Chapter 14: Counting the Spoils, Waking Up from a Nightmare!

After returning to Regulus' hut, I was extremely exhausted.

I fell asleep immediately.

As I was sleeping, I was still thinking about the sequence of events during the hunting trip.

First, I lost two Corpse-Eating beasts, and then I was chased by a Ghoul. Just when I thought I would be done for, the Wild Boar King appeared.

I thought of a way to divert the trouble to the other side, and sure enough, the two 'behemoths' clashed. After the clash, the Wild Boar King died, while the Ghoul was beaten until it lost both its legs. Both sides suffered heavy injuries.

The two fellows who ruled over an area directly benefited me.

In the end, I even created a Knight King that matched the perfect warrior template.

This undead was ridiculously powerful.

Attack, defense, speed... There were almost no weaknesses.

With such a powerful undead like the Knight King, I wouldn't have too many problems whether I wanted to hunt for materials or travel safely in the future.

Thus, I began to fantasize that I would gradually have high-level undead like bone dragons and liches in the future.

Just like that, I gradually fell asleep in this fantasy.

When I woke up the next morning, I didn't immediately open my eyes. Instead, I laid on my bed and concentrated on meditating.

I wanted to verify how much my meditation cultivation speed had increased after I obtained the Knight King.

I calmed my mind and began to use my spirit to feel the gray death energy around me.

Just like the last time I cultivated, I suddenly felt that there were many gray dots of light around me.

The gray light dots kept vibrating with my spiritual power.

After feeling the power of death, I started to communicate with the Knight King to help me with my training.

After feeling the connection between the Knight King and myself, I started to use my spiritual power to absorb the power of death.

Using my spiritual power, the gray light dots started to rush toward me frantically, washing over my body.

However, my zombie body was like a sieve, leaking out most of the gray light dots.

Only a small portion of the light dots were absorbed by my body and head, merging with each other.

However, because the absorption rate was extraordinarily quick, the light dots were absorbed in large numbers, and the death energy absorbed each time was quite large.

I used my spiritual power to observe slowly, examining the absorption speed of the light dots.

In the end, I was certain that after creating the Knight King, my cultivation speed had increased by at least seven to eight times.

Compared to my previous two low-level undead Corpse-Eating beasts, it had also increased my cultivation speed by at least five times.

After I figured out the specific growth rate of my speed, my heart was filled with joy.

This speed increase meant that I would soon be able to reach the next stage of necromancy—from the current low level to the middle level.

If I were to train all day, it would take less than a week.

Moreover, I had a hunch that once I reached the intermediate level, my zombie body would improve. Even if my mobility wasn't as good as a normal human's, it wouldn't be too bad.

Thinking of this, I was excited.

I couldn't stand my zombie body anymore.

My movements were extremely slow that it took me a few seconds to turn around.

During this hunting trip, because of my slow movement, I was almost captured by the Ghoul and slapped to death.

I could get rid of this very quickly.

"Ho ho—"

Just when I was lying on the bed with my eyes closed, I suddenly heard a sound suddenly coming from my side.

The sudden sound woke me up from my thoughts.

I opened my eyes and looked at where the sound came from.

One look and I was terribly scared!

I saw a monster standing in front of my bed, staring at me with its empty eyes.

The monster was pale and haggard. There was no flesh on its face, and it was full of holes. His head was even deformed.

His clothes were covered in dried blood, and his body was somewhat incomplete. In some places, only a layer of skin was attached to the bone. There were even places that were completely empty, and one could see the other side from this side.

It was completely in line with the image of the main character in a horror movie and even more terrifying than the main character in many classic horror movies.

I think if someone had told me that this was what Freddy would look like in the next "Elm Street," I would have believed it. I would have believed it without a second thought, and I would have prayed to God that it wouldn't scare people to death once the movie comes out.

Thump

I woke up to this horror and, like most people, I was shocked.

However, I wasn't like those little girls who screamed and retreated with a cowardly expression. Instead, I chose to throw a heavy punch at the disgusting face in front of me.

"Ha—"

The disgusting face in front of me immediately backed away and let out a strange cry.

When I saw this 'monster' fall to the ground, I immediately stood up.

I quickly took two steps forward and picked up the weapon that was placed by the bedside.

I aimed at the guy who was knocked to the ground and couldn't stand up for a long time.

Without hesitation, I immediately asked.

"Who are you? How did you get in... Eh?"

I stopped halfway through my question.

That was because I suddenly realized that my voice was no longer the low growl of a zombie. Now, my voice wasn't much different from a normal human voice.

It was just that my voice was slightly thicker than a normal person's.

My vocal cords had actually improved so much after just cultivating for a short while?

Then, when I completely have a breakthrough to become an intermediate mage, wouldn't my body be able to return to the level of a normal human?

Although I was happy, my hands didn't stop moving. I pointed the sword in my hand at the monster on the ground.

"Who are you? How did you find this place? If you don't tell me..."

"Hehehe..."

However, the monster on the ground didn't answer me. Instead, it kept roaring.

Hearing such a roar, I was a little surprised.

Such a roar sounded so familiar!

It sounded like a zombie's voice, but how could there be a zombie in this world?

Could it be...

In order to verify my guess, I immediately turned around and looked at the place where the body of Regulus used to be.

Sure enough, it was empty.

Then I looked at the clothes of the guy in front of me.

Although it was tattered, I could still vaguely recognize it. It was the mage robe that Regulus used to wear.

Only then did I remember that zombies were contagious. As long as one was bitten, then the one who was bitten would become a zombie.

And the first thing I did when I came to this world was to bite Regulus to death.

This caused a new zombie to appear in this world besides me.

Looking at the zombie Regulus who was cowering on the ground in front of me, I fell silent.