5. Path

Rise put everything down in one spot of his hut, except the ice which was put outside and used to help make more tents. With this increase in material, Rise went over to the other corpses. Nothing new for most of them. But one of them gave a sort of token with an ice wolf skeleton.

[Ice Wolf Skeleton Mount.

Job: Mount.

Race: Undead Skeleton Ice Wolf.

Potential: Green-Rock-Beginning Common.

Tier: White-Copper-Elementary Common.

Racial Talent: Undead; Due to being undead. The mount needs not food, water, rest, or other things that a living being needs.

Skills: Gale; The mount becomes 25% faster(passive).

Remark: This is a unique item that can only be gotten by someone with the Snow Necromancer talent tree.]

Well, Rise finally knew what his talent did. But this was only the beginning, if he could get mounts like loot, then what about dragons? No, no, he needed to stop thinking that, better to be realistic right now. As the loot was finally all placed in 'storage' Rise left. When he got outside, he saw several igloos. A large igloo was closest to his hut, and many frost vampires were in there. They were cheering happily as Blue told them the story of how Rise defeated the pack leader.

"Our Lord is quite powerful!" Wendy exclaimed, her loyalty raised to 65.

"Powerful? Not just power, very powerful!" Another corrected Wendy. The lowest loyalty currently was 63.

Rise leaned against the igloo doorway, he listened to the conversations inside. He looked down with a look even he didn't know how to describe. It was like joy, solemness, happiness, miserable. Rise learned from a young age to never trust others, with one exception. He remembered his time in the black void. There were black memories, but one was a golden memory.

A young boy had a smile full of youthful hope. A young girl with an excited expression, both were five. The girl was giving the boy a polar bear stuffed animal, Snowy.

A headache forced Rise to hold his head. He shook his head and got rid of the ache. He didn't want to remember that time, he wished it never happened. But then again, he wouldn't have Snowy. The young boy breathed in and out, a common technique to get rid of stress and anger, whether towards someone else or something else. Yet despite his anger towards that certain memory, his eyes softened. He couldn't just forget her, she gave him so much to live for, yet in the end she was just like the rest of them.

Rise sighed in the end, he decided to go to the graveyard. He was going to see if he could equip this mount to the skeletons. As the young Lord walked across the deep snow, he thought about his life here. It was nice here, he didn't think he'd ever say that again in his life, heh. Sure he was fighting for life in a cold tundra, but at least he could fight back without the fear of going hungry for a month, kind of. Reaching the graveyard Rise saw there was a new notification for it.

[As a reward for somehow not dying to that ice wolf pack leader, I'll allow you to choose a evolution path you'd like to follow.]

[Current Paths:

(True Offense) Blood Fiend: A horrifying abomination that feeds on the flesh of others like a zombie. But with extreme power that could cut down mountains with ease at their peak.

(Mixed Defense/Offense) Death Knight: Towering skeletons with huge tower shields and great swords. Slow, but when with a mount, basically a flying tiger.

(True Defense) Zombies: Immortal and instantly regenerating flesh whenever cut. No matter how many times you cut down a zombie, as long as their caster remains, they'll never stay down.

(Mixed Defense/Magic) Forgewraith: A spirit made from the soul flames of evil people. Their magic is incredible hot due to dying in extreme heat temperatures. However, due to dying in such extreme temperatures, they have a sort of immunity against the environment.

(True Magic) Lich: This undead is a summoner and curser. A true patron of the dark arts for sure. They're able to curse entire countries to death on a whim.

(Mixed Magic/Offense) Necromental: A subspecies of an elemental. This elemental features the offensive power of the dark arts and undeath. As well as providing the means of magic.

Please select two to add to your army, a main force and a supporting force. 0/2.]

Rise read over the paths three times, each one had amazing pros and cons. But Rise was as bias as a politician. The young Lord loved magic, so the lich was chosen as the supporting unit immediately. Then the death knight was also selected, well Rise was just about to give them a mount...

Soon six graves changed to be bigger, each one of those six graves had a sword and shield badge on it. The last four graves change to only be slightly bigger, but there was a hooded skeleton as its badge. Rise equipped the token mount for the skeletons.

Then the two remaining skeletons then dusted, and from the dust they reemerged once again. One was as big as a meter and 75 centimeters. The other became taller to a meter and 50 centimeters. The tallest one had thicker bones and the other had their bones more compact and condensed. Yet still not as powerful or as durable as the other. Each one rode a skeleton ice wolf pack leader. They still had the same equipment however. But Rise wasn't complaining.

If he could get a blacksmith and more tailors in the future... as well as upgrade the graveyard. He was destined to fudge up those he didn't like. A callous smile appeared on his face. Finally, vengeance was near, all those who wronged him. Heh, he'd rather see it happen.

With night approaching, Rise felt better. This time, he wasn't going to let others trample over him, he was going to make them all pay. Especially her.