Luckily, Nina found her partner, Laura, right next to the room she was in.
Unfortunately, it was clear that Laura was in a weakened state.
Using the key she had taken from the bandits she had just killed, Nina opened the door and checked on Laura. She was also injured. Blood was seeping through her clothes, and her face was pale. Nina frowned.
“You’re not okay, are you……? Can you hold on……!?”
“I’m… fine……”
“Stay still, I’ll definitely save you……!”
“Don’t… push yourself……──”
Before she could finish her sentence, Laura’s head slumped forward.
There wasn’t much time. Nina didn’t know what the situation outside was like, but she couldn’t imagine carrying her, unconscious, and escaping from the bandits. She needed to find healing potions or something similar.
With that determination, Nina closed the door to Laura’s cell without locking it and listened carefully.
“──Damn it! What’s going on!!”
“Intruders!! ──Kill them, you idiots!”
“──Let’s go, Randa!! You’re so────!!”
Voices could be heard. The voices of the bandits. They seemed to be in complete chaos, but there were definitely more than one or two of them. Nina could also hear the clattering footsteps of the undead soldiers. She couldn’t take the injured Laura out of here. She had to find healing potions.
“…………What’s going on?”
Nina quietly opened the cell door and checked the situation outside. It became clear that this was a forward base, a fortress-like place, prepared for battles against monsters. As expected, everything was in shambles. The bandits had made their hideout in the ruins outside the city-state, a place where human hands had barely touched.
There, she witnessed a bizarre scene.
“Gyaah!!!?”
“Damn it!! Where did he go!?”
“Even the evil spirit tree Treant is out……!? Gyaah!?”
In the fortress’s corridors, the bandits were running around, screaming and crying.
While Nina watched from her hiding spot, several bandits, accompanied by undead soldiers, ran down the corridor ahead. Then, they came back the same way, their numbers reduced, some of them injured. And after a while, they would go down the same path again.
They must have been chasing something. And seriously so. But they were just going in circles within their own base. It was as if they were like the undead soldiers they controlled.
“The target’s just a kid!! Kill him quickly!!”
The voice of the man who had earlier hurled insults at Nina could be heard.
At least, it didn’t seem like the knights had come to rescue them.
“Damn it, damn it! Why is this happening!?”
Randa, the former leader of the bandits, ran around the fortress, shouting.
He had witnessed the beginning of this chaos. Frustrated, he had left the cell and was heading to the warehouse to drink some alcohol he had stolen from the Island Devouring Turtle, when the entire fortress shook violently.
At the same time, the [Evil Spirit Tree Treant], which should have been sealed in the underground labyrinth, burst out in front of him, shattering part of the fortress.
If that was all, it could have been explained as the seal loosening due to some coincidence, or a new Evil Spirit Tree Treant appearing.
“It’s a kid!! A kid with a weapon has entered the fortress!!”
But when a gray-haired child appeared alongside the Evil Spirit Tree Treant, the story changed. An intruder had appeared. Realizing this, Randa shouted to wake up his comrades and began chasing the intruder.
However, at this point, Randa still underestimated the situation.
He thought it was just an adventurer who had been exploring the nearby labyrinth and had accidentally crossed the barrier to end up here. That’s all he thought it was.
He hadn’t imagined at all that it was an attacker.
“Damn it!? He’s fast!? What’s up with that kid!!”
“He’s making the undead soldiers run in circles!?”
“He’s throwing rocks at us!! What the hell!!”
But gradually, Randa realized that this wasn’t just some pitiful adventurer who had gotten lost.
The movements of the gray-haired kid as he ran around were too precise. It was as if he knew every part of their fortress, as if he had it all mapped out. He never ran into dead ends, and he kept running. And with sudden throws, he reduced the numbers of the undead soldiers and his comrades. It was as if he could see all their movements.
“More rocks, that damn kid──gyaah!?”
“Wha, what’s that explosion……!? What now!?”
“I, I heard a woman’s voice from the small room, and a magic book exploded……”
Looking in the direction he was told, Randa saw his comrades, along with the undead soldiers, burned to a crisp. In the center of the room was a discarded magic book, and on the table in the room was a small communication device.
“A trap……!? Since when!? And that kid again──guh!?”
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Throws, traps, and then an attack when they stopped. The gray-haired kid burst in with a massive spear.
He scattered the undead soldiers and drove the spearhead into the neck of an isolated bandit. Before anyone could react, the gray-haired kid ran down the corridor Randa and the others had just come from and escaped in another direction.
This wasn’t an accident. This was a deliberate attempt to kill. Randa finally understood.
“It’s a kid! There’s even a girl! She’s with him!”
“Hurry, to the courtyard!!”
But the others still didn’t seem to understand. No, even if they did, it wouldn’t have mattered. After all, they were just a bunch of bandits, and even after losing the undead soldiers who had led the charge, their actions remained the same.
And the consequences of their shortsightedness came quickly.
“Look! A woman!”
In the darkness of the starlight, in the center of the courtyard with its open ceiling, there was a woman.
Illuminated by the faintest of light, her silver hair shimmered dazzlingly. The bandits, their heads spinning with fear, confusion, and anger, were still captivated for a moment by her beauty. Even though they knew she was an intruder, they couldn’t think beyond that.
That’s why they were late to realize. What was in the place where she stood now.
“Don’t move from there────ugh!?”
Like moths drawn to the silvery light in the darkness, the bandits advanced──and suddenly, the ground beneath their feet gave way.
“Wha, what!?”
“Wh, what’s going on, what’s……!?”
“Ugh!?”
One after another, the bandits who had rushed forward fell. Only after falling did they remember what was in the courtyard, what they had prepared.
“Damn it! It’s the corpse dump!”
This was the corpse disposal area set up outside the fortress. The soldiers used by the necromancer. Of course, to create them, corpses were needed. The victims they had killed were thrown into this large pit. In the darkness and chaos, they had completely forgotten that this was here.
“Scared us──”
So they tried to push away and kick the corpses of the people they had killed and defiled.
[────────ka]
“…………Huh?”
But the feet they tried to kick, the arms they tried to push away, were caught by the white skeletal fingers around them, and their faces changed.
“The magic guild──”
A voice rang out. A voice as beautiful as the sound of a bell. Under the starlight and the glow of the barrier covering the fortress, her silver hair shone brilliantly. The girl looked down at the bandits who had fallen into the pit with a sorrowful gaze.
“They taught me carefully because it’s dangerous magic, and it saved me.”
The girl spoke calmly. Of course, the bandits who had fallen couldn’t understand what she was saying. It wasn’t that they couldn’t comprehend the words, but they had no room in their minds to think.
“[Sing, darkness, wail, resentment]”
A fragment of forbidden magic, it was the same as what the necromancer who had become the leader of the bandits wielded.
“Now, everyone”
Unintentionally, the corpses sleeping in the pit that should have been handled by a skilled necromancer had been prepared as much as possible. And then,
“It’s time to avenge the lives that were cruelly taken, the families that were defiled by forbidden magic.”
[──ka, kakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakaka!!!!!]
“Ugh……!?”
The undead, instead of being under the control of the forbidden magic user──
“Retribution to those who deserve it, retribution.”
[kakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakaka!!!!!]
──chose to serve the girl who had understood their resentment.
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
The bandits, who had committed atrocities, were torn apart, devoured, and received their just punishment by the countless victims they had killed.
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