Birds flying over the misty sky created a loud sound that could be heard over the ground. The spreading mist reveals a storm cloud with the occasional ear-piercing sound of thunder.
There, to be precise at one point in the forest, the trees started to fall and the ground was now black. A large monster with protruding breastbones walked using its fleshless chest.
The 12 meter tall monster had a human face but no skin, the red color of the fresh flesh was blackened by some kind of mysterious aura.
The monster has no legs but 12 pairs of ribs supporting the monster's entire body on the ground. Walking like an insect, teeth fused with bones and bloodshot eyes.
When the monster moved its arms and ribs to walk, dense black smoke billowed from the back and arms of the monster, thick smoke rising up into the sky creating a black storm with flashing lightning.
Anyone who saw this would definitely think that monsters were the cause of this storm.
The thick smoke that stood tall like a tower connected with the storm, the wind blew violently every time the monster opened its mouth and screamed.
The strong wind started to spread up the hill from a group of people in white coats. One of those people is Kyle.
Kyle's eyes looked with an expression that was difficult to describe. She bit her lips and gripped the white coat around her body. The moment that happened, Aprissal Skill was activated.
[ PROFILE]
[ Name : Malvinas ]
[ Class : Darkness of death ]
[ Level : 71 ]
[ Age : 83 Year-Old]
[ Gender : male ]
[ Race : Undead ]
[STATUS]
[ Strength : 55 ]
[ Vitality: 40 ]
[ Agility : 8 ]
[ Inteligence : 2 ]
[ Stamina : 100 ]
[ATRIBUTES]
[ HP : 8347/ 8600]
[ Mana : 100/100 ]
[ Stamina : 100/100]
[ Physical Attack : 51 ]
[ Magic Attack : 17 ]
[ Physical Defense : 30 ]
[ Magic Defense : 8 ]
[ Physical Penetrate : 0 ]
[ Magic Penetrate : 0 ]
[SKILL]
[ Giant shockwave Lvl 2: Cooldown Skill (3 Minute) ]
[ Bone storm Lvl 4 : Cooldown Skill ( 5 Minute) ]
[ Black earth Lvl 2 : Cooldown Skill (10 Minute) ]
[ Thunderstorm Lvl 4: Cooldown Skill (15 Minute) ]
[ Zombie man Lvl 4 : Cooldown Skill ( 5 Minute) ]
[ Bone mountain Lvl 2 : Cooldown Skill (10 hours) ]
[Passiv]
[ Storm fog Lvl 8 ]
[ Teror Aura Lvl 2 ]
[ TITLE ]
[ Five weather undead ]
[ Abyssal Crack ]
[ Dark Elementalis]
[ Undead Huriccane ]
[ Dragon Hater ]
[ Giant undead ]
What's that!! What's that!!! What kind of monster is that! How could this happen to me, didn't that person say this was a safer place? This bad luck can't be called normal bad luck anymore!!
[ Storm fog Lvl 8 ]
[ Creates smoke from body odor, the soulless undead has a storm core in its heart : Every second, the smoke from the body will rise to the sky and creates a storm that lasts until your character dies, consumes - 12 HP every 30 seconds, adds + 10 Mana regen in under a thunderstorm every 2 minutes, Darknesse elemental abilities gain an attack increase of +3(12% total Physical Attack and magic Attack) ]
You stupid monster, don't you ever take a bath? The smoke on your body has even created a Storm!! These monsters are even stronger than the mini bosses in Republic dungeons.
[ Five weather undead ]
[ Sincere devotion to the ruler of the abyss, body and soul given will be rewarded accordingly, the undead that represents stormy weather, the monster of all monsters among the five high-level undead monsters, the pinnacle of an undead crawling from the deep ground trying to challenge the clouds: get an additional basic stat of +30 Physical Attack, +2 Magic Attack, +8000 HP and get +25 HP regen every 30 seconds, get special Skills Storm Fog, Zombie man, Bone mountain and get a special title undead Huriccane]
[ Abyssal Crack ]
[ As a human who has fallen into the abyss, courage and devotion have been heard by the ruler of the abyss, your character has now been recognized as a resident of the abyss: permanently changing physically to a monster and changing your race to one of the abyss creatures, Gain +12 increase Physical Attack, +340 HP, as well as changing the Skill element that is owned into a Dark element ]
[ Dragon Haters ]
[ The dragon hater, the pain that has been received has damaged all consciousness as living beings, your mental character will collapse every time you meet a dragon, but hatred will overflow every time: get a reduction - 24 Physical Defense, - 10 magic Defense, - 2 mana points every 50 seconds, as well as getting a negative effect of reducing - 2 INT every 2 seconds, maximum - 30 INT, but the character will get an increase in attack when fighting a dragon of +5% Physical Attack, +5% Magic Attack and +10% HP Regen ]
It was obvious that this monster was strong, just looking at that skinless black face scared me. Why does this world have creepy undead? This would keep any small child from sleeping.
No, forget it, the most important thing right now is whether I can stay alive? The monster was walking very slowly, but he was standing in front of the path we were walking on, it was the only path we knew, is there another way, I want to find another way.
"Sergeant Willo, do you know of another route, it won't be a problem if you make a slight detour." Kyle looked at Willo with hopeful eyes.
"Sir, I don't know. For all I know, We are right on the border between the Theocracy and the Republic, there aren't many roads available."
"Aren't you a knight? Organized knights should have important maps or information."
Speaking of soldiers and knights, a military instrument should have some kind of way to win the battle, including ways to fight the monster or try to escape from it.
But then what Kyle had hoped for had fallen into a hopeless black hole. He, Sergeant Willo answered Kyle with an expression that was hard to describe, It looked like some kind of hesitation and an obvious sense of inferiority.
"I'm sorry Mr Burnet, the troops under me actually just got out of jail for breaking the law during regular troop training, they don't know much of the area around here, we practically don't know anything."
I wanted to scream but I held it in, why are the knights who guarded me all these years actually ex-criminals? How did this coincidence happen to me?
I then gave up on what happened, I had some things to think about, I then turned around while saying.
"Let's camp for now."
....
At night, right when I saw the corpses of my company's employees, they had rotted with black skin. Beside the blazing fire, the black shadows blending into the skin I can barely distinguish, my poor employees, I feel sorry for you. It was clearly the work of the monsters I saw under the mountain.
It's quite far away, but because of the high ground, I can still see the monster moving very slowly, it seems like it's looking for something in the forest.
I then sat down on the rock with my right hand touching my cheek, according to what willo said, all of my company's employees were killed while trying to find information, except, of course Zen who was beside me.
The knights around Willo couldn't be relied on for information so they asked my company's employees for help, and then the final result, only around five knights were killed.
This is not to be expected, the people who are supposed to be guarding are guarded instead. I started to think, did these people graduate from a military academy or not? They even showed distressed expressions when I saw them from where I was now.
My eyes flashed with an indifferent expression, if I looked in the mirror, then I could see that my face seemed to have sunk into boredom. This is the only thing I have to do to keep my composure.
This character named Kyle is really great, how can he have such a perfect bored expression in any situation? Even though he's really just an idiot.
I then looked at the knights, my eyes catching every hopeless looking face. There wasn't a single person there who looked like a knight except for their clothes.
I tried to take a deep breath and then let it out again. At that moment, I started to think again.
When I got to the front of the door to enter into the sea of deep thoughts, the person beside me who was Zen, he started to say something.
Zen's eyes started to shrink as he followed the direction I was looking at. For a moment I thought, that Zen might share the same opinion as me but it ended up being something else.
"Pathetic sheep."
I already said it, didn't I? He, saying with such a face, called the knights pathetic Sheep. No, wait— is it possible.
I started thinking again and again. What does it mean by pitiful Sheep? No, that's not it, what Zen said reminded me of that bastard captain Harold's strange words.
I remember, Captain Harold had said that there would be birds and fog. Could it not be words without meaning?
But I'm still confused, why did the military send a knight who just came out of prison to escort me? What Captain Harold had said proved that he knew that stupid undead monster would appear in this place. That means, he or the people behind him planned this, right?
A knight just out of prison? Could be interpreted as a pawn that could be discarded at any time, it was fully connected.
But why does the military want to get rid of me? Of course, the purpose of having former criminals as my bodyguards was for them to die with me, when I did die, it would look like a normal accident but with minimal damage.
One wouldn't be able to accuse them when their own subordinates fell victim to it along with me. This is camouflage of an accident.
This would also mean that, the military faction still wanted cooperation with the Businessmen faction but they wanted me dead even though I was clearly part of the businessmen faction.
What are the advantages? If I die? The only scheme I can think of is the potential for cooperation on the basis of mutual loss, a person or group of people who feel they have been disadvantaged will definitely look for other groups who are also experiencing the same thing to build some kind of bond. That way, they will feel safe because they think that their strength has increased.
It's very simple, the enemy of your enemy is your friend, I know it means that a potential ally is an ally who has the same enemy as you, but even though in this case it sounds very different there is a similar pattern which is the bad luck they experience makes they work together. So, what I'm trying to say is that my death will make the military faction and the business faction work together for a stronger bond. But obviously this is still an estimate based on the information I have.
There are also other possibilities, for example, that the person who wants me to die does not represent a faction's decision but an individual motive, but that only adds to the hole that has been formed.
Individual motives? I then found something.
Before I started to continue, I looked at Zen who was currently silent with an even look while looking at the people and then I said.
"Pathetic sheep are sometimes of great value in some situations to some people who see opportunity. You must remember this well."
"Ah, yes, you're right, even towers can be built from useless looking bits of stone."
Yes, he is right, Zen is right. The little piece is starting to show. If the people who want me dead are due to individual motives, then captain Harold is included. And if that's sequenced, then I can deduce that the real mastermind is Major Carmila.
I don't know what Kyle did to that woman in the past, but Major Carmila definitely wants me dead. But everything started to change when captain Harold implicitly warned me, he might be on my side, if he didn't say that, I wouldn't notice anything.
The reason why I thought that Captain Harold was on my side was actually very obvious, it was because Captain Harold told me right when the Title Ruler of Conspiracy notification appeared.
I didn't know what the title effect was like, so I changed the point of focus I had from figuring out the true title effect, to whether it would be in my favor or not, it definitely had more clues.
If the Title effect was against me, then Irina as the first person I know got the Title effect, would definitely act suspicious, but that girl just got closer to me. This proved that Captain Harold had truly changed course.
He was originally my enemy and now he is trying to become my ally. Concluding this, it was safe to assume that Captain Harold was indeed an ally.
As I finished with the conclusion, I then looked back at Zen.
"Zen, for now, I'm not allowing you to do anything, you just have to watch what I do without telling anyone. If you notice something, you should just shut up."
I now have a plan. This might seem cruel since I was weak in the first place, not strong enough to fight monsters with just one strike, what would happen if I who was a weak Villain with no strength tried to fight monsters much stronger than me? but who cares, someone wants me dead and I'm still being naive? No kidding, I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a try.
I may be weak, but that doesn't mean I can't do anything like a pathetic idiot who's given up on fate.