Master Of None

Chapter 2368: 2368. Undead All Around

Catching signs of the young adventurer group was easy. They had already learned which direction they had begun to travel. Their footprints in the mostly untouched ground stood out for the scouting abilities that Walker possessed.

The issue was that there were either footprints as well. Tracks that proved that the young adventurers had been followed soon after they had gotten away from where Walker had been just moments ago.

This wasnʼt a surprise with the fact that this entire area was full of undead. Some of them were newly formed and might still have better senses which could help them follow prey. For these undead monsters, everything was prey now. Even the predators that they used to have would become their prey since they couldnʼt feel fear any longer.

Judging from the number that Walker could count, there were easily twelve of whatever the monster was that would be following the younger adventurers. It could be more, but he was also trying to keep his sense spread around him, and focusing entirely on the tracks that he was following would not get him as far as he wanted.

The reason he said this, was that he had just spotted another undead monster struggling to move through some taller perfectly dried gray grass.

ʼSkeleton crow

This is a skeleton of a crow which has been reviewed by larger amounts of undead mana. The density was enough to fill the hollow avian bones which this monster had. It is not enough to awaken any traits that the monster had when it was known as a scarlet feather crow. It was enough to bring it back with some of its tougher aspects.

The scarlet feather crow was known for its extremely sharp talons and the knife like beak it possessed. This skeleton crow has the same features making it a nuisance to anything that crosses its path. However, it is slower than what it used to be since it was not used to traveling on the land and more comfortable in the sky. Defeating it is easily done with…ʼ

The all around appraisal gave Walker enough for him to know that he shouldnʼt try to handle this monster. Instead, he started to channel some light mana. Not that he was quick enough. Alice changed the humming in to a short sung phrase which caused a small spike of light to condense and pierce the skeleton crow. It was purified quickly leaving behind the bones which Walker made a quick move to collect.

There were good reasons that there would be bones around. Every single land of the world had bones. The remains of ancient and even the monsters or races. They could always be just below the soil or just under some tree roots. Some even rested at the very bottom of the oceans where no one would ever see them again. But they were there.

What worried Walker was that this was from many ancient monsters he already learned was not brought back as an indeed by the immortal chasing race or the immortal king when he had been here. Meaning that this land had been somewhat less consumed by undead mana before the mana of the world had lowered and this land had been isolated by space.

While this was just part of what had happened with the mana and the world, Walker wondered if there would be other monsters awakening like this. The undead might not be increasing yet because there was too much mana for them to be affected by. However, that was a higher potential as time went on. That the undead would increase in number and even strength. What could it mean if there were many monsters that wandered in to here?

The issues with people sneaking in to scavenge the ruins or to adventure without approval had been very frequent in the past. The human kingdom had struggled to handle it and even with the speed that Genesis could get people here to patrol the outer edges, it might not be enough. The lands were very large and without proper building of villages or cities right next to this dangerous place, patrolling was a waste of resources.

It was another tricky situation that would stick Walker in the Genesis building with both paperwork and a long conversation. At least right now he could hear the young adventurers and make a change with his hands. He didnʼt have to worry about thinking through a hundred different potential laws or regulations with the others.

ʼRot dog

This is a wild dog that has been displaced by the flow of mana and changes in the world. Instead of being able to absorb the wind mana and awaken the bloodline to become wind stepping hounds, this pack was hit with a powerful wave of undead mana as the world expanded.

This has returned the zombified doge with dark mana from ancient times that many dog and hound like races had the chance to become upon death to the world. Their bite transfers a deadly dark mana which leaves behind lingering rotting. Some even called them the cursed dogs because the dark mana must be purified by light mana. While this is similar to a curse, it is not the same.

They have a brutal porosity the more that they are harmed. This is because the dark mana in their bodies leaks out more and more causing them to become aggressive. They do not feel pain because they are zombies. They also have an innate desire within their remaining instincts to remain with their pack. Some of the packs could range up to groups as large as a hundred if not destroyed in…ʼ

”Of course they achieve the remaining instinct to stay with their pack. Everyone, the bites from these rot dogs will leave behind decaying mana which will rot your body too. Be careful and try to cut their joints to stop their movements. They can not heal.”

The two shield users in the young adventurer party had stationed themselves with the rest of the group behind them. They all were using a large broken stone from what might have been a building in ancient times as cover for their back. This left a wild and rotting pack of rot dogs at their front.

The jerky and broken movements from the rot dogs showed how they had not been undead long, but were still dead. Their bones inside their bodies were broken and they could not move. Some of these injuries were from the party resisting their attacks. It was a good thing that despite a few bites Walker could see and sense dark mana in, they were fine.

Surprisingly, the battle healer was not even holding her weapon. Instead, she had been focusing on healing the leader who had a severe bite to the arm. The quick fire mage clearly had very little mana left and could only send a few more small fireballs she struggled to control out. Her mind was fading because of the overuse of mana.

But that fire was easily taken by Walker since two of the rot dogs were burning while walking forward toward their believed prey. The fire mana with Walkerʼs control became a wall of flames that burned much greater than what they had in the quick fire mageʼs hands. It was enough to begin breaking down the rot dogsʼ bodies as Alice started to sing a larger song of purification to break down the rot dogs and also heal the young adventurer party who had clearly become much paler.

The only issue was, all this commotion had attracted something Walker did not wish to see.

ʼDeath vulture

A vulture that feasts on the rotting flesh of monsters and anything else it can get. While small in numbers, they are very tough and are always considered a pest to the farmers due to the attacks on livestock and eventual breeding of disease from their attacks.

However, with the greater amount of undead mana, they have properly awakened their affinity for it and even their affinity for death mana. While small they are able to cause greater damage and even project undead and death mana in to their victims. Causing that person or being to begin to die with even smaller pecks and claw attacks.

This only gets worse as they gather together to feast in larger groups. Due to this, they are always frenzied and will attack larger groups of monsters to weaken and kill off anything. They even love to feast on zombified bodies because they are immune to the illness within.

When they perish, they become five times stronger because they give up their innate and small death mana affinity to become purely undead. Their actions become even more erratic but they will still not attack one another…ʼ

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