Chapter 28 Pervert!? An “Expert on Zombie Chicks”, “Afterlife Pervert”, “Battle Gentleman”
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Real Title: Necromancy
“Are you ready?”
“Do I look like I am?”
The second she descended to the 6th floor and got her feet on the hard ground, Emera with a fiendish look went to punch Zef. It was the outcome of his non-stopping comments that lasted till they got to the floor which teased the not exactly acrophobic, but just casually disliking high places Emera.
“They sure are noisy.”
With a wry smile Mira glanced over them and moved her eyes to the giant castle towering in the middle of this space. There is no place that fit Soul Howl better than this castle. Mira understood that from the very beginning.
“Fine, I’ll leave them alone and move on to the castle.”
Saying that to the rest of the members, she started to walk the bare rocks of the ground. It was quite rough, but not enough to stop her progress.
“Let’s go to the castle too!”
Asbar agreed with Mira and loudly hailed that to the pair who were clamorously playing the tag near the lake. Judging by the occasionally echoing screams, it wasn’t clear if they had noticed it.
The sight of the giant castle now that they were looking closely overwhelmed Asbar and Frica. Contrary to them, Takuto was restlessly looking around.
“Although there is nothing to get, that sight itself is worth something.”
A cold lump of stone made in the shape of a castle. It was giant, the walls had no visible joints.If only it was on the ground instead of the depths of a commonly farmed dungeon, it could become famous among tourists. Alternatively, it could also become home to a roost of thieves.
Mira entered the castle through the door-less gates. A large staircase ascended in front of her, some shining crystals were scattered by the walls. They were the only decoration of those unadorned stone walls and floor.
“Well, can you all wait for me here? The rest is kinda confidential.”
She couldn’t take them any further. She couldn’t let them any adventurer know that she is fullfilling an order of the king. It was also especially because she couldn’t find golems she expected to guard of the castle, considering the personality of Soul Howl. The title “Giant Wall” wasn’t just a decoration, the mere entrance of the castle could be too narrow for him.
And since the sixth floor didn’t look dangerous, she decided to part with them here.
“Hmm. confidential?”
Asbar wondered what exactly it could be, but couldn’t ask about it directly. The same, although directed to a bit different vector, applied to Frica and her delusions about Mira’s secrets.
“Sorry for leaving Takuto to thou.”
With those words, Mira placed the Takuto’s palm in Frica’s hands. Frica who was calm for a while now almost burst again due to that.
“Yeah, I got it.”
“Take care, Mira-oneechan.”
“Don’t worry too much about me.”
After she gently brushed Takuto, Mira walked to the entrance upstairs. After seeing her off, Asbar and Frica decided that since the secrets are upstairs, they can freely search the first floor.
Mira immediately started to look for a room with a certain facility. In a little hurry she peeked through the doorless entrances and found it in the sixth room.
She got inside and looked at a stone chair with a hole at the center.
“It should work.”
In a doorless room Mira sat down, pulling off her underwear. She was restless for a bit, but somewhat calmed down.
After that, without any troubles she took paper from her item box. After learning a lesson with the poison flower, Mira carefully stocked the paper. Lastly, she substituted the lack of a flush with the shapeless skill’s fire extinguisher.
Wiping the washing water against the hem of her robe, Mira tried to find her goal with 【Xian: Sense Life】. But it did not find anybody except the three people downstairs. The Sense Life had limits on the distance, and as one of the Nine Wisemen, Soul Howl could easily hide himself so it did not mean he wasn’t here.
Mira headed to the last floor. She considered loudly calling him, but changed her mind because the people downstairs could hear it. Calling him names like “Expert on Zombie Chicks”, “Afterlife Pervert”, “Battle Gentleman” was an option too but it could ruin her reputation instead so Mira resorted to searching for him.
After getting to the top floor Mira just to be sure cast the 【Xian: Sense Life】 again.
“Got thee.”
There was extremely weak response. However, it was so weak it could have went unnoticed without paying attention. Only by getting closer did she manage to feel it. It was so fragile it seem likely to disappear in any minute.
And nobody except him can possibly be in such a place. Carefully hiding her presence, Mira was getting closer to it. Since she got here, she was going to surprise him.
The place she sensed was in the large hall in the middle of corridor up the stairs to the top floor. The throne room.
Mira huddled against a wall next to the throne room and carefully peeked inside to find the perfect moment.
“The heck is that?”
An unfathomable sight opened to Mira’s eyes, who expected to find him surrounded by zombie maids. The madness of the throne room state made her start to sway.
The countless chairs that faced the throne were arranged like at a concert. Mira closed the distance to one of them and brought her face closer, looking inside.
“Is she suspended?”
Mira touched the cheek of the woman in a maid suit that sat in the chair. Cold, no trace of life warmth. Closed eyes, closed lips, nothing of it carried any emotions, she was simply being here.
“It seems his fetish got even worse.”
In disgust, Mira dropped a look over the surroundings. Western and eastern women dressed in a variety of maid uniform clothing occupied all the chairs in the room. The embalming was perfect, most likely done by Soul Howl.
However, all of them are dead and can’t be detected with the Sense Life. Mira concentrated again and felt the response further, from the direction of the throne.
Here Mira found a very different being.
Two thrones alongside. The eyes of Mira were glued to a woman sitting on one of them, the queen’s one.
She was a pretty woman with a delicate yet bold face dressed in a beautiful, elegant dress. Her sheer indigo hair reached the waist. The skin was too white, even pale. She was about 17-18 years old.
Mira almost dozed off in fascination as she looked at her face. She sat still with closed eyes, her lips formed a smile. Mira tried to call out to her but, while having a life response, this woman shown no signs of life.
Confused, Mira reached a hand and instantly pulled away as she touched the skin.
“She’s frozen…”
The skin of this woman was cold as ice.
“Soul Howl, are you here?!”
Unable to understand anything anymore, Mira reluctantly called him. However, a dozen seconds passed, another dozen, and there was no answer. Mira gave up and went to look for clues herself.
She started with a room behind the throne and fortunately got what she wanted. This room was full with scattered papers. Encyclopedias and manuscripts piled up at a desk in the middle of the room, the papers there were covered with scribbles.
Assuming it could be a clue, Mira took some papers to look at them.
“The Holy Grail of Bright Divinity?”
Mira pronounced the answer she got from all the papers and piled up documents.
The Holy Grail of Bright Divinity. It removes a lot of debuffs at use, heals any wounds and, making the death itself irrelevant, it even removes the death penalty. Even more, it was a legendary item considered to be the absolute weapon and defense against the archenemy of human race, devils.
However, there was no rumors of anybody actually getting this artifact. Thus, amongst the players it was rumored as an unimplemented item; nobody knew even if it was a drop item or a treasure from some dungeon.
The Holy Grail of Bright Divinity existed only in the lore.