Krrrrng–
The cliffs on both sides of the gorge vibrated.
Sothing was rushing toward us from the darkness below, making a furious commotion.
Judging from the trembling of the ground, it seed that many were charging at once, yet the noise was minimal.
Everyone moved forward, holding their breath.
Unlike in other places, in this ravine the evil spirits were visible to the naked eye.
All the cold shivers brushing past our bodies were evil spirits.
Things like the black smoke we'd seen in the marsh.
Urrrrr—
The sound of sothing surging!
It wasn't the sound of monsters in a sprint.
It felt like sothing running in a chaotic herd, on two feet, colliding with everything!
"Prepare for combat!"
Everyone gripped their greatswords in both hands and faced forward.
Out of the darkness, a mass of writhing figures surged toward us.
A mber holding a torch shone it ahead. At that mont, everyone gasped in shock.
We all literally went, "Huh!"
Living corpses.
Their flesh was rotten throughout, with arms and legs grotesquely decayed, bare bone exposed!
Puhbububuk—Pukuk—
The team mbers struck down the silently charging corpses all at once, then imdiately pushed deeper in.
The corpses' assaults were weak and slow, but their numbers were overwhelming.
The entire gorge stretching ahead was packed with living corpses.
We frantically struck down the silently shrieking corpses as we advanced at an ever-increasing pace.
The stench was so intense, it was hard to breathe.
"These are dead Elin, aren't they?"
"Yes! It seems the corpses never decomposed!"
The corpses of Elin, with pointed ears, flailed as they lunged at us.
The team mbers silently cut them down, but sothing felt odd.
The Elin corpses rushed at us as if pleading.
Of course, they were attacking us; that much was clear, but it carried a sense of deep resentnt.
"We break through quickly!"
We ran through the charging corpses. Even a light push was enough to have their bones snap—crunch.
Had we run about a hundred paces or so?
Suddenly, the valley seed to narrow. The way ahead was blocked. And yet, the corpses kept pouring out.
A team mber behind
shone a torch, revealing a staircase descending ahead, and at the foot of the stairs was a stone gate.
The corpses were coming out of that stone gate.
That must be the entrance to the ancient ruin Wundbark ntioned!
With the torchbearer taking the lead, we entered the stone gate.
There was a long passageway, and within it, more corpses piled high.
We cut down and sliced apart corpses as we pushed forward.
Suddenly, the wind seed to strengthen, and then our view opened up.
It was a vast underground ruin.
At its center stood a grand building like a temple, surrounded by smaller buildings forming the ruins of a city.
Countless evil spirits flitted through the air.
Unidentifiable skulls were heaped everywhere. Moving Elin corpses sward throughout the ruins.
"To the central building!"
"Yes!"
We descended a staircase leading down from the passageway. Corpses, sensing life, began to rush out in droves.
As I'd guessed, dark power emanated from the central building.
Even within the power of darkness, there was a spark of life.
It was the divinity of darkness.
If divinity gave life to the living, then the power of darkness seed to give life to the dead.
That's why the corpses still seed "alive
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