April 23 Year 2021
Another two weeks has passed without anything that eventful that happened. There are small clashes between Caizher's force and the beastmen but nothing that serious. Both sides are cautious with each other
The beastmen feared that a lot of them would die if they clashed against Caizher. Even if they win, the other intelligent races might use this chance to exterminate and destroy their tribe
While on Caizher's side, they cannot exterminate one of the intelligence races yet as the others might team up to kill them. One or two races can be their enemies but there are several races out there
As usual, Caizher is playing with the corpse around him. In front of him was a giant worm, the same one that he fought on the base of the humans before
Around him were full of corpse but this one worm is still alive with all sorts of markings on its body. Caizher and the skeleton mages put it under a curse, and it cannot move even if it wants
Although he was disgusted by it but maybe because he played with corpse for a long time now, he wasn't that too disgusted anymore. His hands were directly touching its body while he channeled dark energies inside it
Corrupting a live target is possible but it was much harder. The resistance of living things are few times higher than the dead ones
Caizher was controlling the direction of corruption of this worm. He's already been injecting it with dark energies for a week, but it still wasn't finished
This worm if succeeded won't be any ordinary creatures of darkness. It would be one of Caizher's importance force and the process cannot be completed in a single session
Caizher poured all the dark energies he can use before his darkness starts to disintegrate, which was a lot
Dera who was watching this from the side has complicated expression on her face. Although she already saw that her master looks as if he has unlimited supply of essence of darkness, but it was still hard to accept. Caizher acts as if the essence of darkness is just some random cabbages!
As of now, there are already around 200 skeleton mages, 50 dark snakes (Caizher doesn't convert many snakes as they are weak), 600 normal lizards, and ten lizard bosses. There are also a few hundreds of various creatures like dark ants and rats. However, they are too weak and were mostly used as cannon fodders and they have a lot of casualties
All of these are the results Caizher's hard work. As he trained more, the number of creatures he can convert at a time also increased. The him months ago and the him now are heavens apart
After channeling all that dark energies, Caizher become exhausted and walked towards a huge wooden basin that was made by Dera and her skeletons
The basin was filled with blue liquid. It was the mana from the Dungeon's mana pool. Caizher naturally won't waste such precious resources and ordered his servants to fetch some for him
As the mana pool was also restored by the dungeon every day, Caizher doesn't have to worry about using all of it. In fact, there are also smaller wooden basins around for all of his subordinates to use
Caizher won't be stingy at all when it comes to resources. His slaves' power is also his power!
Caizher almost moaned at the pleasure that the liquefied mana brought to his tired body. As long as one don't soak for too long on this mana pool, they won't feel any pain and in fact, it would feel comfortable
Dera shake her head and turned to looked at Kyle on her side who was seriously practicing the spells she taught to him although the man is complaining
Kyle chanted some words and purple light flew out from his hand that went to the lizard's trident. The trident glowed with a purple light for a while, but it immediately vanished
"Ah! This is really too hard!" Kyle complained with tears on the side of his eyes causing Dera to kick him on the knee
"Aww!" The man cried out in pain as he clutched his aching knee. He looked at Dera with an aggrieved look while pouting but it was ineffective to the lich
"Practice seriously! You can't even use a single spell, how stupid and weak!"
Thus, Kyle can only meekly nod his head in fear that Dera would be angrier. But he doesn't know why he needs to learn such troublesome things when it is not his forte at all
A few hours later, instead of playing with corpse, Caizher decided that it was now time to train his fighting skills again. Although he poured a lot of time on his [Monarch of Dark Creatures] but he still made sure to always train his own combat skill
He entered the dungeon and the trees greeted him again. As he was forced to abandon his weapon before that Candice gave him, he can only use the weapons from the dungeon
However, the dungeon only dropped common and normal weapons. Caizher thought that he can have a powerful sword by hunting the dungeon creatures, but he was disappointed
Caizher literally put his hand inside of him and retrieved his sword and immediately channeled his mana on it. He jumped in the air and cut the branches of the tree closest to him
With his power, the branches were cut smoothly as if his sword didn't get any resistance at all. Caizher danced with the trees as he practiced his swordsmanship on it
Branches, leaves, and even the whole tree are falling down here and there
"[Darkness Style: Dark Slash!]" Caizher channeled more mana on his sword and slashed in the air twice and two sword lights were made
The surprising thing though was that the two sword lights flew on opposite direction. One can literally see how they curved before meeting on the side of a tree
The sword lights cut that tree in half as they attacked it on its side at the same time. With all of Caizher's hard work, he's also progressing on his combat skills
Dark slash might be weaker in comparison to his other skills but since it was easier to practice, his mastery on it his higher. It also has a lot of rooms for improvements depending on what direction one wants to take
As curving them was one of the easiest variants, Caizher trained on it first to gain more experience again. After he mastered it, using other variants would become easier
"[Darkness Style: Dark Thrust!]" Channeling a lot of mana again on his sword, it glowed with a dark light
However, this time, instead of just coating the sword with mana, Caizher controlled the mana further. One can see the mana moving and was forming an image
A few seconds later, the image of a dark and vicious snakes was formed, and the blade of the sword can hardly be seen. Caizher run towards another one of the innocent trees again and thrust his sword towards it
The vicious snake easily penetrated the tree and an almost five inches wide hole appeared on that tree. Like Dark Slash, Dark Thrust is also a basic and low leveled skill
But just like what they said, the basics are the foundation of everything! There are a lot of variants that can be made with these two skills
After practicing those skills, Caizher put inside his condensed darkness the sword again and changed into his beast form with three tails
Caizher pounced on another tree and condensed a ball of mana on his claw. The ball hits the tree and turned into a straight beam of dark light that made a hole on it
Caizher wasn't satisfied though and his tails made three more holes on the tree. His tail continuously poke holes on it as Caizher wants to be more skillful on controlling them
After some time, Caizher changed his form again to his titan form. He kicked and kicked on the trees and the spikes on his feet poke holes on them
Caizher still wasn't that powerful to uproot the trees and use it as a weapon just like what the Treants did and can only destroy them in another way
Deciding that it was enough, Caizher returned to his human form again while looking at the mess he made. Tens of trees were completely destroyed by him while the others have holes or other 'injuries' on them
Nodding his head in satisfaction, Caizher decided to visit the lizard village and walked towards it. He easily killed the snakes on his way as they are really too weak
In no time, he saw the lizard village was fighting with a giant snake. It looks like the same as the snakes that Caizher encountered before but much bigger
The snake was maybe fifteen to twenty meters long as it easily killed the normal dark lizards with a wave of its tail. It even directly swallowed some on its stomach
The lizard slammed their tridents on the ground and water flooded the area. The Ice Demon's eyes flashed with an icy blue light as she froze the water underneath the giant snake to prevent it from moving
The normal lizards then used water attacks on it, but the snake's scale was tough and wasn't easy to destroy. There are only a few hundred of lizards here as the others have tasks assigned to them
Some hunted dungeon creatures for mana stones and body, some were busy taking 'water' from the mana pool, some are also outside the dungeon acting as guards. As the village is too small, it can only cramp a few hundred lizards. Most of the lizards are even just sleeping outside the small huts
If only they have their original number with them, it would be easier to kill this giant snakes
The snake only needs a few wiggles before it destroyed the ice that Shaina made. Seeing this, the woman waved her hand and formed sharp shards of ice
As a Demon, although she is the lowest and weakest, but Shaina is also powerful on her own. The normal lizards cannot even penetrate the snake's scales, but her ice managed to!
However, with the snake's size, it was negligible. Realizing this, the woman changed her tactic
"[Ice Style: Ice Javelin]" The woman raised her hand in the air and a five-meter-long ice javelin was made. It can penetrate multiple trees in a row and was quite powerful
The snake also sensed this and opened its mouth and a ball of brown light condensed. But the lizards aren't there just to fill the number
Hundreds of water balls flew in the air towards the snake, it was only condensing its attack, but it was already destroyed by the attacks from the lizards
Thus, Shaina was successful in using her ice javelin in the enemy. The ice javelin managed to make a larger wound but still wasn't strong enough to fully pierced the snake's body
Shaina gritted her teeth, this time, her blue ice gained a tinge of black. As a Demon, Shaina has high affinity for darkness. However, since she's an ice user before she died and was reborn, she mainly used ice attacks. But it doesn't mean that she can't use dark type attacks
The Demon formed a sword made from ice before its color turned into black. Shaina then charged at the snake with the black sword on her hand
"[Dark Ice Style: Corrupted Ice Sword!]" Shaina used her sword and penetrated the snake's body with it. From the wound, a few meters wide black ice grew and the scales on it were visibly weakened as this ice has some corrosive effects
Caizher can feel essence of darkness on Shaina's attacks albeit it was much inferior and dirtier than his own. He had an instinctual disdain on such dirty dark energies
Shaina's face paled after using this attack. She might be a demon but she's the lowest kind and she does not have that much dark energies on her
Still, as she doesn't want to die, she immediately moved away with the help of the lizards pushing the snake a bit with floods of water. But weird enough, the area around her doesn't have any water on it and she safely went back to the lizards
"Attack the part I injured before! The scales on there are weaker!"