An Unwelcome Hero - shadow slave

In a forest to the north of Assai six 'things' ran in the woods. One of them, who appeared to be the leader held a mummified corpse, wrapped in a black bandage. The most interesting part was, that the mummy's body wiggled in intervals and increased in size bit by bit.

*Ah, ah, ah, yeah, stayin alive! Stayin alive! Ah ah-* in Chiron's old world there was a special maneuver for when someone's heart stopped and the best suggestion was to time it in accorcande to a popular song, which Chiron now adopted the rhythm of, so that he could artificially pump his own blood. With this, he kept his own body barely alive, as he had nearly no nutrients left in his body to recover with.

Chiron kept the manual pump going, as he stayed awake and kept watch over the six humans taking him somewhere. *Yes, my pretty little Echoes! Take me to a cave.* Hours passed, as Chiron and his team reacher a cave, where a mama bear and her cubs lived... Emphasis on lived. They were killed almost instantly by the W warriors escorting Chiron.

They passed her and finished off 4 cubs inside the passageway and placed Chiron against the wall. He was fully awake and could finally open his one good eye, which was somewhat blurry from not having seen direct lighting for weeks.

He lifted a finger and a large team of humanoids appeared in front of him. He looked around at his legion and grinned in his head, his body was too broken to do anything besides that. *20 humanoid echos! Now THAT is what I call reaping what you have sown!*

He had killed thousands of men on the battlefield over the months and amassed a massive amount of memories. His total amount is exactly 350 memories and 20 echos, which were all humanoid echos. After gathering so many examples, Chiron had learned something about Aranai human Echoes, that put into perspective the humanoid VS nightmare creature Echoes. Most of them were useless.

Some memories were destroyed due to his fighting, the main culprit being his new favorite memory, but he had survived and had hundreds of memories he could do anything he wanted with! His latest haul was truly the best!

Echo: 19

Utility: 130

Armour: 38

Weapon: 40

Charm: 81

If he ever left the nightmare spell and sold even just a fraction of his memories after, the amount of money he would get would be enough to fill up with soul cores and even buy some better memories... That is if any of them were useful! They were all dormant memories! While dormant memories can sell for good money, as he has nearly 100 weapon/armour memories, he can most definitely sell them and make enough money to live. A decent life. He only had 2 non dormant memories he would never give up and considered his own, the assassin's rags and the blazing glory bracelet.

Memory: [Blazing Glory]

Memory Rank: Awakened.

Memory Type: Charm

Charm attributes: [Spark], [Last]

Memory Description: [a bracelet of a long forgotten fire witch. She was known for her special pyromania, but what she is known for the most is the blazing glory she went out in]

It allowed him to create a small spart, that sat something on fire, which would last as long as the fuel did and said fuel was either the essence he would have in the future... Or the essence the memory contained itself!

The Spark Burner Soul Essence, that is the main effect of the fire, the blazing glory only creates said spark, so Chiron needed to be extra careful to never set the memory itself on fire. That's the main reason he had lost so many weapon memories.

His Echos on the other hand were mostly normal humans, with a variation in their attributes and appearances mainly. The specialization attribute being the only thing setting them apart, combat wise.

They were identical to the first echo he had gotten, all being simple common soldierly, with conscious being shared amongst all 20 and each having a variation of the spearman trait. Some swordman, some axeman, one Bowman and etc. some had a third attribute, such as the first common soldierly he had received, but in every group there is always one that stands out, even in a group of standouts.

Echo: [Talented Recruit].

Echo Type: monster.

Echo Core: dormant.

Echo Attributes: [Humane], [Spearman], [dormant].

Echo Description: [A talented young man, who was thrown at an unbreakable pillar he would call brother soon by the people he swore to protect previously, just to see if the pillar would crack eventually]

His description and attributes were different, his type was also different, but Chiron couldn't see anything special about him. The only observation he could make, was that he was more expressive then the other soldiers he had gotten... And he seemed to have been the primary caretaker of his along with being the one directing the others.

After processing everything quickly, Chiron devized a method to recover the fastest he possibly could and began with first step *As they say, a journey of 1 thousands steps starts with the first!*

Chiron's body gradually expanded, until he felt like his body was about to burst open and his blood vessels were left with thin and weak blood. He couldn't do more and his heart had long since restarted, as he gave it more than enough space to continue beating.

Chiron looked at his men and concentrated his one good eye on the Monaster one "Butcher the *cough* bear, find a set- *cough" -tlement to sell its fur to, find medical herbs and buy as many of each ty- *cough" -pe you can. Assign 3 of them to take care of m -*cough"- e, 2 to gathering wood, while you take the rest to hunt wild be- *cough" asts and bring them back here. You choose which ones to assign which t- *cough" -ask."

After Chiron said that, his eyes closed almost automatically, as he began toppling over and almost fell onto the hard ground.