Yorun walks through the halls of the fortress getting further and further from the area in which he had made the new armour of which he wears yet as he walks he feels his body in ways he hadn't before due to his inexperience moving properly in full armour though this inexperience is not what the living villagers within the fortress see, all they see is a man they know to be Yorun with the appearance a knight wearing a terrifying armour of legendary make stalk the halls, Yorun continues to walk noticing the looks from the villagers and finding the look of fear to him still so alien. After a few minutes he reaches the war room where he hears Sunhale and Golanier speaking inside, Yorun pushes the door open and sees Sunhales gaze turn to him before a look of pleasant surprise adorns his face.

"Well I'll be damned, you two actually made a pretty good imposing set of armour" Sunhale said before knocking on the cuirass

"I still find it odd to walk in, I've tested it all throughout the time we've been making it but the whole thing on is a different experience suffice to say" Yorun said as he adjusts one of the pauldrons

"Well I explained this before, thanks to what its made out of, you can adjust it at all times with the same magic method used to make it so start trying that out and you'll be better with it in no time plus it'll be a lot more flexible than armour close to being this tough normally is" Golanier said

"Anyone else made pure dragon armour like this?" Yorun asked

"Like this? No not unless another necromancer did so, dragons are inherently magical creatures and combine that with the extreme hardness of the scales post death well they become very hard to force into anything complex. The best things are those that scales can be more easily turned into with little adjustment such as pauldrons or more favourably weapons instead of armour" Golanier said

"Really is one of a kind then" Sunhale said

"indeed, now we should discuss getting on the water with our army" Golanier said

"No one sets sail on a ship until we've spoken to Nayhram, without asking or anything of the sort we will be swiftly swallowed by the seas" Yorun said in a serious tone

"Never needed such permission a thousand years ago" Golanier said

"I'll assume you're the reason then given how much you've managed to piss everyone off" Yorun said

"Fair enough, it's a rather probably assumption to be had" Golanier said casually

"So how are we going to talk to Nayhram as you call them?" Sunhale asked

"Simple, a prayer to plead for passage along the waves, best to do it at the waves though so let's head to Kelinrask" Yorun said quickly receiving a nod from the two men

Sunhale shifts to the form of a human man before the three of them teleport to Kelinrasks port, the citizens of the city notice them within an instant but their eyes all lock onto the cloaked armoured figure, they know the cloak as the one worn by the man who conquered them and the two with them as his companions but the armour itself is a new site one that terrifies them as they begin to think how little a threat they were for him to nor even wear it for the siege. The citizens of the city quickly flee from the area fearing whatever may come to the port warranting the armour their conqueror now wears.

"So how are we doing this?" Golanier asked

"As I said, a prayer" Yorun said before he stepped toward the edge of the nearest dock

Yorun kneels down looking down into the water with his forward foot nearly ready to step off the dock and down into the water.

"Beloved God Nayhram who gives this world every other world water, from the water that runs through our bodies as blood to the water that covers the world as rain and ocean, I call upon you to ask but one favour to allow this army of justice to cross the oceans you permit to exist so asks the last farmer of Kurinet" Yorun said sincerely

Upon the last words utterance the ocean grows unusually still as if it all had been frozen, Yorun still looking down in the water found it looking like a mirror from it's stillness yet it reflects not only him but also that of an arm behind him pointing out into the sea, Yorun looks forward and sees ripples forming on the water small enough as if something was walking on the water yet nothing is there. Yorun nods as he stands up and steps off the dock onto the water standing on the surface as if it were regular ground despite its still liquid nature, Sunhale and Golanier attempt to do the same but their feet immediately are rejected as the water throws them back onto land suddenly.

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"Seems it is only me, stay here" Yorun said as he looked to his companions

Yorun begins to walk out into the ocean, further and further from the city until all that is below is dark blue ocean which further down gives way to a peering darkness as light does not travel so far down, Yorun looks down at the reflective surface of the water as he walks until he sees the hand no longer pointing forward but instead pointing down into the depths yet as the thoughts of what to do churn through Yoruns mind water raises up around him and before his eyes can even widen he is dragged down into the depths by the water itself. As the light fades from the area around Yorun he also begins to drown and as panic begins to set in suddenly something touches his neck and he begins to breath much to his own confusion, Yorun looks around and in the dark water of the depths he sees nothing until small lights appear around him before they grow and Yorun sees they are the lights anglerfish use to draw in prey but the stalk that leads up to them is forming from the water itself as is the light. A voice booms from further down in the depths below Yorun.

"Yorun of Kurinet the chosen of Raeknar yet you request as merely the last farmer of Kurinet. Curious" The voice Yorun assumes to be Nayhram said

"Yes, I may be chosen but before Raeknar if there were to be a god I'd choose to rely on it would be you for you kept Kurinet alive" Yorun said as he did his best to kneel while floating in the ocean water

"Evidently I did not and yet you call with no malice or hatred in your voice but instead with a plead for me to allow you across my oceans with an army of the dead" Nayhram said

"They are your oceans and without permission they are nigh impossible to traverse plus it is well known the anger you have displayed when people did not ask" Yorun said

"Indeed, you have been a faithful one Yorun and I have a soft spot as you mortal would call it for those such as you whose lives depend upon the water I allow to exist" Nayhram said

Yorun looked around as the anglerfish-like lights receded into the darkness and the water around him suddenly began to separate causing him to fall downward until being caught by the hand that led him into the ocean, he is let down onto the ocean floor surrounded by darkness Yorun lights up a green fireball to see around where he finds corpses all around him from human to giant and even dragons as well as other creatures Yorun has never glimpsed before.

"Yet one being in those forces of yours angered me many years ago" Nayhram said

"If you'll allow me to guess, Golanier?" Yorun asked almost annoyed by his companions past coming to bite them once more

"Correct, during his conquests he sullied my oceans, he polluted them with fleets of corpses without so much as an ask of if it was okay. If you are to have your own fleet that will fill my oceans then that one is to not be in a body or to act at all while you are on my seas. Am I understood Yorun of Kurinet?" Nayhram asked

"Yes Nayhram God of Water he will not act while upon the seas" Yorun said

"If this is not followed I will part the oceans and swallow ever ship you have in the ocean and then I will drown every human in the world by sinking their empire" Nayhram said

"I understand what consequences will follow should he act" Yorun said as he looked forward towards where the gods voice now came from

"Good then forward to Kelinrask you shall go to embark a fleet of the dead onto my oceans" Nayhram said

Yorun sees the form Nayhram takes is simply a pulsating ball of water with soulless fish floating inside it as if they were veins with blood pumping through. The hand that guided Yorun forms from Nayhram and points behind Yorun where light begins to shine down from above as the oceans part allowing light down and Yorun sees the path back to Kelinrask.

"Thank you Nayhram may the world be blessed by the water you give forever more" Yorun said before walking back rather than teleporting as he believes Nayhram wishes him to walk

The walk back to Kelinrask takes longer then the walk out as he has to traverse over the uneven ground of the ocean floor until finally he gets back to the dock he stepped off of and jumps up onto the dock, turning back he watches as the parted ocean as if it were a corridor in a building with how still it all is closes like two walls encroaching on one another until they meet and no space remains in the middle, the still nature of the ocean fades as waves return. Yorun turns back to where Sunhale and Golanier stand.

"We are allowed to sail but Golanier you are not to be in a body nor are you allowed to act in ANY way so long as we remain at sea else we all die as does the entire human race" Yorun said with a serious tone once more

"Seems I really pissed them off" Golanier said almost wanting to chuckle but he doesn't

"Indeed, fleets of undead and living sent to the bottom of the ocean basically littering in the ocean during your conquests, such an idiotic move" Yorun said

"They did nothing at the time" Golanier said

"And the world was definitely worse off for it even if you are a help now" Yorun said

"The ships have nearly been finished being repaired so seems we've got this done in time, take a few more days to get used to that armour and then you learn naval combat" Sunhale said

Yorun nodded as they all looked out to the ocean and the ships that will soon be filled with undead wondering what will await them upon the waves now that the God of Water has granted them the ability to travel across their oceans...