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At Sharhan’s grim murmur, Derry lowered his head deeply. “I saw the people who arrived late to the festival run away in shock… but I don’t think many of them made it out alive.” Considering how many had fled through the open city gates, Derry’s guess wasn’t far off. A heavy silence filled the cramped and suffocating room. Lestel and Sharhan were each lost in thought, while Derry hugged his knees, anxiously watching them both. His expression was a tangled mess of guilt, fear, unease, and…- 264.3 K • Completed
- As soon as Lestel stepped forward and asked, Derry let out a startled gasp. He seemed shocked by Lestel’s intensity. “D-Do you know about Paphun?” Derry answered the question with a question. Lestel’s brow furrowed. “I asked you first. Do you know about Paphun tea? How much do you know? Who made it, and for what purpose?!” As his emotions flared, so did his voice, and Derry, eyes wide in panic, hastily tried to calm him down. “Y-You can’t raise your voice!” He pressed…
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- If it spreads through bites… As soon as Sharhan realized that, his mind flashed to the wide-open city gate. If those monsters made it beyond the territory of Luhas… He didn’t even want to imagine what horrors might follow. “The gate!” The words burst out of him instinctively. “We have to close the gate!” Lestel turned his head urgently and shouted the same. The moment their thoughts aligned, both of them bolted forward. “Now’s our chance!” “The gate’s open! We can…
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- To Sharhan, there was an arch-nemesis destined by fate, not just since childhood, but from the very moment he was conceived. And that person was the man standing before him now: Lestel Ailun. Sharhan frowned as he stared at the ever-smirking Lestel. Just looking at that smug face that made him instinctively want to punch something, how long had it been? They’d parted ways when Sharhan left the academy after receiving news of his family’s misfortune. That made it three years. Still the…
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- Sharhan instinctively faltered and took a step back. He remembered once being surrounded by enemies during the height of the war. Even in that life-or-death moment, when his survival was on the line, he had handled it with composure. Yet now, he found himself panicking. Back then, there had been nearly thirty enemies. Now, there were only about a dozen. And still, he was afraid. It was because those things – monsters, or whatever they were – were too horrific to even be called human. Thick blood…
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- “Luhas.” Sharhan and Lestel reined in their horses near the massive outer gate. Even from a distance, the towering stone walls looked imposing, perhaps intentionally reinforced to keep the forest-sealed monsters at bay. It gave the strong impression that no trespassers would be tolerated. To set foot in Luhas, they would have to pass through that gate, solid and impenetrable like a shield no spear could pierce. “Think we’ll get through?” Sharhan scratched his neck as he stared up at…
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- If Sharhan were still a noble, that kind of insulting remark would’ve earned a thrown white glove. If he’d had just a bit less self-control, he might’ve thrown a punch right then and there. That’s how provocative it was, any man would’ve bristled. “You wanna die? Who the hell are you calling small?” Even with the ominous glare in Sharhan’s slightly crazed eyes, Lestel wasn’t scared. Instead, he tilted his head and egged him on. “If it’s that size when it’s fully hard……
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- The path to the Ice Cave was relatively smooth. Though they did encounter some moving corpses, they were not in swarms of dozens, so even with their injuries, Sharhan and Lestel were able to handle them. The deeper they went into the mountains, the fewer corpses they encountered. It was only natural. Corpses are drawn to places where people live. And the area around the Ice Cave had always been sparsely populated, visited only occasionally by hunters or herbalists. Ever since they got older, even…
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- Sharhan and Lestel remained hidden inside the hollow tree long after the swarm of moving corpses had passed. They used the time to rest a little and to be sure the corpses were far enough away. “Let’s go now.” “Why? Can’t we stay just a little longer?” Lestel rubbed his forehead against Sharhan’s, grumbling like a child. He wasn’t ready to let go. Sharhan wanted to savor the moment too, but they couldn’t afford to linger. “My skin’s crawling. There are way too many bugs in…
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- “Doctor… doooctor…” Hans’s voice trailed off into the darkness, mumbling the same word over and over. Without a torch, he staggered off into the pitch-black forest, slowly vanishing from sight. His dragging steps looked far from normal. He couldn’t even hold his head up properly, and it was like his whole body was beginning to stiffen. It didn’t seem like he was just weak from illness… ‘If a corpse were to rise and start walking, it would probably look just like…
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