A horse gets tired as does a human. A skeleton horse does not get tired. It simply runs until it is told to stop or hits a ocean. While i could do the same Ronan could not. From the way he was gritting his teeth i was guessing the horse was not agreeing with him. Thinking about hings i was realizing that Ronan was keeping a lot from me. I was involved in a massive war in which I seemed but a pawn.
I could of course run away Laura to a safe place and build up my forces. However the god of light had mentioned using my own dark points to kill me. I needed to be careful and try to work out what was going on. Hopefully I could take control of my new goblin army and dump the rest of the horde on the Witchlord.
We got to the crossroads where I would leave Ronan. He was being sent to look after Laura hopefully he would keep her under control. He Left me with a final warning “Your not going anywhere. Mia is methodical and ruthless she will keep you on her death squad list forever. Right now she has to deal with the stopping the rise of the witchking. But if he does not rise your for the axe sooner or later.”
I nodded figures I was a front for the horde while Ronan did what he was planing to do. Time to get down to it. Laura had tried to take a Castle I needed to take the castle. With the lord dead his family would be out for blood mine and Lauras. Might as well get rid of them now.
I rode the horse at full speed until i could see the castle. Then I used summon skeleton to summon 25 greater ice skeleton slingers. And Five greater skeleton archers. Then I strolled towards the castle. Well it was more a minor holding A large ditch with a wooden wall and a small wooden keep inside that. I kept to the shadows and Jumped into the ditch. Then I pulled myself up the wall. It was all rough work anyway. There was no one about. So I decided it was time to get started. I summoned 10 Skeleton archers. And then went for the stables.
A lot of the horses were gone. Most likely killed when the last lord tried his raid. I crept up on the snoring men at arms and killed them quickly. Then I used drain life on the horses. I barely go any mana from the horses. But a little mana is better than nothing. Then I crept into the barracks.The soldiers were sitting around groaning there wounds visible for all to see. I got a spell ready and released 20 ice bolts. Only about four soldiers went down. My thrown daggers slammed into two more soldiers and i ran out the door. The soldiers screamed and ran after me.
About 14 chased me 10 ran straight after me the others had wounds which slowed them down. The ten who ran straight after me hit a snag. My ten archers let loose and six men hit the ground dead. I moved forward using drain life i had to be within six feet . But soldiers froze in place once I hit them with terrifying presence. I walked over to the small tower. The door had been barred.
I looked up and decided to use teleport. I appeared at the top of the tower and summoned 2 skeleton Warriors. I told them to enter the castle and kill all the living within. I sat down and waited.
You have eliminated a rival lord by yourself.
Level up * 5
dark points 20000 horde points 25000
Time to get started
Dark quest created cost 1000 dark points
spread rumor Lord Jeffery has lots of gold
dark quest created kill lord Jeffery cost 1000 dark points
extra horde points 10000 added to attract monsters.
I heard a ringing and discovered a status window.
Quest given to Laura's skeleton
quest eliminate Ronan
upon acceptance you are granted title good turncoat
reward Mia the goddess does not teleport crack squads to kill you
You have Ten minutes to decide to accept quest or squads will be teleported in to kill you.
This was not going to go well. I checked around. This was really going to suck. I had a couple of options. One accept but i bet that whole title turncoat really did something nasty to me. I could run but I was betting the squads coming after me were well armed and would have a mental map to my location. So the place i was in was a perfect place to fight.
I was in a castle time to take advantage of that fact. I summoned a skeleton scout and put him on the gate. Then i cast the magic I had been studying for a while.
RE name Item castle cost 1000 dark point or 2500 horde points
Castle Thunderheart name changed to Lauras skeletons dark castle
Create dungeon heart cost 16000 dark points
Lauras dark castle now designated evil Castle.
Next i got to work. It was fairly basic stuff changing the permissions of the castle. So teleport in was switched off. Then I switched on build up dark energy and monster friendly zone.
You have two minutes to accept Mia quest or face her wrath.
I summoned another 25 Greater ice Archer skeletons and had them pick up the crossbows the local lord had been kind enough to leave laying around. Time to find out if Mia was able to teleport the crack squads directly into the castle now it was a dark region.
Warning sixty seconds remain before Mia crack troops teleport.
Quest failed
Luck Test as the troops were suppose to be teleported directly to Castle Thunderheart. They will be teleported in a random pattern ten miles radius from Castle Thunderheart.
Four adventurer squads have teleported
One squad has teleported over the ocean. Squad all drowning.
One squad within range on ronan you may create a dark quest to have him eliminate them.
Squad three and four are on there way.
I focused on the crystal and saw the quest
eliminate death squad sent to kill laura skeleton cost 1000 dark points
I had 2000 time to alter the description
Created the quest eliminate one of the three death squad sent to kill lauras skeleton at lord thunderhearts castle. Mia has sent three death squads to kill Lauras skeleton. He has barricaded himself in Lord thunderhearts castle. Eliminate any single squad before they can get to him.
The any squad meant Ronan would be able to track all the squads by his mental map until he eliminated one. Time to get ready somehow I doubted the squads sent to kill me were all just going to be killed by Ronan on the other hand some might be injured. He might catch up with them if they were slow. Time to use the crystal to talk to the dark gods
ME>God of pure evil god of evil you there.
God of pure evil>That was epic your well on your way to getting a survivor title
Mia good goddess of harmony>My squads are going to kill you. I will create a new quest just accept it. You know that Ronan is keeping things from you. You are not doing what you think you are doing. You are being used to raise a army of the dead. Help mans progress
Quest given to Lauras skeleton
quest eliminate ronan
Me> your kidding right I am dead why would I not want a bunch of skeletons or undead running around.
Mia godess of harmony>this is your last chance my squads are all more powerful that you. Most in the squad have levels between 200 to 300 and there are two squads that will arrive before Roan. Accept my quest or they will crush you into the dirt.
Me>Yeah I am inside a fort. The walls are built on top of a bank of earth. My archers can fire from behind earth which will deflect most magic. Plus Ronan will sent a unit to secure me. So what do I get for betraying him exactly?
Mia>You get the warm feeling that comes with doing the right thing
I felt a warm of warm air breeze across my face.
Me>Well that's a nice spell the whole breeze is nice
god of pure evil>Are you seriously trying a compel spell on a skeleton?
Mia>Fine you go and die horrible now. My soldiers will tear you apart.
God of pure evil>Your doing well. Mia must have spent half her yearly budget for the death squads. Plus those adventures that went after the witchlord failed. You might want to check your dungeon heart for there status. Got to go
Adventurer party eliminated dark points 50000 horde points 75000
You may now convert horde points to dark points
125000 dark points earned
cap level increase + 1
new title available
Lesser apprentice death mage -> Lesser apprentice Mage (ice, death and void)
warning this will raise the level you can evolve to from 180 to 190
title accepted
100000 dark points transfer to witchlord for summoning of greater overlord wrath.
25000 dark points allocated to convert lord thunderheart to death knight.
I felt the presence of lord thunderheart as he took form. Seriously i was going to have to look up the stats of that death knight soon but in the mean time I had a fort to prepare.
Well there was not much i could do. I was forced to cut some eyes in some sacks. The sacks went over the eves of the skeleton archers. There were plenty of drapes blankets which i attached to the skeletons. It would protect them from the sunlight. The only other thing i could do was cast a insect swarm on the dead horse bodies. The insects would multiply and sting any living body that entered the castle. My mana was two thirds full and I could have created a ice golem in the center of the fort. But I was guessing I was going to need all my mana and then some. I grabbed the buckets of water from the well and used them to toss water at the castle gate. One quick freeze spell later and the gates were firmly shut.
I had a couple of skeletons bring as much water as they could to the front gate. Once all the barrel's were full I had them begin to throw water all over the gates. Then I sat down and waited. I suppose i could have looked up at the stars. Or contemplated my brief existence. Instead I checked that my swords was in good working order. There were no scratches as these were newly forged and as good quality as I could afford.
Fifteen flares illuminated the night sky i watched them fall into and around the castle. One fell in the center of the castle and i stared at it.
Sun damage 1 hp
The flares were not just flares but would also deliver sun damage. Clever. I moved close to the flare and used drain mana. More fell and i moved around draining them of mana. I sensed the four figures in the eyes of my archers as they ran towards the castle. There were at least two magic users. the entire party was under attack from my skeletons outside the fort. The magic users had set up two wards. One to stop my archers hidden in front of the castle the other to stop the crossbow bolts from the castle itself.
The moved toward the castle slowly as the wards needed to be kept up. I had to give them credit for being stupid. I had the gates locked and the two magic users were slowly losing there mana. They could have easily killed all the skeletons outside and then taken a look at the fort. They reached the gates with only two or three close calls where the wards deflected the bolts at the last second. The magic users aura were weakening. They had used halve there mana each getting this far.
I grabbed a small barrel of water and tossed it over the gate. It reached just over the gate and i used a freeze spell. The barrel exploded replaced with hammers made of ice which fell to the ground. The magic user protecting the rear was hit a glancing blow and fell. And then the skeletons outside the castle rocks and arrows began to pelt the adventures who all fell looking a bit like hedgehogs.
I looked threw the peephole in the gate. They were all dead time to collect there equipment. As the gate was sealed tight I created a greater skeleton outside and told him to cut off the heads and strip the bodies. Then I tossed a rope over the gate had all there equipment attached to the rope. As i was super strong one quick pull later had the equipment on top of the gate where another summoned skeleton lowered it down.
It was good stuff. Classic armour and some very nice swords. I would have liked to have tried it on but one of the adventures might have not been as moronic as his companions. He might have laid a trap. Holy water or some such thing on one of the bodies. Well i summon some lesser skeletons and had them try on the armour. I nothing happened in the next hour I might check threw the rest of there stuff myself.
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I waited for the next group and was not disappointed. I felt the skeletons outside the castle begin to go down one by one. I ordered them not to move and try an ambush the enemy. the only effect they started to die slower. Time to check things out. I cast ice bug swarm. Basically it was a swarm of bugs made of ice. It would only last a few minutes but it should slow down the enemy outside and give me a rough sense of who i was up against.
Ten small units of about 108 was the maximum I could control. The swarms spread out and fire balls streaked to meet them. The swarms moved under my control. I lost control of two of the ten small units. The fireballs moved towards the swarms as if seeking the swarm. Non did any damage. The swarm seemed to confuse the fire balls. Next a ray of light struck a swarm. The entire swarm vanished in a instant. Another ray of light another swarm.
I broke the swarms apart into sixteen separate swarms. They would not last long anyway. I just wanted to slow down however was taking out my skeletons. Hopefully Ronan would get here soon.
Three flares appeared from a tree i had two of my hidden skeletons outside fire at the spot and heard threw there ears a scream. Someone most likely had a broken arm. Both skeletons vanished from my mind a second later. I sent a couple of swarms to investigate the tree. They were destroyed as were all the other swarms with a powerful dispel magic spell. The other skeletons were quickly destroyed as well.
I checked out the flares two had risen into the air and were slowly dropping into the castle the third had stuck to the front gate and was. Glowing. Well if I had hit a mage they were going to have to heal him or her before attacking, Time enough to deal with those flares.
I walked towards the gate and it vanished in an explosion that knocked me off my feet. I stood up and pulled a smoking piece of wood out of my chest.
89 hp direct physical damage
88 sunlight damage.
88 sunlight damage
The flare had been spread with the explosion. And there were two more heading towards the ground where they might explode. Or maybe not best not to take chances. I cast the ice swarm again and split it into two swarms which went after the flares still active.
Then i picked up a bucket of water and threw it onto my body to remove the flare residue. A arrow struck the gate. It emitted a holy and i found myself running from it. There was a scroll wrapped around the arrow. It must have been a flee undead spell or prayer.I cast a quick minor freeze ray on the arrow and ice formed around the arrow blocking out the command to flee. A couple of archers had jumped off the wall. They were on the ground smashed but there were still two up there and 4 more on the ground aiming at the massive figure that was charging towards us.
Iron Knight level 202 hp 1510
Holy aura active. This knight has a high level physical buffing holy spell active.
Undead destruction aura this knight has a Two meter aura of holiness. All undead suffer damage when within this range
armored this knight has a very strong armour on.
This team was much better prepared than the last I picked up two buckets of water than had not been smashed. I tossed the first at the charging knight. The second at the gate entrance. Then I cast two freeze rays. The bucket heading towards the knight exploded and a massive ice rock smashed into the knight. He grunted and kept coming his left hand was twisted into a weird shape.
He ran to the gate and slipped on the ice that I had just created there. He hit the ground an slid towards me. My foot lifted and came down on his head. Then I slammed both swords into the weak part of his armour the back.
Level up
Well that was good almost there. One more level and I would hit level 190. At that stage i would get rid of the apprentice mage part of my title. The skeletons manning the wall were sprouting arrows all over. It looked like there was smoke coming from the wounds. Someone had dipped the arrows in holy water. I moved towards the keep. Sooner or later the archer outside would overcome my skeleton archers.
I had time they did not all i had to do is delay. I called out with my mind for the skeletons i had armored with the previous adventures armour and had them take up spots by the gate. They were not even as good as the standard archer skeletons. However they had on armour. I doubted the archer outside had a lot of armour piercing arrows with holy water on them. I decided i would wait until my death knight rose and then have him defend the walls as well.
I sat down and waited. A four foot section of the wall near the gate exploded sending shards in all directions. Then two sun flares came next. They acted more like fire balls and exploded covering the skeletons by the gate in a liquid kind of sunlight.
I ordered more skeleton archers from the back to move forward and cast icy swarm again. I was dealing with three opponents a cleric, a very good mage and a archer. The archer must be running out of arrows. I ordered one of the skeletons to collect the arrows sticking out of the others and bring them to the keep. Non of my enemies were going to be a problem close up except for maybe the cleric. The sun would be up soon but my reserve troops should hopefully be here soon.
The mage could have blown another couple of holes in the wall but it would not do him much good there was still the ditch. They had to get threw the gate and that meant killing my archer skeletons. Then of course they had to deal with the four archer skeleton I had in the keep. And while they were dealing with them I would be blasting them with magic.
I heard a voice call out “We would like to parley so tell your skeletons not to shoot and I will send a illusion spell in to talk.” a ghost like being walked forward and threw the gate. It looked like a female mage. She bowed to the keep where I stayed buttoned up “We are in need of our friends body. A resurrection costs a great deal but if we can have the body back it will drop. We feel your not worth the effort it would take to capture this place. We could possible do it but if offered a bribe we could be persuaded to leave.”
I called out with my mind
Laura has started a dark crusade
dark points increase 2080046
horde points 2400,000
cap level increase +1
level + 25
lesser mage change possible
greater mage greater ice mage
greater death mage
greater void mage
high mage greater mage with greater(ice, death+ void) bonuses
archmage apprentice archmage with legandary(ice, death+ void) bonuses
apprentice archmage with legandary(ice, death+ void) bonuses selected
Laura has spent all your dark points and transferred all horde points to demon princess
Laura the high necromancer has started a crusade even now cities burn
Laura a particularly evil and vicious cannibal 12 year old girl has launched a dark crusade. Helped by Ronin and a horde of evil Goblins she has released a army of the dead who even now are destroying three cities. The forces of good are marshaling there forces. The forces of evil have risen in force. Even now the evil Laura has begun to release her army of followers.
Title dark crusader commander given.
You may now change your name
the desecrating skeleton
the skeleton of pure evil and utter evil
the laura defiler skeleton
Lauras desecration skeleton
Lauras skeleton desecrater
The Desecrater
seriously what was with these names
The Desecrater selected
I reached out to speak with the mage who had paled.
The illusion mage vanished and the skeletons at the gate vanished in a flash of bright light.
I summoned up a swarm of insects and released them at the adventures. I checked that had cost only 25 mana. The massive cloud took up position in the gate.
The illusion of a mage moved forward and I moved the cloud away from the gate. She bowed “My colleague has knocked out the priestess. I apologize I will retrieve my dead colleague body and be on my way.”
Survivor traits gained
toughness increased.
I checked my status.
NameThe Desecrater(Laura skeleton)raceundead monster Lesser archmage(ice death void) mage
skeleton thrall lesser titan skeleton
void godlem greater shrine to dark gods unlocks palidins ability
The DesecraterHealthstamanamanalucksneakAgility3150280165014202/10giant strengthcapintweightfamesturdy5/10+35525/500kgneg+50%
Resistances
Holy Wind Water Sun shadow cold fire
Titles
Title dark crusader commander
You command a small army of goblins.
all good clerics will hate you on sight
skills
Weapons (swords, axes, bows, slings,)
greater magic ice death void
diseased bite swim speed
authors note
spoiler
i will be focusing on laura for a while i plan on having her arrested. then i will have the skeleton rescue her and then flash forward a few years. basically the skeleoton is sick of ronan messing with him. he will take his goblins and hide while training. there is a reason for what ronan is doing. i will explain over the next few chapters any comments would be welcome. i will re do laura table and show in next few chapters. thanks