Zero appeared just as Alana finished off the commander. As she began glorifying herself, he immediately sucked her soul out of the possessed body.
"No, you don't."
"DARN!"
"Yeah, better luck next time, buddy."
Alana now had a small shadowy horn sticking out of the top of on her head.
Though none of them noticed….
Releasing Alana's spirit, he walked over to Skull Lord's remains and crouched down, his eyes scanning the corpse carefully.
She saw zeros clothes torn and battered but he looked completely fine.
*Looks like he met his match…*
hohoho~
"what are you laughing about?" Zero said still focusing on skull lord.
"Nothing hehe"
"Mmm…ok…about skull, did he take most of them out?" he asked.
He placed his hand over the body, brushing away dust and debris.
"Yeah, he did. But you knew he wouldn't last long."
Zero stood up and shrugged. "Had a feeling"
Then, raising his staff high, he sent a wave of necrotic energy across the battlefield. The command washed over every undead with the tide: "Bring everyone to this spot."
"Did you see my awesome power?!" Alana continued excitedly.
"Some of it..." Zero said while creating a massive magic circle around Skull Lord's large corpse.
"That's all?"
"Eh, just expected more."
He turned and walked toward Rolland's impaled body.
"You know, if you just gave me control..." Alana tried again.
"Nope," Zero denied flatly.
He approached Rolland's staked form.
"Now this, though—this is evil." He pointed at the grotesque display.
"Yeah, I got a bit carried away, hehe."
"You think?" Zero jabbed verbally.
He says while drawing a small magic circle under himself.
"What do you mean "you think" let's not talk about the calamity you most likely unleashed on those unfortunate towns. I can't even begin to imagine the extent of terror you inflicted on them. For chaos's sake!"
*I certainly could, imagine that * she thought to herself.
Zero smiled his face knowing. "Ha. your right"
"I will be back shortly to resurrect those bodies keep everything moving until then"
He vanishes in the magic circle
"There's certainly new sharpness to him. I can tell."
Alana remarked while looking off into the distance.
Zero appeared in the next town to find Augustus gently petting Arceus, both battered and broken.
He smirked, cheerfully skipping up behind Augustus before knocking playfully on the back of his skull.
"HEY THERE, KNUCKLEHEAD!"
Augustus startled slightly, but relaxed as Zero came into view, still skipping as he moved in front of him.
"Sir?"
Zero walked closer, cradling Arceus's head and running his fingers over the deep cracks in the skull.
"You guys are really banged up, huh!" he grinned.
Mana began exuding from Zero's body in visible waves. This caused numerous long necrotic strands to emerge from his aura, flowing toward Arceus. They covered the damaged areas, stabbing into the cracks and sealing them shut—repairing missing fragments and weaving new bone seamlessly into place.
Augustus watched in fascination before his legs gave out, his body no longer able to support him as his mana reserves hit empty.
After Zero finished mending Arceus, he turned his attention to Augustus. "Your mana must be completely depleted. Let me replenish you."
Augustus lowered his head in submission.
*Until the time comes, I must submit* he thought grimly.
Zero placed his hand on Augustus, channelling restorative energy through him as well.
After restoring both their mana and physical condition back to normal, zero immediately turned and using his staff sent a powerful wave of necromancy across the entire town.
Augustus stood up, Arceus came up beside him. He remained silent, watching Zero intently work with calm observation.
Zero began creating a massive resurrection circle, extending his staff as he channelled power into the formation.
"I'll be back when all the bodies are piled up. "
Disappearing using his magic circle.
He teleports to each town
Alana's town and resurrected the whole Populus of 4,000
Then came back to Augustus town of 2750
Left then went back to the two smart void-spirits town of 1,200.
Then the second raid, zero went to, had a Populus of 4,500, which he resurrected.
And the first one he raided, had a Populus of 2,000.
All resurrected, with the number of pre existing undead, was 3,607
His total tally of dead now is...
18,057