Chapter 209.4
The reason I had Jesha back off was because I thought she would be out of her element if she wasn’t used to the dense forest. In that respect, Viro and I would not be disadvantaged by the terrain.
I was sure she knew that, but this kind of exchange was necessary even among friends.
“This is not a living thing.”
As soon as we entered the forest, Viro frowned at the presence in the air.
“An undead creature?”
“…We might be dealing with something worse than that.”
The Undead were moving corpses born of filth.
Aside from vampires, who were born from a curse and were indistinguishable from humans in appearance, human corpses were generally animated by “miasma,” a magical element charged with negative emotions that combined with a strong resentment.
The undead creatures, have neither intelligence nor wisdom, and there was no soul in them.
They could be insubstantial, like demons, but they could not be generated in large numbers because the source human must possess a magic stone, and there would rarely be a miasma thick enough to cause the undead to spontaneously emerge.