My Necromancer Class: Part 9 - Hungering Depths

My Necromancer Class: Part 9Hungering DeepAero 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. ForewordThe author made a decision to use brackets for when Jay telepathically communicates with his skeletons. Eg:(Red, defend me) Jay ordered. This is a thought-command. Only Jay and his skeletons can hear it.✽✽✽ This novel is in the process of being heavily edited. Stomach PierceJay stood up, leaving his cover behind the tree; his position was discovered. There was no point in hiding so he had to fight. The two-hander knight charged at Jay. Sweeper was sprinting towards it, intercepting the enemy. The knight had a target though, and it wasn’t going to let some measly skeleton stop it. Holding its sword’s grip with one hand, it rested the blade on the back of its other gauntlet, pointing the sword forward and continued its charge. Sweeper had to dodge or die. Sweeper side-stepped, dodging the hulking armored enemy, Sweeper slashed as it passed by, though no real damage was done as its sword scraped across armor. Jay released a wall of bones from his gauntlet. An ashen-white barrier appeared between himself and the knight. Unfortunately, it really was just a pile of bones. It had no structural stability or any real protection, and was tall as it was wide. It was more like a mound than a wall. Jay readied a spear behind the barrier. Sweeper followed behind the knight, but it kept its momentum and charged right into the makeshift barrier of bones. With a crash, bones split and cracked as its unstoppable heavy armor smashed through the bone wall, and Jay was surprised at how flimsy his barrier truly was. At the very most, all it did was slow some of the knights’ momentum. Jay planted the base of his bone spear into a gap between the roots, bracing it while aiming the tip at the rampaging knight. The knight had no time to react. The spear’s tip found a catch in the armor, fixing itself in place before snapping under the force of the knight. The knight stumbled and slowed down, caught off guard for a moment - it couldn’t see what was on the other side of the wall before it charged right through it; relying on its metal armor to protect its body. Yet even as it stumbled it brought down a heavy cut towards Jay’s head. The two-handed blade gleamed into Jay’s eyes. Jay stepped back and brought an ossein sword out to meet the already-falling swing of the two-handed sword. A green blast of chaotic energy erupted. The ethereal helminth let out a necrotic bolt - but as it met the enemies armor it burst into a harmless glowing cloud of mana. Jay’s gauntlet hand was free, but he didn’t have his death-walker’s sentry shield out for one reason. “Uncaring rip!” He reached his gauntlet out as if grasping for his enemy's soul, yet the bone ripped out was not enough to execute. The bone that was ripped out was somewhere in the chest, and if Jay had to guess it was part of the rib cage, though it didn’t exit the armor it was clad inside - perhaps for the best, as there was the risk of parasites spraying out. The knight didn’t feel any pain and continued to pull down its heavy sword, cleaving through the green mana cloud. *Clang!~* Jay’s bone sword deflected the two-hander from crushing his head. But it was too heavy. It cleaved into his unarmored shoulder, snapping his clavicle. Jay dropped his sword. “GRRH!” His eyes widened as his brows creased. He gritted his teeth, In defiance he reached up to the sword and pushed it out of his shoulder with his necrotic gauntlet - but something was wrong: his arm was still attached? Well, not wrong, but peculiar. To both Jay and the knight’s surprise the damage was not as life-threatening as it seemed. Right before it cut into Jay’s shoulder, an ethereal parasite tail appeared and flashed a deep necrotic green as it met the sword just above its master’s precious flesh. It took most of the damage. The helminth’s [Sentinel form] worked perfectly. Since the helminth absorbed the damage, the sword didn’t sever his arm completely. In fact, as Jay pushed it off, there was no pain at all. Sweeper finally caught up, pouncing on its armored back. Unfortunately, Sweeper hadn’t yet reclaimed its weapon and was only like an annoying pest. It clung to the knight’s limbs and could only use its natural claws to rend flesh through whatever gaps it could find. The knight ignored the skeleton on its back and focused wholly on Jay. It was of the intelligent variety, so its intuition was telling it to cut out the heart of the enemy’s forces - Jay. *Fwoosh!~* A wide sweeping arc of the two-handed sword caused a waving noise through the air as it closed in on Jay. Its two armor-clad arms worked at full force as its whole body leaned backwards against the swing, and Jay doubted his helminth would be able to take another hit like this. *Fwoosh! - BOONG~* The blade was met with a solid block. Deathwalker’s sentry appeared just in time as it materialized in Jay’s grip, though the force knocked him away from his fallen sword. A dagger appeared in his other hand, but It wasn’t a bone dagger - it was one of the defensive spikes that Sweeper had crafted, and it was Sweeper who Jay tossed it to. Sweeper scrambled to the ground to get the bone spike, while Jay stepped forward and planted his foot on