Whispers of A Dead Empire

Chapter 15

I bounced the idea around in my head for a bit, trying to find a proper spelling for Asteria to fit my name. But it wasn't easy to settle on a good spelling of it. After fiddling with it for a while, I finally just settled on using Asteria as it was. It sounded weird saying it in my head, but it was something that I would grow into.

I erased Wright from the screen and typed in my new last name. I stared at it for a moment and felt a strange sense of heaviness weight on my heart. Once I confirmed this choice, there was no going back. It really hammered home just how far away from Earth and my family I was. But one day, I would make it back, I swear it. I would go home and see my parents again.

The screen blinked its confirmation once I selected it and vanished. Now I was Calixa Asteria, Empress to an empire filled with the undead. I dismissed the screen and took a moment to check on the zombies and see how they were doing. The scene looked much like it did on the first trial run. A vast majority of zombies lay dead on the floor, carved into roughly chopped pieces and without mercy. Now only two were still standing going at it. Their movements were far more refined than before, but they were still swinging the swords widely and with no form of skill, though I knew I was also severely lacking in that department.

I watched them as they both slashed one another for quite sometime before one dropped to the floor. A filament of grey energy rushed into the surviving one, and a dull light pulsed from its body—wounds it received during the fight stitched themselves together. Fingers quickly grew back, and even a leg that looked like it was close to being completely dismembered swiftly healed. So, you heal back to full health when you level up from the looks of it. It looked painful, but I had no clue if that was true or not. They didn't feel pain, after all, so they couldn't tell me. I glanced at the notification on my screen since they were annoying me a bit.

Elite T1 Template unlocked:

Zombie Swordsman

Congratulations, you have unlocked your first elite variant! You have gained two hundred essence as your reward.

At least I made money back from this endeavor. "Kharon, does the elite mob get its name from the class it unlocks?" I dismissed the notification and cast a questioning glance over to my companion.

"Yes. The template will also evolve based on the further evolutions of the class well, which will affect the mob's future evolution." That was interesting, and it raised more questions on the matter.

"How does the class system work?" I activated the consume function and cleaned up the mess as I motioned for the zombie to come over and wait, though at a distance that I didn't have to smell it.

"The class system is incredibly customizable. It functions off of choice, skills, titles, and whatever else you may earn." He explained to me as I finished cleaning up the mess. At least I make essence back from doing this. I hated being a penny pincher, but it was a necessary evil at the current time.

You have unlocked the template to lesser quality zombie blood.

Apparently, I can also unlock stuff like this. However, I had no use for zombie blood at the moment. Maybe the Adventurers would once they arrived. "I see; when I gave Alessia her title, it seemed like it would only allow one." I shifted my menus around and summoned a small group of skeletons to begin the next round of testing.

"You can designate a public title, but they will earn more through actions they take." He leaned forward as he spoke, interested in the action that would come because of the skeletons fighting. Hopefully, this would be a little cleaner than the zombies.