While Raeknar prepares their realm for any action by the other gods Yoruns journey to Gantoral has nearly ended, the training he has done during it has greatly benefitted him as has a proper nights rest he had along the way. While the city is in sight it dawns on Yorun that he may be known in the city for what he has done thus far. Koralin flies overhead but then flies down perching on Yoruns shoulder.

"Koralin I need you to fly into the city check for anything that identifies me" Yorun said

Koralin nodded in response and flew high into the sky quickly making his way to Gantoral, Yorun quickly looks through Koralins eyes and sees the high walls of the city protected by many guards atop them, he funny how that used to be comforting whenever someone went to Gantoral. Koralin gets further down into the city when past the walls and quickly locks eyes with a drawing of Yorun.

"Shit a wanted poster of me and there is likely more, get a better look Koralin" Yorun thought to Koralin

Koralin gets closer to the poster but ensures he isn't seen knowing if investigated people would notice a clearly undead bird. The wanted posters drawing of Yorun is pretty well done but they focussed a lot on the burns on his face the rest of the facial features are not as well drawn and some are outright wrong.

"Seems those I let go focussed on one part well that and the cloak which should at least allow me to hide more of my burns with its hood. Hopefully they haven't banned cloaks or something. Have a look around the walls Koralin, I won't be able to just walk through the city gates so I need to find a way to sneak in" Yorun thought

Koralin flies back to the walls and flies slowly around the city taking in every bit of possibly useful information, seeing how many soldiers are on the walls and what kinds as well as the patrols just outside the city walls consisting of at least 5 soldiers all within 5 minutes of each other.

"They certainly have this place well protected but the south wall seems to have a few less soldiers on it likely due to the south direction being further into the empires territory. The patrols if anything will likely be the biggest problem well other than how the fuck do we get over that wall?" Yorun thought to himself

Koralin looks at the guards at the ends of the wall they are clearly mages and are just messing around with their magic but one is lifting some random ball telekinetically and throwing it around that way.

"That is certainly an idea Koralin one I don't know if I'll be able to pull off, there's a guard tower there perch outside a window and look in to see if theres anything useful inside should we manage to get some of the undead onto the wall" Yorun thought to Koralin

Koralin did as instructed and looked into the guard tower window, he sees some items in there including rope.

"if some undead get onto the wall and secure it then take that rope we could climb up, I've no doubt the undead will be able to do it, I just hope I can. Should this work the problem will be the patrols, alright come back Koralin I'll need to think on this" Yorun thought to Koralin as his sight returned to his own eyes

Yorun and his undead give the city a wide berth as they make their way around to the south side of the city through the forest outside the city so the soldiers on the walls have no chance to see them but along the way Yorun tries lifting a couple of the undead and he finds that while its incredibly mentally taxing he may just be able to do it. Yorun decides that he will send the oldest bandit undead and some of the soldiers he has up he has been noticing the oldest bandit has been doing more and more complex things so may be more useful up there. Yorun and his undead eventually reach the south side of Gantoral and they wait for the next patrol to go by before quickly making their way to the bottom of the wall, upon reaching it the undead who are to be sent up line up and Yorun takes a deep breath before beginning to lift all of them the act immediately begins to hurt his very brain as if the weight of all of them was directly upon it so Yorun tries to lift them up there as quickly as possible the undead get practically thrown up the wall this act alone renders Yorun unconscious while the undead do manage to grab onto the wall surprising the nearest soldiers to the parts of the wall they grabbed.

"What the fuck?" One of the soldiers said before the undead hoisted themselves up and over and killing the nearest soldiers

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The mages at the ends of the wall were quickly killed as two of the undead were launched up there specifically to kill them. The soldiers on the wall panic but quickly get into defensive formations and begin to fight with the undead, the undead soldiers however somewhat remember these formations and get into the best places to attack them plus the ability to not feel pain allows them to quickly break through the formations much to the living soldiers horror, the undead make short work of this small group of soldiers cutting down each one, one after another each death scaring the living daylights out of those that remain until they themselves are cut down. The undead bandit quickly musters the rest of the undead motioning for them to come with him.

"Follow..." The undead bandit said uttering its first words since death

The rest of the undead follow and they make their way to the guard tower as per the plan and they storm into the tower not surprising the guards inside as they heard the fighting outside, the first undead that makes their way through the door gets their head taken off. That act makes the rest of the undead more careful and they huddle together raising the shields they either had in the first place or took from some of the soldiers they just wiped out. The undead bandit focusses the rest of the undead on select soldiers within the tower trying their best clear it and after a couple more minutes they finish off the living within the tower. The undead bandit finds the ropes and heads back out to the wall tying the ropes around parts of the battlements and then looks down the wall checking where Yorun and the others are. At this moment Yorun and the rest of the undead are out of sight, the undead took the unconscious Yorun back into some of the forest parts to wait for the ropes and for the next patrol. Koralin managed to make that happen, when the patrol makes their way past Koralin quickly leads the undead back to the wall and they tie Yorun to one of the ropes, the undead bandit sees the plan and looks at the rest of the undead.

"Pull.... rope...." The undead bandits cold voice said

The undead began to pull the rope bringing Yorun up the wall meanwhile the rest of the humanoid undead down below still compelled to follow Yorun climbed the other ropes, the animals were led back into the forest by Koralin, after the final humanoid undead is on the wall they pull the ropes up so the patrols down below won't see and the undead bandit tries to wake up Yorun. After another few minutes Yorun does wake up.

"Master.... ok...?" The undead bandit said much to Yoruns surprise

"Ok you can talk now, that'll take getting used to" Yorun said groggily as he held his head

Yorun looks around and sees he is on the wall evident by the corpses and blood everywhere. He knows he will need to raise all of these bodies but his mind is not ready for that, he looks to the undead head mage from back in Orakin and motions for it to come over.

"We tried this a little during our travels here and while I doubt we'll make it happen I need to try and hopefully it's less of a strain for me else all these bodies will be waiting a while" Yorun said as he put his hand on the undead mages shoulder

Yorun tries to send magic into the body of the mage in small increments and he can feel the magic coming together within the body of the undead mage forming something but as more and more magic is used for whatever is forming Yorun feels his soul growing ever more empty as more and more magic gets cordoned off for this. After a few minutes the thing forming in the undead mage resembles a soul one Yorun can feel a link to but this pseudo soul is using pretty much all of Yoruns magic leaving only a tiny bit left.

"Fuck no wonder I need to train, my souls barely got the magic needed for this, fuck knows if this mage will even be able to raise the bodies" Yorun thought to himself the words booming in his hurt head

Yorun points the the dead bodies and the undead mage looks to the body and reaches out for it attempting to use necromancy and slowly the body begins to move, Yorun can tell the undead mage while better with magic than he would be the body is unfamiliar with this magic as he was at the beginning of this journey.

"The process is slow but at least I can rest, the rest of you take the other walls, I need the back up throughout this city" Yorun sits back against the wall while the undead mage begins to raise more and more corpses and the rest of the undead move out and begin to attack the other walls

The magic while unfamiliar to the undead mages body at least is not putting the same mental strain on the undead mage as it did for Yorun so it is still far easier than it was for Yorun but instead just a slow process as the undead mage figures out how this works. Raeknar decides to check in with Yorun scanning the mortal realm for where Yorun is and they are slightly surprised to see Yorun on the south wall of Gantoral, they teleport there yet not completely standing in a dimension only the dead and he can be, looking around without disturbing the mortal world or being seen they look at the bodies around and the undead mage going to work while Yorun rests.

"Well well well it seems Yorun managed to do it though the link with the mage is tenuous using nearly all of his magic. While that may not be the best, the fact he managed it is still one great step forward. Those mortals in power will fear you Yorun and these lovely undead, someday Yorun you'll be so steeped in this world of death you'll see this dimension just as your soldiers do" Raeknar said knowing the undead's gaze focusses on them before Raeknar simply leaves