I want to be a faded person for life

No matter how you look at it, this place is a good place for an enemy ambush. It's really suspicious...

Sure enough, a figure holding a torch appeared in the depths of the woods.

The other party wore a copper-colored pointed helmet, a full set of chain mail, and a robe with green on the left and red on the right. The red and green parts of the robe were embroidered with the emblems of a lion and a golden tree respectively with golden silk thread. There were also whole iron plates and armor leaves at the joints of the armor.

The other party's movements were a bit strange. He wandered aimlessly in the woods with a torch in his hand, his movements stiff and slow.

Xiangzi squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and found that the skin under the other party's armor had lost water and dried up, showing a strange grayish white color. The lips had completely disappeared, revealing dark brown dry gums and two rows of dark yellow teeth.

"This person doesn't look like a living person..."

Xiangzi clenched his dagger.

After a faint light flashed, Melina also squatted behind her.

"This is the result of the Elden Ring being broken. The dead cannot return to the tree properly, and ultimately their sanity will continue to erode, becoming a living corpse."

Xiangzi had already gotten used to Melina's sudden appearances, so he was not frightened by her sudden words.

"So, what I'm saying is that all the soldiers in the woods are zombies. Am I right in understanding this?"

Melina's voice was calm, as if she was already accustomed to this kind of situation.

"Yes, they were originally soldiers of the King's Army under [Garrick the Limb-Graker]. Even after becoming zombies, they still follow their former habits and attack the living who pass by... Therefore, you don't have to feel guilty about attacking them."

"Even if you kill them once here, they will stand up again after a few days and continue to wander here."

Xiangzi gripped the dagger tighter.

"What a twisted world."

Limb-transplanting Greg?... Xiangzi has heard this name several times.

The old and ugly demigod mentioned by Fan Lei was a top-level pervert who liked to collect limbs and sew them together to form his own body. Melina and Kale also agreed with this statement and said that the other party's notoriety was known to everyone in Nimgfu.

Since it's an unconscious zombie and a subordinate of such a pervert...there's nothing to hesitate about.

The girl rolled through the bushes and crouched down to move forward, her movements as nimble as a cat walking across the eaves.

When she was less than five steps away from the zombie soldiers, she stood up little by little, raised her dagger and strode forward quickly.

Xiangzi exerted force suddenly and stabbed the dagger into the soldier's back, then raised his leg and stepped on the opponent's back, using the force of the forward kick to pull the sword out.

Black blood splattered all over the girl. The soldier struggled on the ground for a few times and then stopped moving.

"Huh...that was pretty easy."

Tiny specks of light floated into Xiangzi's eyes, and the amount of runes in his reserves increased slightly.

The dagger left by the Ring Finger Witch is very sharp. Xiangzi cannot attach golden flames to the ritual rapier like the limb-reattaching noble. Under this premise, the dagger is more suitable as her current weapon.

After the attack was successful, Xiangzi immediately squatted down and hid behind the tree.

Her heart was pounding. This was the first enemy that Shoko Toyokawa had killed with her own hands since she came into this world.

The feeling of the dagger piercing the human body was subtly disgusting, but Xiangzi's reaction was much smaller than expected.

This may be because of the many deaths he had experienced before, or because zombies are not as scary as the limb-attached nobles, or it may be because Xiangzi’s current mental state is not normal.

Hiding behind the tree trunk and observing secretly, there were two other zombies sitting near the campfire not far away, and butterflies with black and red wings were dancing above the campfire accompanied by sparks.

They seemed unaware of the abnormality happening here.

Xiangzi sneaked back to the place where he had just been and picked up the brass shield equipped by the zombie on the ground and the unsheathed straight sword at his waist.

Although it seemed easy to kill a zombie with a sneak attack, she was not confident that she could face two enemies at the same time.

Once her weapon was blocked by the shield, she would have to face the attacks of two enemies at the same time. Not only that, if the battle was not ended quickly, the noise might also attract other zombies wandering in the woods.

After a brief thought, the girl made a decision.

She left the tree trunk and strode towards the two zombies. The zombie sitting on the ground facing her noticed the living person who broke into the woods and immediately used his hands to support himself and try to stand up.

At this moment, Xiangzi threw the straight sword in his hand, aiming at another soldier who had his back to him and was a beat slower to react.

If it were Toyokawa Shoko, who had just entered Nimgfu yesterday, she would definitely not be able to kill the enemy with such a sharp sword throw, but after Rune greatly enhanced her physical abilities, she would definitely be able to do it.

The straight sword pierced through the zombie's back, pinning it to the spot. Xiangzi raised the bronze shield in front of him and began to charge quickly.

She kicked the back of the enemy she had thrown through, and used it as a stepping stone to jump high.

"ah!"

The dagger swung down heavily, cutting into the side of the zombie's neck. The wound cut through the collarbone and extended to the chest.

Xiangzi drew his dagger, turned around and stabbed the zombie that was still struggling on the ground a few more times.

Two small balls of glowing rune fragments floated into her pupils again.

"Three."

Xiangzi used the zombie soldier's robe to wipe the blood off the dagger, then bent down to pick up two standard brass shields, a one-handed war hammer and a new straight sword on the ground. Even if he couldn't use these, he could take them to Kale to sell some runes.

"It looks like there are no more soldiers around."

Xiangzi observed for a long time and found that the noise from the previous battle did not attract any new enemies, so he could make this judgment.

She walked forward along the path. The trees around her became sparser and there seemed to be an open terrain ahead.

Just as they were about to walk out of the woods, Xiangzi widened his eyes and quickly hid behind a tree.

At the bottom of the hillside where the woods were located, there was a fairly large camp with stone walls, chevaux de frise, tents and several lit bonfires.

A rough estimate puts the number of soldiers in the camp at over thirty.

Not only that, in the center of the camp there was a knight whose attire was obviously different from the surrounding soldiers. He wore a neat set of heavy armor, and the top of his visor-shaped helmet was decorated with red feathers. In one hand he held a black-tasseled knight's iron spear, and in the other hand he held a heavy tower shield.

The knight's movements showed none of the stiffness and sluggishness of a zombie, and he was patrolling back and forth in the middle of the camp.

Chapter 10 Goo Killed Me

"This is too much!"

Shoko Toyokawa felt a headache.

If there were two or three zombies, she could still deal with them, but with this number of enemies, even one with a sword could chop her into meat paste, not to mention the heavily armored knight who was obviously not easy to deal with.

A glimmer of golden light to the left of the camp caught her attention.

The golden flames floated not far behind the left side of the camp, and further back were tall gray walls and raised iron gates.

"Is that... a blessing?"

According to the direction guided by the blessed light, this place is probably very close to the city of Stonewell.

Things seem to be taking a turn for the better.

After all, she can teleport back and forth between the blessings, which means that as long as she can pass through the camp and come into contact with the blessed flame here before she dies, she can then teleport away from all the zombie soldiers when she is resurrected.

"Want to give it a try?"

Xiangzi swallowed nervously.

Suddenly, she heard a barking.

How could there be a dog in a place like this?

Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw a gray-white animal with pointed ears crouching in front of the camp, baring its teeth and barking at him.

"It's a wolf!"

The gray wolf used its keen sense of smell to detect the presence of the intruder and issued a warning.

Noticing the wolf's abnormality, the soldier following the heavily armored knight took out a curved brass horn from his waist and blew it.

The desolate sound of the horn spread throughout the camp, and the next second all the zombies in the camp began to move!

No more hesitation.

Xiangzi immediately blew the horse whistle.

With a neigh, she turned over and rode on Torret's back, galloping towards the blessed point at the left rear of the camp.

The speed of the spirit horse was simply incomparable to those slow-moving zombie soldiers. Before they could form a siege, Torrett had left all these soldiers behind.

Four or five gray wolves half the height of a man rushed out of the camp and chased after him from the left and right sides. Xiangzi's short sword was useless in a horse fight because its length was not enough to threaten the gray wolves that were crouching down and running.

"Torret!"

Xiangzi held the reins tightly, and the clever horse immediately understood what the girl meant.

She stepped on the broken gray wall, ignoring gravity and creating ripples in the air, completing her second jump.

This is the characteristic of a spirit horse. As a spirit, Torret can perform some actions that go against common physical sense. This is what Xiangzi discovered in his previous attempts.

This way, we can create distance and the blessing is right before our eyes—

“Ugh…Ahhh!”

Xiangzi let out a suppressed scream, severe pain came from his back, and the iron rings of the mail armor flew everywhere.

What's going on? Is it a crossbow?

Xiangzi turned her head with difficulty in mid-air, but did not find any zombies using bows and crossbows. Instead, the heavily armored knight who she had been concerned about from the beginning was doing some strange movements.

The knight put down his iron spear and heavy tower shield, replaced them with a two-handed greatsword, and raised the greatsword high above his shoulder while taking a bow stance.

This is a standard preparatory posture before a chop.

However, there was at least twenty meters between Xiangzi and the knight, which was not a distance that could be reached by a sword strike.

At this moment, Xiangzi's heart was filled with unknown fear. In the only moment, she followed her intuition and made the only choice.

Xiangzi twisted his upper body and put the brass shield behind himself.

With a dull clang, Xiangzi felt a huge force that lifted her off the spirit horse's back. She fell heavily to the ground in an arc, sliding and rolling along the ground for several meters before stopping her momentum.

Torret was forced to terminate the summoning and disappeared as a spirit again.

Xiangzi tried to get up with difficulty, only to find that the brass shield had been cut in half by an invisible blow, and his back and left hand holding the shield were both seriously injured.

It is less than ten meters away from the blessed flame.

"If only...if only we can get there!"

Her ankle hurt, and she realized her body was being dragged backwards by something.

The gray wolf stared with its green eyes, and the skin around its nose wrinkled. It bit Xiangzi's ankle tightly and was shaking its head to try to tear off a piece of flesh.

"Get away from me...!"

Xiangzi swung the dagger with his right hand, which was still able to move, and stabbed it into the gray wolf's left eye. The sword tip pierced through the eyeball and directly into the brain.

The wolf did not let go until it died, and the hot wolf blood and the girl's blood mixed and flowed together.

Before Xiangzi could stand up with her badly injured ankle, the other gray wolves had already surrounded her. The heavily armored knight walked out of the wolf pack and pointed his sword at her face.

Xiangzi made up his mind that if he died immediately, he would just be resurrected in the blessing place of Ailei Church. If he was caught by these zombies, who knows what bad things would happen.

She grabbed the blade with one hand and pulled it towards her throat without hesitation.

The knight didn't seem to expect Xiangzi to be so decisive. He only had time to deflect the sword, leaving a bright red scratch on the latter's jaw.

The knight drew back his sword and struck the girl's shoulder hard with the blade's spine.

Xiangzi's dagger fell to the ground and her right hand drooped weakly. This blow almost broke her entire shoulder.

"Damn it...Kill me!"

The knight was stunned for a moment and then took off his helmet, but he did not look like a zombie under the helmet.

He was an old man with white hair and beard, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his pair of dark yellow eyes were particularly deep.

"So you can talk."

Xiangzi was also stunned.

"It's not a zombie?"

-

Xiangzi recovered at the new blessed spot and sat a little distance away from the old knight.

The zombies in the distant camp were still wandering aimlessly, repeating the actions of standing guard or patrolling in their lifetime.

Several gray wolves stood in a circle obediently. A closer look revealed that they were also zombies. The fur on their abdomens had fallen off, revealing a few bones, but their behavior was no different from when they were alive.

"I am the only living person in this camp now."