- Umm… Do… Do you want to wait there?

- No, I’ll go there. Just wait.

[You have entered the Habitat of the Dead (4).]

Ghoul bodies were all over the place, and the ground was slippery with their vomit and rotten internal organs. The stench coming from there was worse than the gutter that had been abandoned for decades. The neatly sliced heads appeared to be Yeon-Hee’s masterpiece, whereas the corpses that had been stabbed wildly looked to be the work done by some kind of giant monster.

It wasn’t long before I saw the city, and it was bleak as night even though it was currently daytime. It used to be the Awakened’s refuge in Act Two, Stage Three, but it now had become a fortress of the dead.

The guild leader had followed me well, but he suddenly stopped. It must have been his first time facing the city that was occupied by the dead. His eyes were fixed at the sight of the bodies drooping throughout the collapsed outer wall.

However, he stiffened when he heard the more disgusting sounds coming from deep inside the street. Even in his eyes, the city must have had the impression of having something on the verge of explosion, the darkness of death.

I knocked him in the back of the head.

Slam!

I hit him hard on purpose,...