Shalltear - Animate Dead

Satisfied with the expected reactions, Shalltear grinned and cast a spell. “Animate Dead!”

The warrior who had lost his heart slowly stood up as one of the lowest-tier undead, a zombie.

But Shalltear wasn’t done there. She swallowed the heart and then reached into the glob of blood above her head. When she pulled out her hand, inside was a beating clot of blood—a caricature of a heart. She threw it at the zombie.

Wriggling like an insect and warping shape, it burrowed into the zombie’s chest. With that, the body jolted. Then, still having full-body spasms, it slowly transformed.

His skin became like the bark of a withered tree, as if all the moisture had evaporated from his body; his nails grew suddenly longer; and his canine teeth jutted out. Soon, that undead was no longer a zombie.

The adventurers were shocked by the appearance of the lesser vampire. “This can’t be! I’ve never heard of a vampire using such high-tier spells without a penalty!”

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One of the warriors’ swords ripped into the lesser vampire, perhaps because it had been immobilized by the holy energy. It was probably vulnerable, since it was still unstable, having not completely transformed from zombie into lesser vampire yet, but the fact that her creation was weak against the power of the gods was enough to irk Shalltear.

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“Lesser Strength!” The priest gave the last remaining warrior a buff.

Now the lesser vampire’s dull movements were matched up against the magically enhanced warrior. The fight was going slightly in the warrior’s favor.

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Volume 3, Chapter 2.4