The day grows darker as the undead clean the area around Yorun, the blood seeming endless even with the bodies that it came from gone. The undead assaulting the other walls are making slow yet good progress, Raeknar watches from the dimension only the dead access, fascinated by it all they greet the new souls killed by Yoruns undead as well as the Kai Tamar who Sheppard the souls to Faelerm. Soon though Raeknar senses Yorun beginning to awake and appears next to him.

"Hello Yorun, nice rest?" Raeknar asked

"Argh my mind and soul are still alite" Yorun said obvious pain in his voice

"Well that is to be expected, the mental strain of well lifting so many heavy people without the required level of training would do that crossed with surprisingly successfully making and undead mage do magic, well done by the way, would hurt your soul and mind. Speaking of that undead mage you will need to deprive it of magic at some point once its duties are done as you have such a little amount of magic right now all you could probably do is small parlour tricks" Raeknar said

Yorun begins to stand though slowly, the undead bandit who did stick around alongside a few others to defend Yorun grabs a hold of him helping steady him, this action somewhat surprises Yorun as there was no order to the bandit to do this.

"Help... Master..." The undead bandits said and its cold voice sent shivers down Yoruns spine

"Thanks?" Yorun said still rather confused

"Your first talking undead and it seems he has began to do more on his own too, rather useful to have, just think when he has full intelligence" Raeknar said

"That's a bit away I'd guess anyway I know the undead mage is still doing things I feel magic draining from my soul whenever it uses the magic so how are they and the other undead doing?" Yorun

"Well they are currently assaulting the next tower over, more and more guards fall while only a few of the undead fall but due to the undead mage quickly getting used to the magic the losses are quickly replaced, eventually the rest of the guards will find out about all of this maybe before the walls are finished. This is a very risky plan Yorun despite its current success" Raeknar said

"I know, I'm no leader or master strategist but this was the best I could come up with though I did not plan for well falling unconscious" Yorun said

"Overall Yorun this was a fairly alright plan but you can get into the city yet the guards know your face, they know the burns on it so it wouldn't be hard to identify you, so what now? " Raeknar asked

"I have three targets in this city, they are the goal, I need more information on them but just asking about them will arouse suspicion somewhere along the way make them more guarded and right now I don't know what forces I will have once the guards on the walls have been killed and brought back" Yorun said

"You'll need to figure out a way to get this information then, I'll let you think" Raeknar said before disappearing

Yorun walks over to the edge of the inner part of the wall with the help of the undead bandit looking down at Gantoral, the rest of the undead looking out at the city as well following their masters gaze, Yorun then looks at the bandit.

"You need a name, referring to you as the first undead bandit will be an annoyance especially due to the new intelligence you have. How about... Onarin?" Yorun asked

"Is.... Good...." Onarin said with his cold voice

"Well then Onarin, we have a lot of work to do" Yorun said

"That you do" An unknown voice said from behind Yorun and Onarin

Yorun as well as Onarin and the other undead who stood there turned to look behind them grabbing their weapons and getting in front of Yorun to protect him just in case. The sight Yorun sees was not one he anticipated there is a group of dark and lightly armoured Elves standing on the edge of the wall tattoos adorning their face the more complex they ramping up from the outer elves to the middle elf, Yorun doesn't know anything about them but due to recent experiences he picks up on the tiny specks of blood that may go unnoticed otherwise on their blades and parts of their armour. The elf in the middle of the group speaks first.

"We've been watching you, this assault on Gantoral has been interesting to see happen, it was incredibly timed as well since we needed a way in so thank you for that whoever you are. These beings with you are also fascinating, never in my three hundred year life have I seen a walking corpse never mind this many. Under normal circumstances we are not meant to interact with humans and just complete our mission or eliminate any human who discovers us but this is an exception" The leading elf said before taking a step closer eliciting an aggressive step from the undead

"Hold" Yorun said immediately making the undead a little less aggressive

"Well trained too so perhaps we can aid each other, who are you stranger?" The leading elf said

"Raeknar" Yorun said

"Taking the name of one of your gods? It would elicit fear from other humans and I cannot blame you for not giving a true name so for now, Raeknar it is. To go along the same lines I'll use our god of death and justices name Irankar" Irankar said

"While I cannot blame him, it does irk me a little to hear another use one of my names without permission" Raeknar said in Yoruns mind

Yorun looks at the one calling himself Irankar and Irankar scans Yorun his face doesn't hide his surprise.

"I can sense no magic from you, how are you doing this?" Irankar asked

"We all have our secrets Irankar, you wouldn't tell me everything about you so why should I?" Yorun asked

"Fair enough, well I sincerely hope this will go well, what are your plans in this city?" Irankar asked

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"I will say should you tell us what you are doing here" Yorun said

"A fair exchange one that under normal circumstances would not be honoured, you know of the tension and wars of the empires across our world the tensions between our kingdoms have hit a new high and we have been sent to cripple this city" Irankar said

"Well we may be able to help each other then. I have three people to kill here, the cities leader, Tax master and the head guard of the city, all of them are heavily important people to the city and surrounding regions usual operations, I have little information about them but I suspect you have a great deal and far more experience in all of this than I do plus your faces are unknown to this city while my scarred face has been shown around" Yorun said

"Well then today is a good day, the guard tower to our right should have been cleared by your forces when you were unconscious earlier so how about we sit down and plan since ours is now out the window due to this development" Irankar said

"Fine you first" Yorun said

Irankar nodded knowing this is a trust thing, he and the other elves go into the guard tower stepping past the blood that remains in the tower Yorun with the help of Onarin go into the tower and sit opposite Irankar, the elves behind Irankar watch the undead with suspicion and the undead stare blankly back at them. Yorun makes Raeknars scythe appear in his left hand but before the elves draw weapons Yorun leans it against the wall next to him taking his hand off it.

"You're armed so I may as well have mine within grabbing distance, though admittedly its not needed" Yorun said

"Well least we know, during the time in which we've seen you we haven't really seen that scythe, though I guess it does complete the look you are clearly going for" Irankar said

"Indeed, now lets get to business then" Yorun said

"Those three targets of yours, the city leader never leaves a building without a contingent of guards surrounding him due to the fact people hate him but your imperial family find him useful so no one can do anything to him, the tax master never leaves his assigned building and the head guard she well she did fight in the previous war with our empire so she is very good in combat, has all the guards under her command and never leaves the main compound for the guards unless something big is happening" Irankar said

"All highly annoying targets to get too but the worst is definitely the head guard, she will be the biggest problem" Yorun said

"More so than you even think, I said she fought in the previous war, her name is Captain Forina but it'd be more accurate to say she was the only survivor of one particular battle, all evidence be it magical or physical suggests she cut down thousands of our soldiers alone when all of your peoples soldiers had died, still have no idea how she actually survived especially with the mages that were undoubtedly still alive then but she did" Irankar said

"Ask them, in their so called evidence did they find anything strange, unexplainable other than her survival" Raeknar said in Yoruns mind

"in your investigation into here did you find anything else you couldn't explain?" Yorun asked

"Well there was one thing" Irankar said before using magic to show the image of a symbol seemingly burned into the ground shown alongside it

"Three blades all melted together various skulls carved on them, odd but I swear I recognise it" Yorun said

"The symbol of Gaeronak, the goddess of war an old one however, haven't seen that symbol in a thousand years at least. Seems our head guard had a little divine help" Raeknar said within Yoruns mind

"You recognise it?" Irankar asked

"Yes I remember now, its an old symbol of the goddess of war Gaeronak. This makes her far more dangerous" Yorun said covering for the fact he got this information from Raeknar

"Hmm, while our pantheons differ there is no denying the power gods have from any pantheon, she is going to be a problem so for now we'll focus on the other two while we come up with something for her in the background" Irankar said

"Alright" Yorun said

"How many soldiers do you have?" Irankar asked

"I genuinely cannot give you a solid number, I could probably find out if I had more magic at the moment but that magic is being used, just know that while the undead are currently assaulting the walls every time someone dies their corpse is being raised, you likely have been spying here long enough to know the number of guards on these walls, once the walls have been finished off we should have around that number" Yorun said

"By the gods you are useful, how are you raising those corpses though?" Irankar asked

"Mage..." Onarin said

"The fact one can talk is disturbing but what does it mean?" Irankar asked

"There's an undead mage and while it obviously doesn't have a soul I can supply it with magic from my own currently its taking damn near all of it because well I am still new to using my magic in this capacity and this is the first time I've had enough magic to actually make that work" Yorun said

"This undead mage can actually use magic and better than you?" Irankar asked

"When it was alive it was an actual mage trained to use magic for use by the empire so its body remembers how to use magic far better than I" Yorun said

"incredible, who knew the Fiernian Empire had such a thing brewing in it" Irankar said

"The cities leader will be the easiest target, his name is Cararil and suffice to say the reason he is the easiest target is due to the fact he actually leaves the buildings he goes to far more often, his guards will be an annoyance but well a good ranged attack should be able to deal with him, the tax master Arol is heavily defended due to the large amounts of money brought to him before they are sent to your imperial family. The building in which he usually resides has an underground complex designed like a maze for two reasons, one it is to protect him in case someone were to try and attack him or steal the money and two it is to protect the money itself as it resides at the end of that maze alongside the panic room for Arol." Irankar said

"Tax masters within the Woorail empire operate the same way?" Yorun asked

"No they do not, ours don't have mazes they essentially are the mazes due to their magic mastery" Irankar said

"So Cararil will be dealt with via a ranged attack, we could then assault the building Arol is in with my undead while we slip in and down to the maze as a smaller smarter force, to deal with Arol. How will we get there though or around the city for that matter?" Yorun asked

"We have some agents within the city already and they've been setting up different underground tunnels for us to sneak around, our operation was sped up however so they didn't have a way for us to get into the city yet" Irankar said

"Useful and possibly horrifying, my undead coming out of the ground would terrify the entire city" Yorun said

"True, bit of psychological warfare there I guess" Irankar said

"Yorun the captain I should be able to help you with, she has the backing of the goddess of war and as such I can aid you in a similar way, tell them you will deal with her but don't let them know how yet in case it causes anything. Make up some lie" Raeknar said within Yoruns mind

"I will deal with the captain, my powers can allow for something that should be very useful such as the ability to cut through even metal with my scythe, that should deal with her armour and any shield she might use, if she has the backing of a goddess of war she will be a good fighter but I will have enough forces to at least give me the one shot needed for that slice" Yorun said

"It could work and if not well we'll still have two targets dead allowing for Gantoral to be weakened enough for mission to be complete, I would like to point out though that it would likely kill you if you fail" Irankar Said

"Whosoever said I haven't died before?" Yorun asked as his eyes glowed green slightly and his voice had a slight demonic tone to it

Yorun then stood up looking at Irankar.

"We have a plan and a deal then, we aid each other in this and hopefully neither of us decide to do anything after" Yorun said extending a hand making Irankar stand up

"Indeed, for a human you are interesting and there is many back in the Woorail empire who'd be fascinated by you Raeknar" Irankar said as he shook Yoruns hand sealing the deal that decides the fates of three people and possibly the entire city