Awakening: I Ascend As A Legendary Ranked Necromancer-Chapter 73: Impressive

The Onus was at the edge of my space, lighting the darkness around it up. Its eyes were turned towards me, and immediately, I became aware that the monster was there, the forceful connection I made earlier snapped into place between us.

It was weak but it was there, shining duly.

I sat back down. "If this is my... inner space? I’ll call it that. Then this must be where all my monsters will return to any time I don’t call them."

I smiled. "Impressive. Now then, why am I here and why is the Onus here with me?"

I gestured and pulled on the connection between us, putting power in it and twisting it with command. "Come here."

The Onus shuddered, its body ripped, and its face scowled; it jerked forward, and then, with a grunt and a blast of power of its own, it jerked back.

"I guess it won’t work like that," I narrowed my eyes in concentration. Since this is an undead monster then it stands to reason that I should be able to make the Onus mine. "If not for Litha I sure don’t want your ugly ass."

I tried again, but the monster’s will was strong, and it resisted me. "Oh, we’re not playing!" I stood and took a step forward, immediately appearing in front of the shocked Onus.

I was also shocked but I hid it; this is the inner space, of course things will be strange. It was too late for the monster to run, and I rested my palm on its blad head. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

My eyes flared and I pumped power into the creature. "Be mine!" The monster balked and growled and our wills clashed with a small shockwave!

It ruffled my clothes, and they ripped, but I didn’t back down, and I pressed my will and power against that of the monster.

"Grauah!" Its roar came out mixed with force and slammed into me like a rough blade.

I flinched and grunted but my hand only tightened. "You... will... be mine!" Green fire flared around us both, glowing and surrounding us like a gob of thick water.

Immediately, a grumpy sensation entered my head, and I blinked.

"Is that... from the Onus?" I followed the sensation, and the previous connection I made with the monster changed, it became thicker and real, less forceful.

I lifted my head and looked at the Onus; it was glaring at me, but it showed no open hostility. I felt my Grimoire updating with new information and I smiled. "I have another monster."

The Onus was still its ugly self, but now its eyes blazed green with the same fire as mine. Its rumpled face scowled as it looked at me and then at the inner space; it floated towards it and joined Hermit.

I looked at it with a sigh. "The connection is there, but it’s not yet at the stage of Hermit. I’ll have to find you a name too. Well then, how do I leave this place?"

But before I do. Why is there so much space here? I thought and began to drift into the dark space. Wait... how am I breathing here? Ah... must be magic or something.

By the time I looked back again the actual inner space was a small dot in the distance. I drifted there, floating in the dark as naturally as if I was born to it.

"What is this?" A mountain of jagged bone that glowed a dull red suddenly loomed in front of me in the darkness and I flinched. This was the first thing apart from the inner space that I was seeing and this massive thing was also floating like the debris from a continental-size mountain.

I saw more of them all over the place as I drifted, there got so many that I had to start to actively dodge them. "What are these things? What are they doing in my inner space?"

I stretched out my hand and touched one and I flinched. It was as hard as if I was touching a rock yet it was warm and soft to the senses like sweaty warm skin.

I shivered. "Ok... ok... now what was that? Is this all in my mind or my Grimoire?"

I passed a cluster of debris and saw a new one, the biggest so far, and it spanned miles in all directions. The red-black mountain didn’t give off a red glow this time, it was throbbing like a wound.

I went closer and saw that there was a flat section of the rocky mountain, and the section glowed green with ancient writing, just like the floors of my inner space.

Curiosity pulled me closer, and I saw an altar with a casket on it. I swallowed. "This is getting weird." But the curiosity was too much this time and I landed beside the casket.

"Wow. I don’t know what material this is but it must be insanely expensive and rare." I touched the top of the casket and marveled.

The casket was pure green in color with different designs and drawings on it. In one section was a drawing of a man riding a sort of flying octopus, and then another, the same man with a black robe was sitting on a familiar throne while others knelt beneath him.

Different drawings like that filled the body of the casket. "Wow. This told a full story, different events with the same man at the center of it all. I wonder who he is."

I swallowed as my hands traced the casket lid. "Is he in here? Should I open it? Nah!"

I chuckled silently to myself and moved back. "I’ve read a lot about things like this. Open it and get cursed kind of situation. I better leave it be."

I moved back and looked over the cluster of glowing rocks, but my mind stayed back at the casket. Don’t open it, Torvan. Don’t. Don’t. Don’t!

"Oh shit! I’m just going to open it!" And then I did.