Episode 181
Episode 181
“To be honest… … “I didn’t expect this.”
Jeron and his party were visiting the church’s temple located close to the County of Gedrin. However, before I even got there, I saw the priests of the temple walking out first, which was both embarrassing and funny at the same time.
The last ridiculous comment was not directed at the priests’ behavior.
It was a laugh at myself for looking at everything negatively.
I realized how shallow my faith in people was.
Jeron said with a cheerful smile.
“I feel like I got hit.”
“Actually, I didn’t expect it either. “We know it’s not a ‘real’ plague, but ordinary people are scared to even get close to it.”
Erdin scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed expression.
The other party members also had similar reactions.
Logan immediately smiled with joy and clasped his hands together.
“Everything goes according to God’s will.”
I turned around on my way to the temple due to an unexpected situation.
We headed straight to the County of Gedrin.
Four days later, we arrived near the county territory.
From a distance, it was a very ordinary land. I heard that a purple fog covers the place at night. This means that it is no different from usual during the day.
The moment I was about to enter the county, soldiers appeared in the distance.
Jeanne found it first and spoke.
“It’s the kingdom’s army.”
The identity of the soldiers was the kingdom’s army that periodically patrolled the area to prevent people from approaching the county.
Jeron and his group hid themselves.
The kingdom’s army quickly disappeared, as if they had not discovered Jeron’s group.
30 minutes later, another kingdom army appeared.
The perimeter was quite strict.
However, the County of Gedrin was so large and wide that it could not block people’s access unless the number of the kingdom’s army reached tens of millions.
This means that unless it is a small country with a population of several million, it is virtually impossible to prevent people from accessing it in the first place.
Also, at night, there is not a single light except the moonlight, so unless you are someone who has learned the Auror method, you can only distinguish the shape of objects with the naked eye.
Jeron and his party waited for night to fall.
Eventually, as the sun set, a purple fog covered the county.
The patrol range of the kingdom’s army has moved a little further away from the county.
They are afraid of the purple fog.
“I don’t feel anything special.”
“me too.”
Erdin and Mayen spoke first. Although he hadn’t opened his mouth yet, it didn’t seem like the others were feeling anything too big.
“Uhm. Except there’s something a bit off-putting about it… … .”
Logan was the only one muttering with a frown. But it seems like he didn’t realize that his reluctance was a problem.
Jeron had a rough guess as to the identity of the purple fog.
‘It’s a fog made of fraud.’
It is not a fraudulent and evil energy.
It was death energy, meaning the energy of death.
The reason why Jeron could feel the fraud was because of a demon from the martial arts group.
‘Country devil against devil!’
This was a guy who extracted the energy of death from a corpse that had been dead for a few days and used it as internal energy.
In addition, he is someone who uses evil energy and death energy at the same time, and uses magic techniques that are very unique and wicked even among demons.
I didn’t have much of a connection with the Country Ghost Demon, but as I said just above, it was so unique that I watched it with interest, albeit briefly.
As a result, I was able to feel the morale of death.
Anyway, to sum it up, the energy of death is an energy that is difficult to feel unless you have experienced it directly like Jeron or witnessed the deaths of many people.
The reason Logan felt rejected was because of his divine power.
Divine power is close to vitality, that is, vitality.
Because it is the opposite of morale, even if you have never felt it before, you cannot help but feel an instinctive repulsion.
‘If it’s at the level of the group, it won’t have much of an impact.’
Jeron judged calmly. However, there was nothing good about him exposing his fraud for a long time. Because morale was literally the energy of death. It’s best to get out as quickly as possible.
While approaching the county, Erdin pointed at something with his finger.
“Mr. Jeron. “There’s something strange over there.”
Let’s get closer and check it out.
-There is a plague currently circulating in this area, so please do not enter.
It was a wooden sign with the following written on it.
There wasn’t just one wooden sign.
As I looked further away, I noticed signs stuck in the ground everywhere. It was clear that the kingdom’s military patrols alone had limitations in preventing people from approaching, so signs were written warning of a plague.
“I don’t know what to do next, but I took good precautions.”
If we had just stood by and watched, many people would have died.
Jeron and his party moved before the kingdom army arrived.
Less than a minute after immersing myself in the purple fog, I felt a strange presence. It was a sign that was difficult to believe belonged to a living person.
“Jeron. “Something is coming.”
Mayen said, taking out a broom.
Soon, a strange presence – black shadows gathered around.
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It was a person.
But can we call that a person?
Every part of his body began to rot, and the skin on his face was split in half and torn off. It was close to a corpse.
“They are dead, but they walk without rest!”
“To put it simply, undead?”
As Logan shouts, Erdin asks. But it was a question that didn’t need an answer.
This is because it was an appearance that could be judged just by looking at it.
‘Are you a zombie? Or is it a Ghoul?’
Jeron slowly glanced at the undead.
It approaches me, looking at me with eyes that are like motionless eyes.
Zombies can be easily dealt with by untrained adult men and women as long as they have a weapon, but ghouls exceed the physical capabilities of ordinary humans. However, that undead walked quickly for a zombie, but was as slow as a slug to be called a ghoul.
“It’s not particularly important in the current situation.”
When Jeron waved his hand, the group each took out their weapons.
First, Erdin’s spear moved.
Fighting-!
He pierced the neck of the undead who was approaching the front with a spear. Purple-colored blood soaked the ground. As if one thing wasn’t enough, he ran around like a squirrel and swung his spear in all directions. About 10 undead fell in an instant.
But are the undead undead for nothing?
Even if you make a hole in the neck of someone who is already dead, they will not die a second time.
The undead got up and rushed towards him with a hole in its neck.
“What are these?”
“Tear off the neck completely!”
Jeanne shouted as she cut off the undead. Erdin nodded her head with a shocked expression and quickly rotated her spear, separating her head and body.
Then the undead wriggled and fell limp.
“There are two ways to deal with the undead. Dealing with a weapon imbued with divine power or separating the head from the body! There are some guys where the latter doesn’t work… … “I’ll tell you about it then!”
“ah… … thank you.”
“I wonder if you guys have time to talk right now… … .”
When Jeron flicked his finger sideways, the heads and bodies of dozens of undead were separated.
The purple fog also dispersed, but quickly filled up.
Erdin and Jeanne look at him with annoyed eyes. However, she quickly took a deep breath as she discovered that so many undead were rushing behind the fallen ones that there was no end in sight.
“… … Don’t forget that this ‘fake’ plague started in the County of Gedrin. If you think that all the territory’s residents have become undead, there are probably hundreds of thousands… … No, it’s probably because there are millions of undead targeting us.”
“There’s no need to add that… … “Let’s go!”
Erdin shouted in anger and swung his spear. Most of them were neither zombies nor ghouls, but undead with intermediate speed, so they were unable to block or dodge the spear. However, the number that could be seen with the naked eye alone was enormous, probably in the hundreds.
To be honest, I was already freaking out.
“Don’t deal with them one by one. I’ll move quickly, so follow along.”
“100 million-!”
Xeron lifted Priest-Logan onto his shoulders and carried him away. Because nothing had been said in advance, Logan let out a scream of embarrassment, but soon quieted down.
“Jeron, where are you going?”
“uh.”
Jeron answered and quickly unfolded the Divine Law. Erdin’s voice was heard from behind, shouting, ‘Hey, you bad bird!’, but he thought it was an auditory hallucination and ran through the waves of undead.
“Si, Messenger of God?”
“Yes, priest.”
“Where are you going?”
“well. If you go somewhere, won’t something come out?”
There really is no answer… … No, it was a question.
Logan seemed to know why Erdin shouted, ‘Hey, you bastard!’
Although he was a man who thought he was an apostle of God.
‘If you live with someone like this, you won’t be able to avoid pushing him off a cliff.’
It was Erdin who was on a winning streak again today. Still, if you look at it as positively as possible, breaking through without dealing with the undead was the best option.
‘There are too many undead.’
Considering the abilities of the party members that we have seen so far, with the exception of Xeron and Mayen, all of them might lose strength while dealing with the undead, so it was best to escape this fog.
“Priest.”
“Yes, Messenger of God.”
“Lift your arms up a little.”
“yes.”
Logan spoke calmly and raised his arms. Something barely passes under his arm. When I glanced around, I saw an undead with his head and body separated. He told me to predict the direction of the undead’s attack and avoid it.
‘After all, it is God’s work… … .’
The thoughts did not continue until the end. Logan saw something different from the undead he had encountered so far.
It was a big, fat undead with a corpse stuck together.
“What is that?”
Jeron mutters as if he is interested. Logan wanted to answer, but he didn’t know the details of the types of undead, so he remained silent.
Jeanne, who was struggling to follow on behalf of Logan, shouted.
“It’s a rag golem!”
“A rag golem? aha. “It’s called that because it looks like a corpse stretched out like rags.”
Jeron still looked with interest in his eyes and moved his fingers. Then the rag golem was torn into several pieces. Logan, who was carried on his shoulder, was impressed.
“God’s Messenger.”
“wait a minute.”
Jeron didn’t even give Logan a chance to speak.
He jumped over the rag golem that tore into several pieces and fell to the ground, and climbed up the tree like a monkey.
Soon they put him down on a branch and climbed up to the top of the tree.
“Hmm. “There are no more undead.”
I looked around from the top.
It was hard to see because of the purple fog, but when I poured energy into my eyes and dispersed the fog, I was able to get a rough idea of it.
There was nothing around except for the hundreds of undead that had gathered around.
As we go down again, Erdin and Jeanne arrive, out of breath.
On the other hand, Mayen came riding her familiar so calmly that it was not strange to enjoy tea time elegantly and sat next to Logan.
“Is it very difficult?”
“Heh! Heh! “Can’t you see I’m going to run out of breath now?!”
“Then give up.”
“Someday I’m going to push you off a cliff or stab you with a spear!”
“I’ll help you too.”
It was the moment when the agreement between Erdin and Jeanne was dramatically concluded.
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