Chapter 553
We left the unmarked cemetery and waited for nightfall. Once night descended, we would curse this land and use the power of corruption to resurrect the dead, turning them into our army.
Loyar and Mr. Effenhauser would be exceptions, and there was no justification for it. But we had decided to do it, so we would.
However, an unexpected situation arose. More and more mourners appeared, and an increasing number of them were in military uniforms.
It wasn’t unusual for people in military attire to be in the capital, but it was certainly strange for so many to come to the national cemetery at the same time. They all had the expressions of people who had returned from a long journey, an expression I often saw on those who were with the Allied Forces. They were mostly returning soldiers.
“Were they given group leave because the operation to occupy Serandia is over?”
“It seems so...”
The Allied Forces planned to lay low until winter passed. While not everyone could return to the capital, it was clear that some, including high-ranking officials, had been granted the privilege to return.
There were many places that those who had been away from the capital for a long time might wish to visit first, but this national cemetery housed the graves of soldiers, knights, and mages who had fought and died in the Gate Incident.
It was perhaps only natural that those associated with the Allied Forces would visit this cemetery. The campaign against Serandia was not supposed to have been conducted in winter, and when it came to winter in other regions, the Allied Forces would choose to hold their ground, keeping up a continuous battle of attrition to defend their encampment through the winter.
Now that Serandia had been pacified and the monsters around it completely eradicated, the Allied Forces had secured a relative amount of safety. Since the camp was relatively safe, higher-ranking individuals or those seen as special were allowed to spend the winter in the capital or their homelands, if they were safe. Soldiers were being returned back to the capital via mass teleportation. Of course, such authorization was on an individual basis.
For these returning soldiers, the national cemetery was an obvious place to visit. It was where their comrades rested, and so many of them would want to visit, whether in groups or individually.
Special privileges had been given out to these soldiers after a long campaign, and mass teleportation wasn’t a privilege that just anyone could enjoy. Therefore, it was likely a privilege for high-ranking military officials, imperial commanders, nobles, high-ranking knights, clergy, mages, and members of the Royal Class.