Chapter 119: The Raid at Burliande

We just couldn't storm there directly in that large continent. We needed to make some preparations first. We flew to the direction of the continent using gazer form to find another kingdom. We needed to gather more information than just blindly rushing in.

I left the village to Grien and Ortov for them to run. I'm not worried since the totems I placed there two years ago are still there. It has still some mana left inside. Their weapons and armory there have become advanced too.

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After flying around for a while, we found a kingdom thousands of kilometer away from our village. It's the village of Hel. It's swarmed by hybrid of a demon and a human according to Zeta. Their horns are only one and that's enough to bring shame into the demon species.

I asked some of the people there on some information but they didn't want to talk anything or share information to me.

Afal tapped my shoulder, "I'll handle this." He walked to the demi humans. "Dispel." Afal made sure we can't see his face. The demi humans' face changed instantly. "What do you know about Burliande."

"It's… It's overrun by the undead." The demi human was shaking in fear.

"I know that. Any other more?"

"No…"

"I'm getting impatient."

"If I say it I'm gonna get killed… The undead make trades here."

"Say it." Afal's voice suddenly became warped.

"T- t- there a- are some g- g- general undead there! That are incredibly strong and they're unkillable!"

"I see. That's enough. Leave." Afal watched as the demi human ran away. " Za Fa Rah Ma Ga."

"Generals huh." I thought about what we're going to do next. But it seems that Zeta's companion Yurid, is shaking uncontrollably too. "What's wrong with Yurid?"

"She's saying Afal is dangerous or something." Zeta had a worried look on her face.

"Sorry you had to see that." Afal apologized.

"I'll calm her down. Let's just do what we're here to do."

We agreed and we bought some necessities for later consumption and gathered more information on the Burliande continent. We decided that we have enough information so we will now be heading to that continent now.

We activated our gazer forms and flew to the air so that we would be undetectable by the undead. After flying for a while, we found the edge of their territory. We flew down and we dispelled our armors and observed the ground. It was colored black and purple. It doesn't have a smell but when I touched it, it spread on my bare hands.

"Zieglind, cut off your arm!" Zeta shouted at me.

"What?" The black colored continue to spread to my whole body and to my face. Then… it disappeared. "What was that?"

[Gained skill, Corrupted Body, becomes immune to the undead curse. Cannot be resurrected to be undead.]

"You don't feel pain Zieglind right?"

"Yeah."

"What you just touched is a corrupting poison, its spread by the undead to mark their territory. If you touch directly with any part of your body, you will feel an extreme amount of pain and it'll continue to spread on every part of your body. If you managed to withstand the pain, you'll gain an immunity to it."

"So that's why… but cutting off my arm is a bit extreme don't you think?"

"Nope. It's extremely painful. That's why we need to wear armor. Fortunately, this doesn't corrode metals so we'll be safe as long as we have armor on."

Everyone activated their gazer forms and brought out their weapons.

"Let's search for the undead generals. Let's split up so this'll be faster."

We all agreed and split up.

"Mana Search." Within a kilometer of radius, I didn't feel anything or see anything other than us. Undead doesn't have mana huh. I'll just blast through and find out where they are.

After traversing the dark and murky land, all I could see were undead in the thousands. They were swarming with skeletons and zombies. I wanted to test something. I brought out my Soul Scythe and swiped off killing hundreds of them in an instant. And just as I figured, I couldn't get any souls from them to help me get stronger.

The hundreds I just killed began to regenerate. So the report about it was true. Next up I'm going to use some spells. "Holy Burst!" I created a small ball of light that slowly pulses out shockwaves filled with light magic. And as soon as it hits an undead, they are obliterated completely. This spell is extremely useful but consumes mana per second so it's inefficient to just let this out at all times. "Dispel."

I took a good look at the ground and waited for a while. Nothing happened. Complete destruction of the corpse of the undead will kill them off even if they have great regeneration.

Another test is the compatibility of elements against them.

"Fireball! Has no effect on them. They have high resistance against it.

"Icy Burst!" Ice freezes them as usual. I don't see any bonus damage or minus damage. Dealing ice damage against them is just the same.

"Gale Winds!" Wind magic only cuts them and dismember them. No change.

"Rock Spikes!" Rock magic does the same as wind.

"Lighting Chain!" Normal damage against undead.

"Dark Explosion!" Completely immune to darkness. It doesn't do any damage to them.

I now have complete control on all elements because of the cultivation. That two years was worth it. But now's not the time for reminiscing about that. I need to report this to them. "Telepathy. Zeta, Yefa, Afal, Precia, Greta and Rize. They're completely immune to dark magic. High resistance against fire and incredibly weak against light magic. Other elements doesn't have any change. Complete obliteration of their corpse will prevent them from regenerating. Got it?"

"Yeah!" Everyone responded.

I turned off the telepathy and began to run more and more to find some undead generals. But the more I go deeper stronger undead appeared. They can't be killed in one shot anymore. These undead aren't giving me EXP too. I understand why the people here got killed or deserted it completely. Killing these things aren't easy since they give no rewards even in death.

They weren't strong but I'm severely outnumbered. Every time I kill them, they just resurrect with ease. I can't use mana too much too since I don't know the strength of the general or the mastermind behind all of these.

Just as I was overthinking on what I'd do next, I didn't notice but I got surrounded by thousands of undead. "I'm in an extremely bad situation aren't I? Time to use the skills I inherited from Urgo." The greatest warrior that lived. I grabbed both the ends of the scythe.

"Sweeping Death!" I spun my scythe around and it created a dome. I looked at the description of the skill,

[Sweeping Death, your weapon will increase in size and as you spin, every magic projectile will be destroyed and a giant dome will be formed and you will gain +100 Strength per second. This dome lasts for 20 seconds.]

"This is cool! Come at me unde-… Oh… They died at the spin attack… even their bodies disappeared and the corrupting poison got blown away too." I wanted to test some more but this is enough.

I continued on battling with these undead and it looked like I've been battling them for a day with no rest. I could just fly and avoid these undead but looking around at this overtaken continent, it's filled with sadness. All the villages, cities and random structures are destroyed and ran to the ground. And all these undead are reincarnations of the ones that died here. And the reincarnation isn't a pretty one.

I'm afraid to know how much damage they'll do if I just let them go and avoid them. I need to prevent this kind of thing happening on other kingdoms. They're growing far too strong and will soon outnumber the whole world. It literally is the perfect army. Doesn't need food, doesn't need sleep, doesn't feel pain, and doesn't disobey. Will only obey at commands.

Whoever did this is an incredibly genius person for choosing the necromancer class. Or it may even be just a boss monster in this world. I don't care. But as long as I set these people free of this horrible reincarnation, I'm satisfied. I won't let these things happen again.

I contacted everyone again, "Zeta, this is weird." Is the first thing I said.

"I agree. This is incredibly weird and ominous." Zeta replied.

"What do you mean?" Rize asked.

"We've been killing undead for three days now and there's no sign of them stopping the regeneration of these undeads."

"What does that mean?"

"It means that we haven't drained their mana enough to make them notice this. Whoever we're battling must be a real monster. For them not to take action while thousands of their undead are dying and reviving over and over, it means they are not worried. We need to find them now. Fighting these undead are just going to take forever."