“It took me quite a while but I think I found a hero whose fate could serve me well. They Call him 'Hero of the Blade' and his fate is quite strong and powerful. He is quite the fine man, a much-loved individual, a heroic Lion, protecting the weak while still respectful of his enemies. Now, how should I steal his fate?

I'll need to change his fate so abruptly and so strongly that t becomes the polar opposite of his current one. In the moment it changes I'll be able to get my hands on this grand prize with the help of a little bit abyssal soul magic.

What should he become? The change in fate has to be big so maybe I should make him a beggar. Or maybe a villain? A Dark King?”

-Destroyed notes from Jeff Rutherions 'How I raised the Strongest!'

*Sirius POV*

I take a step back to look at what I created, blood still dripping from my Knife.

“Wonderful, you look a lot less disturbing now. Beautiful in an abstract way” (Sirius)

In front of me is a woman without a face. A really unusual look honestly, but also quite refreshing. It's something new, you know? Her head is not much more than a red chunk of meat with two eyeballs and some teeth embedded within them. I decided to also take her lips away since it would seem kinda unnatural to only let them stay there.

It took longer than I thought to get rid of her whole face. Hm, it took a really long time now that I think about it. Feels like I almost worked two years on this soon-to-be linked minion. I also feel like something in my past changed? Like some mistakes were corrected. Strange.

I'm probably just imagining things, right?

I take a step forward and gently stroke the side of Ayas sisters face. She winces under my touch. Well if soft meat gets touched by a sharp bony finger it probably hurts, huh? Actually, describing my fingers as bony it probably wrong. It's as if someone told me he had very skinny skin. Doesn't really make sense, does it? I mean in the first place, adjectives like these are mainly used to en-

“Having fun staring at your creation asshole?! Do you think this show scares me?!” (Photorealistic Slender Woman)

…

Even two years later we are still doing this joke? Some things never change I guess.

I casually use one of my actual-bone fingers to poke into one of her eyes. I twist my finger around a bit while she screams in agony. Then I sigh.

“I wasn't even thinking about you. There are more important things than you, like the proper use of certain adjectives. Things like these are one of the reasons I can't sleep at night. The other of course being the fact that undead literally can't sleep at all. Ever.” (Sirius)

I twist once again and then form a hook with my finger while still inside her eye socket. I pull my hand away from her face and take her eye with me. She pants heavily, bloody tears flowing down her face.

“Yo- you monster.” (Wanna be Pirate)

“Was that supposed to be an insult? How dare you, you High Fae! See, it's not really effective to call someone by their actual species.” (Sirius)

I'm getting a bit annoyed with her, but it's fine. She will soon burn anyway and I'll finally get to see what's inside this ring. But first, I need to take her soul away so I can replace it. Which means she has to die now.

“Any last words? I'll give you six.” (Sirius)

“Wa- wait, already? At least let me-” (One Eyed Tomato)

I ram my knife into her throat. And her words turn into an incomprehensible gurgle.

Those were some interesting last words.

At first, they may seem a bit random or like they were spoken in an accident, but if you look closer you can see that she spent a lot of thought on them. The deeper meaning of these words only reveals itself if you take a closer look at th-

“gurgle gurgle” (Cheap Murloc rip-off)

…

Interrupting me, even while I praise your words inside my head? How rude.

I stab her again. And again. And another 34 times before she finally dies. I then open the cell door and speak to the guard standing outside of it. I tell him to get someone who's a surgeon or something comparable like that. I want my linked minions to talk with me, so I need someone to stitch her throat back together. It also looks a bit gross honestly. It completely destroys the elegant look of her faceless head.

After a spider who is apparently a web spinner, fixes a throat I'm left alone with the corpse again. He did a surprisingly good job. I step forward and take her Soul. It is brimming with power! I definitely need to freeze it before devouring this beauty. So let's store it into the stone for now.

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I take a step back and concentrate my power to raise Ayas now dead Sister. I can do this spell chant-less by now. Green-blackish streaks of energy run through my arms all the way to my hands and then jump into her body, she starts to tremble immensely for a while. Suddenly she completely stops moving and after a few second finally rises. There she is. My new brainless minion. Let's give her a brain, or rather a soul.

Let's do this, 'Soul Link'.

Welcome to the Soul Link Configuration Tool! You currently possess:

"1" Major Soul (Cold), "1" High Maiden Soul, "1629" Souls

"22" Undead Minions (…)

"3" Linked Minions (…)

A Link between the undead Fae and 1 High Maiden Soul can be created

A Link between the undead Fae and 1 Major Soul (Cold) can be created.

YES! I knew her body would be strong enough to contain this Soul! I finally found someone to test this out! Makes me a bit happy. Well Well ring, let's see what's inside of you. I link her to the Soul and like always, a message pops up.

Congratulations! You Successfully created an Ice Lady! She will be added to your followers.

Current name: NotWorthMentioning, Change? Y/N

An Ice Lady? So the female equivalent of an Ice Lord I guess? I once had this evolution option. So she won't be a Lich, huh? I was kinda hoping to get one. Would make me feel better to not be the only specimen.

By the way, what's with her name? The messages are slightly manipulated by the gods if I recall correctly, so they seem to be pretty angry with her. Well who can blame them, she gets captured and makes me stronger while her sister helped me out a lot as well and actually leads a Dungeon which was once one of their most sacred places. Well, how unfortunate.

Let's change her name though. Since she will be an Ice Lady I have to give her a cold name right? How about snow? It's maybe not very creative but it fits well enough in my opinion. Yeah, snow. Rise and shine, Snow.

After those words leave my mouth the ring imbued with the soul begins to shake violently until it shatters inside my hands. The fist-sized soul rises in the air and dark purple light gathers around it until the soul is completely filled with it. It looks like it could burst any second now. Slowly the soul hovers towards its new vessel and enters it.

Snows body begins to spasm for a while before finally relaxing. Then, smoothly two almost white eyes open and look at me. Snow pulls herself up and stands in front of me, looking directly into my eyes. Huh, the only other person who can do that is Saxin.

“What's that? Now greetings?” (Sirius)

“...” (Snow)

“What's wrong? I took your lips but your tongue is still there, use it!” (Sirius)

Snow looks at me, confused for a moment. Then she seems to suddenly have realized something.

“ab- aw- ta- ta-” (Snow)

She shakes violently, her eyes widen which make her skinless face look even stranger. Then, she suddenly jumps into the air.

“I HAVE A BODY! HELL YEAH!” (Snow)

She stands there for a second, her hands forming fists and her arms stretched high above her head while she's carrying a vulgarly wide smile on her face. She looks at me as if she just remembered I'm here and suddenly freezes. Then as if nothing happened, she switches to a very noble stance, her hands folded together in front of her. She coughs.

“Hello master, I thank you for granting me this Power.” (Snow)

She goes down on her knees and sits there for a while, her feets under her, before bowing deeply.

“My name is snow, I shall be your most noble Servant” (Snow)

“...Yeah let's pretend nothing happened” (Sirius)

She tilts her head to the side, confused.

“What might master be talking about?” (Snow)

“...” (Sirius)

“...” (Snow)

“Anyway, welcome to your un-life. It has to be really strange for you, seeing how you never had a normal life, huh? So what are you exactly? A strange consciousness that was created by the original Sirius back at the Tomb?” (Sirius)

“Actually, I am Sirius. Well at least something like a withered image of him.” (Snow)

“...Sorry about this female body? Well, it doesn't really matter though.” (Sirius)

“Oh no! I'm quite happy with my new excellent body! I always felt like I was a woman on the inside. I'm also happy you took my masculine name and gave me this new cute one! Even my species name has the word Lady in it. I'm quite happy right now!” (Snow)

…

She- I mean he- or she? It? I have to be very careful right now because I really don't want to get into this whole genderfluid thing. Also, if I mess up, the Social Knight Order of Justice is going to be my enemy. So let's just call her a she, I mean him a she?

Genders used to be so simple...

“So you probably know a lot, right? Seeing how you created that old Dungeon. I have a few questions for you.” (Sirius)

“I'm sorry master, but I won't be able to answer any of those. Like I already mentioned, I'm withered from the long time I spent within my own ring. The only memory I have left is how I always wanted to be a Lady. (Snow)

...Great. Well, I still got a strong new ally. I guess.

Let's start some new plans.

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Authors Note: Do you like ice tea?

Yeah, I know there's now an actual Authors Note feature but I like this old Style, so let's keep it? Unless you guys hate me of course.

So yeah, I'm once again going to start writing. I finished editing the last chapters yesterday and will now continue to release new ones, probably two per week? I'll try to do more if possible.

I have another announcement though: one of the reasons I stopped writing and then editing were real-life problems, but there was another reason as well. I kinda got burned out from writing too much at the beginning. I wanted to do something different, create a second story, but I also felt like I HAD to finish this one as soon as possible.

Well, I learned that such a thought process isn't very healthy. I'll be taking things on a bit more slowly from now on. I will also start a second fiction in order to get some variety in my life. Whenever I don't feel like working on the Lich anymore, I'll just write a chapter of this new Story to blow off some steam and then return. The Story is currently awaiting approval, please check it out after it gets accepted. I'll share some details about it in the notes in the next chapter.

Thanks for reading and thanks for sticking with me, if you are still here