Only after the last small light orb full of various colors entered into the dark crack, Peter came back into his sense. Many questions emerged and it made him angry.
He stepped forward and said in a low voice, "The townspeople didn't choose it."
"I don't understand the benefits of being the undeads but what about the dead people? They are no longer alive. Even no remains are left. They are innocent. They have never wanted to become the undead."
Asiridus noticed Peter who came out from the light shield and quietly checked his situation with his divine sense. He was surprised to realize that the man in front of him was already condensing the true spirit. And of course, he also found out the problems of armors. Although it was really well designed, thinking of the defect of unable to hear anything, Asiridus's corner of mouth slightly twitched.
However, he didn't laugh. He knew that it was nothing when the host was a true spirit powerhouse. After all, true spirit powerhouses can already communicate with spiritual sense. Speaking and writing are just primary ways of transmitting the information. Between mortals who cannot use spiritual sense yet, sound wave communication is really effective. But for powerhouses above true spirit realms, they just simply use the spiritual sense most of the times when they are inconvenient to talk.
Asiridus could understand what the mortal knight was thinking. Looking at his approximate age, the mortal knight seemed only around thirty years old. Although he didn't know whether the knight was raised in mortal society, with his knowledge and experience he knew that the time and thinking were different from old era of gods after all.
He slightly narrowed his eyes to stare at his cheap brother and said slowly in a calm voice, "Fate has guided you to come here at the right time. He also woke up at the right time. At the right place and the right time, fate has let you two meet here. Two group of people with two different sources. For him, making the townspeople into undeads is him granting a blessing to these mortals. To you, it is unacceptable thing. For various reasons, you guys were not able to communicate with each other. You thought he was an evil disaster. To him, you guys were blasphemer who were destroying his blessing process and killing the townspeople. To the townspeople, being able to live their normal life is a blessing but being able to become the undeads in this new era is also an unreachable blessing. Of course, how could it so easy for the mortals to reach the sky in one step. So, you guys met and you became the tester of fate to him and to the townspeople. Once they were able to pass peacefully, his name would be spread again and these mortals would have become transcendent people. Unfortunately, you met them in the ghoul stage. It has always been like that. How merciless the test of fate actually is. Except for a few people who can get the blessing of fate can live a happy life without having to care about anything."
"Let your grieves go with the wind young knight. Life has always been like that. No one can defy the nature. You are not to be blamed. He is not to be blamed too."
But Peter couldn't accept it. Many people died and he felt that they were also responsible for it.
"Can you revive them?", asked Peter.
Asiridus shook his head and said, "How could it be so easy to revive the people whose bodies are not even left intact? Not to mention, their physical bodies became ashes and their soul bodies have already been tainted with death energy."
Peter fell into silent. He expected the answer but still couldn't help asking it.
The ceremony started as all the corpses in the town gathered. It was very crowded. Peter checked the number roughly and found out that there were nearly two thousands corpses.
It was really just a very simple ceremony. Morsius created a triangle in a circle on the ground with his mind power. Various unknown words were also curved here and there. Then, he put three small crystals at the three corners of triangle and a small crystal at the center of the circle. The magic circle was nearly two feet wide in diameter.
As the Morsius put his divine power and started the magic circle, various runes and lines of entire magic circle started to glow with pale golden light.
"That is the death ceremony magic circle. It looks simple but in fact many people cannot touch it because it is simply very expensive. Because this magic circle has a limitation which require the caster to use divine crystals. As for the divine crystals, you will know about them later. Basically, as long as the ghoul entered this magic circle, it will simply evolve the ghoul into undead. Unlike the ghouls born in graveyards, these newly transformed ghouls are with their own souls and their own bodies. Thus, them becoming the undeads is simply a blessing for the mortal townspeople."
Peter didn't reply and didn't also ask any question this time. With his IQ, he had already realized something.
The transformation was also very quick. The ghouls just needed to walk over the magic circle and they would become like normal people again when they crossed it. The only different thing might be their semi-immortal undead body, soul suitable for cultivating the death path and a small crystal full of condensed death energy in their heart.
All small black spots on their bodies disappeared and they regained their normal original skin colors. With several times of blinking their eyes, the black blood which covered their eyes were cleared and only black blood tears marks were left on their cheeks. But they could be easily cleansed by simply washing their faces with water later. The blood started to flow again and the heart starting beating too. It was just that the heartbeat frequency became very low to around twenty times a minute. Moreover, they would not be able to easily feel the sense of pains again after this and their food daily food intake would also become lower. Normal attacks will not be able to kill them and they also possessed a certain amount of extraordinary regeneration ability from now on. The only price they paid was that they were no longer pure mortal humans.
The first male corpse who became the undead came back into his sense again and looked around. He was the sheriff Benny. Although he was unconscious all along after he became the ghoul, he still retained the memories of being the ghoul and about how they walked from the ranch to the town under the lead of a mysterious person in the black coffin.
Looking at the familiar but unfamiliar scenes around him, Benny squatted down and started to cry while covering his face. And, he surprisingly found out that he was able to see the surroundings vaguely like he did when he was the ghoul. Benny closed his eyes and tested it out. He confirmed that it was true and the limit was five meters distance. After a few seconds, he stopped and stood up again. He got to do a lot of things. And especially as a sheriff, he got many duties on him.
Then, Benny was able to see the surrounding scenes clearly. He was shocked. It was almost like he suddenly appeared in a battlefield. Bullet holes on the walls, damaged properties, and fire and smokes, they all showed that horrible things happened here in this familiar place of his hometown.
He became extremely worried and looked around. At that time, a piece of information emerged in his head and it made him felt headache. While bearing the throbbing and painful feeling of his head, Benny chose to read the information. And he understood what exactly happened to them and felt really sad.
At the end of the last information about the misunderstanding and many townspeople in ghoul state being killed by the knights, Benny couldn't bear it anymore and fainted after a very short but loud roar.
Other newly transformed undeads were not like Benny. They immediately fell unconscious after were transformed. In order to not cause traffic because of them, Morsius simply carried them away with his mind power and placed them on the ground in a neat row.
Occasionally, one like Benny would appear but they were rare. There were only ten who didn't immediately fell unconscious after the transformation.
At first, Morsius let them walk through the magic circle one by one. After nearly a dozen corpses were transformed into undeads, he became impatient and let them go as a group of five to boost the efficiency. Even so, it took a little over twenty minutes to completely transformed all the corpses in the town into undeads.
After Morsius took back the crystals, Asiridus lightly tapped the ground with his death scythe. Instantly, the depressing atmosphere around the town disappeared and also the two figures of them.