Chapter 35 (1/2)

“Klaus, don’t step up too far up.”

Layla’s warning rang out but Klaus ignored her, drew his sword, and continued to charge.

The undead glanced at the blade, which was shining brightly reflecting the sun’s rays, and took a step back. Seeing that, Klaus smiled.

“Zombies are no match for me!”

Since the undead had physical bodies and were able to move under the sunlight, Klaus guessed that they were zombies.

Zombies, which were one of the lowest rank undead monsters, were able to increase their numbers by biting and killing their prey, but in terms of strength copper rank adventurers could beat them easily.

For iron ranks, even if the zombies’ numbers were a few times larger than the party’s, they could exterminate them easily.

But that didn’t matter to Klaus.

He was an up-and-coming adventurer, and expected of great things.

And for a particular reason, he needed to show everyone how skilled he was.

That’s why he decided to take the lead while the other adventurers hesitated.

The girls in his party understood that, so they followed after him with no complaints.

“Go back to being dead!”

The blade flashed and struck the neck of the zombie in the front.

Since they were already slow moving, there was no way it could dodge the attack, so the blade ripped through its flesh.

But Klaus frowned at the feeling that reached his hand.

If they were zombies, their flesh should be brittle from the injuries and rotting.

But the zombie that he had just cut down looked no different from when it was alive, and he couldn’t see any traces of wounds or rotting.

He had also swung the sword with enough strength to cut a man’s head off cleanly, Klaus had felt resistance and wasn’t able to cut through.

“You!”

But Klaus was an iron rank adventurer.

As soon as he felt resistance he put in more strength and forced the blade through and kicked away the now headless body.

“They’re hard!”

Next to him, Layla swung her sword at a zombie’s shoulder, but it was stopped at the collarbone. She swept its feet from under it as it started reaching for her, pulled her sword out of its shoulder, and brought it down on its neck, twisting the blade to wrench its neck off.

“These aren’t zombies!”

At Layla’s warning, Roll folded her hands in front of her chest and mumbled a prayer, then gasped as she opened her eyes.

“Everyone, they aren’t zombies. They are revenants!”

Everyone tensed at Roll’s warning.

Revenants were ‘those who returned’, and were a type of undead.

They occurred almost the same way as zombies. Someone dying with strong attachments to the living world, made by a high ranking undead being, or magic.

The difference between them and zombies was that although zombies have quite a bit of strength, it was still about the same as the body before it died, while revenants were way stronger than the body was before it died and had some intelligence.

They were stronger than zombies, and was hard for copper ranks to face head on, and if there were enough of them, they could overpower iron ranks as well.

“Do they need reinforcements?”

Broas reached for his weapon.

After glancing at Broas and saw that his weapons were twin battle axes, and turned his attention back to Klaus.

“I don’t think so.”

Klaus’ fighting was incredible enough for Loren to give him that good of an evaluation.

Even after finding out that their enemies were revenants, Klaus didn’t flinch and continued to swing his sword at them.

Each stroke of the blade reduced a revenant to pieces, and after looking at them go, Broas lowered his hands from his weapons.

“I guess he wasn’t all talk after all.”

“I guess so.”

Loren nodded at Broas’ words.

Setting aside whether he liked Klaus or not, the skill and strength that he possessed was indeed impressive.

“You just going to be an indifferent spectator?”

“Don’t know yet. We’ll see.”

Loren replied to Broas like that, but knew that he was correct about one thing.

Loren was certain that the reason why Klaus kept b.u.t.ting into him was because he was partic.i.p.ating in the quest using connections.

Loren was sure that Klaus didn’t like the fact someone without the necessary skill had managed to snag a job that wasn’t meant for them. So Loren was curious whether or not Klaus himself had the accordingly skillful and strong.

But only half of his attention was focused on the fight. The other half was focused around them. It was odd that ten to twenty undead would suddenly appear on the road.

He thought that the cause of it was lurking somewhere in the area.

There was also a possibility that whatever generated the undead was using the revenants as bait and could ambush them from somewhere.

Undead had low intelligence in general, but high rank beings that could create undead were often as intelligent or even more intelligent that humans.

One of the famous ones were vampires, and even Loren knew about them.

“Maybe I’m worrying too much.”

“Hmm?”

“Just talking to myself. Anyways, it looks like it’s going to be over soon.”

As Loren pointed out, the number of revenants that were fighting Klaus and his party were going down steadily.

Not only Klaus, but the knight named Layla was quite skilled with the sword as well, and every time the blade flashed a revenant fell, and when the priestess Roll hit them with her mace, the moving undead became the dead.