Chapter 80 – Chapter 8

The group arrived at the border city of the Zanzeri Kingdom.

The border town also suffered a dead moon, and traces of battles were visible here and there, and the toxic smell of burning undead remained here and there.

Arriving with those who passed Dead Moon together, they said goodbye to the Wolf Mercenaries and parted ways.

‘Kaisent of the Wolf Mercenary Corps. The emergence of a new powerhouse must be announced.’
‘If I sell this record marble to the Information Guild, I’ll get some money.’
‘If it’s a mercenary group with a wizard like that… Should I try it now?’

A person who wants to inform the upper ranks of the emergence of a new strong person.
A person who wants to sell the video recorded by the video recording device to the information guild.
A person who sees the future of the Wolf Mercenary Corps and wants to join.
Having various thoughts, they disappeared in different directions.

After some time, as Kaicent’s information spreads everywhere, the number of people who want to contact him will increase.

“Enjoy yourselves all day long!”
“Let’s drink! Let’s die!”
Haha! I survived Dead Moon, but it would be worth watching if I fell into alcohol poisoning!”
“You can drink alcohol anytime! First of all, women!”

This time, there was room in the huge inn, so all the mercenaries were able to laugh and talk loudly thanks to leaving the wagons at the inn.

“But isn’t that a little strange?”
“What?”
“You were attacked by zombies at Deadmoon.
“That’s because this body’s vitality is so damn high. Besides, the people who groaned in the past were surrounded by the undead and were attacked to the point of being miraculous that they didn’t die, but I didn’t go to that level of danger.”
“That’s the way…”

The mercenaries with a good sense questioned the fact that those who were attacked by the undead suffered for a short time from fraud, then lightly robbed their seats and stood up.

However, they couldn’t imagine that Kaicent, who was a magician and did not believe in God, restored it with divine power, so they had no choice but to pass it over, thinking that the vitality of those attacked was strong.

While the mercenaries were all moving to have fun in their own way, Lillian, Frederick, and Kaicent were heading to the biggest temple in the city.

“I’m sorry. I don’t think this would be possible on my own.”

However, he shook his head after weighing the power of the curse that needed to be removed.

Although it was an unfunny curse of gender reversal, it was impossible for most priests to break the curse as it had the power to change the soul and was a curse that Nozgna took care of herself.

After that, I visited other temples, but all the priests shook their heads.

“To lift this curse, I think I’ll have to go to the Great Temple in the Capital City.”
“It seems to me that it would be difficult to simply lift the curse. I may have to go through a ritual.”

Rituals are the act of casting powerful spells by multiple spellcasters equipped with special ingredients and gin.
As there are a lot of people and materials to go into, it needs a price.

Realizing that the curse was stronger than he thought, Frederick became anxious that money was not the problem and that he would live like this forever.

“Haaa…”

Frederick sighed, wearing a large armor and a helmet to cover his face, like Lillian’s, to cover his body.

Even if he tries not to sigh, his sigh bursts out because of the sense of incongruity that he feels in his body.

“In the end, it means that it can be canceled if the conditions are met. Let’s enjoy it too. If you stay gloomy, you’ll only get worse thoughts.”

The three stormed into the bar in the direction the members were heading and joined the members who were holding a festival.

Having watched Kaicent’s power closely, they thought that they would become a bigger mercenary in the future.

In addition, since he survived in Dead Moon and made a lot of money, there is no choice but to have a festive atmosphere.

At first, Frederick was timidly sipping beer,

“Yeah fuck! What are you going to be a woman!

Little by little, timidity turned into anger as he got drunk.

So he didn’t notice.
That Lillian’s eyes looking at her had changed to the one looking at her prey.

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Turn back time for a moment
The East Continent immediately after Dead Moon ended.

The East Continent, like the West Continent, had to go through all sorts of twists and turns while going through the Dead Moon.
It was the same with the Jericho Mercenary Corps, a mercenary group active in the East Continent.

Forming a circle in the field to lure the undead, they were nestled among the thousands of corpses.

“How is it? Did it go as I said?”
“Ah, yes, yes…”

Jericho replied with a forced smile at the appearance of Kang Myung-chul, an Asian patting his shoulder.

One day, he suddenly came and said that he was lucky to see them, and that he would raise them into the strongest mercenary group, so he said to accept them.

Of course, the Jericho mercenaries, who thought that the unheard-of guy was talking bullshit, tried to beat him up.

However, he didn’t break a drop of sweat even as he single-handedly knocked out all of them.

This is your chance.

I don’t know why such a strong person is, but since they came looking for them, they should make use of this opportunity.

He was Jericho who thought so at first, but as time went on he had to admit that his judgment was wrong.

Like right now

“All right, Captain.”
“…Say.”
“Half of the members died…”

The Jericho Mercenary Corps was just one of the many and widespread mercenaries in the world.

It’s not a mercenary corps designed from the ground up with strong upper-class people who have learned knowledge like Wolf’s mercenary corps, with a long-term perspective and plan.

Of course, the level of the mercenaries under Jericho had to be at a similar level.

Most of those who entered the proper mercenary corps to make a living as swordsmen because they did not have enough skills to get a job while moving directly, and they did not have a reliable network.

Can’t such people endure a tough job like Deadmoon?

“Oh my God. These days, they don’t even do the ‘basic’? Is it that difficult to just hold on and not fight?”

Kang Myung-cheol, who slaughtered thousands of undead alone, was dumbfounded that there were mercenaries who died despite his performance.

The one who fights is himself, but why do the things that you just have to endure die?

“At the time, I was desperate to live even if I was stabbed in the stomach. The people of the old world and the people of this world were all weak and drowned.”

Kang Myeong-cheol grumbles, saying he doesn’t know why he doesn’t struggle to survive like himself.
Seeing him like that, Jericho unknowingly clenched his fist.

Even if they gathered for some reason, they were comrades who ate together, and instead of mourning their deaths, rather criticizing them and swearing at them because they are hard-hearted people who can’t even stand it, inevitably raises anger.

“Well, with these loot, you can grow your mercenaries several times more. All you have to do is collect mercenaries who are better than dead assholes. Everyone, get your loot!”

He goes one more drink there, and officially, Jericho is the leader of the mercenaries, but he simply tramples on his dignity that he has built up so far and tells him to take the spoils.

“I… There…”
“What?”
“It’s so hard, but I’m going to take a little break…”
“It’s hard?”

Just ordinary mercenaries, they were exhausted just enduring Dead Moon and wanted to collapse right away.

However, when he told them to take thousands of undead loot there, a courageous mercenary suggested taking a break.

“Are you the only one struggling?”
“Yes?”
“Are you the only one struggling?”
“No… That’s…”

However, to Kang Myeong-cheol, that courage felt like a lame excuse for a lazy person.

“You and I, everyone here is tired and tired! But why are you whining about what you’ve done well!?”
“…”
“If it’s hard, you can organize it faster and rest! I don’t think it’s hard!”
“…Sorry…”
“Tsk. Anyway. There are a lot of complaints about things that don’t even do ‘basic’.”

The mercenaries seemed to get neurosis every time they looked at them and said, ‘It’s not even basic’.

However, the mercenaries, who could not recklessly resist the strong man who defeated thousands of undead, began collecting loot while leading their weary bodies.

If Kang Myeong-cheol helped him here, he could collect them faster, but he settled down in a suitable place and rested, thinking that as a hero, it would damage his dignity to waste his energy on such a nasty job.

“Leader…”
“…I know. But…I’m sorry. There’s no way for me either.”

A few people quietly complained to Jericho, but that didn’t mean there was anything special about him.

In the end, the mercenaries staggered to the point of not knowing who was the undead.

“Tsk tsk. Their movements are sluggish and there is no moderation. In order to train these guys, I’ll have to work hard in the future.”

Kang Myung-chul, who did not even like the movements of the mercenaries, was doing some calculations in his mind.

‘Even if it’s a mercenary group with little reputation, it’s a mercenary group officially registered in the guild. If you raise the rank of this mercenary group by a few steps, I, who are below it, will naturally rise to become a mercenary who can subdue monsters.’

Rather, it would take more time than taking on a low-level request, but he thought it would be better to use such an expedient than taking on a request like a low life and damaging his own dignity.

Deadmoon and Kang Myeong-cheol obtained spoils that would normally be impossible to dream of, but the faces of the Jericho mercenaries did not look happy at all.

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Hung! Smack!

“What are these bastards?”

Jin Soo-ah, who swung her twin swords to sweep away the gore, looked at the corpses of those who lured her to a secluded place in the slum.

Although he became a mercenary who had recently made a name for himself, he had been fighting against monsters, so he hadn’t done anything that would cause someone’s resentment in this world.

“Hey. Don’t play dead and get up.”

She purposely kicked one of the assailants who had been weakly slashed.

She is knocked down and pretending to be dead, but having also learned her medicine, she was able to cut the assailant with just enough precision to prevent them from escaping.

Bakaak!

“Quaaaaagh!”

Still, as she continued to play dead, Jin-sua crushed her assailant’s elbow with a forceful stomp.
Unable to bear her pain, her assailant glared at her viciously as she screamed.

“You motherfuckers! You know who we are!”
“Uh, tell me. Who are you?”
“…”

She was once an abusive raider, but when Jin Soo-ah told her to tell her identity, she shut her mouth.
However, this alone gave her some information about the assailant.

“Aha~ A group that shouldn’t be known to the outside world? But why did that group attack me?”
“…”
“Are you going to keep your mouth shut? Then I’ll find out for myself.”

Pooh!

“Quaaaaagh!”

Jin Sua slams her own twin swords down the shoulders of her assailant, making it impossible to resist or escape.

And as she breathed her energy into the assailant’s body, she began to remember the nature of his power.

It was expected that those who showed similar weapon skills and movements would have similar simbeop that they were learning.

But she felt something strange and tilted her head.

“Oh. It’s strange. What are you? Are you human?”

I heard that there are other races other than humans in this world.

Jin Soo-ah ripped off the face and clothes of the assailant to check her body, but she only had human characteristics.

“It’s obviously a human. How can a human have such a creepy aura? It’s like…”

She took a moment to put her thoughts into her own head into one word.

“It looks like you ate another human.”

It is impossible to express this only in words.
Human vitality, not mana, was wriggling inside the attacker’s body.
Even if he sucked the human innate keeper down to the bone marrow with something like the Great Absorption Method, it would be less creepy than this.

“Kkeuk!? Gkeureuk!”

At that time, the body of the assailant being interrogated began to swell.
No, not only that, but all the attackers’ bodies swelled up.

As soon as Jin Soo-ah, who instinctively sensed danger, hurriedly threw her body away, her assailants’ bodies exploded and a huge explosion occurred.

“Kyaaaaagh!”
“Ahh!”
“What, what!?”

A slum thrown into chaos by a sudden noise.

Jin Sua quickly slips away before things get complicated and blends in with the crowd of her residents in the slums fleeing the commotion.

‘It’s forbidden! The way it activates when you say a specific word or sentence!’

Her heart beats like crazy.
Surprised by an unexpected situation?
No, because she is insanely happy.

‘A secret group secretly working underground without anyone knowing! It sounds like the story of the founder who fought against the Pacheonhoe organization!’

The village she lived in was so boring.

As the Qin clan was able to control even her emperor, she completely disappeared as an enemy.

But it’s not enough to come to a new world, an organization no one knows is working secretly!

Happy.
She is happy to be able to fully demonstrate her abilities, and also happy to be able to go on many adventures like her ancestor.

‘I have to become stronger than now!’

Wasn’t it said that the founder, who was a strong man who had nothing to be envious of, was seriously injured when his danteon was broken by the existence of Pacheonhoeju.

It was said that he was able to reach a higher level as a blessing in disguise, but luck and luck were added, and without the help of his wives, he had to go through a crisis to the point of dying.

Not wanting to rely on such luck, she became stronger, and she needed her colleagues to support her while meeting countless people.

The purpose, scale, and everything of those who attacked him are unknown, but looking at the aura that seems to have eaten humans and the reaction when he said that, he seems to have found the answer.

‘Did you say prana? Something unique to this world, such as absorbing crystals and ascending to a higher level. The raiders must have figured out how to make crystals out of humans.’

Anticipating what kind of chaos they would create, Jin Soo-ah calmed her pounding heart, but couldn’t help but smile.