Chapter 1322
{Zombie Queen’s Horde – An undead necromancer can become capable of controlling a horde of undead. They use them as an extension of their own body. Strengths: High Soul Attack Resistance, High Regeneration Weaknesses: Fire, Holy Magic}
To get a quick bearing on what I was dealing with, I depended on God and Devil Eye. There wasn’t a lot of information, probably because I was ultimately looking at the horde, and not the actual creature. It’d be like identifying a Kraken’s tentacle and not the Kraken itself. However, it did tell me that I was correct. There was a Zombie Queen that was controlling the horde of zombies.
They were a necromancer, not unlike the main boss of Mina’s dungeon, but they were undead. This seemed to give them the ability to use other undead, rather than like brain stooges, but as extensions of their own body. In other words, the queen just had to hide while it sent waves of enemies after me. I could wipe out the enemy rather easily, but if I let a fire spread the main body might be destroyed. The same thing could happen if I got too aggressive with white mage magic.
Unfortunately, the horde was contained too many and was too hostile for me to play it safe either. After cutting a few down, they were always swarming to the point where I was in trouble. My back was to the doorway which had closed just as I entered, just like a boss room would. This was a trap built by the Zombie Queen to quickly consume any enemies passing by.
“We’re trapped!” Alysia cried out.
“What’s going on out there?” Pait demanded.
“I’ll show you!”
“Ahhh! Turn it off!”
“Why do you keep asking if you’re not prepared to see?”
“Why do you keep ending up in such scary circumstances?”
Alysia and Pait arguing in my head wasn’t helping, but having traveled with five women in a party and used Slave Communication, I had grown extremely used to fighting monsters while listening to a lot of bickering. I studied the room quickly, trying to get a grasp of where we were. Beyond the undead, I could see columns, a hardwood floor, and various scones that were lit. Above me was a fancy chandelier, which immediately gave me the realization that this was some kind of ballroom or banquet hall.
I had run out of time, a grouping of monsters reeling back to attack. My eyes focused on the chandelier. I jumped into the air just as five monsters jumped for me, narrowly dodging them. I jumped a second time pressing off a step I created and then leaped for the chandelier. When I hit the chandelier, it immediately swung back and forth, but it didn’t fall. Had it fallen, it would have been unfortunate, but the crash would have taken down some zombies and given me a bit of room either way.
Up in the air, the zombies couldn’t catch me. With one arm, I looked down into the crowd below, looking for the so-called queen. Even if I couldn’t find her, I could take out the zombies one at a time until the crowds thinned out a bit. That’s what I was thinking, but the zombies immediately started getting on each other shoulders, creating a human tower to reach me.
I had forgotten they weren’t normal undead, but they worked under a hive mind!