Ethereal Life, Chapter 70: Goodbye

Argar's eyes suddenly thought of something: "Hey, if Nai can do it, since we are already an accepter, we can get our revenge too, right?" However, Garut shook his head as he replied.

"Those slimes were unkillable without the weapons bathed in miracle water. I already tried slashing, piercing, and even beheading, but those slimes were simply bizarre," Garut explained.

Bador and the others indeed heard Garut says what had happened when they left the village back then, too. They looked at the spear in Garut's hand and had a thoughtful look.

If they were to be hit by that thing, would they also become a puff of smoke? If so, then their very lives were in danger. Argar suddenly had another feeling in his heart upon knowing it as he looked at Garut with a newfound impression.

"As for why the ruler didn't stop those people from leaving, it's because he didn't want them to stay at all," Garut said calmly. He also knew a bit of Nai's personality, which can be said to be very unreliable.

Garut could feel that Nai's personality could change every few seconds, making him unable to discern much of his thoughts. "I already told you what you wish to know. Now tell me your situation after you left the village."

Bador, Argar, and the other skeleton looked at each other before Bador slowly narrated everything that had happened. After all, they all came from the same village. Even if their form changes and they are no longer humans.

Since they all recognize each other, they are friends. And having friends means they can exchange information and help each other, not to mention They had no other trustworthy creatures in that place that could communicate with them.

Even if they could communicate. as monsters that eat and kill humans. Bador and Argar can't have the heart to trust anyone of them at all. A few minutes later, the narration ends.

Garut was silent as he slowly digested everything that had been said to him. A while later he nodded, saying, "I understand your situation. That place should be the birthplace of those bizarre monster slimes. But you haven't encountered any of them yet after all this time."

"This is indeed really bizarre. It can only be said that such a place can simply be too vast for you to explore. Or that they are just near you but they don't show themselves because, after all, you're already a skeleton." Garut calmly tried to guess.

"That's a possibility. Since we have already been skinned, then those slimes might have been everywhere looking at us uninterestingly. Maybe the puddle we had just been in might be them." The other skeleton guess

Bador and Argar had the feeling that such a guess might be the right answer. After talking for a while, the dark fog suddenly churned and started to move. The group immediately noticed it. Garut frowned. "Are you leaving?"

Argar slowly returned to his sedan as he said, "I wonder about that. Where do you even see a slime that has stayed without the fog?" Indeed, no matter which story. Only when the fog appeared would the slimes appear too.

But when the fog disappeared, they too would disappear. Bador suddenly came to him and pointed at the spear. "I want to exchange those spears and axes with you with the grasses we have found there. I'm sure you would like to study them. Maybe your ruler will also have an interest in them."

There's no need to explain the value of the grass as a material that has fallen out of the bodies of the grass-hair monsters in that place. It can be said to be valuable and worth studying. What's more, Garut has already thought of experimenting with it to see if it can be devoured to awaken another ability.

As for the spears and axe, although they are valuable, It's only the wood that is valuable in this grassland, with no forest or trees in sight. However, since Garut has already grown strong along with the carts, they are ready for travel.

They won't be short on wood anymore. "Alright, anything else?" Argar suddenly said by the side as he said, "Give us some of your miracle water. I want to try it on that black, vicious puddle around the place."

Garut nodded. Just a little bit won't be a problem since they are provided by the ruler every time there's a childbirth happening. "No problem." After that, he immediately got to work.

The other skeleton who was standing and listening to the side could feel the fog receding more quickly this time, so he couldn't help but say, "Hurry! We might have no time left anymore."

A minute later, Garut gave them a jar of miracle water. A bundle of spears and axes wrapped in wool clothes. Then, as though he had thought of something, he threw another piece of clothing towards them. "Be careful of the miracle water, it might disperse the fog."

"Yes, I will make come witt me." Bador looked at the clothes and then at Garut as he passed on the grass they had harvested along the way. "This is?" 

Pointing at their clothes, Garut said calmly, "Even if you're a skeleton now, you wouldn't like to be seen naked, right?" Bador was silent, and then he nodded with a bow. "Thanks." Then he passed the other clothes to the others.

Garut pointed at the dazed skeletons aside and asked, "Are you sure they won't wake up anymore?" Bador shook his head as he said, "It's been a long time already. I've already given up on such a chance. They're already dead."

"If so, then leave one here. The next time you come, you will know the result of staying here by then." Bador was silent for a bit. Although he respects the dead and has the goal of finding a resting place for them,

So many years have passed, and he slowly came to understand how easy it is to do things using them. He wasn't that hard-headed, so he agreed. "Alright." 

"Everyone, let's leave immediately and return back to the fog. I had a feeling that we wouldn't be able to survive when the fog disappeared," the other skeleton said.

Argar waved his bone hand, and the skeleton under him immediately lifted up his sedan and started moving back to the fog. "Are you sure the fog can help us return to that place? You know, I don't really want to stay there anymore."

Bador, however, shook his head and said, "I also don't want to return. But if we stay here recklessly, do you think we can survive? Those slimes behavior is strange after all. If they can survive under the sun, then all the humans in every village would have gone extinct."

Argar shut up and said nothing more. Bador was correct; he was getting reckless since he became a Living Dead Accepter. "Having real strength in exchange for death can really change a person."

At the same time, the fog slowly moved away, and the piercing sunlight slowly tore through a hole above the sky. Bador and the others immediately moved away with their things back into the dark fog.

The legion of skeletons and corpses moved back into the dark fog as they slowly left Garut's vision. At the same time, Argar's voice came out of the fog, full of arrogance. "See you, old man! Next time I won't be showing you mercy."

Seeing their figure vanish from the dark fog Garut was suddenly emotional. He wondered if they would still meet after so many years. "I wonder if I can still live until that day."

He turned to the side, looking at the dazed skeleton they left behind. Now it's time for one truth of mystery to be pried upon. "Don't disappoint me." The fog also left, and the familiar sunlight shone on the land before his face.

Feeling the heat warming his body, Garut followed the dark fog but saw that instead of moving away somewhere Instead, it was dissipating like a puff of cloud smoke vanishing in the air.

It was very mysterious and bizarre. Garut has a feeling of spreading what he felt during this whole time to Nai just to share his surprise. "I wonder how Nai would react if he heard this."

Suddenly, he seems to have heard the sounds of sizzling and the smell of something being burned into charcoal. He turned to follow the smell, but in his heart, he already had a premonition and a guess.

Indeed, what he saw was as he had guessed. "They can't survive under the sun. I feel pity for them, but I also felt relieved." Knowing this truth can also give them and him assurance.

Only in the sun can they survive. The light of the sun is what brings miracles back to life. Garut suddenly felt the power of the sun; the same symbol in his acceptance proof was boundless and domineering.

He slowly kneeled, facing the sun with his head on the ground, in worship. The skeleton beside him burned without moving.

A while later, the burning skeleton seemed to have gained some consciousness as it looked around him and at the village on his back.

Its jaw moved, and an undetectable voice came out. "I'm back." With a puff, he crumbled into ashes, taken by the wind passing by. The fog completely vanished.