Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 209.4
The reason I had Jesha back off was because I thought she would be out of her element if she wasn’t used to the dense forest. In that respect, Viro and I would not be disadvantaged by the terrain.
I was sure she knew that, but this kind of exchange was necessary even among friends.
“This is not a living thing.”
As soon as we entered the forest, Viro frowned at the presence in the air.
“An undead creature?”
“…We might be dealing with something worse than that.”
The Undead were moving corpses born of filth.
Aside from vampires, who were born from a curse and were indistinguishable from humans in appearance, human corpses were generally animated by “miasma,” a magical element charged with negative emotions that combined with a strong resentment.
The undead creatures, have neither intelligence nor wisdom, and there was no soul in them.
They could be insubstantial, like demons, but they could not be generated in large numbers because the source human must possess a magic stone, and there would rarely be a miasma thick enough to cause the undead to spontaneously emerge.
So if an undead do emerged, it was either where many creatures had died, or it was deliberately created by a necromancer or similar beings.
“They are here, alright.”
“…”
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I found nearly a dozen corpses walking from the depths of the forest. But they were not people. They were zombies, the goblins and hobgoblins that could be seen even in this forest.
“Viro, I’ll take care of the source.”
“Oh, hey.”
Ignoring Viro’s complaints, I jumped over the heads of the goblins, who reeked of decay.
Monsters like goblins could not become undead even with the miasma. Monsters have little emotions, unlike humans. Master told me that if there were undead monsters, there would be someone controlling them.
And the disgusting presence I felt was not these guys.
Hyun!!!
Jumping through the trees in my uniform, I released two pendulums that cut through the darkness, and a being clad in a tattered cloak emerged from the trees.
There he was, after all.
“Who are you?”
[…]
It did not answer my question, but danced through the forest as if it had no weight, shooting out dark bullets.
“–[Levitate]–“
I used levitation to evade the dark bullets as if kicking a tree trunk, and unleashed dark magic at it as it tried to escape to a safe zone.
“–[Corrosion]–“
[–!?]
Level 5 dark magic [Corrosion] reduced the target’s physical strength by 1 per second for several tens of seconds. But if it was a spirit life form, it would reduce its magic value by cutting its outer skin, which replaces its physical strength value.
I wasn’t sure what it was. But I had a suspicion.
Perhaps it was also part of the outer skin, the hood of the corroded cloak collapsed, and it revealed the true face of my target.
“…A demon…”
[…]
The leaves of the surrounding trees lost their color to the vast amount of miasma leaking from the bare face…
It exposed a face like a monkey’s skeleton and disappeared into the depths of the forest, laughing soundlessly as if its bones were being distorted.
…Viro was right, this could be a problem.
