My Necromancer Class: Part 10 - Footsoldier

My Necromancer ClassPart 10: FootsoldierAero Revian Copyright © 2023 Aero RevianAll rights reservedThe characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher. Head of Defense Blue hastily cut Jay out of the dying roots. It was a simple task when they didn’t grow back between each chop; the giant was dead.Jay stood up on the giant’s head, glancing at the army of knights below. It was like a sea of gnashing metal.Now what… Jay thought.The knights still hacked away at the giant’s corpse, spilling its green blood everywhere. One noticed Jay, then a few of them turned their helmets up, then many more lay their eyes on the perpetrator who caused all this. They climbed the giant’s body towards him and the skeleton at his side. It didn’t take long till most of the knights stopped attacking the motionless giant, realizing it was dead, while the source of their vengeance stood atop its corpse.Jay wasted no time looking for exits, but nothing had changed. Below him there were only rattling swords. Knights still blocked the passageway to the stairs. The portal still glowed with energy, but would not let him through. The only difference was that there wasn’t a storm of knights running along the observation deck overhead.Looking up to the observation deck above, Jay doubted he could make it that high, even with the mountain of bones in his gauntlet. The giant’s holding room was simply too big. Below him, there were great fissures cracked open by the giant, which would swallow many bones too, along with all the dead knights filling them. Unfortunately it wasn’t a viable escape route either.Nowhere to go… We’ll just have to stay. Jay thought, and took a step closer to the eye, glancing into the gaping hole he was just pulled from.The giant’s eye was just an entrance to a large opening on the inside. Because of the bones he had pumped into its skull, a cavity opened up inside its head. It was like a cave with the only way in through the eye.“Defensible and disgusting.” Jay pursed his lips, shaking his head. He didn’t want to jump in, but the knights were already climbing up to him.Without a second thought, he jumped into the eye-hole he just escaped from, plunging into a squishy wall of flesh below. The damage the bones had caused inside the head was devastating. Cuts and impacted, squished wounds leaked everywhere, with burst blubbery plant-flesh still seeping its blood. He landed in the pool of green blood, which went up to his knees.It was warm and humid inside the head, and its only redeeming quality was that it still had the fresh smell of a forest on an early morning, right after a rain.I better fix this place up a bit before the knights get here. Jay thought, planning his defenses.Releasing some bones from his gauntlet, he dropped enough to make a platform to stand on dry ground, above the pool of green blood.Jay quickly summoned Sweeper and let it craft its own sword. After it made another two-hand sword, Jay sent it onto the giant’s face, to give Blue some backup.Now… where is Red? Jay wondered, thinking if he should re-summon it or not.He could still sense it somewhere nearby. It was still alive, but the black fluid was interfering with his necrotic senses.*Cling~*The skeletons fought above, clashing against a knight, and Jay hastily got to work on his first set of defensive fortifications. He had just leveled up, and with mana regeneration and a larger mana pool, he wasn’t cautious about using his mana.Fuck caution when I can make a bunker.First, he spread a flat plane of mana over the platform he was standing on, fuzing the bones together and giving himself a more sturdy foundation. Next, he made his necrotic gauntlet release skulls and femur bones, causing them to swirl around in a cylinder shape, forming two pillars of skulls. Each arranged with the skulls facing outwards in rings stacked atop one another. As the pillar formed, he coated it with mana to bind it together, but Jay didn’t have time to admire his work.[230 Exp]Knights died above, and the skeletons began fighting more and more enemies. He fixed the pillars on the platform, melding them into it with more necrotic mana. After crafting the second pillar, they both reached up to opposite sides of the eye-hole.Jay pushed his boot against the skull pillars. Checking that the skull pillars were sturdy enough, he formed a skeletal beam from many straight bones, attaching it between the top of the pillars so that the giant’s eye-socket had a slender skeletal beam going across. Two gaps on either side of the beam. The gaps were wide enough for the skeletons to pass through, but too narrow for the armored knights to cross–at least not as fast as they would like to.[115 Exp]Jay added more bones to help reinforce the skeletal beam before working on the next part of his defenses. It was another bone platform, only higher up from the one at the base of the giant’s skull, built directly on top of the first platform.The first platform was to get his feet out of the green blood, but this one was higher, to help him and his skeletons to reach the opening in order to fight back any knights trying to get in. It was a simple process to make a raised platform of bones, and Jay topped it off with the flat rectangular bone plate he had previously used as a sleeping spot.Looks good, Jay thought and then began crafting spears. Before calling the skeletons inside, he crafted six spears and set them into