Safeguarded the Borders for a Hundred Years, My Clan Was Burnt at the Stake - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: The Uncontrollable Origin of Darkness

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

As the memories of the person in his hands kept playing in his mind, Hall’s heart fell into turmoil.

The origin of darkness, which could initially be sealed off, could no longer be controlled!

He had roughly understood everything through the memories of this villager.

Everyone from the entire land of the Earl of Langford had been executed just because Hall had been tainted by the origin of darkness!

This anger continued to swell within him, causing the origin of darkness to keep surging in his body.

“I no longer need to suppress this!”

“From this moment on, I am darkness itself!”

Hall, who had the strength of a supreme mage, began to undergo great physical changes after lifting the seal on the origin of darkness.

The origin of darkness fused with his magical core, making him the Supreme High Lord of Undead!

Although his internal cavity was now empty of all organs, there was still an additional origin of darkness within!

Feeling the endless magic power in his body, Hall raised the wand in his hand and cast an undead recovery spell.

The dust on the ground started turning into people, who started to condense from fine sand, all of them turning into heroic skeleton soldiers!

Standing in front of the skeleton soldiers standing neatly, Hall raised his hand and shouted at them, “Let’s kill these hypocrites together and rebuild the world!”

Hearing the call, the skeleton soldiers raised their weapons and waved them behind Hall.

After forming the undead army, Hall did not rush to attack the surrounding towns. Instead, he got the knights to go out and search for the surrounding mass graves.

He then turned all the people who had died because of injustices and turned them into undead creatures. At the same time, he also obtained more dark energy from them.

After finishing this, he began to plan to attack the surrounding towns!

The first step was to build an undead fortress first. This was because undead creatures were unable to go under the sun.

What they needed was a dark magical instrument, that could blot out the sky and cover the sun. An instrument of this magnitude needed more than 10,000 people to be sacrificed before it could be created!

Only with this could Hall truly launch an attack on the empire itself!

In the wreckage, Hall found an old map and used it to understand the cities within the Fergus Empire.

The Earl of Langford’s territory was located on the east side of the empire, at the junction connecting it to the peninsula.

There were two towns on the peninsula, one was Mehionnes and the other was Mediarudy!

If they wanted to get living people to sacrifice, they had to go all the way to the east and invade Mehionnes.

A hundred years ago, this town had a population of more than 100,000. Its development till this point was unknown.

In any case, these towns were no longer in good shape because of the corrupt empire. As Hall was now part of the darkness, he no longer felt bad about killing people.

The night quickly passed, and all the skeleton soldiers were very busy that night.

They first dug out all the tools that could be used from the Earl of Langford’s territory and then proceeded to dig in the mountains to the east.

In this one night alone, because there was a large number of skeleton soldiers working, a huge mountain had been hollowed out.

When the first ray of sunlight rose, all the undead creatures got into the mountain.

On the other side, after the general returned to his residence, he hurriedly sent soldiers to the Earl of Langford’s territory to investigate.

At this time, Hall had already left Tumala for three days. He should have already reached there by now.

An army of a thousand men set off from Bader City, which was located in the northeast of the empire. They then started marching toward the territory of the Earl of Langford.

This was an elite army of the empire. The leader of this army was a Grand Magister and a Holy Knight.

(Knight levels: Knight, Grand Knight, Knight Commander, Royal Knight, Knight of the Holy Light, Holy War Knight, Sacred Knight, Royal Knight Commander, Scared Knight, there are a total of nine levels.)

At the front of the thousand-man team, two men on top of warhorses were talking.

As a knight, Giles Landel respected Hall a lot. He did not expect to have to personally attack him.

Feeling uneasy, he could not help but ask Max Walker beside him, “Hall has guarded the border for a hundred years, he should know what’s best for him, right?”

Hearing this, Walker’s lips curled into a disdainful smile. “He’s just been guarding the border for a hundred years, just because of this you think he is the most powerful in the world?”

“Without the empire, could he have achieved what he has today?”

“Without the empire, he would never have had the opportunity to hold such a powerful position at the border!”

“But if he were to get tainted by the origin of darkness, he would have to commit suicide!”

“There is no need for him to return to his home from so far away!”

“So there is only one possibility, and that is that Hall has betrayed the empire and has embraced the origin of darkness!”

As one of the main murderers of the Hall family, Walker fabricated everything and made it all sound very reasonable.

Landel knew all this as well. As a knight, he would not associate himself with this kind of person.

But now that the Holy Court was completely subservient to the empire, he had no choice but to obey the empire’s orders.

The army moved along very quickly. On the night of the fifth day, they had arrived at the land of the Earl of Langford.

Standing on the high ground, at a glance, all the buildings in the entire territory had been overturned.

There were no traces left on the wide square as if the executions by fire had never happened.

After seeing all this, Walker realized something and began to search through the square desperately.

Not a single trace of ash was left behind!

Seeing his strange behavior, Giles quickly stood up and came to his side, asking, “What happened?”

Walker kept mumbling, “It’s all gone. The bodies that have been burned to ashes here are all gone!”

“Let the soldiers continue checking around for a while more!”

“See if there are any traces of people left behind!”

As the soldiers searched, they soon found footprints, but they were not human.

Because only bones could leave prints that looked like this!

Hearing this, Giles quickly rushed over and cast a holy light spell on the footprints. Under the illumination of the spell, the footprints on the ground immediately emitted black smoke.

From this, he could confirm that these footprints were those of undead creatures!

“It seems that the people who died in the village have all become undead creatures!”

“Under the illumination of the holy light, the bit of the origin of darkness which has been left become has been purified, causing black smoke to be emitted!”

After hearing Giles’ words, Walker could not help but lower his head and ponder!