Chapter 43: The Death Lord (2/2)

"What of it, you brute?" said Valera "I hate your type - all you meat headed heavy armor muscle maniacs - the most"

"HM I SUPPOSE YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN THAT LOOK FOR YOURSELF" The Death Lord shrugged and gestured towards Valera's own bulky suit of armor

"The Death Lord does have a point," said Fler'Gan

Dynaet whose side you're on!?"

"Argh!" Fler'Gan rubbed his lightly dented, soft purple head and glared at Dynamite Girl and Valera "Gone are the days of proper, quiet, and gentle woruntled old man

"Quiet," said Aldrich

"YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO USE A LOOK THAT THIS BOORISH DEATH KNIGHT HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLUS, YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN AND FOUGHT ME LIKE THIS" The Death Lord took its gauntleted hand and tapped its breastplate

With that, its hugejust the orb of glowing green energy housed within the armor

The orb then turned into the silhouette of not an enormously ht, actually She stood confidently with a hand on her hip clothed in flowing green robes, a e, and a long skirt adorned with bones with a slit that showed off pale, shapely long legs

The Death Lord flipped flowing locks of long white hair behind her head and stared at Aldrich with a confident, sharp-toothed sreen eyes with reptilian pupils Draconic horns jutted fro upon my true forreatly I was confined only to my battle armor," said the Death Lord

"Unexpected," said Aldrich with some level of confusion as he stared at the Death Lord He knew the Death Lord's true for to the lore, before the Death lord becaon

He had no idea of the Death Lord's gender, but he had always thought by default it was e from a 'Death Lord', hence, how you perceived me before But to you, my dear, ishes to beco armor I will meet you in my true and proper form," said the Death Lord

"Master…," Valera looked at Aldrich staring at the Death Lord and then she sla the Death Lord's attention "You! You wish to tempt my master, is it!? You think he will fall for the likes of you!? You snake!?"

"Quiet, muscle-head," said the Death Lord She stretched her ar in the presence of a true lady here Or lord, if you prefer that"

"So?" said Aldrich, unimpressed "What is it? If you wanted to kill us, you could have"

"Oh, of course," said the Death Lord "But that's not the point This isn't like e lastout to me this time for my power, are you not? You want to becoed froive it or not?" said Aldrich

"Ohfor my essence just like that?" The Death Lord crossed her arue "No I welcome any and all ish to become a lich All I require is that you pass a trial ofyou already"

The Death Lord waved a green clawed finger towards Fler'Gan "He made quite the beautiful phylactery, that one, but like all eht have had the brains, but he didn't have the stones to h my trial"

"He doesn't re it's impossibly difficult, is it?"

"Her to her lips and cocked her head innocently "I don't think so I like to think I mete out rather fair trials And ould I not? I would love to seemy slaves, well, that's that, they simply weren't worthy

But you, Death Walker, you have already proven yourself worthy by defeatingthe sense that you'll still be giving ive out ether," The Death Lord nodded to herself "Ah, I knohat to do"

The Death Lord put a hand into her chest and it sunk into it like it sunk into a pool of water, rippling into soreen Sign Stone and tossed it to Aldrich

"You will start at the bottoreat royal tower, o high enough, and you will receive enerous, too

Any treasure you find, any monsters you raise as your own, any levels you extract, you keep

Plus, you get three tries Three lives But you only get to keep the rewards from your best try

Ah, and this, too Last you faced me, you faced ether your friends again, then I'll let theiving you Now go"

The Death Lord clapped her hands together, and Aldrich and his undead found hiain This time, in the midst of a dark, spacious crypt packed with shattered toe flashed in his status screen

[Necropolis: Floor 1]

Aldrich found himself fully healed with his mana restored, and the same happened with everyone else in his undead

[New Quest: Ritual of Eternity obtained]

[Atteroans andfrom the tombs around him Everyone in his aro," said Aldrich as he cracked his neck