Currently in the Royal Academy in the capital.

"The Main different between martial arts and Magic is how the mana and our life force in our body is being used~"

Inside a huge room that had at least 60 students was an elderly man with a long gray beard and hair.

"But remember that our life force between us and other races are completely different. Therefore knowing your enemy's life force traits is a piece of crucial information if you were to fight someone of a different race~"

Dozen of writing sounds could be heard the whole time from students.

Some were writing small descriptions while others were copying word from word of the old man's lecture in their notebooks.

And among those very students in the very back was a silver-haired kid with this arms lien on this desk with his head buried in them.

"Ah, so annoying. When is it ever going to end..."

He said while watching the lecture with 1 eye open.

'That's basic stuff, what need is there to write all this crap?'

"Therefore-"

*Ding, Dong

Hearing the bell sounds the old man sighed out loud.

"Sigh, Tomorrow we will learn about our life force more. Class dismissed!"

Looking at the joyful expression of these students he couldn't help but be somehow disappointed.

'And here I thought you guys were taking my lesson seriously! When you were waiting to get out of here!'

"Aghhh, finally it has ended. Where should we go now, Allen?"

Turning to the side expecting to see this friend Allen.

There was no Allen to see...

"Tch, again?"

Standing with this bag in this hand ready to leave some voices came from behind him.

"Sir Samuel! Would you like to eat with us?"

Seeing the group that formed up behind Samuel most of the other young nobles cursed to themselves.

"Why him..."

"This damn Playboy..."

"Silver-haired freak..."

Although they didn't say it out loud. It was still enough for Samuel to hear them.

Turning to the lady's while ignoring the nearby nobles he said with a smile.

"Sorry Ladies, I have already done plans for today. Maybe next time..."

With that, he runs off to this room.

"Ah..."

It took him around 5 minutes to reach this room cause of the huge building that the Royal Academy was.

Getting inside this room he saw Allen sitting on this bed with a dark gray book on this hand with the title of [ Weaknesses of the Undead ].

"Allen, you still reading this book?"

"..."

Hearing no response, Samuel sighted and sit backward on a chair.

"Look, Allen. I know that Rapha meant a lot to you, but..."

"He shouldn't have died. Samuel."

"Huh?"

"I have seen the power of the Draugr who supposedly killed Rapha. I even read this book about the undead. And it doesn't make sense of Rapha dying by it..."

Confused, Samuel scratched this head.

"Wasn't this draugr the one that stole my weapon? According to the reports, this undead was a monster abnormally right?"

Closing the book and looking at Samuel's eyes Allen started explaining with a heavy voice.

"Yes...That draugr was a monster abnormally, but according to this book such undead shouldn't be a match against Rapha."

Realizing the meaning behind Allen's words, Samuel asked in disbelief.

"Wait, You mean that undead was..."

Cutting him short, Allen said with a grim voice.

"Most likely that draugr was of the same class as the undead that ruined Nexvarres of a century ago..."

Clenching with these hands the book enough to ruin the front cover.

"Our lands sure is cursed...for a similar undead like that Lesser Lich to show up..."

****

"What shall I do..."

This question plagued my mind these past two weeks.

The journey towards the capital couldn't be anything more boring.

Day and night I was sitting there inside that damn carriage looking either on the floor or them sleeping logs.

That's when I realized many shortcomings of being apparently a not-so-awesome-undead that I originally thought.

Since I didn't want to show them that I was an undead I didn't have the choice to do anything productive...

Wherever we moved I was inside the carriage and when we were stopping at night I had to either stay guard or watch them sleep!

I once tried to train to get some free XP, but I ended up waking up the others...

Other than this boredom that I was experiencing 24/7 I wasn't even able to relax at that time.

After all, being with those guys made my body feel hot from the trait of me being an undead...

So yeah, not the best vacation for sure.

The only positive thing about all this was the fact that I could practice suppressing that burning feeling in my body.

It wasn't much, but I did manage to reduce it by a little bit.

Which was, well... Nice I guess? It didn't change the fact that I felt uncomfortable inside the carriage.

For me to distract myself so that I don't lose my sanity out of boredom I tried to busy myself with various things.

One of them was covering the holes in my armor with various clothes, which I honestly think I did a damn good job at.

Considering it took me a whole week to do it right...

Nonetheless!

The rest of my time I used where to spend my wallet of XP I had!

Which bough us to the present that we now...

"Ugh..let's take another look just to be sure..." With a mental command, I bought the XP storage window in front of me.

[120 825 XP]

'Alright, Don't be fooled by the numbers me! Last time they were gone before I even had realized it!'

"For now I should focus on the useful ones..." I mumbled to myself.

The most useful skills that I was currently using were the following.

[Curse of Vigor Lv.1]

[Wind Blade Lv.3]

[Sprint Lv.3]

Although in a way [Intermediate Weapon Mastery Lv.1] was what I technically most used. The current level of swordsmanship was enough as things were now.

Thus these 3 were my main targets to increase to Lv.10.

If I were to aim for firepower then [Wind Blade] would be the obvious choice.

But...

"It's so dang expensive..." I subconsciously said out loud.

Although that cause the nearby slaves to look at me weirdly, I simply ignored them.

'Although I could max it out right now, it probably would cost me most of my XP I stored...'

Which put me at upgrading [Curse of Vigor Lv.1] and [Sprint Lv.3].

'I guess I should do the obvious one before moving on

Without further ado, I clicked with my finger on the upgrade button on [Sprint].

[Sprint level has increased from Lv. 3 to Lv. 10!]

[The Skill Sprint reached this maximum Level.]

[Sprint Lv.10 turns into Dash Lv.1]

[Dash Lv.1]: By surrounding yourself in your mana in a specific way you can reduce your overall weight while forcing your mana into your legs you are capable to move beyond your capabilities.

'It seems the same as [Sprint] but with the additional effect of reducing my weight. Not bad for 18900 XP.'

Pleased with the outcome I nodded to myself.

"Now with the main problem..."

'Now I could easily increase [Curse of Vigor] to Lv. 10 if I want to, but somehow doing so is also a waste of XP...'

When I am referring to being a waste of XP I don't mean the capability of the spell, but the efficiency of XP usages.

For example, If I were to increase [ Miasma Corruption] then [Curse of Vigor] would then cost less than 2375 than it is now.

But doing so would drain most of the XP that I have gathered...

"Ah, so annoying..."

Both had pros and cons.

One increases my current fighting potential while the other is a long-time investment which probably will make things more XP efficient...

After a long time of hesitation, I have decided.

While reluctant I raised my finger and pressed the upgrade button.

[Miasma Corruption level has increased from Lv. 1 to Lv.10!]

[The Skill Miasma Corruption reached this maximum Level.]

[Miasma Corruption Lv.10 turns into Undeath Corruption Lv. 1]

[Talent [Undead] turned into [Superior Undead]]

Suddenly a massive surge of power overwhelmed me and death mana kept coming out of my body.

If it weren't for the fact of my armor and cloth hiding the dead mana of my body everyone would have realized that I was Undead.

But even my armor couldn't hide the killing intent that I subconsciously was producing.

The slaves around me started to shake and make some distance with me.

Worried that they would become a victim of this eerie sword of this knight.

"What the hell was that..."

After calming the dead mana around me and putting it inside my body I felt completely energized.

Feeling that my strength was suddenly increased I was about to take a look at the new things that I got.

But before I could even my status I was cut short by the bright sunlight that came out of the door.

"Sir Knight! We reached the Capital!"