Chapter 12
Part 3
Becoming the Prime Undead
I stared at the piece of bone in front of me, trying to think of a way to use it to achieve my goal of making the third skeleton in my arsenal a magic user. Recalling from my childhood how we would pretend that mere sticks and stones were more than throwaway items you find in the street, but great weapons.
“Now how am I supposed to make you into a healer class” I said, as I looked at the last skeleton that was next to me. He stared in front of us where his other two brethren were fighting. My tank and damage class skeletons. Each taking turns hitting the other, just enough to get experience but not enough to kill each other.
“Stop I !” I commanded and they obeyed.
“Stat window open.”
A light blue transparent box appeared in front of me, listing their stats.
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 13
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 12
Agility: 2
Skill points: 7
“ 7 more skill points added, good, I can put more into his health and endurance stat, becoming even more of a tank wall.
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 16
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 16
Agility: 2
Skill points:
His two stats were now equal which was good, and it was showing too for he was able to take more hits before his health dropped.
“Now to you,” I said, looking at my damage-class skeleton.
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 12
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 7
Skill points: 7
He had the same amount of skill points which was to be expected since they were both training the same amount.
“Very well I’ll put 3 in strength and the remaining in agility.”
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 15
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 11
Skill points: 7
“Now you,” I said looking at the skeleton that was next to me and the one that was supposed to be my healer of the group.
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 2
Skill points: 20”
He still had the 15 skill points and an extra 5 that I got him while he was fighting his other skeleton buddies before pulling him to the side since I wanted to figure out how I was going to solve that little problem of mana usage.
“Is not like I can pretend that that piece of bone is a staff," I said half-jokingly, I mean, it worked as kids so why not now?
“Skeleton grabbed the piece of bone,” I commanded and he obeyed grabbing the bone like a sword.
“Now what?” I asked myself,
Skeleton
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 2
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Skill points: 20”
I looked at his stat,
“One skill point in mana points “ I said, and to my dismay,
“ERROR !”
flashed in front of me again,
“ Action cannot be taken due to class missing !”
“Not that easy I see.”
“Think, think, “ I told myself, this was my area of expertise, fantasy, and RPG games were all I did in my past life, devoting countless hours to them.
“How were skeletons able to use magic?” I pondered , recalling my knowledge of all those games I had consumed. After all, this was no different, this was still a game, a very realistic game but a game nonetheless.
“Usually they either had a necromancer perform a magic ritual or sacrificing a mage.”
I looked around the empty dungeon room and besides me and my skeleton crew and that giant wooden treasure chest that sat in the middle of the dungeon, there was no mage or necromancer in sight, but it wasn’t all hopeless.
“We could always wait for a magic user to spawn from that magical appearing door,” I said,
It was a risky move, but it was the only way I was going to get my magic weaving skeleton.
Sacrificing a mage, was one way for a skeleton to be able to do magic but that would mean I would have to wait for a player with mana abilities to come through that doorway, and also, they couldn’t be high level, which wasn’t an issue considering this room was a low-level room.
Sacrifice, but how? I thought,
Usually, that meant either killing them or doing some ritual. I looked at the skeleton which I was doing this for, then again it wasn’t just for him, but more for my plan if I was honest.
“This better work or else I’m sacrificing you,” I jokingly said, this little plan of mine was my only option. I looked at my other two skeletons, my tank and damage skeleton, I needed to train them if my plan was to work, they were level one but their stats were growing which was good.
“Time for the fun part,” I sarcastically said, this was the most crucial part of any MMORPG game.
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I don’t know how long I spent grinding, the concept of time was lost for me in this dark dungeon, but I was doing the age-old classic strategy of getting ready to fight a boss, leveling your characters, or in my case my skeletons as much as I could take, after all, doing repetitive tasks was no fun, even in RPG games.
“Stop !” I commanded
“Stat window open.”
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 15
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 11
Skill points: 20
I looked at the skill points of my damage class skeleton, he had 20 already, which was a good number, the tank class skeleton had the same and my future mage character had 40 skills points already, ready to be distributed to his stats as soon as he became a mage.
I evenly distributed their skill points.
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 25
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 21
Skill points: 0
Skeleton
Level 1
HP: 23
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 22
Agility: 2
Skill points: 0
“Class level up! “
A transparent window appeared in front of me, but it was different, I had never seen this window before.
It showed my two skeletons and their stats as well as a new title below their names.
Skeleton Warrior
Level 1
HP: 8
MP: 0
Strength: 25
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 2
Agility: 21
Skill points: 0
Skeleton Knight
Level 1
HP: 23
MP: 0
Strength: 2
Vitality: 2
Endurance: 22
Agility: 2
Skill points: 0
“Skill level!
Bone whisperer has leveled up !
“New Skill unlocked! “
“ Skeleton commander !”
“ Well, you look at that."
“Skeleton commander allows you to change and or add a class from void to any hero class to the undead .”
Interested so they were void before which meant they probably were nothing but truly disposable npcs unable to do anything but be cannon fodder.
I knew what hero class was since that was the name this game gave to classes like warrior, knight, mage, and among others.
And before I could savor my newly acquired changes, a door began to appear on one of the walls of the dungeon room.
“Enemy approaching!
Hero player !”
“Just in time ,” I thought ,
It was time for the main event.