Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

"Pierre-Ornée, Bough, good to see you two back, I already have a new job for the two of you" Agilulf Wanneck, King Of Tamaris welcomed his two closest guards himself, clapping his hands and producing a metallic clink from his fingers were covered with golden rings, adorned with precious minerals and gems.

His long beard swayed as a strong breeze blew through the gardens situated all across his palace.

The two warriors stayed silent and listened to his next words, but instead of speaking up, their lord walked past them, signalling for them to follow, walking through the immense corridors of the royal castle, built so large with the express purpose of being capable of housing all sort of species, a sign of respect on Wanneck's side.

It was also rather useful considering the size of his shield carrying personal guard, walking behind their king, it didn't take too long for the two of them to realise where they were headed.

Soon enough, they found themselves in front of an open room, even larger than the king's throne room, covered and filled with magical contraptions to aid in the matters taking place here.

"My Lord, how many are you going to summon today?" asked the halbardier, still not feeling like using the assistance of unwanteds to be a good use of their resources.

Guards and soldiers could be trained as groups and units, achieving sufficient results for a fraction of the cost, whilst an unwanted presence could be nothing more than a regular person, certainly capable of achieving great things, but just as everyone else, it wasn't worth spending so many precious materials and bother competent mages for the rarity of an unwanted coming with a useful ability.

"Is this…?" Bough was more interested by one of the mages that were going to work on the imminent summoning.

"Pierre-Ornée, we will summon two of them, a third, naturally summoned one was already fetched, it's this guy with the roundish glasses in the corner" the king first responded to him before turning to Bough.

Truthfully, the halbardier was also quite surprised seeing that mage here, but the money of his lord came before his own personal surprise.

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"I thought Rosemary never agreed to work for anyone" the shieldmaster trembled, Wanneck raised his hand up.

"What can I say, I just went to her myself and asked her nicely, and offered to provide some ressources for her students, how you demand things is very important, you can't just waltz in on anyone and make orders just because you are the head of a country" laughed the old king.

'You absolutely can'

'Isn't that a perk of the job?'

'That old man is pretty cool'

His two guards, and the unwanted that was already present here, albeit against his will, all had their thoughts on the king's wise words.

With a mage of Rosemary's calibre participating in the summoning ritual, it was virtually impossible for it to fail, the two unwanteds the king wanted would be summoned without any problem.

"Everyone is ready? Those that aren't participating, do not move from where you stand, and could someone close the door?" the red mage gave her instruction, once everything was put in place, she brought her hands together and didn't skip anything, activating the various portions of the ritual on her own, the other mages present with her only there to funnel mana into the grand spell.

Rosemary's mana control was well enough for her to handle to the rest on her own, it was like all mana bent to her will, the main circle around which all of them were surrounding soon lit up with a white and light purplish light.

From there, the room was drowned entirely with the two shines, forcing everyone to shield their eyes for the next minute or so, until it slowly began to die down, revealing two new people sprawled on the ground, looking terribly hungover.

The king would have liked to welcome them but they didn't seem very aware of anything at the moment, so instead, he asked for people's opinions on his two new recruits.

"From what I can see, each of their mana aspects are rather good, some training should prove rather fruitful in that aspect" Rosemary started, focusing a bit and it turns out that she could discern one's energy aspects all on her own.

"The girl seems athletic enough, the boy is not too shabby either…" Pierre-Ornée was pleasantly surprised, they didn't seem like failures, yet.

"Toby, show them what you can do" the king spoke to the third unwanted.

"Ah, certainly sir…" clearly feeling a bit intoxicated by the strong presence in the room, he just walked up closer to the king, looked at the two newly arrived unwanteds.

"The blond boy has an affinity for light magic, the girl, well, she seems to have an affinity for the four elements, hum, fire, wind, water and earth" he recited, not actually certain if the four elements he was referring to applied to this world.

"Toby here is a rarity, he has special system functions, let me tell you, our fortune is good with unwanteds, I must have been a saint in a past life" mused Agilulf Wanneck, being the only one laughing.

"Miss Rosemary, my royal mages, you are all dismissed, that is all I have to ask of you today" he bid his goodbyes to all of them, until only him, his two guards and the unwanteds remained in the room, two of them still very much lethargic.

"Since our two new friends are out of it at the moment… Toby, those two are Pierre-Ornée and Bough, respectively known as Halbardier and Shieldmaster, they will be the ones looking over you and showing you the ropes of enacting violence in the name of justice, but mostly my name, don't be intimidated child, be afraid instead!" the king smiled and simply left the room, wishing for them to get along.

Toby didn't try to meet the gaze of either of the two guards.

"Well then, have you ever swung a sword or any weapon like it?" Pierre-Ornée and bough could only focus on their new task.

At least, they all seemed to have some form of talent or special abilities.