The dazzling light faded and like a broken doll, the knight fell to the ground. The body underneath the armored charred, letting out a foul stench.
Originally wanting to chase after the knight, Momonga was dumbfounded at how weak the knight was.
“How weak… To die from such a thing…”
For Momonga, a level five spell like 『Dragon Lightning』 was weak. During the times when he was fighting against level 100 players, Momonga would only use spells of level eight or higher. Level five spells would almost never be used.
Knowing that the knight was weak enough to allow a level five spell to kill him, the tension within Momonga instantly dissipated. Of course, it could be possible that these two knight were the only weak ones, but even so he began to lose his tension. However, his plan to use teleportation magic to withdraw had not changed.
The knights could also have been experts in close combat. In YGGDRASIL, a hit to the neck would cause a significant increase in damage, but right now, in the real world it could be fatal.
Momonga once again raised his tension. Dying because of a careless mistake would be too stupid. Right now he should continue testing out his own strength.
Momonga activated his own special skill.
───「Raise Death Knight」───
This was one of Momonga’s special abilities, the creation of undead monsters. The Death Knight was one of Momonga’s favourite creatures since it was very useful as a shield.
With a level around 35, its strength would be equal to a level 25 monster, but its defensive power was very good, comparable to a level 40 monster. For Momonga, a monster like that was very useful.
However, the Death Knight had two very important special skills.
One was the ability to attract the attacks of an enemy. The other one could be used only once, but it would always survive one lethal attack as long as it had a certain amount of HP left. Because of these two special skills, Momonga enjoyed using Death Knights as a shield.
This time as well, he created it to act as his shield.
In YGGDRASIL, just by using the special ability of creating undead, undead would appear out of the air around the summoner. However, for this world it seemed to be different.
Black mist appeared out of no where, flew towards the knight whose heart had been crushed and covered him.
The mist slowly expanded and — entered the body of the knight. Then like a zombie, the knight slowly stood up.
“Yiii!”
Although the girls shrieked, Momonga didn’t notice. Because he was also surprised at the sight before him.
Moving with a grumbling sound, black liquid flowed out from the silt in the helmet, should be coming out from the knight’s mouth.
The black liquid flowed out endlessly, covering the whole body. It looks like a slime swallowing a human. After being completely covered by the liquid slime, it began to distort into a human form.
After a few seconds, the black liquid receded and what stood in front of his eyes was certainly a Death Knight.
About 230 centimeters tall, its body was larger and no longer looked like a human, saying it was a beast was more fitting.
Its left hand was holding a tower shield that covered three-fourths of its body and in its right hand it held a serrated sword. The sword was nearly one hundred and thirty centimetres long. Normally one needs both hands to pick up, but the huge Death Knight is easily lifting it with one hand. The sword is coated with waves of terrifying red and black fog, agitating the surrounding like a constant a heartbeat.
His huge body wore a body armor made of black metal with red bloodlines engraved on it. The armor had sharp thorns everywhere and looked like the incarnation of violence.
Two demonic horns emerged from the helmet, with the face being visible underneath. It was an disgusting, rotted face whose empty eye sockets were filled with hate and killing intent, glowing with a flashing red light.
With its tattered black cloak flapping in the wind, the death knight was waiting for Momonga’s commands. It radiated an aura worthy of being called Death Knight.
Similar to summoning a Primal Fire Elemental or a Moonlight Wolf, Momonga established a link with the summoned spirit which was the knight killed by 「Lightning Dragon」 and orders him:
"The knights attacking the village ─── wipe them out."
“OHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
It let out a deafening roar.
Those who heard the roar full of bloodlust felt their skin crawl, and even the air started to shake.
The Death Knight began to run forward without hesitation, its movements fast as lightning, like a bloodhound who had found his prey. Being an undead with a hatred for the living, the Death Knight wanted to eradicate the enemy.
Looking at the back of the disappearing Death Knight, Momonga felt that there was a distinct difference between now and YGGDRASIL.
That would be the 「Freedom of Movement」.
Originally the Death Knight would remain on standby close to their summoner, Momonga, and wait for an opportunity to attack incoming enemies. They wouldn’t listen to such kind of orders and automatically attack. The difference in this situation was the lack of information, which may prove to be fatal.
Momonga suddenly felt like he made a blunder, he scratched his head and sighed.
“He already ran off… To throw away my protective shield. Although the one who gave the order was me…”
Momonga blamed himself for his mistake.
While he was still able to create a lot more Death Knights he still didn’t know much about the strength of his enemies, which was why he needed to save up his limited number of spells. Furthermore, since Momonga’s magic was usually used from the rearguard, being without any kind of defense right now made him feel like being naked in the front of danger.
Therefore he needed to create another shield. For this experiment, he decided to see if it was possible to create one without a corpse.
Just as he was thinking about it, another figure came out from the still opened 『Portal』. At the same time the 「Portal」 started to slowly disappear without a trace.
A person dressed in a full set of black armor appeared.
The armor made the figure look like a devil. Covered with spikes and not showing the tiniest amount of skin. Wearing metal gloves with long claws, in one hand a black kite shield, the other holding an axe gently emitting a green glow. Wearing a blood red cloak fluttering in the wind, complementing the red blouse worn underneath.
“It took some time for me to prepare, I apologise for making you wait.”
Albedo’s melodious voice came from under the full cover helmet.
Albedo’s levels were invested in the expert defensive techniques of the Dark Knight profession. Therefore, among these three level 100 NPCs in Nazarick — Sebas, Cocytus and Albedo, Albedo boasted the highest defensive power.
It could be said that she was Nazarick’s strongest shield.
“No problem, as long as you’ve arrived.”
“Thank you. Then… How do you wish to dispose of these inferior creatures? If Momonga-sama does not wish to dirty his hand, please leave this task to me.”