Necron: The Legend Of Rezar DeathWind

Chapter 74: The Goblin King (V): The Diviner

Rezar had an overdue one on one conversation with Gynaika, just so that he could know exactly where the loyalties of her and her people lay. Basically he had to establish the grounds of their partnership, they were still slaves, however they were runaway slaves, and while didn't mean much, in any other city in Elysium things would extremely difficult for them, so he had to know if they were willing to serve, or if he had to use stricter methods to get them to fall in line.

But he wouldn't deny that they've been a big help so far, not that everything they've helped with couldn't have been managed on his own, but with their interference, it has certainly been a lot easier. But that talk would have to wait for later, right now they had to make plans about how to deal with the Goblin King and his army. Normally an enemy with army of 60,000 would be problematic, but Rezar was more than confident that he would be able to trike hard and decisively at the Goblin King's army.

"What is it you need to talk about?" Priest said as he looked at the newly resurrected Hob-goblin and wrinkled his nose in annoyance, seems the old man was getting tired of being surrounded by undead, or was it something else, he was present in the battlefield after all.

Gynaika was followed by her attendant, a small teenage girl that had tribal tattoos stretching down the side of her arms. The wild tribes had a particular race of their own, after a bit of discussion with priest Rezar learnt that they were called the Ifa. A race of humanoid shamans and warriors that were quite attuned to the supernatural side of Elysium, but they were basically still considered barbarians.

But never the less they were quite useful in the fact that they're some of the fiercest warriors to roam the land. Gynaika was an asset, especially with all her weird classes that seem to help her see the future, which ultimately would also help in the fight against the goblin king, at least he hoped it would anyway.

"We need a plan of attack against the goblin king, Lenore and I feel it would be best if we utilize some guerrilla warfare tactics, hitting them and running whilst getting rid of important resources within their bases. Frankly speaking they outnumbers us 12 to 1 and quite a few of them are players which means they'll keep coming back to life after they're killed.

But that would also be to our advantage as we would be able to raise the ranks of our own forces by resurrection the goblins that are killed. I just wanted to know if anyone of you had any suggestions to be utilized in this fight, or if you have a different plan to be utilized."

Before he was stuck in a dungeon for 8 months, one of the many lesson Priest had tried to impart on Rezar was the fact that all good leaders can do great things alone, but the best kind of leader is the man who has people who can do great things, and in turn he would be the greatest of all leaders. At first it didn't make sense to Rezar, but now he understood it, a good leader can do great things alone, but a great leader can achieve the unthinkable with the help of loyal people by his side.

"A guerilla style attack would do great, but I would advise you to attack their base directly and lay waste to it." Gynaika said with a small smile. That confused everyone here as they turned to her in surprise, that would be suicide, with the force they had, even if they were undead, attacking their base was nothing more than suicide.

"I know you all think this is a bad idea, but I lay it all out for you. In my previous life, which was actually the 10th life I lived as an upload, I was born with a rather unique trait. That Trait was [Eye of Elysium] and it served me well as the previous high Priestess of the temple of Athena. I know war, maybe a lot more than you do Rezar, after all I did serve a goddess of war. But that's beside the point, I was born with that same trait in this life, and that trait has afforded me two unique classes that leaves the outcome of every battle pretty much open to me.

The first is the [Soul Shaman] class, and the second is an advanced form of my first class [Priestess]. This class is called [Diviner], and you don't have to take it from me about how powerful or dangerous this class is, you can ask the priest." Rezar was annoyed about the fact that she was beating around the bush, but he turned to Priest just as she had pointed out and he noticed the old man with his jaw hanging halfway down to the ground, then Priest turned to look at Rezar then said.

"Compared to her, all three of us are just trash!" Rezar raised an eyebrow at that, he didn't agree with that statement, he was awesome, but given how Lenore did not have a change of expression but a dull look on her face, Rezar suspected she actually agreed. Just what sort of fucked up class was the [Diviner] anyway.

"While many have lived and died so many times in Elysium that they would have forgotten that this is a virtual world, it is still one. And from what I can remember Elysium is running by an Independent program that is a culmination of 367 individual consciousness. Which are vestiges of the people who were responsible for its creation, its one brain with multiple parts doing different things. Its conscious but at the same time it's not, the most attractive thing about Elysium was the lack of AI's in any sort of controlling position.

Which means no one could mess with the codes of Elysium, at the very least until the [Necron] was created. But there's a special class that works similar in the way the Necron works, its quite rare, and at a time there cannot be more than three in a single generation. That class is the [Diviner] class, and with it, it's possible to read the codes of Elysium, to read its programs and its events. While it's not reading codes in the literal sense, it's a class that's capable of knowing the past, and the present, and capable of predicting the future of Elysium to a limited degree.

So basically I'm saying if she so chose, she can tell you exactly what your passed life is like, tell you what you did yesterday, and tell you what's happening somewhere else this current moment. Reading the future is a bit harder, but if she decided to do so, then it is possible."

It was impressive, but Rezar didn't want to spend time marveling about it. She had already made mention of this some time back, even if she didn't give too much details. But at the very least right now, he would be able to get some answers from her about this goblin base she insist they have to attack, so he gave her a nod asking her to continue.

"The Hob-goblin Tetum has received orders from the goblin king to go wipe out a small town of High elves deep in the forest. The town was just upgraded, and its mostly an industrial town, so they won't stand a chance. However, learning a lesson from us kicking his ass just an hour or so ago, he's taking his entire force with him. He has also not had time to report to the goblin king that his encounter with us ended up in a failure, he wants to wipe out the elven town first before giving a report, that way he could at least reduce his punishment with that achievement.

The base would be practically empty and ripe for the taking, we can sack the place and burn it to the ground before they get back. With their morale down, we can pick them off one by one by setting traps for them along their route back." Gynaika said as she smiled, all too sure of her plan, which if Rezar had to be honest was all too good.

"But shouldn't we help the elves? We can create a bond with them that will help us against the Hob-goblins" Priest asked as he turned to look at all of them, almost unanimously Rezar and Lenore turned their heads to Gynaika to hear what she thinks.

"That's a waste of time and resources, even if the goblin-king did not set his eyes on us, eventually even that elven town will come hunting for us. However, we don't have to do anything to bring them our way. After the attack from the goblins the elves will lose, I've seen their military force, that place is basically a town of craftsmen and farmers. The only other direction they'll be able to run towards is us, and we'll be there to save them by destroying the goblins.

They'll have no other place to go, and quite frankly that would leave them at our mercy. We won't be their equals, rather they would be subservient to us, and that's better than having to share the same cup. The only way to truly become strong is to take control of the wild lands, and the forces in the forest would be our first hurdle to cross. We don't have time to make friends, we can get betrayed that way."

Such a suggestion was as brutal and as heartless as they came, but they all agreed it was the best plan. Neither Rezar or Lenore were against it, and even Priest was good with that. There was no room for morality or chivalry, they were not paladins or the church or any of the other religious powers. Their leader was Necromancer, the dark side of doing things called out to them all too easily, and that's what they would focus on.

"Gynaika I need to talk to you, Priest? Lenore? You guys make any preparations you need to make and get ready, well leave as soon as the cabin finish construction, so rest up if you have to. Priest you will be our rear guard, so the territory would be left to you to look after. Gynaika come along." And with that said Rezar walked into the tunnel that was used to torture a hob-goblin, with Gynaika not too far behind.