Chapter 41: Returning to the Village (1/2)
Ever since I’ve reincarnated into a different world, I’ve encountered a lot of strange things. Resurrection, corpses turning into zombies, etc. all these were just side dishes to me. However, after meeting this low key expert…I feel so cheated…I don’t think I’ll be able to love anymore…Oh wait, I mean I won’t be conceited anymore.
Big 1 got the devils to form a line and performed a sweep of the battlefield. As for me, I pulled aside No.5. This potato was usually a lazy bum known for his cowardice…who would’ve thought that he actually dared to attract the attention of an undead army. Furthermore, his dodging prowess surprised me as well. I was sure that hail of arrows would’ve at least severely injured him.
“Master let’s leave quickly, there’s…there’s still that zombie horde behind us…”
This little jinx…alright…you win.
I hastily distributed the souls; the large ones were mine while the others were distributed to the named imps. As I led the army away, I turned towards No.5 with a slight look of displeasure on my face and questioned him.
Isn’t he supposed to be out scouting…why did he suddenly come back with an undead army in tow…
As he walked beside me, he shrunk back pitifully and stammered, his eyes darting back and forth as he did so: “I don’t know what happened either, I just took a nap and suddenly woke up to see a bunch of undead surrounding me…”
My face fell and my brows furrowed as I continued: “What about the large imps that went with you?”
“Dead…I think…” No.5 mumbled, but upon receiving my angry glare he immediately added: “They could’ve escaped as well…”
“So you’re saying that they might be alive?”
“Mhm. Mhm.”
“Moron, there’s no difference if they don’t come back!”
Besides, given the amount of undead about, being able to make It back alive is stranger. Not everyone has your strange dodging ability.
No.5 lowered his head as I scolded him, not daring to make a sound.
Truth be told, I had no intention of scolding No.5. After all, every one of my devils had some sort of shortcoming of their own. No.3 was impulsive, Big 4 barely talked, Nine-finger was slightly handicapped in the brain and One-eye loved showboating. Big 1 was probably the most normal one of the lot, except for his habit of referring to himself as lordship.
As for No.5…he loved to sleep. The moment I asked him to monitor the undead, I knew that there would be a possibility of him slacking off.
Having ran out of things to say, we quietly continued on our way. As we travelled, we continued with the previous plan of hunting the weaker undead and avoiding the larger hordes. And so half a month passes by without much incident, until one day, I stumbled upon a stone tablet carved with words.
It stood there, alone in the middle of a wasteland that was conspicuously devoid of any undead. Perhaps it had some unknown power that kept the surrounding radius of 10km clear of undead.
According to the stone tablet, this land of the undead was once a human kingdom in the western human realms. Because of a huge battle, it ended up being teleported here. What this stone tablet didn’t say was exactly who had the power to actually teleport a whole kingdom to this world. But anyone who could do so was probably a God.
Of course, it could also be the work of a large organization.
Upon being teleported here, the kingdom came under the influence of Gehenna’s strange powers. The dead began to rise up naturally. Any whole corpse would turn into an undead over time. Even if that corpse had no resident soul, the land of the undead would naturally bestow one upon it.
So this is the lands of a human kingdom…at least it was. Now it was the land of the undead.
If so, that robed skeleton was probably a human in life. He might even possess the memories of his past life even after turning into an undead.
The purpose of the blood sea was to birth new devils. So logically, the connecting level should lead up to a different level of Purgatory. At least, this was what I had thought, but what greeted us instead was the land of the undead.
At the end of the stone tablet was a strange note: Prison of the Dead…different world…guardian…sacrifice…
After that line of words was a picture engraved onto the tablet. Within it was a strange semi-circular object. By my guess, it was a half buried skull with the portion below its nose buried beneath the ground.
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The skull had only one eye, but it wasn’t like the eye you saw on the deity Er Lang. Instead, it was a horizontal eye with a line right across the center. It wasn’t an unusually large eye, but given the fact that there was only one eye, it was unusual enough. (TL: Deity with three eyes.)
Does this mean that in order to leave this place, we need to first find that strange skull and then defeat that guardian before finding a sacrifice?
Seems like a quest from a RPG…
Forget it, I’ve already run out of tsukkomis for this world, best take each step one at a time.
Within these past 15 days, I was able to craft a large number of equipment. The Mo Saber team had increased to 20 devils, the guardsmen to 40 and the shieldbearers to 20. Another piece of good news was that One-eye, Big 1 and Nine-finger had all evolved into two-star head imps.