Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

Loimos had gotten very close to the students of the academy, having gotten a clear idea of their capabilities in a sparring session, of course, he had defeated all of them with the disadvantage of having most of his abilities and tactics unavailable to him, but it wouldn't be right to discard all of them as no good because of this, they had gotten much experience and training since then, their progress only getting faster since the attack led upon them using puppeteers and defilers.

The skeleton had made certain to share every details of his learnings about them to Unacunerra, having mentioned a few of them as to be looked out for the most, today, as The Earthen Disaster appeared in the wide halls of the prison Faraday had been locked at the bottom of, he was met with two of those, pretty much inseparable from one another.

Even the utterly emotionless Loimos had noticed that they were held together by something firm, of course, the concept of love was foreign to him, simply seeing the natural need for procreation of the living as this link.

Unacunerra found it rather amusing, that his undead junior was somehow simultaneously capable of grasping the concepts of the living and also utterly miss the point, interrogating him on such concepts was always a guaranteed way of hearing some most bizarre and obscure things.

Coupled with One being around, Loimos was inadvertently a great comedian and entertainer even when as apathetic as apathy could go.

This was what Unacunerra was reminded of when he laid sight upon Milo and Helena, the girl, it was obvious why the rotten skeleton had deemed her as a living to pay attention to, but the experienced mage could see even further than this.

Magical talent was easy to discern for him, he had fought and slayed many that would have been deemed incredible geniuses in this day and age, he quickly considered killing her right here and there, but spotting a magical item infused with burning mana, it should be made obvious that were he to try, or attempt to use a spell to overpower that object, the woman that had already bested him once would show up, and getting into a struggle of zones was not conductive to anything right now.

Instead, he looked over at the boy, not quite seeing what had made the all logic, all calculative undead deem him a threat to pay attention to, sure, his natural physique was incredible, the typical build of one that could make great use of the system stats due to having an incredible base without using any tricks.

Powerful mana, sure, but that was not especially impressive for Unacunerra, who had learned directly from Nitok, the conventional grading system for energy aspects was rather obsolete in the case of the undead king, so having a few aspects off the charts was not anything to write home about.

His element was rather odd, but nothing seemed to be overly special about it.

'He is not the sort of to get random odd feelings about anything, and, it was the release of this boy's elemental mana that got the defilers all worked up, perhaps it relates to the heretical fire'

Disguised, the royal guard stepped from a corner, into sight of the two students, who instantly stopped moving.

His control over the earth allowed the skeleton to appear like some sort of clay sculpture, keeping his mana hidden, making sure that they would not be able of linking him with certainty to the zone user they had met, having even put his staff away.

"What brings you here children? All that was to be done has already been dealt with" he crossed his arms, taking up a non-aggressive pose with them, still stepping toward them though.

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"Don't take another step forward and identify yourself" Helena conjured up a few visible blades of wind to make her demand more convincing.

The undead mage did as he was told.

"I have no name" he did not feel like inventing something, instead throwing a question back at them.

"Were you stationed in the city to watch over this dungeon? If not, I do wonder what you are doing rushing into here when the earth is shaking so powerfully"

"You see, I am questioning whether you are so incredibly brave, or so mind-numbingly idiotic for taking this course of action" he swung his hands around, slowly putting his feet into a much less amicable disposition.

"We, and by that I mean all recent graduates of Toordefer, have simply been assigned areas to watch over, simply making sure no puppeteers and defilers are still wandering around" Helena handled the talking.

'That sounded like a lie'

"Ah" Unacunerra did not say anything about the perceived deception and just went along "So, you are wondering if I have anything to do with those? Rest assured, I simply cleared this dungeon of its master, I am no villain" the last of the servants of Faraday disappeared into the tunnel.

And without bothering to buy any more time, the skeleton mage moved right up to Milo, ignoring the harmless blade of winds raining down on him, their power wasn't too bad, but any harmful spells getting close to him were dissected and rendered back into simple mana.

Grasping the boy's arm, Unacunerra didn't give much a leeway for Milo to slip away, taking control of the living's mana and thus preventing him from augmenting his physical prowess, forcing him to produce some of his golden element and guiding him to crystallise it on the outside, draining him of his energy in just an instant.

Taking the crystallised mana for himself, Unacunerra stepped back, erecting countless walls of earth as he retreated back to the lowest chamber of the iron dungeon, having done all this complicated actions in less than five seconds, leaving no chance for either of the two to properly fight back, but he made sure not to endanger them.

Sensing multiple of his walls collapsing as he arrived back into the tunnel he excavated, he had to admit that the winds that girl could conjure were rather destructive when needed.

The dungeon began to collapse, starting from the bottom, Unacunerra had successfully retrieved Faraday, Slotriig, and a great number of forces, soon, he would be able of learning more about Rosemary as well, with some luck, he would be able of gleaming a way to counter her zone more efficiently.

And if he could not figure out a way to overpower her with certainty, then, The Earthen Disaster would simply bring his findings to the only mage more capable than himself.