The outskirts of the city.
Night.
A horde of zombies is approaching.
Gais stops.
“…This is not natural decay."
The howling zombie shouts first.
Continuous sonic scream.
The air trembles.
Gais raised the spear and flashed.
The light spreads.
The scream stops.
A cluster of corrupt bodies rolls in.
Several corpses are entangled.
Gais thrusts the spear deeply.
My body is breaking.
Small zombies are pouring out from inside.
Sound wave explosion.
The separated entities fly away.
⸻
The reverse joint tracker scrapes the ground as it races.
With the joint flipped over.
Gais flows to the side.
Rush.
Throat penetration.
The end.
The infectious carrier sprays bodily fluid.
Gais is an ice shield.
The bodily fluid hardens.
It breaks.
Bone-exposing rushing body.
There is almost no flesh on the body.
Charge before self-detonation.
Gais makes the tree roots rise.
It gets caught on the ankle.
Spear rotation cut.
The explosion goes upward.
The battle stops.
But—
The land is not quiet.
Gais kneels.
I touch the dirt.
“…It is different from corruption
This is a summoned corpse.
Necromanteion.
It asks something through the corpse.
prophecy.
Or
Towards the grave in the distance.
A faint magical wave.
It is different from a vein.
It is also different from darkness.
"Someone deliberately summoned it."
Gais raises his spear.
The corpse, with light still remaining, is still.
Only the corpse, whose light has vanished, moves.