Chapter 556
“All empty.”
Hall of Heroes 2nd floor.
Olivia and I opened the other sarcophagi and confirmed the bones were gone.
There were too many sarcophagi, so I couldn’t open them all, but it was clear that they were all empty without checking.
Harriet, as well as Cono Lint, were bewildered.
“this… … . I guess… … .”
Harriet looks at me quietly.
“… … What we can think of, other people can do too.”
“huh… … .”
It revives the heroes of the past as undead and uses them as power. The idea that Olivia came up with was unusual and grotesque, but in the end it was an idea that came from a human head.
Where is the law that says we can’t call one thought others?
“Yeah, but… … . Someone like us came in here like this… … . You mean you revived the corpse and escaped?”
Kono Lint was bewildered.
“It’s strange that there hasn’t been an uproar yet, even though this has happened. Honestly, if it weren’t for my skills, I wouldn’t have come here so easily… … .”
If the mausoleum had been robbed earlier, there should have been a great uproar.
In our case, it is true that Conno Lint said that we may go unnoticed, but for others there must be a trace left.
“Where is the basis that another force must do this?”
“… … uh?”
stupid kid this
“If it was the work of the imperial family, of course there wouldn’t have been a disturbance. Who knows?”
The imperial family revived the remains of the mausoleum into the undead with their own hands.
It’s a terrible imagining, but it’s not necessarily something that won’t happen.
Only the imperial family could confirm that.
“Nonsense. The Empire does that? Bertus?”
We will do everything we can to survive and win the war, and we will mobilize all available means.
So Bertus could make that choice.
“Not sure. We still haven’t figured out the Empire’s use of the undead.”
There may have been other circumstances in the empire, and it may not have much to do with becoming undead.
It is only an estimate that can be made because the body has disappeared.
Olivia said with a firm expression.
“I must go to the National Cemetery.”
It is unknown what the hell happened at the imperial mausoleum.
But there is no business here anymore.
“This may not be the end.”
Olivia’s eyes were wide open, as if she were imagining something ominous.
* * *
The sarcophagi in the Hall of Heroes were all empty.
After all, we were planning a felony and stumbled upon a bizarre incident.
We have no obligation to investigate this case.
But you have to figure out what happened.
The most powerful possibility is the Empire.
However, Olivia went one step further from there, thinking that this would not be the end.
When Kono Lint was done with the mausoleum, it didn’t matter if he didn’t accompany him to the National Cemetery.
However, he followed us as if he needed to know the truth behind this incident that had turned into something strange.
To be exact, rather than following, he rather took the lead by moving in space.
We left the imperial palace at once and moved to the National Cemetery where it was dark with Kono Lint.
Since it was night, the cemetery was naturally dark, and mourners would have no reason to be in this place at this deep night.
So the vast cemeteries were empty, but the temples were lit.
The resident priests, administrators, and guards will remain.
A tomb area for those who could not enter the Hall of Heroes, but made a major contribution.
We reached the outskirts of the cemetery, out of sight of the lights of the temple.
“What else is going on… … ?”
Kono Lint was looking at Olivia with a cold, stiff expression as if she was afraid.
“I won’t know until I see it with my own eyes.”
Olivia begins to go over each tombstone in the dark.
It is the grave of the dead.
No one knows the name, but Olivia gazes at the tombstones, passing them one by one.
“What are you trying to see?”
“date.”
Olivia answered Harriet’s question plainly.
Olivia, who was silently looking through the tombstones, soon stood in front of a grave.
Maybe it was to find a recently buried tomb.
“I will start working. Cover it up.”
“… … Are you okay?”
“It is not something to be done on a large scale. Even if you want to get caught, it’s hard to do so.”
Concealment is easy as we’re going to be doing something different than originally planned, a large-scale undead resurrection.
No one comes and goes, but there’s nothing wrong with being careful.
Harriet casts concealment spells, including stealth, and Olivia puts her hand on the tombstone and begins pouring out the divine power of corruption.
Kono Lint looks at me with a terrified expression.
“no way… … . It might be all empty here too… … . Are you thinking?”
If not only the mausoleums of heroes, but also the tombs of the fallen in the national cemetery were all empty.
Then what will happen, and how should I accept this?
The boy’s lips were quivering.
“I don’t know. Nothing is certain until you see it for yourself.”
“… … .”
At my words, Kono Lint nodded.
how much time has passed
– Wow!
The flat green grass behind the tombstone began to stir.
The fact that the place is shaking means that something is about to come out of the ground.
Are you all right?
It must mean that there is something to be revived.
“Uh, uh… … !”
Kono Lint’s complexion turned blue and began to tremble.
– Crying! Crying!
-Suuk!
Soon, the grass swayed, and soon a bony hand appeared through the ground.
resurrection of the dead.
To be precise, it is to be resurrected from the dead.
Kono Lint averted his gaze from the scene, and I watched the half-resurrection crawl out of the ground with arms outstretched.
-Geugheu
We could clearly see that it crawled out of the ground with a cool echo.
The decaying corpse buried in the ground rose up surrounded by the black aura of corruption.
It hadn’t completely rotted yet, so it had some flesh attached to it, which made it all the more horrifying to look at.
Kono Lint didn’t even dare to look, and Harriet was covering her mouth as if she was sick.
Olivia silently looks at the reanimated corpse.
“eww… … . Still, the corpses… … . It must be there, right?”
“It is.”
To Harriet’s words, Olivia only answered as if she knew or did not know.
Olivia quietly gazes at the skeleton staring at her with open eyes while still being revived.
Only the body, which was rotting without reason, was revived.
“I need to raise a few more.”
Olivia, who had been looking at the revived skeleton for a long time, only briefly added that.
* * *
Instead of a large-scale ceremony, Olivia brought the bodies back to life one by one, as if stealing in the middle of the night.
A total of five phrases.
In terms of the size of the whole cemetery, it was a very small number.
“Tell me something. If you know what, you will know. Even if you don’t know… … .”
Harriet muttered anxiously as she looked at Olivia, who revived the corpse without saying anything and stared at it.
The reanimated remains followed us in a daze.
“Go back.”
Olivia did not respond to Harriet’s words and spoke briefly.
-Geugheu
And the bones began digging back into the ground from which they sprang.
“Return this to its original state. So that what was dug up will not be exposed.”
“yes?”
“If you do, do it, I’ll explain right away.”
At best, Olivia puts the things she has brought back to the grave.
Harriet looked at them with a worried expression as they crawled out of the ground and burrowed into the ground to return to their graves.
Harriet buries the dug up soil and grass with telekinesis and attaches the torn grass.
It can’t be said that it’s a guess, but let’s get to the point where we can fake it to some extent that it was dug up. Olivia looks at me only then.
“I searched through five graves of warriors, but I couldn’t make a single Death Knight. What could this be?”
Olivia says she has failed five times in making a Death Knight.
This is the tomb of those who made a major, among them, the warriors.
Not wizards or anyone else.
I should be able to make at least one or two Death Knights, but they all failed.
“It looks like all the bodies have been swapped.”
It is different from the imperial mausoleum.
There is a body, but it is possible that someone other than the owner of the tomb is buried.
* * *
The undead that Olivia had raised went back to their graves.
I dared to revive it, but I put it back to rest.
“All I have raised are the graves created after the Gate incident and after the Allied troops were dispatched.”
Olivia was reanimating the body by date, not by name.
“It was a relatively recent burial. As Mr. Sarkegar said, the Allies are cremating most of the bodies. However, the bodies buried in this national cemetery after the Allied Forces dispatched are the bodies of very important people. To the extent that he had to be repatriated to the ecliptic instead of cremation for a funeral. Do you know what that means?”
“… … Yes, I know.”
“It makes no sense that, among those corpses, we couldn’t make a Death Knight out of five corpses buried in a warrior’s grave.”
It is the body of a person who made a major contribution to the extent that even in the allied forces, which cremate most of the bodies, they had to be repatriated to the ecliptic and buried. Such a person’s military force during his lifetime could not be insignificant.
Since it was a body that had just been buried, it would have been the best condition to turn it into a Death Knight.
However, in Olivia’s eyes, it was below the standard.
Of course, maybe one or two.
But it happened five times in a row.
“The conclusion is simple. In the National Cemetery, no matter what kind of corpse you raise, you won’t be able to make a Death Knight.”
Olivia comes to a cold conclusion.
“You mean the Empire is really making Death Knights? Even in the kingdom… … . A person who can use the power of a demon god like my sister… … . Are you there?”
At Kono Lint’s words, Olivia shook her head.
“You don’t have to assume that it’s a Death Knight, but trying to secure the corpses of those who had great power in their lives means that even if it’s not a Death Knight, you can assume that they’re making something similar or experimenting with something. And even if it wasn’t Kier’s power, would it be possible to create an undead with power equivalent to that of a Death Knight? Isn’t that what black magic is?”
“ah… … .”
The process is different, but the result will be similar.
It is possible to create undead without knowing the power of demons. Because black magic and Kier’s power have similarities.
If we make Death Knights with the divine power of corruption, the Empire will be able to make Death Knights with black magic.
“As I said, it might not be a Death Knight. There’s a possibility that he’s not actually making undead, but doing something a little different. But the Empire cannot be irrelevant. This place and the imperial mausoleum are all places under the management of the empire, so what can I say to hope that it was the work of a third party, not the empire. That’s an overly optimistic forecast.”
Olivia’s conclusion is that the Empire will never be irrelevant to this situation, and I think so too.
The Empire may be creating undead from the corpses of those who died for humanity, or something more.
It’s just that the empire did what we’re trying to do first, and to say that it’s evil is to lie down and spit.
Just shocking.
“That means, the movement to repatriate the body to the ecliptic is more likely to be a formal act designed to steal the body and do something else in the middle.”
“… … I guess.”
The process of establishing an important achievement and burying the dead in the Hwangdo National Cemetery was disguised.
Other people’s bodies are buried and the real ones are used elsewhere.
Sending the body back to the ecliptic is already an excuse in itself.
“By the way, we’ve never seen the Empire operate an army of undead.”
“that’s right… … . I have never seen or heard of such an army.”
Those were the words of Conno Lint and Harriet.
“You must be saving it. For later.”
Just as it shows when we fight together with the Allied Forces, when the Allied Forces start operating a large force of Death Knights, of course it becomes obvious. Of course there will be chaos.
It’s an army that can’t be used unless you’re really cornered. Olivia sees me.
“If that happens, there are plausible excuses. Isn’t it okay to pretend to be the Demon King’s army? There are so many things that the Empire can say you did and move on.”
“… … I guess so.”
Let’s assume that there really comes a situation where the Empire needs to operate the Death Knight unit.
Then it is enough to say that it is the Demon King’s army that has nothing to do with us. The allied forces will fall into a panic, but it’s better than admitting that they are running the Death Knight unit with their own hands.
As Olivia said, if you say that all the bad things that happen in the world are my fault, it is the reality of the continent right now that most of them are believed to be so.
The Empire is hoarding its strength.
The power that was stored up even while reviving the bodies of the dead would have to be brought out at the very end.
Bertus had the excuse of being the Demon King, so he chose the path of reviving the body of a dead hero.
Of course, that didn’t happen in the original. At that time, there was no all-purpose excuse of being a new demon king. Even if there was one, it would not have been used to the end.
There is no reason to blame or qualification. If Bertus hadn’t done it, we would have done it.
However, Kono Lint couldn’t keep his mouth shut, as if it was shocking that the Empire was doing such a thing with their own hands.
It’s the same that evil things we do are evil even if the empire does them.
“I can not believe it… … .”
For a while, the boy just muttered blankly like that.
Yes, at least if the demon lord who was defined as an enemy did such a thing, he would be convinced to some extent.
In this case, it is a betrayal.
Isn’t it a story that they say that those who died for humanity are heroes, but behind the scenes, they are reviving them as undead to create an army of the dead in case of emergency.
It doesn’t matter if my case is known.
I’m the Demon King, and it’s only when it’s known that the Demon King builds an army of the dead that bad guys do bad things.
In fact, I was going to do something like that, regardless of Bertus’s will.
Ironically, when a bad guy does bad things, a fire breaks out, but it’s human psychology to refuse to do so.
I’m on that side, but not the Empire at all.
However, if it is known that he does this, the empire will be torn apart.
“Looks like Bertus is taking an overly risky gamble.”
I had no choice but to say that.
A gamble that is too risky even if it is risky.
However, it is an inevitable gamble.
“By the way, the Death Knight supplement… … . I can’t do it.”
Harriet sighed with a complicated expression.
Resurrecting dead heroes and using them as an army couldn’t be the right thing to do.
It’s fortunate that we didn’t get to do it with our own hands, but it’s clear that it’s already being done in the hands of others.
So that’s both fortunate and unfortunate.
As Harriet said, we failed to replenish the Death Knight, and we had very uncomfortable suspicions.
At Harriet’s words, Olivia shrugged.
“no? Do you still have one more left?”
huh?
What do you mean?
“What do you have left?”
“There was one more place I was going to go to. I will go there.”
Olivia puts her hand on Kono Lint’s shoulder.
“Lint, can you help me one last time?”
“… … yes?”
“Will you help me?”
“Yes, of course!”
Unfortunately, our Lindt-kun was not the kind of person who could refuse something like this.
“Where are you going?”
Olivia winked at my question.
“If this is the empire, the places unrelated to the empire’s influence will still be fine, right?”
“yes?”
“ah… … . no way… … .”
I didn’t understand, and Harriet was dumbfounded as if she knew something.
“The tomb of the saint.”
tombs of saints.
Of course, the tombs of the saints managed by the Knights Templar and the Five Great Religion had no choice but to be out of reach of the Empire’s influence.
In the case of Charlotte, they still assumed that we would rob the Hall of Heroes, and even if Bertus was making Death Knights, he would not have touched the remains of the royal family.
By the way, the tombs of the saints.
I can’t directly mention it, but it’s obvious what’s there.
“No, that, that… … . Can I?”
Olivia’s adoptive father.
The former commander of the Templar Knights and the one who died by my hand.
A person who died as a villain by my standards, but who is known to have died with honor while fighting the demon king.
Lebarrier Ranche’s tomb must be there too?
“The filial piety that I couldn’t do when I was alive should be done at least this time.”
Olivia smiled broadly, and we lost consciousness before her smile.
