Chapter 329 - 282 : Strangers (1/2)

From the sudden disappearance of her son to being tasked with such a boring mission then being this severely injured by a powerful enemy that popped out of nowhere. This day couldn't become worse for Claudia, who was busy eating the filthy.

The undead was about to finish the half-dead woman only for a white figure to appear out of nowhere and send the monster flying away until it hit the wall and ceased moving once and for all.

As she struggled to sit up and see what happened, Claudia noticed the bent body of the undead and Lucy, who had her back facing her.

She didn't believe the sight in front of her and only snapped out of it when Lucy walked up to Rebecca and tapped her forehead, resulting in the short girl to wake up.

After confirming the situation from Lucy's mouth, the mage ran up to Claudia and fed her an expensive Healing Potion. Although it wouldn't regrow her limb, it would still alleviate some of the pain and give her a bit of energy to move.

The loli almost fainted again when she saw all the blood on the ground but she forcefully resisted the urge to vomit and tented to the scared and infuriated Claudia.

The venomous woman didn't angrily shout at Lucy for being or whatsoever, she was just thankful she was saved at the last second and expressed her sincere gratefulness once she was helped up by Rebecca.

Lucy merely nodded her head and motioned for the duo to hurry up and leave this building as the undead army had already infested every corner of this deserted town.

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Back at the temporary camp set up by Zalon, the soldiers and heroes were resting after a brief confrontation with the undead a few miles from there. The undead army that attacked them paled in comparison to the one that obliterated the town Claudia's team was tasked to protect.

Zalon, who had a large build and usually wielded a large two-handed sword, was panting heavily as he checked the injuries Heroes and gave orders left and right.

Although the undead weren't particularly powerful, their number was mind-numbing and after fighting them for more than a day, he started feeling exhausted.

As he gazed at the stretched plains of sand mountains, he noticed three figures running with a speed that exceeded common sense. The one leading was a masked silver-woman who was too eye-catching for Zalon to not guess her identity almost immediately.

Not even a minute later, the four arrived before Zalon while panting heavily, except for Lucy, of course.

”The situation is dire, the undead that attacked us are large in numbers and there was even a leader amongst them!”

Rebecca narrated what she witnessing while pointing at the pale-faced Claudia, who had difficulties breathing. She couldn't run all the way here by herself so Lucy used some Magic to make her body floated while automatically following them.

”Calm down first!”

Zalon raised his tone as he couldn't comprehend a single word from all the gibberish Rebecca was uttering. It was apparent that she was scared shitless from what she saw.

Seeing that hearing the explanation from her wouldn't help him, he turned his head to Usui, who was calmer than the rest.

”The army was unusually powerful and there was even some kind of a commander that was leagues ahead of the rest in terms of strength. Honestly, I couldn't even see it move....”

Usui then told Zalon how the Death Knight attacked Rebecca and Claudia, how the latter lost an arm and had several of her bones broken and if not for Lucy's intervention, the two women would have been killed quite easily.

”I understand. Rest for now, we're departing in an hour. We don't have the resources or the manpower to face such an army and if there are more than one commander, it'll be our doom if we stay here.”

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