In a remote village in the northern part of the empire, the townspeople numb their contorted bodies as usual and began their day's work.

Farming, feeding livestock, carrying goods......

The village was extremely busy, but everyone's movements seemed a little stiff.

A middle-aged man who looked like a blacksmith waved the hammer in his hand and smashed it on the red sword.

Leaning forward, the body shook suddenly, but the round head broke and fell onto the hot sword, but the blacksmith didn't notice it at all, and still hammered it one by one, hammering the flesh and brain into the crimson iron sword.

It wasn't until noon that the peaceful village welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

Ivina led a group of Divine Punisher knights into the village, but the moment she entered, the girl already sensed that something was wrong.

The village looks desolate and dilapidated, with many houses toppled and muddy roads, and there are many traces that it has been the victim of war not so long ago.

But the townspeople of the village did not repair these dilapidated places, and did not avoid them as ordinary poor people when they arrived, and continued to work on their own.

A knight of the Divine Punishment Army suddenly grabbed a man passing by, and when he saw the other party's blank expression, godless eyes, and the obvious marks of being pierced by a sharp blade on his chest, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"They've been dead for at least five days!" The Divine Punishment Knight said with a solemn expression.

"It's half a month!" Ivina corrected that she was judging from the traces of war.

As she spoke, Ivina took out the magic sensing instrument with a solemn expression, and the pointer rotated in a circle, and finally pointed to a mansion in the village.

The twenty or so knights who stepped into the village drew their blades from their waists.

"Is it a church lackey again? What a ghost! ”

A cold curse soon came from inside the mansion, and the words were full of disdain.

Immediately after, an old and withered face appeared in everyone's field of vision, the old man in the black robe had gray hair, his skin was shriveled like tree bark, and the whole person looked like a skeleton.

"[Corpse Snatcher] Wally!" Ivina's mind flickered, and she quickly recognized it, because the other party's message was recorded on the Bible's bounty list for sinners!

Bounty of fifteen thousand Imperial Coins!

"I hate the name Corpse Snatcher!" The black-robed wizard frowned dissatisfied.

These corpses are the creatures of war, and without him they would have been abandoned in the wilderness, eaten by wild beasts, and finally there would be no bones left, what a waste!

In their own hands, they can create greater value!

Thinking of this, the wizard named Wally opened his hands, and his face showed excitement and fanaticism.

"Look, what a new type of ghoul I've researched! How much food was produced in these half a month, how many tools were built, they didn't need to eat, they didn't need to rest, they only knew how to obey orders......"

"Perfect...... It's just the perfect existence! The corpse snatcher said in a high-pitched voice. Let the dead be responsible for the work, and let the living be responsible for enjoyment, is there a better world than this? ”

The black-robed wizard finally found a few people to talk to, and he gushed about his great research, and it took him several years and countless experiments to finally awaken the memories of these corpses, so that they began to cultivate and smelt iron spontaneously......

He'll teach these ghouls more and get them to do more work!

Ivina and the others looked at the rotten, festering, and foul-smelling corpses in the village, and their expressions became more and more angry, and they clenched the long sword in their hands, interrupting the corpse robbers.

"Stop your nonsense and be judged, sinner!"

Hearing the title of sinner, Wally's expression became very bored. "None of you seem to be able to comprehend how great my research is!"

"In that case, then you can stay and contribute to my new cause!" The corpse robber said with a sneer, and then a cloud of black mist emerged from his body.

"Realm of the Dead!"

After coming into contact with the black mist, the eyes of those grim ghouls turned red, and their bodies twisted and expanded into ghouls with hideous muscles.

"Field? Is it the Grand Wizard?! The faces of the Divine Punishment Knights present changed suddenly, and they shouted in panic, which was completely inconsistent with the three-ring wizards written in the intelligence!

Although the third ring and the fourth ring seem to be only one ring apart, their combat power is very different!

"Fight!" With no fear on her face, Evena took the lead and rushed straight forward, the blade of her sword slashing out horizontally, and in an instant, she slashed a rushing ghoul in two.

"Corpse Explosion!" The black-robed wizard smiled gloomily, stretched out his hand, and the ghoul's separated body suddenly exploded, this blood mist carried corpse poison and plague, even the Divine Punishment Knight who had taken the [Divine Grace Elixir] could not carry it down.

However, Ivina had already disappeared into the blood mist with extraordinary speed.

……

After half an hour of fighting, most of the more than thirty Divine Punishment Knights died, and Ivina's body also had several more scars on her body that diffused with black mist.

And the head of the corpse snatcher [Wally] has been nailed to the slender blade.

With the death of the caster, the ghouls of the entire village lost their support and fell to the ground, and the exhausted Ivina breathed a sigh of relief,

"Thanks to you this time, Ivina!" A knight of the Divine Punishment looked terrified, if it weren't for the girl's lifeless style of fighting that confused the corpse robbers and gave them the opportunity to fight in close combat, then everyone would have died here and turned into a ghoul.

"It's a pity, they're still ......," Elena sighed as she looked at the corpses of her colleagues around her.

"Against these wizards, casualties are always inevitable!" The Divine Punishment Knight said angrily and helplessly.

In fact, it was extremely lucky to be able to kill a great wizard at the cost of less than twenty Divine Punishment Knights.

At least they've protected more of their empire from their enemies!

Elena nodded, and together with the rest of her colleagues, she gathered the corpses and burned them all to stop the possible spread of the plague.

Melodious chants soon resounded throughout the village.

"May your souls be spared purgatory, and may you ascend to heaven and enjoy eternal joy......"

Ivina prayed in a low voice, looking at the rising fire, and couldn't help but recall the past.

More than two years ago, in Harbour Town, it was this fire that made her wake up, separate herself from her family, and see a wider world.

As someone said, the world is big, too big to imagine, and a small barony is nothing at all.

The dome-like title that had obscured all her vision, and now she could decide the life and death of a baron with just one sentence......

The original vision, obsession and hatred seem ridiculous at this moment.

But...... Why would you want to be a wizard?

(End of chapter)