Chapter 14

Leaving the room, and floating into the fortress, I notice Gerad standing on top of a tower, looking into the direction of the city. I float near him and ask

“Is there some kind of problem Gerad? You seem to be rather tense”

He is surprised about the sudden voice, maybe he has concentrated onto something else…

“I’m simply waiting for the noble family, that wanted to come and help us, they should arrive soon” So the guys coming into our direction right now are possible allies? perfect, no bloodshed.

But wait I have to build a house for them, right? I hope they are satisfied with an easy to build mansion…

“Don’t worry Gerad, there is a group from the city coming in our direction, so you should greet them properly, I have to build a new home for the newcomers.”

With that I start making the basement of the new house, sadly a field inside of the fortress has to go for that, it wasn’t fully harvested…

After making a good foundation, I start constructing stone walls, making a sturdy castle looking mansion. It has a big round tower, that is connected with servant quarters and workshops on two sides. The outer walls of the smaller buildings are rather sturdy and you can walk on top of the walls. The two walls end in a tower each, and make a ‘L’ shape in the current form. I then close the area into a full square with another two walls being build. these two walls are connected through a bigger tower, that also functions as the gatehouse. Like this the outer hull of the castle inside of our fortress is finished…

Now I’m equipping the servant house and the living tower with the most important parts, I don’t have much time because I ‘feel’ the newcomers in front of the fortress walls. I’m not summoning any undead guards, because the nobles would most probably feel uncomfortable with these things around… At least I in my former life as a human would be…

About 25 humans were currently standing in front of the walls, discussing with Gerad. He calmly talks to them and explains the whole situation, that the people from the slums will be given a better live and we plan to overtake the city, then he asks them inside the fortress to show them their new home. Apparently he simply talked this long to gain a bit time for me to build the ‘house’. They will get a good surprise…

Though that is what I want to say, but I forgot two things, firstly making fields for them to live from and secondly preparing some tea to calm down from the long walk… I’m the worst…

But well I have to do these things later on, now let’s show them their homes first…

Aside Gerad there are 24 other people standing in front of the walls, three guys with rather good quality clothing, probably the heads of the family. beside them are two women, each with a nice dress and golden jewelry, both are holding hands with a little kid, most probably their own… Then there are 7 guys who look like they are guards, and the other 10 people are most probably servants… At least they look like they are…

Gerad leads them to the area where their new ‘house’ will be, luckily I don’t have made any ‘street lights’ in the direction of the new house, so they don’t see anything from it. Would it be day, you would most probably be able to see the castle from the inner parts of the city, but thanks to the dark night nobody is able to see it, before standing directly before it.

When Gerad sees the castle he is more or less awestruck, yeah I have a really high mana generation at the moment, so I’m able to build this crazy things. Maybe I should ‘upgrade’ the fortress…

The other people don’t really notice the castle until they have no more other houses to gawk at, then the moment they see the castle, they are momentarily bewildered…

“Why is there a castle? didn’t you say you would lead us to our new homes Gerad?” one of the two women asks.

“I was told to lead you here, my master wanted to build you a new home that would cover your needs, but you should ask him yourself” He says, while admiring the gatehouse…

That’s the time where I should begin to talk right?

“Whoa, cool, we get to live in a castle!!!” one of the two little kids runs away from the woman that is holding him and into the direction of the gatehouse…

Suddenly three of the servants run after him and try to catch him, sadly he is rather quick to evade and slips into the castle, there he begins to explore the new grounds while running away from his hunters… A problem child, great…

The woman looks apologetic towards Gerad and says “ I’m sorry, this child lived in our house in the city for all his live, and hasn’t exited the upper part till today. I hope he doesn’t create problems for you”

“No Problem, it’s your castle by the way, so when he destroys something you will have to deal with it…” I answer quickly, startling everyone except Gerad.

“So let’s go in and I will show you around, and then we can discuss some important matters”

After saying so, everyone remaining begins entering the castle and looking over to the two houses and the big tower. They only are able to see the shadows because I forgot to make a light source inside the castle, upsi.. fixed, some mana lanterns are now installed on the castle grounds and in the buildings. Like that the whole castle get’s illuminated in soft light, and to be honest, it looks pretty impressive…

After showing the servants into the house on the left of the big tower, I enter the main tower together Gerad and the other members of the family. Inside I lead them to the eating room, that contains a big table and many chairs. Everybody gets himself a chair and sits down, except me because I can’t sit, so I float on the table.

“The thing I wanted to discuss with you is regarding some sort of barrier, that shields the town from outside harm, do you happen to know anything about that?” first question, and currently the most important one…

“Yes, we do know about the barrier, it is made through a barrier stone, that is located inside the castle of the governor. We don’t know where exactly but it should be somewhere in the basement of the castle..” Again one of the woman speaks, is my theory about them having more status than men correct?

“Okay, so next question, am I allowed to use your old house as a base for destroying this barrier stone, I want to station some of my skeletons in there…” When I succeed in this, then it might be possible to start mission impossible…

“Sure, but our house is not that big, so at most it should only be able to contain about 40 people, so you have to select rather good troops for this task” This time one of the man speaks, and I think I know why women seem to be important. This man is just to stupid, of course I have to select good troops, this is a mission that will affect all my plans.

I haven’t tried summoning new troops since my level ups, only some farmers, so I should have some better troops available now, right?

summonundead knightstrong knight, not very intelligentzombiehas flesh on his bones, at least partiallyundead axemanthey will chop of your head while clacking with their bones

So that are the possibilities for close combat fighting, let’s go with 20 undead knights, 15 undead axeman and 5 zombies. Gerad will lead the troops, and then everything should work out fine…

I summon my ‘special force’ outside of the big tower in the courtyard of the castle, there they will wait for Gerad…

“Gerad I have summoned some new troops, please lead them into the house of the noble and try to do this without getting any attention. “ After this Gerad leaves the room and begins with his preparations for his next mission…

“Then please let me know if there is anything you need, I am in the graveyard for now…” With that I excuse myself from the group and float in the direction of the graveyard. I wanted to rest a bit, but that seems to be not possible, so I will use my time and fortify the graveyard.

First is making the little stone walls that surround the whole thing bigger. Means higher and wider, till they are about 4 meters high and 1 meter wide, then I construct towers that are integrated in the construction. After summoning some more undead warriors and archers I begin reconstructing the gate and only entrance to the graveyard. Before it was simply a rusty iron gate, but now I demolish the whole thing and begin making a big gatehouse. Then I begin reconstructing the room that I have my core in, somehow I’m not able to change the positions of the dead bodies lying under the floor…

I make the room into a tower, that is high enough to let me see the top of the castle that watches over the town. With this the reconstruction is more or less finished, so I drift of into sleep. This whole thing was tiring…

Maybe I will build the adventurers guild tomorrow…

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Sup, finished ^^

Had quite some time to write but discovered the ‘Riddick/ Against the Heavens’ so I was only able to write now. I know that’s a bad reason ^^