BXBX NOVEL Chapter 61: Glow
’Damn…’
’She didn’t laugh or say no though’ he closed his eyes, trying to catch some sleep instead of going through scenarios in his head, he had tried his best to write properly, and apart from having a horrendous handwriting, he believed to have done fairly well.
As his mind cleared and his breathing slowed, he slowly and seamlessly began to transition into a nice, and cosy slumber.
The bed he was in was definitely much more comfortable than anything he had ever been in before.
The image of David’s decayed face flashed in his mind.
He found himself wide awake in a second.
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Completely livid for a second until he paid attention to his surroundings, despite what it had appeared, it was already morning.
Milo shook his head, forcing the traumatising image out of his mind as he put his feet down on the ground, he found it difficult to just force himself to put something to the back of his mind, so he began reciting what he was supposed to be learning aloud.
"Inner and outer manipulation, limit, efficiency, capacity…" he recited what he actually knew, Helena had spoken of a lot of other stuff, but she hadn’t gone much farther than just telling him those things existed.
What he had actually learned was solely the various categories used to classify the raw talent of a mage, in practice, those things didn’t matter quite as much when the variety of possibilities and alternate usages were pretty much limitless.
He sighed and looked outside, the first rays of the sun were quite pleasing on the skin, he continued to move his lips as he kept on speaking to himself.
"…And perception" he finished, his mind wandering to another place nearly immediately.
’I wonder what’s most effective against undeads…’
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"Nothing is more dangerous to us than life force" Faraday waved his arms around, his ample sleeves slinging from side to side as his bony arms allowed them much freedom of movement.
"Though, even if it is our bane, we can also resist and counter it with our own death force, though it will always be worth our attention, a well placed blast of life and we are done for, at least for most of us" the chrome skeleton walked in circles around Loimos, who just stood there perfectly still.
Making a much better impression of a dead body than Faraday.
"Your death force is quite special, in fact, I can say with certainty that you are a special undead in many ways, you know, one thing that is pretty much constant, is that when an undead grows in power, they start to develop a personality or ego of their own, which not only makes them less undead-like ironically, but it is also the gateway for a undead to become one who lives in death" he struck his open palm with a fist.
Loimos didn’t move.
"Those who live in death are nothing more than livings that have attained undeath, thankfully, this antithesis makes them weak, except for Sun-Walker" Faraday shook his head, it wasn’t the time to speak of this.
"Your mana, every energy you possess, every facet of your being is truly dead, normally, a soul, a mind and energies can neither be alive nor dead, I had yet to encounter any exception to that rule, until today" he gestured toward Loimos, his metallic bones grinding against one another.
"Do you know the categories by which the talent of someone is measured? It is most typically used for mages since mana is by far the most common one, perhaps not anymore though… I haven’t been out of there in quite a while, in any case, it can be used to do the same with death force" Loimos responded by swinging his skull from side to side, he had never even heard of such a thing.
"Well, let me take a look" nothing seemed to happen for a minute as both of the skeletons just stood motionless as skeletons typically did.
Faraday clapped his hands in appreciation, it was simply wonderful, inspecting Loimos only revealed that the battle mage was more than right in his first impression, he could tell that the undead in front of him was truly the epitome.
It wouldn’t come easily, but it was easy for Faraday to tell that Loimos was built to use death force to its maximum potential, it was so pristine and perfect, he wouldn’t have any use for mana and the likes, and yet, the special properties of his other energies made it easy for them to be converted into even more death force.
’He might actually be able to attain it…’ had he been able to, Faraday would have smiled manically, few things could make him want to do such a thing truthfully.
"Allow me to explain everything that I know, but first, I need you to unlock at least one of the tongues" the metal undead would have liked to begin right there and then but Loimos’s mutism would slow them down, also, he was quite curious what he would actually sound like.
"The death tongue is the most important for us, it will allow you to instantaneously learn the language of the dead, it is also one of the greatest languages to be used when speaking incantations or anything else requiring spoken words"
"The pale tongue is much less useful, but most undeads, as they become stronger and awaken their ego, tend to gravitate toward it, most of those that live in death are only able to learn this one as well, if you ever see an undead rising and it can instantly use the pale tongue, kill it for it is a living retaining their memories"
Faraday began explaining a bunch of things, but most importantly, he revealed that the learning of the two tongues was quite random for regular undeads.
"I shall aid you in this aspect, try reading this" Faraday manifested a thin plate of chromatic metal with a wave of his hand, glowing symbols written upon it.
The sight of those made Loimos’s hollow sockets flare up with the usual purple glow, Faraday’s jaw almost went agape as he saw this, yet another thing he had never heard of, an undead whose eyes light up with a light rather than a flame.