The Grand Necromancer's Plan

In Esper the battle between the Grand Necromancer’s advance force and Marcial of the Skyward Eye’s expedition continued. Marcial had learned from their previous engagements and regiments of archers and heavy infantry formed an impassable line. A small group of champions would volunteer to lead the attack into the hoard of undead, charging into the massed corpses. They’d destroy many foes before finally being felled, but another group of volunteers would take their place. Slowly but surely they ground through the undead, until the Grand Necromancer’s commander was forced to withdraw. Marcial’s hand was stayed but his commander’s orders, preventing him from pressing forward, much to his displeasure. Instead Marc Pio instead kept their forces tight and continued to gather resources in preparation for the oncoming invasion.

In Jund the Grand Necromancer himself continued to harry the Munashe tribe, but to his dismay stumbled into a trap set by Imanu. The cunning Nacatl had gathered a host of Gargantuans and unleashed them on the Grand Necromancers forces. Scores of zombies were crushed underfoot as the great beasts charged, and Kathari were tangled up in the webs of giant spiders. Falling back the Grand Necromancer rallied his force and counter attacked in strength. The Gargantuan’s were resting, so it was left to the Elves, Humans and Nacatl to hold the line. While they used ancient relics to prevent the Grand Necromancer from reanimating his forces over and over, but this didn’t stop the undead from pounding them down. Imanu was forced to press the Gargantuans back into the fight, but this time there was a solid wall of dead between them and the Grand Necromancer. Interspersed amongst the dead were the creepers, dangerous beasts with poison potent enough to fell the Gargantuans. The stand off was broken by a cabal of living shaman under the Grand Necromancer’s sway. Blasts of lighting flew out from the group, wreaking havoc among the Munashe, and Imanu was unable to counter attack for fear of getting all the Gargantuan’s killed. Eventually he was left with no choice but to flee once more before the Grand Necromancer’s army of the dead. The Grand Necromancer gathered more corpses for his force, now determined to move through Jund and into the land of Naya. Teeming with life as it was he was sure that he’d be able to carve himself a great empire.