Episode 34
EPISODE.17
“…a representative of the ideal graduates. Russell Raymond.”
As soon as the graduation speech was over, applause poured in from all directions.
clap clap clap clap-.
All kinds of gazes are directed at him with him.
The gaze of simply outstanding graduates and the gaze of juniors who look at themselves full of envy as they rise to the position of alumni representatives.
‘and-.’
Even the somewhat calculated and political gazes mixed among them.
‘Raymond. Could it be that the Raymond family still had blood?’
‘At that age, Raymond of the 4th circle this generation is truly a masterpiece.’
‘Maybe the crumbling Raymond family will rise again.’
‘A once noble family, but a fallen family. If there is no one who has promised a future…’
Russell quietly raised the corner of his mouth as he read the latter’s eyes toward him.
‘also.’
Their reaction was exactly what Russell wanted.
Perhaps because of this incident today, it was clear that the name Raymond would once again be talked about in the aristocratic society.
Of course, it would have a huge ripple effect, but it was much better than not doing it.
Russell came down from the podium, achieving his intended purpose, and put the diploma he was holding in his hand into the subspace.
‘This is the end of the graduation ceremony schedule.’
I packed all the things I had to pack last night and put them in the subspace, so in fact, just leaving the academy would really be graduation.
Anger-.
When we went outside, the campus, showing off its winter atmosphere, appeared.
‘About 1 year after regression.’
no.
It was a correction that went back and forth for about 8 years, including the fact that I had been suspended before returning.
There may be errors for a few months, but anyway, it means that I spent almost twice as much time here as others.
Could it be because
When I heard that I was leaving the academy after receiving my diploma, I felt strange.
‘Sometimes I feel relieved and sometimes I feel sad.’
It felt a little different from what I thought and expected, but whatever.
I have already graduated, and if I leave today, there will be no return to the academy unless there is something special.
Russell, who had gathered his memories of eight years while leaving the campus, hurried his steps.
The destination is Walkerhill’s carriage station. It was to get on the carriage to the royal road.
.
.
after a while
The wagon carrying Russell started for the royal road and rattled.
A man raised his head from inside the carriage station as he checked the wheels rolling.
A man who covered his entire body with a gray robe, which is common everywhere, and continued to stare at the wagon Russell was riding with a sidelong glance.
He looked up immediately after confirming that the wagon with Russell was leaving.
He stared at a bird flying in the sky and murmured softly.
“Go and deliver.”
A black light bird flying in the sky as if responding to the words. A crow let out an ominous cry.
Caw-.
right after.
At a speed many times faster than the carriage, it crossed the sky in the direction Russell had started.
Aaaah-!
* * *
It wasn’t long before the carriage departed from Walkerhill and entered a winding mountain road.
A mountain road wide enough for two wagons to pass through.
It was a pity that I couldn’t ride the big boulevard, but I couldn’t help it.
It was never an easy task to pave a mountain road and turn it into a road.
The good thing was that the roads where the wagons came and went in this way were thoroughly managed, no matter how narrow they were.
A story about not encountering monsters or bandits.
‘Because as soon as they appear, a subjugation team is dispatched and the area is dug up to completely remove any embers.’
The carriage station system that the Kingdom of Endymion was proud of was being made under such efforts and management.
Thanks to this, travelers could comfortably rest in the wagon without worrying about any raids.
It took me a while to run on the mountain road like that.
“Aww!”
With the bewildered driver’s cry, the wagon abruptly stops on the spot.
“Ahh!”
“evil!”
As a result, those riding on the inside fell down because they could not overcome the inertia.
chuck-.
Russell, who used magic to balance himself, frowned.
‘What happened?’
He poked his head out of the thick tent covering the carriage to grasp the situation of the suddenly stopped carriage.
The first thing you see is the fairly dark evening sky.
It was almost night, but it was still too early to stop for sleep.
“What is this…”
came the coachman’s voice.
A voice quivering with fear.
“What’s going on…”
Russell, who was moving towards the front of the carriage, stopped and hardened his face.
Something blocking the path of the wagon.
It was the remains of other wagons that had already been destroyed.
Broken wheels roll across the floor, and the rear compartment, which seems to have once been ridden, has long since been completely destroyed.
Presumably, they were carriages that had started in the same direction before the one in which Russell was riding.
The problem is that the shape of such a wagon is not one or two.
‘At least six houses.’
Russell, who had been estimating the number of broken wheels by the number, looked around.
‘An attack by monsters or bandits? If not, did something else happen?’
As he approached the wagon to determine the cause, Russell hesitated.
A strange sense of incongruity was felt in the wreckage of the smashed wagon.
‘I can’t see anyone.’
If there had been a raid or something similar to that, there were no corpses or injured people to be found.
It was as if only the corpses of people and horses had been removed somewhere.
Feeling uneasy at the sight, Russell slowly raised his mana.
The four circles are rotating and the senses are terrifyingly expanded.
An ominous smell mingled in the wind with him stung Russell’s nostrils.
‘This-?’
It was a scent test that I had been beaten several times while working as a mercenary.
‘I knew there was a fairly large cemetery not far away, but the smell could come all the way here…’
The moment I thought that.
Hwaaak!
The shadows of the forest swayed dizzily.
‘come!’
Russell, who easily detected him through the magic wave, warned him quickly.
shouted at the driver and the people who were disembarking in the rear passenger compartment.
“Get inside right now!”
“yes?”
“No young man. What is that now…”
“Right now!”
The moment Russell sounds the warning once again.
they showed up
uh-.
uh uh uh-.
“Hee hee hee!”
“It’s undead!”
Undead.
The chess pieces of cultists who were forcibly taken from their rest and returned from the dead.
The reason they were called cultists rather than warlocks was simple.
‘Because the implementation of black magic is closer to divine magic than magic.’
Their method of bringing their power through a contract with the demon king or demon tribe could be called faith rather than magic.
That’s why it’s a cult.
Susut-.
The back and front of the mountain road between the trees in the grass.
The number of guys who showed up one by one reached the mid-double digits in an instant.
An unideally high figure to be considered a naturally occurring undead!
‘Where are you? where are you.’
Russell moved his eyes quickly. Casting his eyes in all directions, he searched for the figure of the caster.
However, he is nowhere to be seen.
After all, how can a magician who can be said to be the greatest weakness of necromancy be revealed so easily?
‘I don’t know what purpose they were aiming at the carriages heading to the capital, but-.’
He picked the wrong opponent.
It wasn’t as good as divine magic, but flame magic was also the opposite of undead.
And because there was a wizard here who used fire-type magic as a long-term skill.
Before his thoughts were even organized, Russell’s fingers were already drawing a magic circle and casting a chant.
“Rise up, wall of fire!”
4 circle fire property magic fire wall.
The pillar of fire completed with the chant soared to the end of the sky.
drove away the darkness of the mountain.
Roaring!
Soon, the sunken flame gradually transforms into the shape of a wall.
A wall of flame wrapped around the wagon in a circle, and the mission window floated up.
[Mission]
Attack of the undead.
Defend the wagon passengers against the undead that suddenly attacked.
The moment the undead no longer swarm is treated as mission complete.
[Reward]
Lesser Magic Stone x3.
Looking at the contents of the mission, Russell replied briefly to himself.
‘I was thinking of doing that from the beginning.’
Taking my body out against the slow-moving undead would be no task.
His personality was not so harsh that he would just let people die in front of him.
In the first place, this amount of undead was not a big deal.
“It’s a magician!”
“We lived because of the wizard!”
Passengers who noticed Russell’s presence through the fire wall burst into cheers half a beat late.
Russell gave brief instructions to them.
“Don’t go far and stay in the carriage. That way I can move more easily.”
Picked up by Russell’s words and the warmth of the flames, they nodded.
“I see.”
“What are you doing? Why don’t you come over here?”
Following Russell’s words, the people entered the back passenger compartment and gathered together.
uh uh-.
woo-.
It was around that time.
Some of the undead started to come inside the fire wall.
Despite the fact that the attached flesh melted away and the exposed bones turned to charcoal, he did not care.
‘I wonder if he’s already dead.’
A monster that did not feel any pain or suffering and faithfully carried out only the orders of the magician – a dead and alive monster.
‘A fire bolt capable of continuous and rapid fire…’
Let’s get ready to intercept them.
Russell’s face contorted as if he had discovered something.
‘no way?’
It is said to be undead, but it looks like it is not as old as expected.
The clothes he was wearing were too neat for an undead.
Russell, who drew a conclusion from that appearance, shuddered.
“This bastard?”
I could never have imagined using the wagon passengers and coachmen to create undead!
‘People who were alive just a short while ago!’
It is the cultists who play tricks on the dead.
I knew right away that they were crazy people.
‘But this is-.’
Isn’t that a bit harsh!
If you’re a human, you can’t help but get angry. Russell gritted it.
Pudeudeuk-.
I’m angry, but for now, people who are alive come first.
“I’m sorry.”
With a brief apology, Russell snapped his fingers.
Wedge juice pervert!
Along with him, dozens of flaming arrows flew through the night air.
It collided with the fire wall and exploded, forming a wide barrage.
Beep beep beep!
uh uh-!
A man watching the scene from a distance blew a whistle while the zombies were rapidly shrinking as parts of the body exploded.
“Whiyu. What’s great? Indeed, that bitch to be burned is a skill worthy of being accepted as a disciple.”
Despite the fact that his own zombies are bursting out, he has a relaxed attitude.
It was worth it.
The undead that had just attacked Russell were just some of the things he possessed.
‘For you guys, I’ve collected corpses by raiding not only nearby cemeteries, but also monster villages that are quite far away.’
Even just the number of undead he had collected was in the hundreds.
“How long can you hold out against them? Where shall we see it?”
Along with the man’s murmur, the other undead that had been buried in the ground rose one after another.
Chur-.
uh uh-.
Not to mention humans, but also the corpses of goblins and kobolds mixed together.
The night of the undead had only just begun.
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