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!
***
“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.
***
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.”