>>6283108
>NAME: A'NUN 'VILEBEARD' ZYTREC II
>TITLE: The Bloodied (Demonology, Quality Minions and Strong Rituals)
>Gather/Summon an army and prepare for a Siege. Hopefully we can get a good bargain.

>>6283108
>Vilebeard
>The Mystic (Arcane, Jack of all trades option)
>Gather/Summon an army and prepare for a Siege.

>>6283108
>Vilebeard
>The Mystic (Arcane, Jack of all trades option)
>Just start lobbing spells over the walls for a few days then demand they surrender and make you ruler.

>>6283108
>Vilebeard
>The Mystic (Arcane, Jack of all trades option)
>Gather/Summon an army and prepare for a Siege.

>>6283111
>>6283113
>>6283143
>>6283158

You are Vilebeard, The Mystic! You are the mighty wielder of ARCANE MAGIC! You will see this world fucking bow down and grovel to you!

Every proper EVIL RULER needs an army! Unfortunately, you've not got many minions running around- you've got the token homunculi here and there, and the obligatory goons, but nothing proper army-like.

You spend the next few weeks recruiting the mongrel races (You know, harpies, goblins, orcs, the like,) nearby your tower, some by flattering words, some by offering loot, some by vaporizing their original tribe leader and threatening to do the same to the rest, as well as summoning a small horde of Arcane elementals. They're not the best in melee or most durable, but they're decent at lobbing magic bolts at the peons that defy you, and are decently intelligent and actually loyal.

Over the course of around 2 months, you've shitstompoed most of the mongrel and wild races near your tower and have assembled a rag-tag army, and have completed the construction of a Battering ram and a few siege ladders and towers.

Unfortunately, your conquering spree has not gone unnoticed, and when you arrive, the garrison has manned the walls and prepared for war, with a good chunk of the guard outside to meet you in open combat and prevent the siege machines from reaching the walls.

You order your legions forth, the collection of tribal warriors and summoned elementals surging forth in an wild charge. Annoyingly, the fucking guard do not buck and crumble like they should, but are quite clearly losing, even if they're killing many of your army in return, and the towers from the walls keep firing wildly upon your army, increasing your losses.

>Join the fray, killing anyone who looks important by lancing their head with a bolt of carefully aimed magic.
>Hurl bombs of arcane energy at the towers to cease their pitiful attempts at archery!
>Rain destruction upon the feeble forces of good fighting your army! Annihilate them like the specks they are so that your mighty warmachines may ravage their precious defenses!
>Bah! You will conserve your mighty magic for the true fight in the city, this fight shall simply weed out the weak amongst your warriors!
>write in

>6283162
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>Rain destruction upon the feeble forces of good fighting your army! Annihilate them like the specks they are so that your mighty warmachines may ravage their precious defenses!
I figure we might as well show off for our minions. Best case scenario we get Bowser-Tier Loyalty out of them. Worst case they learn not to betray us

>>6283162
>Hurl bombs of arcane energy at the towers to cease their pitiful attempts at archery!

>>6283162
>Bah! You will conserve your mighty magic for the true fight in the city, this fight shall simply weed out the weak amongst your warriors!

Rolled 2 (1d3)

These meddlesome insects will cease their barrage of pointy sticks at once! You take aim and a swarm of purple orbs erupt from the ground, careening through the air and exploding upon the ramparts. The hail of arrows lessens as the defenders are blown to bits and others scramble for cover. You see a few unlucky sods fall from the wall as their section of the wall crumbles, careening head over heels, screaming all the all until they fall.

A few opportunistic harpies use this as a chance to dive-bomb the ramparts without fear of being shot out of the sky, further ruining the chance for them to launch another hail of arrows, though some overestimate themselves and are cut down in melee combat.

Your army takes the upper hand in the main engagement, your ranged troops no longer splitting their focus between the walls archers and the guard in front of them.

Your Battering Ram is in the thick of the fighting, and is moving frustratingly slow as the defenders cluster around it, desperate to stop it from reaching the gates. However, your siege towers are now advancing rapidly, the wall's defenders not able to shoot nearly as effectively.

>Begin destroying the defenders who dare try and impede your Battering ram.
>Continue firing upon the ramparts to further hasten the siege tower's advance.
>Use a spell to conjure an massive arcane hand to FORCE the ram through the melee- you'll crush your men, but theirs as well!
>Command your elementals to ignore the enemy and focus on pushing the ram.
>write in

>>6283205
>Use a spell to conjure an massive arcane hand to FORCE the ram through the melee- you'll crush your men, but theirs as well!
Hell yeah

>>6283205
>Use a spell to conjure an massive arcane hand to FORCE the ram through the melee- you'll crush your men, but theirs as well!

>>6283205
>Continue firing upon the ramparts to further hasten the siege tower's advance.
No need to focus on the ram when the towers work just as well
Hell, if we’re going to capture the city instead of raze it this way might be preferable

>>6283205
>>Use a spell to conjure an massive arcane hand to FORCE the ram through the melee- you'll crush your men, but theirs as well!

>>6283205
>Continue firing upon the ramparts to further hasten the siege tower's advance.

Incompetents and Slackjaws the lot of them! You chant, and a giant purple claw manifests above you, and rapidly flies towards the battering ram. It grips the hastily constructed warmachine and shoves it with great force.

It carves a path through the fight, crushing and flattening both your allies and the meddlesome guard. More guard than your army, but plenty on both sides. The sudden crushing path of the machine decisively turns the battle outside the walls in your favor, the guard splitting itself in two to try and stop your Ram's advance and other to fight the remaining horde, both getting cut down with their reduced numbers. The battering ram reaches the gates and mercilessly pounds them until they break.

Both retreating defenders and attackers flow into the city. As you make your way into the city, you note that a good chunk of your army has split off for wanton destruction and raiding according to their instincts- they are causing some defenders to break off to try and deal with them, and no doubt it's taking a shit all over their morale- you saw some orcs chopping down people running out of a burning building and chortling about it, but it's hampering your army's effectiveness against the main blocks of resistance blocking the way to the central palace in the city.

>Leave your minions to deal with the defenders and make your way to the palace yourself
>Take some time to find some more competent looking minions and order for them to protect you and make your way to the palace
>Make an example of those that have run off to fulfill their petty desires by killing them- they aren't helping anyways.
>write in

>>6283471
>>Leave your minions to deal with the defenders and make your way to the palace yourself

>>6283471
>Leave your minions to deal with the defenders and make your way to the palace yourself

>>6283471
>Take some time to find some more competent looking minions and order for them to protect you and make your way to the palace

Your goal is the conquest of this city, plain and simple, and you want to get it done FAST.

You make your way across the city, killing those that get in the way, but trouble yourself with little else- you run into a few squads of those that seem to have been tasked with hunting for you, but a few guardsmen who have never seen real combat are no real threat to you. Still, they slow you down a little, and when you get to the front of the palace, a "welcoming party" has been prepared for you.

A large group of soldiers in stylized white armor, led by a tall green-haired man with two swords, and.. ugh, an ABJURATION mage in white robes. These must be what passes for the elite guard in this city. You're pretty sure these are the commanders of the army- most ruling nobles in this part of the land tend to be shit at anything resembling real fighting instead of pissy 1 on duel saber duels where you just tap people with dull blades.

The green-haired one starts yakking on with a long speech about how you're a piece of shit and how he's going to ram your head up your ass. Or something about peace and justice and protecting innocents, you don't really care. You cut him off by trying to cut off his head with a disc of magical might, but the white-robed wizard raises his hands while chanting and your spell fizzles out, and the soldiers, lead by the mosshead, charge forth.

Ugh, this is going to be annoying.

>Fire off an overwhelming barrage of low-level spells to try and make the enemy wizard slip up.
>Put all your might into a large spell as fast as you can- the shit-wizard might not expect you to go full throttle so fast and even if he does manage to block, he'll surely be exhausted!
>Conjure a projection of yourself to command your minions to get their asses over here and help you already!
>write in

>>6283644
>Fire off an overwhelming barrage of low-level spells to try and make the enemy wizard slip up.

>>6283644
>Conjure a projection of yourself to command your minions to get their asses over here and help you already!

>>6283644
>>Fire off an overwhelming barrage of low-level spells to try and make the enemy wizard slip up.

>>6283644
>Realize that im doing all this because I am an incel and turn myself In To the authorities

>>6283644
>Fire off an overwhelming barrage of low-level spells to try and make the enemy wizard slip up.
Damn we shoulda gathered some minions

You spam-cast the ever reliable magic missle in an unending stream. The charge momentarily falters as the soldiers balk at the sudden blizzard of magical bolts, but the green haired man roars and re-rallies the charge. The wizard hesitates for a moment, wasting his energy on trying to counter the barrage of spells, but then closes their eyes and begins chanting a spell to enchant the armor of the soldiers.

While many of your bolts simply ping off the enchanted armor, some slip through the visors, or simply hit the faces of those that have only equipped armored caps. A few drop dead instantly, while others simply stumble, injured, but still alive. The group charges through the hail of bolts, reaching ever closer as more of them fall.

>Continue the barrage, they shall fall in this futile charge!
>Take the opportunity to smite the wizard with a lance of purple lighting as he's distracted!
>Who says wizards are weak in melee!? MAGICAL WIZARD DEATH BLADE, GO!
>write in

>>6284110
>Take the opportunity to smite the wizard with a lance of purple lighting as he's distracted!

>>6284110
>Take the opportunity to smite the wizard with a lance of purple lighting as he's distracted!
Fucking Abjurors, they're almost as bad as regular jurors.

>>6284110
>Take the opportunity to smite the wizard with a lance of purple lighting as he's distracted!

You grin as you cease your casting of magic missile- you clasp your hands together, extending your arms straight, and as the soldiers surge forth, a flash of violet lightning arcs from your hands and lances the abjuration wizard in the chest. He realizes too late your strategy, and lets out a scream as he crumples to the ground, and the enchantments rippling across the armor cease. You're... at least 65% sure he's not actually dead. Abjuration wizards tend to have a bunch of bullshit cast on themselves before they enter battle, but he's at least out of the battle for a good while as he lies there, smoldering and twitching.

As the first man closes into range, you are able to punch through his chestplate with a simple lance of energy now that they are no longer protected by magic, but they fall upon you, but you are forced to dodge and scramble, conjuring minor shields to deflect blows and flinging sprays of arcane needles when you can in the melee.

The green-haired man is the most annoying- he is either incredibly brave and determined, or incredibly fucking stupid to the point where he can't feel pain. He constantly presses the attack, and often dodges your close-range spells simply because you didn't think anyone with a working brain would try and keep attacking in his situation instead of dodging.

You aren't winning by any means, but you aren't losing, either.

>Release a magical explosion to push away the swarm of enemies.
>Apply your advanced intellect to adapt to the green-haired man's tactics and whittle him into a fine paste of dead meat.
>MAGICAL WIZARD DEATH BLADE, GO!
>Expend a large portion of your energy to quick-summon a few elementals behind the soldiers and get them to fire in their backs
>write in

>>6284314
>MAGICAL WIZARD DEATH BLADE, GO!
We've held ourselves back for long enough, nyeheheheh

>>6284314
>Release a magical explosion to push away the swarm of enemies.
Explosion!

>>6284314
>Apply your advanced intellect to adapt to the green-haired man's tactics and whittle him into a fine paste of dead meat.

>>6284314
>Shout at the top of your lungs that non of this had to happen if a women accepted you advances instead of choosing a martial over you.

>>6284314
>Apply your advanced intellect to adapt to the green-haired man's tactics and whittle him into a fine paste of dead meat.

>>6284314
>Release a magical explosion to push away the swarm of enemies.

The green hair knight isn't explosion resistant. So this deals with two problems at once.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

Screw this clusterfuck, you're going to make some breathing room by making some fucking corpses!

You duck under a pitiful swipe by the green-haired captain, and chant the words of power. A ripple of lines spreads into a giant circle made of purple light filled with arcane symbols with you in the center. The soldiers barely have time to react as a wall of arcane energy erupts from the center, throwing them away like rotten tomatoes aimed at a pillory.

Many of them simply drop dead, but a few struggle to get up- and you put an end to that as you launch of precise barrage of lasers to all of them still crawling on the ground. Suddenly, you a sword careens through the air- you evaporate it before it reaches you, of course, but it appears the green haired captain did that fucking thing where he had one last badass moment before fainting while still standing up without you noticing.

You raise your hand to blow off the head of the green-haired captain, but scowl as a shield ripples around the captain. Great, ab-fuck is back up, though he's bleeding. However, before you can start pounding away at the pitiful barrier, the wizard speaks.

"W-wait! We surrender!"
You scoff at his offer- without a proper commander, your disorganized rabble should win eventually regardless.
He continues
"If you spare us, we'll order our men to stand down- less of yours will die that way!"

Ugh. The wizard seems like a sensible one (as sensible as someone who specialized in fucking ABJURATION can be- just be a fucking cleric, man.) but the green-haired one is no doubt going to be a bitch to keep around as a prisoner. Absolutely is going to try for one of those shitty prison breaks where he gathers a cavalcade of characters and one of them dies holding off the guards mid-way in a emotional moment. Disgusting.

Well, your goal is to conquer the world rather than blow it up- at least for now, maybe establishing that you accept surrender and speed up your conquests in the future?

>accept the offer.
>accept the offer, then kill them after they've sent the message.
>"Nah. I want a wizard duel." *Blast him.*
>write in

>>6284690
>>accept the offer.
>"However, you," *point at wizard* "Are in for a wizard's duel when you heal. I want to know if there's even ONE abjurer who actually is worth the title of wizard!"

Which will inevitably end up as this, when he counters all of our spells and doesn't have anything offensive of his own: https://youtu.be/VV0A4gOJFlM?si=Et8qaW3PLSZZzVKV

>>6284692
+1

>>6284690
>accept the offer

>>6284690
>"Nah. I want a wizard duel." *Blast him.

"Our men" are a monstrous savge horde we press ganged from the local region, and promissed loot and bloodshed. If we start to run low we can just go around other regions grabbing more.

>>6284690
>accept the offer
Though if we know anything to enslave these bastards let's do it. Less emotional sacrifices in the dungeons that way and some of them might make useful cards to play.

>>6284690
>accept the offer.
But execute green later

You stroke your (Vile)beard and think it over.

Well, it's not like you're particularly attached to any of your "men" you recruited, and you can just summon more elementals, given time, but having to slow your momentum to build your army is a pain in the ass and might bite you in the ass eventually.

However, you fucking HATE ABJURERS.
"Fine."
The Abjurer looks visibly relived, but pales as you follow up.
"However, you, are in for a wizard's duel when you heal. I want to know if there's even ONE abjurer who actually is worth the title of wizard!"

It's not like Abjuration itself is a distasteful school of magic- it's just fucking asinine to specialize in it! His reaction is proof enough! What the hell is the point of learning all those counterspells and shields and enchantments when all it means is that you depend on some other chump to do all the actual fighting and all you can do is stall once shit hits the fan!? A proper wizard in their position would relish the idea of a chance to kill you! JUST BE A CLERIC AT THAT POINT!

He grimaces, but accepts. You both send out instructions for your men to stand the fuck down (one of you having to threaten to start blowing off heads if they don't cut their shit) and eventually, the leaders of the city are chucked into the dungeon, and you sit on the... well, it's not a throne, those are for kings and emperors, this was a governor...

Bah! you're going to rule over the land anyways, so it IS a throne now!

So... what now? You have a somewhat proper base of operations now- your dark tower was luxurious, but not really fit for a base to set up conquest. The monster hordes and tribes will have no doubt heard of your victory and will begin to flock under your banner, but news of your conquest will slowly spread as well. However, some interrogation in your spare time reveals that everyone expected some orc warboss was gathering up the tribes again, so they didn't send out any messages indicating that a badass evil wizard was going to kick their asses and they needed help.

Currently, you've chucked most of the former inhabitants of the city into prisons and shit, and your army has just kind of been trashing the city and welcoming new arrivals.

>try to establish an actual chain of command beyond you threatening to start disintegrating people if shit doesn't get done
>enslave the populace and force them to start setting up the military industrial complex for your conquest so your warriors can use weapons that aren't pieces of scavenged shit
>momentum is key- wait a bare minimum amount of time before preparing for the next target
>write in

>>6285150
>>try to establish an actual chain of command beyond you threatening to start disintegrating people if shit doesn't get done
We can't overextend. Chain of command, 'employ' the population, then move on once we have the process shaken out.

>>6285150
>try to establish an actual chain of command beyond you threatening to start disintegrating people if shit doesn't get done

>>6285150
>>try to establish an actual chain of command beyond you threatening to start disintegrating people if shit doesn't get done

An actual chain of command is needed at some point, and you suppose you might as well set it up now- even if your army all perishes like shitters, it'll at least give you some insight into how to manage this shit.

As far as you're concerned, the first order of business is to set up a proper right-hand to take care of shit and hold down the fort whenever you're not available to deal with any problems that crop up because you're no doubt tackling even greater, more urgent problems. After a brief scrying of your army, and perusing what counts as battle reports for the unorganized mob you've used to overthrew this city you've seen a few candidates that seem suitable for the position.

The first is a Gnoll Matriarch that was surprisingly tactical and cunning during the siege- her tribe took few casualties, and set to looting the best weapons and armor they could the minute the instructions were sent out. Has spent the downtime torturing the former citizens in various ways.

The second is a bear beast-kin that rampaged his way across the enemy lines, destroying and crushing all in his way. An unambiguously impressive warrior. However, he seems to not actually command any other beastkin or allies, and is just a lone warrior that happened to join up with you.

The third is a goblin shaman that seems to have sway over most of the lesser greenfolk in your army. You remember he was one of the few tribal leaders that were smart enough to see the writing on the wall when you appeared before them and joined indecently hastily. Knows a surprising bit of necromancy- nowhere near a wizard even half your strength, but somewhat impressive, nonetheless.

You should probably meet them in person first even if you're dead-set on one- just to double check, of course.
>call up the gnoll
>Call up the bear-kin
>call up the goblin
Of course, these are hardly the image of a perfect right hand, perhaps you could
>spend more time searching for more options.
Or even
>these are all fucking terrible- you'll just MAKE a right hand man! ...Will take a bit more time though.

>>6285312
>call up the gnoll

>>6285312
>call up the gnoll

>>6285312
>>call up the gnoll

We can probably make use of all three of them, though the bearkin is probably the least immediately useful; we don't know if he's a good leader and he would probably need training to be anything more than a figurehead or rallying point. The goblin, as a necromancer, would probably work well for logistics and support.

>>6285312
>call up the gnoll