" Want to escape? You're free to try! "
Wendy laughed internally before engaging in a stalling struggle, without unleashing any of her trump card as it wasn't needed at this place to begin with!
At the same time, she ordered few of her undead to clean up the battle by killing off the remanent of rat men race, as her hands were tied up in dealing with half mutants currently!
Half minute later.
A closely packed dome shaped encirclement of multiply layers filled with undead could be seen.
It was more like a dome shaped cage, arranged compactly by powerful undead of Wendy as individual units, who had extruded their Aura to reinforce this cage by several times!
" Wait! Don't tell me that... She's going to use that flame again!
Sigh, what a waste. she's going to sacrifice her undead at the cost of it! "
Mark sighed internally before moving away from this place as he didn't want to get scorched by Wendy's flame.
Earlier, wendy moved her undead away, leaving a way for half mutants to fall prey to "burnout!"
But currently the undead were extremely close to her and releasing her corpse flame might affect her subordinates badly!
Yet White didn't knew that it was extremely coincidental for Wendy's undead to be out the range when she used "burnout" earlier.
And since the dead bodies were nurtured by Wendy's corpse flame to become undead, they were immune to Wendy's flame and could be said to become perfect cage at this moment to trap half mutants.
All in all, she was very much confident about her victory and didn't even considered the group of half mutants as worthy opponent!
So all left for her was to claim a kill which was within her reach and show case her powers to Mark which she badly wanted to!
Whoosh!
Wendy extruded the grey flames for an another time, and this time the half mutants were at close proximity so they were forced to bear it head on.
" What!? "
Surprisingly enough for Mark the undead were unaffected by this and stood still as if a gentle breeze grazed their robes.
Few shrill cries and the half mutant were half way burned to ashes before being gathered around for raising undead!
Wendy had single handedly eliminated all the enemies in this rat men yellow rank base and exceeded the expectation of Mark in a remarkable manner!
" Ding! Congratulations to host for clearing base number 524! "
" Ding! Host gets 5,000,000 SP! "
" Ding! Congratulations to host for entering sixth stage in refinement! "
" Haha, sooner than expected! "
Hearing the continuous dings from system, Mark laughed out loud in excitement.
The entire village started burning in flames of grey, all corpse were burned to ashes and the residual flames having flesh essence started gathering around Wendy, forming a ball of flame which engulfed the whole of her half step aura emperor undead, making it difficult for Mark to discern what's going around.
5 minutes later!
Soon the ball of flame started reducing in volume, and until at one point where Mark was able to see what exactly Wendy was cooking about.
The flames were entering into the glabella of undead which made their rotten skin tend up and their fleshly body started radiating power which earlier was not discovered in the bodies of them.
" Four hundred elite half steps... And each one is radiating a bit more of additional power which earlier was lacking in those bunch... "
" Wait! Don't tell me that she's trying to lay foundation in those bunch to raise them to emperor class undead! "
Looking at this sight, Mark was more than sure that Wendy was trying to lay a firm foundation in these batch of 400.
And when the time was ripe she could ascend them to undead Aura emperors and he Mark could command that massive group of elites and stay unrivalled even in front of an orange or even Red ranked base in near future!
Few minutes later.
When this strange ritual was complete, Mark entered the burned out base, which was now completely covered in a thin layer of greyish white ash, more presumably the remains of the enemies Wendy killed earlier.
" Boss!!~~~ "
At the sight of Mark, Wendy leaped forward like a spoiled child and tightly embraced Mark with her body which was devoid of clothes currently!
Wendy was immune against her corpse flame, but so could not be said to be same for her cloths which were made out of cotton!
Thus when high intensity of flames were spun around, the cloths over her had evaporated, making it difficult for Mark at this moment.
" This girl... Is she a bipolar? "
Mark really wanted to question, but refrained from doing so.
" She was killing like a mad psycho earlier, and at the other moment, she acts as a spoiled child, some times a mature lady that likes teasing this Mark as she pleased! "
Patting her head gently, and later twisting her ear round Mark bellowed
" Don't you dare do such unexpected stuffs like this again! "
Though Wendy had managed to kill them all easily, it was just a bluff which wendy managed to maintain out!
Using strange space traversing, formidable fire tornado, Burnout, and even summoning Her undead needs loads of mana which was not easily achieved.
Had the battle continued for few more minutes, Wendy might have fallen unconscious by lack of mana, so how could Mark be not worried about her currently?
He then turned her another ear sharply and bellowed
" Do you know how anxious was I back then when you were daring enough to fight all those twenty half mutants all by yourself! "
" What if some thing unexpected happens... Do I need to fight all these half mutants without my partner form then on? "
With her misunderstanding brain, she quickly mistook his words at once and started blushing red.
" Anxious..! Partner!! "
She muttered these words in her breath, and the face of her turned more red with embarrassment.
She then embraced Mark for an another time, and said " I promise that I will not make my bos... partner anxious for an another time! "
With her face burrowed in his chest Mark missed the details, but he wasn't so ignorant about a women's heart, yet at this moment he wasn't so observant right now, as he wanted to move away from Wendy to prevent himself from getting embarrassed by the mischievous her!
At this moment, his lower body developed a hot rod which created a bulge on his pant!
Wendy was sticking close to him, so it was evident that she wasn't ignorant about this and felt proud at this moment, as she finally managed to arouse Mark with her seductive body!
Mark distanced himself from Wendy by a little as he turned the topic to prevent this embarrassing moment from furthering!
Looking at the elite half step emperor undead who had formed an insignia of White palace with twin blades embraced on sides of it, Mark questioned her with a curious glare.
Unmoving from the position, Wendy answered
" Since boss family name is White and the weapon of choice is short twin blades, Wendy made this insignia to represent boss! In future we will call them the knights of White! "
" Oh! Knights insignia! like those in special corps... knights of White what the... The fuck! How did you know my true name? "
All of a sudden Mark pushed her away and started distancing from her abruptly.
" Shit! I made a blunder! "
Wendy cursed herself internally, before shortly moving towards Mark in haste, in an attempt to clarify things.
" Boss!~~ I... "
" Stop right over there! One step I'll show no mercy to you... Wendy! "
Though Mark didn't really want to do this, Wendy's revelation had forced his hands, as he really wanted to know how Wendy came to know his real name?
" How long were you keeping it hidden? Seems like I have let you free for a long time... Do you by any way... read my mind secretly? "
To prevent things form escalating to greater heights, Wendy stood unmoving, looking at the cold expression of Mark only to cry out loud exclaiming.
" Boss, believe me... This Wendy have no ulterior motive behind concealing this... And it was the voice of a mysterious lady which exclaimed the true name of boss! I really do not have any ability to read minds! "
Reading ones mind?
Though it's an interesting ability to fathom, Wendy really didn't have such skills to read ones mind.
Even if she didn't, she knew the implications of this matter as it would determine the future relationship with Mark that she didn't want to let go!
" Other than boss name, this Wendy is ignorant of your past, please don't blame me for that... it's just... it's just... "
She had almost broken to tears, and thinking of how Mark glared at her coldly she felt a bit suffocating at present and fell down to ground.
By some unknown reason she became the servant of Mark, yet she wasn't abused as one and treated better than any other who she could probably remember till now!
She had a life full of tragic till death and even after she got revived, she became an undead with unknown powers without a shred of light to warm her heart!
Just when she thought that every thing was going for better, a slip of tongue ruined her plans and who knows weather their relation could turn better following this?
Fighting side by side with one who didn't really abuse her and even seemed to treat her fairly and care about her!
After all she felt quite comfortable with her current life.
" Aina... You owe me an explanation for this? "
Mark was so enraged at this moment that he cursed the system out loud, yet he received no reply from her side, so he could only sigh in knowing that this wasn't any thing new knowing her character to begin with!
" I'll remember this, let's see how long are you going to play ignorant! "
Making a cold remark to system, Mark reached towards Wendy, stretched his hand towards her cheek as he exclaimed
" I don't blame you for that, it's just that... the name of White is not allowed to used externally, I hope that you conceal this fact and no third person should ever learn of this!
If a third person were to know about this, your boss would face predicament that you couldn't probably imaging to begin with!
After all which scion at my age reach my current level of cultivation and my past isn't a thing which could be revealed out easily! "
Mark warned her seriously before shortly wiping away her tears with a pleasant smile to let things return back to normal.
" This Wendy understand...! "
Rubbing her tear marks with her palms, Wendy caught his arm and tried standing up.
" Oops! My hand slipped! "
Mark loosened his grip and she Wendy once again fell to ground, lifting a smoky cloud of bone ash to moon lightened sky.
" Boss!! Didn't your elders taught that men should handle women with care? "
"..."
" Haha! Whatever, wind up fast we have nine more bases to go! "
To lighten up the mood Mark played her a little and at the same time reminded Wendy that they had yet nine more targets to kill before returning back to palace.
Patting her dust filled back, Wendy protested in low tone, yet she felt relieved that Mark didn't take the earlier matter to heart!
A servant deceiving his master was a great taboo and Mark hadn't ordered anything against her will recently, which made her seen taking her freedom for granted!
Still Mark didn't frown much and forgiven her after she made matters clear enough to him!
Wendy felt better and made her mind clear enough to not make such blunder again had she wished for her current life to stay still without being disrupted!
Returning back the summons to her inner realm, Wendy entered back to the mysterious space and teleported to the next location which was a thousand miles away from their location!
One day later!
By the dawn of next day, Mark had cleared eight more yellow bases and each time they annihilate one, Wendy seemed to feed the fleshy energy to her undead to raise their strength.
Instead of increasing her undead army size, she seemed focused on raising their quality!
If not for this, Mark would long since had finished the last yellow base and headed straight for weaker green ones before trying to intercept the stronger orange rank bases near the warlords palace!
For Wendy unless the corpse was a high tier material of aura emperor or half steps, she would directly thrown those bodies to her corpse flame and refined the essence to feed her undead.
But when the time came for half mutants, she changed her principle drastically and refined them for strong foundation of her elite undead knights to increase their numbers!
Right now Wendy had a little more than twenty thousand initial order aura king undead soldier that were at the brink of breakthrough to middle order!
Five thousand strong undead at peak of middle order with thousand high order aura kings!
The main fighting force were 600 peak order aura kings along with 480 high quality half step aura emperor that would become the foundation for Mark in his journey to conquer the Lords quest mission.
Surprisingly the eight yellow rank bases he annihilated had only raised his refinement by 40% to stage seven, and Mark was sure that the orange rank bases which he would encounter shortly wouldn't disappoint him much and very well contribute much and make him infinitesimally closer to stage seven which would very much be beneficial for his future plans.
Mark though had not attacked the strong orange rank bases, he had very much infiltrated their numbers and scouted their strength before analysing the general situation.
First the orange rank bases he was about to encounter were the real deal.
Unlike the weak base of Gazil, which almost was unqualified to be called an orange rank, the two incoming bases which he scouted, each had a solid foundation of fifty thousand soldiers, all initial order aura king, with stronger ones which were no way inferior to the undead he currently possess.
So he needs adequate time and preparations if he wished for to eliminate them.
Wendy who had finished feeding her elites with fleshy energies of corpses had returned to him with a happy smile, to give a pleasant piece of information.
Shortly following it, she bombarded him with an another piece of information which made him cough twice and difficult for Mark to digest it.
" Boss the foundation is laid successfully, it's just that a large amount of fleshly energy is required to trigger their breakthrough! "
" Just a hundred yellow rank base would suffice, or else... a couple or more of the orange rank bases we scouted earlier! "
With a bit of embarrassment on her face, Wendy scratching the back of her head with an awkward smile.
" Roll out for this boss! "
Mark roared angrily before muttering.
" Hundred yellow rank bases? And she says "just" for that! "
" Doesn't she know how tiring was it to kill "just" nine those bases, and to think that we need to kill a hundred more, does she take me up for a transcendent to achieve it so? "
Mark remained angry for a while before shortly winding up the place to return back to the palace to face the decisive battle head on at western warlords palace!
Author's notes :
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Status :
# Mark - 6th stage of refinement! ( Mid order aura emperor equivalent )
# Wendy - High order aura emperor!
Wendy's undead forces
1. Initial order aura king - 20,000
2. Middle order aura king - 5,000
3. High order aura king - 1,000
4. Peak order aura king - 600
5. Half step aura emperor - 480 ( mostly from half mutants and green rank base leaders )