Bel Heights, the castle of iron blood that has never been conquered by anyone and is the hometown of the royal couple.
However, the sight inside the gray walls was terrifying.
The buildings were all destroyed. There are dried bloodstains everywhere and all kinds of unidentified vomit.
Above all, dark trees were growing all over the city, and their roots were digging deep, destroying roofs and mansions.
It is like a ruin that has been neglected for hundreds of years.
‘This happened in just over two weeks?’
Simon doubted his eyes.
As expected, there were many strange things in the technique of the association, so I couldn’t be vigilant. Simon moved cautiously.
‘There is no immediate reaction to the crest of the royal family.’
After Simon grabbed the necklace, he let out a small sigh.
It is very likely that the royal couple are already dead, but the search must continue.
As the sunlight did not come in through the gray walls, the surroundings were dark and as quiet as a mouse, so I had to pay attention to getting rid of footsteps.
Nothing is happening right now, but oddly unknown war clouds are flowing.
‘Peer, can you feel the life reaction around you?’
[Khehehe! It is truly a land of death, but-]
After Peer’s voice cut off, a voice was heard after a while.
[I just found it. There is a place where you can feel the presence, albeit weakly!]
‘Let’s go!’
Simon followed Peer’s guidance and headed to a small mansion nearby.
Here, too, a black tree grew on the roof, and its roots penetrated the ceiling and came down into the house.
Simon sneaked inside.
‘The inside is different.’
I expected a ruin full of spider webs, but the inside of the building was clean, as if to prove that less than a month had passed.
Simon, who was searching the inside of the house, entered the living room and stopped in front of the large bed in the living room.
“… … .”
Then he grabbed the bed with one hand and threw it up violently.
“Wow!”
A young man hiding under the bed screamed in horror and covered his face with his arms.
“Sah, save me! Help me!”
are survivors
A skinny young man with sunken cheeks. He expected it to take two more days to investigate, but he found it sooner than expected. Simon calmed his welcome heart and spoke in a calm voice.
[I came to liberate Bell Heights by the order of the Death Witch.]
“yes?”
[I am the Necromancer of the Alliance.]
He finally raised his head and looked at Simon. He had a slightly frightened expression because he was wearing a peer helmet, but the moment Simon showed him the Kizen’s order, he cried out with emotion.
“My luck is not out yet! thank you! thank you!”
Simon tilted the bed all the way up against the wall to keep it from making noise, then reached out to the squatting young man.
He seemed to hesitate whether he was still afraid of Simon, but in the end he held Simon’s hand. Simon applied a little force, and his body was dragged like a scarecrow.
“Wow!”
On the contrary, Simon, who was about to fall, raised him upright again and put him in place.
It’s like a balloon doll that has no strength in the body. Nutrition seemed poor.
[Tell me what happened.]
“Ah, yep! I’m too sudden, so I don’t know what to say… … .”
While the young man was choosing his thoughts, Simon suddenly grabbed the Greatsword of Ruin and raised it forward. The young man was startled and waved his arms.
“Whoa! sorry! It’s not that I don’t talk!”
Booung!
Simon swung the Greatsword of Destruction. The wall on the other side cracked with a loud sound.
Fuquaaaaagh!
Soon, starting from the place where the wall split, the monsters behind it split in half and poured out green liquid. About five in number. Even cut by a sword, there were still some that were moving. The young man shouted ‘Huh!’ I screamed like I was going to sleep.
– Kruck!
Among them, a monster crawled out of the collapsed gap and knocked the young man to the floor, then opened its mouth wide. The moment the young man’s face turned white.
puck!
The monster’s head, which opened its mouth to eat the young man, disappeared neatly, leaving only its jaw and lower teeth. After that, Simon is seen in a kicking stance.
[Hold your mind.]
bang!
He charged in a flamboyant motion and began chopping at the monsters. With each blow of his fist, the organs of the monsters spurted out and their brains splattered.
Soon, he grabbed the last one who ran towards Simon with one hand.
Enemy!
I took a picture right next to the young man watching and pressed it. Fragments of flesh poured out with the sound of flesh being crushed. The young man left his mouth open and made a sound of ‘Obbeob’.
[Wake up.]
Simon held out his hand to the young man.
He clasped his hands with a bewildered expression.
“… … Shi, excuse me, but you are very strong.”
***
There seemed to be no time to listen to the story here.
Not knowing when the monsters who heard the loud noise would come, Simon and the young man ran out of the house and ran down the street.
“This way, benefactor! Let me guide you!”
Even when he almost died once, he didn’t forget to pack a lot of food in his leather bag. Thanks to that, his bag was full of all kinds of food.
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“There is an underground hideout where the survivors are hiding! I will guide you there!”
Is there a group of survivors? This was good news.
[name is?]
“It’s Tall!”
[Toll, how many people are there in that hideout?]
I just called him by name, but Toll looked up at Simon with a slightly thrilled expression.
“About 30 people! Better than that! When I first saw it, I thought it was a real grim reaper who walked in from hell, but more than I thought… … !”
chuck!
Simon stopped Toll with the Greatsword of Ruin. He was startled and exclaimed urgently.
“Ugh! Hey, sorry if you felt offended! My tongue is a bit free-spirited… … !”
[quietly.]
Simon frowned and covered his mouth, then pointed forward with his chin. Toll’s gaze turned.
From the forest of dark buildings, the monsters from earlier began to emerge one by one. I couldn’t guess how many. Toll’s face went pale.
[Toll, what is the distance from here to the hideout?]
“It’s right in front of you! I think we only need to walk another 15 minutes!”
[Right.]
Simon stretched out his left arm, not holding the Greatsword of Destruction, and soon put his palm on his waist.
[Come in.]
“yes?”
He looked blankly at Simon’s face and left arm.
“???”
What do you mean? It was the expression.
However, Simon seemed to have no time to explain because he was wary of his enemies. Toll put his hand in and out of Simon’s arm, and then put his head in and out of Simon’s arm, like a chicken pecking at a fruit that had fallen to the floor.
Simon was still looking straight ahead.
– Kruck!
-Keeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Eventually, the monsters found Simon and Toll and accelerated toward them. Simon raised his voice.
[hurry!]
“This, this, like this?”
Toll finally tucked himself into Simon’s left arm, and Simon squeezed his left arm and lifted him up with ease. ‘Mmmmm!’ as his ass jerked upwards. and Simon immediately stomped on the ground and threw his body.
Tuong!
The ground Simon was stepping on cracked and his body soared into the air at once. Tor’s clothes flutter wildly in the strong headwind.
Simon trampled the roof of the building and continued running.
“Aaaaaaaaagh!”
The toll caught in Simon’s side let out an unidentified scream. Turning his head to look ahead, he exclaimed in fright.
“Sir Eunin! Before! Before!”
The monster floating in the sky opened its mouth at Simon, but with a white flash, the monster’s body split in half, and the two of them passed through the gap.
Sreung! Sreung!
Simon swung the Greatsword of Destruction in his right hand as if moving chopsticks. The monsters split apart with a crackling sound.
I ran on the roof, came down to the ground, jumped up again, stepped on the tall clock tower, and used the stepping foot to go down to the ground again.
A truly bizarre move. Toll couldn’t even scream anymore.
[Calm down, Tol. Came 15 minutes from the front. Where is the hideout located?]
In the meantime, as if he had understood Simon’s words, Toll moved both hands and pointed in one direction. At the end of the paved wagon road there was a blockage with a small wooden plank. It was the entrance to the underground sewer.
‘Fog.’
Simon cast fog magic, a basic black dynamics magic, to make the surroundings dark, then pulled out a wooden plank and put the toll inside first.
Then he went inside and reached out his hand to cover the wooden plank.
After a while.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo!
Above you hear the terrible footsteps of the monsters. Simon and Toll stood in a daze, gasping for breath.
“Wow, are you okay… … ! Whoops!”
Toll ran to the side and began to vomit on the floor.
***
Toll’s vomiting stopped.
The two of them walked through the underground waterway carrying the lanterns they took out from the subspace.
[Tell me what happened in Bell Heights.]
“Oh, yes! Now my thoughts are clear!”
It all started after the royal couple came here.
Bell Heights was the birthplace of the royal couple and a place like a resting place for the mind.
Whenever they had difficulties, they would visit Bel Heights under the pretext of ‘local pilgrimage’ to reassure themselves. At this time, when the kingdom was in jeopardy due to a deadly affair, the king and wife visited Bel Heights with only a few ministers, and when the residents learned of the king and queen’s arrival, they welcomed them with a grand festival.
The first night of the biggest and most splendid festival.
The ‘death’ of the society took root.
In the territory, a ‘wall’ was spread that completely blocked the inflow to the outside, and an unknown poison gas spread throughout the territory.
It contaminates humans and turns them into monsters, ‘infectious bodies’ that roam the streets, and the manor has turned into a mess. Black trees took root in the manor, and it became a manor of death.
Fortunately, those who hid underground in time to avoid being polluted by the gas, but 80% of the territory’s population has already disappeared.
Afterwards, members of the society wearing masks appeared there and declared.
-Bel Heights is now the territory of the society.
They searched out the survivors one by one, took them to an abandoned building, and conducted human experiments. It was a series of terrible things.
And the people in the hideout where Tol was located lived in the basement without being able to eat a proper meal for 15 days, but eventually reached their limits.
Reluctantly, Toll stepped out. After confirming that the poison gas had disappeared from the streets, he went out to look for food, was caught by monsters and was detained for two days, and then met Simon.
[Did all of that happen in 15 days?]
“I can’t believe it either, but it is.”
Toll lowered his head with a miserable face.
“Everything still feels like a terrible nightmare. Not too long ago, I celebrated my parents’ birthday, and I was happy to pick up a table that someone threw away, and I was happy, and then suddenly something like this happened.”
[What do you know about the survival of the royal couple?]
Toll shook his head.
“sorry. We are also busy taking care of our own lives… … .”
[I understand.]
“ah! ah! Seeing that His Majesty the King and his wife are asking about the welfare of the couple, it seems that they came with the support of the princes! The princes must be breaking down the wall to save us right now, right? It’s also reassuring! Long live our country!”
Simon couldn’t tell the truth about Toll’s self-indulgent story.
In fact, they are neglecting your deaths and blocking your salvation.
“Come to think of it, we are a member of the Dark Alliance, but the support is too slow!”
Suddenly Toll turned up the heat.
“I am paying a huge tax, and yet the Allied arrivals have not arrived! how did this happen… … !”
[I’m sorry.]
Simon opened his mouth.
[So far, I am the only necromancer who has penetrated the wall surrounding the territory.]
“ah.”
He opened his mouth with a blank face.
It will be hopeless. I’ve been holding on so far, but there’s only one reinforcement.
“Then benefactor is the only hope for this territory!”
Toll was the first to join hands.
“Sir Eunin! No, I will call you Hope!”
[do not do that.]
“As long as I live here, I will go around the continent and sing the hymn of hope until I die! As you may have noticed when you heard the voice, my profession is a minstrel… … !”
When Simon’s back was turned, he immediately fell down and grabbed the crotch of his trousers. ‘It’s an old joke!’ he exclaimed urgently.
“The hideout is right over there!”
In front of the passage, you can see a barricade made of wooden fences or rock debris to prevent monsters from entering. The moment Simon takes a step forward.
burr—
The crest of the royal family that Simon was wearing around his neck began to shake.
‘You came right.’
I had a feeling that things might work out sooner than I thought.
***
outside the gray walls.
2 Prince’s Tent.
A soldier came into the tent panting.
“Prince! Prince!”
The second prince, who had been lying comfortably on the tent hammock, frowned.
“What else? I still feel bad for missing him.”
“Intruders are here!”
“intruder? If it’s not about the betrayal of the corps commander, just ignore it and kill it.”
“That, that… … Huh!”
The soldier was startled and sat down in his seat. The person who just said ‘intruder’ was standing next to me.
He was wearing a robe.
“Are you the second prince?”
The two princes frowned at the intruder’s words.
“what? This child is ruthless. What are you?”
Seruk.
Soon the hood came off, and black hair flowed down his shoulders.
The prince who saw the intruder’s face shouted ‘Hut!’ He made a noise and his expression hardened. I was so frightened that I fell out of the hammock.
“All, you… … !”
A girl with glowing red eyes slowly walked over and looked down at the prince and opened her mouth.
“Commander of the 7th Corps, are you here?”
