Two days after Ryan's trial news spread about a zombie who could speak For most people it was scary but others found it fascinating.
One person expressed his fascination by murdering 24 people and using it to write "Jon Doe".
John Doe was the reporter called Ryan as the news spread. Medical professionals from Eternity hospital tried to find a connection between the victims. Surprisingly, their statuses were wiped blank. For the first time the Adventurers guild let adventurers pursue a void bounty. Adventurers all around human territory searched for "Jon Doe", not being able to find him he continued killing.
The Royals and Nobles didn't like what was going on. The requested a meeting and four corpse showed up on four horses. Three of the corps had their neck broken. A man in a tattered shirt and trousers had his neck broken to the left.
A woman in panniers wore a powdered blue dress with fancy embroidery and white lace, puffing her behind. She sat on a horse holding a parasol , with her head turned south
Last but one was a small boy in a singlet and yellow shorts. His neck was broken as he looked to the right.
A little girl rode further to the nobles, she jumped off the horse and her stiletto broke . The train of her white bridal dress dragged as she limped to them.
"Jon tell us how we can stop this killings?"
"You tell me, you keep killing these people. I was a girl with her whole life ahead of her. Instead, I was married of to a man more than three times my age. I got pregnant and died in child birth.
But….
I will stop showing you the product of your decisions, if I meet with the talking zombie."
The girl said to the nobles and they nodded.
"Name the time and place and he will be there."
" Where the dead thrive at the devil's hour."
The girl said and fell, and so did the others.
Keni and Helton found a hidden hatch behind a blood pit. They climbed down a ladder, they looked up and saw the hatch close on its own. They arrived in an empty studio room. There were three doors in the room. One on each side, Helton checked the left and Kemi checked the right. After he transformed back into his human form and they both checked the last room.
Immediately they opened the door they were greeted by a foul smell. Inside sat an empty cage. Hours before, Helton and Kemi arrived, Cynthia moved Ryan due to pressure from the nobles.
"Where the dead thrive at the devil's hour, do you know what that means?"
Cynthia said placing a similar bracelet to the one used in the guild tournament.
"I know the witching hour is twilight before dawn but devil's hour, I just don't understand. It starts thirty three minutes after the witching hour. When the witching hour hasn't even ended."
"I didn't know that, thanks."
"I'm afraid but I can't help you with where the dead thrive."
"That's okay, I know where that is."
Cynthia let Ryan go and nodded to one of her adventurer, undid his binding spell. As Ryan walked away, Cynthia looked on a status glass she was carrying.
On it was a red dot that moved in every direction Ryan did. Ryan went to black sand, where six zombies were waiting for him.
"I guess you really know the dead."
"The dead, more precisely zombies, thrive on desecrated lands. This is the closest desecrated land the valley of the drowned is at the outskirt of town. This seemed like the best option."
When Ryan got close enough the zombies put up their hands and Ryan stopped. One walked up to him and rip off the bracelet on his hand. Ryan heard foot steps from behind and turned.