Chapter 724 - 385: Three Airs and Two Bitterness, Book of Death Magic_1
Ivita looked perplexed. The underlying message of this letter was that the Lombardy Duchy itself didn’t know who it was, and was now calling out to all those who had the right to inherit the Iron Crown. This could potentially have been done through the Iron Crown law.
Ivita asked Wilson. "What was the situation when you received this letter?"
Wilson pondered for a moment, replying, "A man in a black cloak delivered it... yes, he had no signs of life about him. By the time I tried to call out to him, he had vanished into the forest, leaving behind an indescribable, rotten smell."
"Now that I think about it, he probably wasn’t human."
Ivita turned to the Hearthstone Witch, who pulled out a Magic Book. The book flipped its pages automatically, eventually stopping at a rag-clad man’s image. The man was hunched over, appearing severely deformed as though he had a shell on his back. He was hobbling through the forest with the help of a cane.
The Hearthstone Witch glanced at it and determined, "It’s a Ruster, an undead."
Ivita looked at her quizzically. "What is that?"
The Hearthstone Witch elaborated, "Legend has it that beneath the Iron Crown, many walking corpses have defied their allegiance to the family who owns the Iron Crown. These bodies are neither alive nor dead, but puppets wandering the earth, unable to rest. Among these puppets, some were the most potent mortals during their lifetime, becoming the Iron Crown’s most powerful tool after death."
"Such entities are referred to as the Rusters."