90 . Replenish power (2)
The small town I had been to before, Ansis, didn’t even look like it. I stood at the entrance of the village and opened my mouth with a helpless expression.
“What is this….”
Did there be a monster invasion in the meantime?
No one was seen alive.
Olivia stepped forward with a bright smile in front of her misery.
“Ah, how could a monster know and attack such a small village?”
However, this situation could not be explained unless it was a monster.
Apart from my confusion, Elia tilted her head as she stepped over her wreckage.
“Hmm, I can feel it from this side….”
What do you mean by feeling? It did not take long for the question to be resolved.
Elia found it with a bright voice! She said, and at the same time Stella opened her mouth, crossing her arms.
“Well, what happened here… You can ask that from now on.”
Elia scattered her magical energy around her, closed her eyes and started muttering an unknown language.
A short time passed, and Elia opened her eyes and spoke briefly.
“Stand up.”
At those words, the ground began to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.
The ground that started to shake eventually created a crack, and someone slowly appeared in the gap.
Now that my strength has grown thanks to the children, I can more clearly feel the difference between them. The fact that these children possess far-reaching strengths beyond comprehension by the common sense of the present age, capable of treating humans as less than ants.
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For a moment, I felt ashamed of comparing myself to Leon and her other colleagues. More than anything, I was surprised that he was so good at following someone who had nothing like me, even though he had such strength.
I knew at least that their actions could not be understood with human common sense. I put this thought aside for a moment and refocused my attention on what was happening in front of me.
What followed was a face I knew.
“Helga?”
Why is she here?
Before that question could be resolved, Helga moved first. She shook her head and brushed the remains of her body from her body, then she moved her limbs or looked around her in disbelief.
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Finding me, Rihanna, and the children, Helga spoke cautiously.
“You… ?”
Helga stumbled for a second and pressed her fingers to her temples. She smiled dejectedly as if she had remembered something of hers, and Helga moved her fingers and nodded her head.
“Oh, yes. Did that happen?”
Elia approached Helga and gave a hint of a smile.
“How does it feel to be alive again?”
“Well, not bad.”
“That’s not it.”
Olivia crushed Helga’s head and pinned it to her floor.
Helga looked at Olivia with only her pupils rolling, as if she didn’t feel her pain.
“Did you get rid of your curse and bring you back to life? At least use respectful words.”
I had never seen her use honorifics to anyone. In the first place, she is from a mercenary group. She couldn’t have learned such culture….
To put my thoughts to shame, Helga quickly agreed.
“Okay.”
Then Olivia relaxed her hands on Helga’s head with her satisfied smile.
“Yes, it should.”
Helga rose from her seat again and looked at me as she stretched her body.
“Ain, long time no see?”
Olivia came right up to her when she spoke to me, but she didn’t really want that kind of authority.
“I’m fine.”
“It has changed a lot. It’s definitely different from before.”
I had no intention of talking to Helga on friendly terms. I was a bit picky, so I answered briefly.
“No more rubbish.”
However, it seemed that it looked good to Helga. She showed her teeth and smiled.
“It’s not bad to be tough like that, right? Much better than the old you.”
I shook my head from side to side once as if I had a headache, and went straight to the point.
“What happened in this town?”
“Oh? This town?”
Just before I finished my question, Helga bent her upper body and burst into laughter.
It wasn’t something that made her laugh, so I stared at her with her questionable gaze.
“Cassandra, that crazy bitch….”
“Cassandra?”
“Yes, they killed me as a disgrace to the party and exterminated the people in this town as well. Isn’t it funny that that bastard is a hero’s party?”
It felt like she had been hit in the head with a hammer.
Did Cassandra annihilate the townsfolk, even if her personality is eccentric? She couldn’t believe it
I can’t rule out the possibility that Helga is lying, but it’s hard to imagine that she would lie to me under these circumstances.
Helga gritted her teeth indignantly, scratching her head with her rather rough movements.
“If we meet again, I will kill that bitch.”
Olivia came to Helga’s side and said, putting her hand on her shoulder in a friendly way.
“Ah, that is hard.”
She frowned slightly and asked cautiously.
“Isn’t it difficult?”
“It is true that you are strong, but you know that woman is on a different level among humans, right?”
Helga bit her lip indignantly. Even if Cassandra didn’t roll at the party, she had the skills to live by now as a mage tower master.
She was a mere mercenary, so it was not an area that she could overstep.
Stella approached Helga, who was putting on her resentful expression, with a meaningful smile on her face.
“Still, it’s our first historic corps commander, so it’s difficult to be weaker than a prostitute like that.”
“A corps commander?”
“Oh, haven’t we talked yet?”
Will Stella be considerate of me in the midst of all the things we talked about in the basement and the plans we’ve made so far? I didn’t bother talking about my past.
Helga listened to all Stella had to say, nodding her head with her curious expression.
Actually, at the point of resurrecting Helga, she couldn’t disobey us. She seemed to still be greedy for life, and if Elia or I gestured, she would turn to dust again.
However, Elia seemed to want to see her participate in our plan of her own will. She wants to see how she, who once made a name for herself as one of the warriors’ party and fought to protect the world, becomes an enemy of mankind and destroys them.
“Don’t you want to get revenge on the people who made you like this?”
“That….”
Helga’s eyes began to tremble at the ensuing sweet temptation.
“If you follow our plan well, I will make you forget about the past that haunts you. After that, you can live the way you want, right?”
Helga nodded her head with a different look from before, as if her words were decisive.
“Let’s just try it. Do you want to protect this world anyway? Because I didn’t have that kind of heart at all.”
As everything was about to be sorted out, Rihanna cautiously asked a question.
“That… To increase her power, wouldn’t it be better to turn everyone who was in this town into undead rather than ending it with Helga?”
It was a question so sharp that I couldn’t believe it was Rihanna’s opinion.
Certainly, it would be convenient to conquer the continent efficiently.
But at Rihanna’s suggestion, Elia shook her head.
“The military? The people in this town are normal human beings except for this guy. Besides, the size of the village is small, so the number of people is small. Resurrecting such scum doesn’t help.”
“Ah, is that so… ?”
Rihanna put on a sullen expression when her long-awaited request was rejected.
She was a bit uneasy because she looked like a wet puppy in the rain.
As if I wasn’t the only one who felt that, Elia caressed Rihanna’s hair and said in a tone as if soothing her child.
“It’s okay. Still, it’s not that there isn’t a way. You can make something better than the undead out of human corpses, right?”
Elia began casting her spell again, spreading her magical energy all over her land as she did when she first summoned Helga.
The ground trembled, and the people who had been slain by Cassandra began to appear one by one.
Unlike Helga, each of the people who woke up with no consciousness or rationality uh… He groaned loudly and walked around the area.
Isn’t that the only difference between a ghoul and a ghoul? What can you do with these people?
Elia walked slowly forward and stood in the middle of her corpses, and she grinned.
“The human body is infinitely weak, but if you change the composition a little, it will be different.”
Elia beckoned, and in an instant the bodies of everyone in her ruins disintegrated and began to tangle together.
The mixing of blood and intestines, gradually forming a gigantic form, was a disgusting scene to the point of nausea.
After that horror was over, a golem made of blood appeared before long.
Elia brought an army of golems made up of her corpse, and she smiled brightly like a child discovering a new toy.