Guthlu was on a table a bunch of marks drawn in the blood of Vaygo all over his body. My captor had not exactly been telling the truth about letting my "friends" go. The runes were something I'd instructed him to do, though as I've said I don't need ritual magic as much anymore (when you become practiced with necromancy runes are a crutch or only used for big spells), since Vaygo was at best a novice this was the best I could come up with. I was sitting to the side still shackeled giving instructions.
"I hope one day you'll burn for this Lorentino." Guthlu spit on me and I just sat there looking all sad, it was all I could do in the face of this obvious betrayal.
"Your brother already assured me I would, trust me I know how damned I am." Vaygo finished his runes and looked on like a happy child who had pleased his parent.
"Did I do everything correctly." I stood up and glanced over the runes, they looked to be in the proper order.
"Yep, go ahead and invoke some power into them to bring them to life and you will be on your way to being a true necromancer." He clapped his hands and called up some magic, the runes glowed brightly, and Guthlu groaned.
"It's working!" Vaygo shouted out, and then immeadiately doubled over in pain as the life force was ripped out of him.
"Yep it sure is." I stood up and walked over to my former captor, snatching the key for my shackles from his belt, "You're far too trusting Vaygo, you should have assumed I turned a bit too fast and had a back up plan, the problem you ran into is not knowing a damned thing about necromancy, the first step obviously is to know in which direction the spell is directing the life force." It was a classic double cross, well classic for me, you'll remember I did the same thing to my master.
"You are a bastard." I could have had the spell go instantly, but this was much more fun seeing the little prick suffer. His body was deflating like a popped balloon, it took him minutes to die, but I'm sure it felt like hours, each breath coming harder than the last. I'll admit I'm an asshole you don't have to tell it to me.
"See Guthlu all according to plan." He socked me in the jaw shortly after freeing him, but you know thats just the way people thank me for saving their lives. And hell I gave him some more years on his demigod lifespan! No one ever properly thanks me for all the good I do in the world. Sure I do it with evil magic and a lot of bad things happen in the interim. BUT GOOD GETS DONE GODS DAMN IT!
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