42 A horde

As an undead skeleton, Rudra never tired nor did he feel any pain.

But the fire spell used by the Cloaked Skeleton had surprisingly made him feel the heat on his bones.

"Maybe because it was the essence of the Spell hurting me not very much the substance," Rudra said, but all the sound produced by his skull was the grinding of jaws and clattering of bones.

Rudra was laying down to calm his nerves after the intense battle.

"That cat was the most annoying enemy here." Rudra turned his skull to peer at the immobile saber tooth tiger looking back at him.

He then accessed his condition, with numerous cracks running through different bones of his body, Rudra sat up.

He turned his head to see the saber tooth tiger dragging itself towards him, "Looks like you want to die fast, huh."

The undead saber tooth tigers next action surprised him it coughed out the staff the Cloaked Skeleton was using at his feet and bowed its head.

"It seems you have some of your brain cells left." Rudra took a detailed look at the skeletal Tiger.

"You would make a good ride through this realm." Rudra once again failed to apprehend that all his speaking only produced the sound of the clattering of bones.

Rudra picked up the scepter which had a human skull at its head.

He tried channeling his soul power realizing he could easily divide his soul power into fine threads.

Excited by his discovery he tried to stick one of these threads of soul power into one of the remaining undead who was like wandering about after the death of the Cloaked Skeleton.

The undead eyes turned red from its original green flames after the soul thread injected into its skull.

"HA HA HA I can have my minions." Rudra roared.

"Good kitty, I will spare you," he said as he patted the bony head of the tiger

Rudra channeled a massive amount of soul power and controlled every single uncontrolled undead in the castle.

There were about 200 skeletons in the compound, with bare bodies and no weapons in their hands only the red flames shimmering in their eye sockets.

He then walked towards the throne and conveyed a mental order through the scepter for every skeleton to gather in front of the throne.

Rudra glanced at the rows of skeletons before his eyes, and a glimmer appeared on his red flames burning in his orbits.

"Tear down the castle," he ordered.

The skeleton horde started to claw at the bony pillars of the castle tearing them out, some started breaking down the walls.

Rudra stood up from the throne and used the Bone Strengthening Technique to turn the throne into dust, he then looked at the tiger with all its leg bones cracked or missing.

He ripped apart a pillar from the frame of the castle and used the Bone Strengthening Technique to heal the legs of the Sabertooth tiger.

He ripped apart another pillar to heal the remaining cracks on his body.

He ordered the skeletons to bring with them the parts of the bony castle they had gathered and used repeated Bone Strengthening Technique on them to increase the strength of his minions but due to a limited number of bones from the castle, the mob skeletons only had little.

Rudra was expecting them to show signs of the bones ranking up but the number of bones was clearly less.

Finally, Rudra threw one of the Devilish Techniques on each one of their souls making them his subordinate.

It was an extra layer of protection so no other scepter carrying skeleton can override his authority over them.

"I guess its time to go back and learn some more spells related to the undead," Rudra muttered to himself as he commanded his horde of about 200 skeletons to protect him.

Rudra felt his consciousness returning to his body only to see Rishi rowing a boat while reading the manual.

"Open the Demon Manual." Rudra seemed impatient, his sudden conquest of the horde of skeletons had increased his enthusiasm towards the desolate but interesting realm.

Rishi nodded his head switching the Ominiscent Eye for the Exiled Demon Sutra.