The Ruined Death Knight

[Please choose your path as a Runesmith of Undeath]

[Choose 1 out of 3 talents to permanently gain.]

[Undead Carver]

[Runes of Arcane]

[Rune Magic Circle]

Reading the windows in front of me I was surprised and confused at the same time.

The reason why was because the class advancement didn´t look like the one that I became a [Undead Guardian].

There I had the option to choose a class better than the one before better. But this window looked similar to...

"It resembles the race evolutions options..." Danzel said subconsciously.

Having the chance to pick up talent was only shown to be possible by the race evolution when I reached the maximum level.

The windows were the same just with other options to choose from.

Heck, Danzel thought they were somewhat lacking too.

But when he tapped at the first option all these complaints vanished into tin air.

[Undead Carver]: A Runesmith who yearns to master the ancient runes of the immortal beings otherwise known as Undead. The runes of an undead carver go towards the path of learning the necromantic ways of undead runes. Though there have some handy options for those who are mortal, the undead runes show their tremendous strength in hands of an undead himself. Increased your chance to draw an undead rune from [Dead Rune Knowledge] by 25% and enchants the rune effect by 10%]

[Runes of Arcane]: There is no end in the ways of magic, no matter which school of magic it is. And though that unending spring of knowledge that ais the Runes of Arcane. A Runesmith who yearned to combine the way of magic and runes is the result of Runes of Arcane. Such runes are capable to hold multiple effects and have more mana efficiency than any other runes. Increase your chance to draw arcane runes by 25% and enchants the effect of the rune by 10%]

[Rune Circle Magic]: Most commonly known as Circle Magic. Compared to other arts of magic, circle magic requires you to draw your spells with your mind in a magic circle form. Though the spell takes longer to create and the effect being in a fixed state, thus making it the safest magic. The power output of it is one of the best among the magic arts they are. Being able to learn Rune Circle Magic.

Looking at all the options, Danzel had to take a moment to process the whole information he was given.

"The effects are much better than expected..."

They were so good that I wanted to get all three of them!

"[Undead Carver] and [Runes of Arcance] both offer something similar yet at the same time not."

If you go beyond and remove all the flavor text, then both of those talents purely gave a 25% chance to find the given art of rune with better efficiency at that too. Though I haven´t seen any of those types of runes, I could guess that they were powerful.

Arcane runes could probably make a sword that is capable to shoot flames into reality, while the undead runes would have similar effects to what the goblin shaman had used to raise the dead. Just placed in the sword.

Though both options of raising your slain enemies and shoot fireballs left and right did sound very much appealing.

There was another talent to think about.

The [Rune Circle Magic] though didn´t give me any flat values such as improving your runes, the knowledge that it was offering was tempting enough to consider it.

"If I were to pick this I will probably be able to wield magic...but circle magic?" Danzel thought in conflict to himself.

That talent was the ticket of learning some actually spells, but the type of magic was the problematic part.

"Right, the old owner's book should have more detailed information in that kind of magic." Without picking a talent yet, Danzel stood up and picked the book lying on the table.

Opening the book he found what he was searching for.

"Circle Magic...a slow casting magic that requires your mental power to manifest..." Taking this time to read the few pages about circle magic, he closed the book and put it down to the table again.

"Sigh...it´s no good." Sighting disappointed he crossed the [Runes Circle Magic] talent away from the list and only focusing on the two other talents.

Reading the book [Knowledge for every Caster] did indeed had the information that I wanted, if not even more than though.

The book did greatly highlighted the strength of such magic so much that I thought that the old owner who wrote this was himself a magic caster using circle magic. Strengths such as greater control, more accuracy, and overall firepower of the spell were written upon.

But the biggest part that made me cross it out of the list was the cast time.

As someone who fights in the melee.

A type of magic such as circle magic where you had to stay at a place and concentrate at the same time would cripple my battle style.

What I needed was some quick cast magic such as [Gale Mana Blade] where I could use while moving.

The type of magic by itself seemed more of a passive one going towards the sub-schools of rituals and summoning.

"I shouldn´t strive off the right path...the moment I picked the [Runesmith of Undeath] as a sub-class I knew that it was going towards more being more of a crafter and I should focus on that."

Making up my mind, I clicked to what I believed was the most suitable talent.

"That should be it..."

[You acquired the talent [Undead Carver]!]

[Your talent [Dead Rune Knowledge] has been upgraded!]

"Hoh, where did that upgrade suddenly come from?"

`Let´s see what´s new.´

[Status]

Name: Rue Danzel

Level: 20

Class: [Undead Guardian Lv. 20]

Sub-Class: [Runesmith of Undeath Lv.10]

Health: 5500/5500

Mana: 1012/1012

Attribute points: 9

Attributes: Strenght 140 Agility 118 Intelligence 92 Endurance 99

Talents: [Superior Undead] [Sin of Wrath] [Reinforced Soul] [Superior Unique Concioness] [Rune Vision] [Dead Rune Knowledge] [Undead Carver]

Skills: [Intermendiate Weapon Master Lv.1] [Undeath Corruption Lv.1] [Dash Lv. 1] [Shield bash Lv.4] [Gale Mana Blade Lv.3] [Sense Danger Lv.3] [Curse of Exhaustion Lv.1] [Piercing Lv.1] [Mana Arms Lv.1]

[Remark: A Undead Carver of Superior Strenght. One of the strongest natural draugr that there is. Though her tier undead far surpasses this strength. For your current tier of strength, you can be considered a powerhouse.]

[Storage: 59 425 XP]

"I see...the levels of the sub-class didn´t go down but stayed at 10. I wonder if the next advancement is at level 20 or thirty." Putting all useless speculation out of this mind, Danzel pressed and opened the [Dead Rune Knowledge] window.

"Oh! That´s what it means by being upgraded!"

Looking below the common box that he usually bought runes from, there was another one with the name of [Uncommon].

"Hahaha! I was right all along! It did indeed unlock by advancing to the next tier of the class!"

What stopped this frantic laugh though was the number shown when he clicked on the [Uncommon] Box.

"I-Impossible!"

[Uncommon]: Cost 50 000 XP to learn a Random rune.

Looking at the cost being five times more than the common runes he felt like someone hitting him at this head with a metal bat or something.

"You greedy thing! That´s daylight robbery that you are doing right here!" Danzel punched the floating window only for this fist to pass through.

"It was already a bottomless pit before...what about now though!? Do you want to dig even deeper than it already is until you reach my damn wallet!"

If he had veins in this head they would even explode by now out of the frustration that he was feeling right now.

The worst part of it all was the expectation that he was having towards the uncommon box.

"Dammit! This is a taunt directly at my face saying to waste the precious XP that I slaved for four whole days! With a whole of 50 000 XP, I could even buy five different common runes instead of a single one!"

Alas, the curiosity eats the cat.

"Ugh...I planned to use the remaining XP for my mission, but screw it! I can always get that XP later while the curiosity will make me insane!"

Tapping the uncommon box with my finger, a window with a new rune showed in front of me.

[50 000 XP have been used to learn an uncommon random rune]

[You acquired an Undead Rune of Eniv]

[Rune of Eniv]: A rune inspired by [Drain Touch] the race ability of every Lich. Consumes the vitality by touch from both wearer and target. The rune is only able to be placed upon a glove or gauntlet type of armor.

"M-My first Undead rune!" He jumped out from this bed out of surprise.