The morning following Ghairlakriars death by Yoruns hand rolls around and he begins to wake up, as he sits up he holds his head in his hand as his mind rids itself of the nightmares the sleep brought on of Kurinet. He gets up and heads out of the room heading through the halls and past the undead guards to the War Room, when he walks in he sees the room has been filled with several new maps of the Fiernian empire, some being more focussed on certain areas while others are general overview maps of the entire empires lands, Yorun sees possible troop movements for the undead and empires forces planned out and several documents in organised stacks throughout the room. Sunhale is rigorously adding more documents and plans throughout the room with magic and it takes him a few minutes to finally speak up.

"Going to say something Yorun or just taking it all in?" Sunhale asked as he looked at Yorun

"You have been hard at work" Yorun said as he looked around

"Well there is a lot of planning to do and other than Golanier I have the most experience with these matters, mine comes from the intelligence side of things however, he has directly planned wars but I'm the one who can get the information. He'll come in later on after whatever he does with you and streamline some plans and figure out what plan is best to do and make adjustments" Sunhale said

"Fair enough, I should head to Golanier then" Yorun said getting a nod from Sunhale who goes back to planning

Yorun leaves the room and teleports up next to Ghairlakriars body where the events of the previous day concluded, Golanier is there and he has changed the area up to be a somewhat flatter area allowing for easier training. Golanier notices Yoruns presence and looks at him.

"Finally awake huh? Alright bet you're wondering what we'll start with right?" Golanier asked

"I imagined it would be the arm" Yorun said somewhat confused

"Well no, that is an extremely dangerous one and sort of requires you to be temporarily dead so when you have more practice" Golanier said

"I am now tempted to stay without the forearm" Yorun said getting a small laugh from Golanier

"Don't worry Yorun, despite my appearance I've done that a few times and know how to do the whole thing more than well enough to teach you but its why we're starting with the dragons and armour. It will help since the reason you must be temporarily dead is simple our magics work on the dead, we're quite alive or well sort of in my case. Regardless while there are other ways to get a new forearm for yourself using other magics but this way of ours allows for you to have one that's stronger and you can use the knowledge to change other parts of your body" Golanier said

"Change... Body... Completely" The undead Jinarl said as he walks up to them

"What?" Golanier asked confused

"Seems he can talk sooner than anticipated" Yorun said curious as to how

"Explain... Later..." The undead Jinarl said

"Alright?" Yorun said slightly confused as he turns his attention back to Golanier

"Anyway if we look at Ghairlakriar with the amount of flesh her body provides we can start the process of creating our own undead, the biggest thing is understanding dragon biology, thankfully we have a giant dragon we can scan to learn it. I would suggest you do that Yorun and to also take a scan of our undead friend here, his people seem close enough to dragon biology down to the breathing of fire and other assorted elements through magic" Golanier said

Yorun does as Golanier said to do and begins scanning Jinarls body first off noting the differences on the inside compared to himself notably the organs that seem to allow for fire breathing, Yorun then begins scanning Ghairlakriars body which takes substantially longer due to her immense size.

"Dragon biology is much like other creatures out there and overall simple to reproduce since she is large enough to scan during the process of making a dragon you can continue to check your work against her" Golanier said

"The organs which allow for fire breathing you said could be altered with magic to allow for breathing other elements right? I remember seeing dragons use other breath attacks in the illusions Ghairlakriar showed us. How does it all work?" Yorun said

"To put it simply they do it like how other objects work they charge the organ with the magic they wish to do it with now there are some limitations, for instance you can't breath shapeshifting magic but regardless you charge the organ with magic and it will change permanently to that, well permanently unless you want to change it again. Basically it will stay whatever you change it too" Golanier said

"Alright fair enough so once we're done with this should we try and make a dragon or something simpler to start?" Yorun asked

"A dragon, a small pet sized one however, far quicker and the complexity helps learning. I will show you how to do it first and then you can do so after with help" Golanier said

"Got it" Yorun said

Golanier then steps back and he conjures dog sized skeleton of a dragon.

"Starting with a conjuration allows you to envision where the pieces need to go, if you look behind me you'll see I've taken some parts from Ghairlakriar for this" Golanier said as he pointed behind him

Behind Golanier lays one of Ghairlakriars massive scales resting against Ghairlakriars claw, Yorun hadn't noticed it as he thought it one of the ones on the claw, next to it lays parts of bone, muscles and organs alongside massive amounts of blood collected into containers.

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"When it comes to the process of making a new body to then raise, the easiest thing is using all the needed parts from another corpse however were you to lack certain things say there were no organs for you to use for whatever reason you can change other material from the body into it. Now rather unsurprisingly we have everything we need so we do not need to do the other method but it is something to keep in mind I something I will teach you later" Golanier said getting only a nod in response from Yorun

Yorun focusses his attention back to the conjured dragon skeleton as Golanier begins levitating all the materials behind him and before his eyes he sees the bone pieces and parts of organs float over into position and get moulded into the right shapes necessary starting from the claws and up. He then brings over all the muscle material and it knits itself up the body as if it had always meant to be there, once its finally done Golanier looks at Yorun.

"The only step now is the scales obviously in our case we have one unbelievably large scale, for anyone else it would take an eternity to process the scale and bring it down to a smaller manageable size for whatever purpose but our magic is based on the dead, the world is a canvas and the dead are our paint" Golanier said with a smirk

Golanier then looks back at the scale and after a few moments the scale begins to shake with a part of it soon after breaking off and collapsing in on itself as it becomes a veritable swarm of smaller scales which shoot towards the small dragon covering the body.

"Now an undead created through this process is different than any that are just raised, they are new creations and while they use parts from other bodies and whatnot they aren't used or alongside each other the way they were previously so they may have little to no memories and muscle memory but while that is an initial disadvantage we can mould them to however we desire as a result. Luckily Jinarls presence will aid the dragons in making them able to fly as well as breath fire" Golanier said

"I suppose I should raise it now right?" Yorun said

"Indeed, go ahead" Golanier said

Yorun then does as he has many times by now and raises the dragon, it stirs and it looks at Yorun knowing he is its master and it tries to get up but it takes it a few minutes to do so. Yorun can feel a little more of his magic within the dragon the the other undead usually get.

"Took it a bit there" Yorun said as he looks at Golanier

"Think of it this way, with little to no memories and even muscle memories it at best has a distorted understanding of things, its essentially a new-born but well, dead" Golanier said

Yorun looks over at the undead Jinarl.

"You mind taking it away for now maybe try to get it to learn things such as walking, breathe fire and flight?" Yorun asked

The undead Jinarl nodded and picked up the undead dragon and left with it.

"Now then, time for you to begin trying Yorun" Golanier said

"A question first, the dragon took more magic than others usually do, something different to a chosen's body" Yorun said the feeling obviously confusing him

"Its for the fire breathing, dragons can fire breathe without magic and so do the undead dragons but difference is, OUR fire is green, during the process of bringing the dead back to life a little more magic is sent to the dragons changing their fire green just like ours. Its only a small thing doesn't impact us any more than any other creature we raise so don't worry" Golanier said

"Alright good, so I will begin trying this then" Yorun said as he looks over at what's left of the materials behind Golanier

"Before you do you might want to get those souls screaming for their magic" Golanier said

"Is it really that magic intensive? Well I guess I shouldn't be surprised" Yorun said

"I've got a lot of experience doing this and a dragon that small is simple even for my magic being limited by you but even I would need the souls for an average sized dragon at this stage" Golanier said

"Oh. Fair enough I suppose" Yorun said

Screams erupt from the souls which are heard in the fortress by Sunhale and the villagers, Yorun feels the influx of magic from their souls and he spends the next half a day under diligent watch by Golanier as he tries to create a proper small dragon body. Over the hours that pass all the while the souls scream, Yorun continues to work he messes up a number of times past the skeletal stage as he finds moulding organs, muscle and making the scales hard but Golanier aids his efforts during that time. Eventually however Yorun succeeds and there is a small dragon in front of him which he then raises just as he did with Golaniers.

"Well congratulations Yorun you've made your own dragon, we'll stop for today but you will make more of these small ones over the coming weeks to get better and faster at it then you will start making bigger ones got it?" Golanier asked

"Yes, for now though lets go check in on Sunhale" Yorun said

Yorun looked down at the small dragon and motioned for it to follow them as he and Golanier make their way to the War Room once they enter Sunhale looks at them and specifically at the mini dragon while Golanier begins looking over the documents and maps Sunhale has been making.

"Seems the dragon thing is coming along nicely" Sunhale said

"Indeed, got a long way to go but its good for now" Yorun said

"So want to hear what I think our next steps should be?" Sunhale asked

"Go ahead" Yorun and Golanier said

"Well first off with our now fairly sizable forces I think it is best we secure our region of the empire, from here to Gantoral and even the area around Kurinet though not Deranel simply due to the fact they have their own forces and as such its best for us to use ours where necessary though some forces there wouldn't be bad to make people remember we are aligned" Sunhale said

"Sounds like a good idea, effective control over the regions would give us better early warning of enemy forces and would allow us to build up certain places for our use. Gantoral was a large city we could use it if it was rebuilt" Golanier said

"Better control over the regions would also allow us to bring justice in the regions in ways we haven't yet, for example around the Gantoral region including Kurinet and Orakin banditry is quite the problem so if we stop that it makes the places better to live and with safer regions it may also get more people on our side in the long run" Sunhale said

"Then we should begin doing this as soon as possible" Yorun said

"Agreed but us three should stay here, I have more planning to do and you two have training to continue" Sunhale said

"Then who will lead the army?" Yorun asked

"As it stands splitting our forces under two leaders for now would be best, one starting with half over in the Gantoral region and the other starting from here till they link up later. I would guess Onarin for the former and the new undead Jinarl for the latter" Golanier said

"You think they're the best for it?" Yorun asked

"Indeed plus don't forget with our ability to see through their eyes or take over completely we can check in on them at any time and rush over if the need arises. Some undead mages should be made but I'll do that with my magic you need all of yours for now and at best they should only encounter bandits anything else and we head there ourselves" Golanier said

"Then lets go give the order" Yorun said

Yorun, Golanier and Sunhale then left and divided up the undead army under Onarin and Jinarls leadership and they begin teleporting Onarins army away as the two separate undead armies begin their march to re-join and enforce the regions...