A quarter of Re-Lantier's city walls was used to surround an enormous area, which took up half of the city's western district. That was the public cemetery of Re-Lantier. There were cemeteries in other cities too, but not one of such a scale.
That was in order to suppress the rising undead.
There were still many unknowns regarding why the undead rose, but unclean things tend to sprout from places where the living meet their end. The probability of the undead rising was higher for those who were killed and those who were not mourned. Hence, it was common to find undead in places like battlefield and ruins.
Re-Lantier, which were situated near the Empire’s battlefield, needed a gigantic cemetery to prevent the undead from rising——a place for people to pay tribute to the dead.
For this part, it was the same for the neighboring nation——the Empire. They also had an agreement to pay tribute to the dead during the war. Even though they were fighting each other, they still see the undead that assault the living as a common enemy.
Apart from that, the undead posed another problem. If you left them alone, they might produce stronger undead. That’s why the adventurers and guards will patrol the cemetery every night and destroy the undead while they were still weak.
The cemetery was surrounded by a wall, and this wall was the line separating the living from the dead. The 4 meter high walls couldn’t compare to a siege wall, but it was enough for people to walk on top of it. The gate was secured and sturdy, it definitely was not easy to break down.
This was all done to guard against the undead that rose in the cemetery.
There were staircases to either side of the door and an observation tower was erected beside the wall. Each shift consisted of five men, they yawned as they took turns to watch over the cemetery.
The cemetery was illuminated by a lamp post enchanted with 「Continual Light」, so it was bright despite being night. But there were still dark areas, and the tomb stones obscured the view as well.
A guard holding a spear looked over the cemetery absentmindedly, yawning as he said to his watch companion:
“It’s quiet tonight too.”
“Yup, there were five skeletons just now right? Compared to the rate of their appearance in the past, that’s almost nothing.”
“Yeah, were the spirits of the dead summoned back by the Six Gods? That would be great.”
The other guards were intrigued by this topic and joined in:
“We can handle skeletons and zombies, but it is hard to take down skeletons with spears, so it is troublesome.”
“I think wights are the hardest to handle.”
“Centipede skeletons for me. If the adventurers patrolling nearby didn’t come to assist, I would already be dead.”
“Centipede skeletons? I heard that if you leave the weak ones alone, stronger undead would spawn. If we kill them while they are weak, the strong ones won’t spawn.”
“Yes, absolutely true. The team that patrolled last week was lectured viciously by our team captain. The wine they offered as an apology was great, but I don’t want to ever experience that again.”
“But… If you think about it, the undead not showing up could mean trouble.”
“... Why?”
“Well, it feels like our surveillance is missing something.”
“You think too much, normally there won’t be so many undead. I heard that the undead rise frequently after burying the bodies of those who were killed in battle against the Empire. Conversely, this is how it is without war right?”
The guards nodded to acknowledge this theory. Although the villages in other areas also bury their dead, they had never heard of such frequent spawning of the undead there.
“... Now that you mention it, the situation in Kaze plains went out of hand.”
“Yup, I heard incredibly strong undead spawned there right?”
The plains where the Empire and the Kingdom clashed. That place was a famous zone where the undead roamed. The adventurers commissioned by the Kingdom and the knights of the Empire exterminate the undead there frequently. The importance of this job prompted the support division of the Kingdom and the Empire to set up a small town there.
“I heard──”
The guard who was about to speak stopped suddenly.
The other guard who felt uneasy because of this said:
“Hey, don’t──”
“Quiet!”
The guard who stopped speaking seemed to be able to see through the dark and stared at the cemetery. Affected by this action, the other guards looked towards the cemetery.
“... Did you hear that?”
“Was it your imagination?”
“I didn’t hear anything… But I smell soil. Didn’t we dig a grave recently? It smells just like that…”
“Don’t joke like that.”
“... Huh? Ah, hey! Look over there!”
A guard pointed towards the cemetery. Everyone focused on that spot.
Two guards were sprinting towards the main gate. They were out of breath and their wide open eyes were bloodshot. Their sweat-stained hair stuck to their forehead.
The scene before them made the guards feel something was wrong.
The guards patrolling the cemetery moved in groups of ten. Why were there just two? They were running without weapons and seemed to be running for their lives.
“Quick, open the gate! Open the gate now!”
Seeing the way these two were screaming, the guards ran down the stairs and opened the gate in a hurry.
The two guards scampered in without waiting for the gate to fully open.
“What in the…”
The two guards interrupted while panting with a pale face:
“Quick, close the gate! Hurry!”
All the guards got goosebumps looking at their unusual actions, closing the gate together and placing the bolt in place.
“What happened? Where are the others?”
Hearing this question, the guard lift his head and had a shocked expression.
“They, they were eaten by the undead!”
Hearing that 8 comrades had fallen, the guards looked to their captain. The captain immediately ordered:
“... Hey, someone get up there and take a look!”
A guard climbed the stairs and stopped when he got half way up.
“What, what is it!”
The trembling guard shouted:
“Undead! A huge mob of undead!”
Straining their ears, they could hear sounds like a stampede of horses coming from the other side of the wall. Not just the guard that first sighted them, all the guards present were dumbstruck by the scene before them.
A mind numbing number of undead were advancing towards the gate.
“What is with these numbers…”
“It’s more than a hundred or two… There should be thousands…”
There were countless undead in places the light didn’t shine, it’s hard to gauge the actual number if you include the figures wriggling in the darkness.
With their rotten stench the innumerable undead closed in on the gate with unsteady steps like a dark cloud. Not just zombies and skeletons, there were a few strong undead mixed in ── Ghouls, Devourers, Wights, Bloaters, Carrion Crawlers etc.
The guards trembled in fear.
The city was protected by the walls, the undead couldn’t attack normal citizens without breaking through the walls. But even if they mobilize all the guards, it was uncertain if they could keep such a large group of undead at bay. The guards are just peasants wearing defensive gear, they didn’t have the confidence to exterminate all these undead.
Not just that, some undead could even turn the people they kill into their own kind. If things went bad, the guards might even be turned into an undead and start attacking their comrades. No flying undead were sighted yet, but if they didn’t take care of this soon, it would only be a matter of time before vicious undead able to take flight spawned. This made the guards even more terrified.
── The wave of undead washed to the walls.
Bang bang──
The swarm of low-intelligence undead couldn’t feel pain and bashed the door haphazardly. They seemed to realize they could attack the living after breaking down this door.
Bang bang──
The banging sound, the creaks of the door bending under the pushing force and the moans of the undead kept coming.
With no need for brakes, the undead who didn’t mind shattering under the brunt of the impact were like a siege weapon.
The guards witnessing this sight were breaking out in cold sweat.
“Sound the bell! Request reinforcements from the guard post! The two of you inform the other gates of the emergency!”
The captain issued the orders after getting ahold of himself:
“The ones behind use spears to attack the undead that approach the gate!”
The guards remembered their duties when they heard the orders, thrusting their spears hard at the undead below. The mass of undead flooding the ground were easily hit.
Thrust, pull back and thrust again.
Murky blood and the rotten stench numbed the noses of the guards who repeated the same action like a factory worker. Several undead lost their negative life force, and got trampled by the undead behind them after they fell.
The undead lack intelligence, so they didn’t fight back against the guard’s repeated spear attacks. Repeating the same motion made the guards lose their sense of danger.
As if it was aiming for this moment──
“Wahh!”
There was a scream and when they looked toward the source, the neck of a guard was entangled by something long and squirming.
It was a smooth and pink—— an intestine.
An egg shaped undead stood at the place the intestine came from. In front of it was a wide gap with the organs of several people squirming in it like parasites.
That was an undead known as Viscera Egg.
The intestine pulled the guard over.
“Yahh!”
Before others could help him, the guard fell with a scream──
“Help! Save me! Ah, Yahh──”
——The shriek started again. All the guards saw the terrible fate of their comrade as he was eaten alive by the congregation of undead.
The armor protecting his body and the action of protecting his face prolonged this cruel moment. Fingers, calves, face, all of them were stripped bare.
“Fall back! Dow
ไตรมาสของกำแพงเมืองใหม่ Lantier ใช้พื้นที่มหาศาล ซึ่งใช้ค่าครึ่งหนึ่งของเขตตะวันตกของเมือง ล้อมรอบ ที่เป็นที่สาธารณะสุสานของ Re-Lantier มี cemeteries ในเมืองอื่น ๆ มากเกินไป แต่ไม่หนึ่งของขนาดดังกล่าวที่มีการระงับไรซิ่ง undeadยังมี unknowns มากมายเกี่ยวกับเหตุสิ่งกุหลาบ แต่เที่ยวปราสาทมักงอกงามจากสถานที่อยู่อาศัยตรงจุดสิ้นสุดของพวกเขา น่าไรซิ่ง undead สูงขึ้นสำหรับผู้ที่ถูกฆ่าและผู้ถูก mourned ดังนั้น มันเป็นทั่วไปในการค้นหาปราสาทในสถานที่เช่นสนามรบและซากปรักหักพังRe-Lantier ซึ่งถูกตั้งอยู่ใกล้กับสนามรบของจักรวรรดิ จำเป็นสุสานขนาดใหญ่เพื่อป้องกัน undead ไรซิ่ง — ซึ่งเป็นสถานที่สำหรับการส่งส่วยให้ตายในส่วนนี้ มันเป็นเหมือนกับชนชาติใกล้เคียง — — อาณาจักร นอกจากนี้พวกเขายังมีข้อตกลงต้องจ่ายส่วยให้ตายในระหว่างสงคราม แม้ว่าพวกเขาได้ต่อสู้กัน พวกเขายังคงดู undead ที่โจมตีอยู่เป็นศัตรูทั่วไปนอกจากนั้น undead เกิดปัญหาอื่น ถ้าคุณไม่ได้คนเดียว พวกเขาสร้างแข็งแกร่งปราสาท จึง adventurers และยามจะลาดตระเวนสุสานทุกคืน และทำลาย undead ในขณะที่พวกเขายังอ่อนแอสุสานถูกล้อมรอบ ด้วยกำแพง และผนังนี้เป็นบรรทัดที่แยกชีวิตจากความตาย ผนัง 4 เมตรไม่สามารถเปรียบเทียบกับผนังล้อม แต่มันก็เพียงพอแล้วสำหรับคนที่จะเดินบนนั้น ประตูมีความปลอดภัย และแข็งแรง แน่นอนไม่ง่ายลงThis was all done to guard against the undead that rose in the cemetery.There were staircases to either side of the door and an observation tower was erected beside the wall. Each shift consisted of five men, they yawned as they took turns to watch over the cemetery.The cemetery was illuminated by a lamp post enchanted with 「Continual Light」, so it was bright despite being night. But there were still dark areas, and the tomb stones obscured the view as well.A guard holding a spear looked over the cemetery absentmindedly, yawning as he said to his watch companion:“It’s quiet tonight too.”“Yup, there were five skeletons just now right? Compared to the rate of their appearance in the past, that’s almost nothing.”“Yeah, were the spirits of the dead summoned back by the Six Gods? That would be great.”The other guards were intrigued by this topic and joined in:“We can handle skeletons and zombies, but it is hard to take down skeletons with spears, so it is troublesome.”“I think wights are the hardest to handle.”“Centipede skeletons for me. If the adventurers patrolling nearby didn’t come to assist, I would already be dead.”“Centipede skeletons? I heard that if you leave the weak ones alone, stronger undead would spawn. If we kill them while they are weak, the strong ones won’t spawn.”“Yes, absolutely true. The team that patrolled last week was lectured viciously by our team captain. The wine they offered as an apology was great, but I don’t want to ever experience that again.”“But… If you think about it, the undead not showing up could mean trouble.”“... Why?”“Well, it feels like our surveillance is missing something.”“You think too much, normally there won’t be so many undead. I heard that the undead rise frequently after burying the bodies of those who were killed in battle against the Empire. Conversely, this is how it is without war right?”The guards nodded to acknowledge this theory. Although the villages in other areas also bury their dead, they had never heard of such frequent spawning of the undead there.“... Now that you mention it, the situation in Kaze plains went out of hand.”“Yup, I heard incredibly strong undead spawned there right?”The plains where the Empire and the Kingdom clashed. That place was a famous zone where the undead roamed. The adventurers commissioned by the Kingdom and the knights of the Empire exterminate the undead there frequently. The importance of this job prompted the support division of the Kingdom and the Empire to set up a small town there.“I heard──”The guard who was about to speak stopped suddenly.The other guard who felt uneasy because of this said:“Hey, don’t──”“Quiet!”The guard who stopped speaking seemed to be able to see through the dark and stared at the cemetery. Affected by this action, the other guards looked towards the cemetery.“... Did you hear that?”“Was it your imagination?”“I didn’t hear anything… But I smell soil. Didn’t we dig a grave recently? It smells just like that…”“Don’t joke like that.”“... Huh? Ah, hey! Look over there!”A guard pointed towards the cemetery. Everyone focused on that spot.Two guards were sprinting towards the main gate. They were out of breath and their wide open eyes were bloodshot. Their sweat-stained hair stuck to their forehead.The scene before them made the guards feel something was wrong.The guards patrolling the cemetery moved in groups of ten. Why were there just two? They were running without weapons and seemed to be running for their lives.“Quick, open the gate! Open the gate now!”Seeing the way these two were screaming, the guards ran down the stairs and opened the gate in a hurry. The two guards scampered in without waiting for the gate to fully open.“What in the…”The two guards interrupted while panting with a pale face:“Quick, close the gate! Hurry!”All the guards got goosebumps looking at their unusual actions, closing the gate together and placing the bolt in place.“What happened? Where are the others?”Hearing this question, the guard lift his head and had a shocked expression.“They, they were eaten by the undead!”Hearing that 8 comrades had fallen, the guards looked to their captain. The captain immediately ordered:“... Hey, someone get up there and take a look!”รักษาการปีนบันได และหยุดลงเมื่อเขาได้ครึ่งทางค่า"อะไร มันคืออะไร"ยาม trembling ตะโกน:"Undead ตัวใหญ่ม็อบของ undead "รัดหูของพวกเขา พวกเขาสามารถได้ยินเสียงเช่นการหนีของม้าที่มาจากอีกด้านหนึ่งของผนัง ไม่ใช่แค่ยามที่แรก sighted พวกเขา เจ้าหน้าที่ทั้งหมดที่มีถูก dumbstruck โดยฉากก่อนที่พวกเขาหมายเลข numbing ใจของปราสาทถูกเลื่อนไปทางประตู"มีอะไรกับตัวเลขเหล่านี้...""จะร้อยกว่าหรือสอง... ควรมีหลักพัน..."มีมากมายในสถานที่แสงไม่ขัดปราสาท จึงยากที่จะวัดจำนวนที่แท้จริงถ้าคุณมีตัวเลขที่ wriggling ในความมืดมีกลิ่นเหม็นเน่าของพวกเขาที่นับไม่ถ้วน ปราสาทปิดในประตูตอน unsteady เช่นเมฆดำ ไม่ใช่แค่ซอมบี้และโครงกระดูก มีกี่ Ghouls แข็ง undead ผสมใน── Devourers, Wights, Bloaters, Carrion Crawlers ฯลฯยาม trembled ในความกลัวเมืองได้รับการป้องกัน ด้วยกำแพง undead ไม่สามารถโจมตีปกติประชาชน โดยผ่านผนัง แต่แม้จะระดมเจ้าหน้าที่ทั้งหมด ไม่แน่ใจถ้าพวกเขาสามารถเก็บดังกล่าวเป็นกลุ่มใหญ่ของ undead ที่อ่าว ยามมีเพียงชาวนาสวมใส่อุปกรณ์ป้องกัน ไม่มีความเชื่อมั่นเพื่อกำจัดทั้งหมดเหล่านี้ปราสาทNot just that, some undead could even turn the people they kill into their own kind. If things went bad, the guards might even be turned into an undead and start attacking their comrades. No flying undead were sighted yet, but if they didn’t take care of this soon, it would only be a matter of time before vicious undead able to take flight spawned. This made the guards even more terrified.── The wave of undead washed to the walls.Bang bang──The swarm of low-intelligence undead couldn’t feel pain and bashed the door haphazardly. They seemed to realize they could attack the living after breaking down this door.Bang bang──The banging sound, the creaks of the door bending under the pushing force and the moans of the undead kept coming.With no need for brakes, the undead who didn’t mind shattering under the brunt of the impact were like a siege weapon.The guards witnessing this sight were breaking out in cold sweat.“Sound the bell! Request reinforcements from the guard post! The two of you inform the other gates of the emergency!”The captain issued the orders after getting ahold of himself:“The ones behind use spears to attack the undead that approach the gate!”The guards remembered their duties when they heard the orders, thrusting their spears hard at the undead below. The mass of undead flooding the ground were easily hit.Thrust, pull back and thrust again.Murky blood and the rotten stench numbed the noses of the guards who repeated the same action like a factory worker. Several undead lost their negative life force, and got trampled by the undead behind them after they fell.The undead lack intelligence, so they didn’t fight back against the guard’s repeated spear attacks. Repeating the same motion made the guards lose their sense of danger.As if it was aiming for this moment──“Wahh!”There was a scream and when they looked toward the source, the neck of a guard was entangled by something long and squirming.It was a smooth and pink—— an intestine.An egg shaped undead stood at the place the intestine came from. In front of it was a wide gap with the organs of several people squirming in it like parasites.That was an undead known as Viscera Egg.The intestine pulled the guard over.“Yahh!”Before others could help him, the guard fell with a scream──“Help! Save me! Ah, Yahh──”——The shriek started again. All the guards saw the terrible fate of their comrade as he was eaten alive by the congregation of undead.The armor protecting his body and the action of protecting his face prolonged this cruel moment. Fingers, calves, face, all of them were stripped bare.“Fall back! Dow
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