Harlow! Majosha scread in disbelief as she tightly hugged the corpse of Harlow. Unfortunately, his corpse had already begun to turn cold and harden. By now, it had completely lost any previous signs that it was once a living thing. Furthermore, the owner of this body had died from corpse poison, which ant that he could turn into an undead at any ti
Knowing that, I wanted to persuade Majosha to let go of the werewolf but my words failed at the last second. Deep down, I knew that she wouldnt listen to even if I tried.
Harlows death ca as too much of a shock for us. Poor Majosha had her heart ripped to shreds by the news of his demise and imdiately broke down in tears. She simply couldnt bring herself to accept the death of her sweetheart. In contrast, Habona was a lot calr despite being his sister. She gazed at his lifeless eyes without a single change in expression and then reached out for them. Yet just as she was about to touch his face, her hands were swatted away by a slap from Majosha.
Hes not dead!
Majosha desperately clung to her unrealistic version of reality. Moreover, you could tell from her gaze that she slightly resented this she-werewolf. She must have felt that if Habona hadnt tried to drain his poisoned blood, Harlow wouldnt diedat the very least, not that quickly.
Even though theres really no difference between the two outcos
Ignoring Majosha, Habona coldly withdrew her hand and silently stood there with a pensive and unreadable look on her face.
Masterthe zombies are too strongwe need help Suddenly, the weak and almost non-existent No.5 ca running to with an anxious look on his face. The harried imp hurriedly made his report: The recent pillar eruptions have produced a ton of zombies and they are all at least Three-stars. The Four-stars are swarming all over uswe cant hold out much longer
A horde of Four-star zombies? Shocked by Harlows sudden death, I had completely forgotten about the zombie issue till now. From his report, I learnt that the pillars had basically unloaded everything they had and that other than skeletons, there were also zombies hidden within. Just thinking about those Three to Four-stars zombies swarming at us like bees, I couldnt help but get an excruciating headache. To make matters worse, the corpse poison they possessed seed to be even more frightening than we had first imagined.
Having heard No.5s report as well, Habona imdiately turned around to join the battle, zero hesitation whatsoever. In fact, her decisiveness and coldness almost made wonder if the Habona who had recklessly charged into battle to save her brother was the sa Habona who was charging into battle right now.
Surveying the battleground, I found the situation to be just as No.5 reported. The newly spawned zombies were all at least Three-stars and each had a varying degree of corpse poison stored within them, so more toxic than the others, The majority of those who were bitten quickly started showing abnormal signs and would probably fall dead if left untreated for long.
Fortunately, while the corpse poison was deadly, the zombification aspect of it wasnt as quick as we had expected. Even Harlow, who had been bitten the earliest, hadnt turned into a zombie yet.
However, that didnt an that he wouldnt either. Living things who were bitten to death by such zombies would inevitably turn into zombies, even the poison-resistant devils. It was rely a matter of how long it took; the least resistant could even turn into zombies before dying.
Right now, the biggest problem facing us was that we had no way to deal with the corpse poison. In other words, anyone who got bitten had no choice but to pray to their maker.
While I did say that Habona was acting a little cold, I could still tell that she was affected by Harlows death. Right before leaving, she took Shadowfang from my back and rushed off without another word. Though there was no emotion to be found on her furry face, I could see the roaring flas reflected within her eyes. Looks like she wasnt able to accept her brothers death as easily as her placid face would suggest.
She needed to vent that anguish within herself, and so did I. Had it not been for insisting on assaulting the Door of the DeadHarlow would have probably been alive right now. He would have spent the rest of his life in the Prison of the Dead with Majosha. And even though that was basically the life of a small fry, at least he would be alive unlike the unmoving corpse laid out before us, that could even turn into zombie at the drop of a hat, and bite Majosha.
Stepping into the heat of battle once more, Habona opened up with a furious dance of death, slicing apart a score of zombies with a single wild single of Shadowfang. No matter who they were, Shadowfang sliced into them unhindered. Yet, the zombie horde was simply too nurous and the skeleton horde even more so. No matter how many she killed, the enemies around her didnt seem to lessen one bit.
Master, theres one more thing No.5 leaned in to whisper in my ears. Just now, I spotted two ratman zombies. Their bodies bore no signs of decomposition at all, in fact, it didnt feel like they had been zombies for long
Still affected by Harlows sudden death, my heart simply wasnt able to calm itself down and naturally wasnt in the mood for No.5s insinuations. Exactly what are you trying to say here?
Noticing my impatience, No.5 dared not beat around the bush any further. Lowering his head in a fashion that almost made it seed like he had been wronged, he continued
Those two ratman zombies are the two ratn who tried to sneak into the solo route when we first entered the Door of the Dead.
youre sure about that?
Having been reminded of what seed like such a distant mory, I couldnt help but recall that day. I rembered warning everyone not to enter the solo route then because there was sothing fishy about it. Thankfully, because the legends stated that only the Four-stars could pass through it safely, only those two ratn dared to defy my orders, no one else even tried to do so.
Back then, the two ratn imdiately scread in anguish the mont they set foot on that road and that led to suspect that they had t with so kind of accident.
Im sure. Its definitely those two. No.5 declared, cutting right to the chase. With a pat of his chest, he confidently reassured : I still rember clearly how one of those ratman had a slightly thicker tail than the others and that it had a rather eye-catching tuft of fur on its head. The other ratman had a darker coat of fur than the other ratn and was missing the tip of his tail
Where are those two zombies now?
Dead, One-eye and Nine-fingers killed them personally. In a slightly confused tone, he elaborated: For so reason, even though the two of them had the strength of Four-stars in life, their combat strength seed to have dropped after becoming a zombie
To think those two ratn popped out of those bone pillars, not only that, their strength decreased as well. In that case, is it safe to assu that those pillars are zombie incubators? Or perhaps they converted and even strengthened zombies?
Previously, I had assud that their strength regressing was an inevitable side-effect of turning into a zombie. Habona herself, once told that living creatures, upon turning into an undead, would usually experience a drop in their strength. Most of the ti, it would be impossible for them to reach their forr peaks.
Perhaps these bone pillars had sothing to do with it?
At the very least, there was sothing I learnt from all this: So those who entered the solo route all turned into zombiesor should I say, they encountered sothing and then turned into a zombie. Theres a high chance that the solo route is so kind of teleportation array that teleported those who entered, into the innards of a bone pillar and directly turned them into zombies. Well, thats my theory anyway.
With that in mind, another problem ca to mind. Numila ntioned that her predecessor left the mont she handed over the reins of the clan to her. Before leaving, that predecessor of hers ntioned that she was going to enter the Door of the Deadgiven that she was alone, she most likely took the solo route.
Then there was Mimiyas father, in other words, Julias and Mo Ens sonI rembered Julia ntioning that her son wanted to leave the Prison of the Dead. According to common knowledge, there was only one way of leaving the Prison
Adding on the Four-stars from the other races, the number might not seem like much on an annual basis. However, the Prison of the Dead had existed for a period beyond my imagination. Within all those years, exactly how many had died to the lie of Four-stars can freely leave the Prison of the Dead?
Exactly who was it that fabricated and spread such a lie, what were their motives in doing so? Perhaps the Prisons creator himself spread this lie, for who though? Why did he want to turn the Four-stars into zombies and not those below Four-stars? What were they scheming?
Based on No.5s report alone, I managed to uncover an entire string of possibilities, each more shocking than the other. It truly felt like I had been implicated so kind of giant conspiracy.
Dearest, were ready. Having spent so ti digesting the massive shipnt of souls, Numila and Eugenia finally finish charging up their mana, and were raring to go as they reported in to . However, that liveliness went away imdiately the mont they saw Majosha silently hugging Harlow in her arms. A look of sorrow crossed their eyes but they chose not to say a word in the end.
The frontlines not doing too well, Ill need you two to cast your spell right away. If possible, widen the area of effect as much as possible and block off contact between the two armies, that way our soldiers can get so rest as well.
Got it.
Not wasting another word here, the two harpy witches flew off to channel another sea of fire. In re monts, a fiery line of separation was erected between us and the undead.
With that, the battle ca to a temporary stop. Even so, that didnt an that our work was done. Elena promptly led her harpies to sweep the battlefield while Evilin instructed the dogn to tend to the wounded. Those who were poisoned were all cordoned off into the sa section after which food would be sent to them at a later ti. The sturdier ones amongst them should be able to survive the quarantine, as for the weaker ones, only death awaited them.
A small division of lizardn were stationed as guards over the quarantine zone. However, they werent there to guard the wounded. Instead, they were there to watch over the patients. Should they discover any zombification, as their guards, these lizardn were to finish them off.
In total, the sea of fire lasted for five minutes. As ordered, Numila tried to expand the range of the sea in order to blow up so of the bone pillars which hadnt erupted yet. As she did so, the undead, being deathly afraid of flas, desperately tried to flee but the flas were simply too fast for them and soon they were engulfed in flas.
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