Chapter: 21

Jay checked his arms for damage, but they were completely healed up.

“Huh, I guess my HP went down instead of me taking actual damage? …Though I do feel a strange sense of weakness after losing all that health…”

Panting at this point, he took a few deep breaths in.

Calming himself, he began to feel accomplished.

“Tough rat” Jay exhaled as he showed the dead soap rat some respect. “You sure wanted to keep your life huh…” he shook the slime off his hand “..slippery little bastard.”

Finally catching his breath, he decided it was finally time to practice his mana craft.

Holding out a hand over the corpse, Jay chanted his spell

“Rise”

Again, Jay felt a little light-headed as green gas materialized around his hand and spread around the creature; he didn’t realise this before since it was daytime, but the gas was luminescent.

“Cool” said Jay as the green glowing light reflected off his pupils.

He seemed like a true necromancer as he watched the beautiful dancing gas – yet this magical moment was cut short as when the gas penetrated the creature and disappeared – its body starting to spasm.

Jay’s eyes bulged, realising the rat corpse was about to explode and flick little bits of flesh all over his face.

“NO! NOT AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN!”

Jay gritted his teeth as he sprinted to the nearest log, jumping behind it.

~Pooowfh!~

The corpse exploded.

All Jay heard was a muffled explosion followed by a light-rain from the other side of the log.

Smiling behind the log, Jay waited an extra moment after the rain-noise stopped.

“Nope, I’m gonna wait. There are probably still some smaller bits of flesh raining down that I can’t hear”

He still shuddered at the thought of what happened last time, vividly remembering it.

Peeking his head over the log, he was happy that he missed getting a face full of gore.

Viscera, organs, intestines, black fur, unidentifiable flesh and fatty residue was left all over, it temporarily changed this part of the marsh from black-grey to a deep crimson red.

It was probably the only part of the marsh that wasn’t black.

The green gas forcefully expelled all the flesh from the rat corpse, leaving only the bones.

It seeped into the bones as they rattled, cartilage popped and snapped as other bones began sticking to each other and floating; a solid dark-green cartilage was forming at the joints.