Chapter 9 - 7: Worry and Changes (Updated number) (2/2)

Dixie who had calmed herself down earlier had noticed it as well by her sudden glance at John. By the way John looked at her and sensing his curiosity towards the nudging notification she flew up to him and sat on his hard boney shoulder and said, ”That's your connection to your minions, It usually does that when they either want to relay something to you or an evolution is possible. In this case, your one zombie dogs have reached a high enough level, like you did, to evolve. If you want you can use your connection to them to chose an evolution route and they'll evolve where ever they are instead of them having to come all the way back to base.”

John found this useful as he thought it through and pulled up his menu in his consciousness. He connected to his zombie dogs and saw their possible evolution route. They had the option of Zombie Wolves or Zombie Dog Beastmen which interested John but he had already set his eyes on what he wanted. He chose the route of the Zombie Wolf for all 19 of his Zombie dogs.

In an instant John put away his menu to look at one of the zombie dogs evolve through the eyes of his regular zombies. Without further thought John instantly saw the difference in how his minions evolved to how he evolved. Instead of them being consumed by darkness like he did, they just began to morph or for better words mutate into what John believed to be fully grown undead black wolves. John looked on as they grew larger and their bodies stretched and expanded to match the species they were evolving into as their previous wounds disappeared including the gaping holes from when John had impaled them.

John looked on with astonishment as they finished evolving into such wonders with eyes that glowed a murky blue hinting at the magic that keeps them alive. John began to wonder what the zombie humans would become if they survived long enough, but John had lost interest in what they could become and wondered about himself as he'd only evolved once.

Name: John Carlton

Species: <Magic Skeleton>

Stats: Level 17

Str: 67 Mana: 9500

Dex: 45 Hp: 165

Agi: 45 Luck: 30

Int: 175 Stat points: 40

Wis: 225

Seeing his level increase 4 despite having killed so many made John think for a minute. He thought on why his level wasn't as high as it should have been and the answer hit him. His zombie dogs had just evolved meaning they gained the experience to level up to their max levels so they could evolve, meaning they must have gotten most of the experience from the kills.

Just on time to fill in the blanks for John Dixie interrupts him and says, ”When you have a minion under your control and it gets a kill or accomplishes a complex task it also gains experience. It's also due to your master and minion relationship they gain about 60% of the experience earned while you receive 40%. This very reason is why in the other world's summoners and necromancers are seen as weaklings.”

Hearing this John thought of it as hilarious that someone could believe that necromancy was weak despite its fearsome prowess. He looked at his consciousness to see the hundreds of threads symbolizing his connection to his undead horde who could become stronger. He looked back at Dixie and asked, ”Are there others who use necromancy in the other worlds?”

Dixie giggled and said, ” Yes there are but because it's looked down upon and seen as forbidden magic they are often hunted down and killed. This leaves very few chances for those who have learned necromancy the chance to learn how to properly use it. You, having me, the best in my profession, and your menu gives you the advantage above others in any other field of magic.”

John, hearing this found it reassuring that he'd be capable of bringing about mass extinction throughout the three worlds. Before he could think of anything else he began thinking about how useful Dixie has been to him and how he would probably be lost in this world that was currently ignorant of his existence. He exits his consciousness and looks at Dixie with his blazing red eyes and said, ”Indeed you have been useful. Without you I wouldn't have made it this far, so thank you.”

Dixie felt embarrassed as this was her first time ever being complimented by someone she was sent to help. Before she even realized it she was blushing with a surprised look plastered on her face. Without any delay, she hurriedly turned and coughed in her hands and said, ”Well anyway don't you think it's about time you sent the horde to clear the new sewer system.”

John had entered his consciousness again and looked through all their eyes but could find the entrance at all. Feeling displeased with idea of having them go through the sewer entrance again he said, ” In all my time of being a homeless bum like the rest of them I never found it important to know where the entrance to the old sewer system was so it's going to take a while more.”

”Well since I'm feeling generous I'll give you a hint that all Necromancers should know. As your companion is connected to your soul and mind you have many options such as giving them a little bit of free will and intelligence or viewing their memories. That's just a bit of what you can do as you are essentially in control of a hive mind.” Dixie said as she looked at the many red threads connecting to John's back soul to their many mana nexuses.

John looking at his connections to all of his undead horde wanted to smile despite not having muscles, cheeks, and skin to express his delight over his further understanding of his skills. Feeling confident he focuses on his connection to all of his minions and puts his attention on their memories. It was like watching multiple movies on multiple screens all of their memories and knowledge became John's. Through the memories of several of his zombies, he saw the entrance to the new sewers being covered by a bunch of plywood.

It was truly an excellent bonus ability attached to his necromancy, but before he could do anything else a world splitting headache shot through John's head. It was so intense he couldn't help but fall to the ground and curl up while clutching his head.

He let out a roar that a magic skeleton shouldn't be capable of making better yet any skeleton for that matter. Dixie quickly flew down to him and said, ”You weren't supposed to look at all of them for your first time. You're supposed to only look through one of your minions memories at a time and gradually become attuned to looking at multiple memories simultaneously. Because you rushed the process you going through a withdrawal effect, for now on take it slow when it comes to this ability.”

John had heard everything that Dixie had said but it didn't matter. If the pain from the withdrawal was only this bad he could handle it unlike the pain from the evolution process. If it only cost this much pain to do this ability on a large scale as he did then to John it was only a little nuisance. As the pain from the headache receded he began to laugh as he saw how this ability gives him the option of using the knowledge he never knew to his advance. Whether it be engineering, construction, or inventing things that never existed in other the worlds he now had an exploitable advantage over those he's going to bring doom upon.