Establishing a Better Power Base

You gave yourself a decent army base. The skeletal forces and slaves with your imp minion as your second in command made for a decent **** at this stage. But you needed more, as your best is just skeletons with more power and better equipment. If you were to claim your house and take the humans' pathetic empire, you were going to need more powerful allies. There are all sorts of things you could have done for a first move, but some allies to pull into your ranks might be best.

And not just any allies, but allies that would find themselves fanatically or mindlessly loyal to you. Some demons would be nice, but that would take too much work and effort that you don't have right now. You can't really risk any sacrifices or expend your own magical capabilities quite yet. In life, you'd say they were "late game". Yet, it would also take too long to learn how to raise other undead creatures.

"Zazz'raqk, dear. How is your study of the library? Found anything worthwhile?" Fabricated, short-term memory had you remember the great library in the castle from the former vampire lord that owned this castle. You and Zazz'raqk had split duty to read through the books to find anything worth of noting. You remember not finding anything useful, but hey...have a little faith, right?

The imp chuckled a bit as he just said, "I have found something of interest, Mistress Countess. And I think it's something that you might find very, very good."

You stop brushing your hair and looked back to your minion with a raised brow. You just left the question be silently asked as he continued with his joyous explanation, "I had discovered the other day, a journal from someone who was a part of the court of the previous owner. And within it, is the location of some minions that they had angered and resulted in the fall of this castle...Not sure if they are still around as this was a long time ago, but better than nothing, yes Mistress?"

You begin to grin as you stood up from your chair, only to kneel down and grace your imp with a kiss on his head. You thought the cute little bugger was going to have his heart burst out his chest as he looked so happy with himself...and of course his eyes were trained straight for your bountiful cleavage. It's surprisingly fun to tease the poor dear.

The grin stayed on your face as you said, "Excellent work, my little Zazz'raqk. Tell me, who are these servants the journal spoke of?"