Chapter 215.2
Slay’s voice was the only one that came back to me as I called out to them on their backs. Cara, who had supported Jean as well, glared at me, but behind her, Colette, her face blue, stared at me as if appealing to me for something.
I left them and headed for the cemetery where the orc zombies were said to have appeared, observing the town. The villagers were supposed to be missing in this town, but surprisingly, the mood of the residents was not so gloomy.
Some of them had anxious expressions on their faces, but when I passed by, their expressions disappeared, and they blended in with the town’s scenery.
But that was not unusual. It is common for rural towns to be cold toward outsiders. The town where I grew up with an orphanage was about the same size as this one, but it was cold toward orphans who were a burden to the town and its residents.
So I guess Colette and others who might leave this town in the same way are marginalized. A closed town…what did the word “promise” have to do with it? How does it relate to the miasma and the undead?
The cemetery was outside the outer wall that surrounded the town behind the chapel. There were graves inside the walls as well, but after more than a hundred years of the town’s existence, they must have become insufficient.
The outer cemetery was covered with a wooden fence, and there was one section of the fence that had been destroyed, so I guessed that was the point where the orc zombies appeared.
There is indeed a miasma. Still, as the receptionist at the Adventurer’s Guild had said, the Ostole family had apparently purified the area, and the miasma was not thick enough to cause the corpses to move.
“…I knew it.”
That’s why I was convinced that the “devil” was involved in this case.
Normally, all undead creatures have magic stones in their skulls. Skeletons have magic stones in their skulls, and even insubstantial things like evil spirits have magic stones at their core.
The orc zombie’s magic stone was indeed stained with a miasma, but the amount of the miasma was clearly low.
Demons feed on the miasma, but in reality they were spirit organisms whose life force consisted of the same magic power as spirits.