A group consisting of ten Rhyfel Knights ran with great speed while being relentlessly pursued by twenty Burn Knights, the Burn Knights moved erratically through the streets of Rhyfel and their current image was no different from that of a wild beast.
Rhyfel's knights made several abrupt turns that caused the following burnt knights to lag behind even for a couple of seconds, the same situation repeated several times.
Suddenly when Rhyfel's knights took a turn instead of continuing to run they jumped, the knights took advantage of that and ran with even more intensity with the intention of finishing off the intruders, but when they turned they did not jump or find the need. to do such a thing since there was no obstacle like rubble.
But they immediately felt something strange since instead of closing the distance with Rhyfel's knights they found themselves floating, no, rather they were falling.
The burned knights fell heavily to the ground and when that happened a great roar resounded, if one looked carefully they would see that in the place where the burned knights fell there was a metallic thread, thanks to that thread the burned knights tripped and fell down.
Although that did not cause any damage to the burned knights, it did something greater, it made them fall to the ground, thanks to that they not only lost their weapons but also their posture collapsed.
Rhyfel's knights saw this and without delay they made a signal, when that happened they charged towards the burned knights, but they were not the only ones but there were also several Rhyfel knights who were hidden came out of their hiding places, their weapons formed decisive attacks that they did not know mercy at all.
The burnt knights roared trying to break free to avoid the death that settled on them, but Rhyfel's knights did not think of allowing such a thing, they quickly positioned themselves and formed an encirclement to prevent the burnt knights from escaping.
When the exchange of attacks began it didn't take long for me to figure out who had the advantage over whom.
The burnt knights swung their weapons with extreme fierceness and fought face to face against the enemy without fear but still they couldn't even manage to land a hit on Rhyfel's knights, they moved in the complete opposite way to the burnt knights who were looking for trade. of blows, Rhyfel's knights would come up from the sides to attack and then exit the same way they entered.
Thanks to this they minimized the risk of suffering injuries while maximizing the power of their offensive, but it was not only that, while one Rhyfel knight attacked from the front another one approached from behind to cause even more damage, the burned knights were left utterly oppressed by Rhyfel's knights in just a few moments after the fight began.
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The weapons wielded by Rhyfel's knights were the same as those of the burned knights but there was a difference between the two, this was a fairly simple difference but it had an unimaginable weight at the moment, the difference between the two was none other than consciousness that Rhyfel's knights possessed.
While Rhyfel's knights could think, analyze the situation and act accordingly, the burnt knights couldn't do such things, they simply relied on their instincts to move, of course, thanks to the fact that in their life before they died they were powerful warriors with great and rich combat experience their instincts were highly refined and they could fight skillfully.
Faced with common warriors, the burnt knights would be victorious, but... against the Rhyfel knights who not only made up the War Sovereign's army together with them, but also compared to the burned knights, the Rhyfel knights possessed conscience, this he allowed them to use 100% their instincts and combat skills that they had refined throughout their lives.
So the combat between the burnt knights and Rhyfel's knights ended in a one-sided massacre by Rhyfel's knights.
After Rhyfel's knights emerged victorious from the confrontation with the burned knights, they loaded the lifeless bodies of the latter, without the knowledge of Rhyfel's knights, high in the sky, a black point observed everything with great care, if one looked closely well the black dot was a raven.
Pero esta escena no solo ocurría en ese mismo lugar de Rhyfel sino también en el resto de la ciudad, aunque algunos combates eran de menor o mayor escala que otros, pero al igual que este grupo de caballeros de Rhyfel, los demás no se percataron de la cuervo volando sobre them.
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In a secluded and hidden place in the middle ring of Rhyfel, Adolf was leaning against a rubble, his face was expressionless as he kept his eyes closed, but if one looked closely one could see how his eyes bled forming two small rivers. that ran across his face.
After a long time maintaining the same position Adolf opened his eyes, they were bloodshot and gave him the air of a vicious demon, then a couple of seconds later it disappeared without leaving any trace that it existed.
Adolf stretched out his hand in the air and for a long time nothing unusual happened, but after several moments like this something started to happen, a crow came and stood in front of Adolf and when that happened a second came and then a third to keep increasing, after passing the twenty crows mark they finally stopped coming.
With a thought the ravens turned into little shards of darkness and then disappeared from the world.
'It's a wonderful skill but it's a pity that with my current abilities I can't even use the skill to its fullest.'
Adolf felt a slight feeling of disappointment that he couldn't use the ability the way he wanted, but he couldn't blame anyone but himself either.
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[King of Ravens (Tier 1 - Rank 1)]: A one-of-a-kind magic that combines both the magical branches of dark magic and summoning magic, but also thanks to that the consumption of both mana and mental is greater than average.
-[Call of the Raven]: You can create ravens created from your mana, they will have 70% physical resistance but in exchange they will receive a total of 80% more magic damage, if they are attacked with light element spells the damage received will increase by 130%.
-Cost: 150 mana.
-Cooldown: 15 seconds.
-[Share Vision]: You can share your vision with one of your created crows, in that state the charge on the user's eyes will be greatly increased and can cause permanent damage if abused.
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With Adolf's low mana capacity he could only rely on consuming mana stones to replenish his mana reserves, but still the cost-benefit ratio was not very good, since Adolf never had much of a talent for magic from the start. , not only was his mana stat growing incredibly slow but also the effort he put in for them was not proportional to what he reaped afterwards.
After all Adolf was not a "genius" nor was he close to being one, this was the limit that "normal" people like him and many in the world had, that was an insurmountable wall that only "geniuses" had the right to to cross.
After leaving the place where Adolf was, he began to walk to meet Rhyfel's knights, his steps were slow and loose, his body felt incredibly stiff and Adolf immediately knew the reason for this but there was nothing he could do to fix it either. ...
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After several minutes walking Adolf was finally able to dazzle in the distance a group of beings wearing armor, they were Rhyfel's knights, not far from them a small mountain stood out like a sore thumb, Adolf focused his eyes and quickly noticed that It is made up of former Rhyfel Knights who became Burn Knights.
Although he knew the general situation thanks to his crows, he also did not know everything perfectly, so he could only estimate the number of burned knights that were defeated, but when he saw the small mountain, he knew that his estimate had been wrong, but that did not mean that That was a bad thing, on the contrary, it was a good thing since it meant that the number of enemies in Rhyfel's middle ring had decreased considerably while the number of allies increased.
When Adolf arrived where Rhyfel's group of knights were, they all greeted him, which showed that although they did not see him as his new lord, they did not see him as a stranger either, they saw him as a comrade in arms and even a general.
Adolf passed by and went directly towards the pile of burned knights, a Rhyfel knight approached and stood behind him, Adolf spoke without turning to see him.
"How many?".
"That's exactly 89 former Rhyfel Knights, young commander."
He answered Rhyfel's knights as he too looked at the pile of burned knights.
"It's more than I thought at first but still not too many to say it's a problem."
"Young commander, I have a question for you."
"Speaks".
"How long does he think it will take him to make our companions return to what they once were in life?"
Adolf se quedó en silencio por unos momentos mientras pensaba en una estimación, por otro lado el caballero de Rhyfel tomó el silencio as a sign that he asked something he shouldn't have asked, as he rambled on Adolf's voice woke him from his daze.
"Approximately 1 or 2 weeks if everything goes well, if problems or certain mishaps arise, the time may increase but I estimate that it will not exceed the 4-week mark, of course, if luck is on our side."
Rhyfel's knight nodded, then said goodbye to Adolf.
Adolf looked at the pile in front of him that was made up of the bodies of the lifeless burned knights and heaved a heavy sigh.
'Looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me...'
With resignation Adolf began to do his job of "reviving" the burned knights and returning them to his former form.
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Time passed incredibly quickly and of the 89 knights burned, 48 had already become Rhyfel's knights again.
Thanks to constantly reviving burned knights to become Rhyfel's knights, as well as the mana stat and ability of [Revive Corpse] had increased considerably, but it wasn't all rosy, Adolf felt that both his body as well as his mind were incredibly fatigued.
Now consuming manastones was commonplace in his day-to-day as his meager mana stat was not high enough to allow him to use [Raise Corpse] without external support.
"At first I'm uncomfortable with the taste of these things but now I think I even enjoy it, I just hope this doesn't become an addiction."
Adolf said as he looked at the manastone in his hand.
"Looking back, this is all due to this ability, although I don't know if it's a blessing in disguise."
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[Mana Devourer (Rank 1 - Level 6)]: An anomaly among anomalies, thanks to a strange one you have gained the ability to devour and process raw mana to make it yours, it is totally unknown where or how this ability originated.
-You can devour anything that contains mana inside it and then process it and restore your mana reserves.
-Ratio 10:5, for every 10 units of raw mana 5 will be processed for the user, the loss will decrease as the skill increases in rank and level.
-There is an extremely low chance that devoured mana increases the user's mana stat, the chance may increase with the quality of devoured mana or increasing range and skill level.
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