Chapter 217: The Vengeful Dead (2/2)

“So? What’s actually going on? What’s wrong with the corpse not vanishing?” Selene pressed, but Marni didn’t reply this time.

It was just wrong, of course.

Logically speaking, every monster that the Players killed would be delivered to Xi Wei, the God of Games who hadn’t shown up for quite some time. And yet, the devil had clearly died, its HP bar empty and showing no signs of life.

So why wasn’t it vanishing?

Just as the Players were left confused by the current situation, Edward suddenly sharply noticed that the name of the creature changed.

At first, the creature’s name is ‘The devil that broke out of its seal’—simple, direct and without any real sense of a name.

But just now, that named suddenly changed into Nightcry, the Vengeful Dead!

Then, the HP Bar which the Players had emptied became full of green life points once again.

And that was not all—Nightcry had gained a status just beneath its HP Bar called zombie blight!

“Be careful, it’s reviving!” Edward promptly shouted!

He didn’t have to give the warn the other Players, however—all of them had already noticed that something was wrong and were attacking the devil’s corpse again, ready to whip the corpse.

Even so, the devil’s corpse withstood their attack even as it staggered to its feet, and then attacked the Players around itself at lightning speed!

Its attacks were on par with the creature when it was alive too!

The first to die were the Warriors who tanked damage in the battle before and died in the process, after of which they were revived by the Clerics.

Unable to react in time, thirty percent of the Warriors were instakilled in the blink of an eye!

The remaining Warriors were not exactly in good health either.

“Wait a minute, your blood is red!” A Warrior suddenly told his partner beside him.

“Nonsense, my blood has always been red.” His partner replied. “What color would it be, green?”

“No, I mean your HP bar is red!”

The Player looked up to check at that, and realized that his green HP Bar had really turned red.

And his HP level was dropping without end.

“What’s going on? Am I Bleeding? No, what’s with that debuff… oh no, the zombie blight is an infection! Any wounds that thing inflicts would be infected and causes bleeding—everyone, be careful!”

Spirits swordsmen were quite weak in the first place (since 25% of their HP is transplanted to their spirit familiar). After being scratched by Nightcry and left with just a fraction of HP, the Player died immediately after bleeding for two seconds.

Even so, it was not over.

The corpse of the Players with the zombie blight debuff would not vanish as they usually did, but remained where they were. In moments, the corpses had turned into fearsome zombies and they started to attack other Players.

And their Player name that hovered over their heads became ‘Vengeful Dead: The Returned’.

All at once, the scene erupted into pandemonium…