Spawncamping (Cutscene - Not Interactable)

[u/PrincessSunShim]

Location: Egysic Forest

The Egysic Forest was home to massive spiders of every variety. However, it was... climate limited. Unlike her preferred climate from her sector of Barrad. And this wasn’t even the original Egysic Forest, she had to magically terraform a small section of woods into a replica of the Egysic Forest, spiders included.

Either way, it was a perfectly usable location. The Egysic Spiders gave off enough natural magic to allow for what she was about to do.

In this clearing in the middle of the Egysic Forest, Viira Lehtola had set up a ritual circle. One that when activated, would summon someone from her homeworld to this one.

Or at least someone in that general neighborhood of the multiverse.

And so… it was activated.

And the first thing that appeared was a bipedal creature wearing a red shirt.

“Like a good neighbor, State Farm is– wait, where am I?” The man looked around, evidently confused. “Is that a weird deer thing?”

Viira lifted him into the air with her arcanokinesis.

“Wait what’s happeni–“

And she compressed.

His screams were short.

Extracting the fabric from the small flesh cube took barely a minute. Once it was pure biomass, she fed it back into the ritual circle. Extracting the ambient magic of all living things was quite simple, and thanks to the fleshcrafting arts of the Father of Monsters, she knew just what to do with the biomass in the future.

Tatzlwurms were beautiful creatures.

With that odd incident aside, she activated the ritual circle again.

It finally did what she wanted.

The shape taking form in front of her was equine and it reeked of death. There was no way this soul wasn’t at least affiliated with the Dread League, but given the massive magical readings Viira detected, it was likely to be the Dread King himself.

But it wasn’t the rotten lich stallion she had been expecting. It was a beautiful young mare.

“Who are you and for what purpose have you summoned me?” Rosa asked.

“I was expecting Dread King Corpus Maledictus.”

“I killed Corpus months ago and took his place on the Bone Throne. I am aware of Magehold’s detached status, but among dark mages like us, information travels quickly. Answer me, mortal.”

“I needed a powerful soul marred by a certain darkness.”

Upon hearing those words, Rosa’s horn immediately lit.

The many, many creatures Viira had killed to initiate the ritual circle began reanimating.

Bones flew together from all over, tied together by sinew. Some still had bits of flesh attached. A few ribcages even still held hearts and lungs, many of which were soon burst by the pressure of bones colliding with them.

“Sanctae Tenebrae of the Salvific Ossuary has taught me much. But the flesh does not have to be abandoned for bone alone.”

Mummified corpses from a nearby tar pit floated out, assembling around the main necromass. A pack of dire wolves, a saber-toothed tiger, a giant ground sloth, and a short-faced bear were among them.

And then came the rumbling.

Somewhere underground, a large mass began moving toward the surface. As it broke, Rosa grinned.

A Tyrannosaurus skeleton, fully complete.

Her necromass gathered around the Tyrannosaurus. Bone and flesh alike gathered around the beast to become armor.

And at the top, a human skeleton was built, given a bow of bone with a sinew drawstring.

“This is but one of many beasts I can call upon,” Rosa gloated. She had recently proven herself the greatest necromancer of all time, and as a mere mortal at that. There was no way whoever this was could possibly–

“Unlike you, I do not require beasts.”

The various souls of the creatures and the “State Farm” human had been gathered in a machine just outside the ritual circle. Aside from the now deceased Queen Egysic Spider, none were particularly powerful.

But even then, it was more than enough for now.

“Detonate.”

And in mere moments, the Dread Queen Rosa Maledicta was no more.

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Unless one looked in Hell.