Chapter 316 - Kingdom Of The Dead's Deep Sea (I)

With Lifera rendered immobile after cutting off his limbs, we no longer have the obstruction that will stop us from moving to the portal to enter the Kingdom of the Deep Sea's territory. Despite the firm objections of Lifera for Sera and Li to enter the portal, they were resolute to enter the place and see what is happening.

Entering the place where the portal is up, Sera and Li is looking nervous while staring at the wavering color of the portal.

"What's up? Are you guys perhaps hesitating to do it even though you disobeyed Lifera's wishes?" I asked the two.

"No. Despite his good wishes to us, it was still not something he needed to do to protect us from what we needed to see. It was our decision and whatever he needed to do, he already did it. It's just..." Sera is conflicted on what to do.

"Whatever the case, it is still our duty. If the Merfolk of the kingdom all died and has been turned into undead, there is no other way but to eliminate the cause and put everyone to their eternal rest," Li continued what Sera seems to be struggling to say.

"Alright, I will activate the portal and remove the spell that Lifera used to stop us from entering the portal."

Sera pulls out a blue orb from her pocket and throws it to the portal. The moment the blue orb made contact with the portal, the portal seems to become a mirror as it shatters to pieces, revealing a red portal within.

"A red portal..." I didn't know that the blue portal we are seeing since we first arrive there is a facade and is hiding the true portal. Is it for protection or is it just to stop anyone entering, allowing Lifera to reach the place the moment someone touches the portal's surface. Now that it's broken, we can now proceed and enter on it like it was a gate.

"Let's go."

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Kingdom of the Deep Sea.

Or rather... the former kingdom of the deep sea. Now, it just looks like it came from a fantasy zombie apocalypse. The buildings that are erected underwater no longer hold a good amount of looks it bears before in the past and even though I have not taken a single visit to this place in the past timeline, I can tell the structure of the place just by looking at a single glance.

Is this the whole reason why I never heard of the Kingdom of the Deep Sea in the past even in adventurers? Even the Insect Kingdom that is said to be much smaller than the Kingdom of the Deep Sea is making more sounds compared to the news regarding this place. Maybe this is one of the main reasons.

Sera and Li had a grim look on their faces as they continue to walk around with us while looking at the surroundings. Then, with my passive senses coming from the Necromancer class, in which I also gained the moment I got the Necromancer sub class.

[Dead Senses]

Tier 1

Type: Passive

Info: As a necromancer, your senses towards the dead are much more sensitive than usual. You will not just detect the undead who are currently inactive but you can also sense whether they are dangerous or not. Detects all the undead lifeforms in the 15-meter radius around the player.

Note: With this ability, you can tell which enemies pretend to be dead and alive in the area. Isn't that pretty convenient?

Although it's just a bit of a passive that never got much action due to how rare I encounter enemies that can be labeled as undead, it has proven itself to be really useful, especially in this operation. I am not seeing any enemies in our way but I can easily detect that they are just in the surroundings. Some are inactive and are just there without doing anything while some are just not in our field of view and currently roaming around.

"I don't see any of that undead that Lifera mentioned. Do you think they don't exist anymore?" Sera asked.

"No. They are here, pull out your weapons. If we are unlucky enough, we will have to fight with them and put them out of their misery," I pull out my Versatile Weapon and changed it into the gun.

Li also readies himself and his magic spells. Compared to Sera, he didn't have any qualms about the enemy and is currently aware of the situation. He didn't have any fear of them and it seems he is also adamant about facing the undead.

"Master! I detect moving lifeforms at three o'clock!" Lina reported.

I already detected it but it was good to have the others manually detect the enemies too.

"Everyone, make sure to use your range skills, don't let them bite you. I advise against using a melee fighting style unless you are as protected as Atlas. One bite and it might transfer its necrosis disease straight to you. Eliminate all the enemies in the distance."

"ROGER!"

And the moment of truth came...

"UGAAAAHHHHH!"

The undead appeared and this time, it was the merman and mermaid that are transformed into zombies.

"ATTACK!"

The merfolk undead is still swimmers. Not only do they swim so fast, they are also darting around the water like missiles attacking us straight with their hands and bloody teeth exposed.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

My gun's bullets are quick in attacks and it didn't have any kind of delay on them. In just one shot, the undead fell from the water and stopped moving. As much as they are former merman and mermaids, whether they are former acquaintances of Li and Sera, I didn't care and never cared. What is more important is we survive the onslaught of the zombies attacking us.

"Damn it! Is this how hard you guys fight against undead creatures on the surface? I never faced any kind of undead enemies ever in my life..." Li grumbled as he has to shoot quickly at enemies. He has to attack them on their heads or else they will not fall down like twigs.

"This isn't even the slightest amount of danger you are experiencing today, since some of the undead creatures in the land are much more wild and dangerous than these guys. These guys are nothing," Lucia grinned as she uses a condensed bullet flame to use against the enemies due to her normal flames getting nullified due to how we are in the water, making her an ineffective fighter. Didn't expect her to be capable of using that method to attack while still using flame magic skills.

"Master! This side is already clear!" Lina reported, showing her side without any undead left attacking.

"Here in this side too!" Tina who is adept at fencing is also done and showed that she didn't have a problem skewering the heads of the zombies that attacks us.

"Good! Make sure the enemies are not any undead spawning and those that have been killed are no longer showing any signs of attacking. We can't afford to be ambushed at a times like this!" I ordered.

"Roger that!" everyone nodded.

I glance at Sera and although she is not as active as Li in defeating the undead merfolk, she is still attacking too. I didn't bother much and just continue with the attack. After all, it was the most difficult time to do right now. Merfolk killing her own kind due to the unknown diseases that have struck.

After a few hours of the killing, we managed to have a break after the last wave of merfolk zombies stopped appearing and all of the attackers are dead.

"This is insane. Why is this happening to my precious kingdom?" Li grit his teeth seeing the slaughter before him.

"It's unavoidable. With our enemy being a necromancer, we have no choice but to kill them even though they are a former resident of this kingdom, it is now the duty of you two to bring them down and stop them from doing these kinds of behavior and make them rest in peace."

"This is too brutal but we have to accept it, we are not just going to keep ourselves keeping a blind eye about this. Now that we have seen how bad it was right now, there is no point in keeping ourselves oblivious, we are going to "clean up" this place and honor everyone who has turned," Sera affirmed herself.

Although I am not as enthusiastic as her in clearing out the undead, I am now in a bit of a dilemma whether the enemy is indeed one of the necromancers I am hunting. With the enemies showing quite a different vibe than most undead that I fought there is a possibility that the enemies.

They don't just have the same amount of danger as the normal undead as the merfolk undead are much more vicious and if I compare them to the zombies in the movies, they are similar in viciousness to the zombies in "World War Z's novel."

It looks like the second necromancer is not that far for me.