Reborn with a Necromancer System
Chapter 126: Eyes of the Divine

Chapter 126: Eyes of the Divine

Kai froze.

Ralts.

Gone in an instant. Swallowed whole like nothing more than a morsel.

His shadow flexed underfoot, responding to his sudden spike of rage and panic. His breath hitched, chest heavy with the gravity of what he’d just witnessed. But he only allowed himself a single moment of grief before instinct and fury surged forward.

"You fucking flying lizard!" His voice cracked like thunder. "Give Ralts back right-"

The wyvern alpha’s belly glowed from within, pulsing with foreign magic. It jerked, wings spasming, throat convulsing, as it stumbled back with a strange gurgle.

Then, it exploded.

Chunks of crimson meat, bone, and blackened scale rained down in a grotesque display. From within the carnage, a glowing figure floated down like a ruined star descending from the heavens. Or hell.

Ralts. She was back. Uninjured.

Her robes were covered in mucus, her expression calm, disdainful, even.

She brushed ichor from her sleeve and cast a sneering glance at the wyvern’s twitching remains. "Filthy creature. Master Kai shall be the only one to eat me."

She proceeded to incinerate the corpse. Denying it the chance at ever becoming anything other than ash.

Kai’s thoughts screeched to a halt.

’Huh?!’

He blinked, replaying the words in his head once... twice... maybe a dozen times. No matter how he twisted the interpretation, the meaning remained the same.

She had meant exactly what she said.

He wasn’t sure if he should be mortified or flattered.

A choked gasp drew his attention to Kleo. Her face was frozen in complete horror, her eyes spinning like top-heavy coins as she stammered, "Sh-she can talk? And... you... eat... her?"

"Of course not!"

Her voice rose several octaves in disbelief. "But she spoke! Isn’t she dead? What-what is happening?!"

"You idiot, get your shit together!" he snapped, lunging toward her.

He tackled her out of the way just as another wyvern’s massive jaws clamped down where her head had been. The wind from the near-miss whipped past them, stirring her hair wildly.

’Not very battle-aware for a Sightcaller,’ he thought grimly as he pushed off her and stood.

"Bone Lance!"

With a quick gesture and pulse of mana, six jagged bones tore from his shadow space. These weren’t the usual spear-like instruments he summoned, he had reforged them mid-flight, layering them in necrotic energy, tipped in magic and honed through necessity.

They impaled the lunging wyvern from chest to crown. The last lance buried itself in the beast’s skull with a wet crunch. Its body spasmed, then slumped, limp and lifeless.

Kai rose to his feet, eyes scanning the battlefield.

"Kael, to me."

A rippling blur answered the call from his shadow space.

Without so much as a command, he nodded and the shockwave from Kael’s movements as he flashed towards the enemies. He slashed at the flanks of the oncoming beasts joints to weaken their fighting ability and aid Ralts and Joe. He spun like a dancer, using each rotation to gain just a little more strength and speed for every successive strike.

Joe followed, hulking, implacable, smashing bones and wings with his massive sword.

And Ralts... Ralts laughed coldly as she raised thorned roots from the ground and used them to entangle another wyvern, her control over the battlefield weaving tighter with every spell. If meat wouldn’t work, the world would suffice.

Kleo watched it all, frozen in awe and disbelief. She’d seen Kai fight before, but never like this. This wasn’t desperate survival. This was domination. He didn’t just fight beside his undead. He commanded them like a general.

She had nothing to contribute.

Within moments, the skies cleared, and the remaining wyverns lay strewn across the grotto floor, lifeless and broken.

"Mass Raise Undead."

A prompt flickered in Kai’s mind:

[The wyvern alpha is too damaged to raise.]

He clicked his tongue and looked at Ralts. "Figures."

He reselected his targets mentally, discarding the alpha as an option.

"Mass Raise Undead."

One by one, the wyverns jerked upright, except for the alpha. Their roars filled the cavern, a sound so loud it rattled his skull. The pitch was unbearable and Kleo dropped to her knees, clutching her ears in pain.

"Stop that, now!" Kai bellowed.

They obeyed instantly.

But they didn’t look at him.

They were all turned... toward the alpha’s remains.

Kai narrowed his eyes. ’I can’t raise it, but maybe...’

He walked toward the massive corpse, extending his palm.

"Soul manipulation."

From the scorched gore on the ground, a massive soul peeled free. For a moment, it writhed, unwilling to submit. But then it shrank and solidified, and Kai seized it.

Kleo watched as he watched him handle something she couldn’t visually perceive.

[Grand Wyvern Soul obtained.]

It pulsed in his palm like a second heart.

’Not as good as a sovereign shadow dragon soul, but-’

Then pain lanced through his entire body.

Like nails driven into his bones. As if light itself peeled his flesh back to see what writhed beneath.

His soul recoiled violently, twitching wherever that tainted thing was held.

A divine presence. Watching.

Judging.

"Kleo!" Kai shouted. "We have to go. Now!"

He wasted no time. The soul disappeared into his vault, and his shadow space expanded rapidly. He swept up all the wyvern eggs. The shadow space didn’t recognise them as alive, which was a small mercy, as he didn’t have to sap the life from the unborn reptiles.

Then the undead.

All except one wyvern, just enough for flight.

The pain in his soul deepened. It felt as though a god’s eye was fixed directly on his beating heart.

’They found me.’

He cursed under his breath.

He grabbed Kleo by the waist, ignoring her startled yelp, and flung her up onto the wyvern’s back. He vaulted up behind her as the wyvern growled in confusion.

"Don’t think about it!" she screamed. "It’s like a horse with wings. It’s like a horse with wings. It’s like a-"

"Hold on!" Kai commanded.

Kleo shut up, and gripped onto it for dear life.

He focused his magic into the thrall’s mind.

’Fly.’

The wyvern’s wings flared wide. With a burst of strength and an ear-splitting shriek, it took to the skies.

Kai and Kleo clung to its back as the world fell away beneath them.

Beneath them, the grotto shimmered one last time before vanishing behind the veil of clouds.

Kai’s chest still burned with divine pressure. It wasn’t gone. Just growing more distant.

They saw me.

Not the Inquisition.

Not some angry adventurer.

Not even the Devourer.

Them.

And somewhere, far beyond the clouds or in another dimension, somewhere behind the golden veil of divine law, something smiled.

The gods had taken notice.

Kleo warned him. Demeris warned him. He didn’t listen.

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