, naturally he would not tell me what . ) .
( I was getting bored. there was nothing to do in the pit , as all my work here was complete , so I decided to do the one thing that all death mages did for timepass. I took out the undead I had crafted . normally I don't tend to mess with the stuff I had already created , because as I told you one small screwup and the stuff that took me a lot of time and effort gone in flames . but I had ideas. stuff I wanted to change . if they worked I could boost the performance of the undead a lot . this idea was inspired from my past , which was something I wondered about a lot these days )
( the white undead become black again as its shape began to contort. . streams of black particles began to gather above the armour forming a blob of dark bone . if one could magnify the inside of the sphere they would find that the mass of the body was condensing into tiny balls . I was attempting to convert the entire structure into the atomic structure of diamond . this balls though not atomic size were still pretty small , roughly around the size of a grain of sand . these balls would be connected to each other using protrusions formed said balls. basically a solider form of the structure of diamond . it was a experiment , though it was in the worst of the timing . but that was my major flaw , that once my mind was itching to attempt something , it was very hard to convince myself not to do it .
the good thing was i did not need the armour now so any attempt on it would be fine . I had nothing to do anyway .
the main reason I wanted to attempt it was that if my thought process was correct , then I could drastically reduce the energy consumed to conduct any repairs on my undead . the exact how of that was really complex to explain but you will find it out now .it would revolutionise my undead crafting methods . )
jack - did you call for me young man , I am busy you know . unlike you I have an actual job .
me - can't do anything about that , old man . anyways I want you to attack the arm .
( pointing to the arm of my giant undead , which seemed really small compared to its counterpart . using my entire resorvoir of energy I could only convert the arm into the diamond form . the shrinking in the arms was completely unexpected , but that was because the bone was semi hollow . there were what I assumed to be some kind of a extremely small blood vessels , maybe to facilitate the production of new blood or some other similar substance throughout every bone .it would naturally make the bone stronger . these were microscopic and could not be detected unless I do something like what I did now . the bone was roughly forty percent such vessels )
( jack did exactly as I asked of him without asking why but that was not surprising , jack did not like to ask questions , though he did like complaining )
( his dagger began to glow in a bluish kind of light as it struck the arm . the result was as i had expected , there was a sharp clean cut in the arm going really deep . the blue glow on his dagger faded as he looked at me with a curious expression . )
me - move side will you , I have work to do . (stretching my arm and pointing to the cut.)
( I put my finger into the cut , seeing it coated in a white powder like substance . )
jack - show me your blade once
(jack showed me his dagger , its brown blade was covered in a white powder)
( I used my bone manipulation on the spell , and felt the balls . )
( somehow that sounded really wrong so I have decided to call the balls atoms . but it real... , I am getting distracted , so basically i felt the atoms .)
( to make you understand what I was seeing , imagine a Lego set , suppose you smashed it against a wall and it breaks into its component , you could still reassemble it if you wanted to. my case was somewhat similar )
( the atoms were like that Lego set . at a really small size the daggers edge was like a wall . the result was the smashing of the Lego set . now I needed if reassembling it is cheaper then repairing it like normal )
( the cut suddenly began glowing in a dark colour , the powder on blade also gained a dark glow as the powder seemed to flow in a stream meeting at the cut . if one could look at the cut at a microscopic level , they would seem atoms flying back to their positions and the damages to the bonds protruding of the atoms were fusing into each other regaining their previous shape . )
(after a while ,maybe a few seconds )
( the cut was completely repaired and in record time .)
( I was really excited right now , almost wanting to just dance around the pit in my excitement . this was only until until the first pangs of pain hit me .then I remembered that I had overdrained on my mana and actually should have gone empty long ago . and then everything went black .)
( MEANWHILE JUST OUTSIDE THE FOREST WE WERE PRESENTLY IN . )
( in a vehicle that did look like a carriage , but was not being pulled by any kind of horses . a lady in some kind of armour and a old man were sitting arguing with each other
fire dance - Butler 1 , it is enough that you accompanied me till here , I will go alone from now on.
Butler 1 - negative, lady fire . the master has commanded me to not to allow you to be alone for even a Little while
fire dance - just till we reach the base , I want to be alone for some time . the master won't know .
Butler 1 - I apologize , lady fire but the master has told me not to do so and he was very specific about it .
fire dance - okay fine . lets just reach there already