Overlord (book 1)

them to jump from a 500 meters cliff and only if they were able to survive would they be given

the reward.

While no one took action, only one person was moving——no, it should be said that it was half

a person. It almost looked like he wanted to answer.

"Opppoooooo......"

The right half of the knight who was cut in half grabbed Belius ankle. Its mouth spit out blood

and groaned:

""───Oooaaaaaaaahhhhhh!"

Belius started screaming, and the nearby knights and villagers who saw what happened couldn't

stop their bodies from becoming stiff with horror.

[Zombie Slave].

In YGGDRASIL, when a death knight kills its target they would become an undead as well and

immediately revive as a zombie at the place they were killed. If you died through the sword of a

Death Knight, you would become its minion for eternity. That was the game's setting.

Belius stopped screaming and fell to the ground like a puppet whose strings were cut. He

probably passed out. The Death Knight moved close to the unconscious man and thrust out the

corrugated blade in his hands.

Belius body was stabbed───

"Wooooohhhhhhhhhhh"

─── and woken by the pain, Belius let out an earsplitting scream.

"Let, let me go! I am begging you! I will do anything you ask!"

Belius hands grasped the corrugated sword stabbed inside his body, but the Death Knight

ignored his words. Instead, it started to move the sword up and down like a saw. Along with the

body armor that was brutally shredded, blood was flying everywhere.

"Aaargh—— I, I'll give you money, let, let me—— "

Belius body shakes a few times and finally draws his last breath and Death Knight leaves Belius

body with satisfaction.

"No…. No… No."

"God!"

Because of the scene happening in front of them, his shocked companions wailed in anguish.

To run would mean to lose one's life, but to stay would mean a fate worse than death. Although

they were well aware of this, they had no idea what to do and thus their bodies were unable to

move a single step.

"——Calm down!"

Londes' roar echoed from the wails. The area became silent, as if time had stopped.

"——Retreat! Hurry and send the signal, call the horsemen and bow cavalry back here! While

the horn is blown, the remaining people here try to buy some time! I for one don't want to die

this way, get moving!"

Everyone sprang into action.

Gone was the bewilderment from before, everyone worked as one and moved with the

momentum of a splashing waterfall.

Mechanically following orders, they stopped thinking and tried to make a miracle happen. The

chaotic actions from before would not happen a second time.

All the knights knew what they had to do. They needed to protect the one in charge of blowing

the horn, in order to contact the other knights.

The retreating knight put down his sword and took out a horn from his bag.

"OHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Apparently the action of taking out the horn was a signal for action, the Death Knight began to

run. Its target was the knight who took out the horn, everyone's heart dropped, their opponent's

plan was to destroy their only means of escape, wasn't that completely ruthless?

The pitch black tidal wave was approaching them relentlessly and the knights knew that

standing in front to block it would mean instant death. However, everyone still advanced to form

a defensive wall. Using an even more intense fear to kill their fear of what was front of them,

they stood there and blocked.

With a swing of the shield, a knight would be sent flying.

With the flash of the sword, another knight would be cut in half.

"Ditz! Morite! Quickly cut off the heads of those that died. If you don't, they will come back to life as zombies!"

The knights who were singled out hurried towards their brutally murdered companions.

The shield swang again, more knights flew and the sword slashed easily through another knight.

In a flash four knights had died. Although Londes felt fear, he took his sword and stood before

the black whirlwind, ready to heroically sacrifice himself like a martyr.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Even if there was no chance of winning, Londes did not intend to sit still and, shouting a battle

cry, used all his strength as he swung his sword towards the Death Knight.

Maybe it was because this was his final chance, but Londes broke his own limits and released a

strength that surprised even himself, this might've been the best slash he ever did in his whole

life.

The Death Knight also slashed out his Corrugated sword.

After a flash, Londes' eyes spun───

───to see his own headless body tumbling onto the ground. Londes' sword flew in an arc

through the air. And at the same time, the sound of a horn could be heard—

Momonga——Ainz turned his head towards the village where he could hear the sound of a horn

being blown..

On the ground around him were the bodies of the knights guarding the village's surroundings.

The surroundings reeked with the smell of blood because Ainz was in the middle of greedily

experimenting and at this moment he cursed at himself for mixing up his priorities.