Game Transmigration: Saving the World Again 1000 Years Later (ON-HOLD)

Chapter 47: Graveyard

The graveyard was north of Thorn City. If it was based on scale, it was more like a satellite city than a cemetery.

Towering walls surrounded the entire cemetery. Spaced twenty meters apart on the walls were Placating the Undead and Life Barrier spell runes engraved by the Holy Spirits Church and the Rose Palace's Mage Hall.

Fortunately, Thorn City produced abundant Elementium Silver. If it were any other major city on the continent, even the Empire's capital, Platinum City, and the famously wealthy Tulle City wouldn't be able to afford such extravagance.

As the Blackwater Swamp believed in ancestor worship, people firmly believed that the souls of the dead needed their bones to exist. Therefore, most of the dead in Thorn City had been sent to this graveyard for burial for millennia.

The corpses had accumulated over the years, and the number of dead buried inside had probably reached an incalculable number.

The large number of corpses posed an extreme danger to this world where necromancy existed. Therefore, the graveyard was usually closed and heavily guarded, prohibiting outsiders from entering.

Only on the Soul Return Festival on the 4th of the Rain Moon and the 15th of the Fog Moon would the grave keepers here open the gates and allow residents to enter the cemetery to pay respects to their ancestors.

"The Holy Sepulchre you mentioned is built under the graveyard?" Cass looked at the towering city wall and asked.

"It should be said that the cemetery is built above the Holy Sepulchre. The Holy Sepulchre's history is much older than the graveyard. It existed long before the Bronze Age."

As Nizemar replied, she untied a bundle of ropes from her waist.

"Back then, the Blackwater people believed that the catacomb was the entrance to the Netherworld, the place where Vera-or Death was reborn. Therefore, the ruler of that time chose this place as a graveyard, hoping that he could be reborn after death. It was also at that time that the idea of the living serving the dead appeared. Later on, it gradually evolved into the ancestral worship custom unique to the Blackwater Province."

As Nizemar spoke, she threw the grappling rope up. After tugging at the rope a few times to test its sturdiness, she turned around and said to Cass,

"Alright, I'll climb up and take a look. I'll signal you to follow me when there's no problem."

With that said, she nimbly climbed up the rope like a cat.

Although the other party was wearing light leather armor, she was a lady after all. Cass found it embarrassing to stand below and stare at her.

Therefore, he turned to look at Liz, who had been sitting on his shoulder sulking.

"Uh... What's wrong?" Cass asked.

"Nothing."

Seeing Cass turn his head, Liz immediately turned her head away and snorted with her nose raised.

Cass guessed that she was still angry about what had happened, so he deliberated and said,

"Isn't her suggestion quite good? If you can retrieve your Life Scale Powder early, there's no need for you to be on tenterhooks every day about what happens to me. Of course, as for compensation..."

"Do you think I want compensation or something from you?!"

Liz suddenly turned around and grabbed Cass's ear.

Cass felt as if his ears had been twisted twice by her.

"Do you want to be a Spellblade that badly? Do you want to continue fighting elsewhere so badly? Didn't you say that you would retire after getting your vengeance? Can't you think of yourself more?" Liz pinched Cass's ear and said with a flushed face.