I wanted to hear an explanation too… I tried to summon a sick-looking sword, too, in my dream, but I couldn't. Why could the secondary characters in my dream do that while I couldn't?
"Your Majesty, it seems that the ritual was completed, but thanks to his resistance, even in death, there were some complications. He resisted for a while, and that probably cost his powers and, given his lack of reaction, perhaps his memories too. Back then, he was supposed to look like this, am I right?"
"Yes…"
A suspicious-looking guy suddenly materialized as a dark mist and then said that. When I paid attention to him, I couldn't help but frown and fail since I didn't have eyebrows. In any case, he looked like an old man who should have been dead a long time ago… and I didn't mean that as an insult. He looked really dead. His skin was gray, and he looked lifeless, too; one couldn't see a single sign of muscle on that body.
"... The revival ritual should have some issues as well. It is impossible to restore a soul without consequences. He was our best warrior, but now he is back to what he was in his youth. He probably will never become the same person that he once was, my queen."
"That is fine, I will deal with that myself."
The vampire-looking woman couldn't help but show a wicked smile that sent shivers down my spine… at that point in time, I was starting to connect the dots. I died, and the previous owner of that body died, too… our souls fused while he was trying to escape from those weirdos, and now he has become the system. Anyway, that woman should have been some bad news considering how hot she was, and the previous owner of that body didn't want anything with her… how much of a hot mess could she be?
You can't make this shit up… I probably shouldn't reveal my real circumstances. I received a second chance, albeit in a weird situation, but it was a second chance nonetheless. I had to make the most out of it. Moreover, something interesting appeared in my field of vision.
Name: Deimos
Health: 100/100
Mana: 100/100
Power: 05
Magic: 05
Vitality: 05
Spirit: 05
Resistance: 05
Charisma: 01
Sins
Wrath Lv 01 (0/100):
Pride Lv 01 (0/100):
Sloth Lv 01 (0/100):
Gluttony Lv 01 (0/100):
Lust Lv 01 (0/100):
Envy Lv 01 (0/100):
Greed Lv 01 (0/100):
I could see a game-like screen in the corner of my eyes… it wasn't anything like I had seen before; I didn't have a stamina bar, but I could tell that the reason was the fact was that I was a skeleton. That made me wonder… why would I have gluttony as a sin as well when I couldn't eat anything with a body like that? I also was made of bones, but I couldn't get a boner, so what was the point of Lust?
"Make him recover his powers as fast as possible. Bring him back to the dungeon of the castle every night, though. He needs to be punished for disobeying me. Death isn't enough to make him less guilty of his crimes."
Wow,… so unreasonable. I was starting to understand why the previous guy wanted to run for the hills instead of dealing with the woman. There was only so much her hotness could counterbalance her sickness in the head. Maybe a maso could deal with her, but I wasn't one. I still had a scintilla of pride.
The vampire woman got up and then left after looking down on me once more. As an average dude in my previous life, I was used to that, but I couldn't help but wonder why she would look down on me when my bones were like everyone else's. Regardless, the armored creatures around approached with their weapons in hand; it seemed that they were pretty wary of me, and they were pissed too.
"Do you understand your situation? I can tell that you lost all of your memories, but you should at least know the position that you are in. If you don't want to have a difficult life, you should follow our orders."
"All right,"
The cloaked old man guided me to the outside of the throne room while the other dudes were close behind me. I couldn't help but wonder if their weapons would hurt like usual when I didn't have flesh… that wasn't the kind of question that I thought that I would have by being reincarnated in another world. Crazy concept, I know.
After leaving the throne room, we crossed a large corridor and then eventually left the castle. What I saw before my eyes was a massive land that looked like the final area of an RPG. The sky was red, the ground was lifeless, without any signs of trees or vegetation, and I could see some giant monsters moving around. Giant centipedes, giant centipedes, giant lizards… even dragons were flying in the sky.
"It seems that I spawned the evil faction."
"Of course you did. What kind of question is that?"
The cloaked old man looked quite bewildered while looking at me… forgive me for not knowing the basics when I didn't receive the tutorial or a massive info dump on chapter two. At least he soon looked away since my skelly poker face was pretty good.
"We are at war against the other species of this world, and things were at a stalemate until a while ago, but then someone decided to betray our side, and our enemies are aware of this now, and soon they will launch an offensive to wipe us out. Your job is to recover your strength as soon as possible and then follow your orders again. The ritual put a binding spell on you as well; if you try anything like the last time, you will suffer at the hands of our queen. Even those who liked at first ended up begging for death after dealing with her."
I guess not even masochists can deal with her…