The Extra's Indifference

I got down to the basement through with ladder, which was about 50 meters long.

I found myself in long dark corridor made from smooth stone, which i assumed that necromancer has minumum medium grade earth affinity. Corridor had light sources that shines faintly. It was pretty dark, if there weren't any faint light sources, i wouldn't even see front of me.

Aria got down after me and tried to light a magical lantern, which i stopped her immediately.

"Don't light it. It will attract undeads attention." I said, grabbed the lantern and stored in my storage artifact.

I searched around of me while i was walking because my Intuition started to warn me for unseen dangers.

It was strange feeling that warned by my Intuition. Research on innate powers are important topic but finding people with innate powers are hard.

I got rid of the Anna because she was like walking bomb for me but right now it seemed to me that my decision was wrong about Anna's death.

Well i would eventually find someone with innate power, so i cleared my mind and focused on hidden danger that yet to attack.

We walked in this corridor for about 10 minutes and reached a smooth dark wooden door.

I opened the door slightly and sent my mana and aura inside to sense inside.

From what i sense, room was square shaped and empty without any living, undead or any furniture.

"It feels like boss fight area, be ready." I said to Aria.

"What do you meant by boss fight master?" Aria asked.

"Boss fights are usually made in empty rooms against to base's most strong enemy or enemies." I explained seriously.

"So what master said is that we will fight against a strong enemy?" Aria said.

"You are right. Get ready." I said.

I strengthened all of my body and held my pitch black bat tightly.

I went inside fastly and took my stance. My Intuition abruptly roared, thus i crouched quickly and a black blade passed where my neck was before.

I jumped backand analysed my opponent. It was Undead Knight around 2 meters tall. It was wearing thick black armor and was wielding a black great sword. It's rank was around [B–] rank.

Where did this undead come, i couldn't understand. I didn't have any time for me to understand it either.

I swung my bat to it's head and it blocked my attack and threw a kick to me.

I dodged it's kick and swung my bat to it's leg. It's balance slipped slightly. Aria who saw this opportunity slashed to it's joint, which was pretty obvious weak point.

Aria's daggers broke because of the undead's natural toughness. Aria who lost her weapon, put a distance to undead and looked at me for help.

I made her sharp ice dagger that will last for a while.

Undead slashed towards to me with it's great sword. I tried to block it but my strength wasn't enough to withstand to [B–] rank undeads strength.

My mana quality was that of a [B–] my strength was [D+]. When i strengthen myself with mana, my strength would be about [C+] rank. The gap between [C+] and [B–] are big, so withstanding it's great sword attack was hard.

I fell down to my knees because of heavy strike. I was in disadvantage, so i teleported 3 meters back.

Undead knight appared front of me and kicked me in chest. I thrown to the wall and coughed blood.

Fighting against to higher ranked opponent with just physical attacks were harder than i thought. So i partially lifted my challenge and casted ice armor on myself.

Dying wasn't a option just because i thought improving my close combat abilities would be good idea.

I took my stance and waited for undead's attack.

It slashed vertically to middle of my head. It seemed to me that, this undead wanted to slash me into 2 equal parts.

I stepped to my side while sword was lowering, i dodged it with minimal movement and attacked it's arm.

It's arm shook violently but there weren't any big damage.

Aria took advantage of it's state and attacked to it's leg joints.

Aria managed to injure the undead this time but it was shallow one.

Undead knight turned to Aria and grabbed her neck before Aria escape.

It wasn't Aria's time for to die, so i teleported to side of it's arm like proper fantasy protagonist and swung my bat heavily.

It dropped Aria down because of the damage it received to it's arm and swung it's sword to me horizontally.

I rolled under of it's sword and attacked to it's knee. It tried to kick me to make some distance between us but i swung my bat to it's incoming kick and jumped back.

I could tell that i was improving in fast rate while i was fighting against to the undead knight. Although fighting against to higher ranked opponent is have usually deadly consequences but it is some sort of twisted opportunity itself.

I looked at undead knight to see it's state. It has some injuries in his leg and arms, other than that it was perfectly fine.

I inspected myself. I had broken bones in my ribcage, arm and some internal bleeding. Nothing important.

I looked at Aria. She was on her feet but she was coughing badly and couldn't stand properly because of it, probably her neck was crushed slightly.

I changed my bat to shord sword and enchanted it with my mana.

I rushed towards to undead and rolled under the blade that came towards me and slashed to his knee joint that Aria injured.

I cut through it's flesh and undead fell to its 1 knee. It tried to get up but it couldn't because it's armor were too heavy for it to get up with 1 leg.

I changed short sword to bat and swung to it's sword. It's sword stuck in to the wall.

Undead was right now practically in hopeless situation. So i teleported to it's back and swung my bat to it's head. It fell back to floor and i repeatedly hit it's head until it didn't move anymore.

Afterwards i took it's weapon and armor and stored them into my storage artifact.

I went towards to Aria patted her back slowly and gave her healing potion.

"Drink this slowly." I said worriedly. Even if she knew that my tone was just act, she will like it because i am doing this act for her.

She nodded slowly and drank it slowly. Her throat healed in 15 seconds and she looked at me.

"Master won't you drink a potion?" Aria asked to me.

"I have some broken bones, so it's not good idea to drink potion." I said.

"Isn't it painful master?" Aria asked with sad tone.

She knew my dull emotions but didn't know my dull pain receptors, so she must have felt sorry for me.

"It is painful." I nodded.

"But i can tolerate it for few hours. Afterwards you will bring me someone, so that i will cast bloody healing." I said and turned to door.

Aria grabbed my hand abruptly.

"Master cast your magic on me." Aria said and gestured herself.

"While i appreciate your concern and self-sacrifice for me. I need you in your top condition, if i cast bloody healing on you, you would be like walking corpse." I said and went towards to door that we didn't came through.

I opened the door slightly and sent my mana inside and inspected it. There weren't any undead or living but there wasn't any undead too in boss room, so i didn't let go my guard and entered inside.

I looked around and didn't see any enemy and my Intuition didn't warned me, so i searched around without worry.

After some pondering, i assumed that i was in some sort of research room. I assumed it because this room was dirty as hell, so i wasn't completely certain about it.

There weren't any valuable artifacts or magical items. Just books, research notes, tools and corpses.

I took the tools to myself because i thought that they would come in handy. I can use them for torture or experimenting because they were specialized tools like that of a surgery.

Though there isn't any surgeon in this world because every injury can be heal with potions and magic, so they must be necromancer's tool when he was dismantling some corpses.

Anyway, i looked over the books. They were about miracles of resurrection, undead, golem, necromancy and souls.

Afterwards i went towards to most clean door that as if it was separate from this room.

My Intuition said to me again that i have to in with clean appearance, thus i cleaned myself and wore new clothes.

"Aria clean yourself and wear new clothes." I said.

Aria did what i said quickly and i transformed my bat into ring.

I entered to the room with calm steps.