Chapter 541 - Visitor From The Dark 1 (1/2)

Luke, diligently headed to Jackson along with Priest Luther and his Guard Knights.

Thanks to the fly magic being used in mass, they were able to move faster than riding a wagon or a trailer, yet they weren’t moving as fast as expected.

There were two reasons for it.

First, was the limit of magic.

No matter how huge one possessed mana, it wasn’t easy to fly using their magic to move 20 people at once.

Second, there were many people who weren’t used to flying for long durations of time.

They ended up with symptoms of motion sickness, such as complaints of dizziness or vomiting as their balance seemed disturbed, just like the cases of riding wagons or boats.

It wasn’t just Luther who showed such symptoms, but the Guards as well.

Which forced everyone to settle down.

“Pathetic! The proximal Guard Knights are tying down the King! How ridiculous this situation is!”

“We, we are very sorry, commander.”

When Hwang Bo-sung yelled with a disgruntled expression, the knights bowed their heads in shame.

However, Luke, who was the most frustrated one, ended up taking their side.

“Don’t be too hard on them. This is all on me, to bring them on such an unfamiliar journey.”

Wizards, even those who were skilled at using the fly magic too weren’t good at holding themselves in the air for long.

It was natural for the knights, who were used to war on the ground, to feel troubled.

‘They’ll have to be trained to fly the next time. It will get tough if this keeps happening again and again…’

Yet, since their bodies and physical abilities were strong, the knights weren’t able to get back up pretty quickly.

Thanks to that, on the second day after their departure from Bless, they were able to reach the estate borders by sunset.

They could understand that they had arrived at the border.

It was because the Lords and wizards who were out of the Jackson estate dug deep pits for the zombies to fall and installed fire magic circles and barriers.

‘They seem to be acting fast to make sure that it doesn’t spread.’

Luke, seemed to be satisfied with the actions taken by the Holy Empire and crossed the border with the party.

“From this very moment, we are entering the realm of the zombies. I need everyone to be alert. Do you understand?”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

It wasn’t sure if they could be attacked in the air, but once they landed on the ground, they would be bound to be attacked by the infected.

Which was why Luke had to scan through the entire area to find a relatively safe place to land.

And soon, they were able to find such a suitable place.

It was the summit of the rocky mountain which was in the middle of the forest.

Luke, sent Luther and his Guards first and ordered them to prepare meals and tents for resting.

“Huh? What is that?”

While Luke was scouting the surrounding areas with Fly Magic, he saw something strange at a distance.

“Master, what is it? Is it a zombie group?”

When Luke couldn’t take his eyes off something, Hwang Bo-sung, who was on the ground, asked with a nervous expression.

“Something seems to be present 2 kilometers ahead of this place. I will have to check this out.”

Even though he wanted to get to Reina, he couldn’t just ignore something and turn a blind eye over it.

The zombies which Luke managed to see were displaying strange behavior from what Luther had told him about.

In the hope that it might have a direct connection to the zombie disease or the forces behind, Luke flew straight to the place despite Hwang Bo-sung’s concern.

Kiiik!

Kuakkk!

After a while, Luke managed to arrive in a small village on the low hill.

Zombies were completely filling the village which had barriers around it.

Till then, there was nothing much different from what they saw in the other regions of Jackson.

However, there was something odd.

The zombies were fighting with each other with their hands.

Around a thousand zombies were divided into those with red headbands on, and those without, those with red headbands were preventing the zombies without the headbands from entering the village.

Moreover, they were armed with farming equipment such as axes and ploughs unlike the ordinary zombies which were supposed to move with bare hands, they were even handling firearms.

‘They seem to be moving like an army.’

The number of the red headband zombies were less, yet they seemed to move very efficiently.

In particular, the power of the fire was so great that they were able to burn a dozen zombies at once.

‘Zombies moving like an army. Such things can only be done with the dark magic spell of Corpse Manipulations. Then was this…?’

Luke immediately tried to trace any dark magic being used.

Before long, he managed to find Magi, which was flowing out of the watchtower which was in the middle of the village and controlling the red headband zombies.