The child soon came to Rolan and wept.
"Please save my family.....hik hik. You are strong so please save them....hik." she wept and stuttered. Wiping her tears and was in deep sadness.
Rolan approached her and wiped her tears, "It is okay young one, me and my underling will save your family. Right guys!" Rolan said then watched his underlings.
Yes!
Yeah!
You can count us in!
"See? They are willing to help you." Rolan said to her then made a pinky promise.
"Thank you so much big brother!" she said then stopped crying. Rolan then made her a cookie and she was surprised at its flavour.
Recently, they made a farm from a bee hive and they produced honey. They also had wheat and mixed it with vanilla essence. Making a cookie in the process.
"Hmm, tastes good!" she said.
Meanwhile, the rest were having a meeting. Rolan was at the center and was not in good mood. They were inside the war room that they recently built.
The Undead Plague carrier skill was a problem as it was magical by nature. Dark magic or so they were. But its effects were like a zombie virus of the movies of Earth. Making it a bit of a problem.
He immediately summoned his men for one thing and that was to warn them not to get bitten by them or wounded. As the cure was still not researched.
As for more information, he needed to ask the girl for that. And so, he asked her.
"Little one, can you tell us what happened?" Rolan kneeled a bit before asking.
"Hmm, I am Anna. Call me that from now on. As for the question, we are fighting the undead plague in that dark night. We were surrounded in our village when that happened.
"We were fighting until one by one, the undead pounced on them and bit their flesh off, they were eaten alive. I could not help them, I am tasked to ask help from the warrior tribe but they were unseen. All I could do was run away as these creatures couldn't get tired at all!"
"Our tribe was culled by the Legoinnaires and Inquisitors of the Holy Empire and that is why the remaining ones were either too weak and too few to fight these plague. I just hope my family is still alive," she said then became sad again.
"3 thousand, that's how many they are. My father knew that they were that many," she added.
"3 thousand undead? How can we fight that many?" Reynald said, quite shocked.
"Hmm, let us ask help to the Dark mages. There were survivors from the last war and hunting. Maybe the survivors were hiding." said Kuro.
"Uh, the Dark mages were held captive and their brethren were all made into undead after killing them. There were survivors and they were all imprisoned to the tower of the dark lich overlord. He is the one responsible for this plague," said Anna.
"So its him huh. Damn they were slaughtered too? And so, we can't ask for help from dark mages as they were attacked first huh?" Rolan was scratching his chin.
According to the book Lordship that he read, it was the Tribes that were the enemies and the MC was from the Holy empire. The Villains were the leaders of the Tribes and they rise to defend their clan. Sadly, the Heroes defeated them and as well as the Demon empire. Making you reincarnate into the tribe faction in the aftermath.
He guessed that if the Tribe guardians were still alive, this would not happen. And to make sure, Rolan was tasked to protect them and defeat the Holy Empire.
As for the Demon Empire, they would rise once again as they have flexible and adaptive nature. Maybe they were now amassing an army that could battle the Holy Empire once again.
The problem was, you are enemies of either side. Making it hard to swallow.
"Okay, make the 100 army ready, we must prepare them," Rolan said to Kuro.
"Yes, master," Kuro then bowed to him and then left.
Rolan was still in deep disadvantaged. He couldn't imagine fight 3 thousand with their 100. And so, he got an idea.
"Anna, is there a nearby village that your tribe has? We can rescue your village first and your family to have a stronger army," Rolan said to her.
"Yes! We can rescue my family first and ask help to the nearby tribes!" she smiled.
"Yeah!" Rolan did a pat on her head.
"Everyone, let us rescue the mages first!" Rolan commanded them.
The army was equipped with light armor that Rolan spat out from his production team–the slimes. Bracers, chest plate, and a pair of plated boots. All were made of demonic steel.
With it, they set forth to rescue the mages from their villages. Exiting the portal where Rolan has left and then marched towards the Mage Tribal Village.