34 The Undead Flock (2/2)

As I rubbed my head I looked into the eyes of the maiden before me. ”I must have died, because you Alex are an angel.”

Alex Humphed at my words, but her signature smile that showed of her teo sharp canines, appeared on her face.

”Are you ok? When we selected yes you started screaming. You did not stop until a few moments ago.”

I continued rubbing my head as I sat up. ”It was the holy Energy, my body can't handle it. You seemed to be having a good time though. Plus I had the strangest vision..”

My words stopped as I looked at the scene before me. We were in the room I had seen. There were various corpses in the church pews, but there was no sign of the priest.

Dread filled me as I saw the corpses begin to twitch. Their heads turned towards us, some of them moving a complete 180 degrees as their heads were now facing backwards as they looked at us.

Their teeth began to clatter as their mouths opened and closed in a biting motion. Their bodies moved in a remarkably quick matter as they rushed towards us. Their was a total of 20 of them, and their speed was equal to the imps from earlier.

I raised my pistols and began to fire. Each of my bullets aimed at the heads of the undead. My poison was useless against the undead. It could not damage that which was already dead. But the force behind my orbs was enough to slow down their movements. A few shots in the same spot could pierce their heads, which would cause the green glow in their eyes to disappear as the fall to the floor.

Alex had it easier, and yet harder. Her maul attacks were deadly. They possessed both speed and power. Unfortunately they also required her to get in close to the undead, and she soon found herself surrounded.

Individually the corpses stood no chance against her massive hammer, but in a group her strong attacks became a hindrance. I helped when I could, Shooting the heads of the undead trying to clear out a path of escape for her. Even if the undead did not fall Alex would take advantage of the corpses brief pause to unleash a fatal attack towards it.

The fight lasted for a solid five minutes, the corpses disapear nto pixels as they fell. I asked Alex why they did that.

”The corpses are absorbed by the dungeon, it is how we get our rewards. The more corpses we absorb, and the stronger they are the better our rewards. Of course The dungeon gains from it as well. The more energy it absorbs the more powerful the dungeon becomes.”

”Dungeons have ranks, just like we do. Our dungeon is a C rank dungeon. So we cannot experience a dungeon stronger than C rank. But after it has gained enough power from the creatures that the adventurers defeat it can rank up.”

”If our dungeon successfully upgraded to B rank in the future our town will see a massive growth. Our city itself will upgrade to a B rank city and the kingdom will invest more resources in it. This is why the Adventurer'a guild is so important. Only liscenced adventurers can enter the dungeons, and this is where the real source of income comes from.”

”What I'm saying is, one of the rewards from clearing dungeons is always coins. Both from the shop and our nation's currency. The city levies a tax on these coins, and half of them go to the city automatically, before it even hits your inventory. But they will not touch the items or other rewards you get from the dungeon. It's a win win really.”