Chapter 229

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“[Strong Axe Strike]!”

I swung the giant golden Axe that I had stolen from Lion back then.

The gigantic ax was infused with my Mana and gained a large amount of death and darkness aura around it. The powerful slicing strike was then unleashed over a dozen of meters around me.

The powerful and deadly slicing shockwave reached all the trees around me, as they were all chopped away in a single sweep.

SLAAAASH!

BOOM!

Dozens of trees fell to the ground instantly, as a lot of black smoke was left lingering around…

“That’s a dozen now. This forest is getting thinned very fast.” Said Emeraldine at my side.

“Hehe, now guys, go take them!” I said.

“Gryssshiii!”

Pyro guided the spider zombies with him as they all grabbed the logs and began to carry them over their large backs back to the inside of the walls.

“With these dozen of logs, we can make a few more houses so the people can live more comfortably… It is a pity that the old houses are all rotten and frozen. Nobody can live comfortably there.” Sighed Partner.

“Yeah, that’s the saddest part. Lucifer had a hard time accepting that we would have to slowly take down the houses because they were irreparable… We can use their materials to fuel our fire, also using the fresh wood to construct houses and furniture instead… I guess that’s a plus. Old wood burns very well.” Said Emeraldine.

“Indeed, it is quite sad. But that’s for the best. I am sure these people won’t mind if we get the new houses when they finally wake up. Of course, we are saving anything that we find inside that might seem valuable, such as portraits, jewels, gold, and other things, so they can grab them back when they’re finally back, eventually, one day… in the far future, I guess.” I sighed.

“I suppose… For now, let’s go back. I am freezing here… these clothes are not enough for me…” sighed Emeraldine, as she was trembling in this cold.

“Alright, let us go,” I said.

“Bring us there, Pyro!” I said.

“Gysshiii!”

Pyro was covered in a natural layer of phantasmal flames because he died while being burned, and I revived him as undead while also being in flames, so the flames were somewhat assimilated into him.

This grants him the ability to manipulate these flames, so they don’t burn when you touch them, but keep their warmth, so he is a rare warm bug.

When you touch his back, you can feel his warmth, so it is the favorite mount for Emeraldine and all the other living people, such as the twins and more.

We slowly made our way back to the interior of the walls as we were greeted by a few skeletons and zombies carrying stones inside, which they had crushed down from larger boulders that came out of the walls themselves.

We were making bricks out of these boulders to slowly repair the walls, which were all ruined, with many holes everywhere. It was going to take a while, but we were doing our best.

I had thought about a way to make the walls into a giant inanimate undead, a haunted wall of sorts, but I need a lot of souls for that, and I cannot find any. Simply using Fake Life on it won’t work properly on something so massive.

We brought the logs into the main town inside the large, abandoned city, and we were greeted by Lucifer and Catarina, who was just done with carrying another massive boulder away from the main town, as these might end up rolling around and causing commotions we don’t really want to see.

“Phew… That’s it… For now.” Sighed Catarina.

“Indeed, we should rest for the moment, I don’t feel the pain, but my undead muscles are clearly tired and feel soggy.” Said Lucifer.

“Nothing that some Undead Healing can’t do!” I said.

“We appreciate it, but you don’t have to overexert yourself either.” Said Lucifer.

“What are you talking about? This is just a simple skill, and I got more mana than I can even use….” I said.

I touched Lucifer’s shoulders and gave him a brief massage, the flow of death energy recovered his tired muscles and mildly cracked bones. The same was with Catarina.

I left the logs to be handled by the Undead and the other people, ready to saw them off and prepare them to assemble a few houses in the next days, as we walked inside the castle, which was way more lively and filled with light.

We have mostly cleansed a lot of the dust everywhere, and we washed away the things inside as well, there are many portraits that we made sure to leave alone, but there are still a lot of rooms that we have yet to clean completely, a few of them still infested by food- I mean rats and other critters.

Rats seem to be able to live and reproduce super-fast in here, and they even just eat rotten wood, so I had thought about taming them and making them into our cattle animals. Giant Rats are an E Rank Monster at most, and they can grow up to a meter in height, so they can carry a lot of decent meat.

They also naturally form fat in their bodies to resist the cold, so their meat is actually tastier than you would think a rat’s meat would taste, and they are rather gentle when tamed.

Fast reproduction cycles, fast growth, don’t need any crazy food, can even eat rotten wood, yeah, rats are going to become our cattle animal, Giant Dark Rats at that. It is decided.

However, how do we deal with plants?

Well, as we all gathered to eat a meal together, Emeraldine had a plan.

“I’ve been thinking this for a while and slowly preparing, but I think with my Nature Spirit, it could be possible to find a way to enhance the growth of plants even in this environment…” said Emeraldine.

“Really?!” I exclaimed.

“Yes… But it’s going to be a bit hard. We’ll have to prepare what’s called a special closed space…” said Emeraldine.

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