Part 9
We left the cemetery and were journeying back to town.
"I can't accept this!"
Aqua was still fuming.
Dawn was just about to break.
"It couldn't be helped. She was such a nice person, you couldn't bear killing her right?"
We decided to let that Lich off.
At the same time, we came to a consensus for the idle Aqua to purify the cemetery periodically.
Fortunately, no matter how bad Aqua was, she still was a goddess. She knew that purifying the undead and wandering spirits was her job.
But she threw a tantrum because her sleeping time would be reduced.
For Megumin and Darkness who were hesitant about letting a monster off agreed after learning Wiz had never attacked a human before.
I looked at the paper Wiz gave me and said:
"But for a Lich to live normally in town, the security is really lacking."
The piece of paper had Wiz's address on it.
That Lich seemed to be living life as a normal human in our town.
She even said she was running a small magic item shop.
I told her my impression of Liches dwelling in dungeons, she replied that it wasn't convenient and there was no reason to live there.
No, Liches were once humans too, so I knew what she meant.
I do understand, but since coming to this world, my fantasy about alternate worlds were shattered.
This was not the alternate world I was hoping for.
"We were lucky things turned out well in the end. Even with Aqua here, the opponent was still a Lich. If we really fought, Kazuma and I would definitely be dead."
Megumin said nonchalantly which made me stunned.
"Eh, are Lich such dangerous monsters? Would it have been a tough fight?"
"It's much worse than that! Lich have high magic defense, nothing could harm her except enchanted weapons. She could trigger all sorts of abnormal status just by touching her enemies and drain their life and mana, a legendary immortal monster. What surprised me was why Aqua's 'Turn Undead' had such great effect on such a powerful being."
I almost lost control of my bowels.
That's right, she was the boss of the undead after all.
When I heard she was willing to teach me skills of a Lich, I took her name card gleefully… When I visit her to learn skills, I must remember to bring Aqua along.
"Kazuma, give me the name card. I want to set up a holy barrier around the home of that woman and make her cry."
"Please let her go…"
It would be better to not take Aqua along…
As we were thinking about that, Darkness said quietly:
"By the way, what about the quest to defeat the zombie maker?"
"Ah." x3