Restless Dead

The sound of the bustling town became distant as Kaito entered the forest. He looked up towards the tree canopies that were letting through slivers of sunlight that lit up patches of the forest floor.

In return, these patches of grass and moss became a home for wondrous flowers to bloom.

Kaito marveled at the sight as he looked around, mushrooms huddled together close to the bases of the trees, butterflies elegantly seeking out the flowers, one after another.

A small lizard had found a rock in the sunlight, making it the perfect place to sunbathe, It departed and ran towards a crevice in a tree to hide as it spotted Kaito walking past it.

'I wonder if we're ready for the creatures that lies ahead' Kaito thought as he continued along.

"well, there's only one way to figure it out", he glanced at his skeleton, which was looking around at the forest in awe.

Kaito shook his head and continued deeper into the forest, after a few minutes of walking he heard growling ahead.

Kaito sat down and started to sneak, his skeleton following suit. They slowly made their way towards the sound.

Kaito could see that there was a clearing up ahead and carefully hid behind a tree, he looked out behind the tree and saw two wolfs growl at each other.

In between the two wolfs there was a corpse of a deer, 'they must be fighting over that deer i guess' Kaito stood still, wanting to see what would happen next.

Suddenly the two wolfs lunged at each other, gnashing of teeth, claws tearing through flesh. It was a messy battle, but none of the contestants would back down.

There was a momentary opening in one of the wolfs defence and his opponent would be a fool not to use it. The wolf charged ahead and bit down upon his rival's throat.

A soft whimper was let out, but nothing more before the body of the losing wolf became limp. Left stood a bloodied and battered wolf, victorious.

'Now's our chance, when the wolf is already damaged' Kaito looked towards the skeleton that was hiding behind a tree just next to him, he gave it a nod.

Pain was no matter in the face of victory, the wolf felt proud over defeating it's foe. what followed victory was a big feast, the wolf moved up to the deer corpse and was just about to take big bite before it heard something.

The sharp hearing of the wolf made it's ears twitch, a soft rattle, it sounded as if someone was playing the maracas while trying to sneak. The beast's eyes followed the sound and was met by the sight of a skeleton, staring back.

The sight scared the wolf, but it couldn't let a feast such as this go to waste, especially not after having to fight for it.

The wolf stood it's ground and started to growl.

〚Young Wolf Lvl.3 HP: 37/150〛

'Even so severely damaged it still has more hp than a rabbit' Kaito became focused as he realized that this could become a hard battle.

The wolf and skeleton circled around each other, slowly, both looking for a chance to charge at the other.

Suddenly the wolf charged, the skeleton tried to dodge but failed, the wolf was much faster and swiped at the undead with it's claws.

-15

Kaito looked at his undead, thinking about how to win this fight.

〚Insane's Undead Lvl.1 HP: 25/40〛

The skeleton tried to hit the wolf, but the creature quickly evaded the attack and counterattacked, swiping at the skeleton once again.

-12

〚Insane's Undead Lvl.1 HP: 13/40〛

Kaito needed to do something, he was racking his brain for solutions and that's when he got an idea. A very stupid idea, but an idea nonetheless.

Kaito joined the battle, running towards the wolf ready to hit the creature with his bare fist. The wolf saw his new opponent and easily evaded the attack then lunged at Kaito.

-15

Kaito grimaced as he felt sharp pain from where the claws had scratched him, he didn't know that the game could make the players feel pain.

But now was no time to be idle, this was part of his plan after all.

After the wolf had attacked the human the creature wasn't able to react before a bony foot hit it's face, sending it flying backwards

-9!

The wolf quickly regained it's battle stance and looked around, he only saw the man from before, now running towards it yet again.

The wolf easily evaded Kaito's attack and quickly attacked back, swiping at Kaito's back, leaving long claw marks.

-14!

Again, the wolf had no time to dodge before a bony fist come flying from the side and hit it.

-7!

The wolf looked around, but didn't see the skeletal opponent from before, it knew that the undead was hiding somewhere, it started trying to seek it out but didn't have the time before the human ran towards it yet again.

This time the wolf had lost it's patience, it wasn't going to continue this dance. It went straight for the throat and Kaito welcomed it.

-25!

As the wolf bit down on Kaito's neck he put his arms around the wolf and held on for dear life, falling down towards the ground.

5 Strength wasn't much, but he was just barely able to hold down this badly damaged wolf, The skeleton charged forward and a flurry of hits rained down onto the wolf.

-4

-5!

-4

The wolf panicked and started biting and tearing, Kaitos HP went down quickly. This had become a race of mindless attacks.

-12

-14

Kaito winced in pain and looked at his health.

Health: 15/95

His eyes turned to his opponent.

〚Young Wolf Lvl.3 HP: 8/150〛

The skeleton then kicked the wolf, drilling it's sharp bony toes into it's side.

-7!

As the wolf was sent flying it teared a piece of flesh from Kaito with it.

-11

The Wolf hit a rock where it slumped down and died for good.

-1

The blood that was splattered over the whole forest clearing began to turn into pixels of light, erasing all traces of the dead wolfs hard battle.

〈Killed Young Wolf Lvl.3!〉

〈acquired 1 Wolf pelt〉

〈acquired 2 Wolf meat〉

〈Gained 20 Experience!〉

〈acquired item: Wolf Fang Dagger(common)〉

〈Congratulations! Your Ability Leveled Up! Raise Undead: Lvl.1 - > Lvl.2 !〉

Kaito looked at the notifications as he laid down on the ground, he looked at this health

Health: 4/95

"That was a bit too close for comfort" He stood up carefully, not sure if he should move at all.

Kaito looked around and spotted his skeleton sitting on a rock, it had found a big leaf and was gently putting it up against it's forehead, mimicking the motion of trying to get rid of all the sweat after such an intense fight.

Kaito rolled his eyes and opened up his character window, he wanted to see what had changed when he leveled up the Raise Undead ability.

Raise Undead Lvl.2 (becomes stronger with intelligence) ﹀

Cost: 25 Mana to create 1 undead

Current limit: 2 undead

His eyes lit up as he saw that he now could summon 2 skeletons, he wanted to try it. "Raise undead" he uttered and a mist of purple left his hand along with bones rising from beneath.

〈Ability: Raise undead used! Mana: 50 > 25〉

〚Insane's Undead Lvl.2 HP: 80/80〛

'Oh! new and improved' Kaito walked a few circles around the the new skeleton, it looked completely the same, but it had more health and it just felt stronger.

The damaged skeleton started following Kaito and walked around, inspecting the new summon.

Kaito looked at his damaged undead-

〚Insane's Undead Lvl.1 HP: 13/40〛

He sighed, "I release you from your service" he uttered as he stretched out his hand.

〈Insane's Undead Lvl.1 released! Receiving a 1/3 of the energy back. Mana 25 > 33〉

The pile of bones started crumbling and Kaito quickly summoned another skeleton- "Raise undead"

〈Ability: Raise undead used! Mana: 33 > 8〉

〚Insane's Undead Lvl.2 HP: 80/80〛

He smiled, he felt much more powerful now. But he also felt exhausted, he sat down under a tree and closed his eyes.

He could hear the sounds of bones creaking and rattling and as he looked up he saw that the skeletons had also sat down under the tree, accompanying him.

One of the skeletons had put their head on the shoulder of the other and was sitting there with it's mouth open.

It was probably trying to look asleep, but it was impossible with no eyelids, so it just stared straight out into the forest, a very eerie scene.

Kaito was beginning to get used to his summons being weird so he didn't really care about it. After regaining some hp he was going to look for more wolfs, he thought that he could perhaps fight one now that he had 2 skeletons under his command.

He closed his eyes, feeling reassured that the restless dead watched over him.