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30.1

Ch. 30.1 - Attack of the Necromancer(2)

It took about three hours to go to Martevis Cemetery. At least, the airship and warp hall system were systematized in Arcanium, so it wasn't a mess, but it was really congested.

After boarding the warp hall and moving to the transfer station, I took the train for an hour.

After waiting in line at Warp Halls for 30 minutes, I was able to arrive after an hour on the bus.

“You are lucky, student. Originally, it was a place where buses rarely went, so I almost had to rode a horse.”

I laughed at the bus driver's joke, thinking I was lucky too. Because if the time wasn't right, I'd have to ride a horse.

Like Earth, not all land were safe, so roads were not everywhere. So, in the Aether World, horses were still one of the main source of transportation.

Arriving at Martevis Cemetery, it was crowded with far more people than expected.

Half were mercenaries, and half were rookie mages of the Class 2 and Class 3. Other than that, those who were not combat troops were merchants who came to trade with mercenaries. Generally, they exchanged combat supplies with demon corpses.

The strange thing was that there were so many people in the cemetery. In the game, there was no one except for NPCs.

In the beginning, during the 'Third War of Dark Demons'.

Most cemeteries were legally required to go through a cleanup after the recurrent appeance of necromancer…

“Oh, that? There was no cleanup here.”

"Why?"

I had no choice but to ask an adventurer on the road, and the answer was finally revealed.

“If we do the purification work, there won't be any more ghouls. Then Vampbat, who eats ghouls, won't appear, and then 'Predfish', who eats Vampbat, won't appear either, right?”

"Uh... Isn't it?"

“It means that the main earning of our mercenaries is the Predfish. However, the ghoul disappears due to the purification work, and then the Vampbat disappears. Next, what if the Predfish disappears? The factory site in the next town that feeds on our hunt and I wonder what will happen to those old merchant brothers.”

That was to sum up...

Cleanup work → Ghoul extinction → Vampbat extinction → Predfish extinction → Mercenary job loss → Trader job loss → Small businessmen starve to death → World perish

It would be like this.

“Do you understand now?”

“Ah, yes…”

In the end, it was the story that the priests of the Holy Nation couldn't approach because the residents living in this area shouted, 'Oh, we're all starving to death!'

Come to think of it, despite the legal restrictions, there were exceptionally many cemetery fields in the Aether World.

I didn't notice it because I didn't care about it in the game, but it was so realistic there.

I didn't know there was a reason behind it. And it was ridiculously logical.

'Aren't you afraid of necromancers anyway...'

Anyway, with so many people, it seemed hard to find anyone.

'Was it better?'

With so many people, it would be easy to stop the attack.