The surroundings around Yorun are no longer the in shambles city that is Gantoral but instead a large new city that looks regal yet heavily attuned with nature, the place is clearly lived in and has active people there but the city looks like nature reclaimed it or more accurately as if it was never taken away from nature, the architecture being very distinctly different from human architecture as a result of this. Yorun looks around and soon enough his attention is brought back to Norilas and Sunhale.
"So Raeknar, we should get you to the mages asap, the place has a proper name in our language but it doesnt translate right so call it the Qur'Anther Magical Research and Development Institution. Though the development part is more developing peoples talents though some new things are made there" Norilas said
"We get the undead here first" Yorun said
"We need not get them immediately plus I have to justify that to my men to do so this quick" Norilas said
"Then how is this for justification, your mages want to study them, I do not trust you all save for maybe Sunhale and that is a fleeting trust born from battling together and finally if they want to study my magic they need me to have my magic. Currently I do not possess it, one of my undead do and before you say anything Sunhale it is not the same undead mage as before" Yorun said
"Good justifications and admittedly impressive, the thing they want most in a random undead since we clearly can't detect your magic we therefore can't detect it within any of the undead requiring us to bring all of them" Norilas said
"Correct" Yorun said
Norilas smirked then teleported away and seconds later large chunks of undead begin to teleport to them, once they're all there the undead horse actually makes its way over to Yorun once teleported, Yorun puts his hand on its nose.
"Other than Koralin you are the oldest here, you have similar intelligence, I should give you a name too. Lykor sorry it took me a while" Yorun said
Lykors neighs in a cold fashion but Yorun can tell he accepts the name. Yorun then takes his magic back making his eyes glow green once more, Sunhale and Norilas cannot tell however.
"So which one has your magic?" Sunhale asked
"Lykor here did, an undead mage transferred it after I gave it to the mage, so now I have my magic back" Yorun said
"Really? It is somewhat annoying we cannot tell" Norilas said
"If my magic was not disguised, you'd be able to tell whenever I am around you Norilas or even just being here in Qur'anther, my eyes do not stop glowing" Yorun said
"Likely a result of you not being trained and being in the presence of a massive amount of magical power" Norilas said
Yorun looks at the legions of undead and motions for them to follow as he follows Sunhale and Norilas through Qur'anther, Onarin, Lykor and Koralin are up front with Yorun himself. They walk through the streets that have so much greenery, the undead marching through bring attention, people watch from their homes or come out into the streets to see properly yet none know how to react until they see the solitary living human at the head of this army. The people react with fear quickly muttering to each other and Yorun hears the mutters yet he cannot understand them as they're speaking in their native language. Yorun gets taken further into the city but soon enough they enter a clearing one that has more buildings teeming with magic and while the area is cleared for use by people its done in line with nature still as if nature just left this place alone by its own accord. An male elf clearly even older than Norilas due to the full grey hair stands outside the main building as they approach.
"Hello there Norilas dear, been a while since you've had to come here but I cannot say I blame you for needing to be here this time" The Old elf said
"Master Vinak, it is good to see you well. We have brought the human necromancer" Norilas said
"Clearly, the undead are a bit obvious, the rumours of them have spread quickly" Vinak said with a hearty chuckle
Vinak walks closer to Yorun and looks him over.
"Divine magic on top of this necromancy huh? Now I understand the report of you calling yourself Raeknar" Vinak said
"I was told to do so and so I shall" Yorun said
"Fair enough, undead are such a fascinating thing to actually see, would you mind if I scanned your soul so I can see what connection they have to you?" Vinak asked
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"Go ahead" Yorun said and he removed the cloak giving the others their first sense of his magic
Vinak scans Yorun and sees the underdeveloped magic of his soul but he does indeed see the connection to all the undead.
"Fascinating, imagine the ability of making a spectral weapon purely of magic from nothing commonly referred to as conjuring a weapon that still requires magic after its creation as if sectioning off a part of the magical pool within our soul, your undead do not require that they just continue on with a small connection to you that has no magic pass through it like a rope that's been tied between your soul and their bodies. More fascinating is the fact that like other magics of a similar fashion your souls capacity and ability to generate magic is constantly increasing due to each and every one of these undead connections albeit slowly and on a very small scale but were you to get thousands of undead well you'd become far stronger far quicker" Vinak said
All of this information shocks the three.
"You got all of that from one scan?" Yorun asked somewhat impressed
"You can learn a lot from one scan and many years of learning magic, you see things others wouldn't well things they wouldn't see that quickly anyway" Vinak said
"Well anything else you need to do now that I'm here?" Yorun asked
"Would you mind showing some of the things this necromantic magic can do? We actually have a body you can raise" Vinak said
"Why do you have a body Master Vinak?" Norilas asked concerned
"Oh one of the apprentices of someone here died recently, the apprentice had no family so we were just going to toss the body into the forest as per usual" Vinak said
Some mages lift the body out of the building via telekinesis then Yorun walks up to the body and begins to raise it from the dead, during this process Vinak scans Yoruns soul once more yet his eyes are locked on the rising body. The newly raised undead is just standing there once Yorun is done and Vinak stops scanning Yoruns soul.
"Truly amazing, such ease to do that too, tell me how many can you raise at once?" Vinak asked
"Currently I do not know, last group I raised myself in Gantoral was about 10 and that wasn't hard, oddly enough my undead mage can do it better than I can since its mind doesn't strain" Yorun said
"Yes I read the report, you can give your undead magic though currently at your level that means pretty much all of it right?" Vinak asked
"Indeed, also the three undead closest to me are the most intelligent, Koralin the bird on my shoulder is the most intelligent due to being the first of my undead, followed by Lykor the horse and thirdly Onarin the human" Yorun said
"Hello" Onarin said in unison with Koralins own caw and Lykors neigh
"Incredible, I didn't believe this particular part of the report, something without a soul communicating" Vinak said with clear wonderment in his voice
"Not just communication but they think for themselves too, I can command them and they'll do it but they can make their own decisions too, Onarins been very helpful as a result. Oh I can also see through the eyes of the undead its what has made Koralin extremely useful" Yorun said
"Alright, we have a lot to see but then after we'll head inside, eat then rest. Tomorrow we'll try and train you a bit" Vinak said
Yorun nodded and entered the building alongside the others leaving the undead save for Koralin and Onarin outside, Lykor was left due to preferring the outside seemingly. Yorun has his first proper meal and first ever elven meal at that for the first time in a while yet once that is done he is lead to the room he, Koralin and Onarin will stay in while here. Yorun sits on a bed for the first time in a long while and he puts the cloak back on.
"Raeknar" Yorun said
Raeknar appears within the room and no sound escapes the room from this point on and non can sense or see within.
"What is it Yorun?" Raeknar asked
"Its obvious you don't need to ask Raeknar so just answer" Yorun said
"You want to know how long the realms have existed correct?" Raeknar asked though they did admittedly know the answer
"It's something I'd never thought about till now, elves live for so long and yet people don't believe the world has been around for long overall sure different races have different ideas on how long our worlds have existed but its still never long even with such long lived races" Yorun said
"Common time frames across the races range from a few thousand years to fifty thousand years in reality they are all very far off. The god realm has been around for a billion years and the mortal realm followed shortly after. I know this to be true as a few gods existed first including Tierna and myself as while we do not die so long as life exists so does death and with Tiernas presence as well as the others being well alive so to do did I exist, most of the others of us eldest are gods of the realms so they made them and to satisfy their chain they need only preserve the realms regardless of what's going on in them, I make use of mine though" Raeknar said
"Their chain?" Yorun asked confused
"Oh that's right I never explained that to you, nearly forgot actually since I told your family about it" Raeknar said
"You did? How are they?" Yorun asked
"They are fine, they ask similar questions to you and about you. Anyway as I explained to them we gods have this need to do our jobs as we'll feel an intense longing and almost pain if we do not, its why the other gods have let this world be as it is as it satisfies their chains while mine has been tugging at me for eons. When Tierna recently came to my realm after I explained this to your family, I downplayed how long I've been dealing with mine as souls were listening in and usually its best for them to discover the scale of the realms life time from older souls that haven't chosen nothingness yet" Raeknar said
"Fuck I almost regret asking but it does explain a lot about why even the elves don't know most things" Yorun said
"Indeed. Yorun I must say, war between the Fiernian Empire and Woorail Empire was staved off a little by what happened within Gantoral but it will ignite soon, learn all you can and take advantage" Raeknar said before disappearing once more
Yorun thinks on what that means before falling asleep, the undead meanwhile for a perimeter outside the building and a few position themselves outside Yoruns room while a couple make their way into the building pushing by the people within and they stand guard outside Yoruns room, they do this at the command of the more intelligent among the undead