The Ruined Death Knight

With a swing of an axe, a loud cracking sound was to be heard.

*Crack!

And within the sound, a Draugr fell to the ground, his flaring eyes vanishing in defeat.

And he wasn't the only one.

Draugr after Draugr started to fall to the ground with their ribs crashing and their skulls, falling to the ground, no longer able to follow their lieges will.

The sounds of weapons clashing didn't seem to be ending, alas the undead surely did.

Despite taking the natives by surprise and blocking their sight by a certain amount, the Draugr was starting to fall one by one.

*Ting!

One Draugr wielding a sword slashed towards Maxxren, though was swiftly blocked by his shield.

Then another Draugr moved through those two and raised his sword to slash down at Alka.

Alka raised her axe forward and even grabbed it with both of her hands, making her shoulder ache in pain.

*Truk!

The Draugr managed to destroy the wooden handle of the axe and raised his sword to give the killing blow.

But before he could, a spear appeared from his side and destroyed his skull.

Seeing that from the side, the Overseer felt anger and helplessness.

'They had a magic caster after all...' He thought regretted it.

With their surprise attack and the advantages of numbers, it could be said that the two parties were equally strong.

But the Shaman turned the whole battlefield upside down and worse, the warriors became faster and stronger on their own.

If they were natural-born Draugrs, they would have easily been able to overwhelm them.

But that wasn't the case.

'At this rate, we will fail his will...' The Overseer though.

Nonetheless, he couldn't do anything to change the current reality.

Despite being created by a Death Knight and having runes carved into their bones. Making them far more powerful than other Draugrs created by lesser necromancers.

It wasn't enough to overcome the current situation.

And though the support of the Shaman and the warrior Xesan became stronger, he failed to doge an attack and one of the axes landed on his ribs and cut through time before cutting his free.

The force of the attack together with how light the Overseer's body was, was sent a few meters flying and rolling to the ground.

Be the Overseer quickly managed to look at his opponent despite having his arm cut.

He thought that he would see the warrior come rushing towards him, but instead, Xesan turned around and helped eliminate the other Draugrs.

Having his opponent turned his back, the Overseer couldn't help but think of how weak he was.

'We aren't like the Lords...we are expendable.'

That fact he and the other Draugr knew but hated to admit.

That they were expendable and unneeded for their Liege.

They liked to think otherwise, but the Overseer knew best how true this pitter truth was.

As he watched the other Draugr falling to the ground, the Overseer remembered the orders bestow by his liege personally to him.

'Within my absence, you should be the Overseer of this village. And I grant you the power to overwrite my orders in case I won't be returning.'

Back then he was honored for being granted a name and also puzzled at his liege's last words. Making him ask for details.

'There is a slight chance that I won't be returned back here. If that were to happen, you are to forget my orders and lead the others.'

That statement alone made him back then despair.

That was also the reason why the Draugrs were trying their best to earn their Lieges recognition.

Unlike the Lords, they weren't special to their master.

"I am unworthy of his will..." The Overseer said as the rest of the Draugrs fell to the ground, with similar regret's as his.

Raising up to his two feet, the attention of the other living went towards him.

"Though, I refuse to disrespect the name that his liege given to me!" The Overseer raised his long sword up to the air and the runes lit up in an ominous blue light.

'You shall be the Overseer...and this sword should prove to the others the name that I give you now. It has 4 runes, though 3 are worth mentioning as one is for durability. Remember each rune, one is called [Rune of Ice Breath]~'

Suddenly, all the cold mist that was spread throughout the village started to rush back on the Overseer's long sword now started to have his light mixed with crimson color, which sucked the blood from the warriors.

"Tch! The dead should stay dead!" Xesan cursed as he rushed to finish off the Overseer.

'The second rune is called [Rune of Thirst]~'

Once Xesan was close enough, he jumped with his axes above his head, readying to swing them down at the despicable cursed warrior.

Before the warrior could reach him though, the Overseer held the sword backward and pierced the ground.

*Tring!

Once it was done, all the sucked cold mist of before together with the nearby air exploded around the Overseer sword as a continuous stream of powerful cold mist while carrying the blood of everyone.

*FSOOOOOOOOGHHHH!!!!~

It was so powerful that Xesan was pushed back and sent rolling to the ground until he pierced his axes to the ground so that he won't be swept away by the powerful pressure of the cold mist.

Even the others who were further away were being pushed back and they had to crouch as the nearby building was getting destroyed by the cold mist and the snow that it threw at them.

The Overseer wasn't unaffected, but having known the power beforehand, his piercing the sword to the ground while holding tight left him pretty much unaffected.

'I am glad that I let those 4 hide...' The Overseer thought as his mana was almost drained dry by the runes.

Raising to the ground with the support of the long sword, the Overseer put his hand back on his small back and brought out a small piece of rolled paper.

"W-What was that?"

"Is it over?"

"To think magic this powerful existed..."

The warriors mumbled as they raised to the ground.

But suddenly, someone noticed the piece of paper that the Overseer was holding.

"Hey! What is he holding?"

"Looks like leather or threat...?"

Some asked.

But the Overseer didn't care to explain.

As he was following his lieges orders.

'If the living come, and you judge that you can take them with the others, hold 1 or 2 hostages. If not possible killing them all is also fine. If you judge that they are too much to handle...use the rune contract as I explained. Prioritize your survival over my orders if necessary...'

Opening his mouth, the Overseer suddenly bit through the runed contract with his teeth and dragged his hand with the contract.

Ripping the rune contract right in front of the native warriors. They were at first confused.

But then, dark green flames exploded through the piece of paper.

Lighting the Overseer's clothes around his neck in those dark green flames similar to his hand.

Now with his neck and whole hand burning in the dark green flames, the Overseer picked up the long sword and pierced through the ground.

"O living ones...I might have failed my liege, but know thee!!!" The Overseer yelled with his flaring dark green eyes burning fiercer that the flames around his body.

Raising the sword to his side, the Overseer remembered the last rune that was carved into the sword that proved his name.

And the last rune activated in an ominous dark green light.

"My will is the will of my Lieges!!!"

"And his will is Eternal!!!" The Overseer shouted with his death aura coming out of his body as he swung the long sword.

The warriors expected some sort of ranged attack to happend but what happend next left them truly dumbfounded.

*Crack!!!

The cursed warrior in front of them swung his own long sword at his skull.

The dark green light of the runes suddenly enveloped the Overseer and sucked the dark green flames just like his soul inside the weapon.

"Eternal~!!!" An echo of the Overseer's voice spread through the surroundings before vanishing completely and his soulless body falling to the ground.

The long sword fell soon after to the ground, making the natives relax with the last enemy now gone.

"Don't lower your guard as of yet, more of them might be hiding nearby..." Xesan said as he turned around and saw that 7 of them died.

"I would say that we leave Xesan. If they are truly more, heck, their creator might even be" before Maxxren could finish, Xesan interrupted him.

"You are right, we lost already enough good people..." Xesan said as he walked towards the corpse of the Overseer.

He put his axes axe on his hips before bending down and picking the long sword off the ground.

"Let's pick those weapons and return. According to Alka, they might be more than twice the amount of cursed warriors here..."

Alka was shaken by the idea of the rest of the village has become what her mate has turned out to be.

With tears on her face, she went to help the others despite being told to take it easy.

She blamed herself for letting those 7 die as if she hadn't arrived at their village and died somewhere in the wild.

None of these would have happend.