Chapter 25: Mountain of the Dead (1/2)

The nights in this new environment were quiet. There weren’t any sounds of waves crashing against the coast here.There weren’t any insects incessantly chirping at night. Nor were there any drunkards camping out in the streets at night, and there definitely weren’t any hooligans waiting to beat me up.

It was just silence. Silent in a variety of ways.

This dead silence was completely destroyed by the devil’s eating, yet this in itself brought a sense of life to this place. Because of the abundance of food, the devils happily feasted. Initially the abundance worried me. Would the corpses rot? Would the devils eat a bad corpse by accident and get some kind of sickness? However, these were unfounded worries as today was the fifth day and the corpses showed no signs of rotting.

Perhaps it was due to this environment or perhaps they simply did not rot. Either way, I did not know how they maintained their freshness.

Because of the lack of a sun, I would sleep once I started feeling tired. After sleeping for an indeterminate number of hours, I was woken up by the sound of the devils’ clamoring.

Damned potatoes, can’t you let me rest in peace? You guys have a giant mountain of corpses to feed off, while I have to go out and hunt for my food!

Before I managed to leave my cave and scold them, No.3 entered without my summons and reported: “Master, there’s a problem with the corpse mountain. Please evacuate immediately Master!”

There’s a problem with the corpse mountain?

Anxiety welled within me as I asked: “What’s the problem?”

“It would be faster if Master saw it for himself.” No.3 brought me out and pointed at the corpse mountain, “The corpses are reviving!”

The corpse mountain now and the corpse mountain before I went to sleep had a very obvious difference. It was the lack of devils feasting. This was because the devil corpses had been reanimated, and were unsteadily moving about while some were crawling around on the mountain. Their eyes were filled with an eerie green light that were devoid of any signs of life.

Their strange movements reminded me of something…those zombies we met earlier…In fact, they were zombies.

I was dumbstruck at that moment. Based on the width and height, this corpse mountain had to at least contain several tens of thousands of corpses! If they all became undead, my devil army is as good as dead! We might as well just kill ourselves now and join the party.

Thankfully, not all of them became zombies. It was only a small portion that turned; about 5% of them. My subordinates defended against the zombie horde as they slowly retreated. Some of the unfortunate ones were atop the corpse mountain when it happened and got caught by a newly animated zombie. As they got tripped and pulled into the horde, their horrific cries filled the air as they were slowly eaten.

They were being eaten alive!

“Listen up everyone, make sure to work with the people beside you as we leave this mountain together. We will gather at the east side of the mountain.” I raised my voice and tried to get them to cooperate. However, devils were a selfish life form. When things were going well they listened to you, but when things were bad, it was every man for himself. They clearly had no intention of cooperating.

Even the efforts of Big 1 and One-eye to gather the devils had limited results.

“Go and gather those idiots. I want everyone at the east side.”

No.3 hesitated as he heard my command: “But there were would be no one to defend Master if I left.”

“There’s still this fellow.” I kicked the No.5 who was snoring loudly beside the cave entrance.

“Ah…what’s happening…is there an earthquake…” No.5 woke upon being kicked, his drool still hanging off the corner of his mouth. His groggy expression wasn’t the least bit endearing. As he looked around in a panic, he relaxed upon seeing my retracting leg. *phew*

He breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his drool before smiled ingratiatingly at me. “Master, you called?”

“See, this fellow is already awake. Even though his combat strength isn’t much, he can still act as a meat shield. It will be fine.” I turned and smiled coldly at No.5: “Isn’t that right?”

“…yes…” He was probably aware of my mood right now and immediately nodded. Even after hearing the word [meat shield], he smiled accommodatingly.

“No.5 has no ability to command so sending him would be pointless. Plus, if you keep on stalling, my losses would be even greater.”

“I understand and comply, Master.” No.3 accepted the command in the end and gave a half kneeling salute. As he got up, he glared at the confused No.5: “Protect the Master well, if you dare to slack off again, I’ll make sure you pay!”

“Yes!”

Since No.3 has gone to gather my subordinates, I should make my way to the east side as well.

“No.5, it’s time for us to go as well.”

“Yes master.” No.5 sneaked a glance at me as he said so. However, he did not manage to gain much information from my expressionless face. Not like he could with that intelligence of his. He then glanced at the corpse mountain and immediately exclaimed as he was hit by a sudden realization: “Master, why are those fellows acting so strangely!?”

“The corpses are reviving for some unknown reason and are turning into undead.” We continued walking as I explained the situation to No.5.

“The place we are living in houses a lot of undead. I suspect that this is the world of the undead so the corpses here will automatically turn into undead after a period of time.”

“Ah…so those corpses were that scary. Luckily, I didn’t eat much.” No.5 patted himself on the chest as he said so, with a look on his face that said ‘I lucked out.’

Wait what did you mean [I didn’t eat much]? Unlike you, all my subordinates were ravenously consuming the meat. Don’t tell me you aren’t interested in food? Do you have anorexia? What’s more, whenever I see you, you are always sleeping by the side of my cave entrance. Exactly how much did you love sleeping?!

Forget it, now’s not the time for this. Getting to the designated point is more important.

When I got to the designated point, Big 1 was already there with 200 large imps and was awaiting orders. These were the imps who were on the east side when I gave that order, so Big 1 had an easy time gathering them.

“Big 1, where were you when the corpses started reviving?”