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  Chapter 88: Sewer?

  *Celia’s POV*

  Rep the whole situation to the Guild didn’t go smoothly at all. I mean, we did kill Kirva. She arently a very important member of the Guild. Frankly, they wao charge us with murder.

  The people harassing us, clearly didn’t knoe are. Luckily, or rather lucky for them, the queen showed up and told them to believe what we told them.

  It was lucky for them, sihose three and I, could easily kill our way out of this building. We could probably even still get the queen to make our charges for doing so, just go away.

  Despite them probably wanting us to hang, a few days after we left their main building, they had another request for us. The new leader of the Guild in this kingdom, showed up personally at my house, just to hand us this request.

  What was the request? Well, we were assured that it wasn’t a pn to assassinate us this time. Instead, people in this kingdom have been disappearing as of te. After she left, I looked towards Ria with a raised eyebrow.

  Ria: “It wasn’t my underlings.” She said in my head.

  Celia: “Are you absolutely sure?” I ask in my head.

  Ria: “Yes. Even if someone, or rather, a cute girl, was taken by them, no one would remember them at all. As my underlings would erase all memory of them.” She expined.

  If it wasn’t her people, then what the hell is happening? I guess I should read the report that dy left with us… After reading it, their theory is that something is in the sewers of this kingdom. Unfortunately, the church is in charge of it.

  This is bad because they refuse to let anyone iigate the sewers. The queen, along with the Guild, gave us special permission to access it. How did we bee the best members of the Guild in this kingdom? We haven’t done much at all…

  Grahe church didn’t want an iigation, not because they’re secretly evil, but because the sewers are very dangerous. This was already known, and ahat has ventured into the sewers, never e back.

  As such, access to it has been banned for many years. The higher ups at the church do not think that going into the sewers, would solve this kidnapping problem.

  Frankly, off the top of my head, this could be for many, many reasons. There could be a bandit group, that uses it as a base, or there could be some kind of monster. A mohat es up from the sewers, and then takes people into it. My bet is on a bandit group.

  Celia: “Pce your bets?” I ask.

  Nia: “s! Besides, I could easily figure out the truth, and then rig the bet.” She replied.

  Lia: “Yes, betting on what we will find, would be pointless with roup.” She said with a giggle.

  Celia: “Ah, I am overruled, it seems. What a shame.” I reply with a shrug.

  Currently, we’re at one of the entrao the sewer. Standing guard, are royal knights. I guess that they weren’t joking when they said that this pce is dangerous… If it is so dangerous, why didn’t they ask some strong person, like Amelie, to deal with it?

  Ria: “They did, but Amelie refused. She didn’t wish to explore a stinky sewer. That was her reply to the queen.” She expined.

  Celia: “Not that I dislike your presence, but are you always going to follow us, Ria?” I ask with a raised eyebrow.

  Ria: “Is there a reason that I shouldn’t?” She asked back.

  Lia: “When you go with us, there really is no threat at all.” She answered in my stead.

  Ria: “Ah, so I am limiting you three’s growth, then? Very well, I shall only assist wheher of your lives are at steak.” She replied.

  No, wait! Why ’t we just let our super powered maid steamroll this entire pce!? Besides, I doubt that we will even find anything in this pce to actually increase our levels. Damn, I guess that I shouldn’t have asked that question…

  Whatever. We expio the knights guarding the entrahat we were given permission to e. Unfortunately, they weren’t given prior notice, so we had to wait until someoh actual weight behind their name showed up. Just kidding, we beat them up, and theered the sewer without their help.

  I mean, it’s not like it was hard to break off a lo a gate. Rather than a sewer that I knew of, this pce was more like a dungeon. Though, the wall and floors were simir to the architecture of this kingdom. There were even lights lighting up the pce as well.

  There were little nterns on the walls, when I asked, I was told that eae tained a charged Light magia Crystal. As long as no one es them, they will always light the way. Which is probably why this pce is littered with them.

  I guess that retty forward thinking… We came to an open area. In said area, was a giant moving pool of water. Man, I would NOT want to fall into that… People in my era worried about gators being in a sewer, but now I have to worry about actual MONSTERS being in this water…

  Regardless, looking around, we found various blood sptters. A few of them were detly fresh, so there must really be something in this sewer… Damn, it is a good thing that we didn’t go forward with that bet. I would have totally lost it…

  Celia: “Should we do the stupid thing, and follow the blood trail?” I ask.

  Lia: “Why would that be stupid? We have no other things to iigate.” She replied.

  Celia: “I guess so?” I reply with a sigh.

  Following the blood trail, went on for a very long time. Whatever is in this pce, they surely have a lot of strength. Sihey were able to carry, what I assume is a full grown adult’s body, quite a ways into the sewer.

  We heard noises, so we stealthily approached the source of them. The sound was ing from the left corridor of this hall. I leaned over the wall, so that I could get a look at what was making the noise.

  The moment I saw what was making the noise, my nose was assaulted with a terrible stench. Holding my nose closed, I looked again. Sitting on the ground, was a group of, what I assume were zombies. Each was mung on a corpse. I decided to I one of them, while they still haven’t noticed us.______________________________________________________________________________

  :Status:

  Name: None.

  Race: Viral Undead.

  Level: 46.

  HP: 285/285.

  Hunger: 785/1864.

  Exp Gained From Killing: 286.

  Drops: None.

  :Summary:

  A Viral Undead, is an undead being, that’s only desires, are to spread its virus, a whatever it es across. A cure for their virus is yet to be discovered.

  When they first show up, as they’re close to a hive mind, rather tha, and spread their virus, their main goal is to build up their numbers slowly.

  Upon being bitten, it is advised to end your, or whoever was bitten, life. To stop the spread of the iion. Scratches from Viral Undead, do not transmit their virus.______________________________________________________________________________

  Well… that surely doesn’t sound good at all. Would I be so lucky to be immuo their virus? I highly doubt it…

  Ruina: “That would be correct, Celia. Do NOT get bitten, at any cost.” She excimed.

  Fuck… Well, I guess that we should be stealthy? As I was about to talk to the others, ahem what was wrong, an Undead showed up from the other corridor hall, and lu me. I was able to dodge, but o fell, the others were alerted.

  Now, this would all be manageable, if it wasn’t for them all to howl extremely loudly. After they did that, we heard hundreds, if not thousands, of further howls…