[Western Continent, Vast Desert]

Moving on what seems like 12 tons of huge Scorpioche, Asmaveth then sat in a crossed leg position on top of such monster while covering himself with the shadow shade from the Scorpioche's tail. Behind him a trail of about 4 more Scorpioches were following him in a plane formation, as such monster were originally killed by his undead Scorpioche and was later turned into undead itself, which is under his command.

With such force beside him, any smaller monsters could be seen avoiding the group as none of them dared to go against such dangerous monsters such as the Scorpioches. After all based on the parameters of this environments food chain, the Scorpioches are somewhere around near the top of the food chain due to how dangerous and big they are. What's more with the special skill of the Scorpioches which is the "desert walk", such monsters could ignore the effect of terrain in their surroundings and enable the Scorpioches themselves to walk normally even in soft ground.

However despite that, there are still some monsters who are brave enough to challenge the might of the Scorpioches and attack them while initially laying in ambush. However despite such an attack, the Scorpioches still managed to win as they took down the monster and forced it to retreat from their presence. Practically at this very moment, Asmaveth is residing the one of the best safe place in this harsh environment.

"Hahaha this is really fun, i couldnt imagine in my whole life that i would be able to spend time with monsters such as your caliber... Im really enjoying our time together"

"You know what maybe having this power isnt so bad after all..."

"I never really got your name, hey scorpy! Do you have a name? If you dont have one, i could give you one.... You dont? Alright let ne think of something"

"How about Anthony? Too fancy? Alright.... Hmmm, how about sherbet? Too gaudy?.... How about edgar? Edgy?.... Maybe Paul? Too generic?.... How about lets just stay with scorpy? What do you say?"

As Asmaveth was talking to the monster to relieve his sanity, he then smiled afterwards as he thought that the monster had agreed through the minimal actions it did on its arms and eyes. With that the Scorpioche name was now established as Scorpy, due to Asmaveth's intervention.

As Asmaveth was spending his time on the back of the Scorpioche, he then went silent as he tried to remember where he came from and what he did which puts him to this situation.

Asmaveth was originally a child from the country side near the borders of their kingdom. As a child her grew up as honest and kind child in which everyone in the village adorns, however despite being loved by the village people, his affinity and compatibility to death energy completely outshines every single person in the village.

Of course this country itself also has its own culture, its culture is somewhat near the culture similar to early israelites in the book of romans. They have their own culture, belief, religion, and even own kings and queens who goes by the title of sultan.

Their religion is somewhat similar to the church during the time of Jesus the nazareth. Not too much kind, not too much corrupt, an equal balance in which desire and pride run the place aside from greed. And based on their religions beliefs, people with death magic as categorized as cursed children born from the union of human and demons. Of course this is just hearsay without further proof, after all both of Asmaveth's parents were humans and none of them were demon, so it was impossible for him to be a child of one.

However despite on what he belief, the perspective of others people says otherwise. So the moment their own religious leaders heard his circumstances, a massive operation was then ensued under the name of crusade. With such name, the army of the religion charged towards his village in order to apprehend him, of course the village chief refused such order since Asmaveth was an innocent child. However due to the village chief's answer, he was then beheaded on the spot as the crusaders proclaimed that the village in under the influence of the devil's child, so in that turn the crusaders recieved orders to kill everyone in the village under the name of the country's major righteousness and proper justice. With that a massive massacre ensued which ended in everyone he knew death's

Of course since everyone was killed, he was immediately captured and was locked up inside the town of tekoa for who knows how long, locked up ina prison deep beneath the ground with no light ever reaching that deep. Due yo being locked up, Asmaveth lost count on how many days he had spent in being a captive in this dark place.

Not long after he was then pulled out from his cell together with some other prisoners, as they were all let out to move to another area. In that moment for the first time in a long while, they then saw the light as they were all transported to an unknown land in which they have no knowledge.

At first Asmaveth thought that they were going to be forced to mine an area for the rest of their life, but the moment they reached the place, all they see was that they were being surrounded by a huge group of hooded figures, who were doing some ritual for the stone platform in the middle of the formation. Of course in that one moment one of them were pulled towards the stone platform, as Asmaveth realized what they ere brought here for.

The moment he saw one of the prisoners being killed in the platform followed by pulling out its organ to offer it to some demonic being, Asmaveth then knew thag they were being offered up as a sacrifice for something they don't even believe. Just like that one by one the prisoners were being pulled to the platform as screams and bloodshed echoed throughout the area.

Old, young, woman, man, anyone in the category was killed and no one was spared. In that moment when his turn was next to be offered up, he then saw and felt the knife being punctured to his body, as the perpetrator begun pulling out the knife and butchered him from the chest down towards the guts.

Of course he screamed and cried in pain, for once as he was being offered up, he remembered the incident in the village as he saw his parents were killed right before his eyes, the children were butchered, and people were slaughtered.

Slowly losing life and stepping into the abyss of death, Asmaveth made his one final last wish, which became the catalyst to summon something not of this world and something horrifying.

Snapping back to reality, Asmaveth tried as hard as he can to remember what kind of creature that he had summoned out if his desire and cling to life despite at death's door. But despite not remembering who he had summoned, it was also a matter of fact that such a thing had actually saved his life and given him a second chance.

The only downside to the blessing or curse he has, is that hr is now a necromancer, an someone who exudes death energy to the surroundings, which prevented him to go to populated area.

In that moment, as Asmaveth was enjoying his short and peaceful atmosphere, a volley of arrows and bolts rained down from the sky as it literally bombarded him with multiple detonating arrows and bolts which made Asmaveth to panic for his dear life.

Of course even the Scorpioches he had revived ba l into his minions were taken aback as some got injured and forced to dive deep down into the sand to recuperate.

After that bombardment was finished, Asmaveth begun to look at the direction were the attacks came from as his eyes shot wide up, when he realized that his pursuer's were right next to his doorsteps.

With a war cry, the Tekoa town brigade force charge up towards him, which forced Asmaveth to control his other Scorpioches to intercept the town brigade forces. But the moment he did this, Ester who was the captain if the Tekoa town brigade, then transformed into an eagle as he bypassed the undead Scorpioches and rushed towards the target and leaving the minions to his unit.

The plan was for Ester to fully capture the target all on his own in order to regain his pride when he let the target slip through his grasp in their last encounter. This was also done since his reputation was on the line and as a repayment since some of his men died in the initial encounter with the target and was killed due to his indisiciveness.  Plus he was the only one who have the capability to restrain the target without immediately getting affected by the death aura of the target.

Even though he still has no clear clue on how he was able to somewhat resist the targets aura that much, he would still use any mean he could get in order to accomplish the task given to him by mayor Zoabi.

As for his own units, they were tasked to take down the target's undead minions using the powerful blow they could muster. So while his own men deal with the minions he then attacked Asmaveth while bypassing the defenses of the Scorpioche guarding him.

As the clash between two sides erupts, Rueben loaded his bolt over and over again, as he fired away and hit all the vital parts of the scorpioche in order to take them down earlier. After all in order to rise in ranks, he would need to take all the credits in capturing the target, which would lead him a wealthier lifestyle.

So with that, after assisting some of the units, he then begun to load and aim on Asmaveth, as he plans to use the it against the target and claim all the credit for himself.

But just as he was about to fire away, a huge Scorpioche rose from the sand behind the long rangers, as it rampaged and blew everyone away in just one slam. Additionally some of the units didnt manage to get away in time as they got snapped to death by the Scorpioche's claws or impaled by the Scorpioche's tail.

With a curse, Rueben Quickly made his move as he aimed towards the undead Scorpioche, and fired them away in hopes to bring the monster down as fast as he can.

So while the units were handling the other Scorpioches, Ester transformed into Giant lion which is the same size as the double floored public bus of england.

With that Ester smacked down the Scorpioche the Asmaveth was riding, as he smacked it away once more, before sending it flying to a distance away from them.

As the Scorpioche crash landed from afar, Ester then turned towards Asmaveth as he showed his bare fangs as a giant lion, and lounging towards the target. However just as Ester jumped towards Asmaveth, the Scorpioches quickly got up by utilizing the sand around them with a rush and quickly caught Ester's ankle, before slamming down to the sand.

At that Ester coughed out some sand and saliva, as he growled and attacked the Scorpioche that grabbed his ankle.

As the fight goes on, Asmaveth slowly got up and tried to get away from the location itself. But just as Asmaveth was about to escape, Ester bites down of the Scorpioche 's tail, as he threw it over his shoulder and made it crash land infront of  Asmaveth.

Overpowering even the Scorpioche, Ester then roared like a real lion as he ran up and clashed against the Scorpioche, which got one of its claws around Ester's mane. With a screech, the battle goes on as both huge monsters roared right one after the other.

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