"Dark arts awakener is rare. They were only a hundred dark mages in a thousands of mages." Xule announced.
"Wait, I am a classless awakener." Ren said.
"But you awakened." Xule interjected.
"Wait, is that called awakening?" Ren was confused. He did not quite understood the situation.
"Yes, also called forced awakening. That manifestation of cloud means only one thing. You awakened a dark magician. A Necromancer!" Xule announced. He smiled at them but Ren's heart sank.
Ren perplexed, he wanted to be a warrior. And he cried. He hated it, he awakened what he hated the most.
He was necrophobic!
"No!!!!!!!" Ren yelled and cried.
Still, on the contrary, his mother then hugged him. Her heart was brimming with happiness, eyes glittered with glow. "Yes!"
"My son awakened! Yey!" Shouted his father Rey.
"Yes! Brother is an awakened!" Rena yelled.
"Go go, train him," his mother said and then pushed Ren on the back.
"Yes, with pleasure! I roamed the lands to find a suitable candidate. And here it is, given to me in this remote place. I could already feel his potential." He muttered. Bowing slightly he said, "Please let me train him. It is my lifelong dream to have a student."
"Yes of course. It is our dream for him to awaken." Elle wiped her tears.
It was then, they burned the bodies and there were casualties. Seven were dead and twenty plus were wounded that was healed by his mother.
Meanwhile, Ren became a student of Xule and it was not going smoothly. Xule then summoned a skeleton and Ren fell on his butt. He felt his strength left him as he saw the skeletons. When they approached him, he saw those eyes brimming of bluish aura and then he screamed.
"Ahhhh don't come near me!" Ren shouted. Then they dashed towards him. Ren immediately drew his sword and then sparred with the skeletons.
He was having a fear of skeletons due to the past. He felt great fear to them after watching horror movies. From earth. Then after he reincarnated here, he died after killed by the demon god. Then he rebirthed to the past where he was still young.
He gripped his sword and then slashed the skeletons. Three skeletons were summoned and then they clashed weapons.
He wanted to run away but the skeletons were able to block his path. "Wait, please don't come near me! I might die of heart attack!" Ren protested.
Still, Xule did not stop and even raised more. "Ten is my limit. Learn this Ren, if you feared the skeletons, then you feared your powers. That means you can't save anybody or your family if you will not use your power yourself. I will not let you sleep at all until your fear hasn't subsided."
"Ah! Please!" Ren complained more.
Ren then was put inside a room with full of skeletons. He was binded and then Xule covered his mouth with a cloth.
Ren screamed with all he got and in the morning, he was forced to battle skeletons. Meanwhile in the night, he was forced to sleep with skeletons. Day and night, altogether with the skeletons.
Until he was drained and eyebags were bulging.
"Man, I can't sleep at all. Let me rest for a while." Ren was staring at him with lifeless eyes.
"Hmm, I guess, it can't be helped. Ren, the thing is, I am left with no choice. What if, I will make your fear to skeletons to hatred to skeletons. What if, I will use skeletons kill Rena?" Xule said then smirked.
Ren was silent. Then flickered, he appeared right on Xule's face and a dagger was on his cheeks. Making his cheeks bled with a small slit.
Boom!
Ren watched him with eyes burning with anger. "Don't even mention skeletons. I will kill even gods to save them." Ren said to him then withdraw his weapon.
"Man, am I raising a monster? Good, good! That's better! I like the imagery of your eyes. Let that fire in your eyes burn your enemies." He said.
With it, he saw that his summons were missing. They only became bits of bones on the ground.
"Wait? Where are my summons? Did they perished? That explosion, don't tell me....."
The skeletons crumbled into bits on the ground and Xule was taken aback. Upon a moment of realization, he yelled out loud, "Wait!? Did you killed ten skeletons before you made a slit on my cheeks? My skeletons won't shatter that easily. Don't tell me you surpassed their health points with your damage in a short time." He muttered. His sweat trickled on his cheeks and then gulped his saliva.
Xule then smiled. He expects more in this kid. "Good."
"I will then teach you summon skeletons." He then demonstrated his skill. He put his hands on the ground and then cast the skill.
Right then after. Skeletons rose from the ground. "Ren, this my skill summon skeletons. Ten is my limit. You see, skeletons were soulless. That meant that you will control them by a link to your soul." He explained then let them move. He raised his hands and pointed his palm towards Ren as he controlled them.
"Your soul or mind will get split and put to the skeletons. Then control them all at once. You will feel that your presence were all on the skeletons at the same time. Like you are many. So to train, you need to start with one then two."
Ren then felt that he was indeed learning and then his fear has dissipated.
Xule grabbed a paper then handed it to him. It glowed after Ren hold it. It was a skill page nonetheless.
Ren then received and then saw the skill.
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Skill name: Summon Skeletons
Description: Summon Skeletons that has the soul of the caster that controls it.
Effects: Summon a soulless skeleton that has the soul of the caster and burns soul willpower to summon and mana to maintain.
Skill type: Active
Willpower cost: 20 to summon
Mana cost: 1 per second per summon
...
Immediately Ren used the skill and summoned one. Then tried to summon another. Till he reached five.
"Wow, I can't make even 3 in my first try. Ren you are a genius!" Right then after, Ren felt a perturbing and palpable fear but he gulped his saliva. "For my family, I will not fear them but use them! These are not my enemies that I must fear but my power that I will use. To get my revenge and pay back for what they did to me."
"As for your attack skill, this might come in handy." Xule handed a skill page.
...
Skill name: Soul Blast
Description: Summon a burning Soul to stun enemies
Effects: Deals 10 magical damage and stun enemies for 1 second
Cooldown: 1 second
Duration: 1 second
Damage type: Magic
Skill type: Active
Mana cost: 30