Chapter 114 (1/2)

A strange scene was unfolding in a vast underground church with rows of thick pillars

“Kuh, kill oal!” Iris Bearheart spat at the old man before her

She had been forced to wear only a thin piece of cloth that would have reown

“Hht, leader of the Sauron Liberation Front, this is quite the cheap show of courage,” said Gubamon, one of the Pure-breed Vampires orshi+pped Hihiryushukaka, the Evil God of Joyful Life

He was an oldcrie feature

Hearing Gubae “I do not fear death! Even if I die, my companions will definitely achieve the Sauron Duchy’s freedom!”

She was soo if the Sauron Duchy hadn’t become occupied by the Amid Empire

Given the social status of the Bearheart faht who coes froht who took part in tournah-class ladies

Iris had been trained and educated by her now-deceased father since she was child, so that she could one day fulfil this role

And though she had acted as a leader of resistance activities, she had constantly been fighting on the frontlines She had crossed blades with bandits and the soldiers of the Empire’s army countless times, and her body bore scars from numerous wounds inflicted by blades and arrows She had faced dangers that could have claih many battlefields She had even walked close to the line between life and death in many of them

Her courage towered above that of others, so ine that she was just a girl, less than twenty years of age

However, Gubah her

“Considering that, the s seem quite tense, don’t they?” he remarked “This is the sa in fear, you know?”

His words struck true, and Iris let out a groan She are that she was afraid of Gubas that he would do to desecrate her

Of course, she wasn’t scared of being wounded or killed She was frustrated at the fact that she had been defeated before achieving her goals, but she had becoht with the deter fear now If the Empire had captured her, they would have tortured her; depending on her captors, her chastity ht have been taken from her

She had been prepared for all of this, but what Guba to do to Iris was on a completely different level

She knew this fro the fates of the ones who had produced this stench She knew it even though she didn’t want to know

There were several dozen Zoest titans, watching over the area while letting out deep groans

And there were Va froround church with their fangs bared

Soht Iris here After abducting Iris, Gubaic, thanked thehtered them all

“Well done As a reward, I shall add you to the bottom of my collection,” Gubamon had said to them

Iris had been unable to believe her eyes at the scene that unfolded afterwards Not only the Subordinate Vampires, but even the noble-born Vampires that she and her coainst, had been unable to do anything to defend thehtered one-sidedly

And with hands that were used to handling corpses… very used to handling corpses, Gubamon had turned them into Undead

He had combined the corpses of the weak Subordinate Vampires, which had fallen to pieces, to form a Zombie Giant with ten Vampires incorporated in it, and turned the noble-born Vampire corpses into Vampire Zombies

Iris could see a countless nu around; she felt a chill as she iined just how many times this madman had carried out this process

But the most repulsive were the Undead that the madman had lined up proudly, the ones he referred to as his ‘collection’

Three groans rose from one of the Undead in that collection

Iris had been reunited with the person she had wished to meet one more time in the worst possible form

Her father, Lord Bearheart, who had died in battle during the war against the Amid Empire His corpse had never been recovered Iris had seen him as a part of an enormous Zombie with three heads, three pairs of ars

“How dare you tranity of the dead, the pride of my father who risked his life to defend his nation! You scum! You intend to kill me and toy with my corpse, just as you did with et on with it?!” Iris began shouting at Gubaaze at her father’s lifeless, cloudy eyes and ashen face as he let out a noise that was soroan and a scream

But against her expectations, Gubaed for the first time, in response to these words that she had shouted at him

He showed regret and remorse, as if he had made a mistake “I have already reflected upon what I did to your father That was aIris’s body and clutched his head as if in anguish

Guba his subordinates that he had shared his own blood with, nor after turning theret in his eyes now

Iris was rendered speechless in surprise, and before she could say anything, Gubamon continued

“During that war between the Adoside your father’s A playfulthe three corpses The resulting Zoish Lord Bearheart had ile swordsmanshi+p, and I went and put him to waste”

“Wha–?!” Iris’s surprised expression turned gradually into one of rage, but Gubamon took no notice of her

“It cannot be helped that his personality and intelligence was largely da fa on and on about his obsessions “But there is noto it if the heroes’ special characteristics are not preserved When creating coather materials of the same type, or decide on a principle material and then add other materials that supplement it”

What Guba Bearheart into an Undead itself, but the fact that he was not satisfied with the result

It seemed that Gubamon had created his Undead with a different sense of art to Ternecia’s; he was fixated on the practical use of the Undead, not just the materials used to create them

Iris’s anger showed itself once more “You bastard! How much do you have to toy with my father before you’re satisfied!”

“Hood use of histhese days,” Gubahed

Most old people in the world had this thought occur to thes frole

“Well, it does notto see you beco as you obey my commands But I must wait to see the results of the others before I decide what kind of Undead I shall turn you into”

Iris gasped “You are planning to abduct someone other than me? Could it be –”

“Hoh, quite perceptive, aren’t you? I a about the coanization, the Reborn Sauron Duchy Army”

“Raymond-dono and Rick-dono…!”

Iris’s head, which had been hot with anger, suddenly became cold There should be soht Her companions should do fine without her

However, there was no replaceitimate child of Duke Sauron His face was quite well-known throughout the duchy, and although he had abandoned his right to succeed the fae influence now that the existence of the Sauron faer

And unlike Iris, who had kept her true identity hidden from others apart from her companions as much as she could, Raymond had used his appearance, charisather the Reborn Sauron Duchy Army under his command

He probably had a plan for his own rise to power after the Sauron Duchy was retaken, but that was precisely why Rayanization

But if Ray him all this time were to disappear simultaneously, the Reborn Sauron Duchy Ar of people and collapse at worst

If that happened, all rebellion activities would be set back tremendously

“You bastard, how far will you go to ruin our Sauron Duchy…!”

“I do not knohether you can call it yours, but I do not care what happens to the Sauron Duchy,” said Gubamon “After all, the world of you creatures who do not even livedream Your nations are created and destroyed nu the time it takes me to admire my collection; they are but sandcastles at the shore, are they not?”

For Gubae of the Gods, the nations of people who lived for less than a thousand years were, just as he said, like dreams or sandcastles

“C-curse you!” Iris muttered

“Now then, it is ti whether you become an Undead on your own or part of a resistance trio Undead”

The Va care of his basic needs while keeping hied

“He probably won’t die within a day or two, but it would be probleets weaker by the tie had told the Subordinate Vampires

Rick was treated quite roughly, but thanks to the treat froiven was a liquid etables, and it tasted worse than anything he had ever eaten, however

And after a short while, Rick noticed that the Va

“How did it come to this?! Why?! Why at a time like this?!”

“Miles, what do we do, what are we supposed to do now?! I’ve only lived for two hundred years; I don’t want to die!”

“It’s obvious e’re going to do, isn’t it!” said Miles “That plan, we’re going to pull off that plan! We don’t have any other choice!”

“What?! I don’t want to do that; how can we discard our pride as Vampires?!”

“Then do you want to die?! You want to die, don’t you?! Whether you want to be killed by Gubaht now, you selfish boy!” Miles shouted

The chaos that looked as if it would develop into full-blown discord between the Va so conspicuous about it that Rick wondered whether it was some kind of trap, but after this conversation, it seeone somewhere except for a few left behind to watch him

It seems that you’ve done well As expected of you, Ani-ue Now as long as you get away from these Vampires’ ‘plan’…

Rick held these expectations of his brother, but half a day later, those expectations were betrayed

“It’s al that little-brother-kun over here”

With only his blindfold removed, he was taken somewhere else, where he saw the Vampires and his older brother, as bound like he was

No, Ani-ue! It’s not a fake It’s real…!

Rick had hoped that it was an imposter, but there was no way that he would mistake soh the monster leather armor that he normally wore hadn’t been taken off, he had been disar his eyes doard And this man was Raymond without a doubt

He didn’t have any visible wounds and his face didn’t look pale, but he was liued, or perhaps he had only recently recovered froic or Potions

I have to somehow at least let Ani-ue escape

Rick hardened his resolve to make this happen But that resolve wavered as he heard a harsh sound, as if so loudly, and he suddenly noticed an old man in front of him

“Oh, to think that you have captured two of them! And they are still alive!” cackled Gubaht that it looked as if his eyeballs would fall out of their sockets

Rick was an exceptional individual, but he wasn’t a superhuman like an A-class or an S-class adventurer; he could only fall to his knees at the sight of this sinister being

“Well done, Miles! I am proud to have you as my subordinate,” said Gubamon

“Ha, haha! It is an honor to receive your praise!” said Miles

“But… H from Raymond It seems that his Vitality has been depleted a little, too”

“Th-that is… I am terribly sorry! When we captured him, he put up more of a resistance than we expected, but we have healed all of his wounds!” Miles said hastily, his face re stiff as he spoke

“Well, it does not matter,” said Gubamon “He does not seem to have any visible injuries, and I did not expect you to capture hi him”

If he were to punish Miles and those under him for their ineptitude, it was possible that so the them as materials

“Now then, ill be teleporting Stay still” Guba sound, they were in the underground church that contained countless Undead and the restrained Iris

Still bound, Iris turned around and hanged her head in resignation “Rick-dono, and Raymond-dono as well…”

“Her as well,” Rickthat Iris had been captured first

And Raymond didn’t show any reaction to speak of; his head continued to hang low

“Now then, I suppose I will connect the ure out what kind of Undead you will become before I kill you,” said Gubamon as he approached Raymond first “Kihihi, I cannot leave this to anyone else This moment, the moment of the first taste of the sense of acco a hero offered to my… hands?”

Feeling an impact, Gubamon looked at his own stomach To his disbelief, there was a black, horn-like object piercing into it, penetrating all the way to his back

But thefrom Raymond’s own stomach

“I-i blood fros of his survival instincts that he had not heard in a long time, he tried to step backwards

But he could not re his stomach; he could not move from where he was

And then several more black horns appeared from the inside of Raymond’s body and closed in on Gubamon

“Gih, Iron Slash!+”

Guba Technique ed to retreat and run away, suffering cuts all over his body in the process

“R-Raymond-dono?”

Iris and Rick, as still gagged, opened their eyes wide in astonishrotesque body, which was covered in blood from the horns that had been produced from his body

He raised his face upwards ominously; it looked like the face of a hollow puppet

“You bastard, hy do you have the Derotesque Ray from his mouth

As if in response, Rayruesomely, and then his stomach split open