Chapter 28: Skeleton Duke
[ Name: Ren Arken
Age: 14
Race: Human
Strength: 500
Agility: 10, 000
Vitality: 2, 000
Mana: ~~~
Spiritual: ~~~
Intellect: 1, 000
Unique Skills:
-magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -fire magic -Fire Archmagic -illusion magic -water magic -light magic -nature magic -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword god]
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A dark place.
A dark world.
A world with no sun and no moon.
Only death.
And a world consists of endless darkness.
All of this scene suddenly appeared inside of Oz’s head, but not only that, a skeleton wearing a full black armor is kneeling in front of Oz.
“You don’t have what it needed to be an undead..” A cold voice of a death lord suddenly appeared.
A dragon made only from bones suddenly landed in front of the skeleton.
“Gareth.. You’re a kind-hearted person. But that kind of undead is didn’t needed here, so all you can do is, DIE!“
*Roaaaar*
Following the roar of the bone dragon, an ice tornado came out, making everything in front of the bone dragon got scattered to pieces. But when the tornado’s about to swallow Gareth the dark skeleton too, rather than getting swallowed by the tornado, Gareth got swallowed by a black hole that suddenly appeared behind of him.
All of Gareth’s memory got transferred to Oz forcefully by the bound of the summoning magic. The crazy headache had begun to subside.
“So you’ve got through that kind of hell, huh,” (Oz)
(To summon a skeleton duke that considered a kind-hearted fellow in my first summoning makes me question whether that was a stroke of good luck or a stroke of bad luck)
(No wonder he’s alerted, the dragon that’s his best friend betrayed him and joined the faction of another undead king)
“Wait, did you got a piece of my memories too?” Asked Oz.
“You.. You’re not from this world too..” Said Gareth the skeleton duke.
“Yea. Since both of us is a foreigner in this world, we should just join hands and be allies” Advise Oz.
“Why would I trust you?” (Skeleton Duke)
“Didn’t you saw my memories? We have the same thing in mind, Serve me, and I’ll help you make a kingdom where undead could live peacefully here.” Offered Oz.
The skeleton duke froze for a second after Oz answered him, seems to be thinking something.
“I won’t serve anyone weaker than me, even if you have these chains, you’re just a weak human,” Refused Gareth the skeleton duke.
“Hmph! I knew you would answer like that,” Oz snorted.
Oz focuses his minds, trying to command the black grimoire to take the chains back.
(It worked!)
The chains that had been strangling the skeleton duke suddenly got absorbed back to the black grimoire.
“Come at me anytime you want, I rather have someone serving me willingly rather than unwillingly,” Provoked Oz.
The skeleton duke’s red eyes shone brightly when he heard Oz’s words.
*Whooosh*
With the same kind attack from before, he dashes to Oz with a terrifying and attempts to strike Oz with his jet black great sword.
*Whooooosh*
All happened in a blink.
But the one who loses isn’t Oz, the skeleton duke’s sword got deeply pierced to the ground, and Oz’s pointing two cards of number 10 card with both of his hands at the skeleton duke’s head from the skeleton duke’s back.
“Now, will you admit your defeat?” Asked Oz.
The skeleton duke didn’t know what Oz’s holding, but he could feel the ominous feeling coming from both of it.historical
“It’s my loss..“
The skeleton duke suddenly kneels to Oz.
“I admit my defeat, I’ll serve you as you wish, but I hope you’ll not forget the promise of the undead kingdom you’ll be building for my people,” Said the skeleton duke.
“Sweet! Then Gareth, you should have known my name from my memories, but, I will still introduce myself properly, my name is Ren, and I use Oz as my alias at my former world, you could call me whatever you want,” Oz kindly said.
“As you wish, your majesty,” Said Gareth with a bow.
“I only mention Ren and Oz, why do you pick your majesty?” Asked Oz annoyed.
“You’re a king, and the future king of both me and my people, I might make a slip of tongue in front of your subjects if I didn’t call you your majesty from now,” Explained Gareth indifferently.
Oz sighs.
“You said the same sentence with one of my friends at the kingdom,” Oz said, hearing that sentence makes him remembered Aegir that said the same sentence to him.
Oz stretched his head and saw his Griffin clone is standing watching him, he commands the Griffin to come to him and the Griffin obediently came to him. Seeing that the Griffin obediently came to Oz and sit in front of him, it relieves the wary Gareth.
!!!
Seeing the griffin makes Oz remembered the real clone card. Oz immediately summons the card at his hand.
[Summon real clones options:
-Goblin duke -Python -Orc baron -Demon duke]
(It’s still could be used! Why didn’t I thought of this before?)
The griffin’s option disappeared because the clone has been made, but the others still showed up indicating that the clone is available to be summoned.
(I choose the goblin duke!)
*Pooof*
The goblin duke form that Oz had been using before appeared in front of him.
(Damn! I couldn’t believe I missed this!)
Oz closes his eyes and the sight from the goblin duke form could be seen inside of Oz’s head, and Oz could control every part of the clone too.
So Oz could either control the form directly or just command the clone to make it move. Founding this cheat-like ability makes Oz both thrilled and excited.
Oz immediately summoned the orc baron clone, python clone, and the demon duke form too. The orc baron has brown hair like Oz and has some of Oz’s face features.
The demon duke’s hair is the combination of both grey and brown, the skin’s red and the body is well-built.
“Who are they, my lord?” Asked Gareth, wary.
“They’re my clones,” Said Oz with full of smiles, satisfied.
(I’ll send the goblin duke clone back to the kingdom, and make the other clones have an expedition at the forest)
(This way I could take care of the kingdom and have an adventure at the same time and from a far place! This is getting more and more game-like!)
The goblin duke clone immediately departs to the Tarot kingdom, and the other clones standstill in front of Oz.
“I need to go back, the sun will rise in a few hours, I need to get some sleep. Gareth, go on an expedition in this forest, you’ll be going together with my other clones.” Instruct Oz.
“Yes, my lord,” Answers Gareth.
Oz rides his griffin and went back to the orphanage, he opened the door very carefully trying to not make even the tiniest sound.
“Can you explain to me the reason why you come back this late?” A voice suddenly appeared beside him making him greatly surprised.
“Y-you, that brown hair, you must be Elena!” Said Oz.
“Don’t act as if you didn’t know me! I’m the only staff in this orphanage, you must be an idiot to not recognize me. This orphanage had its own rules, even if old man Kyron and the kids accept you, I won’t!” Said Elena coldly.
“So? It’s not that I want to know where you go, just consider it as a senior staff here interrogating you the reason why you come back to the orphanage this late.” (Elena)
(What a pain..)
“I can’t sleep so I go went for a little walk outside, but it seems that the beautiful scenery makes me forgot time, does senior Elena satisfied with that answer?” Oz replied, trying to convince Elena.
“Fine then, it’s cold here, so don’t come back this late ever again. It’ll be a hassle if you caught a cold. Go get some sleep,” Said Elena with a bossy manner.
(Does this girl actually worry about me?)
Seeing Elena’s attitude makes Oz unconsciously smiled.
“Why are you smiling?” Asked Elena.
“It’s the first time someone ever told me not to get cold. Rather than asking me to get some sleep, I think that you’re the one who should be getting some sleep, miss senior. You’re having black circles under your eyes.” Teases Oz.
Elena immediately covered her face after hearing Oz’s words. She actually hasn’t slept because she was waiting for Oz’s return. She’s worried because Oz had been getting a lot of troubles since he came to this kingdom, she’s worried that Oz might get into some trouble again.
(What an interesting girl..)
Oz went back to his room and changed his clothes to a set of clothes he always used for sleep. Oz can’t erase the habit of his from the old world, he always distinguishes the clothes for daily activities and for sleeping.
Oz immediately lies his body down to the bed.
“Fyuuuuh, what a long day,” He mutters to himself.
“Now, let’s give this body a rest, and have an adventure using the clone body of mine,”
“Let’s the game begin!”