Saintess Summons Skeletons

Chapter 98: Pareth: 50%

Pareth charged at the ogre. Chains of light wrapped around the ogres legs, pinning him to the cliff. He reacted by using his hole-carving skill, digging up a half sphere in the cliff where the chains were linked to. That freed him but it also created an empty space that the water rushed in, the sudden aspiration slammed the ogre into the hole hed just carved out. He was still covering his mouth with his hands but Sofia could see some air escape.

Pareth finally reached the ogre, stabbing him in the side with his light lance, the ogre took a hand off his face and grabbed the lance. Pulling the weapon deeper into his side, Pareth was now in his reach. The skeleton let go of the spear, dispelling it, but it was too late. The ogre threw a punch with his other fist, Pareths [Flying shields of light] appeared in the fists trajectory, barely slowing it down. A wall of stone had also surged out of the seabed behind Pareth, who took the punch, his torso crushed between the ogres fist and the stone wall. The wall even broke from the impact.

Pareths health dropped from 15000 to 3722. Shouldve activated [Sanctified grounds] before the fight The area spell was an incredible buff to Pareth but it also took a full five seconds to cast during which Pareth couldnt move too much or cast anything else. There was actually never enough time to cast it during this fight.

But Pareth, who was now only a skull, two arms and a few ribs, summoned a light glaive. The ogre was still recovering from the momentum of his swing, the glaive pierced right into his left eye. He opened his mouth from the pain. Large bubbles of air escaped from his huge stone-crushing mouth.

He struggled for a bit, even trying to grab Pareth to not die alone, but when his large hand clamped down on the skull whose eyes were shining with holy light, it found nothing but water.

Sofia had been flying above the Ocean, ready to throw another bolt if the ogre made it out. She canceled her cast and grabbed Pareths hand before he fell back into the sea.

Nice job, Pareth! I didnt see the glaive hit coming. Looks like he didn't either."

The light in Pareths eye sockets flickered. Ill take that for a positive answer. They slowly floated down, showered by [Heal undead]s holy light.

[Way of the Fool] reached level 6

You have defeated [Stone Ogre - lv. 230]

[Way of the Fool] grants slight bonus experience

You gained a level!

[New Passive Skills are available!]

So many good news, Alith must be having a good time right now.

Available Passive Skills :

• [Blessed hands ] : Shape mana directly through the hands
• [ with suffering] : all those who touch it except the necromancer with long lasting [Agony].

Thats Hmmm The first is from [Blessed hands of the scholar], so Valeure did not lie. The second one, no idea. From the description it doesnt even sound like a passive skill.

In fact [Blessed hands] is the same. I guess it counts as a passive since its not actually drawing the ritual circles by itself.

Well, too bad, nothing to be done right now with this. I do have a free passive skill slot but [Blessed hands with suffering]? No way Im making that. Whether it inflicts agony on my own hands or the people I touch, I dont want it. And its better to wait for three keywords skills anyway.

Also, no alteration this time. What was my % chance again?

Name : Sofia Aphenoreth

Age : 20

Class : [Saintomancer]

Level : 120

Health : 5600 / 5600 (5*level, 5000 filter2)

Stamina : 1600 / 1600 (5*level, 1000 filter2)

Mana : 49500 / 49500 (-10000 Alith) (-5000 Scribe Link) (5000 base + (500*(level-1)))

Specialization : [Eclipse Skeleton]

Alteration chance : 29%

This battle brought it up by 4%, nice. I wonder if I should focus on getting it to 100% every time before I get new keywords? That sounds a bit tedious Actually I get[Scroll of infinite prayers] at 130 Honestly [Scroll of ] would have a lot of potential. [Scroll of mist] feels a bit weak but what if I get another good necromancer keyword and I can make it like a [Scroll of death mist] or something. Heh, Ill see when I get there, I dont even have any free Active slot so Well, we better get to work, your new bodys sleeping with the fishes down there.

Sofias wings worked perfectly fine underwater, as long as there was mana she could fly anywhere. She plunged, and once she was close enough, stored the body in her storage ring.

I hate salt water. My eyes hurt so much! Aaaaaaah!

With the fresh ogre skeleton secured, Sofia flew straight south. Dont want the Ogre Alpha to catch wind of me now, lets get the hell away.

In a relatively hidden creek near the ocean, east of Couvauz, you could hear the sound of bones clicking, of flesh ripping and of a woman vomiting.

Sofia had tried to help Pareth to strip the Ogre of its flesh, since the ritual required a clean skeleton. But it had been much more disgusting and smelly than she expected.

The rat was fine. The withered hero was hard to get through but still alright But THIS!

In the end she had to go away to do something else, anything else, and wait for Pareth to do the main part of the job. She only came back when the bones were mostly separated. They were still bloody and had a lot of strips of flesh and stuff stuck to them, but that was a lot better. All the smelly and disgusting parts had been thrown to the river and washed away by the current. Now all that remained was the bone by bone cleaning. But as expected from a big Ogre There were a lot of bones.

Sofia worked through the night, lit by Pareths halo and armor. Using carving knives and coarse abrasive brush, she scrubbed away the grime from the bones. Come daylight, she had a pristine ogre skeleton in her storage ring.

Now for step two of the plan.

Sofia took out the four dead bodies of the robbers she had killed in Hooasow.

The bodies were still hot and leaking blood from the severed necks.

Fucking hell.

I need a skill for cleaning skeletons

Sofia and Pareth got to work once again. The first body was excruciatingly hard to get through, and Sofia felt like her insides had been emptied just as much as the dead bodys. She was completely numb to the process by the time she finished the fourth.

There had been a problem however. Someone saw her do her job, they were welcomed by the awful sight of a bloody Sofia scraping the face off of a severed human head. Unsure what to do Sofia had sent Pareth to prevent the kid from screaming. It was a young girl, she looked seven or eight. She had passed out on the spot. Currently she was still out, on a bedroll Sofia took out of her storage.

Seriously, what do I do with this kid?

Ugh.

Go get a wild chicken or something, oh, wait, cut my wings first.

First she had to hide the evidence. She stored the skeletons, made sure all the bloody flesh and organs got washed away by the current, stirred the dirt so that there wouldn't be any obvious bloody spots. Then she washed herself, and she waited for the princess clothes to clean themselves. She untied her hair to cover up her back where you could still see the stubby bone base of the wings.

Pareth soon came back with some kind of human head-sized wild bird. Perfectly understood what we needed. Sofia took some more time to prepare that, built a small fire pit, and went on to roast the thing.

This is kind of a dumb plan but I dont have any better.

The kid woke up while the bird was still cooking. Nice timing.

She didnt immediately scream or try to run away, which was a good start. But she looked in horror at Sofia, then the thing roasting over the fire, then at Sofia again.

Are you alright? I found you passed out over there. You shouldnt walk alone in the forest.

The young girl answered with vigorous nods. Shes so not buying it.

Didnt think anyone would react so badly to me handling some chicken, do your parents never cook meat? Oh her face looks even worse now Am I giving this kid a lifelong trauma? Im doing my best here

Sofia ripped off a thigh from the bird and bit into it, then she ripped another one and held it out to the kid.

Want a piece? Its pretty good for a wild bird.

The kid hesitated for a good ten seconds. Her hand was visibly shaking as she reached for the piece of meat. She brought it close to her face and fearfully inspected it from every angle.

Under Sofias gaze, she hesitantly brought it up to her mouth. She closed her eyes and took a small bite.

And now you relax? Its really bird meat. But how would you know what human meat tastes like, kid? Well. If that does it for her Im not complaining.

Are you a murderer? the girl meekly asked after swallowing the meat.

So she didnt believe this shit at all!