Chapter 123 - 068. Ancient Ruin (1/2)

Chapter 123: 068 Ancient Ruin -1 (Part One)

Night fell and the mercenaries set up their tents in preparation to camp outdoors Their leader, Kasal, treated the three individuals who seemed to be from a major noble house, with utmost respect and courtesy

Alche this scene play out from some distance away, sed back his dry saliva He couldn’t help but recall the undead soldiers froular undeads that e eyes No, they were a unique type that oozed bright and pure light, while the glow in their eyes were blue-coloured

Just staring at the Without a doubt, that was divinity

Wondering if what he saw earlier was nothing but a passing daydrea with hi froe aura, you say?”

The es He distorted his expression and shot a glare at Hans

Although the Alcheroup had suffered losses from his mishap with the poison bomb, and that’s why they were unable to look at Hans in a favourable light

Hans flinched a little at the glare and shrunk back However, he still continued on with his questioning “What did you feel when you were looking at those undeads? Was it fear?”

“Fear?” Thehis head “Nah, rather than fear, I got this soothing feeling instead Right, it felt like I was receiving salvation And we did get saved in reality, too”

“Don’t you find that strange?”

“Find what strange?”

“I’ about those undeads! They’re undeads, you know?! But you got a soothing feeling from them? And salvation? Not fear or terror?”

“What is it that you want to say here?”

“That priest-ni to Kasal in the distance “I think he used divinity earlier And not only that, he used divinity to activate Necromancy!”

“Divinity?”

The an alternating his gaze between the trio of travellers and Hans But then, his eyes locked on the an floating up on his bandaged face

“I see I heard that Alche substances This has to be it, then”

“Excusean ancient ruin with a -induced nonsense, too? Dang it, I shouldn’t have accepted this job in the first place!”

“W-what are you talking ab…”

“Stop with your nonsense and get back to work, will you?”

“What do youeyes?! It’s all true! Those people, with divinity, they…”

“Where in this world would you find so undead with divinity?”

“They’re right in front of your eyes, aren’t they?! Besides, even though it sounds like so frohted…”

“But those are so around, aren’t they? A cock-and-bull story concocted by the empire to scare us Didn’t Aslan publicly announce that? That the da around falsehoods?”

“And you believe that?”

“Oh, and you didn’t? In that case, does controlling undead with divinity sound logical to you?”

When the mercenary retorted back, Hans could only respond in a dazed voice “…Indeed, it’s not logical”

“Well, at least you know”

Hans groaned “F-fine In that case, I shall personally ask theh, the other mercenaries quickly stood in his way

“What are you…?”

“This guy, he just can’t get a grip on himself! Even if that person saved our hides earlier, there’s no guarantee that he’s a kind-hearted noble Sure, he certainly comes across as ood his character is, how do you think he’ll react if you ask, ‘Are you using divinity, good sir?’, ah?”

“…I’ incensed, he ht just kill you right away and turn you into an undead,you his slave forever Seriously nohy are you so slow on the uptake today?!”

“…”

What the mercenary said was indeed correct

A Necro the existence of the God of death, Yudai There was simply no way that a Necromancer would let the rejection of the deity they worshi+pped go unpunished

“If you have time to blow hot air, why don’t you help us put up these tents, instead? We gotta prepare a lodging for theht as soon as possible”

Hans’s shoulders dropped real low frolance in the direction of the trio before going back to setting up the tent

(TL: In 1st person POV)

Tina, who had been busy eavesdropping on the distant chatter between Hans and the mercenaries, whispered in uessed as much”

Necroht into the realendary myths

Heck, even the bishops of the Theocratic E devotion were doubtful when Raphael tried to tell the to believe the words of an influential archbishop, who’d take the words of so Aslan merchant at face value?

As these ic, they had no way of differentiating between divinity and dey But even if they so to trust what so, either

Since the topic of ‘holy undead’ had been spreading around as so but hot air

I thought it was er to us for the ti However, I still couldn’t discount the possibility of running into issues inside a city where there were e proble as I paid attention a littlethe atuided us to a pretty acco tent for our use