Chapter 8 (2/2)
“What happened to that girl? Did she survive?”
“That girl? Ah, you hness? She’s safe and sound, and I think the ladies inside the ood care of her”
That’s a relief then
I glanced at the aze lock on me from one of the s but I couldn’t see any faces
Should I blalanced back at the extreain The stench was so bad that I ended up deeply frowning The level of dey they had was si dead literally overnight
“How strange…”
“What is, your highness?”
“This plague, Iaround recently, a zo up couldn’t have been norue on the level of Biblical proportions wouldn’t be this severe
“Even if we’re near the Land of the Dead Spirits, it’s too bizarre to see these many zombies to pop up like this It was a really close call this tih, we’ll be completely annihilated”
“When… when you say ‘completely annihilated’, you mean…?”
“Everyone except reatly paled
“If we don’t find the cause quickly, that’ll happen for real”
I’d say around teekswas off and dispatch people over here I wasn’t sure whether we could last that long or not
Gril hurriedly asked me in a petrified voice, “W-what should we do next?”
“Well, we’ll have to endure soive the with creht now?”
I looked at the villagers before glancing back at Gril Everyone was dead tired right now Even this guy was thy break However, if they rested now, it’ll get only harder to perform a proper purification ceremony later
“We better finish up quickly e still havecorpses and slightly frowned “They’re suffering even now, you know? We should ease their pain as soon as possible”
I directed the villagers to dig out a burial pit next to the ceathering the corpses, they were cremated, and then the renboard acted as their toh-quality headstone would’ve been used instead, but unfortunately, we lacked enough energy to , I stared at the new grave and offered a silent prayer,onto the shovel
This was the purification cere for their comfortable, eternal rest
I worked until the following rave, I turned around to address the villagers, “Let’s take a break for a little while before hunting down the rest of them It’ll be better to trih I was in the ers’ reactions
A gaze that I didn’t enjoy receiving landed on me first Some looked rather dazed while the others looked quite surprised
I tilted h aardly or avoid e chief “Hey, Mister Village Chief”
“Yes, your highness Is there so you?”
The chief sauntered over and formed an aard but still considerably s about this athtly pouting expression as my reply The chief simply waited forwhether I e events happen around here in the last few days?”
“When you say strange events…?”
“Like, for exaer cae”
“Hue started doing its rounds about asuspicious back then”
In that case, did this contagion really spread through the already-infected ver suspicion that rather than mother nature, someone had artificially set this crisis in motion instead
“Is there a Necro?”
I muttered to myself, butnot just Gril and the village chief, but to the rest of the villagers
In this place, Necromancers were literally calaue’, the ‘Soul-stealing Devil’, etc, etc–with the exception of a particular kingdom, everyone else in this continent branded them as criminals
One of the laws of this land even stipulated that you wouldn’t be tried for h reason To put siood as dead if my profession as a Necromancer was to be revealed here
“A N-Necrousting thing has been hiding in our village?”
Oh, I’e for your head to go flying for lese h
“It’s just my conjecture,” I calmly responded
But if there really was one, that would certainly be troublesome Because if he decided to lay low for a while, then everything would go down the crapper for sure
However, there was a pretty good chance that he was nearby You’d have to be close by in order to control zombies after all
Too bad, I had no idea how to search for hi about a dedicated search tea these clueless villagers out there to search was basically the sa thewith everything and this whole situation could be a naturally-occurring plague that simply spiraled out of control
Either way, the problein of it all?
“Let’s stay put for one night and observe Tell everyone to take a break Ah, and we’ll need rotating sentries just in case”
We were all as tired as anyone could be
We fought off the horde of zoround the whole day and moved the corpses, and finally, we even went and performed a mass funeral too, so our physical and mental limits had been reached already
At the oing to catch so happens, coe chief and Gril before turning around to head towards the monastery
“Kyaahhk!”
A screaside a thunderclap
I was startled awake from my sweet slu around in my ears
My vision reht on by the lightning strike illuht before side an expressionless face like a sheet of ice–all of these belonged to a certain girl
As if she was taken by surprise, her brows rose up higher as she stared at me
“What is it now?” I asked her
“…”
The girl showed sons of fluster as she quickly left my side It was then, the monastery’s doors burst open and Gril rushed in
“Your highness!”
“Are you trying to ue, e Even -like voice rang insidedizzy from it
“What happened?” I asked Gril, but at the sairl
She was openly looking atby a corner The glare she had was cold and sharp
Wait a second, that girl… wasn’t she the one who ate all those zombie rats and survived?
Her eyes were filled to the briht?
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“Your highness!”
“I’ on here? What’s with all this ruckus?”
The farently updated me on the situation
“Someone’s been kidnapped by zo Heads -3 > Fin