Chapter 28: “Bonus Stage”
“Zoooombiiiies… I never saw that coming…”
Blanc hung her head while waiting to respawn. But really, considering she was a Skeleton, it stood to reason that there could be Zombies too. Or really, zombies were more humanlike than skeletons were.
“Don’t we both belong to the ‘They’re already dead!’ group? Maybe I could think of them as… friends… Nah, totally no way. Well, whatever, no need to get down! If they’re not friends, then I can just burn them up!”
Blanc swore that this time she would learn her lesson and not let her guard down as she set out.
At the place where the natural cave wall transitioned into man-made wall, the zombie from before… Well, she wasn’t exactly sure if it was the same one or not, but a zombie was shuffling around there. While she did jump at first, she remembered her lessons and, without letting herself stay frozen stiff for too long, fired off a [Flare Arrow] to start.
She wasn’t sure if it was maybe because of gases that were let off from decomposition, but the zombie burned really well. Even though they were way bigger than the ants were, they took a lot less time to burn up.
“Magic sure is strong… Or like, I dunno if [Flare Arrow] is normally better or if all magic is just as good. Ah, I did put all my points in INT. So maybe it’s my magic that’s good…”
But if [Flare Arrow] was an instant kill right now, then she didn’t need to go out of her way to try out other spells. If she ended up not killing something in one hit, then she might suffer additional mental trauma, not to mention that it’d be a waste of MP. [Flare Arrow] was producing results, so [Flare Arrow] was fine. For any weapon at all, reliability was paramount.
The Zombie dropped something… although honestly, she had absolutely no idea if the burnt bottom half of a Zombie had any value whatsoever. Not to mention she didn’t want to touch it at all if she could help it, so she decided to just leave it there. Unfortunately for her…