“Hahaha, I feel so powerful in this body. Forgive me but I’ll need some time to get used to it” Xeaos said.
“No problem, I’m just happy you like the body honestly and that I know now I can create bodies for my golems. Milo I’d like to customize you next but I’m out of mana currently so I’m going to take a nap for a bit while I wait for my mana to regenerate. Who knew making skeletal minions would be so much work?”
“It is no rush, My Lord.”
“Alright, like I said I’m going to take a nap. Don’t wake me unless all hell breaks loose.” I replied.
After sleeping for around five hours I woke up and told everyone it was time to move out. We needed to go battle some Draugrs to level up Xeaos to give him his class and hopefully push Milo to level 30 as well. Lots to do before we were ready to take on the next mini-boss. The new formation we walked in was to have the seven grunts in a shieldwall moving forward and the two mages behind them. Then followed Milo and I. The last member of our party who was watching my back was Xeaos ready to attack any threat that may arise. I forgot how far away Xeaos’ old territory was but we finally got there and found two of the knights wandering around. Milo was getting ready to order The Horde to attack when Xeaos exploded forward at a speed I did not think his body could move at. He crashes into the first one knocking its sword to the ground then follows it up with a right hook to the second one. I watch him pick up the sword and stab one through the face and then immediately decapitate the other in a matter of minutes.
Holy hell, he is STRONG. Like scary strong. And he's only level one right now, I have found quite a good knight it seems.
Xeaos informs swings the sword around getting used to it and then walks over to tell us that he's reached level five and he wants to pick his class.
“I think out of the three classes available the one most suited for who I’d like to become is going to be Dark Protector. It’s the only rare option I have available. It gives two points to strength and endurance as well as four points to vitality at every level. This will let me get a huge health pool so that I may be your trusted knight and protector.”
“What kind of skills did you get?” Vaeda asked.
“I got Paid in Blood, Conjure Armor, and Shield Bash. The first two are rare abilities while the third is only common and does exactly what it sounds like for 10 mana. Paid in Blood allows me to use health to activate skills instead of having to rely on my abysmal intelligence stat. Conjure Armor allows me to manifest a set of armor and a shield for a cost of 100 mana. It is a permanent cost though. For as long as I have the armor and shield summoned I lose 100 mana or health in my case. Overall very good skills for what I wanted.”
“All this talk of skills has got me wanting to check mine out to see if there's anything that might have leveled up from the fight with the mages. Skill list.”
A couple of things did level up which is good. Control Undead doesn’t seem to be leveling up anymore. Am I stuck at a roadblock or something or is it that I transferred control to Milo? I really wish the system was more counterintuitive.
“Show us the armor Xeaos, I’m quite interested in what it looks like,” Vaeda said
“As you command counselor”.
“Counselor? I thought I was just bird to you Xeaos” Vaeda replied snarkily.
“Forgive me for my prior ignorance. If Greg is my king and you are his counsel than you far outrank me, so for that I ask for forgiveness and to hopefully start over. I’m sorry for my earlier rudeness.”
“Okay, I like the sound of this. I’m just happy you know your place now. I was here first and therefore I’m the second in command. Right, Greg?”
“I mean I guess. I just consider you all my friends so none of you really outrank each other in my book, but do whatever you’d like.” I answered.
Xeaos activated his Conjure Armor to show us what it looked like and wow it was something else. Black mist swirled around him and melted over his bones becoming a nice matte black metal covering on him. His helmet came with two holes on the side from which his horns could stick out and he had a long flowing cloak behind him, His gauntlets had slits on the knuckles so his spikes could still be used. He also had greaves and a chest plate that had spikes all over them to make it so every action he could do would result in harming the enemy. The coolest thing though was the tower shield that materialized. It was easily 6 feet tall and 3 or 4 feet wide. It was bigger than me. All armored up Xeaos looked like the embodiment of death. He was going to be my biggest supporter and protector. After we got him his class and a weapon we decided to go back to the mage area to hunt for some higher-level enemies.
