Not wanting to dally longer than needed, you dig into the roasted duck prepared for you, eating ravenously and loudly. A few annoyed looks are thrown your way. No matter, they aren't the ones who've starved for days. Halfway finished with eating a greasy wing, the tussle upstairs seems to have escalated.
A mighty crash can be heard, followed by a yelp and a drawn-out groan. You summon your knife with your hand underneath the table, just in case. A loud roar issues from upstairs, and you jump from your seat as a man is kicked down the stairs, smashing into a pile of barrels. The man upstairs, barrel-bodied and shirtless, with sickly, pallid skin, shrieks madly, holding his head as if it were about to explode.
The man in the long, black cloak extends his arms towards the bestial man, and the air grows denser. The brute begins falling limp, and tumbles down the stairs, landing atop the first man.
You and the other bar-goers inspect the two fallen fighters. The first, though heavily bruised and splintered, is still breathing. The bigger one, however, is stiff and cold. You've known death well enough to know that this man has been dead for a long while. You turn, looking for the cloaked man.
You see him bolt out the door, hopping on a horse and riding off with another cloaked person. He turns and looks at you balefully, before turning his gaze at your knife and urging his horse to go faster and farther.
Losing your appetite, you prepare to leave.
"What do you think happened, Savior?" you ask, hoping to make it to the town of Brightstreams before it gets too dark.
Another necromancer, the same as I. Much more inferior, of course. I assume he hid that brutish creation of his in his room upstairs. My presence and overwhelming aura seemed to disrupt his control and caused it to run amok.
You clap gleefully. Savior really is the greatest! "That was great! You sure showed them, huh?" You stop smiling as a cutting pain pierces your mind.
Nothing to be proud of. I'm weakening. I couldn't control what I did; and in my experience, lack of control is disastrous.
You mull over that, and soon you reach the front gate of Brightstreams. Unfortunately, you don't have an army to besiege it and massacre all inside, but you really don't need to, according to your Savior.
The town of Brightstreams is renowned locally for being a trading hub for wealthy merchants and wayward adventurers. The quality of life is double, if not triple, than your own town of Redridge. (Though the quality of life in your town now is a bit 'rotten') There are plenty of taverns and inns to stay the night, and many shops and amenities provided. Near the center of town, where the streams flow, is the mansion of the local lord.
You enter the town, one step closer to Brutalos, and one step closer to your General.