The zombies appeared, and I was not the only one who saw them; others ran frantically to the duke’s meeting room, gasping for breath.
“Your Grace! The zombies are coming!”
“We saw them too, with our own eyes. They have been wandering around here for days.”
“The magical barrier will protect us, but I’m scared… What should we do, Your Grace?”
The servants reported, gripping wooden sticks and screaming. Magicians, including Merion, also spoke of what they had seen, trembling but earnestly.
Mihel also stated that he had seen the approaching zombies.
“It matched the image that Duke Keaton showed in the temple. There were beings that moved like living people but didn’t feel like they had souls.”
Could a holy knight with strong divine power detect the presence or absence of a soul?
Zero whispered to me, curious.
“You can do it too once you’re fully awakened as a saint. Right now, you’re a beginner, so it’s impossible.”
‘What about Mihel?’
“That human is special. If it weren’t for that snake of a Pope, he might have become Pope himself.”
‘So not just anyone can be a supporting male lead.’
I looked at Mihel anew.
When I stared intently at Mihel, he seemed uncomfortable and narrowed his eyes.
“Do you have any business with me?”
“Ah, no.”
He calmly reported and analyzed the situation, but I could see Mihel was disturbed.
‘Not feeling a soul means the zombies were dead humans.’
I knew this all along, but for Mihel, it must have been a crushing revelation.
It was the moment he had to acknowledge that his beloved heroine, Siena, was already dead.
‘It must be tough.’
The pain of losing a loved one was indescribably agonizing.
Yet, Mihel completed the situation analysis without shedding a tear.
“According to what Duke Keaton said, these zombies are sensitive to sound. However, the duke’s magical barrier is currently at emergency level 3. It is operating at its highest level, so not even a sound is getting out. Is my understanding correct?”
“Yes.”
“Then it seems that the zombies are not coming here to attack. Even though there’s no noise, they came…”
“There are two possibilities.”
Either the zombies were slowly creeping outside the capital as food for them ran low.
“…or the zombies’ behavior pattern has changed.”
The second possibility was too awful to imagine.
If there were mutants that were sensitive to sight?
‘How dreadful.’
The magical barrier formed a domelike shield to prevent external enemies from invading, so it would be disastrous if the zombies could see inside.
“But… it seems we have avoided the worst possibility.”
“Yessss…”
If their sight was functioning, they would have spotted us just like we spotted them.
But the ten or so zombies we saw earlier were only slowly approaching, as if they had not noticed anything.
Their speed was noticeably slower compared to when we had chased the crown prince zombie from the imperial palace. It seemed due to the magical barrier preventing them from detecting their prey.
“Maybe if we just leave them be, they’ll quietly pass by us.”
I agreed with Zero’s words.
‘I hope so, but…’
I didn’t like the situation where we had to hold our breath to avoid the approaching zombies.
Waiting for them to pass, watching their every move, was unbearable. And since the zombies, failing to detect their prey, were moving very slowly, hoping for them to pass would take too much time.
The intruders were zombies, and although I was borrowing Elizabeth’s body, I was the owner of Duke Keaton’s house.
I had to protect this house, my domain, where I now lived.
I made up my mind.
‘Zero.’
“Yes. You want to take the people staying in the duke’s house to the basement for shelter? Just in case, let’s hurry…”
“No, we must eliminate all those zombies, so help me.”
“……Huh?”
“Please guard me. You’re on your way home too, so I trust you’ll cooperate willingly.”
“Wait, just a moment!”
Leaving behind the startled Zero, I announced to the people gathered in the conference room.
“Getting rid of the ten zombies that have come close to the Duke’s mansion should be something we handle ourselves.”
“What?”
“Is, is that okay? If they rush toward the magical barrier to break it…….”
Upon hearing my words, the servants and wizards trembled with anxiety.
Especially, Merion clutched the pouch containing several highlevel magic stones that I had paid as promised, shaking her head repeatedly.
“It’s unreasonable. Duke Luus hasn’t even arrived yet; what can we do with this force?”
Luus Kriechtren, who had newly joined my party, was coming to the Duke’s mansion, using longrange teleportation magic after losing contact with the gatekeepers in the capital.
Even though he is recognized as a strong candidate for the next Archmage, the distance between the capital Agata and Chateris, where the mage tower is located, was far. Therefore, Luus had contacted Merion in advance, saying he would probably arrive tonight.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
*
Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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