Emersyn got out from the shadows and approached, carefully treading not to step on the corpses. There was a pile of human remains and there were some that were already rotting. The smell was horrible and the atmosphere was definitely cold.
Something moved again. From that same spot.
When she tried lifting a corpse up, it immediately surfaced up and tried to bite Emersyn's arm. It was the face of a man. Strands of his hair were falling out and his face was dried up, leaving no flesh but bones and skin. Emersyn reflexively retreated her hand and her other hand summoned a gun and immediately fired at the head of the undead man. His head exploded from the point blank shot and collapsed on the heap of corpses.
However, that wasn't the last.
Before she knew it, she was bitten on her left forearm by the nearest undead that she didn't notice. Her left hand, that was holding the gun, passed the gun to her right hand and shot the undead that bit her arm. When its head exploded, its cerebrospinal fluid splashed onto her. She didn't mind and just checked on the area where she was bitten. It didn't leave a dent or mark, fortunately.
"Kill..."
"Kill them..."
"Royalty..."
The undead raised from their spot and slowly regained their footing as their hollow eyes gazed at the stairs leading to the upper floor. They started running up. Meanwhile, Emersyn was battling those that attempted to attack her with a gun in her left hand and a sword in her right. In her periphery, she caught sight of those undead moving faster towards the upper floor. She cursed under her breath and immediately ran after them. Since their numbers easily ranked up to hundreds, she couldn't stop their barrage into the castle in a narrow corridor. She could only kill those that were behind and running after her. Moreover, she had to perfectly aim at their heads to kill them.
Suddenly, she heard screams.
"Oh dear..." she mumbled as she increased her barrage of attacks to lessen their numbers. When she arrived on the upper floor, she could see servants that collapsed on the ground that had corrosive dark energies injected into their bodies. It would only be a matter of time before they end up an undead. She shot them in their heads as she made sure to never leave one of them behind then rushed upwards.
"Help!"
Emersyn ignored it and chose to eradicate those monstrosities before they got out of the castle. She just hoped that the people in the castle made a judgement that they would close the gates leading towards the commoner's side of the city. As there was a high wall that separates the two districts. When she arrived at the ground floor, she saw that the undead were already filling the streets and invading the homes of the nobles. While there were a few of them that stayed in the castle.
"My Lady?!" Suddenly, she heard a familiar voice. She whipped her head towards Elodiaren as she made a decisive action in a second to shoot the undead surrounding Elodiaren.
"You okay there?" She asked once she was sure that there was nothing in their area.
"How did you find me?"
"My bracelet led me here."
"... ah..."
"Their energies are corrosive, so you better avoid getting in contact with them or even step into their territory. It isn't that dangerous if you get closer, but when you have direct contact with them, the energy will enter your body into your bloodstreams."
"Understood," Elodiaren nodded.
"So, leave the killings to me and hide."
"... what?"
"I will take care of this, Aren."
"No, no! What do you mean leave everything to you?! That's…!"
"I don't want you to turn into an undead, Aren."
"But…! Don't underestimate me! You already died one time when you protected me, and now, the same thing will happen. I don't want that!"
"... fine. Do whatever you want. I won't be responsible if anything happens to you," Emersyn said as she took off and ran to the upper floors, leaving Elodiaren behind who clenched his fists in determination to aid Emersyn in this matter.
Emersyn released a huge energy that was enough to cover the whole castle to determine the position of the remaining undead. She eradicated those that already turned into one and those that were on the verge of being an undead. When she arrived in a room where two undead were cornering one female in a royal suit, she immediately formed two icicles of one meter and a diameter of ten centimeters then shot it towards the head of the undead.
"Kyaaah!" The woman screamed as she crouched down, hiding her head between her arms, her eyes closed shut.
The undeads got pierced and their bodies got stuck on the wall and one breached the window and got thrown out. When the woman heard the breaking of glass, she suddenly released her head and stared at Emersyn who was already leaving and shouted, "Halt there!!!"
Emersyn ignored it and just rushed towards the nearest undead. However, the young woman ran out of her room and followed the disappearing back of that mysterious woman with a dazzling white hair.
When Emersyn finally sensed that there weren't any more undead in the castle, she broke through the window of the 4th floor and jumped out.
"Noooo!!!" She heard from above and saw the figure of the young woman in a royal suit. Ah. That woman that looked young enough to be a princess. She clicked her tongue as she landed safely on the ground. Though the ground wasn't safe at all as there was a depression and wide arrays of cracks. She took off, never minding the woman, and started releasing a huge amount of energy for scouting.
On the other hand, the princess only settled her hand over her heart that was beating so hard as she gazed at the woman who saved her life.
"White… hair… and red eyes..." she mumbled.
Emersyn heard her mumblings as she struck the undeads' head to oblivion.
"My Lady!"
Upon sighting Emersyn, Elodiaren quickly called as he heaved. Emersyn took care of the last undead before running towards Elodiaren.
"Everything good on your side?"
"No… not at all. I commanded the royal guard to close the gates of the city before this spread and got out of the walls. But they didn't… well, they did heed me, but didn't believe me until they saw the undeads."
"That's good enough for me. At least it didn't spread outside the city."
"... yes, that's true."
"Time to slaughter these undead," Emersyn smiled then took off.
Elodiaren watched her disappearing back as her white hair fluttered with her every stride. Suddenly, there was a voice that called him from the castle.
"Hero Cone! Please! Stay where you are!"
Ah. Yes. He named himself that here, so he turned to look at the princess who was there when he was summoned in this world.
"Princess Camellia," he muttered as he waited for Camellia to arrive before him.
She heaved a deep breath before asking, "Who is that woman? Is she your acquaintance?"
"... uhm… no, she's not. I just happened to pass by her who was still alive."
"I… I see."
"Have you seen the other heroes, Princess?"
Camellia shook her head. "I'm sorry, but I don't know where they are. They must have left the castle..."
"Alright. I'll continue killing the undead. Please stay safe."
"Hero Cone..."
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry if we couldn't bring you back to your own world."
Elodiaren smiled faintly. "It's fine. While I am still here, I will take care of this world."
"Thank you… thank you so much!"
"I am going now."
"I'm sorry," she said as she waved at Elodiaren.
She stayed where she was until she could hear footsteps behind her. She trembled, afraid that it would be an undead, but it was too consistent that she slowly turned around just to see three of the heroes coming out of the castle.
"Heroes!" She called, relieved.
"Princess Camellia," the hero who had his long blonde hair tied, named Korbin, called.
"Are you unhurt?" Reno, a black haired man, asked as he approached and examined Camellia.
"I am fine, Hero Reno. How about you?"
"I am doing fine, Princess."
Dichen, a man who had streaks of blue hair in his black hair, immediately took off with his sword.
"Dichen! Where are you going?!"
"I am going to beat Cone in killing these undeads!" Then he truly left.
"Princess, you can stay here with Korbin for now. We will contact you later after this," Reno said.
"Be safe, Hero Reno."
"Of course," he said then ran off.
"Guess you are with me today, Princess," Korbin grinned.
"Protect me well, Hero Korbin," Camellia smiled brightly.
Korbin took his eyes off Camellia as he winced from the brightness of her smile. He clicked his tongue inwardly, but he suppressed his desire to kill the one before him.
After all, she never did anything bad to them.
But he knew that she chose to ignore the matter about killing humans just to summon heroes to fulfill their desire to survive.