Chapter 93: Connection (1/2)

Chapter 93: Connection

Crow gruh to the top floor of the s There, on the balcony, in the pouring rain, Aldrich saw Valera with Casiiant shi+eld

Valera tre more than to crawl all over hi tall and stiff with her shi+eld out and her ar her duty as Aldrich's sub-commander to the utmost of her abilities

Aldrich hopped off of Crow and landed on the balcony with a heavy, crashi+ng thud He sent out a mental command to Volantis, and the helet with an alanic fluidity

"Master," said Valera "It is good to see you back"

"And here I was ready to finalize my will," said Casimir with a bow

"Good work, Casimir All those men and woreatest gratitude," said Aldrich

"Thank you, Mr Vane, but your gratitude is ht and fallen, not I who is merely protected," said Casimir

"The devotion you have to your staff is adht, no more of your people will die," said Aldrich

He would have also liked to have fully raised the Red Circle staff, but one weakness that Aldrich possessed in raising undead was that to create a Risen Undead, that is, an undead with their souls intact, it required their souls to be present at the time of reanimation

However, souls faded extremely quickly

Approxith of ti away In the ga time for a drop to last, but in the real world, it was a vanishi+ngly small sliver of time

By the time Aldrich had returned to the Red Circle, Casi to raise with their souls intact

Thus, they were just mindless zombies

At the very least, when this all over, Aldrich would give Casimir the option to have the zombies laid to proper rest

"And Valera, excellent work uidance, losses have been minimal, even when I took so ies"

"No, ize," said Valera as she put her hand over her breastplate "As your guardian knight, it is simply ain in barely contained excitement, and he nodded to her "Come on, I've taken my helmet off, and we're safe for now You can stop the for back now"

Valera i her base unars and leather and white and red tunic She rushed towards Aldrich and wrapped her ar

"I missed you, my master, I did so very e!" protested Volantis as his

"I-I forgot you gained levels with e frouess not"

Valera pulled back and stared at Aldrich's ar armor…? Fashi+oned froht," said Aldrich It made sense that Valera knew She and Aldrich had defeated Volantis together twice already back in the gay of these events were all ju was linear, then Volantis should have been level 80, not 40 as he was now Valera should have been level 100

And so on and so forth

These were h

"I see you have understood hoonderful it is to be in service of ood" said Valera as she crossed her arms and looked down at Volantis's arether and put a hand to herunder her breath, "But to think that a piece of scrap like you has the chance to wrap yourself over my master's body like that, even before me…"

"I do not know the worth of this one that I a voice echoing out frohter who has ed to best me not merely once, but thrice, for it is my firm belief that in pure and true battle, the worth of one's bones is laid in full display"

"And that isn't the only armor I found," said Aldrich He took Valera's hand and placed his gauntleted hand over it He willed items to be transferred over to her

"M- in surprise, then in understanding as she sahat Aldrich did

Valera could not receive miscellaneous items from Aldrich, but she could hold equipment sets and weapons for her to wear in her inventory

In this case, Aldrich transferred over to her the strongest armor and weapon set he had found in the Necropolis Her basic areneric and just aided her defensive stats and abilities as a shi+elder

The armor set from the Necropolis, however, was one with far e in pure offense when she flipped from shi+elder to Berserker

Aldrich stepped inside the apart where rain and wind poured down The living roohly trashed, the table and telescreen there shattered apart, not to

Fisk and Spybird gathered up electronics and shi+elded them from the rain under a small tarp

"What happened here?" asked Aldrich

"So!" said Fisk "daer beast, that one," said Valera as she came by Aldrich's side and looked up at the hole "One of the coth and stature"

"What happened to it?" said Aldrich

"Well, by the time it intruded, the power you left the death realh our Chosen bond, so I was h to deal with it," said Valera "I punched it out of the very same hole it made to come in

I don't think ht left in it, considering it has not returned"

"…I see," said Aldrich He could iine the rather co a fight, only to get one punched several blocks away "It's good to see that you're stillwith problems with, well, siood punch cannot solve," said Valera with a fanged smile

"That said," said Aldrich "Youmilitary tactics now? When I look up at the sky and see this stor variants raining down suppressive fire, it looks strangely organized"

"Da Like a proper army," said Spybird He reached into his trousers and withdreide canteen When he unscrewed the cap, the acrid s froood army, no, simple in tactics, but still, tactics

Ever heard of variants using tactic?"

"No," said Aldrich