The Beginning of magic

After Aaron told Brad what to do and multiple failures later the goblin's body finally began to move, Brad jerked back still somewhat afraid of the zombie. "Relax, it won't hurt you," said Aaron. " it's easier if you imagine that it's just a puppet, as long that it's under our control it won't do anything without an order."

Brad says "where do we go now?" Aaron responds "I have no idea, what we need to do is find a map or go to the town of Mirdis to the east." Brad nods and starts walking in the direction of Mirdis while practicing ordering the zombie to do basic commands.

For the most of the remaining day they traveled without seeing anyone else, this includes goblins.

They did, however, pass by many burned out farms and ransacked houses, finally on the 3rd day walking Brad spots a large amount of black smoke in the distance coming from the east. "Looks like the goblins have reached Mirdis before us." said Aaron, "walk carefully from now on."

As they neared the town the smell of decay and ashes filled Brad's nose, the town was mostly destroyed as a fire had burned through most of the buildings. "I sense life in the town, maybe some people managed to hide?" said Aaron, "go 3 streets down and take a left."

As Brad slowly moved forwards to investigate a group of 3 goblins stumbled out of a wreckage of a house, Brad yelled "attack!" to the zombie as he turned and ran. "Go back." said Aaron "its only 3 of them and the more souls I consume the more mana I can use." Brad raised his club and ran back towards the goblins.

As Brad got back he was surprised to see the zombie still standing, it looked like the clubs of the goblins had little to no effect on the zombie. "Of course these goblins can't hurt it." laughed Aaron "if they had more strength or a blade it would be much easier for them."

Brad rushed the goblins as they were fighting the zombie, it looked like they were panicking as they could not kill the zombie. Finally, one goblin noticed him as he got close and yelled a warning to the others, unfortunately, the zombie took this chance when they were distracted to bite the neck of one of the goblins.

Brad swung his club at the head of one goblin while the other was attacking the zombie, the goblin tried to dodge but tripped on some wreckage from a home and fell onto its back. Brad let out a round of furious blows at the goblins head as it tried to block.

Seeing this the final uninjured goblin smashed Brad on the leg causing him to fall and then it tackled him trying to bite his neck, "save me!" cried Brad to his zombie. "Wow." snorted Aaron, "a single goblin is giving you so much trouble, just hold his head and I can consume his soul like the other."

Brad raised his hands and grabbed the goblins head, almost immediately it's body went limp.

As this happened the zombie had finished the 2 very injured goblins, Brad took stock of their loot and found that somehow it was even worst then the first one he killed. "of course it is." said Aaron "if they had found anything of value then it would have been taken by stronger goblins, these 3 like the first one are weak and can only stay here and look for loot."

Brad nodded and asked, "can I raise these goblin's body's into zombies also?" Aaron replied by saying "you could but I can't, the only way I can get mana is if I steal it from souls now and the first zombie took 10 souls worth of mana for me even with your help." Brad thought to himself "if he got 14 from the instructors and one from the cave then used 10 and now 3 more he must have 8 left. So 2 more?" asked Brad. "yes, that's right. now if you could get me stronger souls then from goblins then it would not take as many to summon something as weak as a zombie." replied Aaron.