YLTESCIA: A Reincarnator's Tale in the Lands of Merusia (3)

Chapter 424: Full-Sweep Clean Up (pt. II)

CLANK CLANK CRACK BANG

A heavy symphony was adrift in the air, the sound of massive chains slithering across the floor and pillars shaking time and time again. The ground shook and trembled as massive figures moved, their step resonating all throughout the place.

What accompanied the trembles were subtle growls and roars, crimson red eyes glimmering inside the darkness. Eyes which drive fear into one's heart at a single gaze, peering into one's soul and ready to devour it whole.

There were just a single pair of eyes, but a multitude, an orchestra of red light shining like the starry night sky. The subtle and eerie breaths echoed in the air, the sound of dripping saliva accompanying them in a symphony of fear and darkness.

"How many of them are there... 10... No, 13?" ［Yuna］

"Yeah. There seems to be that many of them... These bastards were all just corpses yesterday... It seems that someone reanimated them." ［Grey］

"Hm? You can reanimate corpses?" ［Yuna］

"Well, it's a kind of summoning, you could say... However, these guys are entirely different... This isn't summoning magic..." ［Grey］

Said Grey as he scrutinized the place, his eyes lingering left and right as he watched every little detail there was to see. It was just yesterday when he saw them all as corpses, yet now, they are alive and breathing, moving as demonic beasts.

It was a completely different technique from summoning. Rather than turn one into an undead for a short while in exchange for mana, the ones before him have been fully "revived" with a new and ferocious personality, ready to go wild.

What's also stranger was that there were traces of experimentation all throughout their bodies, large scars to be found here and there and also some with burnt body parts. They were all test subjects for something they have yet to put together.

"Have there been no reports of beasts being smuggled into the city? With their size, it shouldn't be hard to miss them." ［Grey］

"I apologize, Your Highness, but we have received no such reports. At best, there were body parts and materials, but we have yet to see full-grown beasts."

"How about infants or eggs for that matter?" ［Grey］

"That... I cannot confirm that, Your Highness. Please forgive me."

"No, it's alright. That's more than enough." ［Grey］

And as it seems, it looks like the beasts have been kept in captivity ever since they were young, nourished into adults until they were ready for experimentation. It was only then that Grey realized that the beasts present were ones which grow up quickly.

Thankfully, because of that fact that they have to grow up quickly, there weren't any extremely powerful beasts amongst them. The most powerful one was a C-rank beast, and most of them were either D-rank or E-rank.

The knights can easily handle the E-rank ones by themselves, and the D-rank could be handled by higher ranked knights. For the stronger ones, they will have to be left to the Royal Guards. Anyone weaker would be easily torn apart.

『Grey... These demonic beasts... And the demonic beasts we fought from before... They're related, aren't they?』 ［Yuna］

『I can't say for certain, but there's a huge possibility.』 ［Grey］

『Then that's more than enough. Even if Duke Schemer is able to wiggle his way out, wouldn't this make his crimes even heavier.』 ［Yuna］

『Creation of demonic beasts? That's for certain... I doubt anyone would side with him once this gets out. He won't be able to get away from execution.』 ［Grey］