An Extra’s POV

'It changed again!'

Claudius exclaimed internally as he watched the new and more menacing form of the Compound Corpse that eerily stood before everyone.

Did this mean that his suspicion was correct? Was this thing learning?!

"A Compound Corpse evolves upon each death so that it doesn't suffer it again. This adaptability depends on the material used for its creation, though…" The black-suited man looked at the creature before it and sighed.

"As you can see, it is largely incompetent as a result of the inferior flesh that it was formed from. There's nothing I can do to improve trash, it seems."

'Inferior? Incompetent? That thing… is trash?!' Claudius' eyes were widening far more than he thought was possible.

'What am I hearing?!'

Claudius had never heard of an Undead with multiple lives. If such a thing existed, he was certain that he would know of it.

'It's unbelievable…' Yet such a thing was happening right before his eyes.

It was every Necromancer's dream to create a true undying Undead.

This meant they had to either be virtually immortal, which wasn't possible, or they had to be able to grow and learn so they wouldn't die.

'If his Undead keeps evolving at this rate, it'll become unkillable.'

A more terrifying thought entered Claudius' mind.

'What if… he uses even more people as a sacrifice? Just how powerful will the Undead become?!'

It was a question that was too scary to answer.

"Well… I've rambled on for long enough. Why don't we continue from where we left off?"

Claudius instinctively knew his two Knights would not be enough to handle the current enemy.

As a result, he used [Abyss Call] once again, creating three more black circles on the ground.

Proceeding out of them were three Mage-looking Undead—all of them wearing tattered robes with rotting flesh for skin.

only escalate the problem. To properly handle this

guards while making the Liches in his command subdue the enemy

day would come when my best warriors would be treated as standby disposables…' Claudius made a wry smile

the undead creatures began to chant, their loose jaws making unintelligible

Corpse to just stand still and let them cast their

Corpse appeared before the three

fast!' Claudius' thoughts

faster than he

However…

~WHUUSH!~

surrounded the Mages the moment the Corpse sent his

~ZTTTZ!~

retaliation, burning the fists of the Corpse, causing it to

go after my Mages. That's why I made preparations.' Claudius grinned

Corpse was, or what it did, there was no way

came from that weird skill

'H-huh…?!'

he

I dismissed it earlier because it was too weak, but…" The man smiled even more, causing Claudius

'How did he know?!'

was indeed an Enchanted Item, but the skull affixed on

a powerful barrier that couldn't be penetrated for

seconds for the barrier to become active, which was why Claudius couldn't use it earlier when the Corpse surprised everyone and

problem was that

a very long

for a

its cooldown wasn't going to

After all…

'Their Spell is complete!'

~FSHIIING!~

Circle

Undead, surrounding its body

paralyzed due to

groan,

Compound Corpse was done