Pestilence: Rise Of The Pure Undead

Chapter 248: The Beginning : Peaceful Life

"Arise now, turn your backs and flee, live longer, live in fear- In fear of the night!"

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"I hear that Dschungelland and Pezerx have already been completely conquered, the undeads are waving the emperor and king like trophies..." a man with a reddened nose and with a bit more meat on his bones than the norm said, rubbing sweat off his forehead.

Him and another man were sitting on a bench, surrounded by an hectic flow of people, they overlooked the work of countless people, sowing and ploughing the fields, elves and nature spirits helping in this endeavour, times had changed before and now, they were changing for the worse.

Everyone had hoped that those measures put in place by the king were a fluke, naught but an odd decision in the endless pursuit of more wealth, but somehow, things had turned out terrible, literal armies of the dead had stricken at night, unprecedented swiftness, taking over entire, established nations in the span of just a few days.

The great desert empire was crawling with death, rumours said that nothing survived, not even mere insects.

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The lush kingdom on the other hand, had been taken over, but the radiant life fuelling its endless growth and regrowth meant that the undeads could not make it their home field on a whim.

Starkefolten, the powerful kingdom where a dreadful presence could be felt, it was in a poor state, the capital city was shielded, Fioldron Ferrcrona had heeded the warnings in the end and installed a device to produce a life barrier around his capital city, the rest of the lands, were currently the theatre of massacres.

The miasmic cloud progressed at a slow pace for now, but that did not stop the forces of undeath of venturing into villages and cities, killing and taking all, demolishing settlements and homes, what little news the people received were enough to colden their hearts, and that was most probably the least of it all.

Tamaris was protected from outside interference, the king had set up ways to self-sustain, they could thrive within this solitary nation, the barriers created covered the above and underground, if the main barrier fell, another would come up, many times over.

And if all the largest barriers were to fall, all populated areas had their own barriers.

Sides and ideas were already picked even after only a week had passed, some wished to come out and fight right this instant, claiming that an emerging empire, even if of death, would be at its weakest during its initial blooming.

"That’s great news! But how many? That woman can lift a cow on each shoulder, surely she can carry more than one-"

"How would I know that? And what sort of comparison is that anyways?" Louis shook his head, noticing two more people from the corner of his eyes.

He raised one hand to greet them.

"My dear brothers-in-law, I thought you were in the capital training..." he spoke out, genuinely surprised to see them, having clearly undergone some serious training, now carrying around a more refined presence or something, not that either of the former guild workers could tell what was more qualitative about the brothers.

"Did you just say that my sister got knocked up?! By you?"

"Here I was hoping that she would ditch you eventually..."

The brothers were not thrilled.

"Hehehe, sorry, but it was already made concrete just after you guys left for the capital" Louis showed off a ring.

"As you can see, he is now the amazon’s husband, his status has increased by leaps and bounds" Frank chimed in.

"My bad, my bad, just hard to believe she would get with a scrawny guy like you, I always thought she would go for an orc or minotaur, you know, something almost as brutish as her..." Zola smiled.

"Come on now, she might hear it..." Saul narrowed his eyes, scouring the area for signs of his big sister.

"Don’t be afraid brother, we are stronger now, we are faster... We can outrun her, I am certain!"

’The training did a number on them...’ both of the former guilds workers thought.