chapter 7
Undead (2)
Another week has passed in the warehouse.
“Tick! Knock-knock-!”
‘aa- I can’t eat it-!’
The idea and method were not wrong.
There was also a melody that used 「Avatar」, and after several trials and errors, I was able to succeed in moving the undead.
Whistle-
I sat down and stared blankly at a zombie dancing in front of me, scrambled limbs.
Yes, all I could move was one zombie.
To control several undead, the total amount of ‘black magic’ in my body was absurdly small.
Even though he had collected everything except the minimum strength to maintain his body, the weakest zombie was the limit.
After all, even if it was an elite, it wasn’t a skeleton at most.
It wasn’t even a commander entity in the first place, and it wasn’t even that he could use magic.
Perhaps because of “Magic Affinity,” it absorbs the surrounding energy over time and increases the amount, but it was never too late to achieve this level of growth.
‘If it were a skeleton wizard, there would be no need to worry about this.’
It was a time when he was struggling to come up with something different while he was lamenting meaningless.
“Squeak—”
A mouse, now used to it, crawled to where the skeletons were standing and saw it gnawing at its toes.
‘He’s also very diligent… Maybe this?’
Watching it, I slowly got up from my seat with my eye sockets shining, and slowly approached the rat, who was busy grinding its teeth.
***
The undead I could move was a single zombie.
But the zombies standing here are of no help to the current situation.
So what are some zombies that can help?
“Squeaky— Jjikjik—!”
I glanced down at the rat scurrying between the bones of my fingers.
He was quick-witted, unlike a guy who would have lived in an affluent environment.
I thought I would be able to catch it easily when I was careless, but I had to spend a really bad time fighting because I noticed it and ran away before I even got close.
He threw himself with the zombies while blocking the mouse hole and mobilizing even ‘sensing vitality’.
‘When I thought that I was caught with my whole body, I saw how much money fell through my ribs.’
In the end, the mouse was attacked by zombies in the direction the mouse was running and was barely able to catch it.
Thanks to the practice of changing the control target quickly unintentionally, the undead control ability has been further improved.
‘sorry. Don’t forget your sacrifice. Alfred.’
A finger bone containing ‘black magic’ was inserted into the lower jaw of a rat that had been given an arbitrary name.
As he became an undead, the sharpened ends of his finger bones were embedded deeply.
Alfred, who was struggling, stopped moving slowly, but he continued to inject ‘black magic’ into the small body without removing his fingers.
And… the body that had stopped began to wriggle again.
I carefully put Alfred down on the floor, and focus my attention on the guy spinning around.
‘Is it because I infected it myself and it’s a small individual? It’s much easier to steer and seems to have a good connection.’
Now you have a great colleague.
Let’s export it the next time the door opens.
***
The opportunity soon came.
Crackle, squeak—
“Ah- that’s annoying. annoying. Why do I have to do this every time?”
By the way, it was Zephyr the grumbling who came into the warehouse this time.
Before he came in and closed the door, Alfred, who had been waiting in the corner of the entrance, escaped.
He was not attentive, so he didn’t know what was going on under his feet, and as usual, he was busy murmuring.
“We’ll see you later. I’ll call the old man later…”
Alfred, who slipped away behind him, who muttered, cautiously moved into the shade.
The way he controlled Alfred was different from the way Zephyr controlled me.
Perhaps it was because they were the same undead and applied the method of using “Avatar”, the connection became stronger and they could even share their senses to some extent.
It’s not as perfect as Avatar, but it’s good enough to gather information.
Alfred diligently wandered around like that, but unfortunately, he didn’t get much information.
The path leading to the presumed other warehouse and the passage that seems to lead out are all there.
Even so, I can’t be sure…
Of course, it was because all the doors were closed, so I couldn’t check.
‘Ah, so I’m leaving. It must be quite a secret place, but there’s no way you can go out right away just because you’ve crossed one door.’
But I had a helper, Zephyr, who helped me whenever I was in trouble.
“I’m not really a talented person to be rotting in a place like this. It’s because people who don’t have the ability just trust their backs and install them…”
At that moment, Zephyr, who had glanced around the warehouse where I was, saw him coming out through the aisle.
Alfred followed him cautiously in the shadows.
Zephyr was constantly grumbling as he walked towards the other warehouse.
‘Isn’t that guy tired? By the way, what’s in the warehouse over there? Other undead?’
shudder—
When he opened the basement door and entered, Alfred quickly followed.
The guy, who had been babbling about what the hell was in this warehouse, began to quietly examine the inside just this time.
No, actually, as soon as I entered this place, I came to know it naturally.
why is that guy doing that
‘here is···?’
The inside was full of undead, but their presence was not felt well.
Because there was something in the center of the warehouse that gave off an overwhelming presence.
‘…what the hell is there?’
Alfred, who was nothing more than a zombie rat, couldn’t even get close enough to check.
It felt instinctive.
Even if you get too close, ‘that’ will rob you of everything.
While waiting for Zephyr to look inside with a serious look he saw for the first time, he hid at the entrance and thought.
‘That’s what they want.’
Surrounded by the undead, I didn’t know what they were doing or what their purpose was.
Isn’t it common sense to see what bad guys are doing first by obstructing them?
‘Let’s take a closer look at the situation. Because ‘Zephy’s Chance’ is not over yet.’
He hurried out of the warehouse, looking around and confirming something.
“Whoa, I really lose my energy every time I go in there. How am I really…”
I slowly followed the guy who started the engine again and headed for the door leading out.
The doors there didn’t have the usual locks I’ve ever seen.
Woo-
As Zephyr put his palm on it, a strange pattern appeared and the door swung open.
‘Uh, can’t we just go out like this?’
He was embarrassed for a moment, and he hurried out the door and followed him.
“Oh, are you out? Good work.”
“okay. Because every time I go there, my energy goes down. When does maturation end? What did you hear?”
In front of the door, there was a young man sitting with a desk and doing something.
Like Zephyr, he was a regular visit to the warehouse.
He was probably guarding the entrance to the passage.
“Well, wouldn’t it be soon? These days, Master is there every day to check it. I couldn’t come today because I had communication with my superiors.”
“Yeah, I want to finish it quickly and get out of here. ‘Fragments of the Immortal King’ and I’m tired of it now.”
“That’s me too. The warehouse where it is located has to be checked every day.”
He hid Alfred in the shadows under the desk and listened to the story, and he eagerly cheered for Zephyr, who once again helped.
“Hey, isn’t it funny to be guarding here like this? There is a barrier on this door that not only covers the building but also the entire village, who can sneak in here?”
“Well, just in case. Can’t you help it?”
“What if? As long as you’re alive, there’s no way you can avoid this multiple-layered barrier, right? If it’s a corpse, don’t you know?”
Zephyr, who laughed and said that he was going to rest soon, left the place.
‘If you know that guy, isn’t he a good guy? Anyone who sees it would know that he was intentionally trying to help.’
Anyway, this was a great success, with the operation name ‘A mouse hears the horse at night’.
I thanked Zephyr for his cooperation and quietly left the building.
It was night outside, so I was able to move around more comfortably.
Alfred traversed the darkness of the night and roamed the town.
Most of the buildings were closed, but Alfred made use of his major and succeeded in infiltrating the small mouse holes.
However, there was no information beyond what was obtained through Zephyr.
In terms of income, the number of them would be around forty, and most of them were not Warlocks, but their minions.
Satisfied with a decent harvest, it was time to move.
Whoops—!
A black thorn that rose from the ground pierced through Alfred’s body.
“Hmmm…. I did something, but I was a mouse.”
The village chief, no, the warlock Malcolm’s voice could be heard.
‘Damn, did you get caught?’
“Undead? I can’t feel the power of black magic… Is it an entity naturally generated by black magic? Where did this come from?”
As Malcolm approached, I secretly cut off my connection with Alfred.
‘I haven’t even noticed my existence yet. Slowly … naturally so that no abnormality is detected.’
“Your body is filled with black magic to a strange extent. I don’t think it was by magic. Where was he exposed to so much black magic…”
In the blurring connection, I could hear Malcolm pause and let out an annoyed sigh.
“There is only one place here that is full of black magic. Yes, the warehouse manager today was Jeraph.”
Zephyr, sorry for helping you a lot!
Whoops—!
***
The connection is completely lost.
It could be seen that Alfred had been completely destroyed by Malcolm.
We had a moment of silence in memory of Alfred, who died bravely and did a wonderful job today.
‘Alfred. I will definitely take revenge Watch over there!’
Alfred’s enemy is Malcolm. That’s how I decided.
I tried to ignore the conscience that stabbed my chest and organized the information I got this time.
‘Zeffy’s real name is Geraph.’
Well, that was useless information.
‘What they want is ‘Fragments of the Immortal King’ that are ripening in the storage next door, and Malcolm is cherishing them. Undead are not affected by the barrier.’
It didn’t matter what they were doing with the ‘Fragments of the Immortal King’.
I just rolled my head to f*ck them as best I could.
‘I think it’ll be okay if I just get rid of Malcolm…’
Yes, it’s a way to make it, isn’t it?
‘wait···. Alfred’s enemy!’
***
Geraff was not in a good mood.
I was annoyed that I was on duty at the warehouse yesterday, but my master broke it down for me because I didn’t manage it properly.
‘No, who knew that a rat would crawl out of there!’
It was embarrassing.
Due to disciplinary action due to negligence in management, he had to be in charge of the warehouse every day by himself for a while.
Huyan, who guarded the entrance that day, was punished for guarding the entrance for the same period of time.
‘Dirty world! If you don’t have a back belly, where can you live? And what’s the big deal with a single rat crawling out! Like a damn old man.’
Geraff couldn’t spit out his mouth as usual, and he only suppressed his anger inwardly.
Because I was worried because I didn’t know when the teacher would suddenly come here.
Chunkyung! Knock- bang!
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Jeraf, who was running and walking, nervously opened the warehouse door and went inside without hesitation.
And as soon as I closed the door, I turned on the light in my eyes and looked at it, without skipping over as usual.
“there! You came out! [Line up!] You idiots!”
He shouted annoyed at the skeletons that were lined up.
“what? Why is this again? hey! [Stand upright!]”
One of his ankles was cut off and he yelled at a zombie standing at an angle.
But when he staggered and couldn’t follow his orders properly, he immediately ran and started kicking.
“Hey, are you kidding me too? uh? Don’t do it right! [Stand upright!]”
Geraff, who had been arguing for a while, stopped kicking and looked around.
Everyone here absolutely obeys their orders.
It was satisfactory.
This was the right world.
He lowered his gaze and looked at the still staggering zombie with distaste, and then moved away.
“yes? who is this Aren’t you that cheeky guy back then?”
Then I found a familiar figure.
Geraff chuckled, approached the standing zombie and slapped him on the shoulder with his wand.
“Hey, repeat what you said back then. yes?”
The zombie, who appeared to be a man in his early twenties, did not react at all and only shook as he touched it.
“Why don’t you speak? Aha! I plucked out my tongue! 👑👑👑”
Geraff frowned and smiled.
At the time, stress was accumulating, but didn’t a good outlet appear?
“Whoa— those were good times. When hunting the villagers one by one.”
Whoops! puck!
He kicked the zombie and murmured like a madman.
“Especially you were particularly noisy. I’m talking cheeky chatter. what did he say then Did I say that if I touch my family, I won’t let it go?”
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There was a small grinding noise from somewhere, but Zeraf, immersed in his own world, could not hear it and continued to mock the opponent.
“Kick-kick, you put a special effort into it. When I watched my family cry before my eyes, that expression was very artistic.”
He vented his stress towards the zombie and recalled the scene at that time.
The young man’s eyes were glaring at him with his tongue pulled out and tears of blood while being suppressed by the undead.
Recalling the thrill he felt at that time, Geraff twisted his lips.
“But what are you going to do? I left the family I wanted to protect, and I’m standing here alone…”
Kwajik—!
Blood gushed out with a terrifying sound.
Suddenly, a skeleton approached from behind without a trace, grabbed Zeraph’s shoulder and head, and bit the nape of his neck.
“Ouch—! What is this?!”
The sudden attack broke the magic barrier that was always around him.
However, thanks to that, he was able to avoid momentarily turning his head and ripping the nape of his neck off completely.
Whoops!
Zeraf immediately radiated black magic from his entire body, dislodging the skeleton hanging from his back.
Then, with one hand covering the bleeding wound, he quickly retreated to check the assailant.
“Skeleton? Why is this all of a sudden?”
But there was no time for panic.
Because the skeleton that had fallen behind jumped up and ran again.
“Quick… [Stop!][Stop!]”
The skeleton ignored Zeraf’s command as if he couldn’t hear it, and squealed.
Although he was wounded by surprise in an unexpected situation, Zeraf was also known as a warlock.
Seeing that the opponent was undead, he reflexively used the command, but even if it didn’t work, there were plenty of ways to respond.
If the opponent had only one skeleton in front of them.
Kwaak—
The moment I was about to use the magic, something entered my mouth and I felt a sharp pain in my throat.
Suddenly, a zombie approached behind his back, shoving his hand into Geraph’s mouth and biting the nape of the other side.
The magic that was being prepared was canceled as the mind was disturbed by the fatal attack in the absence of a magic barrier.
In a panic, Zeraf soon met his dead eyes without focus.
It was the zombie he had laughed at before.
It was the eyes that were staring at him saying he would not let it go until the moment he died.
The release of magic was not a technique that could be used in succession, and in front of him, a skeleton that was running all the way to his nose was spreading his jaws.
Fear filled Geraff’s eyes.