novelzi Chapter 402 He Is Here
Chapter 402 He Is Here
"At last, our true test is here" Ourlst and Horhir stood behind their general, after years of constant work, of constant fighting off marine livings, spreading miasma and turning the ocean overflowing with life into one overflowing with what was right, their great highway had reached Belliste at last, none of them even knowing the exact number of years by this point, even with their faster pace thanks to progressing in a line, it had taken an ungodly amount of time, one needed to know that the undeads worked without pause, be it physical or mental.
Such a project would have been deemed impossible and cost countless lives for the livings to accomplish, but for the followers of eternity, it was all a matter of time, and this time had come.
"Begin the spread of miasma around the continent" ordered Loimos, his right and left hands relaying the word, a wide platform of black stone had been built, and soon, it would be extended to grasp the continent into a chokehold.@@@@
The putrid undead approached the life barrier, a real prodigy of its sort, bringing up one palm against its uneven surface, pushing up against it, using all of his strength, he went right through, this was not a malfunction, it was working perfectly as intended.
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Loimos could read the functions and capabilities of this barrier, and testing it himself, it was clear that it had been refined multiple times over, without undeads to put it to the test, it should have been difficult, but he had agents to inform him of how they had proceeded, a dragon aligned death in some capacity, a necromancer of some sorts, had come to aid them in the testing, although nothing like death force, or his own festering death, it had allowed them to work in the right direction, Loimos could not breach it.
If something could be endured, the barrier would take it head-on and block its passage, if something would deal severe damage, they were let through, passing the defences to the inner effects of the barrier, if he wanted to step inside, past a certain limit, one would need to accept an oath to limit their strength and such, the functions of the barrier were clearly meant to be changed at any time.
Retracting his hand, the general gave an order to a small group of skeleton with feathered, white wings and garbed in ample white robes, each were holding salpinx-type trumpets, the small troop was led by seven distinct skeletons that were an additional piece of cloth, coloured in grey, none of the seven put their instrument to use, and instead command the rest to play a loud tune.
For a few seconds, they played, and once they stopped, all spoke in unison, words of death tongue, beckoning the livings to show themselves.
"People of Belliste, Champion Loimos has arrived" and with this, Loimos stepped fully through the barrier, surrounded by suffocating life, he fell downward from the platform, landing upon the plentiful waters, sending faint ripples that travelled far with each of his steps.
The warlords were not far, of course all would be present when the undead empire was right up to their doorstep, Belliste had a most peculiar sun, King Nitok's collection had yet to get a hold of one of those, even with the great amounts of different one seized from Viridis, The Prince Of Death, as well as many of Loimos's own soldiers were collectors, and Belliste was a treasure trove of valuable intel.
Combuscrus's pyromancy, Maulerd's feasting and Cribler's eye implantation, their techniques were unique and interesting, Cleavster might seem less interesting in comparison, but he had also created something interesting, even if not intentionally, his order of knights being a meld of self-imposed restrictions and battle arts that had naturally developed, even Loimos would not pretend being capable of reproducing the way this had been put in place, at least not without knowing the exact way it had come to be.
With knowledge of what they could bring to the table, of what they were like, the four warlords appeared within sight, their respective right hands behind them, all of them tensed up for a split instant, nearly imperceptible, Loimos knew exactly what muscles had tensed however.
The trusted warriors brought a few things with them, putting together a nice table, seats and such directly upon the dark yellow sand of the Southern Shores, the livings remaining close around this wide round table, whilst Loimos was opposite to them, leaning back and interlocking his hands.
Discussion was to begin soon.