it's been a bit of time since I first encountered these bandits maybe a little bit more than 3 days I've definitely made some progress I have raise undead to about tier 5 which when I achieve that I got notification
"congratulations you have fully mastered the raise dead spell you have also received a blank spell token"
I've also gotten my greatsword skill to tear 4 so I'm definitely making progress on improving myself but the others not so much Drake has been sparring with me. Helga and Luna have been scouting trying to find easy targets and Leon and Bill have been starting to clear out the rubble of the rest of the fort which was pretty smart since we are going to need a bigger base of operations for an army I'm mentally going to have I thought about it and want to know more about the blank spell token
"system I have a question"
without much difference system woke up
"what is your question champion?"
I quickly replied
"what can I do with blank spell token?"
system word make that very similar sound that she's always made
"Will champion those allow you to unlock new necromancy spells or you can sacrifice it to evolve one of your minions but it only works once"
I would think for a bit and then I would ask
"is there a way I can see what kind of necromancy spells I have access to or all the necromancy spells and general to look at them to make a plan on what I'm getting?"
system made a new sound which sounded excited
"yes there is simply say 'show me necromancy spell list' and that will get you a list of necromancy that came and also works for every other type of magic you have but instead of saying necromancy you could say lightning magic"
I would ask calmly
"and how do I get more of necromancy blank spell token?" the new noise would repeat again "there are two ways of getting blank spell tokens one you can max out your understanding of a single spell or you can get them by to feeding a boss" I thought to myself is it I would say "show me necromancy spell list"
as I spoke a list would appear and my face as I was holding the blank spell token I looked at the list and great detail the first two spells that caught my eye wear 'tainted ground' which was a spell that corrupted the ground around you and continue to tell you ran out of Magicka and even if you were to regain Magicka it will not spread any farther but all corpses in that area would begin to rise as unconscious undead who the caster cannot control but they would act as guardians never going near the center of the circle in fact they would begin to move towards the outer of the circle then there was the second spell and it was called 'soul trap' this spell create a small cage that anything I kill within range of that cage will become soul trapped and their soul be sucked into it there by will become a mindless corpse under my control which to be perfectly honest I preferred soul trap but I only kept it in mind I still had necrosis and lightning magic spells to look at so I said
"show me necrosis spell list"
as I said this a new menu there are only two spells I could get a necrosis spell list for the current time at least the first was called 'necrosis clown' this spell created a crowd of necrotic energy that ate away at the flesh of the living and gives undead a small boost and attack defense and speed all by 5% the second one was called 'necrotic bolt' which created a small ball of necrotic energy then stays in midair until I command it to attack something when should I immediately use the blank spell token to unlock and learn the 'necrotic cloud' spell mainly because at tier one it could literally boost up my undead I then got a notification
"you have learned in The necronic cloud spell"
after dinner I went to the room where we were storing all of the bone piles from the surrounding areas of the battlefield and way to clean up most the battlefield to store most of the bone piles here this will be important when I learn more powerful necromancy spells that's will allow me to create more undead minions but for now I can at the very least suffice with just five undead minions an elf a dwarf and three humans including myself that is 11 people of my own army I noticed Helga had entered the bone storage room and I was just standing in the center
"oh hello Helga what brings you here?"
Helga looked a little bit worried more than usual Helga then said
"well I have good news and some bad news which do you want first?"
I would be stroking my goatee and as I think about it for a second
"give me the bad news"
how will go look like she was scared but she spoke up and said it anyway
"well first off we have a rival bandit group trying to take over our territory and second we found a boss"
I would think for a little bit before I would ply continuing the stroke of my facial hair
"all right and the good news?"
she's woke up sounding like she's proud of it
"we have nearly collected every single corpse on this battlefield"
I smiled and laughed a bit
"well that is good news Helga no I want you to get everyone ready to kill this group of bandits"
how did it really hesitate and she quickly ran to where the others probably were I would then look at necrotic clouds description specifically to find the conditions for it to level up 'for the necrotic clown spell to build up in understanding you must deal 1000 damage of necrotic energy or have your undead minions stand in it for longer than 10 minutes this seemed easy to level up considering I could just have an undead standing it constantly I left the room and called one of my undead
"I want one minion here"
what are the undead came by fairly quickly I pointed to the room as I would say
"minion I want you to stand in that room all day"
the minion would stand in the center of the room then I would say
"necrotic cloud"
a green with a black hint to it cloud of energy would form in the room I would close the door to the room that way it couldn't get out and I would sit outside of it with my back against the door just to make sure no one try to enter a room but as I did this I noticed my Mana bar was slowly decreasing in its Max capacity by one point every second at the current time I had a man of pool of 250 if this cloud spell requires one point to keep maintained besides the initial cost from casting it then I can have it active for at least an hour at most maybe even longer if I get a larger Mana pool as my Mana pool was getting drained I could feel myself starting to fall asleep I guess with it constantly being drained I can passed out from exhaustion at least a mental exhaustion so I did eventually pass out I was asleep for about 5 hours as I opened my eyes I noticed my Mana pool was empty so I Grand coulee got up an open the door seeing a skeleton standing there and the 'necrotic cloud' was gone I looked at my notifications and saw two notifications at right now the first saying
"congratulations you have leveled up your understanding of necrotic cloud to novice"
the second one "congratulations you level up your understanding of necrotic cloud to acolyte"
the interesting thing about how the tier system worx is there are 5 level up ranks to every skill spell and type of weapon not as being the lowest act like being II Louis apprentice being the middle ground between the levels expert the second highest and master is the highest I currently have my great sword skill up to expert but my raise dead spell is a master and it seems like whatever is this stuff is it rewards you for mastering something which was goodas I was in the middle of my thoughts I heard a familiar voice it was Drake voice
"Jack you might want to come up here and see this!!"
this would catch my attention as I would begin making my way towards where the walls were it would only it took me a few minutes at best considering this place wasn't very big and as well there was only really two places you could go to see as an advantage point which were the walls and the watchtower we recently cleared out rubble I quickly made my way towards the tower as I was walking up I could see Helga was extremely nervous she didn't notice me and then walked up to me
"Jack things are bad they trying to attack us here at base camp"
hearing this this could be a perfect opportunity to increase our living people numbers I reply to Helga
"do not worry Helga we have magic they don't and besides it'll take a hell of a lot more than just 10 people to take this for from us since we know it better so how'd it go preparing for a battle and make sure Luna is ready to shoot arrows from this tower"
I said is I heard the dwarf run down the stairs listening to me I guess she trust me I continue to walk on to town or to where I assumed Drake was when I saw him he turned around nervously but he saw that calm careless expression on my face like a normal and he can tell I already know the situation because before he could speak
"it's alright Drake I already know the situation now go prepare for battle"
Drake did not speak after he just ran down the stairs probably to listen to me he wasn't the type of person to run out on his friends as I looked out over the group that we're here to attack us and a arrow flew by my head I raised one hand and simply spoke
"Sparks"
a small jolt of electricity would be fired at them which would catch them off gone and also seems like it also made him hesitate a little bit I spoke up loud and clear to them
"those who decides to attack my base camp I will warn you only once continue this course and you will be corpses added to my army or you may join my army or simply leave I do not care of the three but I will not give you a 4th option choose now and make peace with whatever gods you worship if you choose to continue attacking us" I said as I stared down at them intently I didn't notice Luna that elf girl was right next to me with her bow and was holding 4 quivers of arrows by her feet she quickly placed it on the floor asking pulled one arrow out as I continue to look down I noticed that everyone was ready for a fight I sharted again but I can tell they were talking amongst themselves "you only have one chance there will be no second chance"
one of them charged into the fort and then two more followed and then four more meaning six enter but the other six were not ready with their decision yet but scream to be heard of their former companions is my undead would be in the courtyard well the three remain it anyway we're still on watch and had bows well the rest Drake Bill Leo Helga they were ready for a fight and a few seconds the screams would stop as I looked at the 6 remaining they honestly didn't want to find out what happened to their companions two of them started running Lula however fired an arrow into the back of one of the ones that were running and then pulled another arrow and landed another arrow into the last person who was running back to be perfectly honest the way she called lean mailed them like they were animals kind of bothered me it made me fear and respect her a little bit more but in all honesty I looked at the four remaining people they threw the swords down and one who I assume was the leader would shout
"we will join your army"
I smiled at the site of notification
"your group has increased from 10 to 14"
I had a smile as I showed it out
"then you may enter"