“Deek? How is it?” Pait asked nervously.
I shook my head as I stood up and patted myself off. “I’m not able to resurrect them. Their souls are already gone.”
“Based on the level of decomposition, this couldn’t have occurred much more than a month ago.” The dwarf stated.
“There are no physical signs.” One of the other adventurers spoke up uneasily. “No cuts, no bruises. It’s like they all just dropped dead.
“Oh, no...” Dav was holding onto Pait, her face shoved into his shoulder as she wept.
Pait held her comfortingly as she avoided looking at the grisly scene. Previously, the adventurers had just been looking outside, but after seeing the first sign of death, they started barging into homes. That’s where they began to run into the scenes of horror. There were dead people everywhere. Some died sitting at the dinner table with food left out to go bad. Whatever happened, it had happened suddenly without warning. It also hit everyone. Men, women, and children had all died where they stood.
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“It’s like... their lifeforce was pulled out too. That’s why the smell isn’t worse. It was like all of their life was sucked out of them.”
“What kind of thing can do that?” Pait asked in disbelief.
“That is...” I began, but then my eyes jerked. “Someone’s coming.”
I still had the map open, and I had seen a sudden group much larger than ours enter the edge of my map. This was still about ten minutes away, so the others didn’t have a clue. That wasn’t completely true. The dwarf must have been a dungeon diver, as he looked in the direction the dots were coming from and nodded to himself.
“What do we do?” Dav asked. “Do we go back into the dungeon?”
Pait shook his head. “My mission is to find out what was happening in Dioshin. If I left now, there would have been no point in coming. I’m going to get to the bottom of this.”
I had already decided I was going to stay. I couldn’t guess if this had anything to do with Miki. Maybe there was a soul problem that led them to needing to find her. Either way, I wasn’t leaving until I had an answer, so all we could do was wait.