Chapter 52: Stepping into Prison (1/2)

The entrance to the Prison of the Dead laid within the black abyss in the eye socket of the giant skull. It was a relatively large entrance that allowed even the tallest imp among us, No.3, to pass through with ease.

The only problem was that it was too high up in the air and so I had to use my bone walls to create a makeshift stairways for the devils.

With the stairway completed, it was time for us to leave. However, what greeted me as I turned around to give out the order was a bunch of idiots staring blankly at me. Even the female devils were a part of this silly spectacle.

“What’s the matter? Is there something on my body?”

“Not at all. It’s just that Master’s body has gotten even more beautiful.” No. 5 replied in his usual ingratiating tone. “At this rate, no one will be able to resist the charms of Master.”

“Mhm, mhm.” Even my usually serious bodyguards, No.3 and Big 4, wholeheartedly agreed with him.

Nine-finger took it a step further by immediately leaping towards my left leg. “Master, just let me touch you for a while…”

“B*****d!” One-eye swiftly stepped in and halted his advance with a swift kick to his shoulders. “Who gave you permission to approach the Master?”

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“Big Brother…I…I…” Having received a withering glare from One-eye, he immediately shut his mouth up, not daring to speak anymore.

“That’s enough! No more arguing!” Their chaotic behaviour had ticked me off once more. I pointed at the entranceway and shouted : “Get in. All of you, get in!”

Having received a stern warning, no one dared to mess around anymore.

I got some of the smarter imps to act as a forward scout into the Prison of the Dead. Once their safety was confirmed, I finally gave out the order to march off.

As One-eye and No.5 led the army through the eye socket, I made use of this time to inspect my powers. Each time I evolved, I would automatically learn some new spells. This evolution was no different either.

Fireball: This is a pretty common spell but it is significantly stronger than my darkness arrows. It cost me 5 units of mana to cast it and it’s also worth noting that this spell can be charged up.

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Firewall: Its shape is similar to the bone wall and varied with the amount of mana spent on it. The more mana spent, the stronger than flames and the larger the wall.

Shadow Guardian: Unlike the other two spells, this belonged in the category of innate abilities instead. In order for it work, I have to activate it beforehand. Activating it costs 10 units of mana at which point it will consume 1 unit of mana every 10 seconds.

Its effect was to give my shadow a degree of autonomy. Once activated, my shadow would attack only those with hostile intentions towards me. This included both the living and the dead.

In short, Shadow Guardian allows my shadow to come to life temporarily in order to protect me. Its weakness was that it must maintain a connection with my body. This meant that it couldn’t just leave my side.

The Grimoire of the Dead had its contents updated as well: Summon Wraith, Summon Skeletal Archer and Bone Spear.

As for dark alchemy, there weren’t any changes made to those pages.

An important note has to be made that summoning the undead wasn’t something you could do out of thin air. It requires the correct medium and environment to do so.

For example, Summon Wraith is best used in an area where there has been a lot of deaths like a graveyard. Summon Skeleton is the same as well; a graveyard or a battlefield suited this spell the best.

Furthermore, without the requisite corpse acting as a medium, summoning an undead would require much more mana and even stood the chance of failing.

(Summoning an undead without the required corpse is impossible. When one tried to do so, the spell would open a dimensional link to Gehenna and transfer a corpse from there. As such, the spell then turns into a dimensional spell which requires a tremendous amount of mana.)

Because the devils didn’t know how to draw a bow…wait, that’s not true, it’s not that they didn’t know how to do so, it was simply that I wasn’t able to create a suitable bow for them.

Sigh, those days where we had no ranged capabilities really sucked…thankfully, those days would soon come to an end. With Summon Skeletal Archers, I’ll be able to create an archer squadron which would allow us to initiate the battle with a volley of arrows.

Wraiths were a two-star undead that specialized in unconventional tactics. They didn’t possess much combat strength by themselves but had the distinct advantage of being immune to physical attacks as long as they didn’t initiate an attack themselves.

Of course, this immunity came with a corresponding weakness as well. The world is a fair place after all. Wraiths took twice the amount of damage from magical attacks which means that magical fire attacks inflicted at least three times the amount of damage…

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To me, this meant that they were more suited to being scouts and assassins.

I attempted to summon one wraith as a test but…what the f**k, it actually ate up 50 units of my mana.

Furthermore, it looked a little ugly…

His face was genderless but given his ugly mug, he was probably a male wraith. My new wraith came dressed in a set of tattered prisoner clothes and even had the skinhead to go with it. As for his body, he had an average build that was neither muscular or slender and was missing the defining feature of a female, boobs…you can basically conclude that he is a male.