Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

Chapter 429: Curious Case

Soon after the reports were done, both the right and left hands returned to their posts with renewed determination, receiving some wisdom from Loimos had breathed new death into their putrefied lungs, even if this sort of insight was not exactly revolutionary in of itself, such things always felt as such to the ears of those that needed to hear it, not to mention, anything Loimos said was probably written down, probably by that meek little skeleton that no one noticed, or by an adept of the church, which were never far, especially their priestesses.

On Horhir’s end, he secretly had some undead mages, sorcerers and scholars led to the north, where they could begin studying and helping Combuscrus develop pyromancy to the next level.

The warking’s very own form of attaining power was not rudimentary in the least however, he had already progressed far and wide, but with the knowledge of those undeads and the ressources granted by the empire, advance should definitely be made, the north was but a mere question of managing and checking every so often, which was accomplished thanks to a nightbird remaining stationed there at all times, any problem would be quickly reported. Experience new tales on novelhall.Côm@@@@

In the west, the right hand had dispatched Tilmiel and the greater majority of the nightbirds to scour and investigate, trusting in their ability to take notice of even the slightest of clues, although, Ourlst had told him about the fact that specialties of the feasters were most certainly circulating in all territories, it was a finite resources for those that did not know the way of feasting, but it could also be problematic, who was to say that some unknown objects could have been passed around as well?

Belliste’s regions were the ruins of an old nation, they could have access to old artefacts, in fact, they most definitely did.

Another advantage of striking that deal with the north was that Horhir had learned a fair bit about his enemies, Combuscrus had inherited the most out of the old records for example, meaning that he had the monopoly on all sorts of knowledge.

But even he had not been able of telling Horhir how the westerners were evading detection so thoroughly, supposing that it may have something to do with their transplantations, which were not as simple as replacing one eye to see better with it.

Of course, the secrets of each region were too well-kept to be known in detail by anyone but the practitioners.

Which was implausible.

’Could they have consumed something to perfectly mask their presences and energy signatures? Similar to what they gave to the south?’ this was a possibility as well, but then, the point would be to lure the undeads in, which would not accomplish much, they may defeat a few but the cat would quickly be out of the bag, their strategy would be revealed and Horhir would just continue to starve them.

No, either they were circumventing his strategy, or they would have taken the chance to at least converse with him, even if unwilling to negotiate, Derdlim would have surely chosen to come face to face with Horhir.

Whatever it was, it could not be discovered by waiting around and thinking hard about it, he should at least check if any of those caves were truly empty.

Apart from a select few, most of them were small and compact, so the nightbirds he sent to check it out did not take much time to visit each and every one of them, by the time they came back, Horhir had already guessed that they had found no livings, and indeed, his belief was confirmed.

Not only were the caverns free of their inhabitants, but all personal belongings and such were also completely gone, once again, no hidden trapdoors, doors or any contraptions were discovered.

’The west and now this... Good thing I managed to get into agreement with the north, otherwise I would have accomplished basically nothing!’ running one hand over his visor, his disappointment was obvious to all the nightbirds.

"We should call back the others, let’s not disperse our efforts"