My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 6

Undead (1)

I laughed helplessly and grasped the situation.

Actually, there was nothing to think about deeply.

Hans died.

The connection was completely lost, so I couldn’t reverse summon it.

While meditating and trying out various skills, I learned a few more details about “Avatar.”

If an avatar dies, it will be possible to regenerate it after a certain period of time.

The newly created avatar becomes a new entity with everything accumulated so far initialized.

The individual that died this time had only exercised hard for a few days, so there was nothing to regret, but I couldn’t help but feel a bitter taste in my mouth.

Now it was time to figure out the cause.

Why did Hans, who was in a safe village, die?

And no matter how deeply you fell asleep, at the moment you didn’t even realize you were dead?

‘If you think about it, it’s an obvious problem.’

If it had simply been an external attack, it would have been detected somehow.

So what was the problem?

‘That old man…’

I gritted my teeth without realizing it.

I thought I was lucky.

I only encountered one leopard in the dangerous forest and was able to kill it somehow. There was a small village nearby, and the village chief I met there treated me kindly.

I was definitely complacent.

It was the first time we met in an unfamiliar land.

Even if you meet them in town, they are not harmless NPCs like they appear in the game.

However, it was not possible to just be on guard and sharpen the edge.

No matter what anyone said, wasn’t this the position where they would go first and be indebted to him?

‘What did you do? Was there some kind of drug in your drink? sleeping pills? But I didn’t feel anything special until I fell asleep…’

He even shared the drink with the village chief, and even after he started drinking, there was no special reaction.

Maybe I just misunderstood and something unexpected happened…

ok!

Without even thinking about it, I slapped my face and came to my senses.

Actually, the loss I suffered wasn’t that big.

It was all Hans’ hard work for a few days, along with his food expenses, and his belongings that were lost.

Rather, it was a great achievement that I was able to learn more about Avatar by losing Hans before I suffered a bigger loss.

However, I couldn’t just think positively and act complacent forever.

Isn’t the danger of this world proven by the statistics that the average return rate is 20%?

Even with what I experienced this time, if it wasn’t for the avatar that crossed over, I would have died less than two days after going to this world and it would have been the end of everything.

Now it was time to think about how to respond.

Should I send another avatar? Otherworld Transfer Jin also has a cooldown of one day, so it is impossible right now.

In the first place, I am reluctant to send it back to a place where I don’t know what risks may remain.

Send it somewhere else? The only place that could be sent to the transmission line was where the previous avatar had passed.

Even though it is far from the village, it is still in the middle of a dangerous forest.

It was a time when I was worried and couldn’t do this or that.

…I was reconnected with the avatar of another world.

***

The first thing I heard was the village chief’s voice.

“Tsk… I thought he was a useful guy, but he turned out to be a total mess.”

“That’s right. “The fact that he went through the forest of monsters alone and the way he worked seemed like he had some tricks up his sleeve.”

“At best, it’s an Elite Skeleton. I guess my expectations were too high. “Let’s go.”

“yes. “Master.”

The village chief’s voice, who was talking to someone, became more and more distant, and then the sound of a door being locked was heard.

I must have been nervous without realizing it, so I relaxed my stiff body and sighed.

“Just—”

No, it was just my mood.

When I realized it, my stiff body did not relax and not even a sigh came out.

It was a moment when I slowly lowered my gaze to check my body condition.

《The species value of the object has been changed to ‘Undead’. Acquire the special skill “Corrupt Heart.”

I stared at the phrase that appeared before my eyes, then lowered my head again and looked at my body.

Here was a human skeleton model that I had seen in the nurse’s office when I was in school.

I took a closer look again. I lifted the arm bone and checked between the ribs.

And came to a conclusion.

‘I don’t have a heart…?’

“Corrupt heart”?

The situation was resolved by grumbling about the uniform naming that did not take into account the characteristics of the individual.

The village chief was a necromancer, and after killing me, he resurrected my corpse as an undead.

And ‘Hans’ became an elite skeleton, a moving skeleton.

〈Individual Information〉

-Individual name: Hans

-Race: Undead (Elite Skeleton)

-Common characteristics: 「Mind Herb」 「Super recovery」

-Individual characteristics: 「Corrupt heart」 「Magic affinity」

-Special information: Undead through forbidden techniques I got angry. Immune to all negative effects, including death, poison, curses and illusions. Due to the influence of the “Mind Herb”, no mental contamination occurred.

My head hurts. I guess it’s because I don’t have a brain, so it’s just my mood.

Soon, I decided to stop lamenting about my situation and start understanding my surroundings.

I was just embarrassed by the sudden situation, but since the avatar was thought to be dead anyway, there was nothing to change.

As I looked around, I noticed a difference from before.

First of all, even though it was in the dark without a ray of light, I could see clearly.

No, should I say ‘seeing’ this?

I tried putting a finger bone in the eye socket just to be sure.

Well, it was empty too.

I took my fingers out of my eye sockets and looked forward again.

Even though there were no eyeballs, there was no problem in seeing.

Not only that, unlike humans who have a limited viewing angle due to the focus of their eyes, the entire frontal area facing the eye sockets was visible at a glance.

And I could feel the vitality around me.

Yes, I could clearly feel a rat going in and out of a hole in the back of my head.

Perhaps this is also one of the effects of “Corrupt Heart.”

After a quick check, it was a skill that included the characteristics of general ‘undead’, from resistance to mental attacks and cold to undead infection and hatred of living beings.

‘I can filter out negative effects with the “Mind Herb”, so it doesn’t matter.’

The place I was in seemed to be a large underground warehouse.

I took a quick look around the old basement-like area and approached the place where I felt a rat.

‘Oh, what a surprise! ‘What are these!’

There were undead like me lined up there.

There was a pile of junk in the middle, and I didn’t notice it as I was standing motionless in the dark.

From zombies to skeletons holding bows or wearing armor.

As I was looking at it for a while, the rat I had noticed earlier came out and approached one of the zombies.

Then, it bit off one of the dangling little toes and went back into the mouse hole.

‘Ugh… Disgusting…’

While I was so fed up, the sight of zombies caught my eye and I took a closer look.

…There were not only adult men and women, but also the elderly and children.

‘These bastards ca

n’t believe it…’ I recalled my memory.

The scenes I saw while walking around the village the next day after entering the village.

…There were no children anywhere.

And the biggest reason why I thought it was a slash-and-burn village when I first saw it was the field attached to the village.

As I walked around the village to help with work, I did not see a single person working in the fields.

At the time, I didn’t know anything about farming, so I ignored it…

‘These bastards ate an entire village and settled down!’

I am shaken by their viciousness.

At the same time, I sighed as I was at a loss as to what to do.

‘Of course I can’t sigh. No, no more of this!’

This entire village was like an enemy territory occupied by warlocks.

Judging by the fact that there are not only villagers but also undead who look like knights, they must be planning something by disguising themselves as an ordinary slash-and-burn village to deceive the surroundings.

I must have been a prey that got excited and rushed into the mouth of a monster without knowing that I was in it.

Now that I think about it, I think the questions the village chief asked were intended to figure out whether I was a person who would have no problems if I suddenly disappeared.

The one-day reprieve must have been a process to see if there would be any harm even if they caught and ate this guy.

‘How can we deal with these guys?’

When I realized that I had been murdered and later found out that I had become undead, of course I was annoyed that I had been stabbed in the back, but I wasn’t this angry.

However, thanks to the “Mind Herb,” the emotions were filtered, so even though the shock was not that great, I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable seeing even children sacrificed.

They went way beyond the line.

If I didn’t know, I couldn’t just ignore it.

Above all, I am now undead, so there is nothing to lose, right?

It would be nice if I could fuck the people who hit me in the back, but if I tried and it didn’t work, there’s nothing I can do.

‘Let’s gather information first.’

Anyway, all I had left was time.

***

Over the next few days, I searched the basement warehouse where I was trapped.

Even though it was only about a day in Earth time.

It appears that there were originally two entrances, but one was completely collapsed and was unusable.

In fact, it had to be seen that there was only one passage through which the village chief and his disciples came and went.

‘Wow, how many are there in total?’

Next, I looked at the undead that were with me.

Most of the zombies seemed to be ordinary people like villagers, but there were quite a few skeletons heavily armed with all kinds of weapons.

About fifty zombies alone. There seemed to be three hundred skeleton soldiers, including Skeleton Knights.

Squeak-squeak—

the sound of the door opening followed by the sound of footsteps getting closer.

I immediately stopped my actions and stood blankly like the other undead.

Since I became undead and was trapped here, I could see that the village chief’s disciples took turns coming down to check on the warehouse every two to three days.

“Ugh, how long do I have to stay stuck in a mountain valley like this?”

The person grumbling and looking around the warehouse was a face I had seen once while repairing a village fence together.

Did you say his name was Zephyr?

For some reason, even back then, I thought I would be left out if I didn’t work hard enough, but it turned out that I was a black magician’s disciple.

“huh?”

The guy looked this way as if he felt something was strange.

‘Did you notice?’

My heart sank.

There is nothing but a “corrupt heart”.

“Why is this here again? Anyway, there is no one doing their job properly except me. [Move over there.]”

At that moment, I felt a voice ringing in my skull and a force trying to force my body to move.

And I could tell right away.

I can easily ignore it if I put my mind to it.

But it wasn’t time yet.

Instead of going against the force that tried to move my body as it pleases, I obediently went to the place where other skeletons were gathered and lined up.

“There’s nothing wrong. But we’re the only ones here in the first place, so why bother checking every time? “The old man is strict.”

Zephyr, who was half-heartedly checking things out while waving his shining wand, soon grumbled and left the warehouse. Even when I heard the

squeak

of the door being locked, I stood still for several hours and then moved cautiously.

There was no need to rush.

It was better to be careful and work hard at everything than to be caught off guard.

Because ‘Hans’ had an abundance of time.

And there was one big gain this time.

The power I felt when Zephyr controlled my body.

It was a very familiar power.

That’s because it was the same force that moved my body right away.

The mechanism that moved this undead’s body was different from that of ordinary living creatures.

Isn’t this a body without muscles to begin with?

The power flowing through my body now, the so-called ‘black magic’, caused all kinds of actions on behalf of my sense organs and muscles.

I guess this is also the basic effect of “Corrupt Heart.”

And since I had “Magic Affinity,” I was able to follow the new use of this power that I felt with my own body.

‘How to control other undead.’

Coincidentally, there were over hundreds of undead abandoned around me.

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