Chapter 205 – Ancient Missing Link (4)
The Ghost City of Mozriun is an abandoned city in Germania.
Poetically speaking, it could be said that it is a street of ruins.
It is a kind of ruins that are a day’s ride away from the lively Kudses by carriage, so if you hear it without thinking, is it a tourist destination? You might think. What is it, like the Inca ruins.
This is especially true for being in the highlands.
‘Actually, it’s Raccoon City in another world.’
Hee hee! Watching the wagon that brought us back hurriedly back, I fixed the window.
Now, five days have passed since we decided to conduct the search. Our party prepared for the attack and arrived at the city where this Magical Hazard broke out.
Mozriun, as the name suggests, was a city of ghosts.
A city that was devastated by a mysterious disaster decades ago!
The ruins of death where zombies and Wraiths reign!
How was the entrance of Mozuriun, which boasts such a creepy title phrase?
On the fucking graduation day, vendors lined up like the front gate of a school.
“Senior, senior. They said there would be fewer people, but there are more than I thought?”
Ralilura, who parked the puppet, asked.
Her fingers, with her manicured nails, pointed at the bonnet vendors encamped at the entrance to the city. They were writers who looked leisurely like people who do business in tourist spots.
“They’re probably doing business with the adventurers who come here. Merchants will unpack their bags in the bathroom next door if they have money.”
They said that the number of adventurers coming to Mozuriun to hunt has decreased, but there are also some really bad people.
‘Is it like a fucking traditional market?’
If you’re going to be messing around here, you’d better try being a peddler. Maybe they are people who don’t know how to make a living other than laying a bundle over there.
‘There’s nothing to worry about.’
I saw the walls of Mozriun. There was no one to repair it, so the fucking high walls were gloomy like a haunted house.
Still, some of the walls had different colors, as if the holes had been filled with new ones. I guess I blocked it because I was afraid that zombies would come out of there.
─Clap. Muttered Dana, turning the wrist of her gauntlet.
“It’s more noble than what I’ve heard in rumors. I would have hated going in if it even smelled.”
“It’s okay. If your body smells like zombies, I’ll clean it thoroughly with 〈 Clean〉.”
“Yeah~ I’m going to support the rear today too~.”
“Why is this blinding tank always making a fuss with his butt off?”
We made sure that there were no problems with our combat supplies and went to the gate.
This mozriun was a place where undead mobs kept respawning hundreds of times, just like a dungeon in a game. It seems that the entire city is transformed into a barrier and resurrected in a designated place.
Because this zombie all-you-can-eat restaurant is a land that attracts the mana of darkness and yin flowing in nature.
It was common for mana to accumulate in a certain place.
Because my weapon, Mithril, was also a metal that ate a lot of mana like wild ginseng in the underground mana pool. It seems that the mana of nature appropriate for the desert, jungle, or snowfield gathers on its own.
However, in the case of Mozuriun, the story was different.
It is said that Mozuriun, which was a fertile farmland, was born in one morning.
No matter how self-professed it is, Daegu, which is a Korean inferno, turns into a desert with a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius in one night. Can you go?
‘It’s absolutely impossible naturally.’
Science scholars whose brains are polluted in liberal arts say that nature loves balance.
It was so damn poetic that I felt repulsive, but it was true.
From hot to cold. From high pressure to low pressure.
Just as ice cubes make boiling water lukewarm, the laws of nature abhor the deflection of energy. Mana is the same. If so much dark and negative mana had gathered, it would have been normal if mana with the opposite nature had gathered.
‘I’m getting this shit because that didn’t work.’
A place where only darkness and negative mana have been gathering for decades! Those were not the secret parts of Germania, but the ghost cities.
Mozuriun was just one of those ghost towns.
It sounds like you have to set fire to it and burn it up without a trace, even if you just hear it roughly, but even then, you can’t stop zombie minion refills. Zombies resurrected in ruins become zombies resurrected in plains.
Still, it seemed that the undead would not come out if there were barriers and walls.
Inevitably, the Germanian royal family decided to properly manage this ghost town. Just like the government of the 21st century Earth suffering from insensitivity to safety leaving a city with a nuclear reactor collapsed.
“Stop! Are you an adventurer? If you don’t show your pass, you won’t be allowed entry!”
Just like that.
“This is Dana Verbeia from the archeology world. Here’s your permit.”
“Archaeology? Hey Hans. Have you received any applications?”
When the Bearded Kingdom military guard asked, the young man nodded.
“Yes. There is. Dana Verbeia. Dr. Bronze Chapter. It also matches the ID.”
“Yes? Excuse me. One colt to four people, manning record completed. You can pass by. … Colt?”
We passed the checkpoint of the Germania Kingdom Army in the form of an archaeologist & adventurer party.
Fucking honey. This is why people should have power. How nice it is that they don’t even quarrel because they put academia behind them. It’s so fucking comfortable because it’s buried under our eyes.
Anyway, our party, which passed smoothly to the bicorn mode Veronica, entered the sunny city of ghosts, Mozurion.
“In exploration, let’s prioritize the original goal. If you look around, you will find some clues.”
I said that after passing through the walls and barricades.
Even if she became a zombie elf somewhere in the city of Yer Nagai, the only thing she would find while wandering around the city was Sapp Eva. Not to mention if you’re hiding.
If you look for the frontline bases of ancient civilizations, you’ll find plausible clues.
Just like in the movie, she doesn’t become a zombie just because she’s bitten by a zombie – if she did, she wouldn’t even come close – let’s explore slowly.
─It’s all over the place.
We formed formation and proceeded through the city.
It was me and Ralilura who took the tank position in the front line.
“Aha♡ Senior~. How long have you been working with me?”
“Right. How much is it?”
“Today is 48 days and half a day♡!”
“And creepy.”
He counted it again and sat down. I laughed out loud.
After all, young guys are different. The older we get, the less we know what day of the week it is. To be honest, I already can’t tell the difference between weekends and weekdays.
“Ooooo!!”
“Yap—!!”
It was when I was talking like that. A speed bump is found 100 meters ahead.
It is a party of adventurers with outstanding skills in daguri. A warrior and a priest holding a shield took on the tank, took off the lid on the zombies, and the wizard was fighting spirits with Wraith.
“〈 Magic Missile 〉!!”
“Heeeee…”
The sorceress fired Madil character’s national rule normal attack. The race hit by the magic dissipated with a fainting sound. As the translucent body disappeared, something like thick grains poured out.
The adventurer’s party ignored the disappearing zombies and took only the commander’s drop items and quickly threw them out.
Are you saying you don’t want to mess with our party? It was understandable because it wasn’t just about getting along with fellow workers. Looking at their familiar handling, they seemed to be at least a silver class team.
‘Is that the bone meal of Wraith?’
Zombies cost nothing, but the bone powder that Wraith drops—not real bones—was used by some religious denominations for funerals. This is the reason why adventurers come to Mozuriun.
I saw zombies beginning to melt without shape.
Did this baby disappear without a trace like this and then resurrect a few days later?
At that time, the adventurers would curse at me for saying that I was alive again. Like Caterpie who came to catch Pikachu but kept popping out.
“ᚨ(Ansuz).”
I felt a little pity and activated rune magic, but it seemed that this zombie had no soul. She did not have the steam of her soul that should have risen from her corpse.
Seeing me like that, Veronica in horse mode shot telepathy.
【My dear. Stop the meaningless offerings. These zombies are undead that only imitate the humans who lived here. It’s a small creature like a flash golem, so there’s nothing to be sorry for.]
“Yes? That’s it. Did the original of this zombie reach Buddhahood?”
【It’s something I don’t know. How about asking your rune, not me?]
“So is he.”
I carved a rune on the floor and deployed the Soul Radar. It would be nice if there was a soul from Mozriun with an ego, but I don’t really want it. What I’m looking for is different.
‘There was a missing person.’
Said Lillian. Missing people are being raised in Mozriun, she says.
She kept an eye on the elf, confirming that there was no alibi or anything suspicious. Lab room-lab room-lab room-lab room-lab room for 5 consecutive days of social distancing, I couldn’t hold back my tears.
The fact check of the information about the disappearance in Mozriun has also been completed.
If there were dead people among the missing people, you could ask them something.
“Fuck.”
I thought so, but it sucked. There was no fresh soul in my detectable range. Since it is a rune installed on the ground, it is difficult to activate it 24 hours a day, and it is necessary to use it frequently while walking around.
“Franc. What do you think you know?”
I asked Fran, who was looking at the map. What Frank opened was a map of Mozriun.
Mozriun’s map with the zombie respawn area marked—Made in Quds. The dog gave me 20 coppers——Fran looked at it and answered quietly.
“… If it’s a ruin, maybe it’s in a place like the lord’s castle? Why, considering the area.”
“Let’s lower the ranking of the lord castle. All kinds of human groups would have flocked and searched for something like a secret warehouse, but if we still can’t find it, it will take a lot of time for us too.”
Dana replied. Since the topography and location of the city were very different from those of the ancient civilization period, there was a high possibility that it would end in nothing if considering the buildings of Mozuriun as a standard.
─It flinched. Fran, who was about to nod to Dana’s words, shrugged his shoulders.
“Guys. Zombie net. Right curve. The race… Two?”
Frang folds the map in two seconds and puts it in his arms. Wraith, flying through the air, was elusive. I raised my spear and Ling-Ling stepped forward with the 3.5th.
“Guooooo… !!”
“HEehheeehehe.”
The undead only appeared as much as Fran sensed! It was a sluggish movement like part-time workers with 10 minutes left for lunch.
“Get off work, kid.”
I held the spear briefly and swung it like a sword. One of the races was killed instantly by being cut in half vertically by the mithril spear blade. However, I was impressed even after getting the sun kill accurately and ruthlessly.
‘Even in actual combat, mana doesn’t move.’
I had tried [Gerture]’S attack, but it didn’t change anything in actual combat. The mana in the mana-catheter stopped moving while moving.
“Senior? Do you get hurt when you think about something else?”
Lari Lura teased her fingers. 〈 magic arrows and 〉 were fired from her puppet’s fingertips, bursting the zombie’s torso. Light radiated from the projectiles of her fingers, and Lingling 3.5 spun her arm.
─Booooong!!
The hook-like fingers plucked the lace with movements impossible to reproduce with the human body. He loaded 〈 magic arrows 〉 into the tip of his fingernails and sharpened the ghostly body of Wraith.
“Oh, what is application power?”
“Did you learn from the senior?”
“Did I write anything like that?”
I answered moderately and kept the swaying zombies in check, but those bastards suddenly stopped, like a B-movie with the pause button pressed.
─Paaa!! Zombies emitting light and starting to melt! Lalilura was taken aback by the sight of the zombies dissolving like vampires hit by an infrared irradiator.
“Uh? What, what?”
“Oh, that’s what Dana did. Healing magic.”
I pointed to the rear. Dana was holding out a holy sign.
A statue of two snakes twisted like a pretzel and rolled into a ○ shape! That is the medium that Dana uses to use several types of magic. I saw it often during my days as a slave in the lab, so it was not unfamiliar to me.
Like imitating the holy charts used by the Romanian Church. The formula of priest’s heal = Undead F-Killa worked well in another world, so our Nunna is today’s main dealer.
【Hmm. It must be Pict’s copy magic (Pingere). I can’t see it from the outside.]
Veronica, who had no time to step out, muttered telepathically that only I could hear. I tried to ask what she was talking about, but I had to close her lips before she could even part them.
“Nor. This time to the left. Three zombies. One race.”
“In addition?”
How long has it been since you caught it and it crawls out again? According to what I heard in the Qudses, there were only a few hundred undead at most even if the whole city was combined.
‘A child. The country is such a mess, so I’d like to support the pirates and raise them as Chilbuhae.’
Because radiation had exploded on the farmland of their own country, even if they robbed a ship from a hostile country that was going to sell rice, they would give it a go. How many places have good domestic security for a country that is magpie in diplomatic activities?
“Aooooo…”
Zombies crawling out of the world bored!
Do you believe that if you move slowly, the passage of time will correspondingly slow down? It was a stupidity that reminded me of myself when Balsam School aired on Sunday evening.
No fuck but these bastards are running around.
“Warmmeme, don’t be fooled, what is this!”
I didn’t notice that the black leather cut in half was Juji’s mark. I kicked my tongue at the mental attack coming into my mental and rotated the spear.
─Denggung! I turned the necks of 2 zombies into small balls that the foragers shot up. His ability to control distance, which he had acquired through juggling and flying swords, shined.
“Yo-yo fuck you Barbarians. Who says you’re as real as your dicks?”
These bastards enforced the exposure of the genitals of zombies, which Hollywood passed as an unwritten rule.
Its hyper-realism cinematography was admirable, but it was unforgivable to give a fuck in the presence of my wives.
I don’t know if there was a female zombie in there, but I hate to imagine what the three boys were doing while they were living. Hopefully these guys are bath-born zombies.
─Suddenly! I became a cold-hearted zombie hunter and sent the remaining ones to my train friends.
