45 Malicious Plans (1/2)
Fallen Kingdom of Ollathir, now known as the Dark Nation. King Castle.
A pale young human was sitting on a grandiose throne, holding a translucent crystal ball. Its body emitted a strong yellow-colored aura. Creating a powerful pressure on anyone with a weak soul.
”Phew… That was the last soul… Even you trash were very useful after all… I don't like to waste any part of my prey body, and soul…”
The boy checked its own System Window.
”Still not rank 3 Soul… But how?! I already consumed more than 700 human souls! So, I really need the souls of the sealed spirits in the Grand Forest after all. I was hoping on not having to deal with Kireina anymore… Anyways, I have already sent my largest Undead army. I have taught every spell that could probe them useful on their tiny souls. Too bad I can't get more Soul stats by consuming Undead souls…”
The pale young man looked at an Undead girl which was standing motionless at his side.
”What do you think, sister? Will they win? I have to bet everything I got into this attack… Hahaha… This is the thrill of life, will I triumph? Will I lose? What do I even do if my troops lose? Hahaha! Even I, someone who has lived for hundreds of years can't figure out. Kireina appearance on the Grand Forest was the biggest unpredicted event that has happened since long ago”
The young man grabbed countless black colored rings from a small steel box.
”The souls of the strongest demons I have managed to summon… Without a Rank 3 Soul, I cannot be in complete control of their Soul Energy thirst… If everything goes to the worst outcome, I will have to fight with everything I got and prematurely obtain a demon body… After this, I will need to quickly take care of Kireina and devour her soul. After this, I will be able to reach Rank 3 and relief the Soul Energy consumption”
The man approached the Undead girl and patted her head.
”Don't worry, little sister. After all of this is done, I will travel to the Realm of Hel and quickly retrieve your soul, so we can meet up again, and live happily for eternity…”
A strange and obsessed smile appeared on the young man face, giving him a seemingly creepy expression.
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Middle of the Night, near the Dark Moon Kingdom.
A massive group of undead marched to their destiny, some were complete skeletons, others still remained some of their rooted flesh.
This big amount of undead were led by four powerful beings.
A dignified fallen King, whith a long white hair, which lacked eyes. Mounted on an undead white horse. Once the ultimate monarch of its Kingdom, but now, no more than a puppet, obeying a fallen necromancer.
At the King right side, there was a loyal knight, a strong and muscular undead, wearing a heavy and spiky armor and holding an intimidating axe. Once known as the right hand of the King, even until now, it tries to protect its King from any arm, even after completely loosing its memories and emotions.
To his back, there was an archer, who once was a renewed champion, now cursed to be an undead for eternity, losing all its emotions and the love of its life.
And at the King left side, there was an intimidating skeleton, wearing tattered robes and an old staff made of skulls. A powerful magic aura could be felt coming from this undead core. Once a talented and gifted magician, beloved by its Kingdom and its family, but now stripped from its humanity, its freedom, and its family.
The fallen King leading its dead army stopped its horse, and raised its intimidating demon sword.
”We are here. Troops, organize. Do not strike yet”
The loyal knight at his right side glanced at the King with doubt.
”My King, we must strike now. While the demon is still sleeping”
The archer at the King back talked on a slow voice.
”Not yet. The demon has already detected us. If we advance further. We will fall on her traps”
The skeleton mage at the King left side offered his help.
”My King, I can disarm the traps around. Let me take care of this”
The King looked the skeleton with an indifferent glance.
”Very well. Do as you say”
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While on dreamland, I felt a strong shock inside my head. Waking me up immediately.
”Ah! The bats! They are trying to alert me! Zehe, Nesiphae, Rimuru, Brontes, wake up!”
I quickly woke my wives up and told them about the alert, they quickly put on their clothes and armor and followed me through the castle halls.
”H-Honey, how long will they take to get here?”
”In around two hours!”
”That's too little time!”
”Guuuu!”
Brontes raised her arms, ready to fight.
”No matter, I will fight all of them!”
”Calm down, Brontes. We must alert the whole Kingdom first”
While on the way, I contacted the Rin Sisters and told them about this. I also woke all my other servants through the System Direct Message.
Most of the Wolves and Monkey leaders woke incredibly fast and after two minutes, they were all ready to fight.
After 10 more minutes, the Wyverns also joined me, alongside Celica and Truhan.
The Rin sisters called every people living on the town to refuge inside the Castle underground, and in mere minutes, countless monsters started to enter the castle, running towards a safe place.
Some brave Dryads offered me their strength, but I denied and sent them all to the Castle Underground, if any of them gets killed on battle, her Empress would hate me forever.
On the way to the Castle Underground, I saw Nereid with Sylph and Nymph. They seemed worried.
Nereid noticed me on her way and came to greet me.
”Master, what is going on?”
”No time to explain, go to the undergrounds!”
”B-But Master!”
”No buts!”
”Ugh!”
It seems that the fairies were still weak compared to the rest of Meiji spirits, Kjata also joined us. It already evolved twice and was a massive flaming armor now.
While on the outside of the castle, I quickly flew around the town and activated all the traps, creating a strong Magic Dome.
Fluosh!
”This dome should be able to protect the buildings inside, for now”
Kizuato, Yukan, Kekensha and Wagyu approached me.
”Master Kireina! Let's organize our troops!”
”Master Kireina, I got some plans”
”Master, please let me lead my people, we have designed a plan!”
”We will also join!”
”Alright! Lets quickly develop a strategy!”
I held a quick and improvised strategy meeting with all the strongest servants, while the rookies and soldiers prepared themselves outside, grabbing potions and food, while equipping themselves with armor and weapons.
Kizuato was the first to talk.
”According to Master scouting. This undead army is quickly approaching right in front of us, and haven't changed any route whatsoever. They also don't seem to be coming from the back of the Kingdom…”
Yukan analyzed.
”Hmmph, quite brave to come right in front of us? That actually leave us with few options”
Kekensha nodded.
”There are still some… We could do a pincer attack, dividing our physical troops in three parts. Initiating the clash of armies with the ones with highest defense, and while we have the enemy attention, the other two groups intercept the whole undead army from both sides”
Wagyu praised Kekensha quick thinking.
”Impressive, Kekensha!”
Meiji liked Kekensha idea, and made it even better.
”I like your idea, Kekensha. But there is way more potential on our troops. Aside from the pincer attack. We can divide three magic teams too, which would quickly blow the undead army when it most concentrated”
Zehe also added.
”That would be the best way to utilize our current strength. We can also add the undead soldiers to the front lines, and utilize them as meat shields, like we did on the Goblin invasion”
My servants are very intelligent, they know how to use the full potential of our troops, if it were me, I would had just charged ahead. And would had probably get myself on a deadly situation like last time with the Goblin Emperor.
”Very well, we shall go with that. I will divide the strongest warriors through the armies”
Kekensha, Kizuato and Abellona will lead the three physical armies.
The first army is the ”Defense Army” and will be led by Undead soldiers, heavy armored humanoids and Kekensha, alongside Nesiphae and some wolves that are qualified as tanks.
The second army will be the ”Fast Offense Army”, this one will be led by Kizuato, and the fastest and offensive fighters. These include Wagyu, Goruden, Jinsoku, Celica, Yuki and most of the Crimson and Ice Wolves. While the enemy is distracted on hitting the high defense tanks, this army will penetrate the enemy defense on a flash.
The third army will be the ”Strong Blow Army”, this army will be led by Abellona and the rest of the heavy hitters, this include Abellona brothers, Truhan, Brontes and most of Meiji spirits, which will add elemental and magic damage to the mix.
The first magic army will be the ”Distortion Magic Army”, this army will confuse the enemy and bomb them with fast spells. It will be led by Meiji alongside most of the newborn monkey mages, who have incredible potential. This team will also heal and support the three physical teams.
The second magic army will be the ”Trapping and Binding Magic Army”, this army will mostly trap and bind the enemy with powerful spells. It will be led by Zehe, who has plenty of trapping and binding shadow moves at her disposal. She will be accompanied by other strong Shadow manipulators; these include the Undead Goblin Mages and Arch mages and Dark Squirrels.
The third and last magic army will be the ”Last Blasting Magic Army”, this army will be the one that will finish the undead army for good, blasting it completely with very strong and potent area-of-effect spells, because of the large range of their spells, the other armies must retreat a bit for this army to do their job without holding back. It will be led by Rimuru and most of the Slime Family.
I won't join any army and will watch the fight from the skies, supporting when I see an army having a hard time, if a strong boss appears, I will regroup with my wives and fight it off.
My wives were kind of sad for not being able to accompany me on this war, but I knew that their strength could be used somewhere else, being stuck to me would be a waste of their strength.
Before going to the battlefield, I quickly packed as much food and potions as my Item Box and Portable Treasure Box skill could handle. This skill was quite useful, as it was pretty much a little expansion of Item Box, almost everyone possessed this skill already after the big Blood Monster feast from two days ago.
The sky was still very dark and there was no moon, giving very low visibility. Thankfully, most of my named servants possessed strong vision skills. Being able to move easily around even in complete darkness.
As everyone was getting ready, time flew and the Undead army was getting more and more closer. While packing things up, I felt as various of the traps I set on the forest were swiftly removed.
”Huh? They got someone who can remove traps of my level? Hmph”
I quickly created 10 flesh minion bats and sent them to scout the area even more, and use appraisal in anything they found.
After some minutes, I lost contact with all my bats, but managed to get some sneak peeks of the inside of the undead army.
There were 4 very strong auras inside the undead army, flowing with power. My bats managed to appraise only one of them before getting killed, but its stats were absurd, at least at High Emperor level or even a bit higher.
| NAME: DAMIAN BITEFROST
| CLASS: HIGH UNDEAD KING KNIGHT
| RACE: UNDEAD ZOMBIE (HUMAN)
| LEVEL 154/999 EXP 076421/154000 STATUS: UNDEAD (GOOD)
| ITEM BOX 008/100
| HP: 463/463 MP: 357/357 STAMINA: 170/170
| STRENGTH: 296 (+150)
| DEFENCE: 205 (+80)
| MAGIC: 229 (+150)
| RESISTANCE: 145 (+80)
| SPEED: 213 (+50)
| CHARISMA: 100
| LUCK: -5
| EQUIPMENT |
| SHADOW DEMON SWORD: OLLATHIR |
| SHADOW UNDEAD KING FULL ARMOR SET |
| SHADOW AWAKENING RING: AGARES |
| SHADOW AWAKENING RING: LEGION |
| SKILLS |
| ROYAL BLOODLINE | | PRINCE BLESSING | | ROYAL SWORD ARTS: 5 |
| KING BLESSING || UNDEAD CURSE |
| REGRETFUL SOUL CURSE | | DARK SHADOW BLAST |
| SHADOW SWORD ARTS: 7 | | SHADOW SWORD AFFINITY |
| SHADOW MAGIC: GRAVITY HOLE | | SHADOW MAGIC: GRAVITY CONTROL |
| SHADOW MAGIC: REVERSE GRAVITY |
”W-What in the heck are these stats? They are incredible! And its just an Undead! What if it were alive? And those skills… Shadow Sword Arts: 7? And overpowered Gravity magic! Add all of that with a broken sword and two Shadow Awakening Rings! This guy will be a tough nut to crack… When these guys join the war, I will have to immediately join the fight. I can already imagine the other three”
Seeing how this army bosses were absurdly strong, I prepared myself on advice, reinforcing my magic shield using Magic Solidification, and eating prepared food to boost my stats passively. I will activate every buff possible when I get on the fighting, to not waste their time.
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The first army, commanded by Kekensha, was already in front of the magic dome, awaiting the Undead army.
Kekensha looked at the horizon with worry, he also detected the power of this undead army generals, and was afraid that he would probably not get outside of this alive.
But it was fine. He didn't mind dying. If it were protecting what it was most precious to him, his family, it was fine. He would die as many times as he could if it were to do any help on their family survival.
This was the mindset of an experienced wolf like Kekensha.
Kekensha golden and shiny fur illuminated the dark night around his troops, giving them a feeling of warm and reliability.
”They are here”
Clank clank
The powerful hears of Kekensha were able to immediately detect the cracking noises that the skeleton undead does when it moves.
”Activate skill: Golden Eyes”
Fluosh!
Kekensha activated a powerful vision skill, expanding its vision range over kilometers, finally being able to detect the massive undead army. Countless skeleton and zombies wearing heavy armor and mounting undead horses were slowly approaching. After seeing such a big amount of undead, his heart started beating at an increasing speed.
”Luckily, my high affinity over Light Element will grant me an edge over these undead”
Kekensha started to cast several golden shields around its troops, giving them a boost in Defense and Resistance.
”Sir Kekensha!”
Clank clank
As the undead army approached the town, Kekensha silently awaited.
Clank clank
The undead soldiers had no emotions or memories of their past, and walked slowly, as if tired of existing. Wielding big weapons and heavy armor.
Nesiphae who was at Kekensha's back was excited over this battle, casting countless buffing skills, increasing her muscular density and size.
”Aaah! Kekensha, I am awaiting your command”
”Yes, Lady Nesiphae… (Perhaps with Lady Nesiphae here, my worries are exaggerations. However, even if she is stronger than most of us, I must protect her over anything else. She is a sub-governor of our Kingdom and also Master's beloved wife)”
Clank clank
When the undead army finally approached enough, Kekensha gave the command.