Tree Growing Bones: Birth of a Necromancer

All of the skills I currently had were neatly displayed infront of me.

SKILLS

1. SKELETON FRUIT LVL. 1 (C) (EVO) (A)

A. SKELETON SOLDIER FRUIT LVL. 1

B. SKELETON ARCHER FRUIT LVL. 1

C. SKELETON RIDER FRUIT LVL. 1

2. DEATHLY AURA LVL. 1 (C) (EVO) (P)

3. BONE MANIPULATION LVL.1 (C) (EVO)(A)

A. BONE SPEAR LVL. 1

B. BONE SHIELD LVL. 1

C. BONE ARMOUR LVL. 1

D. DOME OF BONE LVL. 1

4. NECROTIC HEALING LVL. 1 (C) (EVO)(P)

Of all the skills I had, I was most fond with skeletons archers. They were the most important for me now. They were nimble, agile, had great dps as well as a long range.

As a former lover of rpgs such as myself, a ranged character with such great attack power and damage dealing capacity backed with great agility would always be my first pick. And if only if the ranged character had any flaw, I would have a character that could tank as my second pick.

So my first and foremost attention would probably be given to the skeleton archers without much second thought.

Containment of joy was very hard as I had already saved up about 36 skill points till now and could not wait to see the transformation of my skeleton archers now.

First I will use some skill points to experiment with skeleton archers and add then skill points to other skills if they will help me clear the stage faster.

" Add skill points to skeleton archers " I shouted. But the familiar sound of mechanical voice never came.

" Add skill points to the skeleton archer skill " I tried changing some words to see if it would work but was disappointed soon.

" Add skill points to the skeleton archer standing far left. " Still no changes.

I could not want to give up now, can I ?Thinking to myself seemingly frustrated wanted to shout in the air once more.

But before I could utter a sound I could hear the light mechanical screech. I had sensed about the light faint screech like which felt like static fluctuation everytime the mechanical voice sounded. Like it was interfereing with my brain waves to communicate with me.

I knew that faint mechanical screech would be followed by the mechanical voice so I patiently sharpened my ear to hear what it was saying.

INVALID COMMAND ....INVALID COMMAND... INVALID COMMAND.....

COULD NOT ADD SKILL POINTS TO A SUB SKILL....

ADD SKILL POINTS TO THE MAIN SKILL IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE SUB SKILL.....

I now understood how to strengthen my skeleton archers. But did I sense a tone of disdain from the mechanical voice like it was stating something obvious to a noob.

Shrugging off the feeling I was having, eagerness of strengthening my skeleton archers took over me.

" Add 10 skill points to skeleton fruit skill " I commanded.

SWOOSH...

SKELETON FRUIT LVL. 10 (C) (EVO) (A)

A. SKELETON SOLDIER FRUIT LVL. 10

B. SKELETON ARCHER FRUIT LVL. 10

C. SKELETON RIDER FRUIT LVL. 10

10 skill points vanished from my collection of 36 skill points leaving only 26 skill points. But it felt like I killed three birds with one stone.

I only wanted to upgrade the ranged fighters of my mini skeleton army but damage dealers as well as tanks were consiquently upgraded.

Overall power of my mini skeleton army had greatly increased. I could feel it in my bones. The skeletons looked more robust. The lifeless skeletons now looked vigorous.

All the little fractures that could be seen in the bones previously were gone like they were never there. The brittleness replaced by firmness and a sharp contrast could be differentiated from the skeletons then and the skeletons now.

Without any delay, I ordered a skeleton archer to shoot. All seven of my skeleton archers picked their bone bow in unison, aimed at a rocky formation nearby and shot 7 arrows in unison. I had made a silly mistake of not specifying any skeleton archer so all of them shot at once.

BOOM..... BOOM..... BOOM..... BOOM...

The sounds chipped rocks falling from the wall followed by a series of skeletons dying and experience points being added to my status window, it all happened so soon, I didn't even had have a proper time to show my reactions : shocked, baffeled, happy, fear, all came at once.

The twang that should have been heard after the arrow was released was totally replaced by loud bang. It was like a group of maniacs shooting m1 garand. If someone could record this sound and make me hear it later, I would no doubtly say it was a group of m1 garand going off together.

After the satisfying display of grandeur might from my new and improved archers, I wanted to see my mini army in action as soon as possible.

But sending all of them down at once was like making them a suicide squad, they would be trampled. So I ordered my skeleton archers to shoot down the skeletons below one by one.

It would increase my experience points as well as make it easier for my skeleton soldiers and skeleton riders to swoop down and make a swift clean up.

One boom followed by another, 7 booms went off consecutively, after which followed a series of promts about killing skeletons, gaining exp points as well as a prompt stating a increase in my level.

And the process repeated again except for prompt about increase in level as the exp points gained from the skeletons was gruesomly low and I had to kill many of them.

Me as well my four other skeletons were having a leisure time for now. I started looking around and the countdown to create my new skeleton soldiers and riders was dilligently going down.

The regret of not incubating skeleton archers hit me hard. But the gaze my skeleton soldiers and riders gave me made me retreat those thoughts.

They looked at me constantly and it felt like they were constantly saying " are we that useless ? " with their gaze. I ignored their gazes and summoned status window.

STATUS WINDOW

NAME - AURIEL

TITLE - SUCCESSOR OF BLANE(SUPREME)

AGE - 5 DAYS 10 HOURS

SPECIES - UNDEAD

LEVEL - 24

CLASS - NECROMANCER TREE (EVO)

EXP - 256 / 7090

HP - 2510

MP - 2600

STRENGTH- 25.3

INTELLIGENCE- 26

VITALITY - 25.1

SENSE - 25.6

MOBILITY - 19.1

SOUL ABILITIES - 3

SKILLS - 4

SUBORDINATES - 17

ATTRIBUTE POINTS - 2

SKILL POINTS - 28

With the increase in level receiving a gain of 2 additional skill points was well within my calculations but still having 28 skill points with one skill at level 10 and other skills at level 1 made me ponder about other skills I had.

If I let the gaps to widen more and more, others skill would not be able to catch up to skeleton fruit skill which will create a larger imbalance later on.

According to my own theory of relative skills, the gap between skills must not be larger than 5 levels. So I had to increase my other skills accordingly.

" Add 5 skill points to deathly aura "

" Add 5 skill points to bone manipulation "

" Add 5 skill points to necrotic healing "

SWOOSH..... SWOOSH ... SWOOSH

After three swooshes 15 of my 28 skill points vanished and a prompt appeared infront of me showing my newly upgraded skills.

1. DEATHLY AURA LVL. 5 (C) (EVO) (P)

2. BONE MANIPULATION LVL. 5 (C) (EVO) (A)

A. BONE SPEAR LVL.5

B. BONE SHIELD LVL. 5

C. BONE ARMOUR LVL. 5

D. DOME OF BONE LVL. 5

3. NECROTIC HEALING LVL. 5 (C) (EVO) (P)