Chapter 24: A Malicious Intruder!

*Earthland, Ishgar, Fiore*

*April 13, Year 772*

* Dusk*

In a cave 2 short statures could be seen one boy and one girl. They can be seen sitting around a barbeque rack with a few chicken roasting on it layered with honey.

"John~ is the BBQ ready yet? I'm already so hungry."

Looking at Cana clinging to my arm I sighed, it's still not ripe enough.

"Just wait a few minutes more it will be ready by then."

I flipped a chicken then applied an even layer of honey and then fanned the flames making it burn more vigorously.

After a few minutes, the chicken was done roasting and I handed one to Cana and put the rest on a plate at the table to let it cool down.

" Be careful it's hot"

"Ah it's hot"

Looking at Cana that is gasping for air because she burned her tongue, I wonder what's inside her head.

I just told her to be careful cuz it's hot, then this idiot ate while it was still hot??

"Are you an idiot? I already told you it is hot and you still dared to eat it rashly?!"

" Eth itsh smelsh sho delishous tho" (Eh It smell so delicious tho)

Shaking my head I filled a cup of water and then handed it to her.

"Here drink some water, it should be able to dull the pain."

Cana grabbed the cup and gulped it down spilling water on her face.

"I can't help it, This BBQ you made smelled extremely enticing begging me to have a bite."

I shook my head helplessly and grabbed a towel and reached out to wipe Cana's face.

" You're such a clumsy girl."

Looking at the hand that wiped her face, Cana couldn't help but blush.

"W-what are you doing?!" She said as she grabbed the towel and distanced herself from me.

I smiled teasingly "Isn't obvious Cana is so clumsy, she needs someone to take care of her."

She blushed even more from the teasing and shouted" I-i can do it myself you know?!"

I blanked out for a second, hearing the familiar saying of a certain ramen-eating family in the world of ninjas.

' Do you also like to say "Dattebayo"?' I thought as I looked at the blushing Cana.

" Okay okay, Cana can do it herself. Here's another one, this one has already cooled down so don't worry about burning your tongue."

"Yey!"

Cana took another BBQ as she already finished eating the one she just had, she then started to eat with a cute face.

While they were enjoying their time, unbeknown to them a man in a black robe is slowly approaching the cave they are in.

The man in black is followed by three men with bodies covered with magic lines and stiff movements.

The man in black let out a breath and said, " I didn't expect it to be this far, You kids hiding so far away. You're so unlucky Gildarts is fighting with the pope."

"Looks like I will have new zombies in my collection hahahaha!"

While John and Cana were eating happily, they suddenly heard a voice from the entrance of the cave.

"Tsk Tsk, Enjoying life are we? Well, today's the last day you'll get to enjoy something."

"Who?!"

Hearing the voice, I quickly took out my Wolf pack totems and let them float around. I also took out my Iron tortoise totem and stuck it to the ground letting it form a shield of ethernano around us.

"Who are you and what do you want to do?!" I shouted as the wolf pack totem flash fiercely with blood-red light.

" Who am I is not for you to care, As for what I'm about to do? Well, the pope asked me to take care of some naughty children."

I snorted and let my wolf totems fire beam at the man in black. The totems fired concentrated ethernano that twisted the air lightly.

"Since you're here to deal with us, Don't use some flowery words and just fight already!"

The man just waved his hand calmly in the face of the attack. The three zombies at the back suddenly became more agile and jumped in front of the man and blocked the attack of the enemy.

" A feisty one? Well, since you said so let's get this over with."

"A necromancer!"

I got angry and shocked looking at the zombies that blocked my attack.

Different from naturally occurring zombies that are caused by the high concentration of undead elements and ethernano. Zombies made by necromancers are stained with resentment of the corpse.

Necromancers use undead magic that has some restrictions before using it. The first is that necromancers must be the ones that killed the corpse of the one they want to transform into a zombie.

Second, the target must experience extreme negative emotions such as anger, grief, sadness and etc, to transform them into resentment making the zombies transformed by necromancers stronger than naturally occurring ones.

Third, the corpse must be transformed within two days after being killed or the resentment will scatter making the zombie weak. So to make zombies with strong strength at the get-go, the sooner you transform it into a zombie the better.

Other than that what makes undead magic a forbidden magic is to make the zombie stronger is to absorb the flesh and blood of living beings in extreme negative emotion strengthening the body of the zombie.

Preferably humans because it's easy to make humans suffer extreme negative emotions.

But there is one fatal drawback from this magic that is, the zombies controlled by the necromancer must not be too much stronger than the mage or else the zombies will rebel and kill its master.

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Author's note

Sorry for the late update need to do my thesis hahaha, and sorry for the info dump.