"Well, well! A lone traveller, how atypical, empty your pockets, whatever is inside shall be the price you pay for your life" it went without saying, but Loimos had been approached with such demands a whole lot more ever since he had begun entering the mountain range surrounding Tamaris, the population of bandits and other low-lives varmints was rather dense, in two ways actually.
Ranging from incomprehensible blabber to rather sophisticated demands such as the one that was in the process of happening, the diversity in highway folks population was surprising, they were much like goblins, everywhere, adaptive, group-oriented, generally lacking in advanced thought process and not exactly pleasant to look at.
"Did you not hear him? Give us your valuables, lone wanderer!"
"Now that I think about it, it really is very uncommon for people to be alone in this part..."
"He is carrying a sword too"
"And that mask is a bit creepy"
"How come no one else intercepted him before us anyways? They would have jumped on a solitary traveller"
The well-spoken bandits started looking at one another, and then back at Loimos, who had taken a step forward when they weren't paying attention.
He rose a wall of soft rot in front of him, the singular force of one rock was poor, but there were a lot more rocks coming, expanding his rot forward, he immersed himself in and using the speed boost moving through his own creation granted him, he soon found himself in front of one of the small ball of fluff.
Grabbing it by it heads and popping it like a rotten orange, with his enhanced strength from much murder, absorbing of death force and decaying of many things, it was awfully simple to kill these feeble creatures, although it turns they packed quite the weight for their size, stacking up on much fat.
After crushing one skull, stomping on one and exploding another with a kick to the stomach, the hairy horde scattered back in the caves, probably not finding this activity worth it, however, going into the caverns wasn't the wisest move, the undead easily sealed the entrance off with some rot and then unleashed miasma directly inside, suffocating them all to them all the while continued on walking forward.
But of course, the screams of the little one's attracted other dwellers of the snowy mountain, another hairy creature decided to show up, this one had its ugly maw visible for all to see, which was a dark blue colour and possessing an oversized nose, probably to counteract the fact that air was scarce up there, not brawny but thin and with long arms that it used much like a gorilla would.
Its stomach area was similarly uncovered of fur and hollowed out, letting out a howl, Loimos scanned the surroundings for more like this guy, but he turned out to be all by himself, a lonely monkey man of sorts. Explore more adventures at empire
Rushing forward with wild abandon for no discernible reason, the monster leapt up in the air, swinging both fists down on the skeleton's head.
In response, the undead took one step to the left, raised one fist up, and hit the monster squarely in the jaw, rattling its brain around in its skull just as it landed down on nothing, sending it stumbling away like it had just drank a whole barrel of booze.
Walking up to the defenceless aggressor, he grabbed both sides of his head, giving it a good twist, breaking the ape-like creature's neck.
So far, so good.