episode_0254

“Doesn’t it smell something strange?”

“That guy probably doesn’t smell like that. It’s not a smell that would come from a person. Hmm, it smells like aromatic hydrocarbons.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Is that really a person in the first place?”

Asha and Adele smelled the musty smell in the basement and stared intently at the man who was ambiguously alive and ambiguously dead.

His appearance possesses elements that would frighten an ordinary person. In fact, the two expressed their impressions calmly.

“I would like you to put everything else aside and put on clothes first…”

“It doesn’t look like we’re communicating, but…”

Asha, who had been observing the man for a moment, seemed to realize something and said.

“Ah, it looks like that, but could it be a survivor? There is no reason for a grave robber to be in his hideout looking like that.”

“If you think about it that way, the same goes for missing people, right? If you were kidnapped, there’s no way you could move around without any suppressants…”

“Kueook!”

The man attacked Asha and Adele first, as if this situation of silent confrontation was not awkward at all.

“Wow, what a surprise!”

Adele hit the man running towards her with her fist without realizing it. It was the moment when a man who looked half like a corpse became a complete corpse.

Pow!

Asha prayed sincerely as she looked at the man who had been blown up alive.

“Ah… I hope you’re not the missing person I’m looking for…”

“Oh, I guess not.”

“You had an accident again, Adele.”

“It’s force majeure this time! It’s not like I touched a quiet human being! He almost broke my heart first?”

“Dragon’s heart is so chewy, what should I do later?”

“Anyway, don’t tell Dad! Got it?”

Adele had no idea that Eugene was even seeing this scene.

“Well, even if it’s like this, it doesn’t matter because there’s enough to find out.”

Asha immediately approached the piece of flesh that had been in the shape of a human just moments ago and began to examine it.

“Hmm… Judging by the body odor, he is not the missing person I was looking for. Thank goodness, Adele, there is no longer any reason for me to destroy the grave robbers without a trace.”

“Wow, that’s what you thought? It’s so petty?”

“And it’s the same energy I felt last time. Were undead originally this common? It wasn’t in the book.”

“Heung! I guess books and reality are different. That’s why I don’t read many books.”

Asha didn’t bother to mention Adele’s excuses. However, I decided that it was necessary to think about whether the undead were really people who were often seen.

Since it can be resolved with a dispel spell unless it is a naturally occurring undead, it was thought that although it would not be a big problem for Asha herself, it would be a big threat to humanity.

“Anyway, is this also a zombie? It looked a little different.”

“It’s a little different from the last guys. As far as I know, they are Draugr.”

“What’s different?”

“It’s different. First of all, draugr are much better than zombies…”

Before Asha could finish her explanation, the draugs appeared from nowhere and roared and charged.

“Quooo!!”

Phew!

“……Because he is strong.”

Of course, there was no significant difference between the two dragons. Adele was once again startled and reflexively swung her fist, causing the draugrs to explode as one.

“Ai, you keep surprising me… Where did that come from?”

Looking closely, the basement where Asha and Adele were located was lined with coffins of different designs. Some of them had open coffin lids.

“Given the circumstances, it looks like they opened the lid of that tomb and attacked it. Anyway, the difference between them and zombies is that they can’t be turned back into healthy human corpses.”

“Oh really? So you’re saying there’s no problem no matter how much I explode?”

Asha nodded. Unlike zombies, which only resurrect already dead bodies, draugr needed to process corpses with more advanced necromancy.

And although a simple dispel spell can stop the draugr’s movement, it cannot reverse the processing that has already been completed.

“I think I’m a bit stronger than the stupid necromancer I met last time… What should I do.”

“What should I do? You can just destroy everything like you did last time.”

“No, I don’t think that will work this time?”

“Why?”

The ones who answered Adel’s question instead of Asha were the already shattered draugrs. Black smoke rose from their corpses and entered coffins that had not yet been opened.

Then the coffin began to open. A healthy draugr walks out.

“Well, since you’re undead, you won’t die.”

“The zombies last time couldn’t move if you smashed them!?”

“I told you so. They are undead that require more effort than zombies.”

“Eight! Doesn’t that mean you just have to destroy everything? I thought even grave robbers could supply a constant supply of corpses…”

Adele trailed off at the end. This is because a black hand suddenly jumped out from the dark shadows, kneaded the draugrs that Adele had smashed, as if playing with clay, and turned them back into intact corpses.

“Unlike that idiot last time, he seems to be a well-prepared necromancer.”

“Now is the time to be amazed!? Do something quickly! There’s that strange magic circle from last time!”

“Yes… I need some supplies.”

“What is it!”

The draugrs who opened the coffin and came out began to flock to Adel, who already had a history of killing draugrs. As the endless barrage of supplies began, Adele scolded Asha like crazy.

Asha’s dispel spell required metal that was easy to neutralize the target. Although most of the preparation procedures for complex dispel spells were replaced with dragon’s blood, there was no substitute for that.

“The metal that is effective against draugr is steel. Go get some iron.”

“Iron? There’s iron all over here!?”

Adel shouted, pointing to the weapons the draugrs were also wielding. But Asha shook her head resolutely.

“Not that rusty thing. Really shiny steel.”

It goes without saying that purity is important in magic ingredients. Coincidentally, Adele didn’t know that.

“AC! You can use anything!”

“I’m not asking because I can’t do it. The angry draugmen will be playing with me, so hurry up and go.”

“Okay!”

Adele jumped out of the basement and climbed onto the broken floor.

“You can come and go slowly.”

Adele shouted at Asha’s words.

“No! With that being said, are you planning on stealing away the grave robbers while I’m away!?”

Given the circumstances, it was clear that the grave robber was a necromancer. Adele set out to find Cheol, worried that Asha would destroy the necromancer who had been making zombies without a trace like last time.

“Well… I’m not worried at all.”

Asha had no intention of ruining Adele’s request. From his perspective, there was nothing wrong with Adele developing independence by solving requests on her own.

Of course, that only applies if the missing person, Asha’s own target, is safe.

“Geuuuh….”

The draugrs suddenly lost their goal and flocked to Asha, the only living person in the crypt.

“Hmm? I’m sorry, but I don’t have any intention of playing with you guys like Adele.”

Asha expressed her magic without any hesitation. When you release the mana that you suppressed to blend in with humans, you can feel your usual magical power.

There, once more, he sharply expresses his magical power by mixing it with deadly force to clearly kill the opponent’s energy. Asha cast it, called ‘Fear’ in industry terminology, on the Draugs.

Originally, it was only possible to use it if you fully realized the flow of mana and the operation of magical power through the use of magic, but Asha, a hard-working genius, was able to use it even though she was not an adult.

The reason she couldn’t use magic was simply because she hadn’t become an adult yet, and Asha was already a full-fledged dragon.

“Uuuuu…!”

Asha briefly suppressed the movements of the undead, who were naturally emotionless, with her magic, and leisurely drew the true nature of the dispel spell with her own blood.

“Okay… Now all I have to do is put the iron in the middle, but Adele is a little late, right?”

Asha smiled meaningfully and approached the draugrs. It was to satisfy his strongest driving force, curiosity.

‘Seeing draugr in person… you may rarely get an opportunity like this.’

Unlike zombies, the bodies of Draugs, which contain ample necromancy techniques, were a perfect fit for Asha’s research.

In addition, he did not forget to determine whether one of the draugr was the missing person who was the target of his quest.

“Asha! I’m here! Is this okay?”

“Well, it arrived faster than I expected.”

Asha caught the object Adele threw from above. It was a pair of steel scissors that I didn’t know where they came from.

“Uh, this is enough.”

When the steel scissors were placed in the exact center of the dispel spell, the spell was activated. The draugr’s eyes, which had been overwhelmed by Peer but still remained under the Necromancer’s control, glowed blue for a moment and then went out.

“Are you done? Is it over?”

When Adele carefully came down and asked, Asha nodded and looked around. They were on guard to see if there were other undead.

However, there were no other reactions afterward.

“Good. Now I can search the basement with peace of mind.”

“What? What were you doing while I was gone that you still haven’t checked the basement?”

“What are you doing? I was busy avoiding the draugrs and drawing spells.”

In fact, it was just a leisurely thing, but Asha did not bother to reveal the truth. Because Adele doesn’t know anyway.

“Yeah…? Well then, shall we take a look at it together now?”

As soon as Adele finished speaking, the basement suddenly became brighter. The light didn’t turn on, it started a fire.

“Huh?”

Whether Adele questioned it or not, the basement caught fire without any warning and the flames slowly spread to burn the equipment and corpses in the basement, as well as Asha and Adele.