NOVEL NEXT chapter 110*
My breath was still coming in heavy and my heart was beating a mile a minute. The sun was nice as I was laying on the snow, trying to get my body under control. I was running on fumes at the very end quite glad that it was over.
Even though I was glad it was over I cannot argue with the results as many notifications were waiting for me. Just in case I got a little bit up to survey everything to see if it was truly over and after confirming it, I let myself fall back on the snow as even that was quite straining for me.
First, I looked at my class notifications as I had levelled up my three classes twice. This brought my homesteader class to 23 and both true archer and heroic soldier to 21. This meant that I got two milestones and I quickly checked what I got.
Both gave 20 free points which I was glad about. Looking over my stats I still decided to put everything into energy storage. This got me another 40 points bringing me up to 221. True archer gave an ability energy compatibility which needed some further testing to figure out what it actually did, but I was glad to see another energy-based ability.
Heroic soldier gave an ability called call of the ancestors. I had no idea what this could do but with a quick check, I confirm that I could not access this outside of battle. So, it might be another similar ability to heroic stand but how it will help I have no idea.
I don’t even know what it possibly could do. Perhaps I will get some information or somehow help from ancestors. Whose ancestors will it be mine or someone else’s? Do I need to be on a battlefield and to have already killed people and bring them back in some form to fight for me? Honestly, I am quite excited about using this one.
It was also good to get another general boost to all my stats, but I also had a few more notifications to go through. I was able to pick quite a few more abilities to add to my repertoire. The first skill to tier up was basic weaponry.
There were two choices that were quite interesting. One was to add strength to my weapon of abilities ability, but I believe this would just be a small boost not giving me anything special. Still, that didn't dismiss its usefulness. Even a little boost can eventually become a big one I just needed more of them to add to the ability.
One of the choices I could dismiss, as it was called sticky grip and I didn’t think it would be too useful. Although I could see some case-by-case uses. Perhaps even helping me climb, but the last one was definitely the one I was most excited about.
Flying slash was the name and would suggest it would give a range option to my bladed weapons. Perhaps I could even add this into my weapon of abilities ability so it could get a bit more of a boost than it just being on its own. It didn’t take long for me to pick it up and move on.
Next was combat strategy. There wasn’t anything that interesting to pick. Only one caught my eye and it was called unit boost. Why did this one catch my eye amongst the others? It was thanks to my commander ability.
I was able to use it but only limitedly in this battle simply because I wasn’t commanding anyone directly, but the ability still worked on myself. And if I dived into the ability my information in it was listed under unit 1. So perhaps there is a correlation between the two. If this was true and there were abilities that gave even more functionality to my commander ability, then it might become op fast.
Basic war tactics also tiered up which I was quite glad about and from the choices there I also noticed an ability called myriad units. There was another ability that I was contemplating on getting called fast march, but something nagged at the back of my head so, in the end, I picked myriad units.
I was currently so exhausted that I didn’t want to test the abilities I have gotten so I just continued onwards hoping to finish soon.
I was glad to see my energy emissions tiering up giving me some cool options, but I ended up picking energy zone as zone abilities were supposed to be quite powerful. Next and luckily the last was energy manipulation.
The three choices I got all sounded brilliant, but one was shining a lot more brightly. It was called energy hardening and instantly it reminded me somewhat of my experiments trying to restrict mana influence on my energy, so I picked that one.
When that was done, I could feel myself wanting to sleep but I battled myself a bit more. There were a lot more level-ups but nothing that interesting. Finally, I looked up to see how far and if I should attempt to return to the temporary camp where a sleeping spot awaited me.
Thankfully I wasn’t too out of it and I was able to figure out that if I went there I would have to join in on the after-battle report and discussion so I did the best thing for myself and quickly let myself relax and fall asleep.
POV Falyr Hrasnel
Falyr was currently cleaning his sword, a ritual that he had developed over the course of his life. It wasn't the most important thing, but it helped him centre himself after hard battles. This was not the worst battle he had been a part of honestly, he could say that it was a pleasant one, but he still did his ritual which helped him also think about what happened.
Before the battle he didn’t question how Rich knew what the undead were going to do but now that the battle was over, he would like some answers. There was also the question of what to do with the people of the convoy.
There was no good answer for that and he hoped that they will just go back to where they came from. That would be the best solution but unfortunately, the world simply doesn’t work like that unless you are apparently Rich who can dictate a battle plan to the enemy so they would follow, his, instructions.
Son of a bitch. That's why he spoke with such a loud voice. He believed the commander of the undead was among us the whole time. But then why? Of course, the undead were here to kill the noble. Still, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions but also alleviates some worries as the person that was controlling the undead seemed to be quite happy or at least willing to let us slaughter his forces.
Come to think of it if I remember correctly Rich knew about the undead in the village for quite a while before he cleared them out. And here again, the slaughter was quite good as I was getting close to a level-up. I haven’t been able to experience that in quite a while.
Perhaps Tom and I have been looking at the undead problem the wrong way around. Undead can gain experience without killing anyone they just need some time. And if we then come in and kill them before they get too dangerous but leave them for enough time to give us XP, we could get easy levels like that.
My ruminations were interrupted by the scout I sent to find Rich and bring him back for the after-battle meeting. But for some reason, he came back alone. He gave me a quick salute and then spoke quickly.
“Sir, I found Rich and he seems to be sleeping and completely exhausted.” I kept waiting to see if some more information was coming but as time went by the young man started to get a lot more nervous and I finally figured out that was all he had to say.
I let out a tired sigh and waved him off. It brought a small smile to my face as I saw the relief on the young man as he left. But how does Rich come up with these brilliant plans? I should have just done the same as him and rested.
Now I have to try and stay on my feet while I am dead tired and still try to think during the meeting which for some reason I called. Seriously what the fuck is wrong with me. I have decided not to like today as I could feel my head starting to hurt. Why couldn’t I just be a regular infantry soldier again, just following commands?