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Chapter 18 – Lifeless Village

We are nearing Sontae Village and in our sights were the gate entrance. As we get past the gate we noticed that something was wrong.

Mila: Aren’t there suppose to be guards in front of the entrance?

Jerald: That is what the man said…

Nelus: Also… I can’t feel any life signatures…

Reila: Do you mean that something might have happened?

Nelus: Let’s check the houses.

Reila: Okay…

Upon reaching one of the house we noticed that there are bloodstains everywhere.

Reila: It seems fresh…

Mila: If so then… not much time has passed since something had happened here…

Jerald: Didn’t that man said that they sent tons of messages? Does that mean that there is a possibility that it happened quite a while ago?

Nelus: No… it is near impossible…

Jerald: What makes you so sure?

Nelus: Let us go back outside and let me show you.

Reila: Lord Nelus?

Nelus: Observe the houses itself… it is still well maintained and the plants are thoroughly watered. First we need to investigate what happened here.

We looked around the village and noticed that it was quite larger than the previous village. The devoid of life makes most of them uneasy as they continue the investigation.

Reila: Just a bunch of blood marks everywhere…

Jerald: We are getting nowhere…

Frei then twitched as he noticed something was was headed towards them.

Frei: Everyone hide!

???: Sqquaaawwwk!!

Reila: What is that!?

Jerald: This can’t be… a group of cravern.

Nelus: (Cravern a crow like creature that is a rank B or lower magical beast.)

Fala: Why are you so surprised?

Jerald: Cravern only gathers when there are tons of dead bodies and blood…

Mila: Well there are a lot of blood in this village.

Jerald: But not enough to gather a group this huge and look…

Frei: An S rank magical beast.

Jerald: I-Is that a blood reaper?… H-how can this be...

Reila: Eeep... L-lord Nelus...

Nelus: ...

Mila: Oho? Reila, if you pull anymore... Nelus' robes will come off... or... don't tell me you'd want that?

Reila: Really!? At a time like this? S-seriously... you're always teasing me...

Mila: Sorry... just lightening up the mood.

Nelus: (God’s Eyes.)

Blood Reaper, GeranRace:Apocalypse, Undead, Magical BeastGenderMaleLevel:?43Element:DarkExistence:S-?

Nelus: Apocalypse?

Frei: Lord Nelus!? Did I hear correctly?

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Nelus: That is what it says in his race also its name is Geran so it seems.

Frei: …If what you said is correct then it is no longer safe to stay here…

Nelus: Why?

Frei: You remember my race?

Nelus: Mythical wolf?

Frei: Yes… I am one of the epitomes of the beast race as for the apocalypse it is one of the epitomes of the undead magical beast… did you perhaps noticed that some parts cannot be read?

Nelus: Yes… the level and the secondary existence.

Frei: I see... then that means it hadn’t ascended yet and it is still far from ascension.

Nelus: How do you know?

Frei: I met one before… a docile one luckily… and this one here is not docile as you can see that his weapon is the scythe…

Mila: How can you know with just the weapon?

Frei: I talked to one before… his weapon is the shield… and what’s scary is his absolute defense… he already ascended so you can see clearly his stats except for the primary existence… for example his existence is ?-D but it just means that he is ranked X.

Jerald: Also I heard that it mostly appears in wars… otherwise you wouldn’t even have the chance to see one.

Frei: That is right… the one I met appeared after the rampage of an extremely strong magical beast from before killing millions causing it to appear.

Reila: Huh? Then what is it doing here.

Jerald: That means there are close to millions that are dead in this village…

Reila: I-Isn’t it possible that it killed them?

Frei: No… if so the whole village would’ve been off the map if that happens.

Nelus: So its that powerful.

Frei: Especially considering its weapons which is the scythe it was born with… it is the most aggressive of all Blood Reapers… weird thing is it is just standing there… which gives me a more bad feeling than it should… as we were talking we didn't notice that it suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of us...

Geran: Greetings… my name is Geran.

Mila: U-u-um hello…

Reila: …

Geran: Can I kill you?

Nelus: You cannot.

Geran: Heh... That’s too bad… I came here sensing the freshness of dead but there seems to be nothing here… would you entertain me?

Nelus: No.

Reila: L-l-lord Nelus, why are you so calm.

Frei: It is Lord Nelus after all.

Geran: Ha! Interesting! How about you show me your power… I can sense a massive amount of divinity in you. Well as if it can affect me.

Nelus: Did you kill all the people here?

Geran: Sadly no… I want to go all out but smashing the village isn’t fun without dying people in it… the way people shout in pain is bliss to my ears.

Nelus: Then why are there no villagers?

Geran:: I don’t know… oh well… lets fight!

Frei: All of you get away! Lord Nelus and I will go confront him directly.

Geran: Wonderful! Now let me hear your voices of pain until you die!

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