Life passed by for Ruby much the same for quite a while until Halloween a few weeks later. Ruby had just finished her chores in the back garden, it was quite dark out when her they ordered her to go to the shop. Whilst this is not a peculiar order it is the night when something interesting occurred.

She had just been on her way back when Ruby heard a distant sound of pain. She quickly rushed towards the noise and she saw upon arriving one of those peculiar people who had dealt with Dudley. The man was on the ground panting, in front of him was another man or rather there was another man there. The man had a gaping hole in his chest and his eyes glowed an ominous purple, she quickly ca,e to the conclusion that this was some occult ritual. She had seen a few cults back on remnant wh worshipped the grimm however none of them had achieved whatever this man had done.

She quickly formed a few threads and then crept forwards which resulted in a new skill.

'Sneak' LVL 1 - 1%

The ability to sneak. Low leveled, the target must be distracted.

This came in handy as she felt her already light footsteps become slightly quieter. She snuck up to the man as he knelt and then quickly restrained him with the threads. The man struggled for a few moments but then fell limp with exhaustion. Choosing to ignore him, for now, she stalked forward to the creature before her.

'Inferi'

LVL N/A

N/A

Unknown

Quickly realising the possible threat of the creature ruby speared a few silver threads forwards to the creatures head which resulted in its death.

'Level up'

She pondered on how easy that was when she collapsed to the ground. She had forgotten about the drain of the threads holding the man and she had used up all her magic. Despite the overwhelming exhaustion she rapidly stood and turned to the man, whilst he was now free he was only marginally rested and when he went to use his stick which 'observe' told her was a wand nothing happened. Ruby quickly seized the advantage of his exhausted confusion and ran at the man and struck him in the head whilst she had only half the strength of an adult she used her aura to enhance the punch which resulted in 45DP.

'Necromancer'

LVL 33

HP 455/500

STR: 7

PER: 15

CHA: 4

INT: 20

WIS: 30

LUK: -3

BIO: A necromancer. N/A

The necromancer regained his earing and the slashed Ruby across the neck with a dagger, luckily her aura blocked the slash and the rebound sent the man recoiling. With only half her aura left from that fatal strick, she pounced on the man and wrapped around his neck repeatedly punching him.

-45

-50

-60

-50

-55

-65

With only 130 HP remaining the man reached up and lobbed Ruby to the ground. Before she could move the man had wrapped his hands around her throat, she struggled valiantly but the mans grim was resolute. Her vision was growing dark but in her blind panic she conjured her pitiful amount of magic she had regained and her magic responded by lobbing some nearby rubble at the man which knocked him off her. Disregarding her oxygen-deprived body she clambered onto the man and started raining down blow after blow.

-50

-30

-60

'Necromancer is deceased'

But Ruby was in no frame of mind to acknowledge that and kept punching the man. After a whilst she passed out from exhaustion, upon awakening she was slightly disturbed by what she saw, the man's face was less a face and more a hole. Looking away from the corpse she took stock of her situation, she was not injured as her aura protected her but she was exhausted physically and magically. Looking back to the man a pop-up appeared.

'Loot'

Yes/No

Clicking yes she watched as the man rapidly dissolved into purple rose petals similar to her own. Upon dissipating the Necromancer left behind 4 strange gold coins and 5 silver and bronze ones, not recognising them but still inferring that they were the currency of some kind she picked them up and put them into her inventory which filled up the slot for gallons, sickles and knuts. Another thing that was dropped was a strange book, upon picking it up a message appeared.

'Necromancy for adepts'

BIO: A book upon the basics of necromancy. Grants Necromancy skill.

Read: Yes/No

Eagerly clicking yes ruby felt knowledge of the necromancy fill her. The knowledge, however, was near useless with a few exceptions. She did not know what half of the things she knows that are needed actually are. She knows that she needs a focus but what constitutes as a focus is unknown, the only thing that is useful from learning it is the knowledge that anything raised is linked to either the castor or a focal point and if either is destroyed the raised will perish.

'Magic school: Necromancy-basic' LVL 1 - 0%

BIO: Necromancy is a school of magic that revolves around the dead, from raising the dead to fighting against the raised. This is the skill for the overall school of necromancy and spells that are necromancy based are affected by the level of this skill.

Rugby took a few moments to collect herself and inhale oxygen. She then picked up the now promptless book and carried it to the house along with the shopping. She then entered the Dursley household, stored the shopping and retired to her cupboard to read the book in hopes of better understanding it. A few hours later Ruby felt a spasm of hollowness as she realised she didn't feel anything at the man's death.

-Nothing to worry about I'm sure- Ruby convinced herself and then fell into a deep sleep.

Author note: Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Sorry about the you for reading this.