Volume 2: Magic Tower Chapter 86: Lailo

  Actually, I came out this time to find the undead magic master who guided these zombies to attack humans in this area. I know that if it was just an accidental event, it would never be on such a large scale. Obviously, someone is deliberately creating chaos.

  I rode my horse to the place where adventurers were attacked before. There was originally a small village with a population of only twenty or thirty households, and I saw dozens of people wandering aimlessly at the entrance of the village from afar. Those figures moved stiffly, slowly, and their walking posture was very strange.

  As I drew closer, it was indeed a spirit that had been infected by zombies and transformed. The soulless shell wandered around, emitting a bloodthirsty red glow from its eyes, growling softly in its mouth, searching for living life to provide energy for its own life. These could no longer be called human beings, because they were actually long dead.

  Those zombies discovered my breath from afar and came towards me one after another. Once caught by them, I would be bitten to death by these terrible monsters and become a walking corpse like them.

  Fortunately, although these monsters are very powerful, they move slowly. As long as you're not scared stiff or go to provoke them, it's easy to get rid of them.

  I patted the horse's neck, and the obedient horse dodged these monsters and ran directly into the village.

  The village was empty and desolate, with a corpse lying in the middle of the road, mutilated and covered in bite marks. The blood that had flowed out had already congealed into a dark reddish-black color, and a large swarm of flies buzzed around the body.

  I suppressed the feeling of nausea, preparing to bypass the corpse, when suddenly, the stiff corpse on the ground rose up without warning and pounced towards me.

  Suddenly, I had no choice but to use my foot to kick off and borrow the horse's recoil force to jump out of the attack range. As soon as I landed, I heard my horse let out a painful whinny and fell to the ground. The zombie was biting tightly on the horse's neck, sucking its blood with great force.

  Soon, the horse that had accompanied me for a long time was drained of its blood. The zombie lifted up its rotten head, with horse blood still dripping down from its face. It let out a low growl from its throat, releasing the satisfaction of a successful sneak attack.

  Soon, the zombie turned its target towards me again and walked stiffly in my direction.

  I took out a bow and an arrow from the storage ring, activated the wind element and shot it out. The arrow with a cyan glow blasted a huge hole in the zombie's chest, and the zombie was blown back dozens of steps by the massive impact force, falling to the ground and unable to get up again.

  I let out a breath of relief, slung the bow over my back and stood up.

  "Bang, bang, bang......" At this time, a round of applause came from behind me, and I cautiously turned around.

  Behind the house, a young man with a somewhat pale face emerged. Except for his unhealthy pale skin, he was generally the only normal person I had seen in dozens of miles around, who could be called "human".

  I stared at the person in front of me and asked: "Are you the undead spirit magician who controls these zombies?"

  The young man shrugged indifferently: "You can think so, because I just took down the guy who created this mess here. Now these zombies are indeed under my control."

  I asked in doubt: "What did you say? Wasn't this disaster caused by you?"

  The young man didn't answer my question, but instead said: "I see that you have the soul imprint of another deceased spirit magician on your body. Can you tell me who the deceased spirit magician was that you killed?"

  I sneered and said, "You're indeed a necromancer too. I've heard that only necromancers can see this soul mark of mine. It doesn't matter if I tell you or not, anyway one of us will end up dying here."

  That young man smiled and said: "Well, it's not necessarily so, tell me, who did you kill?"

  "I said: 'The person who left the mark, I don't know his name, he dug up my friend's grave, trying to summon his corpse and turn it into a zombie servant. I discovered his trail, killed him, but I knew he was a student of the great necromancer Shude, whose brother Kura was also killed by me.'"

  The young man's eyes widened in disbelief, asking: "You killed the two students of Master Xiu De, the great magician? It doesn't seem like it. Judging from your level just now, I think you're at most a mid-level archer. I won't mention Kla's brother, that kid's level is just so-so, and he's arrogant to the point of being unbearable. You might be able to kill him off guard, but his older brother is a high-level undead magician like me, how could he be killed by a small mid-level archer like you?"

  "Believe it or not, I've already told you. Are you ready to fight me? How do you plan on avenging those two people?"

  The young man waved his hand: "No, no, no, you misunderstood. You killed that old guy Shude's student, I'm not even happy yet, why take revenge? Besides, those two guys aren't on our side, relying on Shude to be arrogant and lawless, they should have died long ago."

  I asked in confusion: "Isn't it all on one side? What does that mean? Aren't you all undead mages? Are you divided into different camps?"

  "That young man smiled and said, 'This... is a long story. If you want to know, I'm not unwilling to tell you, but first, you have to show me something worth wasting my time chatting with you here. I'm actually quite curious, how did you manage to kill a high-level undead mage?'"

  I nodded and said, "Okay, but you have to keep your word and tell me everything from the beginning. Why do you still have different factions? What's going on with this zombie attack on humans all over the continent?"

  The young man nodded and said, "It's settled then."

  I flashed him a toothy grin and said, "Actually, I'm still a magician, yeah, a pretty powerful one."

  I waved my hand gently in front of me, and the earth element quickly gathered around me. A ten-meter-tall rock giant slowly stood up behind me, with small rocks flying everywhere. The rock giant's two eyes emitted a red glow, waving its huge arms, letting out a loud roar at that young man.

  That young man's face turned even paler, staring at the giant with a dumbfounded expression, muttering to himself: "Alright, alright, I now think that Kla died quite undeservedly... it turns out you were just pretending to be a pig eating a tiger... with your abilities, I probably wouldn't stand a chance either... underestimating you too much... the bow and arrow was just your disguise, you're so evil..."

  I saw the effect had been achieved, waved my hand to dispel this magic, and then said: "Now, you can tell me what you know, right?"

  That young man smiled wryly and said, "You scared me... Alright, let me introduce myself first. My name is Leilo, a high-ranking undead mage. Actually, our Undead Mage Guild has been in internal turmoil, which is the root cause of the zombie attacks on humans all over the continent of Aqin. It's a long story, but to put it simply...".