Chapter 595 (1/2)

We readied ourselves while being led by the people of the merchant association.

Lovren’s face scrunched up dramatically. He must have understood that a frightening enemy was waiting for us at our destination.

Lovren also began to secretly prepare the magic power within his body.

The man guiding us didn’t seem to realize what we were doing, due to his complete lack of combat skills. But still, it didn’t mean that he couldn’t feel anything.

From time to time, he would look back at us and turn his head around, but he didn’t seem to know what we were doing.

After a few minutes of walking, we were led to a gloomy area close to the bottom of the ship. Our guide stopped in front of a seemingly ordinary door in one corner.

「T-this is the warehouse」

「Okay」

I couldn’t sense any magic or presence from behind the door. There must have been some kind of barrier on the walls.

Well, we would just have to check it out ourselves.

I once again turned into steel thread and entered the room through the doorway. To Lovren and the others, it would appear that Fran had the skills of a thread user.

「Eh?」

「I need to do a quick check before we enter. You’re going to show us the inside later anyway, so why not?」

「Th-that is…」

The guide looked troubled. Lovren then moved quietly behind us, it seemed that he intended to stop him if he tried to interfere with us.

Once inside, there was indeed a hint of the undead. But it was really faint. Did that mean it wasn’t a strong undead?

I searched lightly to see where it was and found the magical power of the Undead was emanating from a coffin placed in the center of the room.

The coffin itself seemed to be a magic tool. It seemed to be able to suppress the undead’s presence and reduce the consumption of magic power while it was sleeping.

But weren’t they going too far just for it? They even had a coffin-shaped magic tool for an undead… Well, I guess its purpose was to hide it, but it was too obvious.

『Well, whatever. I’ll just launch a preemptive strike for now』

I manipulated my steel thread body with skills to stretch it around the coffin. Then, I activated my Magic Steal Skill multiple times.

Since the undead lived by magic, they weakened when their magic was absorbed and then disappeared when their magic ran out.

I could feel the magic power in the vicinity begin to decrease rapidly. It would not only affect the coffin, but also the undead.

Well, what should I do next? It was an undead, so I wouldn’t know until I checked it.

It was probably aware of the changes that were about to happen to it, but if it moved now, Fran and the others would find out about it.

The undead, who still thought it could take us by surprise, seemed hesitant to make a move here.

In the first place, he wouldn’t even know if it was an attack by Fran and the others or not.

After about a dozen seconds, there was finally movement in the coffin. With a bang, the lid sprang up from the inside, followed by a corpse raising itself.