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The Necromancer in Shadow by TheOminousRain
Anime » Eminence in Shadow Rated: M, English, Horror & Humor, Cid Kagenou/Shadow, OC, Words: 548k+, Favs: 386, Follows: 387, Published: Oct 27, 2023 Updated: Aug 9
768Chapter 36: The German Lich
Chapter 36: The German Lich
"Es gibt keine Hoffnung für euch." There is no hope for you. The Lich says in German. I made him speak foreign language in order to make him sound cool. I wasn't able to turn him into a DnD Lich by creating a Phylactery for him though so he's similar to my other undead minions with the exception of a more advanced artificial intelligence and given the ability to cast spells.
"What!?" Alexia mutters while locking blades with a skeleton, unable to understand a word he said.
"Nur Tod!" Only Death! The Lich continues as he fires a bunch of fireballs at us, which we dodge. The fireballs hit his own skeletons but it doesn't matter because these skeletons in particular have a twist.
"Hier seid ihr! In den Tiefen der Verzweiflung! Gebt eure Seelen auf!" Here you are! In the depths of despair! Surrender your souls! The Lich says in German again.
"Anyone knows what he's saying!?" Alexia asks. I do but I won't tell you. It's part of the fun.
The Lich snaps his bony fingers and the skeletons he destroyed with his fireballs and the ones we decapitated reassemble themselves and start attacking us again.
"What!? Is there no end to these things!?" Exclaims the Shadow Garden member called 626.
"Verzweifelt!" Despair! The Lich shouts as he cast another round of fireballs at us. 626 tanks the blast to protect her comrades who could not dodge in time.
"626!" Her comrades shouts.
"I'm okay!" Said 626 as she heals the burns on her body.
"Kill them faster and start attacking the robed one!" I shout, which prompts them to fight harder to get closer to the Lich.
"Es ist nutzlos!" It's useless! The Lich shouts as he casts lightning towards the one closest to him, namely me. I programmed the undead minions to attack me too if I didn't wear the Necromancer disguise after all.
"Aghhhh!" I take the lightning bolt head on, allowing myself to be hurt before blocking a sword strike from a skeleton with trembling hands.
"Mr. Claude!" Shouts Natsume worriedly.
"I'm okay! Just keep pushing!" I shout while struggling against the skeletons attacking me. Well, I did actually allow myself to be hurt for real so I really did struggle. Getting a lightning strike makes my body feel slightly paralyzed, making it quite difficult to maintain my grip on my sword. I really need more pain tolerance.
"Geht sterben!" Go die! The Lich shouts as he creates several ice spears and throws them at us.
"Hyaaahhh!" I muster up my strength to move my slightly paralyzed body to destroy some of the spears heading for Alexia with a slash while the Shadow Garden members dodged theirs.
"Warum müsst ihr kämpfen? Es ist nutzlos! Alles ist nutzlos!" Why must you fight? It's useless! Everything is useless! The Lich shouts again as he prepares to send more ice spears at us but this time, one of the Shadow Garden members reaches him and gives him a slash.
"AAARGHHH!" AAARGHHH! He screams (I didn't really need to translate that, did I?) and blasts her away with a fireball, which at point blank range ended up hurting him too.
We all took this opportunity to approach him and start delivering a joint attack from 4 directions.
"Barriere!" Barrier! He shouts, covering himself with a barrier that blocks all our attacks.
"Weg!" Away! He shouts as he generates a shockwave that blows us all away. Then he snaps his fingers and reassembles the skeletons we defeated once again, which end up surrounding us again.
"Dammit! Now we're back to square one!" Shouts Alexia in frustration.
As we brace ourselves for another round, reinforcement appears in the form of a man clad in black, my fated enemy, who decapitates all the risen skeletons with a single slash.
"Abscheuliche Untote. Kehr zu deinem Grab zurück!" Vile undead. Return to your grave! Shadow says in German.
"Lord Shadow!" The three Shadow Garden members shout in unison. And I could've sworn I saw Natsume's eyes sparkle when she saw Shadow. So she's a fan of him.
"You guys should retreat." Shadow orders after he healed the girl who was hit by the fireball earlier.
"Yes!" Exclaim the three Shadow Garden members before dragging me, Natsume and Alexia out of the boss room.
"Wer bist du!? Wie hast du das gemacht!?" Who are you!? How did you do that!? I hear the Lich questioning him.
"Ich bin Shadow, er, der in den Shatten lauert und die Shatten jagt." I am Shadow, he who lurks in the shadows and hunt the shadows. Shadow replies. He even spoke his catchphrase in German. Holy hell that's cool!
"Ich verstehe. Du bist der Feind meines Herrn." I see. You are my lord's enemy.
"Dann wirst du hier sterben!" Then you shall die here! The Lich shouts before casting his spells. And that's the last I could hear before I caught up with the others.
"What took you so long, Claude!? Let's go!" Alexia shouts before we are surrounded by more undead horde.
"Tch! More of them! I'm getting sick of this place!" Alexia shouts as she adopts a fighting stanvce once again, steeling herself for another fight.
"Well, you're the one who brought us here!" I shout back at her.
"Shut it!" She replies as we fight the horde of undead whilst being tired and injured. All seems lost until we get another unexpected help in the form of Rose Oriana, the very person we were trying to save.
"Rose!?" Exclaims Alexia in surprise as she sees Rose decapitating a few undead with a single slash.
"What happened to you!?" Alexia asks, bewildered by how powerful Rose is despite supposedly being malnourished.
"Long story! But unfortunately we have no time for it!" Rose replies.
"Of course! You owe us an explanation after this is over!" Alexia exclaims.
"No. I cannot involve you any further! My burden is my own!"
Alexia then did the unexpected, which is turning her blade against Rose, which she blocks. "What nonsense are you saying!? We promised that we all won't be mere spectators anymore! We promised to protect and help each other! We are friends, are we not!?" Alexia shouts with anger. The Shadow Garden members looked on bewildered.
"Keep fighting!" I shout at the Shadow Garden members and we continue fighting against the hordes while Alexia and Rose locked their blades.
"Why are you saying such things!? Am I just a spectator to you!?" Alexia shouts again.
"I'm sorry. I can't go back anymore."
"Answer me!"
"I envy you, you know. You will have a happy life with the one you loved. While I… have to keep fighting."
"Then let us help you!" Alexia shouts desperately.
"I'm sorry." Rose apologizes before pushing Alexia away and starts defeating the rest of the undead with an amazing display of skill and strength which surprised us all.
Beautiful. Slash after slash, thrust after thrust, the undead kept falling down every time she moves. Her main character aura is shining. This is truly her character arc. I look forward to see how it will end. Heh heh heh.
"Why…?" Alexia says as she fell to her knees exhausted. Rose didn't reply as she already left on her own.
"Let's go." I say towards the frustrated Alexia.
"Why…?" Alexia mutters as I pick her in a princess carry and leave the dungeon with Natsume and the Shadow Garden members.
"Es tut mir leid, mein Herr… Ich habe Sie enttäuscht…!" I'm sorry, my lord… I have failed/disappointed you…! We hear the Lich's voice echoing throughout the halls as he is defeated by Shadow while we are running towards the exit.
I carried Alexia all the way to my apartment discretely because we can't let ourselves be seen in our current state so I can't bring her back to the royal castle yet. I sat her down the sofa on my room.
"Hey. Why did she do that?" Alexia asks while clenching her fists.
"She was determined to finish her problems on her own." I reply.
"What does that mean!?" She shouts in anger as she tugs my shirt's collar.
"It means she's going to resort to something extreme and didn't want us to get involved in it." I reply calmly in response even as she glares at me up close.
"Something extreme?"
"Like assassinating her fiancé, Perv Asshat."
"Then…!"
"Then she may appear in the Bushin Festival. Not to fight of course but to attack him. You know her father's condition, don't you?"
"Yes. Iris said he behaved like a hollow shell, even though his daughter is being hunted right now."
"He's likely been drugged."
"Then we should-"
"Accuse Perv Asshat publicly? They will simply deny it and use your accusations against you. Not to mention he's holding the king hostage right now. If you made a move, he may get desperate."
"Tch! I hate this…!" She states while releasing her grip on my collar.
"Me too."
"What can we do, Claude?"
"For now, we can only wait for her to come."
"Hahhh… I don't like it but… I suppose we have no other choice."
Good. You shall be there to watch as Rose takes the stage towards her destiny.
"By the way. How's Sherry? I heard she's staying in Everick right now although I didn't see her last time I visited." Alexia asks.
"She's doing just fine." I answer vaguely, not letting her know how my apprentice is really doing.
"Take care of her. I fear that… she's going through something similar to Rose… and didn't want to involve us."
"…." I didn't reply because I am heavily involved with what she's doing.
After she took a bath, changed her clothes (I bought her a change of clothes at Mitsugoshi) and treat her wounds, she left my apartment to go back to the castle to rest. An hour later the pale man returns.
"Master. Gilfried received a message from Duke Perv Asshat, requesting to meet you tonight."
"I see. Must be about Rose. Very well. I'll meet him."
Time to meet with Duke P-Perv Asshat. Pfft… What a name.
"In the meantime, I want you to do something for Mundane Mann tomorrow." I order the pale man, who simply nods obediently.
"It's good to finally meet you, Lord Necromancer." Duke Perv Asshat greets me in a luxurious room in his villa. King Raphael Oriana, his puppet, is sitting on a chair beside him with a pale face and blank expression and filled with thick smell of perfumes.
"Likewise, Perv. So tell me. Why have you invited me here?" Mustn't laugh. Mustn't laugh.
"Ahh… I see you're the straight to the point type. Very well. I want to request your assistance regarding Rose Oriana. My agents saw her entering the underground passageways where they found your undead servants and thus was unable to proceed with her capture. I wish for safe passage through your domain for my agents in order to-"
"No need. She has escaped the underground." I cut him off before he can finish.
"Truly!? Then where is she?" Perv exclaims, almost standing up from his chair.
"No need to worry. She will come to you. You have her father hostage after all." I say as I take a glance at the direction of the king.
"Speaking of which, I believe your method of brainwashing him is too sloppy. Midgar's royals already suspect you of drugging him based on how brazenly you displayed him in this pathetic state."
"I-I apologize. This is all we can do for now."
"Let me show you how I would do it." I stare at the king in the eyes and command him with hypnosis, which is easy despite him not trusting me considering his mind is currently broken by the drugs. No resistance from his mind at all.
"HYA HA HA HA HA!" The king, previously a hollow shell, stands up and laughs like a madman.
"Wh-What!?" Perv mutters confusedly as such a thing should be impossible to him.
"My daughter…. My darling daughter! You will return to me! And you will serve the Cult as I have! Ha ha ha ha ha!" He laughs again before returning to his previous hollowed state.
"A-Amazing! As expected of you, Lord Necromancer!" Perv exclaims excitedly.
"You still need to let him rest for a day to fix his pale complexion. We'll let him appear in public the day after tomorrow, in the day of the semifinals of the Bushin Festival."
"Agreed. I thank you for your assistance, Lord Necromancer! Also…"
"What else do you want?"
"O-On behalf of Lord Mordred, I request your assistance for the plan to assassinate King Midgar."
"I understand. I shall lend you some of my agents."
Heh heh heh. The stage is set for a glorious war. Rose Oriana. I have prepared a little surprise for you. I hope you'll like my present.
Author's Note:
Hope you liked the German Lich. Yeah, I studied a bit of German and wanted to write some German lines, though I still needed the assistance of google translate. In the anime Minoru has a notebook with one of the pages written in German so I can assume he knows German too.
Guest: I like it
Answer: Thank you for liking my fic. :)
You're That Ninja: I'm kinda sad we're 40 chapters in and you still just recycle cannon
Answer: Goddess' Trial and Bushin Festival are annual events with fixed schedules so these arcs still has to happen on schedule. Blood Moon Arc too. I also tried to keep some canon relationships and character developments intact so they don't stray too much from the characters we know and love. But you're right. I have copied canon too much and I will change things up more starting from this arc.
BetweenIandGirl: 626 is... Grease daugther? well it seem there will be Shadow interference again.
Answer: She joined Shadow Garden early.
primenidus: Fuck cliffhanger
Answer: :P
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