18. Struggle as a Gogun (4)
Lexia and Zeke went straight through the west gate and headed to Guando leading to the northwest.
Zeke couldn’t understand why he had to work as a warrior with her.
There wasn’t even a single colleague.
No matter how much Lexia was said to be an A-rank hero, it was only when she had the support of her colleagues.
With a single body, B rank requests are the limit.
“By the way, senior.”
“why?”
“What is happening all of a sudden?”
“It’s not enough to say what’s going on. “If you’re a hero, it’s common sense to carry out requests, right?”
“That’s not what you’re saying.”
Lexia sighed briefly and opened her mouth again.
“I had a fight with my dad yesterday. “Zeek, it’s because of you.”
“Me?”
“okay.”
“What did I do?”
“I told you, Zeke, that you were a B-class hero and that you might have even more abilities than that. But my dad said he didn’t even want to hear what you had to say.”
“Why are you talking like that?”
“What do you mean…
I want to help you.
Lexia felt embarrassed to bring this up, so she hesitated.
“Noisy! “Whatever I say is my own opinion!”
“That’s right.”
“Anyway, I’m going to prove it to my dad. Just the two of us, Zeke and I, can handle A-rank requests. “If you prove that point, Dad will have no choice but to acknowledge you, Zeke.”
Zeke scratched his cheek.
“It doesn’t matter if I don’t get any recognition…
I didn’t want to get involved in something that would cause more trouble.
I just wanted to be of help to Master Deus, but I didn’t have a great desire to make a name for myself as a warrior.
Rather, he dreamed of raising his younger siblings prosperously and passing down the name of Holly Bich to one of them.
I wanted to be recognized as a family of at least B rank or, if possible, A or G rank.
It wasn’t like a dream if he achieved great merit in the final war.
Born into a second-class family, he barely graduated from Yongsa Elementary School.
Just being out of contract is a hugely successful life.
Lexia shouted loudly.
“It doesn’t matter! Zeke has so much potential! “There are many people who say B-level is too much, but in my opinion, it’s definitely A-level or better!”
“thank you. “For taking care of me like this.”
Zeke smiled and bowed his head.
Lexia’s cheeks turned red.
“Anyway, you’ve become too personable.”
Her horse, whipped, ran ahead. Zeke
followed behind her with his limited horseback riding skills.
The place where I sent the request was about 3 hours away from Joryx Castle by horse.
It was a small town that was often missing from maps.
The name is Fobesbee. Even the origin was unclear.
In Pobesbee Village, located on a hill, there was no work to be done other than digging up medicinal herbs for farming. The only outsiders
were herders who
often raised sheep in the mountains and stopped by before heading to the city.
It was definitely not a town that could receive an A-class request.
However, three teams of B-rank warriors have already gone missing. Because of this, the request level was raised to A rank.
The gray-haired village chief welcomed two warriors, Lexia and Zeke, who arrived in the village with open arms.
About 40 villagers from about 10 households gathered at the village square and held a welcoming ceremony for the warrior.
The main dish was grilled beef ribs. The whole ribs
were placed on charcoal and continued to be coated with sweet sauce.
The caramelized sauce had a sweet and bitter taste and whetted my appetite.
After the banquet was over, the village chief spoke to the two warriors.
“Hero! “Three teams abandoned their work and ran away, and I was worried that the hero would no longer come.”
What the village chief was looking at was Zeke.
He spoke again to Lexia.
“The saintess, please join with this warrior to defeat the undead in the graveyard
!”
Lexia asked back.
“But you’re undead. “This place is far from the land of the demons. How did the undead come into existence?”
As the name suggests, undead refers to those who cannot enter into rest.
Everything that moves around after death, from ghosts like Specters and Souls to walking dead like zombie skeletons, fell into this category.
There were some undead that occurred naturally, but most of them had the presence of a necromancer behind them.
Without exception, necromancers made contracts with the devil.
This was the reason Lexia mentioned demons. The village chief hesitated and shook his head.
“We don’t know that either. However, there is a large cemetery on a mountain about 1 kilometer away from the village. “There are rumors that dead bodies are often found wandering around, so they don’t even go near the area at night.”
Zeke took his word.
“There are always rumors about village cemeteries. “There is a story like
that going around in the church cemetery near the west gate of Zorig Castle .”
“If it’s just a rumor, they’re just using it to scare kids at the head of their beds… But two years ago, the first person died. “The zombies ate the intestines and left the body.”
“It might be the work of a wolf or a bear. “What is the evidence that it is not a wild animal?”
“A few days later, the corpse with its internal organs eaten crawled out of the grave and returned to its home.”
“That’s a terrible story.”
Lexia responded calmly, but inside she shuddered.
“I saw many people eating breakfast peacefully at home. The food I swallowed just dripped down my stomach… so I took a pickaxe and went out to work in the field. “If I hadn’t called in the archbishop of the city to purify it, it might have stayed that way forever.”
“I guess strange things continued after that, right?”
“That’s right. The number of walking corpses increased one by one, and eventually they began to attack the village. That was from the beginning of this year. Unable to bear it, I asked for help from the Seonghwangcheong Office and
even submitted a request to the Hero Support Office
. “But they all failed?”
“yes. According to the investigation conducted by the administrator of the Seonghwangcheong, it was said that it was a job that a B-class hero could easily handle. However, two teams escaped under cover of darkness, and one team went missing after going to investigate the cemetery at night. “I don’t know if he ran away or what kind of accident he got into, but in any case, no B-rank warriors have visited this village since then.”
“I understand. “I guess I’ll have to go and check it out eventually.”
At close to midnight, Lexia and
Zeke headed to the trail that led to the back of the village.
A few villagers saw the two off with torches.
Zeke smiled brightly at those people whose faces were full of worry.
“Do not worry. “If it seems like it’s too much for us, we’ll just investigate and come back.”
The village chief nodded.
“Please do so. “I’m afraid there will be more victims.”
The road at night is scary.
This was the same even for warriors.
The shadows in the forest are darker than darkness.
As I stared into the darkness beneath the leaves, I had the illusion that something was looking at me from beyond.
“Zeke…
Zeke looked back at Lexia, whose voice was trembling.
Lexia was walking close to Zeke.
“Go slowly.”
“yes?”
“Go slowly.”
“But… you said you wanted to check quickly.”
“At that time
, Lexia was not used to the night in the forest.
Born into a famous warrior family, he grew up calling Lord Zorik his uncle.
Thanks to having a tutor and learning all aspects of swordsmanship and magic from a young age, he was ranked A-level before he turned 20.
Everyone was expecting that he would grow up to G level when he passed twenty.
Although I have accumulated a variety of experiences in the skills of a warrior, I have never entered the forest at night.
“Are they really undead? Or is it just a misrepresentation of folk tales?”
Zeke asked.
“huh?”
“I mean this incident.”
“You’ll find out when you get there, but…
“If it’s undead, wouldn’t it be too much for just the two of us?”
“why’?”
“Well… he’s strong.”
“Zeke!”
Lexia’s voice became slightly angry.
“That kind of weak heart is hiding your true worth! Wake. “You buy a dragon.”
“Who doesn’t?”
“How can you remain calm when everyone ignores you?”
“I’m used to it…
“Don’t get used to that!”
“I think you’re feeling better now.”
Heh I
“You don’t shiver.”
“When did I tremble?”
Lexia got angry.
“Zike, you are my junior. He’s also 4 years my junior. “You shouldn’t make fun of a senior boat like that.”
“I didn’t mean to make fun of you. You’re so nervous. Senior Lexia, you must have always worked as a warrior with many people, so this is not the first time you have been in such a difficult situation.”
“Hong, anyway, it’s an A-rank request. I don’t do long chapters or anything like that. However…
then something suddenly popped out from the bushes in front of the two.
A black shadow quickly passed by Lexia.
“Ahh!”
Lexia was surprised and clung to Zeke’s back.
Zeke makes a squealing sound as his forearm is strangling his neck.
“What the hell!”
“Go cack go.”
“what is that?”
Zeke tapped Lexia’s forearm with a red face.
Only then did Lexia let go of her arm.
“Sorry.”
“Whew. Elk is a deer-like animal. The teeth are sharper and smaller. “Everyone hates it because it ruins crops.”
“I’m going to hate it from now on, too.”
After screaming a lot, Lexia was completely exhausted.
I felt like I wanted to go back.
I looked back at Zeke.
At this moment, he was staring straight into the darkness.
“As expected, I wasn’t mistaken.”
“yes?”
“No, let’s go quickly.”
“yes. ah!”
“why’?”
“And then I learned this.”
Zeke raised his index finger.
“Fairy lamp!”
A bright light appeared. As the fist-sized orb brightly illuminated the surroundings, the shadows of the tree leaves faded.
“Magic!”
” yes.”
“How…
“Yes? “Lexia, you can do it too.”
“Because I have been tutored since I was young. Besides, most of them are from the Inner Force group.”
“When you say inner force, you mean increasing your strength or something like that?”
“yes. “Anyway, you couldn’t do magic at all.”
“I started learning a while ago. “Now I can barely make a mana ring.”
“For something like that, it’s huge, isn’t it? huh? Make ma naring?”
“yes.”
“That’s… a total wizard.”
“That’s because you can use magic.
“It’s not that level. Being able to create a Mana Ring into a complete form within your body means you are a fairly high-ranking wizard. The rest just creates and uses images that way. “Me too.”
Lexia looked at Zeke again.
“After all, you are unique.”
“is that so?”
Zeke scratched his head and
floated the fairy lamp to a higher place. If it is too close, it will only shrink the pupil and
make it more invisible in the dark.
I traced the mountain path relying on the beads of light.
The road leading to the cemetery was fairly well paved. However, recently, due to the lack of foot traffic, many places were damaged here and there.
At the end of the road, there is a strangely curved tree against the black sky.
There, Zeke stopped walking.
Lexia grabbed Zeke’s sleeve with a pale face.
Every time the wind blew, something that looked like a drooping flag waved.
No, it wasn’t a flag.
These are corpses with torn clothes tangled together.
