Volume 24 Chapter 1-4: Chapter 1-4
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Weed logged back on and appeared in the Undead Legion's stronghold. Until the quest was complete then he would continue to be revived in the area. High class level 300 to 400 undead were casually walking around this dangerous place! Two dragons were standing on the towers of the wall while one was flying in the air.
"The Elven army is putting up a strong resistance."
"As long as we have Bar Khan then I could quickly wipe them out...but it will be difficult to handle a counterattack from the Fairies.
"I'm afraid of the Dwarves."
The Fairy Queen Tania entering into the battle was a topic of interest among the undead. In the garden of the deserted fort was thousands of elite undead and a few of them were having conversations.
Weed sat near a tree.
"First, I need to check the military forces."
Since he was going to fighting as an undead, he took the time to see how much harm they could do. He had been level 398 but he dropped a level and was now 397.
"What did I lose..."
Weed remembered the japtem he had lost the other day the most. He wasn't unfamiliar with the exact name and worth of each item. That was because it was the most fundamental skill in the business.
"Wheat bread and green onions, a helmet, a ring, and skeleton molars."
Weed felt cheated since the items that could have been used in various ways were now gone.
He wouldn't be able to make up for the lost items unless he killed a lot of people in this place. After having regretted losing the items for a moment, he checked his skills.
Advanced Level 8 Sculpting was back at 0% while the other skills had dropped 4-13%.
Since he was undead, the cost of the death penalty was unjustly higher than others.
"To cause this degree of damage, I will never forget even after I'm seventy years old."
He would never forget his grudge against his long time enemy, the Hermes Guild! Stationed in the large fortress were some famous undead knights.
'A lot of these are named undead that have shown up in the history of the Continent of Versailles.'
The Undead Legion was packed with the best undead. Weed was a Death Knight, but since he was high level he could do a quest to get promoted to a higher rank undead.
Weed went from place to place, snooping around.
Then a ghost servant came to him.
"Bar Khan is expecting you."
He was now meeting Bar Khan in order to get his undead upgrade. So now, Weed went with the ghost servant. The Undead Legion had heavily expanded their territory. Weed was an undead now, but he would not be able to approach the place if he was alive.
'This is going to be quite difficult.'
The ghost servant led Weed into the basement. The basement of the fortress had many unopened oak containers of sealed alcohol stored within.
'The finest wines and brandy.'
Just from the smell Weed could imagine how expensive the price of all of it would be. Well made liquor could be easily sold and was worth its weight in gold.
'Since its placed here, he must not know the taste of alcohol.'
Certain measures had to be taken in order to maintain high grade alcohol for long periods of time. The old fortress used to be famous for its alcohol, but now it has become the property of the mana spirit lich Bar Khan.
Alcohol was very sensitive to its environment so drinking it when its complete gave a tremendous impact. If you were an undead then there would be no use for alcohol, and even the ghost pirates at the ocean had only pretended to drink alcohol but none of the quantity had actually decreased. Furthermore, since Bar Khan was staying here then no normal undead would come here to drink.
'That's a lot of money.'
Weed kept a greedy eye on the stocked wine cellar as he was led through two large open doors to where Bar Khan was staying. Cold air surged throughout the room. Water had flowed underground and were being channeled through blackened rocks as it played a role in the altar. Bar Khan sat like a king in a very colorful chair. It was made of the highest quality materials but it had acquired a lot of dust on it, there was also a jeweled crown on his head and an eagle mounted on his staff. The place where he had been stabbed by the holy sword still pulsed with divine power.
"Death Knight, come closer."
Bar Khan's voice echoed throughout the room!
"My lord..."
Weed walked forwards politely and knelt down before Bar Khan. The Undead Legion had attacked Morata's army with a bombardment undead that made him want to swear at him. However that would have to wait until another day.
As Bar Khan got up and started walking around, Weed looked at the various things around the room. There were history books on the Continent of Versailles that describe a bit about the fortress. It had existed in the Northern Province and was historically on the map. However it was now in a state where it was heavily damaged and almost collapsing, but the undead were not very much interested in that which is why they occupied it.
However, looking at the rooms and halls as well as how they connected to the stairs could be used as a reference to identify its structure. Thanks to his work and knowledge in sculpting, he could now perceive the building's structure.
"I thank you Lord, for the honor of seeing you directly when all I did was do as you had ordered."
Since Weed was considered an inferior Death Knight, he did not hesitate to suck up to him.
"I heard you took care of those annoying monsters."
"What else would I have done? All is for the Lord."
"The Undead Legion need more undead of you ability and talent but your body of a Death Knight is lacking so I will give you a new body."
Bar Khan recited a spell. Weed could feel the sin bearing down on his chest and restricting his lungs but he remained still.
"You have returned to the world of the living. This dark, black, and corrupted world. The laws are such that darkness will never disappear so let us carve it into everyone. Undead Rise!"
Black smoke came out of Weed's body and after awhile his physical features changed and became more muscular. His legs got longer and his arms thickened. He grew another 40 centimeters and had the large physique of a Barbarian.
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-Bar Khan has now used his undead summoning spell to change you into a Doom Knight.
The Summon Undead Spell has increased all combat related spells by 15%.
You can now wear bone armor with excellent defense.
All Advanced Combat skills has increased by at least two levels.
Enemies attacked by a caster's black magic will suffer eternal torment and will not stop screaming.
State has been changed to that of Doom Knight.
Now under Bar Khan's direct command.
You now have direct command over many undead.
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The ultimate combat undead was the Doom Knight. The only undead that was stronger was the Abyss Knights, born of despair. They were capable of hunting the absolute monsters known as dragons. That at least, was according to the legends of Bar Khan. However, Abyss Knights were not undead that could be summoned by a Necromancer but they had to be born from certain conditions being met. They had yet to exist and were only a legend on the Continent of Versailles.
"Defend the fortress. Fight against the Elven counterattack."
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The Elven Killer Blades Army
The Wood Elves and the Fairy Queen had launched a surprise attack on the Undead Legion. The arrows infused with spirit energy can completely destroy the undead. Prevent the Elven infiltration and show them the fear of the undead. Because of the status report, Bar Khan has provided twice as many undead than usual.
Difficulty: A
Quest limit: Limited to the Undead.
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Bar Khan had given him a quest!
Now he had direct command, so he had a larger amount of undead and the quality had increased as well. He was now capable of bringing and commanding the troops of the Undead Legion to participate in the war. This was not familiarity with skeleton soldiers and ghosts alone, but as a Death Knight he had shown great performance and that helped to gain him more ground.
'I have to take care of the military here.'
Weed thought about killing Bar Khan instead of taking the Fairy Queen's life. The slaughter of elves and dwarves would not help to fight Bar Khan. Rather he thought about rebelling against the Undead Legion. Weed decided to hunt down Bar Khan and his army.
"I don't stand a chance outside."
Whether or not Bar Khan has regained his strength, it did not change the fact that he was going to attack Morata. The question was how to get rid of Bar Khan now that he was in a position of power to receive help from the Undead Legion! It would be too difficult to defeat the Undead Legion outside of the fortress. But it would be impossible to hunt Bar Khan unless he took care of the undead. Weed would need to become an Abyss Knight if he wanted to take on Bar Khan, so he needed to get rid of Bar Khan's hostile undead.
"Morata can't dispatch any troops..."
Bar Khan was the lord of the undead forces and could always increase their numbers. Bar Khan would only rejoice if the fragile human army came to attack. That was also why he didn't bring any sculptures of life.
"It would be as if I presented him with a full corse of food in a fancy restaurant, with season meat, beef, crab, abalone, salad, and soup!"
The risk of having all of his forces controlled by Bar Khan and assimilated into the undead army was too great. This would be even more dangerous for the sculptures of life to fight against Bar Khan's undead forces.
"Then to hunt Bar Khan..."
Weed came outside after he had changed to a higher tier undead. He walked around the fortress to meet the other undead.
"Gelgelgel. We look forward to the Doom Knight that was created by Bar Khan."
"There is nothing that can stop us now. Not even the elves."
"Keulkeul. It has been a long time since humans have shown up."
Watchmen and guards had been placed to determine if any troops were coming. 24 hours a day, the undead stood watch. He could take advantage of the fortress being very old. If it wasn't a human watchman, then Weed could find a loophole.
"It's possible to use a silent break in then a surprise attack."
It would not be too hard to sneak in whenever they were changing the guards. There would be an opportunity to attack from the dungeon when Bar Khan was busy with the elves, barbarians, dwarves, and fairies.
Bar Khan had entrested him with the mission of leading the Undead Legion so he could now leave the fortress to hunt secretly. The fortress was swarming with undead and to defeat the Undead Legiion he needed to eliminate Bar Khan.
"There would need at least 100 more high levels to take him down."
It would not be possible for Weed's plan.
Then he heard the chat from the Wilderness Travelers Guild.
Sabrina: One more floor and then its time for the boss.
Edwin: This hidden dungeon is really tough. Anyways, its almost the end.
Pin: I want to finish resting.
Hermann: I hope I can find some good metal here...
Weed had joined the guild of the uncommon Wilderness Travelers that enjoyed hunting monsters. The Travelers Guild was small itself and eccentric but they all had high levels. They were a large combination of various jobs that hunted monsters together.
'Boss Monster hunting...'
They were in a very influential party on a large scale hunt. He would not be able to get their help since they were hunting. Weed sent a whisper to Pale first.
>Pale nim, do you want to hunt?
>Of course, where are you?
The answer came back pretty quickly. They were worried about Weed since the Hermes Guild had killed him. Weed thought on the large scale of revenge so he had to be calm and paid attention to his friends.
>I'm at the place where the Undead Legion is.
>We're going that way. Which monster do you want to hunt?
>Bar Khan...
>What? Then that monster...you mean the Lich Bar Khan?
Pale had heard about the Undead Legion that was being led by the immortal Bar Khan. Morata had fought against the first and second wave of invading undead.
Legendary Monster!
They were on a whole another level compared to the dungeon bosses that they usually fought.
>Is Bar Khan even a monster than humans can catch?
>That's what we're going to try now.
>What a minute. Geomchi nim is here as well.
After a short time, a whisper came from Geomchi3.
>Weed ya, I heard that you're going after Bar Khan yea?
>Yes. I'm going to catch him.
>It's funny that you didn't contact us earlier.
Geomchi3 was confused as to why he had not asked him first.
>Are we going now?
>It's too dangerous right now.
>The danger can't be that bad. Are there lots of monsters?
>There are a lot of strong monsters. There's also three dragons.
>A dragon? I can't miss that.
>What about the other sahyungs?
>Wait, let me ask.
Geomchi3 asked Geomchi5 to tell the other 500 Geomchis if they agreed.
"I'm not going to miss out on catching Bar Khan."
"..."
"Normally its dangerous. If something goes wrong then you die. Then there would be nothing left of you but bones. Do you want to die and become an undead? There's also 3 dragons there."
"..."
"You know the Undead Legion? There are a lot of strong undead that you are going to fight against."
Geomchi's body was itching to fight.
>So how are we going?
>I'll be unable to take you myself. I'll tell you the location through Pale nim.
>Okay.
Pale had good eyesight so he could show them the way. It was not as much as an adventurer that could look to the starts for navigation but he was experience with reading maps and could easily find where the Undead Legion was.
'Sahyungs are coming here.'
The Geomchis could definitely break into the fortress just to fight with the undead.
Although the Undead Legion was strong, if the battle occurred on a narrow region instead of on a great plain then he could benefit greatly. The Sahyungs would come running anywhere to fight with Weed!
"I want priests and paladins..."
Having only Irene as the priest was not enough. Unfortunately the Wilderness Travelers Guild was currently monster hunting and he didn't want to bring in anyone outside of Morata. Weed sent Mapan a whisper.
>I am going to try and hunt Bar Khan, are there any priests or paladins that can help?
He was asking Mapan since he was in Morata Square and was well acquainted with many people in his line of business.
>How many people and priests do you need?
>The more the better.
>I'll contact you once I find out.
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Mapan was in the square and asked the priests that he was familiar with if they wanted to go hunt Bar Khan with Weed.
"Yes of course."
"Where and when are you going?"
Users from the central continent had come because of Weed and wanted to go on quests and hunt.
'Hunt Bar Khan you say? He must have some sort of plan.'
'Bar Khan will kill you.'
'That's only because you're thinking of Weed. We're only going to be responsible for healing.'
Weed's plan to hunt Bark Khan began to become more known.
"Since you're a senior priest of Freya can I come too?"
"Nuna that's not my choice to make."
"So it's 6 in the morning at the vineyards near the large tree."
"Just go then."
Mapan contacted the user priests that he was close to.
>Hyung, Weed nim is going to hunt Bar Khan...
>Then I want to go unconditionally. Morata's Weed is the God of War. How can I not take this chance?
>If you decide to go then gather in the vineyard by morning. 6 is when we will leave.
>I'll wait an hour for you to arrive.
The priests he called saw this as a very unique opportunity and he only chose the best people.
>Did you know that Weed nim is going to hunt Bar Khan?
>Really?
>We're trying to recruit priests and paladins.
>My job is a Paladin. Even if its dangerous, can I come?
>Yes. Come with me.
Paladins began to spread the news around.
>Weed nim is going to go hunt the Undead and Bar Khan.
>I'm going to get ready.
He called only the people he knew, but in under an hour more than 200 people knew. News spread to the Grass Porridge Cult. The second largest group that reigned in Morata! There were over 800 thousand users in it now.
Although the majority of them are beginners, there were also high level users included that hunted and adventured in the north.
"Weed is going to hunt and he's recruiting priests and paladins."
"Perhaps people of our skill level may be helpful?"
The next day in Morata, in front of the vineyard was Pale's party and the Geomchis, along with a large crowd of 330 priests and 223 paladins. Since Weed was so influential so the word of Bar Khan's hunt spread quickly.
"Mapan nim, what do we do about this many people?"
"I do not know. I only called 14 of them..."
Senior priests and paladins from Morata had gathered to hunt Bar Khan. They frantically wanted to go hunt with Weed. Pale could only sigh.
"It would take too long to kick all these people out and it would look bad. We don't want to be like the Hermes Guild."
"Let's go!"
The Geomchis, paladins, and the priests from Morata rode on cattle as they left. Their destination was the fortress of the Undead Legion.
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Weed went around the fortress looking around.
"There's a lot of repairs going on!"
In places with a lot of monsters, the fortress had high thick walls. However there were places that were missing stones where people could hide in. Countless undead flocked to repair the walls.
"The Elves are going to attack..."
The undead were weaker during the day. The elves would show up and attack like the wind. The army of the Undead Legion was mobilized but they could not catch up to the elve's mobility. If you continue to chase the elves then the dwarves and barbarians would ambush and wipe out the undead!
However, with Bar Khan's dark magic they would only be revived and return to battle.
"I would hate to fight the elves."
Weed thought of the elves as formidable opponents. Even if they were not high level, it would be hard to chase after an elf on horseback. They shoot arrows from their bows like a ghost and they were hard to hunt as they jump from branch to branch. The undead were much funner to fight even if they were difficult.
Elves and Fairies were highly aligned with nature so it was difficult to attack them.
"There is a better target to fight than daring to fight the elves."
In his view, there was another target location that was closer and with better loot and experience.
"Wizards, Rangers, Knights, and Paladins was it? It's time for some revenge."
# Still uncertain but now slightly more clarified than before.
Jyangwa, Otem, Helen, Golujda, and 30 other were complaining since they had decided to not join Hermes Guild.
"Go away from this canyon. Hunting is prohibited!"
They couldn't do anything but watch as the wizards and rangers prepare to strike. Then the attack started and killed them all. They did not want to join the Hermes Guild and now they had felt the pain with their own bodies.
They had tried to recruit the necromancers but it was hardly ideal for them.
There were a total of 34 necromancers that were killed by the Hermes Guild. Before they had arrived, the necromancers had fought and raised their level and skills in the canyon.
"Damn it. Those filthy bastards."
Otem spit out a complaint. The other necromancers felt the same.
"How can they do this to us?"
They had originally received a quest for the Undead Legion and they thought it was a good chance to increase their skills. The Hermes Guild had tried to get them to join after Weed had revealed who he was.
"There's no point of joining the Hermes Guild since they wouldn't even treat us as real members."
Even if they joined the guild the situation would not change. Even if they were in a certain area, they would prevent them from hunting. The entire center of the continent could be considered the Hermes Guild. Those that were Necromancers were afraid at this time. Helen was fed up and said.
"I would have prefer that we died while fighting."
They didn't even get to kill anything and they were upset by the fact that they dropped items on death. They looked around the users in the valley.
"But what do you say? You want to go fight them?"
"Fight?"
"I want show them something that would make them shake in fear."
They wanted to show that the Necromancer power was superior but they could not. It was like trying to break a rock with an egg, where they were the egg and the Hermes Guild was the rock. They were be ready to fight against the undead and there was no reason why they would not watch for their movements. The major disadvantage of the Necromancers is that it took time to summon undead. They needed a large number of corpses and they need to hunt a lot. Even if they attacked the Hermes Guild, it wouldn't be noticeable and their death would be insignificant. Instead of causing any significant damage, they would likely not even care about it.
Marein just laughed and said.
"Just wait and we'll be fine."
They asked hopefully since he was relatively famous.
"Do you have a mission?"
"I'll keep watching for good news."
Many users suffered a number of different kinds of situations. There would be no one that would beat Weed in deception. An unmatched intolerant mind!
He had obviously not learned such things like reconciliation, forgiveness or tolerance from grade school. Weed was someone that never forgets no matter how long he had to wait and alway return his aggression back several fold.
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Weed organized the troops of the Undead Legion. The skeletons that were gathered on the ground below have heard about his reputation! With the glorious title of the Warrior Commander of the Undead Legion, gathering soldiers was an easy task. Weed went around the fortress speaking to the undead.
"Come with me."
"Yes sir."
+Death Knights have joined.
"Let us go fight."
"I have heard that Bar Khan has great confidence in you so I would like to play an active part in the fight."
+Doom Knights have joined.
"Stop playing around and let's go fight."
"I have been waiting."
+The Balkan Undead Knights have joined.
Since he had the status as Bar Khan's direct subordinate, he could easily recruit the knights. He gathered as many Death Knights and Doom knights that he could. It was a very powerful force.
"I need to gather as much power from this place that I can. That way the chances of success are higher."
Under his command, Weed expanded the number of undead troops he had available. The Necromancers and Doom Knights regularly summoned more undead. He was thinking of annoying the Hermes Guild with the undead. He was supposed to command the undead to fight against the Elven and Barbarian Alliance. Since he was acting contrary to his orders, his reputation with the Undead Legion would drop and their trust in him would be reduced.
"I need to hunt down Bar Khan anyways..."
He was thinking of betraying them later on. Weed organized a group of over 700 elite undead knights.
Aside from the main force, there were an assortment of low rank spectres and other undeads.
"I don't think they have an unlimited number of arrows."
Spectres were best to use once all the the wizards' mana and the rangers' arrows were depleted. Aside from magic, in order to deal damage against them they needed to buy a lot of silver, which was a limited resource. Weed had Intermediate Blacksmithing but it was not easy to find enough users in the Continent of Versailles with the skills to work with the material.
"They will never see the real purpose to the Blacksmithing skill."
For people that had easy access to weapons there was no need to bother raising the Blacksmithing skill!
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"Come!"
Weed took the undead troops and went to fight against the Knights, Wizards, and Rangers. Marein had expected that Weed would come back for revenge and it was true. Last time it had been a small battle skirmish, but now it was a full fledged war. Since leadership was encouraged in the Hermes Guild to some degree, Palon and his men had readied a defense on a favorable hillside.
"He's charging this way to us with the undead."
"There are Death Knights, Doom Knights, and others. There is a formidable amount of power in his forces."
"There is a significant number of knights than I can count. I have never seen so many knights before in a army."
The Hermes Guild had a much different outlook on the situation. Weed had come rushing back, impatient and angry, which meant that they could kill him once more...
Looking at it as nothing more than a game, the users of the Hermes Guild thought themselves to be in a fortunate position.
"Even if the undead knights come, then we will just break their forces with arrows and magic."
"They have come into our attack range!"
The users wet their dry mouths in anticipation of the undead advance. They would show their might by covering the sky in arrows and magic attacks. Magic had a great power and a large enough attack would mean the difference between victory and defeat in combat. Weed knew about how troublesome it was since a lot of the high ranking Doom Knights were nervous.
"Fire!"
Once in range, the rangers drew their bows. The wizards hurled magic accordingly. Silver arrows and fireballs came flying through the sky towards the group of undead. Weed had commanded his minions to charge through the barrage of attacks.
"Fall back."
Weed then quickly backed out with the undead. Since most of the group was made of knights and spectres, their mobility was strong. The area was blown apart by magic and the ground became littered with silver arrows but most of the undead did not die since they were out of range. Weed stopped the undead outside of the strong attack and waited. Then he spread out his undead troops and began to march on them again.
"Get ready to attack again. Fire!"
The Rangers and Wizards had to distribute their attack over a larger area now.
"Rangers target the center, Mages should focus on attacking the left and right sides."
The armed troops' concentrated power was very strong but now the damage had to be spread out evenly.
Their firepower was terrifying so Weed would back out with the undead whenever the time was right. Since the damage had spread out evenly and with the undead regeneration speed, only about 90 undead were injured.
"Uwaaa!"
"Do not let the undead come close!"
The morale of the wizards and the rangers increased. If the enemy came closer then they would cause significantly more damage. Even with the fast mobility of the undead knights, once they entered attack range they were focused upon and struck down with several attacks. This way, a similar situation repeated itself four times. Weed was using the Undead attacks to consume all of the Rangers' silver. The Undead Legion was not budging even though they were being attacked with a modest amount of silver. Thanks to Bar Khan's Death Aura skill, the undead had high resistance to magical attacks and faster health regen.
"We got a lot. Be sure to collect all of it."
Weed had the spectres go around and bring in the silver into a stack so he could sell it. He was going to supplement the loot that he had lost with the silver.
"Lullulu."
He was humming a happy tune because of the silver.
"If the fight continues in this way, then I think I'll be able to collect tens of thousands of gold."
It didn't matter to him if the undead died.
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The next day Weed came back after he recruited more undead. There was little difference in the futile battle and the undead lost a lot of their units. Unfortunately the moral of the undead dropped frequently. By luck the enemy would always have slightly greater attack power. Weed found this to be inevitable. The amount of time that was spent looking around the citadel for good knights increased.
"It's that fledgling Doom Knight. Without us the undead cannot hope to get any great achievements."
The dragons saw him as ridiculous. They felt their lives were more valuable than the rest. Pollon and the Hermes Guild had been staying on that hill for the last day. It was a very defensive location where they had good mobility. Their objective was to murder Weed. If that was not possible, then their goal was to interfere as much as possible with Weed's success rate with his quest.
"Today he came back with more undead."
Since they had spent most of their silver arrows on the first day, the attitude of Pollon and the Hermes Guild users had changed.
"Use arrows. Hit them with magic and wipe out those knights!"
Today they decided to change their tactic to use their mana for magic while using enchanted arrows to stop the charging knights. Divine magic was the natural enemy of the undead knights. Blessings, Protection, Magic, Recovery. The four groups of divine magic began to hunt down the undead knights. They had confidence in their power to kill Weed and win.
"Attack!"
"Trample them all!"
This was the proof of the bravery of the the Kingdom of Haven's Knights! The Knights refused to stop their advance even after being hit 10 times. The power of the magical groups that backed the knights could not be ignored. They were known as the 10 best knights that they had. Their level exceeded 380 and they were fully equipped with the best items. While mounted, the knights had twice as much power. The Knights were known to have amazing speed and destructive force to destroy their enemy.
"Weed is only one person and compared to the rest of the undead he is slow. Charge and wipe them out!"
"Uwaaa!"
The Knights' charge was very intimidating for Weed. However, he was not going to let them chase him on horseback
"I have to win this fight."
Weed ordered the Doom knights to assault the Knight Templars.The power of the undead that he had brought with him from the fortress was significant. The Knights of the Central Continent were known to shrug off magic and arrows to some degree and have won every fight. However, there were over 9800 undead among them were many Death Knights. When a fight broke out, they had more than enough power to inflict damages.
"The Knights are to focus on attacking and killing only one person. The goal is at the far end away from their knights. Do not care about the other foes and only head towards the goal."
"Yes, as you command."
Weed fell back. He used his ability to manage the undead as well as he could. Weed did not stay behind to let them rain magic down on him and busied himself with commanding the undead that were rapidly collapsing. There had been 27 Knights that were killed in that battle. This was thanks to Weed who had commanded the knights strictly through the arrows and magic. Due to the characteristics of the Knight class, it was difficult for them to help their allies that have fallen during the charge. During the fight, he had minimized the damage taken and the magical explosions did little to the undead as it fell, since the Death Knights continued to advance.
"The profits are alright."
He had a lot of weapons and armors that the knights were equipped with. It was like in an elementary school where the teacher scolded the child and not the snitch!
"The human have us at our physical limits. I cannot help but think what the honorable Bar Khan will say when he finds out. Do not let the humans leave this fight. Go to battle."
At that moment, he used Yell to command all the undead that he had gathered from the fortress.
"This, these humans must be eliminated."
"I fight for Bar Khan."
The Death Knights and the Doom Knights continued to rise to fight.
Pollon's unit wiped them out again. However Weed did suffer some losses. From the consecutive defeats, his reputation with the Undead Legion's had deteriorated considerably.
"I heard that the undead unit had to return again."
"I hear that there's an incompetent Doom Knight. He's not reliable enough to take care of some humans. He must have no pride."
Weed was not handling the undead forces delicately. He simply came back and collected more undead. The original task of hunting down the elves and dwarves would have been nice if Bar Khan or the dragons had come along. The excitement of being known as a dragon knight. There never had been such an entity on the Continent of Versailles. Leading the undead army, with a dragon to burn down human villages would have been exciting and aggressive!
"It would have been nice if we weren't so close to Morata..."
Unfortunately the closest large city was Morata. However, all of it would become useless once he betrayed Bar Khan. He properly utilized the undead for this purpose. Once they had scrambled the Knights, they had no longer bothered to fire silver or magic.
"Thankfully there's a lot of silver. The skeletons I summoned were beaten! Such a waste of mana. They couldn't manage to killed one or two knights before they died."
For trying to fail his quest, Weed was paying back their cowardice back a hundredfold!
One Silver Arrow, two Silver Arrows, he was collecting them to make silver bullions. Weed laughed as the silver continued to pile up.
"Keulkeulkeul. This is the best hunting ground."
Pollon and the Hermes Guild could not manage to kill Weed.
"We can't make any mistakes when it comes to catching him...he ran away the very moment I saw him."
"We need to take advantage of the rangers' and mages' attack range. To take him down we need to move into another formation."
Weed only watched the undead battle from the back and then returned to the Undead Legion camp. Weed's only goal was to get more knights. Pollon led the vanguard but he could not stop the undead from leaving. Every time they were left with less knights and Weed only came back with more undead. It was having a cheaper lunch than your friends in preschool!
"Keulkeulkeulkeul."
Weed provoked them by having a wagon filled with the silver dragged along by skeletons. They deliberately slowed the pace of the undead to gather silver. Sometimes they would be dancing or walking backwards. Compared to a villain that showed up on TV and movies, Weed was the worst. Still they continued to watch Weed on the TV and supported him.
"This is a bad situation."
As the battle continued, Pollon's forces began to accumulate damages. The knights were all high level and very experienced players but there were still damages. Since there were more NPCs than user, their size had reduced considerably. Even a lot of Pollon's valued knights were gone.
"Our job is to hunt him so a surprise attack would be better."
Pollon: It does not make sense to stay here. Weed will not allow us to kill him in this situation and will retreat if we try.
Pollon opened the communication channel with the Hermes Guild leaders. He was calling for immediate aid from the magical division. Without commands they were not allowed to make a move.
Rafael: Controlling your area is important. They had already recruited the necromancers and there are many people watching the battle on TV. How are you incapable of killing Weed? Do not move your unit until you succeed.
Pollon: We are in plain sight. Even with magic and arrows we only have so much range. There is no benefit to this order. We do not have a large enough force for that.
Rafael: I command you to stay. Continue to interfere with Weed's quest.
The Hermes Guild no longer cared about stopping with Weed's quest. It was enough for the guild leaders to hold Weed in place.
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"It's strange that they're not avoiding battles."
Weed continued to attack Pollon's Hermes Guild unit with the undead relentlessly. Meanwhile Pale's party and the Geomchis had arrived from Morata to hunt Bar Khan. When they heard news of the endless battle they came riding their bulls.
"Keoheom, so we're here now."
Geomchi3 descended from his bull and looked at Pollon's unit of archers.
"It's still not over yet?"
"Sahyung, that must be our share that's left behind."
Pollon had suffered a lot of damage since he was only focusing on defense. They had used magic and arrows to attack the undead as they came closer but they suffered a lot of damage from the undead as the fight went on. Their total of 200 knights had now decreased to 127.
Out of the one thousand mage and archers, they only and 130 left intact. Comparably, Weed's Undead Legion was not badly injured while 73 of Pallon's units were in bad condition. The very same Knight units from the Kingdom of Haven that could occupy a castle were now in such a state. Geomchi got off of his bull and took out the food ingredients.
"Weed, I'm starving. I want to eat some grilled meat."
Delicious, quick to eat grilled meat. The Geomchis had brought food over from Morata in order to eat. It did not matter if they wanted to eat rice in the middle of the fight with the Hermes Guild! Weed made some marinade for the meat as the Geomchis handed over their weapons and armor.
"It's a bit worn out."
"I just came back from the ocean. Can you fix it?"
The Geomchis took off their black armor that had less than 20 durability points left.
"It will not be that difficult since its not completely broken."
Weed repaired the equipment to maximum durability and set a whetstone on the floor.
"Hello. You look good as a Doom Knight."
"Long time no see, I'm Belotte."
Pale cautiously made his way around Pollon's camp to scout and returned.
"Euheum, the rangers of the Hermes Guild...they're not going to be that challenging. By the way, Maylon is on today."
"At such a time?"
"Let me see if its time yet"
Maylon was busy everyday so she decided to take a vacation for this major battle to go hunt Bar Khan. The priest and paladins from Morata watched as Weed, that they looked up to and admired, carried on in ordinary conversation with his friends.
"At such a time...! In front of such a large battle, how can they be so relaxed.'
'Are they not scared of the Hermes Guild?'
Weed worked the whetstone as the paladins and priests came by to say their hellos.
"Hello."
"Nice to meet you Weed."
High level priests and paladins! They could not read the expression on Doom Knight's Weed's face. Weed began to contemplate his possibilities with the priests and paladins.
"Do you have everything you need?"
"Yes?"
"Would you like to have a bargain?"
Inside his backpack were all sorts of japtem and rusty weapons such as maces for priests to use. For priests, it had many divine stats that would help them in the fight against the undead. Weed had used the undead to keep fighting against Pollon's Hermes Guild unit regularly.
"Who are they?"
"Weed's colleagues?"
"I don't know why they came here. Surely they're not here to help Weed attack us?"
From the report that they had on Weed, he mostly moved alone and only had a few friends. However there were more than 1000 priests and paladins with the Geomchis that have arrived. Weed was not the type to ask for help in a personal fight. There was no way that Pollon had thought that he had called them from Morata to hunt down Bar Khan.
"I'm in trouble."
Pollon and the users of the Hermes Guild could not believe it.
***
Every board associated with Royal Road had topics about Weed and the Hermes Guild Battle.
-The shining star known as Weed has descended.
-Isn't the Hermes Guild the strongest guild on the Continent of Versailles?"
Time after time, Weed appeared before Pollon's unit. Public opinion began to change.
-Weed's true ability.
-Hermes Guild finally meets their match.
-Pollon's prided magic, ranged, and knights group are going to fall to the undead.
-Is there really a limit to Weed's leadership skills?
In more ways than one it was an urgent concern. The number of users that cheered for Weed was overwhelming. Broadcasters were forced to side with Weed in every battle. Just by doing that their ratings would increase 2-3 times more than usual! The broadcasters had smiles hanging from their faces.
"They just keep fighting all day."
"Quickly finish the advertising...people want to get back to the broadcast."
More people began to hope that the undead defeat Pollon's unit. Every time a Hermes Guild unit died, then the audience had a heated reaction.
Weed's reinforcements had arrived. They had a large amount of priests and paladins for healing combined with blessing and other abilities that were crucial to a prolonged war. The hosts of the stations covered this pivotal point live.
"Even if the Hermes Guild is high level, we can not ignore the fact that the priest and paladins are wearing the professional equipment."
"Their equipment looks a bit worn out. Will this make a difference to the battle?"
"Undead and divine power will conflict with each other so it will be difficult for Weed. Could it be that the Hermes Guild holds the advantage?"
"The result will be seen from the fighting. Out of the two sides, the Hermes Guild is expected to win."
"The undead are comprised of non user units so Weed will not retreat anymore."
Each station had a different perspective. Most of them thought that Pollon's unit was higher level and thus had the advantage.
***
The priests and paladins from Morata had a meeting.
"Are we going to fight?"
"I thought we were only going to hunt Bar Khan..."
The prestige of the Hermes Guild was more horrible than a legendary monster. It would result in immediate retaliation and then they would get in trouble with the Hermes Guild. It would be difficult for them to fight a guild of a large kingdom.
"But I like Weed's adventures. We came here to hunt Bar Khan anyways."
"Yea, we should fight anyways. I never like them anyways."
Most paladins started out in the central continent so they knew better than anyone about the power of the Hermes Guild. Of course when they decided to follow Weed they never thought they would fight the Hermes Guild. The Hermes Guild was known for its cruelty.
"We're already here so the Hermes Guild won't leave us alone."
"It would be better for us to participate in battle than for us to be alone. We should fight together."
The priests and paladins made their decision to Weed.
"We will fight here."
The users had made their resolution to Weed. In the inspiring atmosphere like that of a movie, Weed shook his head.
"It will be difficult."
"It's fine. We understand what it is like to be the ones at a disadvantage, especially if its from the Hermes Guild..."
"They're mine."
"What?"
"I will not concede their executions. You came late so you are not eligible."
Weed left the priests and paladins and headed back. He shamelessly was not going to share with them. It was the same as not sending a wedding invitation to a friend that you have lost contact with for over 5 years. The Geomchis were blessed by Irene and headed over from the priests and paladins. The volunteers that came to help Weed went to an emergency meeting.
Taleukin: The armor that they're wearing is quite expensive. It's at least level 200.
They were analyzing the Hermes Guild as they were watching the video. KMC Media as well as other broadcasting station began live coverage the instant they found the out the information from the weapon merchants and blacksmiths of the Hermes Guild.
Pollon: Ignore it then. Their level is around 200 so their magic resistance is weak and we can just sweep them with magic.
Taleukin: That's not what I mean. You need to understand...they are definitely wearing lower level gear. However it is significantly worn out.
Compared to the nice armor of the knights, the Geomchis looked incomparable to it. Several parts were considerably worn down or broken. It went to question how long they had been using that armor.
Pollon: Level 320 then?
Taleukin: It looks like it has high strength and agility restrictions for level 320 but their sword looks even more. At least level 350.
Weed had raised his stats through sculpting while the Geomchis had raised their through intrepid hunting and physical training. Except for special cases, that stats of most of the Geomchis were comparable to at least level 350.
Pollon: Level 350, to think they could get this kind of force.
They were only judging the Geomchis by their looks. They could easily been seen as high levels. It looked as if Weed would get more reinforcements. Even going against the ranger and mage unit had not been easy but now the power balance was tipped.
Pollon: It will be very difficult to continue to be stationed here. Please give new command from the guild.
Pollon's orders had been to interfere with Weed's quest by attacking him. However they had not known that their safety would be jeopardized.
Rafael: Okay. Are you thinking of moving?
Pollon: That's what I'm thinking. Since they have poor mobility I was thinking of using magic to defeat them.
Rafael: Do you think you can win? We can not send more troops since that would mean that the Hermes Guild was having a difficult battle.
Pollon: That's what the fight seems like. But that will be to our advantage...
Pollon believed that the priests and paladins would not help Weed so it would be an easy battle.
Pollon: Attempt to get the Necromancers' cooperation with the Hermes Guild. If they help then we will have a significant power. They can help without having priests to waste mana on them.
Rafael:Magic and Ranged Unit with Undead...Not bad. It is allowed.
Pollon thought that if he beat Weed then the Necromancers would join the Hermes Guild to avoid hostilities. Since that was Pollon's intention, Rafael accepted. The fight was going live on every station! They hurriedly contacted the Necromancers to come. The battle had slowed down quite a bit but that was because the Geomchis were grilling ribs to eat. Many viewers and users waited for the battle to start.
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"Time to see if it's done."
The Geomchis began to fight over eating the roasted meat and soup. They were happy spending every day waking up, eating, sleeping, and fighting. Pollon took this time to ask the Hermes Guild to recruit the Necromancers reinforcements. Weed refused the help of the priests and paladins because the Geomchis and the Undead Army would be enough to go up against Pollon.
"Just the sahyungs will be enough."
The Geomchis could fight anywhere on the continent of Versailles. The Geomchis were people who would jump into a dragon breath attack out of their own free will. So he took care of the grilling for them.
"Can you win? You're not going against a dragon but the Hermes Guild..."
"It would be better to run away and fight against the undead. Even with the undead, what are you going to do if they get help from the Necromancers?"
The paladins were anxiously waiting. They had come to hunt Bar Khan. They believed in Weed but ever since they saw the Geomchis accompanying them, all that they seen them do was eat and sleep.
That was because they were all proud high level users with good skill levels and equipment. Only after the battle would they know the true value of the Geomchis. Weed stood by his plan.
"The undead...there is more than enough of them left."
Until now he had only fought and retreated, but now it was time to conduct battle.
Weed began to prepare for the battle once more.
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