After Yorun and his group returned to the Fortress Yorun and Gira went to their own rooms to rest while Sunhale heads back to the War room. Golanier went to make sure his body had been healed correctly before doing some training. The following morning as the suns light creeps in through the windows Yorun wakes slowly and as he sits up he teleports new clothes on beneath Raeknars cloak and he holds his head in his hand as the tiredness drains away from him. Yorun then gets up heading towards the war room, as he walks in he sees Sunhale.

"Morning Yorun" Sunhale said to a still groggy Yorun

"Do you ever sleep?" Yorun asked

"Elves sleep a little less than humans not by much but we do plus my internal clock has been reversed as it were since I gained the ability to manipulate Otapers Darkness. They are also god of the moon so it makes sense I am more active at night" Sunhale said

"Alright fair enough I suppose" Yorun said

"I'll head away to rest soon but I'll run this down with you first alright?" Sunhale said

"Sure" Yorun said

"Now that we have properly secured our borders and have them manned at all times what forces aren't needed at the borders can now be sent on a campaign into enemy lands. The forces number around 25,000 humanoid soldiers and now a good few dragons. I propose sending out this force to take villages away from the enemy integrating them into our territory and along the way avoid proper military installations, checkpoints fortresses etc and avoid a city unless the whole army is together. Once I've trained up some of those bandits on how to respond to enemy codewords and such we can then begin with the military places namely checkpoints that way we can have the enemy confused about what is going on. They'll be losing villages but only knowing as they begin to feel the monetary and agricultural pinch from the villages lost" Sunhale said

"As much as I hate to say it, it wont be much of a pinch given how they treated the outlier villages such as Kurinet" Yorun said

"True a few villages here and there not much but we'll be sweeping in and taking as many as we can expanding the border and moving the border force to compensate for the new land, then when they lose cities and proper military fortresses..." Sunhale said

"They will begin to feel it a lot more and by then our border forces will have moved in so they cant so easily take it back and combine that with their focus being split by the elves" Yorun said

"Exactly, now a couple things first, in terms of our borders we need a few mages at certain points across our borders the reason why being simple, they need access to telepathy to talk to one central undead mage who can relay information to someone in charge be that one of us or an undead we have in charge such as Onarin or Dralocran. That way you and Golanier don't need to split your focus unless necessary, we can't be everywhere or more accurately we shouldn't be everywhere, in a war like this we need to start delegating to capable undead. This can be a temporary solution until I set up more of Otapers darkness" Sunhale said

"Alright fair enough, if all they need is telepathy that shouldn't be too much magic needed either which is useful especially due to the connection they all share through me anyway" Yorun said thinking about it all

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"Regardless once that's set up I want you to properly start training in combat something I think Dralocran can help with more so than Golanier, that undead clearly remembers a lot of when Jinarl housed his soul in it, not just magic but how to properly fight with that scythe" Sunhale said

"You make a good point, I'll check in with Dralocran" Yorun said

"I'll tell Golanier he gets to lead the conquest, since I would rather a sufficiently powerful necromancer still be out there at the head to raise any soldiers at least for now and with Dralocran going to do training with you well it just makes the most sense" Sunhale said

"Right don't forget to rest afterward though" Yorun said

"I won't" Sunhale said

Yorun leaves and heads to the training area after which he takes over Dralocran who is still over in Gantoral and teleports in that body all the way back to the fortress bringing it to the training area. Yorun quickly returns to his own body and looks at Dralocran.

"What is it you need?" Dralocran said in the signature cold soulless voice of the undead

"You remember how to use this magic more so than Golanier does and more than that you remember how to fight with this same scythe" Yorun holds Raeknars scythe out to Dralocran while also giving magic to Dralocran

As the magic floods into the winged undead a cloak similar to that of Raeknars currently worn by Yorun begins to appear on Dralocrans body.

"Seems you've got more personality than I thought" Yorun said

"Some undead have certain things ingrained, it varies" Dralocran said as his wings brushed along the inside of the conjured cloak

"Fair enough I suppose, before we get started with the scythe training though I do want to know, when you were starting to get your intelligence back you tried to tell Golanier and I something about the whole taking over bodies and body part changing, mind explaining now?" Yorun asked genuinely curious

"Temporary control of an undead, leaving a soul behind isn't the pinnacle of that ability instead the pinnacle is simple. Fully taking over an undead body replacing your original body with that one, sufficiently healthy body's are required, little reason to do it unless your body is beyond repair or need a far stronger body" Dralocran said

"Did Jinarl ever need to do that?" Yorun asked

"No and even if this body was too damaged Raeknar could be asked to fix it given all I-Jinarl had done" Dralocran said

"Another question, the other undead when they gained intelligence they called me master you never have, why? Don't get me wrong it's weird the others do but I've grown used to it but I still want to know so why?" Yorun asked

"This body knows only one to call master" Dralocran said as the undead eyes gazed at the cloak worn by Yorun who nods in response

"Alright, I guess that answers that, now show me what I can do with the scythe" Yorun said

Dralocran begins to train Yorun in the scythes use, Yorun holding onto the actual scythe while the winged undead conjures one to show Yorun how to fight better. Meanwhile Sunhale has gone to Golanier and informed him of the plan he discussed with Yorun.

"So you want me to take charge of the campaign? I can do that" Golanier said

"Don't forget this may be a campaign to basically conquer villages and such but this isn't your world conquering we are bringing justice" Sunhale said

"Yes, yes I know, hold back on the cruelty and such. I'm no fool" Golanier said almost insulted

"Leave as soon as possible once Yoruns done with training I'll have him get magic to some of the border mages and one in Gantoral, that way his magic can continue to grow as well" Sunhale said

"Fair enough, I'll head out now then just dont forget about those undead spies in training" Golanier said as he teleported away

"How can I? They are very fucking vital..." Sunhale said as he walks away

Golanier teleported to the big dragons and then teleported with them to Gantoral where the forces not being used for its defence and the borders are waiting. He gathers them and orders them to form up into lines.

"All of you will follow me as we make a new excursion into the Feirnian empire!" Golanier shouted and the undead do not respond but they will follow

Golanier is used to the undead's quietness its almost nostalgic for him heaving the quiet army and a campaign to conquer. He marches towards the border forces and heads past them as he heads out into enemy territory, he looks at a map of the modern empire and smirks as he sees multiple villages ready for a conqueror to take them...