A Lonely Lich Redone pt 1 + 2

The world is full of evil monsters, and humans alike wondering this world bring death ,destruction ,loss ,hopelessness ,and its through these action that more evil is born. The Evil I currently speak of born of this worlds hopelessness is an undead lich a once glorious man betrayed by a world of cruelty as he wonders stuck in a state of rot a cruel fate to suffer.

Wondering through a thick forest a tainted evil wonders a undead abominations a lich an undead nightmare considered plagues on the mortal realm. The lich is clad in purple robes with splotches of black in the tattered fabric holes appearing towards the bottom of his robes as you can see his white bones clang against the ground leaving a trail of footsteps. the lich wore a necklace around his neck a piece of his past a amulet the center piece of this precious amulet clearly holding a secret as it had held a crimson ruby as red as blood. the lich carries a staff once holding a beautiful elegant blue mana stone atop of it ,however the stone corrupt by tainted magic had long split into two and is now colored green tainted by the rot of the liches spirit. In the other hand of the lich is a book he holds was thought to have been lost in the great war against the demon Dezgan and is his personal spell book for raising the dead and summoning demons, abomination, horrors from the realm of chaos. As the lich wanders this desolate forest resent fills his mind as he speaks to himself.

“The living have so much I don’t have, they’re free to walk this earth with joy ,happiness ,love as I walk it with anger ,hate ,and solace."

"The ever expanding living become more bold and problematic over the years I just wish to enjoy my peace in this rotten world I walk upon."

As the lich walks lost deep in thought he stumble upon a gate to a forgotten broken down small village. He looks at an old sign that he believes to be the name of this abandoned community it reads Stanlow. The lich looks out in front of him and sees there are 7 houses that are all one story peasant stone houses all of them are damaged some worse than others. Many having holes in both there tough stone walls and straw roofing almost all gone on the houses except for one better protected under a massive tree. As the lich looks around he finds old crates emptied abandoned its contents never to be known lost to the passage of time. As he looks around he finds a couple of horse drawn wagons all in horrible condition many of them wheels broken nature taking its toll on the wood once well maintained. He looked around finding a small stable area containing 3 horse skeletons laying about with roughly 7 remains of people there bleached skulls standing out amongst the ground. as the lich looks in the houses he sees many skeletons some with arrows in them where he assumes there organs once were. As he walked around he found a small graveyard with17 gravestones He look at all the names wondering what could have happened. He grabs his book and opens it flipping through the pages till he finds what he was looking for a magic spell few can use and even fewer know of. The spell in question lets him peer into the past seeing the memories of either the dead or living. He uses the spell to peers into the past to see what happened and what he sees doesn't surprise him only reinforcing his image that humanity is the real heartless monster worse then him. The lich accesses the memories of all the collected dead laying about seeing that this was once a small settlement that was slowly flourishing growing small fields now lost and consumed by mother nature once more. Everything was perfect until they were attacked and brutally murdered by heartless bandits and marauders looking only for coin and supplies leaving no survivors so no one would truly know what happened here.

"Its been so long it seems you were meant to be forgotten a lost idea amongst the forest don't worry I won't let you guys be forgotten any longer. Join me my friends of betrayal!"

The lich opens the book as a magic circle appears below him as he focus his manna. Then suddenly green light fly’s out hitting every skeleton a mass raise dead spell in the village being cast raising a grand total of thirty four low level undead skeleton warriors and a total of three skeletal stallions. As he got accountability of his new mindless friends he arms the skeletons with discarded farming tools mostly rusted pitch forks and shovels. He has two Skeleton with pitch forks mount two of the skeletal steeds as the rest got into a formation designed to protect the lich best they can as he mounts the last skeletal steed he looks at an old path presumably to the fields the village once used. He plans to continue his journey to find a suitable home a place of operations for himself and his undead so they can live in peace. Over the next few day the lich marches his forces through the forest till he reaches the a more rural populated area houses in the distance smoke coming out people chimneys on the horizon. The lich marched forward upon the plains as he did a massive structure in the distance became more apparent and soon he stopped his forces a fair distance from the structure. The Structure in question was the Vapon Kingdoms massive wall a structure erected about five hundred years ago a symbol for the kingdom and its statement of standing the test of time as it has stood strong for almost 650 years now. There were checkpoints scattered among the wall some more guarded then others although he had choose this specific one due to having knowledge this was one of the less defended sections of the wall.

Before moving forward he had Devised his battle plan in the event he needed to fight. He started by dismounting his skeletal steed and had another skeletal warrior with a pitch for mount it he was gonna have them as his reserved unit to charge in from behind him along with twenty of the skeletons to charge in support of his skeletal horse riders. with his remaining fourteen he split them up into two groups of seven and was going to have them move quietly through the tall grass and hide in it and have them ambush from the side if the need arise. The lich slowly approached the gate as he had his other skeletal knights stay behind a bit as he approached the small garrison witch was now very aware of his presences. As the Lich approach he saw a Captain ordering his six footmen to get into a makeshift wedge formation and had the six crossbow men under his control get on top of the wall overlooking the lich as the lich approached he stopped suddenly the cold glare of the lich sending shivers down the men's spine. The lich then speaks with his cold undead voice,

"Dear noble men of the Vapon Kingdom I have No Qualms with you. If you let me pass I promise to give you no trouble."

The captain draws his sword and points it at the lich as he says,

"I can’t allow such a monster of evil to pass through these gates as it be a disgrace to the Kingdom of Vapon if I let you past.”

The lich sighs irritated and responds,

"Why must you mortals always be so troublesome. You Know you and your men don't stand a chance captain."

The knight stands strong as he tries to inspire his men with what will most likely be there last battle and prepares to give the order for the archers to fire upon this accursed undead abomination. unbeknownst to the men the skeleton warriors had moved on there flanks and were ready to attack these poor foolish footmen.

“Because evil is everywhere we must all do what we can to extinguish its flame. Archers FIRE!!”

The Crossbow men fire there arrows atop the wall there aim true as the arrows go to hit the lich they bounce off a magical barrier that's protecting the lich. The Lich horrifyingly replies in his cold tone,

“Well you will find my flame ice cold.”

After the lich says this he claps his hands together as six sharp ice spikes form then shoot forward at high speed towards the crossbow men who were hopelessly reloading as each of them had there bodies priced by these cold ice spikes the life draining from there bodies as they all collapsed atop the wall. witnessing the power the lich has to over fear strikes the men sending shivers down there spine. As this Happens the lich coldly says

“Minions attack while them while they’re distracted!”

The undead from the rear start charging forward as the small groups the lich had flank pop out swarm a footmen on each side of the wedge and pull them into the tall grass so the others will have trouble helping the two. The two footmen who are swarmed scream in agony as the skeletons attack them relentlessly ripping there armor off as they then use there rusted tools to pierce there vulnerable flesh. The small formation is in disarray as the footmen now 4 remain along with the captain. The other skeletons waiting back rush forward know as the skeletons on horse back charge in killing 2 of the remaining footmen Hitting them in the face with there pitch forks although one of the skeletons was knocked of his skeletal horse by the captain and vanquished. the other twenty skeleton swarmed the remain two footmen as 3 more were defeated before the remaining soldiers were dog piled by the undead there screams filing the once peaceful and quiet plains all that remained was the captain as he watched his men hopelessly being slaughter by this monster as he charge forward as he attempted to kill the monster right here and right now. The lich cast a lighting spell hitting the captain directly in the chest as he falls to his knees alive only by sheer will. The lich approaches the man impressed he is still alive and says to them man,

“Well was it worth the lives of you and your men to fight me?”

The captain looks up defiantly barely clinging to life as he spits at the undead lich hitting his robes, the undead monster responds,

“I see you made you choice.”

The Lich takes the captains sword examines it for a short moment before he uses it to behead the poor Defeated captain and end his puny suffering. The lich has the his undead bring the mangled corpses of the footmen together as the plains is now hauntingly quite after the men were killed nature not even making a sound feeling the tension in the air. Once the six men corpses are laid out the lich opens his books as a dark flame appears around the captains body and the other bodies start turning to ash as the corpse of the captains rises a greater undead having been created a headless horsemen. The lich hands the Horsemen the sword of the now former captain as he examines the sword before kneeling before the lich accepting as his master. The lich has the skeletons start looting the checkpoint have the skeletons put on the armor of the former footmen there bodies reduced to ash. the skeletons looting the barracks for extra weapons as the lich headed to the top of the wall to examine the dead crossbow men he had killed using ice spikes. As he got upstairs he saw the mess he had made as all six of them were dead a huge pool of blood had formed and was soon to start running down the stairs. The lich used his magic and brought back the 6 of them as undead ghouls but decided to have them switch weapons using a sword instead of there crossbow because he though they be more useful as meat shield when they got into there next battle. after looting the lich had acquired a wagon along with more valuable resources as he planned out his forces formation and who would be wielding what weapons.

30 skeletons 1 headless horsemen 3 horse, 1 wagon 6 ghouls

He started by giving the 6 ghouls swords and arming 6 skeletons with crossbows in total there was 60 arrows so he had skeletons with crossbows stay in the cart with the ammunition. furthermore the skeletons had found an additional 6 swords in the now desolate barracks and he armed 6 more skeletons along with the armor from the now deceased footmen with better weapons but still keeping the old rusted farm gear in the wagon seeing it might be useful later on. He decided on having 4 ghouls stay in front of the cart that would be pulled by a skeletal steed. one skeleton would be the driver as the he then would ride a skeletal steed with his now right hand undead the headless horsemen. behind him he would have the remaining 23 skeleton do a column formation with the last two ghouls holding up the rear in the case of emergency. After sorting out his now growing caravan they marched out of the Vapon Kingdom now into the Xudo Empire unsure of where his caravan will be heading in forsaken world.

P.S.A
This was a story I wrote long ago and always wanted to continue I decided to redo it because I knew I could probably write this better then I did 2 years ago roughly, but I bet I still made some mistakes. Anyway I do plan on continuing this and want to try and have another post for this story done before the end of January lets stay posted.