king of the castle

Chapter 04: The Necromancer's Apprentice This chapter is free

In the open space outside the house, several skeletons were dragging two corpses slowly forward. 【】Not far in front of them, stood a young man with a pale and gloomy face, which made people feel cold all over his body at a glance.This man was wearing a pure black mage robe, which in Torenzo's world meant that he was a Necromancer who was cast aside and feared by most people.

"Damn, why did you meet such a guy?" Roger, who was hiding behind the door, couldn't help but panic because of this guy's attire.No matter which world you are in, there are many horror legends about necromancers.Roger absolutely didn't want to be discovered by this guy, and then turned into a thoughtless bone frame by him.

Because the night was too dark, Roger didn't notice that there was no skull mark on the opponent's cuff.This shows that the guy in the black robe that Roger arrived was not a necromancer, at best he was just an apprentice necromancer.

Bie Van Doren is just an apprentice necromancer, but he can already make skeletons to do things for himself.Van Doren was appointed by His Excellency the Chief to come here to deal with these farmers.As an apprentice of undead magic, it is no problem to deal with a dozen or so farmers. This task was completed very smoothly.Just after Van Doren had left, he suddenly found that his skeletons were missing a few.

However, skeletons are only the lowest level of undead creatures after all, and they often encounter various accidents.Even under the control of necromancers, they often disappeared for various reasons such as getting lost, accidentally dropping their heads, being used as snacks by wild animals, etc., so Van Doren didn't pay much attention to this.He just returned to the place where the killing spree happened just now, and ordered other skeletons to bring some corpses, intending to make more skeletons to supplement the number of his men.

After selecting a few corpses, Van Doren began to chant obscure incantations on one of them.After he chanted the last syllable, the corpse began to burst open little by little.The blood mist mixed with muscles, internal organs and other things splashed out, making the surroundings a mess.

Soon a skeleton slowly stood up from the already inhuman corpse.Although there were still fresh internal organs and skin hanging from the skeleton, the skeleton had already taken its first clumsy first steps under Van Doren's control.

Although this kind of desecration of the corpse of the dead is terrible and hateful to ordinary people, it is nothing more than normal in the eyes of magic apprentices who aspire to become liches.After Van Doren became a necromancer apprentice, he no longer regarded himself as a human being. In his eyes, the former kind were just objects of massacre and magic materials.

Roger couldn't bear Van Doren's ability to remain calm in the face of such a horrific and bloody scene.Especially when he saw the muscles and skin hanging on the skeleton like rags, he finally couldn't help bending down and vomiting.

"Ouch..." Although Roger's voice was very small, it caught Van Doren's attention immediately in this silent night.

The magic apprentice's cold eyes immediately fell on the door where Roger was hiding, and a sneer without any emotion appeared on the corner of his mouth.Following Van Doren's gaze, the skeletons under him also responded at the same time, walking towards Roger with mechanical steps.

"It was discovered!" At the same time, Roger also felt that something was wrong, and quickly bolted the door of the house.

"Hmph... Insignificant ants!" Seeing this scene, Van Doren sneered, and ordered the skeleton to speed up and move towards the house.

The magic apprentice thought it was just an ordinary farmer hiding in the house, and the five skeletons he controlled were enough to tear him to pieces.But Van Doren made a miscalculation this time, and Roger was not like those farmers who would just wait to die.

When the skeleton walked unhurriedly to the room where Roger was hiding, Roger was also anxiously looking for usable weapons inside.As luck would have it, he found an old hand-axe by the fireplace, perfect for self-defense at this critical moment.

At this time, several skeletons had come outside the house.These undead creatures completely obeyed Van Doren's orders, and just knocked on the wooden door with all their strength, neither knowing that their hands hurt nor tired.Under the constant beating of the skeletons, the thin wooden door soon showed signs of damage.

Roger knew that if this went on, the skeletons would soon swarm in, and he would be surrounded by undead creatures, and he would be unable to escape.So he hurriedly pushed the heavy dining table in the kitchen against the door, so that he could hold on for a while at least.

Roger had just put the dining table in place when the door was smashed down by skeletons.Several pale arm bones stretched in, almost scratching his face.

Roger's reaction was also quick, and he immediately swung his ax and slashed down on those arm bones.Compared with the wooden stick, the power of the hand ax was much greater. Roger easily chopped off the arm bones of the two skeletons.

As soon as the skeleton under him was injured, Van Doren not far away felt it, and couldn't help but secretly frowned.However, in the eyes of necromancers, low-level undead creatures like skeletons are just cannon fodder.So the magic apprentice didn't feel distressed, but continued to urge the skeleton to attack.

Under Van Doren's order, the skeletons slammed into the wooden door more frantically, and finally broke a big hole through which they could get in.A skeleton got in first, but was blocked by the dining table behind, and couldn't rush into the room for a while.

Roger seized this good opportunity and chopped off the skull's head with a heavy blow.The skeleton's head fell to the ground and turned around. Roger kicked it right at the right time and kicked it directly into the burning fireplace.Soon a bright spot flew out of the fireplace and entered his body.

The other skeletons were still faithfully carrying out Van Doren's orders, scrambling to squeeze through the door.Roger took the opportunity to chop down with an axe, splitting the head of another skeleton, and the soul fire in its eye sockets was also extinguished.

Roger wiped out the two skeletons in one go, making Van Doren no longer underestimate this opponent.At this time, the wooden door had been smashed, and the magic apprentice saw a black-haired young man in the room, using the cover of the dining table, waving a broken ax to fight desperately with the skeletons under him.

"The body is quite strong, and it is a good material for making skeletons..." Fan Doren smiled sinisterly at the corner of the black-haired young man.

Having regarded Roger as a magic material, Van Doren quickly began to chant spells.The magic apprentice stared at Roger who was fighting against the skeleton with unemotional eyes, knowing that as long as the magic took effect, the opponent would lose resistance immediately and become a lamb at his mercy.

At this time, Roger didn't realize that the danger was approaching, and he was still concentrating on fighting the skeleton.There were only three skeletons outside the door, and Roger believed that relying on the favorable terrain and the weapons in hand, he would be able to wipe out all the undead creatures.

"Danger, that man is casting magic!" At this moment, the warning sound of the castle hub suddenly sounded.

The startled Roger had no time to think about it, and instinctively raised the ax to block his head.At the same moment, two shiny balls flew out of Van Doren's hands and shot directly at Roger's face.

Before Roger could react, all the bright balls hit the ax in his hand.Roger only felt that the ax suddenly became extremely hot, and quickly threw the only weapon on the ground.As soon as the ax fell to the ground, it made a "dang" sound, and then it shattered into several pieces.

"Fuck!" Roger was taken aback by the power of the magic. He couldn't help imagining what would happen if his head was hit by a ball of light, and couldn't help but swear in his heart.

At the same time, Van Doren was also very angry, and hissed viciously: "Damn humans, you actually wasted my magic!"

Speaking of which, this magic fly is also the strongest offensive magic that a mage apprentice can cast.Van Doren was worried that the power of the magic was not enough, so he aimed at Roger's head.Unexpectedly, Roger was so lucky that he just blocked his head with an ax, and he escaped the catastrophe.

Van Doren has cast a lot of spells today, and the magic power stored in his body has been exhausted, so he can only rely on the remaining three skeletons to fight.The only thing that comforted him was that the opponent's weapon had been damaged by his own magic, and he would definitely not be the opponent of the skeleton.

The magic apprentice's test was not wrong. Roger, who had lost his weapon, was immediately at a disadvantage and tried his best to stop the skeleton's attack.A skeleton quickly rushed into the house, forcing Roger to back away.The other two skeletons also took the opportunity to squeeze into the room, and they were about to encircle Roger.If he was really trapped in this small house by three skeletons, Roger would have no chance of surviving.