The Exiled Necromancer Wants To Create a Bone Dragon - Chapter 56



56 – Finding a saint.

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heard. Ed, Glowyn, Arebijou, and Hermona rode the Skeleton Desert Lizard and ran around Lesand’s barrier. Desert lizards, which live in arid lands, are carnivores, so their upper body, especially their jaws, are well-developed. Legs make it easy to jump off dry ground and bite enemies, but I thought that running such a long distance was quite inefficient.

‘It’s hard to switch to words though.’

Live horses are more difficult to manage. And it was difficult to secure horses because the horse population had decreased significantly after the development of the locomotive. These days, when traveling long distances, most of them rode a magic locomotive that ran across the north and south and east and west, moved to a nearby big city, and walked to their destination from there. Except for merchants who had to carry a lot of luggage and knights who rode horses in front of the manor, horses became farther away from everyday life and the price rose a lot.

Of course, I didn’t have to worry much about money because I had money earned in the South, but it was also disappointing in terms of management. Feeling the convenience of the Skeleton Desert Resort, where you can continue to ride by injecting mana once you have worked on it, as you pass through the barrier on the left of Lesand, you can see sleepy hunters coming out the door at the northern entrance.

“Looks like you really want to catch us.”

“Is it the problem that I was helplessly hit by the necromancer’s sword?”

Saying that, Ed fell to the very back of the group. Hunters who can use mana can approach quickly, so it seemed like it would be better to interrupt the hunters from the rear with a curse now. It was dawn when the sun didn’t even rise properly, but seasoned hunters quickly approached using mana as Ed expected.

25m, Ed cursed the hunters who came within Ed’s range.

Curse of Stamina, Curse of Decreased Stamina, Curse of Blindness.

As a hunter who developed his skills while experiencing real battles, he could have resistance to curses, but as he continuously cursed with a spearless spear, one was caught. He suddenly lost his strength while chasing and fell, and while running fast to keep up with the Skeleton Desert Lizard’s speed, his stamina decreased dramatically and he gasped for breath. In both cases, it’s fine, but in the case of loss of vision, I stopped at the moment and hovered over it.

Arebijou said after turning her head slightly to confirm what was happening behind her.

“I wasn’t the only one cursed.”

Arrebijou had been helplessly overpowered by Ed’s curse, so he had a little bit of that in mind. Ed had told me before that Arebijou was easily cursed because his mental strength was weakened due to his two consecutive losses, but he spared his words because it seemed to be much more comforting to see others suffer.

The hunters who were pursuing Ed’s indiscriminate curses began to break down quickly, and they moved so far that Lessand could not be seen.

“Looks like the chase was evaded.”

“More than I thought… Um… Is Ed just weird?”

Glowwin, who thought that the hunters were desperately chasing and might catch up, remembered that the person who had just defeated the pursuer without saying anything was a special necromancer who could be said to be outside the standard. Hermona, who received Glowyn’s eyes, nodded and replied.

“Right. He’s weird.”

*

When it was time to arrive at the Lake Coast at the southern tip of the Mado locomotive, the sun slowly rose and opened the south gate of the village. There was no problem entering the village because he was walking with the Skeleton Desert Lizard in the subspace at a distance.

Following Glowin, Ed and the others entered the village and quickly went to a building in the shopping district and knocked on the door. After knocking on the door for quite some time, a person who appeared to be an ordinary store owner opened the door, yawning.

“Uhh… what’s going on in the morning…”

Contrary to the shopkeeper’s saying he’s sleepy, Glowwin said while examining the four people’s facial expressions with sharp eyes.

“I’m here to get information. May I go in?”

“What…if you know.”

When the four people entered the store, the door slammed shut and the store owner spoke.

“So what information did you come to buy this morning?”

“Could you tell me the current location of Maria Cetin Quasar, the saintess of the Church of Truth?”

Glowyn said, and the shop owner shrugged.

“It’s not that difficult. I’ll let you know if it’s 50,000 energy.”

Since this is information that can be easily found if you try to find out, the shop owner offered a reasonable price, and Glowwin showed the proof of the collar he had to save it.

“It was a comrade. The Saint of the Church of Truth is now in Batukaula. I heard that she is staying at the Church of the Church of Truth near Tabie Station. Is that enough?”

“Yes. Batu Kaula…. Tabier…. Ed, I think that’s where we went last time.”

Glowyn muttered the name of the place and looked at Ed and said. I remembered the role of Eddo Tabier, so I answered right away.

“Isn’t that the place where I stayed for a night after hunting an ogre? I remember it.”

“Then what are you going to do now? If you take the train there…”

Even without Arrebijou not telling the end, everyone could notice that the probability of meeting a paladin of another church requested by the Southern Hunter Guild increased.

“Simply buy food and leave right away. What we have now is enough, but we may have to go back.”

As Ed concluded, the four of them quickly left the store.

The shop owner, who runs the Lake Coast branch of the information guild Kala, was scratching his head when he found a folded piece of paper on the floor. It was a piece of paper I had never seen before when I came out to open the door, so I bent down to pick it up and opened the paper to read the contents.

[Ed Frozenborn’s surveillance is noticed by companion Hermona Danie. Ed Frozenborn’s fighting power is stronger than I thought. Returning from the South using foot due to an accident caused by Lesand’s Hunter Guild. A total of 70 corpses of Desert Lizard and Grass Dire Wolf are held in subspace and will be sold at central auction.]

‘Didn’t they catch 70 monsters in a few days?’

I already knew that Ed Frozenborn, the subject of surveillance, was in Les Sand, but I couldn’t immediately recognize him because I had never seen his face. The last information he received was that Ed Frozenborn was going to the monster’s paradise in the south with his party, and that he had purchased quite a bit of food. Compared to the date the food was purchased, I returned shortly after and received this report.

‘By the way, I was caught as an intelligence agent, but does it mean that I have confidence to keep going together?’

Usually, it is common for people to be separated from each other because they are reluctant or to be severely treated and separated, but Glowwin seemed to be more integrated into the group than I thought.

‘There’s nothing to hide.’

Since he achieved this level of achievement at once, he returned quickly and is looking for the Saint of the Church of Truth to avoid working in the Hunter Guild. The store owner decided to report this to the Carla, adding roughly this information as well.

Ed had to hide the fact that he had dragon bones.

*

After purchasing food, Ed and his party ran towards Tabier. My butt hurts from riding the Skeleton Desert Lizard, which can run non-stop, but soon after, I got out of the southern terrain where the surroundings seemed empty and rushed into a dense forest.

As magic locomotives became the main means of transportation and people lived in large villages with train stations, there was no need to visit the forest except for gathering materials such as herbs and wood. It became a little dangerous place because people don’t visit it often, but there aren’t many strong monsters like ogres, and monsters that threaten people have settled down.

‘But I have no intention of reading the ecology of central monsters again.’

Ed had read quite a few books by the same author called The Ecology of Southern Monsters, but he couldn’t use them properly when he went to the South. There were many monsters in the book, but probably because of the subspace left by the necromancer, there were very few types of monsters, and even the Desert King Lizard, known to be the strongest, was a bit disappointing.

No matter how much the mercenary soldier transformed into the form of the Desert King Lizard, he was easily defeated with 2 Skeleton Knights. Seeing that there was no difficulty hunting strong monsters in the south and strong monsters in the middle, I could see how abnormal the environment was in the north.

‘Is that why the necromancer targeted ‘winter’?’

An out-of-standard necromancer capable of summoning multiple death knights failed in winter with the red dragon Tablis. I’m not sure if defeating ‘winter’ has a lot of meaning, but if you say that he took on such a challenge to find out his limits, I could understand him a little.

‘I’m not ready yet.’

It is possible to dream of a stable life without aiming to defeat winter, but I thought that I wanted to make myself as strong as possible. If he had a Death Knight to assist him, a Skeleton Knight to use as his Bone Armor, and even a Bone Dragon, he thought it would be okay to think about other things, whether it be defeating the winter or starting a family.

‘It’s home… . ‘

As Ed smiled bitterly, he heard a voice calling to him.

“Ed.”

Ed turned his head and saw Hermona, moving fast, her red hair blowing in the wind.

“Here senior?”

“I’m hungry. I think my butt is reaching its limit.”

I don’t know if there are any pursuers that have caught up with me now, but since I’m far enough away from Rake Coast, I can relax a bit.

“Then let’s get some rest.”