The Villainess and I, her Zombie

Chapter 519 - Goblins Stronghold (part 6)

The creature that came out did look like some grotesque tree

It had short stubby legs with massive claws that would help it stay upright, it's torso was extremely creepy – it looked like a column with faces of various monsters and creatures sticking right out of it as if they were trying to get out...

But even worse was the part that gave the creature its tree-like appearance – the massive bulbous head that seemed to be comprised of constantly growing bodies of the deformed goblins.

Yes – growing – the embryo would sprout and transform up into a fully formed monster within seconds and tear away from the spawning monster as if it was a ripe fruit.

"Commander! No, you go back!"

"Silence."

One of the champion monsters gasped and exclaimed but was silenced by the spawning creature as it waved its lanky arm with long, brittle-looking fingers.

"...interesting.."

The blue undead straightened his back and looked curiously at the odd monstrosity that already managed to create at least two dozens of new troops just since it went outside the building of the former headquarters.

"You cannot kill it – I want it, it will be a good material..."

The spawning creature's voice sounded like a dragging a nail on the chalkboard – but not only its voice was bad, its words were even worse.

The bulbous monster glared at the idle blue undead and tapped the faces on his torso – each one of them had pain and fear permanently engraved into their frozen expressions – so t might have been safe to assume that they weren't merely a decoration nor did they become a part of the odd monster willingly.

"..."

Zombie tilted his head curiously – there were at least two humans, a kobold, and an elf, someone who had to be a dwarf, a frenzy wolf, a moss troll, and a whole bunch of goblins of various sizes.

"Commander...! Even if you say that – it too strong...!"

The champion monster showed a great deal of insight and shook its head with desperation – after all, the problem was that they all wanted to kill the blue undead knight up until that point but was unable to – how in the world were they supposed to capture it, not to mention let their commander assimilate him?!

"Tsk..! Useless – I need to grow some braver headers, your batch is too warry."

The bulbous monster scoffed, shaking its massive head and causing at least a dozen fresh monsters to drop on the ground around it.

As it did – the monster close its eyes and its body released a faint murky red and black glow that seemed similar to the Eternal's energy with the only difference being that this one was thin and almost completely transparent, with an only tinge of color to it.

Once it did a brand new batch of embryos sprouted up – those grew up to a much bigger size than the ones that fell to the ground before them, and once they separated from the bulbous monster and fell to the ground, most of them had actually crushed their older siblings without much interest.

"Cap... ture...! Capture...!"

The newborn champion monsters growled, stumbling towards the motionless blue undead.

"..."

Zombie glanced at them all, at their brand new ad not even harder scales, and then he looked towards the old champion monsters.

"I'm starting to feel sorry for you."

*BOOOOOOOOM*

/Multiple high-level monsters defeated

You receive the EXP\\\\

The blue undead shrugged his shoulders before his shield unleashed a violet light and turned the approaching creatures into mush without even looking at them.

"...! Y-you...!"

The bulbous monster stumbled back and fell, hitting the ground and shaking off many of the still-maturing monsters before they were ready which resulted in them shivering and writhing in pain before drying up and dying at an accelerated rate.

"Seriously...? I thought that you went out because you noticed that I've been massacring your troops and you were some bigshot that would pose a problem for me, but you just wanted to go check up on what was causing the ruckus outside, didn't you?"

The blue undead scoffed, shaking his head with a mocking smile, glaring down at the scowling bulbous creature.

"I guess that your peculiar life signature is caused by the accumulation of all the beings you somehow gathered... and although I think that my Cranberry would love to study the mechanics of an oddity like you... I think it would be best to just get rid of you before you'll turn into a sigil monster and start causing real trouble."

"!!!!!!!"

Zombie lowered his head and took a menacing step towards the bulbous creature that flinched and tried to crawl back into the building but it had trouble even lifting its massive head once it hit the ground.

"N-no...! Stop...! You know about the sigil! You must know about Eternal!"

The creature raised its thin hand and reached it towards the blue undead knight as if it was looking for connection.

"So? What about it?"

Zombie's smirk bloomed into a full-on evil grin as he walked closer and closer with his shield up making the bulbous monster visibly panic more and more.

"You are a sentient undead...! You – you must be with the church of the system's faith, aren't you? Their assassin? I told them before that I need more humans to make my amalgamations stronger and more human-like, but they just kept giving me goblins! Don't kill me! Just tell them that if they'll give me humans I'll give them strong amalgamations!"

"..."

|...huh...?|

With the desperate yelp of the bulbous monster, a surprising piece of information was leaked...

|I was sure that the system's faith had clearly stated they are deeming the undead as damned beasts that can influence the story and steer it in a wrong... way...|

Zombie thought to himself fully aware that Kopia could read his mind, but just as he was doing so, a sudden idea popped up into his mind.

...what if – and only IF – by some odd chance – the talk about undead's influencing the story wasn't about all reanimated creatures, but rather just one...

Him.

The blue undead who has been going around and messing everything up since the first playthrough...

...but for that to make sense, someone would have to be aware of his presence even before he appeared in this world...

The wild idea got fleshed out in Zombie's head in a flash.

What if the system's faith church actually wants Eternal to wake up, whether because they think that they can control it or because they are just insane and have a death wish – and they somehow knew that he, Zombie, wanted to get rid of their precious overpowered monster.

They feed the people some farfetched information about the supposed bad influence of the undead so that fewer and fewer people would try and pursue the necromancy so that the possibility of the undead trying to kill the Eternal would be lower, while at the same time they are practicing the necromancy just so they would be able to control the undead...

Or...!

Or they are training in the necromancy so that they would be the ones who would control the undead that could threaten Eternal and by that gain control over the super-secret final boss...!

...still, it might be actually in order to defeat Eternal as well....