episode_0134

“Oh no!”

Despite concerns that the Minotaur’s bones might be shattered, the Minotaur withstood the Death Knight’s attack. No, it didn’t seem like he survived unscathed, as several black and red bruises had already formed on his abdomen and the area around his shins was swollen.

Moreover, looking at the wounds created by exploding the skeleton getting bigger and blood flowing down, it was clear that they had suffered quite a bit of damage.

However, the Minotaur, which had a strong body like a large monster, did not just get beaten up. It wasn’t enough to push the Death Knight away by spewing out mana as if the Death Knight was using black magic, so he bent down greatly and pierced the Death Knight with the huge horn on his head.

“Keruk!”

In that attack, the Death Knight’s body was pierced by a horn thicker than a human thigh. And, as the Minotaur stood up in that state, the Death Knight ended up hanging pierced on top of the Minotaur’s head.

However, since it was not a living thing, but a soul pushed into a body that had already died, the Death Knight swung his fist as if nothing had happened.

The Minotaur’s head was being pounded without mercy as it was pierced by the Minotaur’s horns. In response to this extremely tough action, the Skeleton Knights supported the Death Knight.

He surrounded the Minotaur, who was unable to come to his senses from the Death Knight’s attack, and swung the Arming Sword at will. The wound on his lower body was so severe that the leather was tattered, and a large amount of blood was splattered around him.

“Mu, mooo-!”

As if it knew that its death would be certain if it stayed like this, the Minotaur let out a scream and tried its best to get rid of the undead. He tried to get rid of the Skeleton Knights by swinging his legs around and kicking, and he also tried to get rid of the Death Knights by shaking his head wildly.

The Skeleton Knights were disintegrated into pieces by the kick and fell, but were soon restored with dark magic and clung to the Minotaur again, and the Death Knight also held the horn that pierced its abdomen rather tightly, as if it had no intention of falling.

The Death Knight never fell despite the Minotaur’s head shaking back and forth and continued to punch its head as if it would break it.

Thanks to this, the Minotaur’s lower body and head were disfigured. The head was so horribly mangled that its original appearance was unrecognizable, and the intact skin on the lower body was torn to the extent that it was no bigger than the palm of one’s hand.

In the end, the Minotaur, which had lost a large amount of blood and had received such a shock to its brain that its face was crushed, was unable to support its huge body and fell toward the floor.

And, only after the Minotaur fell to the ground did the Death Knight escape from the horn that pierced its body.

The Death Knight, who had pulled out the horn piercing his abdomen, was also not in very good shape. The Minotaur’s body was turned into a rag due to the Minotaur punching and shaking it around in an attempt to get it off.

Not only was it broken all over the body and the skin was torn, but there was even a hole in the boat so large that it seemed like a slimmer person would be able to get through it.

If it were a living thing, it would have died a long time ago, but since it was an undead Death Knight, it was still possible to move. Although, the lower body seemed unable to move due to the stomach being completely pierced.

After seeing all of this through the surveillance skeleton, I immediately climbed down from the iron fence and tried to go to the place where the Minotaur had fallen. The situation was fully understood as if seen from close range through the surveillance skeleton, but now it was time for post-processing.

“Andrew! You’re hunting the Minotaur right now, right? I want to go too!”

Although it was quite far away, the Minotaur was so large that Amy, who saw that it had fallen, insisted on going with it. However, Jiena, who was with me, seemed not to be particularly interested in the Minotaur and returned to the store again.

Anyway, after taking out the skeleton horse and moving with Amy, I was able to visually confirm the scene I had seen through the surveillance skeleton.

Not only did I see the Minotaur collapsing in a pitiful state, completely halting his life, but I also saw the Death Knight with a large hole in his abdomen and his eyes wide open.

“… … Andrew, he’s not dead, right?”

Amy looked momentarily shocked at the sight of the Death Knight lying on the floor with only his eyes glazed over. I guess they thought it was dead because they couldn’t see its eyes and it was just lying there motionless.

“No. It’s because my stomach was pierced and my spine was shattered. A kind of paralysis from the waist down.”

“Can you recover it?”

“Yes. Since it’s undead, you can restore it as much as you like. what… … If it is damaged to that extent, the ingredients will have to be added separately.”

If an ordinary skeleton had been shattered to this extent, it would not have been repaired, but if it was a Death Knight capable of generating great power, it would not have been a loss to repair it even if it cost a little bit of materials.

“Are you okay? What does it feel like when your stomach is pierced like that?”

“No feeling whatsoever.”

“Is it because I am paralyzed from the waist down? Or because he’s a Death Knight? What was it like when this wound first appeared?”

Amy seemed to have little interest in the Minotaur, and talked about various things with the Death Knight, who was able to carry on a conversation on his own after being branded. I don’t know if it was because I was a Death Knight aspirant myself, but I seemed to have a lot of questions.

I slightly shook my head at Amy’s appearance and, at the same time, poured black magic into the Death Knight’s body to prevent it from being damaged further, and at the same time approached the Minotaur.

As I got closer, the Minotaur’s appearance was truly miserable. The condition was worse than what I saw through the surveillance skeleton. Even just looking at its external appearance, it was extremely disgusting.

His face had been crushed to pieces by the knuckle-wearing Death Knight’s punches, and his lower body had not been damaged by the hacking of the Skeleton Knights. If they had tried to sell Minotaur leather, they could have sold at most a palm-sized piece of leather.

And, there was a lot of damage other than what was visible on the outside. To check the condition, I used black magic to check the damage as if I were clairvoyant, and it was a mess just like the exterior.

The internal organs of his abdomen, which had been beaten like crazy by the Death Knight, were already badly damaged, and the eyes and brain on his head were also greatly damaged. In reality, the Minotaur’s death was due to excessive brain damage caused by the Death Knight’s punch.

But what was important was that the skeleton also had considerable damage. There were only a few scratches on the lower body from the cutting, but many of the parts on the head were cracked and broken.

The Death Knight that had been pierced by the horn was extremely tough, and his skull, which had been pounded like crazy, was injured here and there. In particular, the area around the eye socket, which is where the bones are weak, was severely injured. It was strange that the knuckles, which were nothing but metal, were wrapped in black magic and were still intact.

“… … I need to fix my bones and use it.”

Of course, that wasn’t a problem. Although it is a bit laborious and requires some materials, it is possible to restore bones when making a skeleton. Normally, if an entity like a goblin or an orc had been destroyed, it would have been thrown away without repairing it, but in the case of the Minotaur, a large monster, it was a different story.

It was beneficial in many ways to restore the body and turn it into an undead. It wasn’t easy to obtain, and I was confident that it would be very useful for large undead monsters. Even if the materials and effort required to restore it were several times more, it was beneficial to restore it. Of course, the best thing is to use an intact corpse.

Anyway, even though it was damaged, I had secured the body of a very useful large monster, so I started collecting the Minotaur’s body with great pleasure.

The blood that continued to leak from the wound was blocked using black magic to prevent further loss, and the broken bone was also fixed to prevent it from being lost. After making the basic preparations, I took out bone fragments the size of a finger from the pocket I always carried with me and scattered them around.

Bone fragments the size of a finger instantly grew in size in the air and became complete skeletons, and some of them became cart skeletons.

“You place the Minotaur carcass here on top of the cart skeleton.”

After having the skeletons place the giant Minotaur’s body on the cart skeleton, they approached to retrieve the Death Knight.

“Did you think you could stay unharmed even if your stomach was pierced like this, so you ignored defense and attacked?”

“… … Wow, that’s annoying.”

While I was collecting the Minotaur’s body, the Death Knight was lying on the floor looking very annoyed at Amy, as he continued to ask the Death Knight many questions. For some reason, I thought that if he had been in good health, he would have run to the blacksmith shop by himself.

“Wow, Andrew! Did you hear it now? You said I was annoying!”

“I can’t help it. Right now, the fight was so intense that the ship was pierced. you understand If you have any questions, ask later. Or you can ask me.”

“Chiit.”

Although Amy was disappointed that she couldn’t satisfy her curiosity right away, she didn’t ask any more questions. As much as he knew how tired he was right after the battle, he also seemed to admit that he had made a mistake. Of course, the will to ask a lot of questions later was burning brightly in both eyes. More intensely than the naturalization burning in the eye sockets of skeletons.

I shook my head slightly at that sight, took out another cart, the Skeleton, and loaded it with a Death Knight. This was the best way to bring back the Death Knight, who was paralyzed from the waist down due to a shattered spine.

And, after confirming that the Death Knight was lying down on the cart skeleton, he used black magic to collect the Death Knight’s bone fragments scattered around. Since he had already become undead and his bones were strongly imbued with dark magic, it was possible to collect bone fragments.

The vertebrae that had been completely broken off when pierced by the horn, as well as the scattered bone fragments that had been broken into small pieces, were gathered in one place. He put them roughly in his pocket and placed them in the Death Knight’s hand.

“Then let’s go back now… … .”

When I decided that I was ready to go back to the city, I climbed on top of the skeleton cart with Amy and tried to go back to the city.

However, at that moment, as the black magic fluctuated, the black magic sent by another Skeleton Mage was transmitted to me.