Sam, Arkiv, and Arman are sitting on a tree.
The crucifixion was already noticed by the feathered city.
The open patch in the middle of the forest is not exactly hard to notice. But the feathered didn't touch the bodies, they just surrounded the area and looked around to see if they could find the three of them.
But the three of them are sitting far away looking at it through the telescope. Soon, they saw a person who seemed to have a high status come out of the entrance and enter this patch.
He saw the two crucified bodies, but he didn't touch it. He only touched the two recording crystals which is almost part of the skin now.
He looked at his subordinates and said.
"Take them down first and examine their bodies, before you take them in and perform the burial. Take those recording crystals out and see what is inside."
The soldiers started taking them down and pulled the crystals out.
For the first body, the crystal pulled some flesh along with it as if it was attached to it by some glue, but it still came out. On the other side, the second crystal took something else out.
There is some metallic piece attached to the recording crystal and as soon as they pulled it out…
*BOOM*
An explosion happened and the purple smoke spread all over along with the bright orange and blue flames.
When the dust settled, the person who pulled the crystal was dead, the people that are near him are also dead. The rest of the group standing there are all infected by the poison.
They could feel their blood burning and their bodies feeling weak and corroding.
Even the person that came and gave orders was the same.
Sam who is watching everything through the telescope spoke.
"When will they ever be smart enough to not just pull down the corpses directly without examining them? One-touch and use of spiritual sense would be enough."
"No one thinks that someone would use the dead bodies to set traps like this. What do you think of everyone? As retarded as you? They think normally, they assume that you have the decency to respect the dead bodies."
Arkiv replied snidely.
"Respecting dead bodies. I don't think there is a place for morals and virtues on a battlefield, particularly when one side is overpowering the other with numbers, strength, and resources. The highest level of respect I can give them is to use any means possible for me to defeat them. Any more than that, it is impossible for now."
"Just imagine your dead body being used like that? You wouldn't feel good right?" Arkiv asked as he looked at Sam.
Sam chuckled at Arkiv's persistence on this matter. This is what he has been doing for a while. Even though he didn't object, he did make sure that he didn't like it.
"Answer me, Sam. How would you feel if it was your body?"
"If my body turns into a dead body one day, then I will make sure that no one else is alive around me to use like that, I will make sure that no one would come anywhere near until my body becomes one with earth."
Arkiv didn't know what to speak of that. Sam continued with a smile.
"I don't know why you are so aversive to this method. But since you are like that, I didn't force you to use them. But remember this, you cannot provoke an enemy and expect them to fight in a way you want, you cannot ask help from an ally and criticize them on how they help. Both of them are hypocritical and entitled."
With that, they left to do the remaining tasks.
Meanwhile, at the explosion zone, the people that are still hurting with the poison are squealing in pain and the feathered who are stationed on the city walls came looking for him.
They shifted them to the barracks and collected all the dead bodies that could be collected before giving them proper rituals.
After finishing that, one of the soldiers took the recording crystal which was placed on the first dead body with him.
Since the person who pulled this out is not too close to the explosion, he managed to survive with some wounds and poison. But the survival is not for long. They were taken into heal, but the healer has no clue about the poison.
While the feathered threw them in the temple pools to see if they could save them, the Queen and Priest are looking at the recording crystal which was safe.
They saw the recording of the two shadows feathered.
The Queen's aura raged like she was set on fire.
"How dare they? How dare they capture my sons? I will kill them. I will kill them." The Queen yelled.
"Queen Rata, you cannot do that. The Goddess ordered that their lives shouldn't be harmed. But you can do as you want as long as they stayed alive. But before you could do anything to them. We have to capture.
I think it is about time we release all the city forces to search for them."
"Send them then. I want my sons back alive and well. If they were harmed in any way, I will crucify them alive and torture them until they wish they are dead."
The priest left to pass the orders.
The queen who flapped her dark black wings similar to that of the twins and flew out of the temple and stood on top of the arch to look over the city as she observed the forces leaving.
She really is angry.
As soon as the forces came out of the city…
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
A series of explosions happened one by one within the city.
Necromancy really does come in handy.
The forces that flew to the skies were shocked and halted in their tracks, while the queen felt the horror for the first time.
All this while she is angry and that is that, but now that she knew her opponents have the ability to cause explosions in the city like this, she felt like she should be more serious and consider her moves well.
She went to the nearest explosion zone and there was only one dead body and the body parts.
This caused her to become angrier and wary at the same time.
She called for the priest and ordered him to send all the forces and search for him properly without any delay.
And then she passed orders for a curfew.
After sending the soldiers out and arranging a camp for them right next to the city gate, she passed new orders.
A curfew was placed on the whole city.
No one should come out of their houses until they were ordered again.
Only a team of people will be moving to give the necessary rations of the cultivation resources and food they would be needing for the next few days until the situation changed.
So, as soon as Sam sent an undead acting like a living feathered inside the city, he was taken down easily, even though as soon as they caught the undead, Sam made him explode the grenade causing some damage, the precautions taken were still impressive.
After this incident, the rest of the infiltrators were attacked from afar without even touching to avoid unnecessary damage.
Sam who is observing this all, felt really impressed and surprised.
These measures are really decisive and proper.
If only the Silva city king took such measures, they would have lasted long. The Queen here didn't care if the people would complain or think that she is weak or they would panic imagining there is trouble, she decisively shoved them into their houses.
"Not bad. Let's go prepare for the next step. Before we ask for the exchange of the hostages and the fragment, we have to show her our strength.
Unfortunately, there is no stream passing through the city to show we can affect them differently, but we can do the same thing as before. Let us block the routes once again and strip them off the resources for now.
Also, let's attack the city walls in different positions and show them their weakness and finally kill as many soldiers as you can let the wights and ghouls make them undead and bring them to me. I will send some new gifts to the base instead of the city like they expected.
Let us see how they would manage to handle this. And Arman, you are in charge of the two shadows for an hour every day, pay them as you like, and record the video, we will send the daily updates to the Queen.
If by any chance the transcendent stage cultivators and the queen herself decide to join the fray, focus on running and hiding. Let us not engage with them for the time being.
I don't think we would as lucky as before for the Goddess to get angry at another ruler here.
Arman, I want to know details about the Queen. Every small one of them."
