My Necromancer Class

The spell bolted towards the creature, leaving his palm with the speed of an arrow. The unstable tooth landed one of the three fleshy flaps, the force of the explosion ripping it off.

This proved to be ineffective at stopping it as it charged again. Meanwhile, Jay and Lamp still had not dispatched the silt wolf.

"Dammit, I won't let you escape again."

Jay didn't lose his cool as he flung another unstable tooth at the silt wolf to help Lamp out before he ran over to Red and Blue, intending to stab whatever this variant was.

Charging at it, the first thing he did was smash his shield against its body - the light on the creature flickered and slowed its charge speed based on the luminosity. Jay smiled widely as he realized his shield was causing mana burn.

"Ha, you're fucked now." He smashed it wildly with his shield, burning away more of its mana with his shield's mana burn.

The mana-light stopped growing brighter at this point. One of the fleshy flaps was missing so Jay stabbed his ossein sword straight in, helping to disrupt the mana gathering process through the raw pain of his sword.

Now that his sword had pierced it, the mana-organ of the creature stopped gathering and completely dissipated.

The creature, knowing it couldn't cause a physical-pulse, attempted to flee. However, Red and Blue had already done far too much damage to it. One of its front legs was so heavily damaged that it seemed to dangle from a piece of its hide.

With a whimper, it released another pulse as its last act - but this one was not mana based.

[300 Exp]

Jay leaned down to look at the creature.

What the? The creature died before Jay could analyze it, and Lamp was still carrying the light so he couldn't see it clearly yet. Did it sacrifice its own life to do that weak pulse? But the pulse didn't even do anything. It wasn't physical or magic based…? So what was it…

As Jay was thinking these things, he had to get back into a fighting stance as the silt wolf dashed over to fight, completely ignoring Lamp.

"Are you stupid?" Jay raised a brow, confused by the silt wolf charging at him, Red and Blue. It was running from a losing fight into the hands of death.

Even though it was half-health, its body riddled with stabs and chunks of hide missing from the unstable tooth explosions, it charged into a three versus one fight.

Suddenly, Jay's shield detected more enemies, squeezing his arm as a warning. Two more silt wolves rushed out of the shadows. Jay raised his shield in time as a silt wolf slashed at it with its claws.

Lamp ran over to assist. The fight turned into a four versus three - Jay and Lamp both fighting the near-dead silt wolf - while this time Blue and Red held off the other two.

Thankfully, the cobalt-blue bone skeletons were incredibly durable. Jaw and claw attacks landing on their bones would only leave slight grazes and indentations instead of being shattered completely.

Jay dodged a wolf bite as he smashed back with his shield and slashed with his ossein sword. Lamp stabbed it just behind the jaw but its sword got stuck - Jay quickly smashed the wolf with his shield, forcing it back a few steps as he handed his sword to Lamp, then summoned another from his inventory.

"Emergency relief" He smiled - the wolf seemed to look confused as its opponent's face changed into a menacing shape.

A few more cuts, slashes and stabs later, the weakened wolf slowed down and died, Jay landing the last thrust of his sword - stamping his foot on its head as he planted the sword behind its skull, severing its spine.

[200 Exp]

Jay considered sending Lamp to help with the other fight and relaxing, but he decided it was kinda invigorating and fun to fight, so he continued to slay the other two wolves with the help of his minions. Lamp and Red fought one while Jay and blue fought the other.

The first wolf died to Lamp and Red - mainly because Lamp didn't need to worry about being damaged.

[200 Exp]

[Short Sword Proficiency Level 1 - Acquired]

Not reading the notification, Jay helped with the last enemy. The final wolf didn't last long as six swords, all crafted from the wolf's own bones, slashed it and stabbed it to death - three skeletons and Jay easily dispatched a single wolf at this point.

[200 Exp]

Finally, now I can check my notifications.

< [Short Sword Proficiency Level 1] >

[+2% damage when using short swords]

[+2% speed when using short swords]

[Parry - 5% chance] (Passive)

Parrying? Awesome. I thought I could already do it, though. Huh.

Jay didn't understand why the sword proficiency gave him a skill he already had.

In this world, people can learn a technique without a weapon or skill, and still fight effectively in combat - the only difference is, if a weapon or skill says it will do something, there's a 100% chance it will accomplish it. E.g.

A shield will say it has a 15% chance to block - this means, in the 15% of the time it blocks, it will block perfectly no matter the skill of the user - even if the user can block most of the time using their own talent.

Therefore, Jay and his minions can disable body parts by stabbing at them with swords. Even though the sword doesn't specifically say that it does disable, it can still happen because of physical damage. Meanwhile a sword may have a disabling trait, and landing a hit may disable a body part, even if it is just a surface-level scratch.

Jay carried on, checking his other notification that he ignored before.

< [Mental Coating - Level 1] >

[Mana shield - defense from mental/magic attacks]

[Area covered - 2.1 gallons (8 Liters)]

[5 Mana per second]

Two gallons, huh? Well, I guess it coats it, so that's about the size of a small bucket of water, enough to cover my sensitive brain.

Seems like a high mana cost, but I am low level, so I'll have more mana later on… But knowing the pain of not having it, it's totally worth it, even now. Hopefully, I can cover my whole body by the time I fight mental-based monsters that are strong enough to harm it.

Looking at the corpses, Jay retrieved the sword that Lamp lost, stashed the bones of the three silt-wolves in his ring along with nine ferritic plates and three more spines, before making his way over to the variant.

Its body was strange. It had no black fur like the other silt wolves, neither did it have any eyes, nose, ears - it seemed to all be covered by a fleshy, hairless hide - the hide itself was a deep, dark blue. Its mouth comprised the three fleshy flaps - one of them missing since Jay had blasted it off. It had no claws and was completely defenceless, if not for its mana abilities.

Jay extracted the bones from its flesh with his ring, and they tenderly left its body. No ferritic plates or spine were left behind, however, and Jay noticed the creature didn't have any plates lining its back, so his previous conclusion about the back-spikes being the ferritic plates was correct.

The extracted bones were the same color as Red's, predominantly cobalt-blue with blotches of red, though Jay noticed a few purple spots after looking more closely, almost blending into the blue.

As Jay was about to leave, he noticed something strange - a lump in the remaining dirt-crystal flesh. Pulling out his sword, he carved a hole to examine what it was, holding his breath in the event of it simply being gas or pus - though he was pleasantly surprised.

Pulling open the flesh, he uncovered a dark purple stone. It seemed like someone had polished it for years, reflecting Jay perfectly under the light from the lamp.

"Huh, a nice little reward for catching one of you slippery bastards." smiled Jay as he went to analyze it.

[?]

"What?" He analyzed it again.

[?]

And again a few more times, with the same result.

Weird. Maybe I'll sell it later, he thought, stashing it in his inventory.

Come to think of it, I still have to sell those green crystals… I could probably sell the charged ones to that brat for a decent price, but I should check the prices at the guild before trying though… Come to think of it, that brat could check too, and realize I ripped him off... Maybe I'll just sell them, he shrugged.

The charged ones only do five damage anyway, and my unstable teeth attacks already do that, with a chance to do 4 extra damage from the [Propagative Stress Rupturing]. He checked his inventory, finding he only had twelve teeth left.

Seems like I'll need to send the boys into the marsh, he thought, I wonder how much a tent costs.

Jay was thinking of camping near the stink-rat marsh dungeon entrance, so he didn't have to go back into that stinking, sweaty cesspool which was almost a celebration of filth. The skeletons could just make a pile of bones and teeth until he was ready to enter, withdraw his loot, and leave again.

Maybe I'll find a tent tomorrow while I'm ditching Mark, he emotionlessly thought.

Sitting down for a moment, Jay considered if he should head back home.

Hmm, I've been here for at least 5 hours, not including that time I fell asleep… so maybe even 10 hours? It's probably night time outside. But I don't feel tired yet, I'm more hungry than anything, so it's probably getting close to dinnertime.

Even though he was close to leveling up, Jay exited the dungeon.