Chapter 1008 - Invasion (1/2)

Lin Yun frowned. There was definitely a huge secret there, but he hadn’t expected anything specific.

The Great Shaman silently disappeared, not caring that Lin Yun was still in the cemetery.

Lin Yun looked at the place where the Great Shaman had disappeared, understanding his mood. The corpses being missing from the cemetery might be a secret kept by the Great Shaman. The rest of the tribe might very well be unaware, and maybe even the Great Tribal Chief didn’t know.

After quietly leaving the cemetery and returning to the tribe, Lin Yun immediately gathered everyone. The current situation wasn’t something one or two people could settle.

“…The situation is like this. The Beastmen’s corpses disappeared, and if there is nothing unexpected, the corpses of those Beastmen should be turning into new Undead Beastmen.

According to the Great Shaman’s hypothesis, anyone that dies in this land will turn into one of the Undead…”

Lin Yun recounted his experience in the cemetery. After listening to it, they were all thinking deeply.

Morgan looked rather grim as he said, “Great, there are a few hundred more Level 35 Undead Beastmen now. Their power is growing even stronger…”

Dedale calmly looked at everyone’s faces.

“We are already trapped here, and the Undead are tirelessly patrolling the prairie. Although they can’t approach the tribe, we are also unable to go out, and if the Undead besiege this place, no one would even be able to think of leaving alive.”

Someone immediately added, “Moreover, the appearance of those Undead Beastmen is too strange. They might crawl out of the ground at any time. Who knows where they are? They might surround us in an instant and stop everyone from running, leaving us only one option, which would be to join the ranks of the Undeads!”

The group didn’t have good expressions, and Lin Yun casually said, “This place is very abnormal. There is definitely a force influencing it, or the Beastmen wouldn’t turn Undead. If we want to leave this place, we have to break this Undead curse.”

Dylas’ gloomy expression became even worse when he heard Lin Yun’s words. A mocking sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth as he told Lin Yun, “Hmpf, these Beastmen have been here for who knows how long, yet you are saying that you can break the curse that they have been suffering from for over a millennium?

“I don’t believe in some Undead Curse. There is definitely another way to kill our way out.”

Lin Yun glanced expressionlessly at Dylas before ignoring him.

Dylas suddenly stood up in anger and loudly said, “Go ahead if you want to wait for death in there, I’m leaving this cursed place…”

He then stormed out in a fury. Someone wanted to persuade him, but Dedale suddenly pulled that person back. He looked at the backs of Dylas and the two members of the Shadow Tower while pointing at the prairie. “Since he wants to give it a try, let him give it a try. The sky is already bright, and the Undead have disappeared.”

Everyone stood by the side of the window and watched Dylas lead two members of the Shadow Tower out of the tribe.

Soon, the Shadow Tower’s three mages turned into small black dots disappearing into the horizon. An hour later, someone monitoring the prairie suddenly let out in alarm, “They returned! And the Undead are chasing them!”

Everyone stood by the window, using Eagle Sight to watch. Sure enough, they saw a large group of the Undead crazily charging towards the tribe, and in front of them were three exhausted people running for their lives.

But the Undead army suddenly stopped when they reached the perimeter, and all of the Undead retreated together.

After some time, they all fell back like a tide, and the earth once again regained its peace. Even the fragments of bones left by the Undead disappeared as if swallowed by the earth.

The grass, which had been rotting due to the death aura, started growing rapidly, and soon, all traces of their passage disappeared.

The Shadow Tower’s three mages returned to the tribe still shaking in fear, unable to say anything.

Lin Yun wasn’t in the mood to laugh at Dylas. He was frowning while looking outside the window, still perplexed.

In the evening, a large group of the Undead was patrolling the prairie, still veering away whenever they got close to approaching the tribe, as if they had encountered an invisible wall.

At first, he still thought that there was some magic tool stopping the Undead. During the day, the Undead had chased the Shadow Tower up till they reached the defensive perimeter of the tribe before bafflingly giving up on the chase.

More importantly, Lin Yun had discovered that the distance the Undeads had retreated from at the time was different from the distance when they’d started to retreat at night!

At night, the Undead would get close to the tribe, but they would retreat from further away during daytime. And whether it was daytime or nighttime, they always remained outside the Beastmen’s defensive perimeter. In other words, as long as the Undead didn’t get closer, the tribe’s Beastmen would never discover them!

The Beastmen had formidable constitutions, and there were many Beastman Warlocks with powerful casting abilities, but their casting abilities came from their bloodlines.

Human mages could grasp Eagle Sight and such support spells, but the Beastmen couldn’t. Their guards heavily relied on the Wyverns.

But this tribe had very few Wyverns, so they couldn’t luxuriously use Wyverns all the time to guard.