chapter 14
Inside the large tent.
Leonard was currently sitting and facing all the commanding officers of the Evergreen army that was stationed at the border, of course sitting among them was Vandal, the mood was very tense within the tent. Vandal then spoke up.
"So...Leonard...mind telling me-"
"Why I am so handsome?" however he was cut off by Leonard joke to lighten up the mood.
"Shut up! Tell me why you're here?!" Vandal shouted at him.
"Jeez, I came here to help, happy now?" Leonard replied back to Vandal.
"Leonard-" Vandal was about to shout back, however one of the officer there stopped him and asked Leonard a question.
"Who are those knights that were with you? Are they the enemy?" he asked.
"Well they're the former enemy, but they serve me now," Leonard replied back.
"What? Did they betrayed their kingdom?" one of the officers whispered to another.
*cough *cough then a coughing sound interrupted their gossiping.
"I one to ask you one thing, third young master." the old man that Leonard saved back then in the battlefield asked him.
"Please ask away," Leonard told the old man.
"Can we trust those knights?" the old man asked in a serious tone.
"I can guarantee their loyalty," Leonard said sternly.
The old man was in silent for a moment.
"Alright, I vouch for the young master." he raised his hand and declared.
"-but-but…they could betray us!" one of the officers asked in a worried tone.
"But if it weren't for them, our army would have suffered a much greater loss." the old man told the worried officer.
"If you're so worried about my knights' loyalty, I can guarantee that they will go as far as to die for my causes if that's what you like to hear." Leonard chimed into their conversation.
"How are you so sure about that?! They're people of the Rosen kingdom!" the same man who questioned his minions' loyalty spoked up once again.
"Called in for one of my knights, I will show you," Leonard told them.
The man now looked at Vandal. "Just do as he said." Vandal told him.
A minute later, a Rosen knight was escorted to the tent, facing all the other commanding officers.
"How are you going to prove his loyalty?" the man asked Leonard.
"This of course." Leonard then pulled off the knight mask.
Instantly the entire tent was shocked as they witness the knight face that hid under the mask.
their face went pale as they look at the knight.
The knight face was all battered up, missing teeth, bloody gashed, an eye missing, and maggots crawling out of the empty socket.
"What is that unholy creature?!" one of the officers said with a horrified look on his face.
"Behold my fellow audience, to my latest creation! The perfect soldier! Fearless in battle has no need for food, water or any necessary, they will never rest until they fulfilled their order...the zombie knight." Leonard introduced the zombie that he has created a while back.
The tent immediately went into a loud uproar.
"What?! Zombie soldier?! You mean all the knights that were with you are dead?" Vandal shouted out in shock.
"Oh yes, that's why I can guarantee their loyalty, because I am their creator, and they could not exist without me," Leonard told him.
"So you created them? Mind if I ask...where did you get the corpses?" the old man asked him.
Leonard then pointed at the officer that lead the reinforcement army to the northern border.
"Me?" the officer pointed at himself with a questioned and confused look on his face.
"You left a bunch corpses on the roadside, I just took advantage of that….I just wish that you could at least leave most of the corpses as a whole instead of random bits and pieces here and there…. it takes a while to sort out the good corpses." Leonard told the man.
Who just laughed awkwardly. "I just...got a bit carried away." the officer said.
The incident was quickly sorted out since Leonard revealed the fact that he could use magic to create zombies to fight for him, and none of the knights that he brought with him is alive, so that solved their loyalty issue.
Leonard also took this chances to try and asked them to incorporate his zombie into the army as well, surprising they all agreed, however, Leonard has to stay far away from the battlefield, just like his brother Vandal, and in return they will send him some of the corpses from the enemy that they manage to pull out, they specifically state the enemy part, and not the corpses of their own knights.
Back in Berlin, the mayor estate medical ward.
Richer was laying on one of the bed in a half-dead state, surrounded by nurses and doctors.
"....just a little infection he said…..not going to kill you...or so he said…." Richer spoke those words weakly.
After the battle he had with Leonard, he fell sick the day afterward after being scratched by the spear tip.
"Did you find a solution for this yet?" the mayor asked one of the doctors.
"Mayor...we have never seen anything like this before in our life….we gave him medication that would reduce fever and such...but it doesn't seem to work...this disease is seen to be like that of a magical curse...I advise you ask a priest or an alchemist to come over and check...because we absolutely have no clue on how to handle this." the leading doctor told the mayor.
"Damn it! Aren't you a doctor?! You can't absolutely do anything to stop this disease?" the mayor shouted at him.
"Being a doctor yes! However we've been trained to- at the most treated wound and normal diseases, not one that of a magical origin!" the doctor retorted and then left with the other doctors and nurses, leaving only the mayor and Richer alone in the room.
"How are you feeling?" the mayor asked him.
"ugh...I feel sick...my bone feels like glass….can't barely move my limbs…." Richer told the mayor weakly.
"Damn that shitty son of mine….." the mayor curses his son Charl under his breath.
"Don't worry, I'll invite the member of the church to come over and check you out, just hang in there, old friend.." the mayor told Richer and then headed out.
"...I swear...after I'm feeling better, I will find that bastard Charl and beat the living shit out of him…" Richer curses in his mind.