The Necromancers
Ch. 11.1:Urei Mining Expedition (1)

The Regard POV

Alright. What am I supposed to do?

Crashing into the depths of the cave only put me in danger, I had to think of the right way to anticipate it.

"Should I make another me?"

If the other me can enter and be defeated, I can tell the extent of the ability and power that person has.

Knowing that, I can do various ways to calm the turbulent emotions, that's all I can do to revive them.

"In retrospect, he and I are almost the same."

Losing control of our own bodies over the deaths of our families, he and I were forced to destroy and tear down everything around us.

I understand how he feels when he screams.

Every time she screamed, she always called out "i don't want to lose big brother!" many times with a sad, desperate and depressed expression that was visible on his face.

"All right."

Closing my eyes for a moment, I let out mana to activate the Shadow Clone which was useful for analyzing the abilities and strength possessed by that person.

After successfully activating it, I gave some mana in large quantities, Mana Transfer to the other me so as not to quickly lose and be subverted in an instant.

"I'm counting on you, buddy."

Rushing out of the cave, I returned to the place where they were waiting for my arrival.

"How's he doing, Arthen?"

"Is it okay inside?"

"Is there a demon hiding in the depths of the cave?"

Approaching them, I shook my head in response no. Those who knew the rejection from my arm were shocked at my answer.

That's natural. Given that I acted indirectly, I just did the task without needing to mess it up.

Well, it's been a few times in the past that I messed it up that made me slowly start to understand and understand the situation to be able to take a different decision than usual.

That's why I'm starting to be sensitive to any circumstances and situations.

"I think there's only a human rampaging in the cave."

"Man rampaging?"

"Yes, she is a long blue haired woman with a white dress she wears."

"....."

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that, Uncle?"

Indirectly, I know the meaning of his gaze. It could be said that Uncle Veru wanted to convey that this was the same as I had experienced before.

The day that Elphoria Village was wiped out, the villagers were killed left, as well as the two of us who were killed, I once felt a turbulent emotion within myself.

"We remember the past, Arthen."

"Yes, you're right."

We both looked at each other and smiled at each other.

Those days are gone, but they're in both of our memories. The memory in which we learned new things that he taught us, made us able to survive until now.

"Now what are we going to do?"

"We're going in."

"Eh?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, that's all we can do now."

It seemed that the three of them decided to immediately go into the depths of the cave.

I admit that it is very natural but in the danger that awaits them so I cannot let them in without careful preparation, which can endanger anyone's life.

"no need. We just need to see it in this place."

"See it?"

"Don't tell me you've..."

"No, I didn't do anything. I just want to know how far my other self has overcome it."

My gaze led to the depths of the cave that contained another me who would come face to face with it.

"About what means are you going to use in dealing with it, myself?"

I wonder how he's going to deal with the problem this time. Whether by means of violence or communication, I'm just curious about the outcome later.

•••••

In the depths of the cave, a powerful earth boom caused the cave ceiling which contained rocks to collapse in an instant.

"Dam. Why is he so strong?"

Behind the scattering dust, a man came out and moved away from where he was. After the man moved away, a barrage of crystal shots, Crystalize Shoot was launched against him which made it as much as possible to avoid him.

(Crystalize Shoot, the ability to fire any object that has been changed using Change Material into crystals with various colors, this ability is able to be fired towards the desired target both one and many, respectively, it all depends on the user using it)

After the man was able to dodge it, a pair of large hands from the ground smashed towards him causing even stronger tremors on the ground surface.

"....."

In the distance, the woman sharply noticed the man's condition.

There was no sign that she was alive or rising, which meant that she had killed him in an instant.

Approaching him briefly to where the man was, the woman turned back away then went berserk, and shouted. Every time he went berserk and shouted, the area around the cave collapsed easily causing dust to scatter to every place making the view of anyone inside would be disturbed by the dust.

"Dam. How did this happen? Shouldn't the negotiations go well? Why did he attack and destroy me?"

In his body sprawled on the ground, Regard recalled a moment before.

A time when he thought that negotiations would go smoothly without any obstacles. At first all of his words were good enough for him to hear which caused the woman to stop and approach him, but all of them failed as he tried to get her out of the cave.

Not only failed, the woman even targeted herself as a target to be eliminated. That was why during the fight Regard refrained from attacking him but instead defended himself not to vanish because it was dangerous for him to be gone in an instant.

He would be considered a failure by his original self, which could cause him to be of no use again later on.

"What am I supposed to do? Negotiations are no longer useful so there's only one way to revive them."

Given one thing, Regard re-awakened from himself who was lying on the ground.

"You can't beat me, Miss!"

"....."

"It's a shame you're still too far away to beat me."

"....."

Before he could shoot his body with a barrage of large earth balls, Regard took out a large number of Golden Chains, suppressing the movement of the ball to not hit him.

"Now is the time."

Disappeared where it is, Regard uses Acceleration to move to another place.

Being on the ceiling using Wind Walk and Air Step, Regard took out a golden bow in his hand, aiming directly at the long blue haired woman.

"Maybe it'll hurt a little, but I hope you can hold it."

Releasing the black-coloured arrow towards her, the woman quickly used a huge stone that was turned into a hand to protect herself within the grasp of her hand.

Unfortunately, the arrow that he thought was only one had turned into a number of arrows in large numbers that could hit a wide range causing the hand holding him to be unable to hold it and to be crushed due to its explosive power robust.

"....."

"What's wrong? Are you angry at the weakness you have?"

Treading the ground, the woman pulled out a mound of dirt that led to the Regard.

Regard knew that was about to happen started to retreat and fly away from where he was as much as possible.

Just as he retreated and moved away, a tsunami of sand splashed across the ground. The woman who drove the sand tsunami managed to fly using the crystal surface with a variety of colors on display.

"You are great."

While saying that to him, Regard took out the Dark Ball on his arm.

The woman who knew that she was going to launch an attack on him, moved her arm towards Regard which made the entire rock ceiling fall on him.

Before being able to move quickly, the woman uses the surface of the ground that is far below to bind the movement of the legs from the Regard.

"Dam. He predicted it."

Unable to do anything, Regard immediately took out a Dark Aura that was able to increase his stats by twice as much as usual.

(Dark Aura, a fog of darkness that is able to envelop the body of the user who is able to increase his stats by twice as much as usual)

The result as seen. The strong ties at the feet of the Regard that come from the ground level that limit its movement can be easily destroyed making it easier for the Regard to leave quickly using his Acceleration.

Appearing in the distance, Regard was shocked at what he saw from the woman.

Around her body was a colorful aura surrounding her, accompanied by crystals of various colors that looked beautiful and beautiful, she said, coupled with the few arms that were by his side actually made Regard think that the woman looked like a monster.

"God!"

"Whoa!"

Avoiding the barrage of large hands coming from the sand, Regard was shocked at what he was doing.

"It can't be allowed to."

Staring sharply at him, Regard smiled confidently. This time, he would end it all in an instant without requiring his greatest strength, Infinity Spirit.

Trying to evade many times from the woman's sand hand attacks, Regard quickly used the Shadow Clone in large numbers.

Most of them lead directly to the woman who is the target but before they can reach her place, they were crushed without waste by the numerous crystal barrage that hit their bodies leaving them injured and then vanished.

"....."

Unable to see anyone, the woman's gaze circled the entire area around her.

He did not find any sign of Regard in his sight but there were only rocks, ore materials, minerals, and sand in some places made him wonder where Regard was.

"Sip. Now it's time to...."

In both of Regard's hands, he prepared to use his usual abilities.

"Taste this, Miss!"

Phantom Slash is activated by Regard.

(Phantom Slash, the slash that was carried out repeatedly behind the darkness created from the mist, consecutive slashes that can be done alone or in conjunction with cloning can be used by the user which gives a stronger effect than the previous ability, Dark Slash)

Around the woman's body there was a black slash that hit the body of a long blue-haired woman making her injured by a scratch that never stopped.

"Dance of Shadow."

(Dance of Shadow, an ability that can create a shadow that the user creates running towards the opponent, slash it quickly in all directions with a dance that looks beautiful and beautiful to be seen by the naked eye)

Using his other abilities, the shadow of Regard's body ran towards him without realizing it. That was because before Regard left, he had activated Transparency which made his body unknowable and felt by his enemy.

Just as the two shadows approached the woman, the sword slash accompanied by the dance could hit the previously scratched wound to great extent causing blood to spurt out from within his injured body due to the consecutive slashes Regard had done against him.

When the sword dance was stopped by Regard's shadow, a huge slash with a wide range left the woman's body completely injured.

The woman closed her eyes and fell because all her abilities were gone. His slowly disappearing consciousness, accompanied by the emptiness he would get after death came to pick him up, made him smile.

"....."

Seeing his fall, Regard walked up to the long blue-haired woman to check on her condition.

His body, which contained many fatal wounds and minor injuries, accompanied by endless blood spurting out, coupled with the pool of blood that soaked his body, made Regard not know what to do to him.

"alright. There seems to be no other choice."

Directing his arm forward where the woman was gone, a purplish light enveloped his body and shone brightly.

Elsewhere, it was Regard who suspected that this was going to happen, smiled and laughed.

"You're so weird, Regard."

"Yes. Is something going on?"

"I can guess what you're doing in it, Arthen."

Unlike the two girls nearby, Veru had already assumed that he had taken action earlier against the long blue-haired woman who was rampaging in the depths of the cave.

It was obvious from how he smiled and laughed, Veru must have guessed that he had messed it up this time around.

But before blaming him, Veru thought that his decision to invite Regard was the right decision to make. Although he is confused by Regard, he remains proud that he can maintain the humanity side not to be swallowed by the same darkness as it was in the past.

"You're really great, Arhen."

Only able to smile, Veru got up and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

"Quickly we'll get him away before reinforcements arrive."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Good."

They rushed to the cave to bring the woman's body to the city before reinforcements from the Veru forces arrived at the site, where they had been before.