The days pass as Yorun and his undead fleet sail across the seas to the Zeilna islands and the enemies that await them there, during these days Yorun has stayed within the captains cabin of his ship trying to plan for what will come but now with the Islands mere hours away Koralin who flies far ahead of the ships is closing in on the islands finally giving a view of its defences and the enemy fleet. Yorun seeing this finally can properly plan something.

"Alright, Koralin fly above the main trade areas and find those ships we need to see our enemy and gauge their strength" Yorun said telepathically to Koralin

Koralin flies closer to the islands and gets lower to the ground while staying above the islands ports, Yorun sees the fleet the traders mentioned.

"Wasn't kidding about the size of the fleet and at least they easily mark themselves with the imperial flag, but the multiple islands that make up the Zeilna islands make this a problem, though the fleet when docked are at the different islands which is splitting them up hmm" Yorun thinks to himself as he continues to look through Koralins eyes

Koralin continues to fly around the islands as Yorun thinks of how to utilize the islands before getting an Idea.

"Koralin continue to monitor the area, alert me of anything important" Yorun said telepathically before returning his sight to his own eyes

Yorun then looks to the maps of the islands and surrounding oceans then marks where they should be coming in from Kelinrasks direction before using a small bit of Golaniers magic to get him in the room, Golanier promptly appears.

"You know you could have just asked" Golanier said a little annoyed despite basically ignoring the pain anyway

"Listen Koralin finally got to the Zeilna Islands and has surveyed the area, now the information about the fleet is definitely confirmed, I've seen it and they'll be a problem but we have a saving grace. Look to the map, the Zeilna islands are a series of three islands nearby eachother in a more circular fashion but the actual docks on each island arent enough to have that fleet on any one island so they are docked separately" Yorun said

"Still doesn't matter much, if we attack with our own fleet they'll mobilise quicky and even if we've destroyed one part the others will outnumber and have more experience than us" Golanier said looking at the map

"Correct, however theres nothing watching the backside of the islands, maybe some people on their own but with a bit of magic of which I'm sure you can help with, we could set anchor around the back of an island and then take the actual inhabited part of said island" Yorun said yet Golanier quickly speaks up

"Ok I understand that but you and the undead need to learn how to actually do naval combat" Golanier said

"Yes and we will but right now this is a beginning stage, a small very strong group will go in first and pick a fight with the sailors of the fleet docked at this island at which point our forces take the island, while the sailors are dealing with the small group they'll hopefully be none the wiser and likely to contact the other ships who by the time they've undocked and are heading over we can have our own ships sail round while they're focussed on the one island" Yorun said

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"Then they'll be in the middle of the three island at which point we've taken them then they're surrounded and our ships can get into the channels to cut off direct ways allowing us to open fire from all sides pinning them down in the middle with no supplies!" Golanier shouted quite impressed with Yoruns thinking

"You sound happy" Yorun said with a raised eyebrow

"Well, you're getting better and better at these things its fun to watch but anyway I do have a question, who's going to be in this 'small group' of yours?" Golanier asked curious

"Needs to be people the enemy will focus on, highly trained and well protected" Yorun said

"Few choices though the most 'well protected' is you" Golanier said

"Incorrect its anyone wearing my armour and the enemy would more than focus on anyone wearing it" Yorun said with a slight smirk

"Oooh... I get you, teleport that armour onto an undead, take control and then maybe have me in control of another, us two with the right undead for you could cause a large enough distraction especially with that armour so... Which undead you taking?" Golanier asked

"Your undead body" Yorun said much to Golaniers immediate surprise before he catches on

"Ah right, I'm mostly humanoid and adjusting the helmet for my Kalrin horns wouldn't be difficult plus combine that with my body's muscle memory to aid you in combat it'd make you very effective, while I have those skills ingrained in me from a lifetime of war even with a different body I'd be more than fine plus we wouldn't be on the seas so I could take action" Golanier said looking ecstatic

"Completely correct well done Golanier" Yorun said

"Alright guessing you'll want to have Onarin take the more leadership role of the undead while we fight" Golanier said

"Indeed, if anything goes wrong however he will have this ship and the Darkness of Otaper as well as telepathy whichever he thinks to use" Yorun said

"Got it, one thing though if you're to use my body you'll need a second vambrace and gauntlet you only focussed making one as far as I saw given you're lack of a left forearm" Golanier said

"I do plan to get that part of my arm back so I did make those for when I have it or in case I were to use another body. I'm no fool afterall" Yorun said before opening a small portal to Kragrum and reaching in pulling out the pieces

"Glad to see your training paid off since you're casually using Kragrum for that" Golanier said

"Well can't make a large portal to send undead to and from but something small like this? Simple or well as simple as opening a portal between realms is" Yorun said

Yorun calls over Golaniers undead body and he teleports his armour onto the undead while teleporting the old armour from Golaniers living days into the captains cabin, Yorun then takes direct control of Golaniers body seeing through his eyes for the first time, he feels the helmet is not on correctly and begins to adjust the helmet so that the horns are not a problem as well as adjusting the other pieces of the armour for it to be as free moving as it is for his normal body.

"Gods, seeing myself in that armour, had I seen that years ago I'd have likely tried to kill more dragons to make it possible" Golanier said

"Figure out which undead you're going to inhabit but remember don't do it till that one is ashore, no point pissing off Nayhram after this portion of the journey" Yorun said

"I know, I'm no fool either" Golanier said before wandering off to the other ships

Yorun looks over Golaniers body through his Kalrin eyes wearing the armour meant for his real body then makes Raeknars scythe appear in his hands before driving it into the middle of the Zeilna Islands portion of the map as if on instinct driven by the body. Yorun then walks out of the cabin and looks through Koralins eyes once more surveying the land he will soon fight harder himself than he has before, truly ready to put the armour through its paces...