8 The Rank-Up That Turned The Tables! (1/2)

I wasn't planning that many steps ahead when I had ran to the mayoral office.

All I had in mind was going to the underground prison of the mayoral office, finding the corpses of the numerous monsters that are kept there for various reasons (like government-funded research or experiments), and turn them into my undead minions.

For the sake of the research and/or experiments, those corpses were preserved as much as possible. Hence, even if I couldn't get as good results as I would get from a fresh corpse, I would still be able to turn them into my undead soldiers.

I had planned to use most of those soldiers to distract Gahan, and run away to the forest with some of them.

Then, I would have used them to kill more monsters, turning them into undead and sending them as distraction and repeating these steps many times over as I ran away.

However, things changed when I turned a hobgoblin into my soldier.

The hobgoblin wasn't the reason though, the reason was that it was my 50th undead minion. Hence, the second quest had been completed.

Being wrapped up in getting away from Gahan, the quest had slipped my mind for a while, but when that happened, the system showed these messages:-

[The God Path - Quest 2: ”Form an army of 50 undead monsters” has been completed]

[Your quest rewards have arrived]

The first of the two rewards was the same as the last time - 10 gold coins. But, it was the second one that changed everything.

[Quest Reward No. 2: Ability ”Necromancy (Rank D)” has been modified to ability ”Necromancy (Rank C)”]

After just a second's delay, another message appeared.

[Ability ”Necromancy” has been ranked up!]

[Now, you are able to turn humans into undead.]

I smirked when I saw it as the system was basically telling me that not only could I escape alive, and take Valerie, but I could also take Hena with me. Hence, all my schemes would not go to waste.

Immediately, I told two of my dark wolves to go and grab Hena, especially telling them to not be too rough with her so I don't find a corpse of a 2-year-old when I see her the next time, and told them to go to the person with the strongest aura of light (which was Valerie).

With all that done, I had easily discarded my previous plan and decided to bring my whole army out to battle Gahan head-on.

Not that I thought they stood a chance or anything but with the one benefit I had been given from the rank up of Necromancy, all they needed to do was buy me a couple of seconds.

When, while ascending the stairs back to the surface, I caught the silhoutte of Gahan, I couldn't help but chuckle.

”What the!” He exclaimed, seeing the little army of monsters in front of him, ready to fight him.

I said with a smirk as I stepped back on the surface, ”The second quest was really giving me a dilemna. I might have wasted a lot more time completing it, normally. So, I thank you for having sped up my progress!”

Taking my words as mockery (which they partly were), Gahan yelled, ”You think these could stop me?!”

Instead of answering, I turned to my monsters, signaling them to start attacking.

A six-and-a-half feet tall hobgoblin threw a boulder half its size at Gahan while all the dark wolves present surrounded and growled at him, creating blind spots for imps to hide in and start using whatever projectiles they had.

Gahan easily crushed the boulder with his bare hands but because of the many rocks, arrows and sticks being thrown at him and making his body itch, he was still unable to keep his eyes on me as I ran away on a dark wolf - to increase my army.

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A had run to the west side of the city. Then, I had run to the east. Then, the south. The north is where the mayoral office was so that was, in a way, already covered. So, when I reached south, I had ended up covering the whole city.

It had taken me about twenty minutes, all in all. It would probably would have taken a lot more if I hadn't been riding on a dark wolf.

Anyway, when I reached the south part of the city and saw the exit to the city, from which all the alive residents were being evacuated from, I noticed my family. They were frantic as hell.

My mother was bugging the officers repeatedly, Hans was trying to stop her, and Helga was try to stop him from stopping her. Seeing as how neither I nor Hena was there, it wasn't a challenge to figure out what she was bugging them about.

I wanted to get in closer and listen in without being noticed so I could confirm if those dark wolves had taken Hena or not but I couldn't, as I heard Gahan's roar not very far away.

”Finally done with the dummies, eh?”

Everywhere I had gone, I had turned a few people or monsters into undead and sent them after Gahan. They had constantly held Gahan back from catching up to me. As it was only a matter of time though, Gahan killed all of them and caught up to me.

”I-Is that the monster who attacked the city!?” A panicked idiot shouted from near the exit to the city. That led to everyone present, no matter what condition they were in, turning their heads to look at the monster and starting to panic.

The guards tried their best to calm them down but they were lacking their leaders, who had been killed in the attack at mayoral office. And so, they couldn't stop the people from going crazy with fear.

It'd be a boring hassle to describe how they all ran away from there looking like they were statues portraying fear. And anyway, it's not like I cared much to look at their faces.