Chapter 268 - The Real Undead Race? (1/2)

Chapter 268: The Real Undead Race? Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

There was a creek between the Ferde Wilderness and Girvent Forest called the Moon Creek.

Dorias followed the aura in the air and walked along the bank of the creek. After around one mile, he sped up again. After running for another mile, Link could see from atop him the corpse in the tall grass beside the creek.

The corpse’s clothing was ragged and old. He wasn’t a scout from the Ferde Wilderness. From the looks of things, he seemed more like a refugee from Delonga.

Dorias got a little closer. Finally, he stopped around 15 feet from the body. A little suspicious, he said, “I don’t think he’s completely dead.”

Link had a similar feeling. The man was covered in dried blood and had a giant hole in his stomach, but the bare skin on his face still shone like a living man. The slightly opened eyes seemed to be like a living man’s too.

Even stranger, he was clearly not breathing anymore, but there was still a faint heartbeat. The visible veins bulged, meaning blood was flowing.

“Dorias, can you sense if he has a dark aura? I can’t.” This was the part that was hardest to explain.

Dorias shook his head too. “No dark aura at all. It feels like he’s just asleep but with his guts spilled out…”

Earlier, Gildern had reported to Link that the Undead Army was very special. They were a type of undead that had never appeared in the game. The corpse before Link’s eyes now was similarly out of his knowledge.

This had completely destroyed the balance of the world!

Getting an idea, Link used the Magician’s Hand to pick up a fist-sized rock and tossed it at the body.

Plunk! The rock crashed against the body, ricocheted, and rolled to the side. The body shuddered. The action wasn’t caused by the rock’s strength; it was more like a reflexive convulsion.

“He really isn’t dead, but he’s not alive either. What the heck is this?” Dorias felt as if he’d really seen a ghost. This was beyond his common sense. He’d never seen anything like this in his long life.

Link didn’t know either. He tried casting a Glass Orb at the corpse. With a boom, flames burst forth and burned the body. The guy seemed to be in pain. He suddenly sat up on the ground for three seconds before falling straight back.

Other than having no consciousness, he was completely like a living person. However, his action had revealed more of his wounds. One was at the back of his head. Dorias had sharp eyes and saw it first. “Oh my god, look!” he cried. “He was stabbed in the head, and his brains have all come out!”

If he had these kinds of wounds but still wasn’t completely dead and didn’t have any dark aura, it meant he wasn’t undead. However, Link still had no explanation.

He jumped down from Dorias’s back and studied the corpse’s surroundings. “From the footsteps, a cavalry had passed by once. Let me count…One, two, three…37 types of horseshoes. This mostly matches Gildern’s report.”

This meant that there were 37 Undead Knights.

Link continued investigating. He used the traces in the environment to deduce the fight that had ensued by the creek bit by bit.

“There are human footprints here…Three people—two men and one woman. One is around six feet, uh…This footprint is from that corpse. That leaves two people. The other man’s figure is similar to the corpse. He was probably hurt. Look, that’s his blood. From the shape and position of the bloodstains, he was probably hurt in the left arm. The wound is pretty deep…He was probably protecting the woman and stuck out his arm to block an Undead Knight’s sword. He blocked it like this…and then…they jumped over the water.”

Link followed the footprints along the riverbank and finally found two very deep pairs of footprints. They were different and came from two individuals.

“The Moon Creek is 33-feet-wide, but these two crossed it with just one jump. They’re very strong physically and might be strange undead people like this corpse…Let’s go across and take a look.”

The situation was already apparent from the current observations. These Undead Knights hadn’t been targeting the Ferde Wilderness. They were chasing after these targets. So who were these three undead? Why did the Undead Knights want to kill them?

Link was very curious. He climbed onto Dorias again. The beast pounced and jumped over Moon Creek.

“The aura in the air is really obvious. They chased all the way into the Girvent Forest.” Dorias followed the smell in the air and advanced.

After walking for around half an hour, they found another corpse beside the path!

The corpse’s left sleeve was torn with a shallow wound. Like the other corpse, he was filled with life. He’d been stabbed in the back of the head too, so he could only lay on the floor unmoving as if in a vegetative state.

Link started investigating the ground again. Ignoring the marks made by the Undead Knights, he focused on the woman’s footprints. Ten seconds later, he found her trace.

“She ran in that direction and was very fast. Come, let’s go after her.”