Hah…? I made zombies…?

No way. You mean actual zombies? ZOMBIES?!

I recoil and leap away from the zombie as it lunges to bite a chunk out of my neck. Its jaw snaps shut with a loud, resounding clack.

Holy shit. I honestly doubt it had enough force to hurt me, but I don’t want to turn into a damn zombie.

Wait a second, he isn’t the only damn person with their flesh falling apart. It's like as if the flesh on top of their skeletons are banana peels that dried up and… became water.

Did that make sense? I think it did. It makes sense to me. The point is their flesh is dripping off them.

The villagers who had tried to avenge them look on in disbelief. Their amazement and excitement are obliterated in an instant.

“What’s happening…? the handsome guy asks.

I run past him as I shout, “They wanna eat my flesh!”

People would expect me to stop the zombie army, however, I… want absolutely nothing to do with zombies!

They are zombies for crying out loud. I only saw them in TVs and movies. Hell, I even had nightmares because I kept thinking, ‘what if zombies are real.’

Now that isn’t an if question anymore. It’s ‘now they are real, what the hell is going to be done about them’ question.

I leap on top of a massive tree and crouch like a solider.

“Granny, stop…” handsome guy begs with teary eyes.

Would he be able to convince the zombies to not give in their cannibalistic nature… or will he fail?

His granny, an old small lady who’s now a walking skeleton, lock ‘eyes’ on him. Well, perhaps I should say eye sockets?

A girl walks forward with a sad expression, “Granny Zelra, Metran, Belchan, Nulji, Bacuij… Please stop!”

The emotion behind her shout is so intense my heart nearly sways, and I’m not even a zombie.

She continues, “I think we must accept you all are gone. I will always remember how you taught me how to catch a fish, Zelra. And Metran, you made sure I knew how to dress well. And… um… You others taught me stuff that I just can’t remember right now, but! Doing all this is just going to ruin our image of you… so… please stop.”

Handsome guy took a step forward.

With tears in his eyes, he shouts, “So, please save your reputation and return to the dead so we can mourn you all! We know you love us and wouldn’t want to hurt us so please don’t allow this skill to turn you into something you aren’t!”

The zombie he called "Grandma" watches intently, as if deeply considering what they are saying.

Holy shit, the speech is working on them.

She makes light steps towards handsome guy, but her movements aren’t steady. Matter a fact, after three steps she falls to the ground.

Perhaps getting rid of muscles along with their skin fuck things up for them.

You need muscles to move around.

“Boy!”

Eh?

The dude that had tried to bite my neck dashes towards the handsome guy. Unlike the granny, he still has muscles on his body, just no skin or flesh on most of his face.

He leaps towards the handsome guy with his hands outstretched. “I am going to eat you, boy! You think I care about you?! Are you mad?! I wanted your mother to abort your ass the moment she told me she was pregnant!”

Oh. That’s… ouch.

The handsome guy kicks back to evade, successfully dodging the zombie's grasp. He falls to the ground, his eyes wide with fear.

The granny shouts, “I told you to not tell him that! Why can’t you keep things secret!”

Handsome guy hops to his feet and runs away while shouting, “Forget what I said! Reality defender, please kill them!”

Understandable reaction.

I intervene by throwing a fireball at the zombie’s head. It hit and sets him ablaze before he can turn in my direction.

I stand up and spread my fingers wide and use them as guns, firing small precise fireballs towards the head of the zombies.

All of the zombies' heads combust in flames. Their screams sound like something from a damn horror movie.

However, they all fall to the ground, their screams fade away and are replaced with roaring flames that are trying to consume their entire body.

Perhaps there isn't anything to be scared of since I got rid of the zombies with ease.

The handsome guy turns towards me with a stressed expression, as if he doesn’t even know how to react to all that’s going on.

“Sorry about all this,” I tell him. “I just wanted to fix things...”

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I was making jokes and taking his grief lightly because I thought I had the solution. I fucked up. Even now, I don't want to take things seriously.

I wonder, am I worried because of moral reasons or because of fear of punishment? Just how twisted is my soul. Whatever.

He doesn’t react to my words. I can’t blame him.

Yuen shout from the distance, “They are still alive!”

What?

I turn to look at the zombies and see it. They are all slowly rising back up, despite being engulfed in flames.

Haha…?

What the hell?!

They resume their chase, but they aren’t targeting the guys, instead they are running after me!

They leap at the tree with a tight grip and scream after me.

Holy shit, I just made flaming zombies!

I will just add more flames!

I generate a fireball in the sky and made it feed on the flames that’s consuming the body of the zombies.

Once I gather enough fire, I jump on the ground.

The zombies roasted bodies are recovering for some damn reason!

They jump off the trees and rush towards me.

I shout while pointing at myself with my thumb. “Catch me if you can!”

“I will eat your flesh!”

“I will wear your flesh like a shirt!”

The others reply in a similar fashion.

Feels nice to be desired on such a level. Mhm. Indeed. Anyway…

“Burn to hell!” I shout with the rage of a man that just found out his girlfriend fucked his father in his room.

The fireball in the sky roars and falls to the ground at incredible speeds. Before the zombies knew what hit them, an expansion of fire and intense heat washes over them like a tsunami.

See now, I’m something of a super genius.

Why is that you ask? I used fire skin and thought really hard about the clothes being a part of me before the flames hit me, so no, I’m not going to have my clothes burn off again.

Anyway, even if fire itself has no weight and thus can’t generate force, the amount of heat should have been enough to turn them into dust in that instant.

The flames are still ongoing, so I think it's best if I get rid of the fire.

I gather all the flames using fireball and then… Oh right, I have a fire suppression, God bless.

I kinda don’t want to be responsible for another accidental homicide.

Anyway, I lower my hand and the flames respond to my will like I am their queen, because I quite literally am, and they fizzle away.

Man, I suck. Instead of resurrecting their village members, I turned them into zombies and killed them again.

“Grh...”

Why did I just hear a growl?

Not just one, but multiple.

I turn to look at where the zombies' ashes should be and saw the zombies regenerating.

Hm...

Yeah, this isn’t funny at all.

Yuen who’s far away from me shouts, “Can’t you undo the pseudo resurrection with the same skill?”

Well yes, I can, but... my immediate thought was fire.

Whatever.

I swipe my hand to the side like I wield a gavel (ceremonial hammer) that will decide one’s fate. “fall--”

Before I can finish one of them rip their chest open to advertise their rotten innards.

Hell nah!

I feel everything I ate earlier rising in my throat before I turn around and vomit.

What's wrong with them?!

Hell with this!

A cold skeletal hand grasps my ankle.

AH! EW!

I don’t even turn back; I react like an agitated horse and kickback with so much force that the air whips.

Something broke, and then I heard a thud. I think I kicked someone’s granny’s head away.

Anyway, I run!

I move with the tense posture of a sprinter, my face drenched in anxious sweat.

Yuen runs alongside me. “What’s your plan?!”

“To abandon this place for good!” I reply.

“What! But what about those guys?!”

“I will say a prayer for them. What's y'all gods?”

“You twisted little shit!”

“Well sorry I am not brave in the face of FUCKING IMMORTAL ZOMBIES!”

“You made them! You can also unimmortal them with your skill!”

“When I tried they...” The memories of the rotten innards are so bright in my memory, it’s comparable to waking up from a deep sleep and walking outside to be met with the afternoon sun.

I conclude what I was saying, “Did scary shit. Now I feel traumatized.”

He stares at me like he wants to kill me.

“Okay okay, I will unzombie them...” I grunt and turn back to the zombies who are slow as shit. It’s like a lizard versus a cat.

But as soon as I look at them, they rip their stomach open, instantly making me barf.

“Um...” I mutter. “Yeah, I will unzombie them later.”

“What do you mean by later?!”

I sprint with all my speed towards the city. At least I would be able to outrun--

He easily catches up to me and asks me with his face an inch away from mine. “What. Do. You. Mean. Later.”

“When they stop doing that gory stuff! It’s not like I can use two different skills at the same time. I mean, I kinda can, but it’s much easier to do if they belong to the same skill card, and if I don’t need to focus to use it. Anyway, I can’t freeze time and use pseudo resurrection.”

I honestly probably can. If it’s something like Isolated time freeze, no. I don’t have to consciously think to maintain the base form of time freeze.

Yuen turns back to look at the zombies and then screams and vomits on himself. He looks like he saw something horrid.

So, they used the same tactic on him too?

He mutters, “Rotten... guts.”

Yup yup!

And so, we run like hell.

I didn’t use the fireball traveling technique since it wouldn’t have been worth the EP.

Anyway, we finally see the walls of second Cinderayul.

I scream at the top of my voice, “An army of zombies are approaching!”

The wall guards shout back in confusion.

I turn towards the zombies that are far away since they can't compete with me and Yuen’s speed.

I wait... and the guards show up.

“What’s going on?” One asks me.

I point so far away they must squint to see what I am referring to too. “Undeads. They are immortal.”

“I see... we would have to call knights.”

The knights took a long time to arrive but that’s a good thing, it gives the zombies more time to get closer to us. And if they are closer, it means they will target them with their guts trick instead of me.

The knights arrive, all of them don in armor and wielding swords, axes, spear-guns, metallic whips and whatever.

Hm... I just had common sense delivered to me. A method to deal with the exposed guts threat.

I raise my hands to the sky, my eyes close.

The zombies scream, “You wicked child!”

“We will have you!”

I say with the voice of a humble priestess, “I am sorry you poor souls were forced back on the mortal realm...”

I have a feeling that lots of them tried the same guts trick, but my eyes are closed.

“Return back to the dirt!” I echo.

Pseudo resurrect gave the dead another chance to live, but not with a perfect mortal body, keeping them in a state of a life and death, making them immortal.

It uses skill energy to achieve this, which meant all I must do is use the skill on them again, but this time, I will deliberately mess up the process by channeling a very tiny amount of skill energy.

That disturbance causes... silence.

Is it safe to peek outside now...?

I open an eye and see fallen corpses around us.

Sorry for everything.

The knights look at me strangely. Shit!

I clear my voice and say, maidenly (I don’t know if that makes sense, imagine it does), “The souls... have been freed!”

They didn’t rejoice, so I say it again, but louder, “They are FREE!”

They reply anxiously, “Y-yes!”

“F-free!”

“Wonderful job!”

Well... I am never going to be using that skill again. But damn, I feel bad for the villagers. This would be a learning lesson for me. With great power must come great responsibility.

I will do what’s right and turn myself in.

A huge knight walks towards me.

Shit he is hot.

He says with a voice full of amazement, “Thank you for your amazing work miss. If it weren’t for your bravery... there could have been casualties.”

My face flushes red as I twirl around while laughing awkwardly, “Well. I mean! I just had to do the right thing! The moment I found out about these zombies; I knew I had to rush out to see how close the army was to the city! Even if it meant dying, I needed to do it! For a noble cause!”