Chapter 210: Chapter 211: Cemetery District
Translator: 549690339
The cemetery.
It is a unique area within Stuart Manor, completely separate from the town.
The perimeter is surrounded by nearly five-meter-high hollow iron railings with densely packed spikes on top to prevent outsiders from climbing over.
The entire cemetery is about half the size of the town, with many tombstones erected inside. Any farmhand who has contributed to the construction of the manor can rest here.
The cemetery’s main gate faces a road about four hundred meters long, bordering the town. The two sides of the road are lined with many signs reading ‘No Passage Allowed’.
The back end of the cemetery leads to the castle on the hill through a smaller road.
At the moment, the ‘Cemetery Area’ is fully closed, prohibiting any Knight Squad from entering.
Several Night Watchmen are dealing with an emergency at the deepest part of the cemetery.
As Han Dong approached the cemetery following the Night Watchman Jon, he could clearly see a layer of white mist like flowing water ‘spread’ over the cemetery through the hollow iron railings. The extent of pollution was obvious.
Even the Night Watchmen put on ‘goggles’.
“If you can’t even resist the basic pollution of the cemetery, retreat,”
Jon stretched out his hand to push the cemetery’s gate, opening a crevice just wide enough to squeeze in sideways, and went in first.
Abe immediately activated a unique protective mode akin to nocturnal animals.
As a green light flashed in Abe’s eyes, it could greatly resist the invasion of this ‘breath’ into the body.
Combined with the protection provided by the ‘goggles’ and the Fate Item ‘Heartstone’, they could completely withstand the corrosion of the graveyard mist. Overall, there was no abnormality.
Han Dong just put on the Bird Beak Mask.
Seeing that the two young men were fine, Jon sighed and gestured towards the cemetery:
“Follow me… We’re going to the Grave Guardian’s Residence in the cemetery, to the underground crypts, to participate in the search and filling work for the source of the pollution outbreak.
If you’re unqualified or if you get a medium or higher infection along the way, your current Night Watch duty will be terminated.”
“Okay!”
The three of them, with their oil lamps, walked among the graves covered in white mist, constantly on guard for the situation around them.
Han Dong observed the situation in the cemetery through ‘The Eye’.
About 90% of the graves had signs of being dug up.
And they were all dug from the inside, as if all the excellent farmhands buried here had the opportunity to be reborn due to the advent of the Dark Age, crawled out of their graves, and continued to serve the Great Lord.
Furthermore.
The gloomy cemetery filled with many corpses, shrouded in darkness all year round, would naturally breed some special things.
The Ghoul Nest is inevitable.
Moreover, due to the long existence, the scale of the nest and the number of ghouls must have reached a terrifying number.
There might even appear ghoul leaders, or even some special species.
(Ghouls are also classified as ‘evil’, belonging to the dead bodies that have not yet been skeletonized, influenced by the special environment of the cemetery, they gradually evolve into a kind of plague evil under the effect of the ‘fog.’)
With the ability to reproduce, the number of ghouls in this manor cemetery is probably larger than anyone can imagine.
In addition, the cemetery has been blocked ten hours ago, and most of the Night Watchmen are active in the underground crypts.
As a result, the surface of the cemetery is silent.
Now that Han Dong and his party have set foot here, even if they have lowered their voices as much as possible, they will disturb some wandering creatures.
“Ghouls… But they’re a bit different from the ones I’ve seen in the city.”
Han Dong spotted something crawling out of the cemetery in the dark. They had bodies as strong as ghouls, but there were parts of them significantly different from humans.
“Inbred, deformed ghouls, huh… Stake your lives on this, Abe. Try to stay quiet as much as possible.”
“Alright.”
Leading the way, Knight Jon didn’t seem to have any intention of joining in. He used a ‘sneak technique’ to blend with the night and disappeared.
He wanted to see how the two young men would handle the descendants of ghouls – the most basic kind. If they mishandled the situation or even got hurt, he would immediately revoke their qualification.
Uh Ah
Two unusually shaped ghoul descendants sprung out from the dark simultaneously.
One ghoul was enormously large, even had a third arm growing out from its belly button.
The other ghoul exhibited a ‘multi-mouthed’ body structure, carrying five times the usual amount of plague. On contact, it could easily infect an individual with the plague source and contaminate them simultaneously.
However, the battle was over in an instant.
Just as mentioned earlier, Abe’s style allows him to transition into combat mode at any given moment.
His white hair noticeably grew longer, and even patches of fur sprouted from some areas of his arms.
After that, a wolf’s head pattern materialized behind him.
As the muscular three-armed ghoul lunged at him, a ferocious light flashed in Abe’s eyes… The aura of his entire being utterly shifted, and he thrust forward with his arm morphed into a ‘wolf claw’.
Precise, swift, and deadly.
A ‘ghoul heart’ was clenched in Abe’s hand.
As for the ghoul’s corpse, Abe gently touched it with his foot and let it fall to the ground without making a sound.
On the other side, Han Dong held the head of the decaying ghoul in his hand, suspending it in mid-air.
The plague-infected ghoul was rapidly being transformed into Han Dong’s ‘seed energy’… In terms of plague manipulation, Han Dong was possibly at a Four-Star level, easily able to suppress such a ghoul.
After draining all the essential plague energy.
The ghoul almost turned into a mummy, a simple twist was enough to put an end to its miserable life, Han Dong then released the plague to devour the mummy, leaving no trace.
Both of them performed flawlessly on the spot, quietly eliminating the two ghouls that lunged at them.
This gave Night Watchman Jon a bit of a surprise.
But… compared to the threats down there, this was nothing. It merely proved that the abilities of the two young men were not bad.
Jon walked out from the shadows, lit a kerosene lamp, and carried on leading the way.
Due to the grave’s size, they encountered three waves of ghoul offspring ambushes along the way, all of which were smoothly resolved by the two young men.
In no time, the stone-built room, once inhabited by the grave guardian, appeared… They could go to the underground tomb area where the incident occurred through a secret passage inside the room.
Just as Knight Jon stepped into the room, followed closely by Han Dong.
Ta-da!
Suddenly, a red-haired white-faced clown jumped out.
“It’s dangerous down there… Don’t get yourself killed,” the clown said just before its body expanded rapidly and exploded like a red balloon.
The sudden jolt forced Han Dong to pause for a moment.
“This clown…”
“What clown?” Abe asked with a curious face.
“Never mind, let’s move… The crypt below is more dangerous, especially the intensity of the pollution. Abe, if you have any means to resist the pollution, better use it in advance.”
“Got it.”