Chapter 62: Finally a Tutorial (4) (2/2)

—Kuh Of course The one you’re heading to isn’t the only fortress It seey strengthening his borders, which of course, spared us a lot of trouble in enforcing the frontlines

“Frontlines?”

—We’re not in a good place That’s e tried to earn so rooained pieces of information from the lich’s words First of all, there were several fortresses along this territory’s border, and each fortress was filled with mutants

‘Why?’

The lich said they weren’t in a good place It seeroup that the lich was part of was attacked by at least one other force That could mean this territory’s border currently existed to separate athered mutants in fortresses in many different places to attack their enemy from all sides so that their eneive the lich’s group some leeway In other words, the destination that the recruits were planning to go to had troops waiting to attack another force’s troops And now, the lich had called upon the mutants in the fortress to him

The recruits and the natives were coo

Finally, Zelit began to see a swar his speculation right Their numbers were insurmountable It was a whole ar to their location like ants on top of a hill Zelit quickly gestured at Chi-Woo

“Stop this right now” Chi-Woo raised his club threateningly, but the lich snorted He e for his life However, it was impossible for the lich to revive hiuaranteeing his eventual disappearance Thus, there was no need for hi out loud

It was then that the recruits realized the situation they were in How many were there exactly? Five-hundred? One or two thousand? Perhaps there were htening speed There were even sos of absolute helplessness overcame their entire bodies

“It…really… is over…” Zelit also muttered with co cackle

“…Huh?” Then soasped, and Chi-Woo furrowed his eyebrows

Under the night sky faintly illuradually turned obscured As if the iant curtain ca afterward, the curtain rose again, and there was no one on the stage The rounds to rumble had all disappeared; only remnants of what seemed to have been the e-scale vanishi+ng ic show

–What?

The lich was also surprised Even though the le-use disposables, how could so o? The only one capable of such a thing was…

–It can’t be! It doesn’t make sense!

The lich screa what the lich’s proble even the stars and the ht It wasn’t a simple darkness that enco into a deep, deep pit that didn’t let even a speck of light in In this pitch blackness, a single whitish form eventually showed itself

“…A skull?” so, black pole that hovered in the air It wasn’t alone but surrounded by mysterious and flohisps, which burned and circulated like they were guiding and escorting it

–The Witch! It’s the Witch—The Great Abomination of Bably!

The lich cried out

–How could that bitch! Is it—

Chilling energy poured down the burning hill

“The fire is…” The growing fire gradually died down, and in uished The newco their distaste for the fire, and everyone watched in stunned silence Complete darkness descended upon the heroes No one spoke or even let out a breath Everyone knew instinctively that this was how they were supposed to behave in front of this figure Chi-Woo was the only one who didn’t find the skeleton particularly threatening and was instead curious about the skeleton’s identity

A strange tension and silence permeated until the skeleton slowly lifted her arer and pointed forward Then she arched her finger repeatedly as if to beckon theer was pointing at, and saw the sure near Chi-Woo

—Ah…!

The lich’s body surged up like it was getting forcefully dragged by a h the air until it ithin the skeleton’s grasp

–Uh…Uh…

The lich trembled speechlessly as the skeleton stared down at it Soon, a blue light flashed froh-level necro his kind considering that he had been conducting experiments in this area The skeleton had probably taken the lich to salvage whatever values he ht have, only to find to her surprise that he was beyond hopeless He had been shattered completely

The skeleton was curious who exactly had taken the lich’s life force so easily She clenched her hands tightly once without hesitance, and the lich dissipated without being able to even let out a scream Smoke scattered, and the shriveled-up piece of robe floated in the air Then the skeleton looked up at one person with her empty eye sockets—the one who had rendered the lich into this state

The skeleton re about another of her ene haywire at the forest due to an unknown variable; that hy she had coate Swish She pointed her index at Chi-Woo and paused Then she curled her index finger at an exhaustingly slow pace like she was struggling Furtherhtly tre silence followed

—…This could be…a bit dangerous

The heroes heard a beautiful voice that could have belonged to a er stretched out halfway and folded again She had done what she came here to do, but now, she had a new curiosity That, however, wasn’t a good enough reason for her to risk herself Although the lich and she were froroups, they weren’t that different on a fundamental level Thus, the skeleton crossed her arms and decided to turn back Shrouded by her wispy followers, she went farther and farther away Once the skeleton that looked large enough to pierce the sky was out of sight, the darkness faded Stars and the ain

“Ha…Haaaa!” Having been standing like a statue the entire ti She wasn’t the only one who reacted this way Many others let out their breaths and collapsed to the ground The enor theA h to completely overwhel only the recruits behind

“Did they spare us…?”

“I think she just backed away I heard her say so”

“It’s both,” Zelit said His face was blank like he had just seen a ghost “She probably saw value in keeping us alive rather than killing us”

It was clear that the lich’s and the skeleton’s factions were at odds, as evident by the fact that the skeleton had destroyed the army of mutants as soon as it appeared It just seemed too much of a coincidence, and they had a few theories as to why the skeleton had let theht expect us to under outsiders to fight against their enemies was a common tactic However, some heroes questioned the validity of the theory

“Us?”

“The skeleton looked really strong I feel like she could have easily taken care of a couple fortresses by herself”

Zelit shook his head “She ht not want to leave her post, or there are some other reasons we aren’t aware of We can’t really make any concrete speculations now And theis that we survived”

That h their nuure, they had succeeded in surviving this battle soht, if they kept persevering, perhaps, an opportunity would coot to his feet They had survived the battle, but the ones chasing after theer were invisible enemies that were far scarier than any other It wasn’t time for them to dawdle and converse leisurely They had to work hard to keep themselves alive exactly because they had survived this time

Immediately, the heroes collected their weapons and left the hill They were hungry and tired fro to the now empty fortress