As the day turns to night setting down the moons light upon the city of Joaralta the city does not become less packed, day or night the people of the city continue their acts whatever they may be however with the recent news of the chosen of Raeknars existence the mercenaries guarding the city keep a close eye. This is immediately apparent to the likes of even Yorun as he walks the streets in one of the bandit bodies alongside Golanier in a similar body, no one takes note of any of the wounds on their bodies as new or old such wounds are more than common there and they have covered or healed up any noticeably fatal wounds. Yorun starts a telepathic conversation with Golanier

"Alright so what's our game plan here Golanier?" Yorun asked

"Well if I know anything about places like this there will still be those in charge, people who either have the most power or enough money to have people keep others in line, city has mercenaries guarding it after all. We need to identify those people and either smooth our way to them or piss them off and have them come to us" Golanier responded

"So we need to find them huh? Just asking around and then them disappearing wouldn't be good, these people would definitely notice" Yorun said

"True however places like this generally have people that for the right price will give any information you want through whatever means so we don't need to ask many people just one or two" Golanier responded once again

"And with what we've come here to do we can take their soul to get the information so that no one will know we were the ones to ask" Yorun said as he catches on

"Exactly" Golanier said before smirking

"Then we need only find one of these information brokers" Yorun said as he looked around

"Such a thing will be easy, in a place like this they are heavily sought after and its not as if they need to be discreet" Golanier said confidently

Yorun nodded and after just a short few hours they had arrived at a fairly expensive looking building guarded by mercenaries, they had come there as they had heard multiple people speak of one such discussed information broker living here. Yorun and Golanier approach and are stopped by one of the mercenary guards.

"No weapons inside" The mercenary said before using magic to take the weapons from the both before letting them inside

As both of them walk in they see many books, letters and other parchment strewn around in a disorganised fashion much to their visible confusion before a human man walks out from behind a wall and looks to them. He seems to examine them before finally approaching.

"A couple of bandits I believe you came to the city around two years ago should my memory and records be correct and I am more than sure that they are" The broker said

"You are correct we were here back then but you know how it is especially these days, information is big. I take it you are Oirak" Golanier said

"Indeed I am anyway I'll tell you what you want to know then you'll tell pay me in either currency or new information I do not have" Oirak said

"We want to know who hold the most power in this city, specifically magically" Yorun said

"Trying to find new people to hire you or something? Fair enough, give me but a moment" Oirak said before using magic to float a list from around the corner he came from to his hand

"Is that it?" Golanier asked

"Indeed now give me some information or the mercenaries won't let you leave" Oirak said seriously yet curiously

"Alright how about this, I'm Raeknars chosen" Yorun said before making the scythe appear in his undead hand and quickly levitating it around Oiraks neck

"And what makes you think I won't just teleport away before you can use that scythe?" Oirak asked fear definitely in his eyes but he still seems confidant

"This very scythe is Raeknars own do you really think it can be so easily avoided? Now keep quiet or I take your head" Yorun said threateningly

"U-understood" Oirak said feeling more scared now

"Bring us to a room underground, given the nature of this city and what we've heard you have one such room bring us now" Yorun said as he quickly took the list from Oirak reading it over as they begin to walk

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"What names are there Yorun?" Golanier asked

"Ghilan, Ikteran, Oarsteri and finally a member of the Pertaki family? Why is one of them here?" Yorun said confused as Azkelt has his soul appear next to Yorun

"That is likely a cousin of mine, Holaire kicked out and disowned years ago after he had tried a small rebellion so he could take over" Azkelt said

"Hm never heard of that, good to know now leave Azkelt" Yorun said immediately making Azkelt leave

"Seems he is useful for one thing other than his magic" Golanier said before laughing a little

Oirak leads them downstairs to an underground room full of records and treasures as well that both Golanier and Yorun assume were used as payment for information. They look around and then drag Oirak over to a part of the room where there is only treasure and Golanier grabs Oirak pushing him against the wall and shuts his magic down before covering his mouth.

"Alright he's ready" Golanier said

"I will not lie Oirak this is going to hurt a lot" Yorun said as he then spent the next few minutes using Golaniers soul to bind Oirak's soul to his own were Golanier not to have his hand covering Oirak's mouth the screams would more than certainly have been heard then Oiraks soul appears next to them

"What the fuck!?" Oirak shouted

"Quiet down Oirak, you are bound to me now, you will serve Raeknars will as a result and this won't be pleasant. Try and blow our cover and I will make use of your magic which you saw Golanier over there he may be used to far greater pain but you could tell couldn't you that it would be beyond any pain you've felt" Yorun said glaring at Oirak who quickly disappears as to not anger them

Yorun raises the body of Oirak and moves his soul from the undead bandit into the undead Oirak then he looks at the undead bandit and Golanier.

"Stay here, you as well Golanier, I'll lead those two mercenaries down here then kill them taking their souls and raising their bodies giving us a couple better armed and armoured bodies if we need them" Yorun said

"Good idea, I want at least one of the souls from those two" Golanier said before smirking

"Fine by me, we both need to be stronger anyway" Yorun said

Yorun gets rid of the scythe then heads upstairs and back to the front door opening it and the two mercenaries look at him.

"Oh something you need boss?" One of the mercenaries asked

"Those men gave me some good information and I need you two to follow me downstairs, there is something I require from both of you" Yorun said getting nods from them both as they follow him downstairs

When they get downstairs the two mercenaries are quickly attacked by Golanier and the undead bandit who do not feel pain from the mercenaries attacks but before the mercs continue their fight Yorun makes the scythe appear and puts it to the neck of one while making a circle of green fireballs around the neck of the other.

"Stop now" Yorun said

"Boss? Wha-" The mercenary said before being cut off

"Oirak is no longer in control here" Yorun said menacingly

"What are you one of the demons people summon here!?" The other mercenary said

"No I'm human but unluckily for you, I'm worse than a demon right now" Yorun said as he uses magic to take their magic and silence them

It doesn't take long for both Golanier and Yorun to acquire a new soul from the two as well as two new undead, Yorun leaves Oiraks body for the undead bandit once more and leads them all upstairs.

"Undead mercs take your position at the door but don't let anyone inside again, undead Oirak stay in here, you three can be useful if you stay here" Yorun said getting once again only a nod from the three

Yorun walks out of Oirak's building with Golanier and they return to their base of operations in Joaralta heading inside they head down to the room with the Darkness of Otaper and wait out the time before Sunhale returns.

"Hey Sunhale" Yorun said

"Hello you two, get anything?" Sunhale asked

"A few new souls two of which I have and the last on Golanier plus a list of names of the most magically powerful people in the city also a few new undead guarding the now undead information brokers place which means a lot of intel for us to search through too" Yorun said

"Damn good start then" Sunhale said

"Better than you think, these additional souls will allow us to open a portal to Lokranikar far easier, once we take this city at some point we'll have even more forces allowing us to have a force solely within the demon realm and having territory properly in out control there" Golanier said

"Still hate the idea of it but using that place could allow us to attack the city from within once we move to that stage" Sunhale said

"Exactly, the place is rather useful hm?" Golanier said with a smirk while Sunhale rolled his eyes

"What about those body parts Celantriak had preserved for you? Whats the point of them?" Yorun asked

"Well we need a significant number of more souls power to make use of them how I'd want too, we can use those body parts to empower undead we have currently or combine them to make a whole new one who may retain skills and other such things those separate pieces bodies once had" Golanier said

"That's rather grim work" Sunhale said looking a little disgusted

"We lead an undead army and are extracting souls do you know even half of the worse shit I did a thousand years ago? No? Then be quiet about it this is nothing" Golanier said dismissively but annoyed

"Whatever ok so more souls but we at least have some targets, I'll head to that brokers place and gather more information he likely had on them" Sunhale said before leaving

"For now Golanier we send our souls back to our normal bodies and train at the fortress, if Sunhale gets useful information and ways for us to do things he can contact us" Yorun said getting a thumbs up from Golanier before they return to their normal bodies

Yorun and Golanier get to training, now with a few more souls to draw on Yorun begins to improve on his old skills while Sunhale begins to diligently look through Oiraks stored information as the planning for how to take the souls of the strongest mages within the city begins...