Rise my legion! (1/3)
Author's note:
From now on, I will record all changes that are made in UMI at the end of the chapter.
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[DAY 25]
Neo gained his ability to control undead only after his SOUL reached LOW STAGE 1 SOUL.
The ability allows Neo to bring already existing undead under his control. What Neo is wondering, however, is whether his number of undead he can control is limited. So he decides to test how many undead he can control with his ability.
He started to connect with every STAGE 0 UNDEAD he could find wandering around the nearby streets. First he bonded with five undead at the same time, then he tried it with five more undead. As he tried to bond with one more, Neo could feel for the first time what happens when he overuses his soul.
If Neo overuses his Telekinesis ability, derived from the TRAIT: MIND, too often and too much, his head will feel like it's being sliced into 1,000 pieces. After that, he can no longer use his abilities for a few minutes.
But what happens when Neo overuses his soul?
The answer is an indescribable feeling, as if Neo's existence itself was being destroyed. He couldn't move or talk and only after three hours was Neo able to move again, but his entire existence felt stiff and tired. He decided to meditate for a full 10 hours to fully heal the damage.
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[DAY 26]
Overall, Neo was not satisfied with his results. If the number of undead he can control is just so small, then he could never build the legion he so badly needs.
How is he supposed to get his revenge then? In order to forgive himself, Androld must die! At all costs! Neo therefore decided to get back to work immediately after recovering. He had a bunch of other experiments and theories about his power and he needs time to execute them.
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His next experiment was how many STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD he could control.
He ordered the 10 undead he still had in his control, to die first and then found some STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD after sometime searching in the nearby area.
He was lucky with his enhanced senses of his STAGE 2 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY he was able to find a group of suitable undead. However, they were currently fighting a smaller group of survivors. There were a bunch of STAGE 1 Undead and 15 Survivors which looked exhausted from constant fighting. There where 12 man and 3 woman with different melee weapons. Some had just a pipe in their hands, others used an ax or spears.
Neo decided to intervene and make short work of the humans. But he killed the survivors differently than usual. He decided to do two experiments at ones, therefore he killed the survivors by bitting, something he's doing for the first time. He decided to create an undead himself.
The 15 or so survivors died quickly on after antother, Neo's enhanced body and speed was just too quick and at the end they were all bitten and on the ground. Meanwhile, Neo decided to turn his focus towards the STAGE 1 for now.
There were seven STAGE 1 in total. Of them four had the STRENGTH and two DEFENCE TRAIT the last one seemed to be something special. He had five normal undead around him and was able to strengthen them somehow. They became faster and their strength seemed to increased slightly. Not as much to be a STAGE 1, but they were defenetly stronger than your averrage STAGE 0. They also had small yellow threads on their skin which is most likely the undeads endoskeleton which seems to slightly burst ot of the undead. Neo was most interested in this new variant of MUTANT UNDEAD and therefore started to study it more precisely.
'Mhm... how about ENHANCE as a name for the new TRAIT? What do you think Elly?' Neo thought as he tries to connect with the new mutant undead.
"Emily, agrees with Host, that should be an appropriate name for his TRAIT. Also, his ABILITY should perhaps be called BERSERK? Does Host Agree with Emily's suggestion?" asked Emily.
"Yes, that sounds good" Neo said with a smile.
After a few minutes, Neo was able to connect with five undead STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD. More seemed to be not possible for now. Among the undead he controlled were two STRENGTH, two DEFENSE and the new undead.
While Neo examined his new undead more closely, the 15 undead he personally transformed rose up behind him.
Neo was at first prepared to feel the side effects of his soul being overstrained again. But after a few seconds, Neo still felt nothing and therefore decided to examine the 15 undead more closely, first.
All of the 15 undead he created already had a turquoise thread which connected to Neo's soul core in his world of darkness. The undead Neo creates seem to be connected to him after they emerge without Neo having to do anything, but turn them in the beginning. Even better was that the undead didn't seem to put any weight or pressure on his soul. On the contrary, Neo could swear his soul got a tiny bit stronger after the 15 undead rose again. If it is true that his soul can get stronger by creating more Undead which join Neos Legion, than that would mean that the stronger Neos Legion is, the stronger his soul can get too.
"HAHAHAAHAHHAH... So I can create my endless legion after all. I wonder what happens when my undead under my control transform other humans. And what is with my soul? Can I really grow stronger with every undead I create. If I had known that before I would have turned every human I came along until today. Well it nevertheless is a great side effect." Neo said with a big smile on his lips.
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After some excitement he decided to experiment further with the STAGE 1.
The two STAGE 1 STRENGTH UNDEAD which Neo will call Attacker for short, seemed to be on LOW level. They were both about 200 cm (6 foot 6) tall and were muscular. But the most striking thing is that her skin color was slightly reddish. Normally all undead have pale, almost sickly looking skin, so this is noticeable. Also, their extremities seem to be larger, otherwise the STRENGTH TRAIT doesn't seem to offer any abilities, so the TRAIT, at least in its current form, seems to have only passive physical enhancements.
The same goes for both STAGE 1 DEFENSE UNDEAD which Neo will call DEFENDER. Both are approximately 180 cm (5 foot 8) tall and have dark light armor around their bodies. Without any style, this armor is simply molded around the body for pure protection. Neo is already familiar with the DEFENSE TRAIT, it changes the skin of an undead so that it can block all bullets up to 50 caliber. However, larger rockets or shells can still penetrate the armor.
But this armor isn't like Neo's demonic armor, especially since his armor was created from his REGENERATION TRAIT and therefore can regenerate and comes from a STAGE 2 MUTANT UNDEAD, so it's more robust than a STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD.
At the end, is the ENHANCER. Its body is smaller compared to the rest at approximately 161 cm (5 foot 3) and it should be around LOW Level too. His skin is pale and he has yellow/red threads all over his body running down. Otherwise, five normal undead appear to follow him, although Neo has no control over them. Maybe the ENHANCE ability could have an attractive effect on normal undead? Anyway, Neo tried to get the undead to use his BERSERK ability and with a thought from Neo, the ENHANCER followed his command.
"AHHHHRAAA" screamed the five undead around him, while their normal red eyes suddenly shone yellowish, also 10 of Neo's normal undead screamed, however the othe five undeads of Neo didn't. From then on, Neo began to record the time and only after two minutes did the glow go fade.
"So the ability lasts for a maximum of two minutes... mhmm only undead STAGE 0 seem to be affected by it and a maximum of 15 undead seem influenceable." Neo said as he looked at the ENHANCER.
"Well, your ability will serve my legion well. I'm just wondering if STAGE 1 has a higher intelligence than STAGE 0?" Neo asked as he picked up an ex-human's ax and handed it to one of the ATTACKERS.
The ATTACKER grabbed the ax with great force and attacked a wall with it when Neo ordered it to. The ATTACKER hit the wall with the axe, but because it used all its power, the wall collapsed along with the axe. The ax was destroyed and Neo ordered the undead to stop. Afterwards, the ATTACKER followed his instructions and stopped.
"Mhm... undead higher STAGE really do have a higher intellegent, STAGE 0 can't even hold weapons, but STAGE 1 can even attack with them. They just don't seem to be able to control their own power, but maybe STAGE 1 could train to improve their control, but this should require further experimentation in the future.
Neo decided to call all undead above STAGE 0 the Elite of the Legion. They will become Neo's spearhead and will fight along his side. Meanwhile, all other undead will serve as simple soldiers.
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After going through all the traits and exams with the STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD, Neo decided to expand his legion further, he needs more undead soldiers under his command. Luckily, the district that Neo is currently in is populated with quite a few people.
The city in which Neo is currently at, is called Abeus and is a medium-sized city with around 20 million inhabitants. The city is divided into five districts. The central district where Camp Luma and most of the survivors are. The East District, which used to be known as the entertainment district, has a lot of small gangs like the one that killed Neo's mother inside it. Then there's the South District, which used to be the city's slums, with almost no survivors there. Then there's the West District, where Neo was when the apocalypse broke out, mostly rich people lived there. Finally, there is the banking district to the north, where the Redinker military outpost is located. Neo thinks that a lot of survivors should also be their, while the military should have around 50,000 soldiers their, maybe?
Anyways, Neo's ultimate plan is to attack the North District, but for that he will need a larger legion. Therefore, Neo decided to conquer the east district where he is currently and then take the central district with his legion. Eventually he would lead his legion towards the military outpost north and kill Androld who is most likely there.
"HAAHAHAHAHAH ... Androld you can't hide much longer, for what you've done I'll slowly and painfully finish you off." Neo said with an evil laugh and then went back to work building his legion.
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UMI CHANGES:
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NEW: ABILITIE TYPE: PASSIVE ABILITY (Explanation: An ability that enhances the body of the Undead in a specific way)
NEW: ELITE OF THE LEGION (Explanation: All undead above STAGE 0 are the elite of Neo's Legion)
POWER CHANGES:
Neo will separate his ability to bond with undead from his SOUL ABILITIES and name it LEGION. All ABILITIES that affect undead under his control are immediately classified under LEGION ABILITIES.
Neos three major powers will be renamed to BODY PATH, SOUL PATH and LEGION PATH
LEGION CHANGES:
ATTACKER = BODY: LOW - HIGH STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY; TRAIT: STRENGTH; PASSIVE ABILITIY: ENHANCED STRENGTH
DEFENDER = BODY: LOW - HIGH STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY; TRAIT: DEFENCE; PASSIVE ABILITIY: ENHANCED DEFENCE (ARMOR)
ENHANCER = BODY: LOW - HIGH STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY; TRAIT: ENHANCE; AKTIVE ABILITIY: BERSERK; PASSIVE ABILITY: UNDEAD ATTRACTION
ABILITIES:
ENHANCED STRENGTH (Explanation: The undead's strength is greatly increased and will further grow with the body)
ENHANCED DEFENCE (Explanation: The undead's skin transforms into hard and sturdy armor that withstands most melee weapons and can block firearms up to 50 caliber)
BERSERK (Explanation: Slightly enhances the strength and speed of at most 15 undead around him ,that are one level under his Stage)
UNDEAD ATTRACTION (Explanation: undead with this ability will attract lower undead)