Monarch of Death

Chapter 40 – 10. Night of the Dead (4)

Five tough men looked at the scene before them and were puzzled.

“What’s this?”

“Why are these guys dead here?”

These were also members of Ranfeld’s lower end. While searching the streets with his colleagues, he discovered that the guys wandering through other areas were dead.

“The situation is a bit strange for an enemy attack…”

No matter how he looked at it, it looked like they stabbed each other to death. Living in a city where there were so many cases of stabbing each other to death, he could tell just by looking at it. However, there was no reason for them to kill each other in the current situation.

“Has the wizard manipulated the scene?”

“That means…”

“Are you saying that someone is targeting us somewhere right now?”

The situation became terrifying for a moment, and it was when the organization members stared at the other side of the fog with their backs to the corpse. Two bloody corpses rose from behind.

“Haaaaa…”

It was before the members of Ranfeld, startled by the groaning, even turned around. The knife held by the corpse cut deeply into one man’s chest. Blood poured.

“Arghh!!!”

A life went so quickly. The organization’s members burst into screams at the sight of their colleague falling bleeding.

“Aww!”

“Guys the body moves!”

“It’s dead!”

The bloodied corpse charged at him, brandishing a sword. The men were frightened and fought back.

“Damn it! A wizard?”

“Damn, those top guys!”

“I don’t think I should tell you something important like this!”

A scuffle ensued with stabbing, cutting, and spraying blood. A knife was driven into the corpse’s torso.

“Uhhh…”

And it was no use. Those who had died would not die again—recklessly pushed and stabbed with a knife. A knife was lodged again in the man’s torso.

“Kuuk!”

A scream broke out. The living lost their vitality and collapsed like dolls. The confrontation between a corpse that felt neither pain nor fear and a living person who sometimes died even when cut three inches was too absurd. It really was.

“Aaaaaaa!”

“Mo, cut your throat!”

“Even if you cut me, I won’t die!”

“Then cut off your head and cut off all your limbs!”

The five men paid a high price to leave only two moving corpses incapable of combat. Two of the five died; the third suffered severe injuries and breathed heavily.

“Heh heh heh heh……”

“Even so, because you screwed it up like this…”

“I will never get up again.”

The whole head of the attacking zombie was smashed, and the limbs were also made into very well-minced meat chunks. Even if it moved again, he thought that would be fine since there was no means of attack. Damn, was it that scary that a chopped body could move? The muttering man’s complexion suddenly turned pale.

“Wait, the body is moving?”

There were two more bodies in that place. Those zombies just killed the members of Ranfeld’s organization.

“Uhhh…”

“Uhhh…”

Even the dead comrades turned into zombies and began to rise. Terrifying screams pierced the night fog.

“Aaaagh!”

* * *
Things to avoid were happening one after another in the city. Colleagues killed each other, rose as zombies, and attacked other colleagues. However, the members of the Ranfeld organization were not easy opponents either.

A street in central Trist City.

About ten gang members were in the process of hacking through three zombies.

“Heh heh heh heh……”

“Hey! What a zombie…”

“It’s not a big deal if you deal with it calmly!”

Everyone was a battle veteran who was accustomed to blood and death and was not unfamiliar with zombies. One member of the organization spat while wiping the blood.

“To hell with that necromancer! Did you think we would be shaken this much?”

The agony of re-slaying a dead comrade? There was no such thing in the first place. He could kill even a living comrade if he was wrong, so what was wrong with hacking up a corpse already?

“Search around! The necromancer who did this must be nearby!”

A few of his men scattered across the street. After a while, a cry was heard from the back of the alley.

“They’re here!”

“That’s it!”

As if they had waited, the men rushed into the alley to live. Just like that, it was time to stare into the alley.

“Uh?”

“What?”

There was no one inside. Not only the necromancer but even the organization’s members burst into shouts.

“…Then who just made that noise?”

It was a time when everyone was dumbfounded. Outside the alley, another underling called them.

“This way, Brother!”

As soon as the report was made, the subordinate quickly ran away and disappeared through the fog. Clicking his tongue, others followed him.

“Did you run away there?”

However, when he came out to the street, he didn’t see his subordinate.

“Where has this guy gone?”

It was when the men were bewildered. A man ran from the other side of the street.

“There is no one here, Leader.”

It was the subordinate who had just disappeared beyond the fog. Looking at him, the captain asked.

“What, you? When did you go there?”

“Huh?”

“You just ran this way!”

“What do you mean?”

It was a time when they didn’t understand and were embarrassed by each other. This time, footsteps were heard first.

Tha tha tha….

Then, out of the fog, the same subordinate emerged for the third time.

“Captain, there’s no one here…”

“Whoa! What was that!”

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He was frightened when he saw another himself on the other side. It was a time when everyone was confused and muddled.

“Come to think of it, did you hear footsteps this time?” Muttered the captain.

He hadn’t heard that sound before.

“It’s a trick! This guy is fake!”

Even if he looked at it like this, it was a body that had been through all the maternity battles in Trist City. Did you think they would fall for this trick!

“You bastard!”

“Where are you going to trick people!”

Saying that they would show the truth, the men grabbed knives and rushed at them.

“Huh? Huh? What is this?”

They didn’t care if the other person was embarrassed or not. It was a life where even the slightest mistake could cost you a life. He could only survive if he had to use his hands quickly.

“Ugh, ah!”

It was an instant for one person to be hacked to pieces. Yes. It was one person. Not illusions or fantasies, but one person. The men looked back at each other, holding their swords dripping with blood.

“Excuse me……”

“This feels like a shoulder…”

“Looks like it’s real.”
The captain snorted.

“Hong can’t be real, right?”

Because the real thing was behind him now. He was sure that he heard footsteps.

“Isn’t that right? Prot…”

Calling his name, he turned around and was startled.

“Prot?”

He did not exist. Obviously, the subordinate who was standing just before was nowhere to be seen.

“Where did he go?”

No, to be precise, where was he exactly. Prot was chopped into pieces with his own hands and became a corpse. Chills ran down his spine.

“Then…”

“……The one we just killed?”

The body rose.

“What….”

Unjustly killed by colleagues…

“Uhhh…”

Being filled with resentment to the core and becoming another zombie exuding fraud and dishonesty.

“Aaaaaaa!”

* * *
He couldn’t believe what he saw. A colleague who was clearly in front of him was disappearing, and a colleague who should not be there was right in front of him.

“Damn! What’s going on?”

He also couldn’t believe what he heard. Auditory hallucinations were not just about making sounds that were not there. Eliminating existing sounds were also hallucinations.

“No, I couldn’t hear it clearly…”

If you stabbed a colleague who ran silently with a knife, vivid blood would pour out. If he sent a noisy colleague behind his back, it would disappear before he knew it.

“Everyone, wake up!”

“Don’t scatter, stay together!”

If so, could you trust a colleague behind your back? How much was this warmth coming from your back? That warmth was turning into chilly cold air before he knew it.

Fu-wook!

“Keuouk!”

“Uh, at some point…”

Apparently, the former colleague became a bloody corpse and stabbed the former colleague. The dead once again became a moving corpse and walked the earth moaning.

“Scatter!”

“There are zombies among us”

“Nonsense! It seemed fine until a moment ago…”

He was cutting zombies in shock and panic. The eyes of a colleague who fought hard together suddenly turned bizarre.

“Hey, you, your eyes…”

The pointed-out colleague nervously replied.

“What happened to my eyes?”

It was a really human reaction, so it was a moment to be relieved.

“Deguru…!”

A colleague’s eyeballs fell out. Hanging from dark red tendons, the eyeballs trembled.

“Aaaaaagh!”

Frightened, they brandished their swords at once.

“Kuuk! No, why did I suddenly…”

The one who was suddenly attacked died in resentment. The survivors gasped for breath, stared at the dead, and were astonished.

“Oh my, what did I see?”

“Surely the eye rolled down?”

The two eyes of the corpse were intact. The corpse woke up as a zombie, groaning with its normal but now unfocused eyes wide open.

“Uhhh…”

He really couldn’t trust anyone anymore. Even himself. He just screamed in fear, confusion, and despair.

“Aaaaaagh!”

* * *
Karnak continued to work. Traveling through Trist City, he searched for members of the Ranfeld organization. It was easy to find because they were noisy and roaming around in the first place.

When found, he spread a veil of darkness and hid himself. Then, he cast a magic spell on the Ranfeld group and adjusted the situation. Large-scale seduction could not be performed since there was no room for command power. But even so, it was no big deal. A short auditory hallucination didn’t consume much of the command power.

“Are you fooled?”

One word was enough. The mere fact that someone said something suspicious caused self-immolation among them.

“Hey, you son of a bitch!”

“Wait! Why are you suspicious of me?”

Of course, cold-hearted people could try to rectify the situation somehow.

“Everyone, wake up!”

“Someone is bewitching us! Can’t you see it?”

Add a little salt here and season to taste. It was the salt called fantasy.

“Wait… your face………”

“What’s wrong with my face?”

“Aww! Don’t come any closer, you monster!”

“What nonsense are you talking about again!”

They killed each other, the corpses multiplied, the multiplied corpses killed the living, and the corpses multiplied again. There were even unexpected situations. How would ordinary citizens see the appearance of the members of the Ranfeld organization, where self-restraint occurred?

Ah, those Ranfelds who didn’t want to see that look got beaten up. But he was wearing an expensive sword and armor. It was not uncommon for mice and birds to die without even noticing if they were simply scattered.

Karnak smiled happily, “As expected, this is what happens when only bad guys gather.”

If bad guys got together and did bad things, you would always see a bad reality and live. It felt like the world was full of only bad things, so if things got a little worse, he could only think of the worst possible outcome. And most of Trist City’s citizens had solved all their problems with swords and violence.

“Is this why people have to live kindly?”

“Your words are very persuasive.

Barros snorted.

“We ended up like that because we didn’t live kindly, maybe?”

“So you’re continuing your good deeds like this?”

Serati trembled at the sight of Karnak strutting.

‘You mean this is a real necromancer…?’

He did not spread great darkness and turned the entire city into hell like the legendary necromancer. He just wandered around the city, performing simple seduction tricks and walking again. But people kept dying…

“Is it really good that I became a member of his family?”

Of course, that didn’t mean she hadn’t committed murder either. Living as an adventurer, she had had many occasions where she was forced to fight to the death, and she had abundant experience in punishing villains. But no matter how bad the opponent was, could a person die so easily?

Perhaps feeling Serati’s gaze, Karnak turned around. Then, embarrassed, he scratched his head.

“I showed such an embarrassing side. I don’t usually do this.”

“Still, it seems that you have at least a conscience?”

The look on his face made him look really embarrassed. Serati was slightly relieved.

“Well, even if you’re a necromancer, you’re also a human, so there’s no way you’d do something like this comfortably…”

“Originally, he spreads the magic of darkness throughout the city and raises an army of corpses at once. Doing this without magic is not possible, so there is no need to look at me with such a disappointed eye.”

“…Was that your embarrassing point?”

Karnak sighed heavily, not knowing that Serati was stunned.

“Well, it’s really hard to live without power.”

It was definitely a tiring job. If he had been in the past, he would never have done such a troublesome thing. Still, the number of people who died unjustly continued to rise. An unfair corpse walked the earth, and an unfair ghost hovered in the sky.

“With this, you got the number you needed, right?”

Karnak stretched his hand into the air, “Arise, my troops…”

The gloomy voice began to spread through the city through the shadows.

“Become an army of death and march according to my orders!”