novelonline Chapter 3395 Ghoul's Friend
Chapter 3395 Ghoul's Friend
Chapter 3395 Ghoul's Friend
The boat did not glide along the ground, but gradually rose as Shade paddled. Half a meter above the ground, it seemed to be floating in the white mist and moving forward, which looked quite similar to the mounts of the undead knights just now.
After regaining his human form, Shade paddled lightly again, and the boat accelerated and headed forward over the tombstone.
Although the speed of this ship is not as fast as that of Shade in the silver wolf form, it is at least much faster than the speed of his legs.
"She" gently guided Shade back to the place where he had just separated from the witches. The boat rowed forward for a short distance before seeing traces of battle left on the ground. Undead creatures would be absorbed by the wasteland after being defeated, so the bodies of monsters could not be seen here. Shade didn't know what they had encountered, but it seemed that it was not an easy opponent to deal with.
The cat has been released by Xia De again. Because it is very obedient and won't run around, Xia De is happy to let the cat with a keen sense of smell play a certain degree of warning role.
As they continued forward, one or two ghouls would occasionally jump out from both sides of the darkness and pounce on the boat, but they were all chopped into pieces by the moonlight wielded by Shade. However, the ghouls appeared more and more densely, and more and more mutated individuals appeared among them.
It wouldn't matter if they could just fly or become invisible, but the limb mutations caused some zombies to be able to move forward even after being chopped into pieces, and they really caused Shade a lot of trouble; of course, the most disgusting enemy was still the zombies that would self-destruct. Although the boat was not afraid of being damaged, Shade really didn't want his clothes to be stained with too much corpse oil.
Shade suspected the witches had run headlong into a den of ghouls, but that was certainly the direction to go.
"found it!"
Soon, Shade heard the sound of the spellcasting, and the boat rushed forward, knocking aside the undead blocking the way. More and more ghouls appeared from the front and were blown into pieces by Shade's "Thunder Wave". At this time, the witches who were standing back to back facing the ghouls rushing in from all directions like a tide, heard the sound from behind, and felt the ghouls behind them split up, and quickly moved towards Shade.
"Boat?"
They didn't expect that Shade would get a flying boat, but it was certainly good to have a means of transportation under such a dense siege of undead. The hounds were thrown onto the boat, and then Miss Liad and Theresa jumped on together.
Sister Belen followed behind them, and Miss Violet, who used the power of the Eternal Sleep Scripture to control some of the ghouls, boarded the ship last. Mia even called out to Miss Violet. After everyone boarded the ship, the hundreds of ghouls around them flew towards the small boat that was surrounded, and then the dazzling golden light exploded and blew them all away.
Shade's Sigil of Heaton, Sister Beren's First Fire Secret - Ring of Blazing Flames, and Miss Violet's Chaos Witch Secret - Guardian of Disorder, made three layers of shields in gold, red and colorful colors overlap on the boat, and also wrapped the entire boat.
Theresa cast a spell to speed up the boat, and under Shad's control, the entire boat pierced into the group of zombies like an arrow, and then rushed forward at a speed like a hot knife through butter.
"Is this ship the same ship that died?"
The nun asked softly amid the cries of the surrounding zombies. Shade nodded as he maintained the shield so that it would explode at the right time and cast the seal again:
"Yes, now I summon this ship in this wasteland, and I don't even feel any consumption."
As he spoke, he used his left hand to push the "Thunder Wave" to the side. He didn't need to hurt the enemy, as long as he could push away a large number of zombies each time. Facing this kind of scene, the moonlight power that easily exploded too brightly was not very effective.
Violet, who was standing at the bow holding the Book of Eternal Sleep, reminded him:
"Get ready. I sense there's a big guy ahead."
"Can we take a detour?"
"There's no way to take a detour. From my perspective, that thing is blocking our path in a conceptual sense. That thing has the power to manipulate the wasteland."
The density of the ghouls began to decrease after reaching a certain limit, and the pressure on the people on the boat was relieved. In just a few minutes, as the boat continued to move forward, the density of the ghouls around it also decreased to the point where it was almost unnecessary to use a shield to cover the boat.
In the end, the zombies that appeared between the tombstones didn't even attack the group, but just wandered in the wilderness.
The stench had become so strong that it was almost impossible to breathe. The cat, with its keen sense of smell, had long since hidden deep in Shade's pocket. The strong stench of corpses was like they had put their noses close to a severely decomposed corpse in the summer, so Shade guessed what they were about to face.
A huge black shadow appeared in the fog ahead, like a dark mountain range blocking the direction of the boat's advance. The continuous mountains were like a barrier in the wilderness. Even if you didn't have gigantic fear, you would be terrified when you looked up.
But what was even more frightening was that as the small wooden boat approached, everyone saw that the surface of the "Dark Mountains" was wriggling rotten flesh and blood. Then they realized from the general shape of the mountains that it was not a mountain range, but a huge, fat human figure sitting on the wasteland.
"The Marquis of Ghoul."
After the Hound finished speaking, he held his daughter and hid under Theresa's skirt. The boat also stopped at this time. Although there were still many tombstones around, there were no more wandering zombies.
No one had ever seen a ghoul as big as a mountain before, and the power it contained was even more terrifying than its size. Shade even felt that the chimeric undead evil creature that appeared above the city at the end of the Battle of Midhill Castle was not as terrifying as the undead that was blocking the road at this moment.
The stench almost changed the color of the air around them. Everyone held their breath, and the two sides were in a silent confrontation. But Theresa had already grasped the [One-shot Kill Pistol], and Miss Violet also grasped the last Soul Tear. The cracks of the embers of the First Fire on the nun's hands spread inch by inch, and Miss Liad squatted in the boat to guard the luggage that could not be turned into toys.
Suddenly, a rumbling thunder sounded from high in the sky, but then Shade realized that it was not thunder but voices.
"Ghoul, my friend."
The ambiguous words probably had these two meanings. The outsider was shocked, thinking that the next sentence would be something like "Friend, it's delicious", but the "Dark Mountain" moved sideways afterwards. The huge monster moved silently and strangely, and in just a few tens of seconds, the "mountain" blocking the way completely disappeared in the fog.
The zombies around disappeared, and the way forward was cleared.
No one on the boat quite understood what was happening. Miss Violet even cast a spell to test whether the disappearance of the "mountain" was an illusion. Only after confirming that it was safe did she let Shade set sail again.
"Do you have any ghoul friends?"
As everyone was puzzled, Miss Liad, who was squatting, asked in a low voice:
"Could it be that someone here has made friends with the ghouls, so that giant ghoul is willing to let us go?"
The hound that emerged from beneath Therese's skirt agreed:
"The Ghoul Marquis only cares about corpses. He is one of the few powerful beings in this wasteland that has no conflict with you. If you have gained the friendship of other ghouls, it is very likely that he will let you go."
"I won't mess with something this disgusting and ugly."
The Witch Queen spoke first, and Theresa nodded. Although Miss Liad often went in and out of the tomb, she had no interest in making friends with ghouls, and the same was true for Sister Belen.
So the witches all looked at Shade, who didn't know either:
"My friends are all alive, could it be..."
He originally wanted to say that there was a mark on the back of his hand given by the Chosen One of Death, but suddenly he thought of another thing in the gentle laughter of "her":
"Last Friday, I mean two days ago, I helped a ghoul."
While driving the boat, he described the story of Mr. and Mrs. Otto, the ghouls, about the fifty-year wait. Of course, he omitted Chloe's name in the background story. "Ghouls" and "ghouls" are actually the same kind of undead creatures, and the two are almost equivalent.
The young girls - Theresa and Miss Liad - were all very sad after hearing the story, and Miss Violet thought that was why they were let off:
"You said you personally sailed it to death, and received a gift after the soul left. Did you carry the gift with you?"
[Ancient Fairy Tale - Snow White] Of course it's on her. This is just an ordinary item that can be taken by Shad. As for the ice-blue heart of the living dead, it is now in a suitcase held by Miss Liad, so of course it's also there.
"They are all on this ship. Is this what you call good deeds being rewarded?"
Only then did Shade fully understand that, although the Ghoul Marquis did not embarrass them, it did not mean that the road back to the world of the living would be smooth sailing. On the contrary, the appearance of this giant ghoul who should have been uninterested in them, instead explained some problems:
"Both the Ghoul Marquis and the Swelling Lady have appeared. Will the last one show up?"
The hound replied quietly:
"The gravedigger of the underworld is a guard placed in the wasteland by the master of this country. If we encounter it, we can only leave if we fight it head-on."
"But why do they all appear?"
Theresa asked in a low voice. Miss Violet glanced at her, shook her head and said nothing, but everyone on the ship guessed the reason. If it wasn’t because of bad luck, then it was certainly because there was a stronger being than them who issued the order.
Miss Liad's face turned pale as if she had also become a ghost. Her situation was the worst among all the people present, and she was most likely to be left here forever.
PS: The picture in this chapter is "The Marquis of Ghoul".