The following day Yorun awoke in the room, everything about his situation does not feel real as he is fairly casually laying on a bed of elven make within the capital of the elven empire now definitely an enemy of the Fiernian Empire. Yorun stands up and walks out of the room seeing the undead standing guard outside, he was happy to see them there without a command to do so from himself. Soon enough he went to Vinak outside.
"Morning" Vinak said
"Morning, I'm ready to start this then" Yorun said
"Do you have anything you particularly want to focus on?" Vinak asked
"Currently healing and teleportation both have their own uses especially at higher levels" Yorun said
"Alright then, teleportation is easy to work on but we'll need something to heal" Vinak said
"The undeads bodies can be healed hence one reason I want to learn" Yorun said
"Really? Interesting that will be useful" Vinak said
Yorun only nodded in response and soon afterwards Vinak began to teleport around Yorun.
"Teleporting is easy, you need merely think of where you want to go and think of both disappearing then reappearing there, before you do the second however you need merely feel if a tiny part of your magic has appear at that location. Of course this all sounds easy but the last part is the hard one, if you are teleporting far away its harder to know if your magic is there so you need to start small and get used to feeling that, you will also have a far better chance of teleporting if you know exactly the place you are going to and can picture the place in your mind exactly" Vinak said
"I have to ask, what about teleporting into something or someone?" Yorun asked
"Ah actually teleporting into some THING is not that bad but some ONE is pretty bad, you'll be able to take a guess with this demonstration" Vinak said
Vinak stopped teleporting around and using some magic nature seemingly creates a wall for Vinak for him one that looks perfectly as if it should be there. Vinak then teleports into the wall, Yorun sees parts of the wall quickly explode away from the wall yet safely away from Vinak and also some more parts of it just appear at Vinaks feet as if they teleported. Yoruns confusion at this is very clear to Vinak who looks to him as the wall and the parts that either teleported or exploded away sink into the ground returning to nature.
"When teleporting into something the pieces of it that would be in your body gets safely teleported to a safe place by the magic you used as your souls magic is basically designed by the gods to protect you hence why you don't burn yourself with fire magic or something like that meanwhile the pieces that are closest to your body and would be in contact with you upon teleporting gets pushed away extremely quickly hence what you saw" Vinak said
"The thing of our magic protecting us that tracks, a while back the way I got these burns I stopped the fire with my magic yet I didn't do it on purpose I knew it was me that did it yet I didn't know how to do that" Yorun said
"Makes a lot of sense now doesn't it? Anyway have a try of teleporting yourself nothing too far or into a wall something simple you can accept" Vinak said
Yorun stands a small distance from Vinak and looks at a spot next to him, Yorun closes his eyes imagining it and imagining being there, after a few seconds he feels a tiny bit of magic appear there and upon feeling that he imagines disappearing then appearing at the location. Yorun feels nothing yet as he opens his eyes he sees he is standing next to Vinak.
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"I fucking did it!" Yorun shouted quite happy with himself
"Indeed you did, spend a bit of time doing it again and again, increasing how far each time. You know how to scan things right?" Vinak asked
"A little? Started learning on the way to Gantoral" Yorun said
"Its basically just sending your magic out and letting your mind take in the information at least for physical things, scanning minds and what not is a lot more complicated but the basic physical stuff is great for teleportation since it lets to scan somewhere further away and then picture it for teleporting" Vinak said
"Ah right thanks. You know if you had told me teleportation was easy a number of years ago I'd have called you a liar and told you to show me so I could prove it wasn't. Fuck I wish I learned that years ago at least" Yorun said with a small chuckle of his own
"Just remember you need only think of the place and trust in your magic, the hard part is the trusting once that is done you'll be able to go damn near anywhere so long as its not protected from that sort of thing" Vinak said
"So what about healing?" Yorun asked
"We'll try that tomorrow, oh and I should mention one thing about you being here, while you inherently are not accustomed to magic yet your soul however is and while here you are around high levels of magic constantly, your soul will as a result develop better here and quicker possibly awakening more from your magics than you've discovered even without the training. This is the reason these large places are where mages get trained other than just the training itself" Vinak said
When Yorun is about to say something his eyes erupt with a green glow more so than ever tinting Yoruns view of the world in green and he looks behind himself seeing a procession of elven soldiers appear, Yorun makes the scythe of Raeknar appear in his right hand once more and uses a small bit of telekinesis to pull the hood back up as he turns to look at them. The undead quickly make their way to Yorun just in case as the Elven soldiers then separate as if they were making a path and a smaller group of soldiers clearly stronger than the rest walk through the middle surrounding one elf with full grey hair and unlike the other elves around here is beginning to look older with wrinkles on their face. The elf locks eyes with Yorun.
"So this is the human with the undead army within my empire" The elf monarch said
Every elf in the area that wasn't a guard who accompanied the elven monarch kneels.
"All hail Monarch Isaile!" All the elves shout in unison
Yorun however stood stark still and said nothing as he continues to look at the monarch.
"Nothing to say human mage?" Monarch Isaile asked
"Given the current state of what I do, working for a god, I am well past the point of kneeling to and praising any monarch, especially given how my own monarchs failed me" Yorun said making Isaile smile
"Oh ho! It has been centuries since something like that has been said to me, the people here are all to afraid or think it'd be dishonouring me" Isaile said and they began to walk towards Yorun with the use of a walking stick made of a tree branch yet it's filled with magic
"My empire and the one from which you hail from are going to go to war, you have any problem with that?" Isaile asked
"None, only regrettable innocents will die but prices are paid, my hands are not clean, some of these undead were definitely those who did not deserve to die but put up too much of a fight" Yorun said
"Sacrifices will be made young mage, you get used to them" Isaile said
"Some of you elves keep referring to me as a young man but while I am young compared to you elves in terms of humans especially those of the non-magic variety I am halfway through my life as I'm in my 50's" Yorun said
"Ah sorry then, in terms of humans you are aged, sorry to not recognise that. I just wanted to see you necromancer and ensure you wouldn't do anything about the war from here, else I'd have taken you down" Isaile said with a kind yet serious laugh
Isaile and their procession left and Yorun retired to his room afterwards thinking on what he has learned today. Raeknar suddenly appears before him.
"Be careful of Isaile, they have been touched by one of my siblings and have the power to prove it, no wonder they've ruled for so long yet while I urge caution they would likely end up in Artiel, they've done wrong but genuinely believed it necessary" Raeknar said
"I think I've realised why you wanted me to focus on healing and teleportation" Yorun said
"That so?" Raeknar asked with a smirk
"When that first battle happens regardless of who wins there will be mountains of corpses and whichever army won will be too weak to stop an army rising from the dead, you want me to take every body from that battlefield and have a large enough army to start in earnest our plan" Yorun said
"To do that you need not only have healing and teleporting but far far more magic so that you can have multiple mages help to speed up the process" Raeknar said
"Then I know what I must do, train and hope I adapt quick enough so that a third power can enter this war" Yorun said coldly as stories of the last war he knows of are thrown around his mind