The Newbie Is Too Strong's
57. Zombies and the Land of Death (1)
Through the portal located in the novice village, I and the entourage teleported to the Imperial Capital of Lalania, Allidra Ekin City. From there, then we transit to Gridnyard City, the nearest city that still has a portal.
Because in Kaukau Village, the village that became our travel destination, there is no portal, we also chose a land route where we agreed to choose to ride the horse directly instead of the horse carriage in order to shorten our travel time due to the time provided by the system to me in completing the mission constricted.
We rode 4 horses. I drove by piggybacking Lia in the back, while Uncle Heisel was piggybacking Brother Andra. Senior Areka at first insisted on riding her own horse as she claimed to have learned it. And it proved he could, but it only lasted about half an hour. After that his speed slowed down as he confessed that his butt was in pain.
He eventually turned into a passenger with Kak Keporin as the rider. As for Kak Raia who was originally piggybacked by Senior Areka, finally switched to being pigeonholed by Kak Dimitri, the person from the assassin guild I just knew.
No, I'm sure his arrival at the guild was as a spy, regarding I've also seen the video tutorial vrmmorpg The Last Gardenia where he is an intelligence agent from the famous Symphonia Kingdom. What I was surprised by was why he kept using the same name as if he had no intention of covering up his identity at all.
And if it's true that his arrival at our assassin guild is as a spy, it's been exactly a while since I disappeared from the quest in Symphonia Kingdom, after all, that means he wants to find out who I am related to that strange phenomenon that happened in the Symphonia Kingdom some time ago.
But that's okay because I don't intend to hide anything. However, what I was worried about was the restriction by the system that prevented me from giving out information about the outside world to some degree.
After two hours of driving, we arrived at Kaukau Village.
I who led the group in front then became the first to meet with the guards.
“Where are you from and what are your needs for visiting this remote village?” The question posed by the large-bodied and sinister-faced guard made me shudder at a glance. However, we also showed our identities, IDs for the NPCs, while status boards for us wanderers.
Instantly the sinister face turned soft and treated us kindly knowing that we were not suspicious. Turns out, Mr. Guard is also a good person.
Just by traveling alone time has almost 3 hours passed. Even though today, we only have 4 hours to carry out a mission about the hours of prohibition of playing games for minors.
However, I saw the expression of Lia who was so interested in exotic and culinary fruits sold in the market. Oh yes, although in the real world today is about 22.30 o'clock, but it looks still dusk in this village.
The Lalania Empire was famous for its exotic and culinary fruits, not only in the capital, but also in all corners of the country. It was only natural that Lia was interested in all of that. I also as the leader of the group, before going on a mission decided to enjoy culinary and exotic fruits that are tempting.
It seems that Brother Andra and Kak Raia do not mind at all about it because they also look very curious. It was not much different for Senior Areka, only, she remained on her shy attitude of the cat.
It feels so weird. Though I am not using my original body, but I can enjoy all these appetizing fruits and culinary delights with pleasure. The taste and smell of food really felt real, exactly the same when I used my real body. Plus, the sensation of fullness and contentment that I felt also felt so genuine.
To the extent that strange thoughts arose in my head, if only I ate food in the game only and did not go out of the game for weeks, if, is my real body still alive without the need for real food. Well, of course I already know that the answer is no, regarding Mr. Susanto, my biology teacher had previously explained it in class in detail.
There, I know many friendly NPC-NPCs. There are Bu Maryam culinary sellers of squid ingredients, Mr. Sardi sellers of apples, Dik Angga sellers of delicious sweet snacks, and many more. Not only Lia and friends, I also really enjoyed the snacks today.
This is very dilemmatic considering that for 15 years I lived on this continent, I never felt the beauty of nature at all. It is precisely when I was separated and stranded in another world then returned here as a wanderer, I just realized how beautiful it all was.
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At 11 o'clock, we stopped our culinary tour. We intend to use the remaining hour at least to find clues about the criminal we're looking for and prepare to plan things to execute him tomorrow.
Brother Andra also began to activate his scout-class special skill to find the target. The target, Philtory, was a necromancer so it should be easy to find from his unnatural flow of energy as it mixed with the dead mana.
And bingo! In just 4 minutes and 15 seconds, Andra seems to be done in the search.
“Me.” He said with certainty.
“But why if his quest was that easy, just searching and then killing the target, it should be dear Luca and Andra should have been quite a presence here. Why do you need an eight-person party?” Lia also asked.
“Because it is related to necromancer, isn't he going to resurrect the zombies? The passage here is close to the land of death.” Then Senior Areka answered the question, but the answer was so creepy that it gave me goosebumps. I can't imagine that all the zombies in the land of death suddenly rose up and attacked us.
“Hahahaha. That can't be because this is just a newbie ascension test. Where can the difficulty level will be the same as the main quest that requires participants of at least 100 players.” I also agree with Raia.
But I saw a smile on Andra's lips. He casually said, “Hahahaha. Your guess is correct, Senior Areka. It will be a fun quest. The Necromancer seemed to have summoned thousands of zombies from the land of death and would soon be heading to this place.”
What did Andra just say? I don't understand at all. Not understanding, I tried to confirm it, “Kak Andra, what did you just say? Thousands zombies? So what is the fate of the residents in this village?”
“Hahahaha. What are you worried about, Luca? They are just NPCs. The important thing for us is to collect quest points. Because helping you complete the quest will not contribute anything to our rewards, then of course side quests like this are like a gift for us.”
Is correct. They never consider the people who live in this world as human beings. Why did I forget that? For players, the existence of NPCs was like a way to get quests for their game points.
Withstanding this feeling of tightness in my heart, I ran towards the gatekeepers to warn them of the danger of a zombie invasion that would soon invade the village.
“Hey, Son. Don't mess with us, guards. How do you know there will be a zombie attack? We've been tired of guarding the gates all day. Reward us by not making us have to work twice.”
But the guards didn't believe me at all.