As night turns to day once more, Yorun remembers being told of the previous necromancer and that the elves have some knowledge on them, upon remembering this Yorun gets up and makes his way out of his provided room, Onarin and Koralin following behind him. Koralin quickly catches up and perches on Yoruns shoulder as he makes his way to the main room of the building where most of the mages are, they all look at Yorun as he enters and Sunhale comes through the crowds to Yorun.

"What brings you here instead of to the training grounds?" Sunhale asked

"I want to find out more about that previous necromancer, Norilas mentioned a place called the Archives. Can you bring me there?" Yorun asked

"Well yes, you want to head there right now?" Sunhale asked quite intrigued about this as well

"No first I need to tell Vinak since we said we'd do healing training today" Yorun said

Sunhale nodded and waited while Yorun told Vinak but when he returned Sunhale grabbed a hold of him as well as Onarin teleporting away from the mage training facilities, Upon appearing at the so called Archives Yorun looks around seeing he is now within the city proper outside a massive building that he can feel coursing with more magic. Yorun walks in with Sunhale, Koralin and onarin and upon walking in Yorun sees the building is far larger than it appeared even on the outside.

"The fuck?" Yorun said as he looked up at the roof which seems to get further and further away

"The Archives use magic to bend reality a bit so we can store all knowledge here without running out of space" A male elf who looks as old as the Monarch Isaile said from behind the reception desk

"Good to know that's possible" Yorun said as he looked at the elf

"Welcome human to the Archives, you must be the one the rumours talk of" The male elf said looking Yorun over

"Likely, don't see anyone else using undead soldiers after all" Yorun said eliciting a chuckle from the elf

"So Sunhale what brings you and your friend here?" The male elf said

"Well Master Archivist we come for the knowledge about the previous necromancer" Sunhale said getting a serious expression from the Master Archivist

"Some rather dark knowledge though given present company it's unsurprising you want to know" The Master Archivist said while looking at Yorun

"So you're the Master Archivist of this place?" Yorun asked

"Indeed, I am the second oldest living elf at the moment, just behind our beloved monarch" The Master Archivist said seemingly a bit proud of that fact

"You see proud to have reached such an old age" Yorun said

"The stupid die young, I've tended and added to these archives throughout my entire life it pretty much is my life and one I enjoy so I've lived a long time not joining in wars and whatnot" The Master Archivist said

"What is your name?" Yorun asked

"Fal'Rine, though I rarely use my name these days, mostly just referred to as the Master Archivist" Fal'Rine said

Fal'Rine leads them further into the building travelling within the endless buildings amongst all of its bookcases for a while until they reach a place with only a few books and reports on a desk. Yorun walks to them and looks at them, books and reports about undead though the reports describe more on the necromancer of old as well.

"When I found these, there were places for other books and whatnot but far as I remember I've only seen them once back when soldiers came and took them when I first started working here. Oh and if you're worried about being able to read them I translated them to your language for you at least what needed to be translated, no point trying to translate a place name" Fal'Rine said

Sunhale looks a bit shocked by the mention of somethings being taken by soldiers and he looks over and Yorun who is looking at the reports.

"Thanks... If these reports are right, the period of peace in this realm a thousand years ago well for 100 or so years after this date was due to the realm recovering from what the last necromancer did" Yorun said his eyes glued to the report

"The fuck did they do?" Sunhale asked

"Tried to take over the world apparently, all of the empires had to band together to stop him, some places were wiped off the map" Yorun said

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"Fuck, you're telling me you'll be able to be compared to that fucker eventually?" Sunhale asked

"In terms of power and ability maybe, purpose definitely not. This guy when he popped up on the scene he already had an army of the undead, where he got it the report doesn't say. Maybe the books will" Yorun said

"What was this guy? Human like you or another race?" Sunhale asked

"Apparently this one was... huh don't recognise that one" Yorun said

"What?" Sunhale asked confused, Yorun hands the report to him

"A Kilarn? The fuck is that?" Sunhale asked when looking at Fal'Rine

"If memory serves they were a race of people who lived high in the mountains of another continent over a thousand years ago, according to the books around here they were invaded by the Giants and all presumably killed apparently the Giants invaded due to the fact the Kilarn were rapidly militarising and apparently going to start a war with the Giants so they took the first strike instead" Fal'Rine Said

"Well I guess they missed one" Sunhale said

"Or maybe not, when I started my own journey I died but came back to life" Yorun said getting a shocked expression from both Sunhale and Fal'Rine

"Fucking what!?" Sunhale and Fal'Rine shouted

"As I said, I came back to life and no I don't know if I can just do that I am not exactly keen to find out" Yorun said

"So what you're saying is, unless there's some pockets of them still out there, due to the fact he did that this guy was the last of his entire race?" Sunhale asked

"Very likely and due to those reports of him showing up with a proper army immediately its likely he just raised his entire race from the dead since they were apparently rapidly militarising then went on to do what he did, why he wanted the world there could be many reasons or none at all" Yorun said

"Gods, you are uh pretty used to this by now would you have been able to do that?" Fal'Rine asked

"Oh fuck no for many reasons but mainly the fact I'm not skilled enough with magic in general to do it, it's likely this previous necromancer knew of and used his magic a lot as well as likely having training which I am now getting" Yorun said

Yorun looks through one of the books which is surprisingly large, reading it takes a couple hours and most of the information in it isn't about the necromancer or the undead themselves but more a recounting from someone not even alive during the time about what happened according to their family member. While Yorun read, Sunhale and Fal'Rine walked away beginning to speak in their own language but Yorun does not know the language so if he wished to listen in he could not. Yorun despite the books contents keeps reading and soon enough he comes across the supposed place of the final battle.

"Where is this Kolanfiera?" Yorun asked drawing the attention of both Sunhale and Fal'Rine

"Kolanfiera is a cursed place, no one goes there. It's mentioned in that book?" Sunhale asked

"If memory serves from when I was translating its where the necromancer was defeated, might explain the curse actually" Fal'Rine said

"Anyone who enters the area disappears, according to the one survivor they were brought to some endless fight which apparently is the final fight against the necromancer" Fal'Rine said

"How'd this person survive?" Yorun asked

"Divine intervention" Fal'Rine said

"Huh... Guess the details of this curse aren't well known huh?" Yorun asked

"No, far as most are aware they just die when they go there, most wrote this guy off since he only had this happen about 100 years ago so most people had even forgotten about the necromancer and all of that so they just supposed it was a very interesting curse. Not the recollection of an actual battle" Sunhale said

"Bring me to this place, I may be able to find out more, not just due to the fact I have the same magic but due to the fact Raeknar is with me. If Raeknar needs to intervene I will sadly have to do more work due to how the gods work but a price I am willing to pay" Yorun said

"Gods you better not make me regret this" Sunhale said

Sunhale teleports with Yorun, Koralin and Onarin to the edge of the cursed area, Yorun can feel the dark magic of the curse yet he can feel familiarity with it as if the necromantic magic he uses was a basis of this curse which Yorun finds unsurprising given who seemingly made it. Yorun looks to Onarin.

"You stay here, I'll bring Koralin with me to help look around where this brings me" Yorun said

"Yes master" Onarin said clearly

Yorun with Koralin still perched on his shoulder makes Raeknars scythe appear in his right hand as he walks through what feels like a barrier made by the curse, upon doing so Onarin and Sunhale see them both disappear, Sunhale whispers something but Onarin cannot understand it. Meanwhile for Yorun upon stepping through he is transported to that so called endless battle he sees races of all kinds on both sides only difference being the two sides are opposites on the coin of life and death. Both sides as they clash both on ground and in air seem to ignore Yorun, the living clearly seeing him but ignoring him likely seeing him as someone sent by a god of death for souls meanwhile the undead also notice him especially as he walks past them and through their number, they move around him as they attack the living. Yorun moves through the undead forces as if he was water slipping through cracks, while his mind is ablaze with worry of being here he is still surprised by the ease of this yet he is finally stopped from moving when he reaches the backlines of the undead army where all the undead mages of every race is launching their magical assaults and the necromancer of 1000 years ago stands, he looks at Yorun and undead giant arms come from the ground and grab a hold of Yorun pulling him close to the necromancer. Yorun is the first person in 1000 years to see a Kalrin, Standing before him is a towering figure almost the height of Raeknars typical forms, he has skeletal arms and armour made of bone and flesh, his skin cold grey while having no hair some strange horns wrap back from the forehead to the back of the skull and then wrap forward again as if these strange horns were the hair on his head, the most notable feature though is his eyes they seem to be gone but as Yorun looks closely he sees they are just completely black yet as the necromancer himself looks closely at Yorun a pattern of glowing green magic appears on them as if they were the iris of his eyes. The necromancer merely stares at Yorun and the apparent battle within this cursed land stops completely frozen in time all save for the Necromancer and Yorun who wonders what the necromancer will do...