Chapter 82 – Zombie Parade

The forest was gloomy, full of death.

“Siptaeng.”

It wasn’t something poetic, but it was fucking gloomy. No, this wasn’t gloomy. It was something more.

Rotten viscera, apparently belonging to zombies, were strewn about in all directions. The aftermath of the festival, which lasted for almost a week, left the forest full of rotten entrails of zombies.

If it was just the interior, he was a nobleman. There were also many rotating corpses showing off their talents with missing heads. It’s not a very nice sight for people to see.

ㅡWheein!

The corpse flies happily flitted around was the most basic thing, and when it came to dark maggots climbing the trees and eating the rotten flesh caught in the branches, there was nothing but despair.

However, unlike that atmosphere, the party’s tension was extremely high.

The main reason was that Elise, who was once a master of expressionlessness, was thrilled with her face blushing. She showed off her own taste her to the fullest, undeterred by the dreamy atmosphere that bordered on her murder her.

“Still, it’s not good to leave the corpses unattended. I can’t even deal with this many…”

Seeing the dead zombie’s corpse, she also seemed to be deeply moved.

I suddenly became anxious. She planned to just slap her on the back of the head and run away if Elise suddenly went out of her mind and started talking nonsense about collecting these corpses together.

“I think we can join forces with other churches later to hold a group cremation ceremony.”
“That would be nice.”

Fortunately, there seemed to be no sign of that. Maybe it’s because the numbers are too overwhelming.

“The smell is not very pleasant.”

Cloudy had a better sense of smell than a human, so he was wearing Moktosi like a mask. I also don’t like rot that much.

But even so, by sending these weak undead back to death, I was excited to think that I could easily obtain good equipment. I couldn’t get enough of it without her humming her.

Well, I was already used to corpses.
A dead person is a dead person, and a living person is a living person.

“Kat, I need to go deeper. There are only corpses around here.”
“That’s right. This Mr. Undead has completely dried up.”

The undead around the city had long since become dead.

The bodies were piled up, but no one moved anymore. Even though it was a natural sight, I felt an unknown sense of incongruity.

We went deeper and deeper in search of living undead. The deeper I went, the fewer the corpses, and the rotten smell seemed to diminish.

This is why uncles and aunties go hiking every weekend. If I breathed in the mountain air and recharged my energy, I would be able to gain strength next week as well. The affair that occurred there was a kind of bonus.

—Oro Long.
—-Ororolong.

“You showed up.”

As I was walking through the forest, I found zombies. They were walking around the sky, making bizarre sounds with their rotten vocal cords.

It was like a terrible cry, as if lifting a burning soul from the depths of hell.

In other words, it was a mental attack itself. If my magic defense had been a little lower, I would have been rolling on the floor holding my head.

—-Ororolong.

Zombies in another world were monsters like living witnesses of a miracle that literally revived and roamed around after some kind of magical power or soul-like things did an unknown action on a dead corpse.

Of course, the will is weak, and the desire is not felt except for the appetite. In fact, it’s not that I’m alive, it’s more like a puppet. I don’t know, but as soon as they are resurrected, they lead their rotten bodies around the world and try to satisfy their appetite.

There was no more rotating or dying of starvation, perhaps due to the influence of magical power. They just wander until someone kills them again. It is to walk tirelessly on stiff, rotten legs.

They are probably the ones who walked from somewhere. Judging from the tattered state of their clothes, at least they didn’t look like locals. Perhaps the Necromancer lured them towards the city to achieve some purpose.

As a human being, it was necessary to end their long journey.

—-Ororororon.

“Saints, we have to purify them.”

Elise turned to me and said. The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, which seemed to be uncontrollable pleasure. Her hand her that held the Morning Star trembled. Elise was also the successor of the Vibrator-Hand.

She seemed to regard this hellish place as some kind of dreamlike amusement park.

“Sure.”

I drew my knife Cloudy also picked out a sword. The total number of zombies was ten. They’re slow in nature, so if I’m careful, I can deal with them alone.

You don’t have to get bitten. In fact, it doesn’t matter much if you get bitten. Even my cloth armor couldn’t be pierced with the weak jaw strength of the zombies. You just have to watch your face. But if you bite the real face, there is no answer.

A person bitten by a zombie suffers from a fever and soon dies when the immunity runs out, turning into a zombie.

It is said that a high-ranking priest’s cure is possible, but because the cost is not easy, it is easy to disgrace the moment you are bitten. Rumors had it that some stupid adventurers had already suffered that way.

“O Lord of Order!”

Elise suddenly roared and ran out like an excited water buffalo. She slammed the Morning Star she held high into the zombie’s chest.

ㅡPeruk!
—-Oro Long!

Then the zombie let out her grotesque death throes, and her upper and lower halves her were separated. Her dog fuck her was awesome. With just one shot, the upper half of the body her was ripped off. The lower half of his body was also embarrassed by the unexpected situation, and despite losing his torso, he struggled to stand up.

“What are you doing, torso!”

I kicked that lower body powerfully. Half-rotted and light, it flew right up to the tree and crashed into it. The lower half of the body was silent only then.

“Director swordsmanship!”

I slashed down with moderation and neatly cut down the zombie right next to me.

Over the past month of training, my swordsmanship skills have remarkably improved. The slash, which came from a no-nonsense motion, literally severed the zombie. The zombies collapsed powerlessly as they were.

It was as easy a job as cutting a moving bundle of straw.

“Elise! Cloudy! You know you shouldn’t cut your hair!”
“Yeah, of course not.”
“Of course I know… It’s a bit disappointing.”

Elise was a person who found meaning in life by smashing the heads of enemies. Let her go beyond her regrets her.

“The knife doesn’t smell…”

ㅡShhh!

Claudy swung the sword, and three heads fell off in one shot. The zombies didn’t even know that their heads had fallen, and they collapsed after doing a grotesque dance similar to the vertex dance for a long time.

“Um, that’s neat.”

She had not a speck of dust on her blade. In contrast, my sword was already contaminated with a darkish ooze. Unable to see the knives getting dirty any more, I decided to put my knives in and deal with them with Taekwondo, my specialty.

—-Ororolong!
“Hwanmagak!”

Immediately, I stretched out my arm from the side and hit the zombie that came running.

“Whirlwind angle!”

Then, with a series of attacks, he inserted a fan blade to finish it off. He fell to the ground with his backbone broken by the force of my massive round kick. I said that, but in fact, I only blew soccer kicks a couple of times.

In the first place, it was not Taekwondo or technique at all.
It was just a gura.

“It’s over.”

The situation was over when the bowl was shaking. Elise sprinted around like a fish out of water and smashed all the zombies. I have two and Cloudy has three. And Elise raised a phenomenal score of five.

“Kat, do you want me to cut your hair?”
“No, stay still. I’ll do it.”

He stopped Cloudy from collecting the heads of fallen zombies.

It was necessary to cut off the heads of dead zombies and put them in sacks slung over their backs. These were all talents.

I cut off all the heads like cutting meat on a cutting board. I didn’t want to make Claudy do such a tough job, and since Elise didn’t have a weapon other than Morning Star, it was right for me to do it.

After all the severed heads were put on a sack, they quickly became full. Even a rotten, shrunken head would feel quite heavy if ten of them were put into it. This is why it was better to catch the skeleton. They also smell less.

“The corpses… It’s better to just leave them alone. I’d like to collect them, but there are too many of them. It would be a waste of time if I deal with the corpses that I encounter. I’d better do it all at once later and focus on purifying the undead for now.”

Elise explained her plans for the future as if she had lost her tongue. Wanting to jump out of her at once, she went into the depths of her forest as if her moths were drawn to her.

Elise went ahead of her without hesitation. She was an expert at killing the undead, and she succeeded in pinpointing a place where the enemies might be gathering just by finding a few traces.

“I found it.”

ㅡThat person.

What I found this time was the skeletons gathered in a squad. Honestly, even if I go alone, they are guys who can destroy everything with Taekwondo.

“The skeletons here are, how to say, too weak.”

Cloudy, who was watching the skeletons stride around, spoke softly.

“The skeletons of the ruins of the desert are difficult to deal with because they are armed with all sorts of weapons.”
“A ruin skeleton?”
“Yes, they are the guards who protect the treasures of the buried royal family, but they are said to be strong-boned and fast-moving, and perhaps because they move around like an army, they are difficult opponents. We usually call them [Guardian Skulls].”

The treasure of the royal family is similar to that of Egypt.

“Your name sucks. If we fight, can I win?”
“Um, if it’s one-on-one? They’re scary because they’re in formation. I think it’s a bit difficult when two or three of them get together.”
“Am I too weak?”
“Huh? No no, it’s okay. You’re a strong man. In fact, more important than skill is willpower. Anyone with willpower can become strong. That’s why Katt you…”

Cloudy and I met each other. Hearing such embarrassing words suddenly brought heat to his face. Her lips were close…

“You seem to be on very good terms. If that’s the case, interfering with them is against the law. I’ll take responsibility and purify those undead!”

After saying that, Elise jumped out again like an angry bull.

“O Lord of Order!”

ㅡ Aww!
ㅡ Quick!

With her Morning Star held up, Elise rushed like a general, literally stepping into the middle of the skeletons and she went on a rampage. Countless bone fragments bounced every time the iron ball traced her half-circle.

It was helpless because mere skeletons couldn’t do anything about that monstrous saintess.
So, the skulls of the skeletons were also turned into materials and put into my bag.

In that way, we searched for the undead as we climbed the mountain. Zombies, skeletons, and even mummies… I almost lost my mind at the feast of all kinds of undead.

“Fuck!”

And then something happened.

ㅡ Whiyuuuuu!!
“It’s a fucking ghost!”

The one that appeared this time was Ghost. In a panic, I ran behind Cloudy and hugged her around the waist her, covering her body her. I, Kim Geun-tae, have been extremely afraid of ghosts since the old days.

“Ha, huh ?! I think the back of her back is weak… Eww!”
“It’s fucking scary, what should I do!”

I vomited out fear as if in a fit. Then the Ghost started to hover around us. It was one of the few desperate moments in Kim Katt’s life history! It was the first time I saw a ghost in person except when I was in the army!

“Calm down, saint. That’s just an insignificant existence.”

At that time, Elise spoke with the boldness characteristic of a religious person. Yes. Elise was a nun. If it was her, a ghost like that could easily be smashed to pieces. I looked at her with her angelic eyes.

“I’ll give you a buff.”

—-A genie that will drive out the evil with the power of a glorious god…

“Holy Enchant.”

Suddenly, holy light began to emanate from my sword.

“Clothes, oh…! This power!”
“With that, you will be able to cut down strange beings that are impervious to physical force.”

The light was brilliant.

Trembling, I aimed my sword at Ghost. Holy Enchantra, receiving such a buff seemed like a natural surge of courage. The fear from earlier had disappeared as if washed away. I looked at Elise.

“Try it.”
“Great!”

ㅡWhee woo woo woo!

I faced Ghost. He seemed to recoil at the sight of the shiny blade.

Without hesitation, he threw the knife at Ghost.

“Manhae!”