Chapter 24 - The Lich

PING

I opened my status only to be shocked. I was inflicted by a curse when we entered the room. It decreased my movement speed by 30% and magic attack by 50%.

The stone doors on all the side except the one from when I had come, opened and an army of undead was marching towards me. I started shooting at them.

10 minutes

30 minutes

An hour

There was no end to it. They just kept coming. From humans type to demons type all kinds of undead were there.

"Zack, use me. The guns use a lot of mp."

I kept the guns in the subspace and started using it. Still, there was no end to them. These undeads were weird. Generally speaking, undead are destroyed when we smash their heads but the undeads here weren't destroyed. In fact, they healed over time and stood up again to fight. I was tired. Not physically but mentally. My wound kept healing and I just kept on fighting in an endless cycle.

"Zack, I feel strong mana from the passage north from here."

I came back to my senses and started clearing the way toward that passage. More and more undead came out from there. I cleared the passage to enter yet another room. But this room gave an ominous feeling. There was a purple lit altar in the center and A person was there wearing a black cloak with a necklace of bones around his neck and creepy staff in his hand. When I looked at it closely, it was not a person but a Lich, the king of the undeads.

"Shit Zack. That's a Lich. Its level is at least 80 while yours in only 62."

"What is it doing?"

"It's preparing a ritual for body take over."

"That means he is trying to take over my body."

"Yes"

"There is nothing to worry about down, I have the divine thing in the soul after all"

"I don't think that will be the case this time. Your soul was damaged last time. Another attack on your soul would mean a sure kill this time. Not even the divine spark can save you."

The Lich looked at us. He didn't say anything and continued the ritual. Many zombies appeared on our sides. These zombies had a high physical attack and very high regeneration speed. Instead of beating them again and again. I restrained them using fire chains.

"Zack, quick attack the altar."

I attacked but the altar was protected by a barrier. " what the hell the barrier is too strong."

"focus all the mana at one point" I did as she said and the barrier cracked. I thrust Ashilde through the cracked point ant the barrier crumbled down. The ritual was reaching it's ending phase. Lich's soul was separating from his body. I attacked the altar using my strongest fire spell but the magic was reflected. It released a wave of mana grazing my body and pushing me back.

"Zack use light magic." I used light magic. The damage was less but there was still some damage. If there would have been no curse inflicted on me the damage would have been significant. To increase the damage I had no choice but to use my stats points. I put 500 stats points in 𝗜𝗡𝗧. The mana flowing through me increased dynamically. I casted the same spell and the altar was broken down this time. The Lich had also suffered some backlash and was not moving. He looked up at me with his hollows eyes glowing in black flame. He instantly casted black spears which attacked me at high speed. I was barely able to dodge it. Unknown to me it had a homing feature that injured me from behind.

There was a hole in my stomach. I fell on my knees. I created a barrier around me but the spears kept attacking. The barrier could not hold for long. Although the barrier was destroyed I had mostly regenerated. I created light spears to destroy the dark ones. Both the spears countered each other creating an explosion. The zombies that I had restrained before were also freed.

( I have to deal with the Lich first)

Evading all the zombies' attack I rushed towards the Lich. I gashed at his face but it didn't take any damage.

"Zack physical attacks are useless. Only light magic is effective on him."

I kept using light magic on him. The attacks were landing. He was taking damage but it wasn't enough to finish him off.

Ignoring all the damage he got he started chanting.

"Shit, Zack stop him. He is preparing for 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝙶𝚎𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚊 , a level-6 spell"

(I don't have a new spell to counter a lvl-6 dark spell. I have to create a new one but how do I create now.)

I exhausted all the spell I had previously learned but couldn't stop him. He finished the spell. I was cover in darkness and when the darkness disappeared I was lying on the ground with both the legs missing. My left eye could not be opened.

(Is this the end? Tch, can't even defeat a measly Lich.)

The Lich was coming near me. I had lost all hope of winning when the locket which my parents had given me began to shine.

It gave me hope. ( They are waiting for me I can't give up.)

I sat up with my left hand as support. I used light chains to stop the Lich.

"You are already dead. There is no need for your soul to be lingering in this world. I have prepared a funeral for you. Take the new spell I have created 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑."

I made a coffin with light magic. It had spikes on the inside. The coffin sucked the Lich inside and closed. Roses bloomed around the coffin and its thorns pierced the coffin. The coffin disappeared and nothing was left behind. The zombies had also perished. The tomb above me demolished and I saw 2 angels coming down.