The bearman was guided by Robur to the heartcore room, on this room, there was also 8 of my goblins who stood guard just in the precaution of the level 9 bear going rogue.
The bearman stood below the altar, gazing upon the monstrous eye.
"You are their leader?" The bear was amazed, but he did not seem surprised. "You are a Chaos Lord?"
The eye looked straight at the bear.
(What is he talking about?)
"Chaos Lord?"
"It's what we call your race!" The bearmen informed me. "Your kind is very rare, and theres limited knowledge about you..."
"Have you seen one of us before?"
The bearmen denied with his head. "No, but one of my ancestors was once a follower of a Chaos Lord."
"Oh? Wich one?"
"The most famous Chaos Lord, Black! He once controlled the entire North of this continent!"
(Black? If I recall, Blue told me that there were two others called brown and green, but he didn't mention Black!)
"You know what happened to him?" I inquired the beard.
"He was defeated by an alliance of empires and kingdoms!" (Bearman)
(Interesting, but..)
"You mentioned that you had a request?"
The white bearman smiled.
"Yes, I request your help!" (Bearman)
"Your help? In what?"
"Weeks ago..." The bearman looked down to his feet. "I lived happily on my village, and I had a healthy daughter, a wonderful wife, my wise parents and my older brother..."
Them the bear rose his head to face my eye. "But one day, they came!"
"They?"
"A human mercenary group from Morfir. They entered my village while I was away hunting for meat, when I came back, my family was slaughtered as my old brother was the village elder and refused to surrender! Regarding the rest of my kind, most were also killed, but some were captured!"
The Bearmen paused before continuing.
"I tried to track down the mercs up to the Morfir citadel, only to lose them a few days later.
Finally I used all the gold that I had to buy info from an Intelligence Guild, to only discover that the mercs were not from Morfir land!
They actually work for a rich noble from the Donnhe kingdom!"
(Why am I getting a feeling of Dejavu?)
"Let me guess, after learning that, you travelled for that kingdom, only to get captured along the way?"
"Y-yeah..." The bearmen sighed.
"So the request is?"
The bear looked down on this foot again. "Well... Chaos Lords normaly have power to crush countries... Could... Could you kill everyone involved in my village's slaughter, and if possible, give freedom to those who were captured?"
(Pink skins, Brown wolves, Maktraka clan, Eastern Horde and now I have to add a rich noble who certainly owns an army and probably has alot of friends in that kingdom?)
"I don't mind it... But what do I get in return?"
The bear gazed at me and screamed. "You can have me!"
With no control, I immediately spat out my words.
"I DO NOT SWING THAT WAY!"
(I don't, do I?)
The bearmen was confused at my words until he understood what I meant.
"N-Not that! I meant... I will be one your followers! One of your bodyguards! Or if you wish, I will take the frontlines and die for you!"
A Bear Beastman wishes to become your minion, accepting him will consumed 100 mana!
Will you accept?
Yes? No?
"I ACCEPT YOU!" I roared inside the HeartCore room.
Bear Beastman has been added to minion tab!
A fire spirit left my eye, going towards the white Bearman, evolving him in a fire tornado.
As he dropped on his feet and his claws scratched the floor, a tribal 8 black tattoo burned on his left shoulder.
Bearman has reached lvl10!
Bearman has unlocked racial skill - War Bear Form
"Thank you for your blessing, Master!"
Just after his words, I threw my question. (Tell me, what is War Bear Form?)
"You know of our unique power?"
(Just the name...)
"Master! Then I will explain everything I know!" The Bearman coughed before continuing."War Bear Form is a unique power that only the higher warriors of the Beastmen Bear tribes can have, it enlarges our bodies greatly into a monstrous fighting form as a WarBear."
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(Enlarge your body?)
"Yes! It least makes me grow twice my size! And I will also get much stronger in offence and defense as my muscles, claws and fur will be improved!"
(Can I see it now?)
"I am sorry, but I am still too weak to use it... Please give me some hours!"
(Very well, go rest now, let Robur guide you.)
The Bearman bowed his head and the goblins punched their chests before leaving the room.
(Let me check minion tab?)
Imp (2)
Cost: 100 mana
Upkeep: 50 mana
Max level: 10
Basic Info:
Minion worker that can claim territory.
Does not require food or sleep.
Excellent night vision. Goblin (17)
Cost: 50 mana
Upkeep: 1 small bed and food
Max level: 10
Basic Info:
Weak Creature, that can evolve at level 10.
Excellent night vision. Wolf (5)
Cost: 50 mana
Upkeep: 1 small bed and food
Max level: 10
Basic Info:
Weak Creature, that can evolve at level 10
Excellent night vision, scent and hearing. Bear Beastman (1)
Cost: 100 mana
Upkeep: 1 medium bed and food
Max level: Unlimited
Basic Info:
Strong Creature, that can learn racial skill at level 10.
(Unlimited level? Theres no limit? I wonder how many more races have this?)
Meanwhile at the sleeping chamber, a new bed spawned the moment the bearman entered this room, but this bed was different, while it was like the wolf beds, it was twice its size.
"Master, can you hear me?" Suddenly the Bearman spoke, calling my attention.
(Yes?)
"I have something for you!" The bearman informed me.
(What is it?)
"I will bring it to your room, master." With haste, the bear left the sleeping chamber, heading into the heartcore room and went up the stairs to the top of the altar.
"One second master!"
(Okay...)
The Bearman searched his pants, and from them, took out a roll of paper.
(What's that?)
"I got this from Morfir, it's a map!" The bear informed with pride as he opened and laid the map on the ground.
(A map?)
The map showed the pieces of land painted, all surrounded by sea with many names and pictures that confused me.
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(Care to explain the map to me?)
"Of course master! But keep in mind that I don't have much detail on everything..."
Then the bear started to explain the land from the East.
From the East, there was the largest continent Meostria, on the NorthWest of it, stood the barren lands wich was mostly controlled by the Eastern Horde.
The Eastern Horde was a powerfull Horde comprised green skins and other beastial races, they were lead by a royal clan who was mainly located at their capital Grogragh, wich was a massive stronghold city.
To the North East, were the snowy lands of Morfir, this name was also given to its only major city on this land.
Morfir who initially started as a military camp by a company named Black Legion, was a city of outlaws, mercenaries and refugees, the former company was so strong that until this day, their families were still in charge, ruling the city with an iron fist.
To the East of the barren lands and south of Morfir snow lands, stood one of the twin neutral kingdoms, Donnhe, its sister kingdom was Gwonn.
These 2 kingdoms until today remained as allies as they were surrounded by threats from every side, and both had mostly a human population.
On the furthest NorthEast of the continent, was Katemo, kingdom of beastmen and demons, meanwhile to the west, stood a Beast city with a massive Port named Mirilan.
To the south of these lands, stood the Kirrum Empire, wich was lead by the royal Kirrum family in the capital of Kirrum and its two important City Ports, Brulm and Vulm.
In the south of this empire, there was another empire, the Elven Empire.
The second continent was named Agis and four massive islands stood between the two mentioned continents.
This map only mentioned the top important cities or strongholds and its current religion standing from the past decades.
Unfortunately, the Bearman did not know much about the rest of the world.
(You don't know anything else?)
"Master, the only thing that I could add, is that the Eastern Horde and the Donnhe kingdom started a war a few weeks ago..."
Day 3, 1st Month of the Winter Season, 600.AC