Looking at the skeletons I would like to say that I had some cool move to make. Instead the only thing that I could do was stare blankly at the undead in front of me.

It is only when I feel the movement from behind me that I am spurred into action. I have troop members to protect.

Thankfully the creatures in front of me are zombies. Zombies are the most scary looking creatures among the undead, with their body rotting like it is.

They are the weakest among the undead thankfully. They are slow, shambling and their flesh acts as more of an hindrance than an assistance. It is when this flesh begins to rot and only the skeleton is left, that one can begin to fear an undead. With a skeleton, firstly they move so quickly and silently that is pretty hard to predict their movment. Secondly, they are just plain harder to hit unlike a zombie.

Anyway, just because zombies are not particularly hard to kill does not mean that they are dangerous. If anything, a zombie plague is about the worst thing that a necromancer can do.

The problem with zombies is their ability to fight with quantity. You never have a single zombie alone, you have legions and legions of these creatures.

Just imagine, for every zombie that you slay another two take its place and you cannot have even one of these creatures bite you.

That is a major problem with zombies too, that their bite is able to spread its infection through you. Once they bite you, you will become a zombie yourself within a couple days. Naturally it won't really be an issue for me due to my cultivation, but I will have to keep channeling mana to keep that at bay.

That is naturally an expenditure that I cannot afford at this moment. I already do not have my usual method of fighting, let alone an ace. I cannot hope to survive with a disadvantage like this. That is why I have removed my sword and am swinging it aggressively at the corpse.

The creatures are not particularly phased by it. They are still staring at us, while a couple had already begun to shamble towards us.

Once they get close enough, I use my sword to behead them both. That is about the best method that a person has when dealing with zombies.

Right now there are seven zombies in the room, each with their heads turned in my direction. I could get rid of them easily but I am not sure if I should do so.

Zombies are never alone. Getting rid of seven zombies should not attract a hundred more or you are dead. I take a basic step forward to see the creatures are not reacting to my movement.

You can never really tell with zombies how they will react. Sometimes they will charge at you like a crazy person, or they will completely ignore you.

Most of the time they are somewhere in the middle. Taking a look back, I see that the men behind me are trailing me. For now we will try to walk through the zombies.

We begin to take step by step, following the trail to handle the zombie. The zombies still look at us while we are moving slowly through them.

They have yet to move in our direction at the very least. We begin to make our move towards the other side of the room.

We almost made it to exit of this room, before I managed to fuck this up. Well, I don't really blame myself. We had almost reached the other door. One of the troop behind me must have been very overzealous.

He kept walking while I paused for a second to look at the zombies behind me. They knocked into me, due to which I fall to the ground with a grand thud.

Well, the fall itself doesn't not really hurt me, but it is the noise that causes my blood to go cold. The zombies jump into action like a loaded spring.

By the time I get into action, trevor and the bunch are already fighting of the zombies, quite effectively too. Without me they still would be able to take on these creatures.

Andrew is making use of his shield and sword to hold back three of them, while Trevor who uses a sword is holding back another two of them and Jacob is fighting another two of them with two daggers.

They fight more carefully, since they certainly do not want to get bit but even then they are already winning over the creatures. Zombies do not tend to even show about half the strength of the corpses they are made from. (And that is if you are a really good necromancer. Those guys would need to sneeze to get rid of this keep.) If only they did not tended to number so much.

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"Captain, I am sure that you will be able to take them out.?" Trevor screams at me.

Oh yeah, studying these guys I had forgotten that I was supposed to be involved in this fight. Quickly removing my sword, I manage to kill the zombies surrounding Andrew.

Then I kill trevors zombies followed by Jacobs zombies. It doesn't take much time at all, but I can already hear scuttling from the door behind us. Let's hope that this much amount of noise did not attract too many zombies.

"What is the plan here, Trevor.", I ask Trevor. "We certainly are not trained to handle zombies."

"Well, the zombies are here. We might be able to hide from them for a while but we cannot escape them if we want to proceed.", he replies.

"Still, what the hell are zombies doing here? This is nowhere near the bonepits.", I ask.

'well, that is something that only the mayfires may be able to answer, captain.", he replies. "Don't ponder on it for now. It shall give you no real benefits."

"Still, that does not explain what plan of action we have.", I ask again.

"Well, we have wasted enough time. Right now, I don't think that we have any need to change our plan. The zombies will be limited in each room. If you could just get rid of them before they make a ruckus.", he replies. "Other than that, there is not much chance for a zombie to form an infestation here. The rooms and corridors here are not suited for these creatures to fight."

"Well there were nine zombies in this room itself. Where would they be even coming from?", I ask.

"Well, such a massive building would have a large group of people working to maintain the entire thing.", he replies. "Most of the undead would be maids and cleaners, I assure you. The mayfires do not have an army of their own. With an army things would have been very different."

And thus our discussions went on for a while. I honestly think that we should have retreated a bit and systematically clear the place.

Trevor made the exact opposite point since he already feels like we wasted a lot of time. I would have liked to point that I already wanted to get this things started already.

It was Trevor that wanted to wait as we made our move. The man can be quite annoying sometimes.

Still, what the man speaks is certainly the truth. We do not have too much time to get into the keep. Already we must have attracted the attentions of the vampires and regardless of what Trevor likes to say about the vampires and how the mayfires are going to be helping us out, it is also the truth that it might not be case.

(After a couple of hours.)

we have started making our way through the fort at a more quick pace. With the zombies here trevor is finally more comfortable with allowing us to charge through a room without him prodding through the thing.

Mostly the problem we had to deal with was the zombie. They never crossed the number twenty so I managed to hold them of quite easily. There was a group of ninenteen zombies that nearly ended up killing me, but with some support from the troops I managed to get rid of them quite easily. Each time though, we are worried that a horde of said zombies would crash into our room and take us out.

Trevor was atleast telling the truth when he told us that the zombie infestation would not be able to show too much of its power here. Firstly all the rooms and corridors are too thin for too many of them to be in one single place.

There is also the problem of traps too. Most of them were set of by the zombies but we did almost end up for falling to a couple of them. It was an explosion trap both times, literally exploding on my face. Thankfully it was me that set of the traps both of the times or else the troop would be in a bad position.

Right now, both my legs feel as if somebody put them through the grinder. Still, we have been making decent progress into the keep. If I could just activate my sword, I would be able to heal up from this damage quite quickly.

This is to a point that we are slowing down again, not for traps or zombies but for the vampires that might could just be hiding around the corners.

Before we used to mostly end up in storerooms, soldier barracks and servant quarters. Essentially it is an entire path through the keep that is only mean for guards, servants and anybody that the mayfires would have liked within easy reach but beyond their sight.

It also leaves behind a easy pass for invaders to enter into the keep. Now we are getting somewhere. We are presently in the office of somebody that is important. The office is much like the one that I had seen in the office of the commander, simple and easy to work in.

It was a tight little place, but with fourteen zombies crammed in it. It is almost a wonder that the zombies outside did not react to the din that we were making in here. I was almost bit a couple of times too in this hurry.

Right now we are using this room as a resting point. The last couple of hours have been a bit of a mess. The troop and me are clearly exhausted. (I mean, I am not genius ar combat but to almost be bit by a zombie especially in such small numbers. I am tired.)

Anyways, Trevor assumes that we are already reaching the inner parts of the keep where the mayfires and the vampires might be fighting in. I hope so because this uncertainty is now annoying me to no end. I want to get my blade into somebody's head already.

That is another reason that Trevor has forced me to rest up in this room, while the troop take over the work of being a lookout. We certainly don't want to end up in a fight without being ready. Normally, I don't like to do something like this but I can hear things behind the main door to this room.

Zombies are silent creatures by nature, so something making this much noise either means that they are not zombies or that they are a ridiculous number of zombies. Honestly, I lean towards the latter since with the noise I have been making any vampire or necromancer would have already come here to investigate.

I am itching to open that door to find out, but Trevor has warned me against doing that. So I am sitting here completing my log. After a couple more hours, we will open that door ready to fight whatever exists beyond this room.