Chapter 78: Domare
While Lake couldn't see who had spoken to him, he knew they were there, and from the way the woman he had been following was acting, Lake bet this was the person he needed to ask to let him leave. "Hello, Is it ok if I leave?" There was no response, so Lake guessed the person was thinking, but a few seconds later he saw a giant hand reach down towards him.
Lake was going to dodge out of the way, but when he tried he found he was unable to move. Then he felt his ward shatter, and the hand wrap around him. The fingers knocked the nullifier out of his hand when they were closing and the radius that he could see started to shrink.
Being picked up, Lake started to panic because he could tell whatever was picking him up could crush him, and Lake always feared being squeezed until he popped. Before he had died, being squished to death slowly had always been on the top of the worst ways to die list.
Burning to death was actually the only way to die he had been afraid of more, so if he got killed by being squeezed he would have experienced two of his worst fears. Being lifted upwards Lake was finally able to see who he had spoken to earlier. Well not really them just what they were wearing it was like a robe with no hole for the face.
They were also massive, but he guessed he had already known that because of the fact he could fit in their hand. "Why would you want to leave?" Lake would have tried to cover his ears if he could move but he didn't think it would help. He was pretty sure this giant was talking to him in a similar way that Lucas could with his mirror.
Straight into his head would explain why it was so loud. "The main reason I want to leave is to show you that I have no interest in fighting you." Lake couldn't make it more clear. He knew if they thought he was here to stop them he would be dead in a millisecond.
Lake heard a cracking noise and thought he had been killed, but when he felt no pain it made him think maybe the noise was from something else. "I'll let you go after I show you something." After he heard this Lake felt the Insider act up it felt like it was sighing in relief.
Lake realized if he died without passing the Insider on it would die as well and Lake guessed it had been afraid this was the end. Lake felt the same way, because his lie detection hadn't gone off making him a free man once this giant got what it wanted from him.
Lake didn't try any small talk this time. It was usually how he got more information but he really didn't want the giant to answer using its telepathy again. While it didn't really hurt it was very unpleasant, and it was like his brain stopped working whenever it happened.
As they were walking towards the middle of the forest the nullifier finally ran out of power and Lake could no longer see where they were going just feel the giant taking steps. He wasn't really sure what he was about to be shown if he couldn't see, but he would just bring it up later if they didn't do anything about it on their own.
Lake felt the giant stop walking shortly after, and guessed he had been close to making it to where they were before they had caught him. If his slow ass identity had walked faster Lake wondered if any of this would have happened.
He most likely would have delivered the body with no problems. Then he could have wasted time till they were done here, and snuck away once the wall fell. Lake felt the giant's body shift slightly and a few seconds later he could tell the darkness was starting to clear.
Once he could see well enough to tell what was happening, Lake saw that the giant was absorbing the darkness into its body. Lake guessed this might be where it had come from to begin with, and the giant was just reabsorbing its mana.
Once he looked away, Lake saw two things, one was a clear sky which made him think the wall he had run into earlier wasn't in the sky for whatever reason and the other thing was a massive pile of bodies. Lake had expected the bodies, so he actually found the fact that the wall wasn't a dome around the forest more interesting.
The only thing Lake could think of that could explain this is they were letting strong people who could fly leave instead of fighting them. If this was true they didn't care about the quality of the bodies just how many they ended up with. This didn't sound right to Lake though, he bet there was another reason he couldn't think of.
"I'm about to set you down. Don't run or I'll have to catch you again." Lake found this warning funny because it wasn't really violent. It was more how you would speak to a child than a prisoner.
Once he was on the ground Lake saw the giant start to produce more mana, Lake was pretty sure it was Unholy mana based on the color. Once there was a massive corona around the giant it took out a chunk of flesh, and threw it at the pile of dead bodies.
After the ball of flesh landed the giant lifted its hands and said. "Create Undead." Lake saw all the mana the giant had made rush forward into the pile of dead bodies. The bodies absorbed the mana like a sponge, and a few seconds later the pile started to shift.
It looked like the bodies on the edge were being pulled towards the center and the whole pile was growing upwards. Lake had thought they were about to make an army's worth of undead but now he wasn't too sure, because it seemed all the bodies were being formed into one massive giant.
Lake could clearly see the beginnings of the human form being sculpted from all the flesh, pulling his eyes away from what he was seeing, Lake looked at the giant that had carried him here. If he wasn't mistaken they were the same thing, and the fact that the Temple evacuated all the small towns made more sense.
It seemed the Temple was killing two birds with one stone. Keeping people from dying, and the Demon Lord from getting more of these undead giants. Lake wondered why this giant had wanted him to see this. He understood it wasn't really a secret, but Lake would expect them to be trying to slow down how fast this news spread.
With how massive the spell this giant cast earlier Lake was assuming they were pretty strong, so if they could get a few more before people knew about them it would be good for the Demon Lord's side.
Once the news spread people would stop leaving the city out of fear of being killed to make more so maybe the Demon Lord already planned to stop, and this was the last one he was going to make before the fighting started. If this was true Lake could see this as just a way to make the people in the city to panic.
Lake could see someone people called the Demon Lord using fear as a weapon. Lake could tell this was almost over, all the flesh and bones seemed to be in the right place for it to be able to get up and start moving around. Looking at it, Lake estimated it would be about 30 ft. tall once it got off of its knees and that was about how tall the one who had carried him here was.
"So what do you think, would you be interested in being able to do this as well?" Lake was startled by the sudden question but not by what the giant asked him. He wouldn't be surprised if the giant was able to tell how talented he was and the fact he didn't care what they were doing made him a shoe-in for the Demon Lord's army.
Since this was a life changing decision Lake thought it would be better if he held off on committing because while he found the ability to make undead kind of cool, he didn't think it was worth his allegiance. Lake didn't think just saying no was a good idea though it might make the giant mad so he was going to ask some questions.
"Are you the same as this undead you just made?" After Lake asked this he remembered he had just signed himself up for a headache bracing himself Lake wanted for the answer. "Our bodies are the same, but I've had more time to develop my skills. In a few months we'll be about the same."
"You're only a few months old?" If they could keep getting stronger with more time, Lake wondered how strong the oldest of them was. "No, it takes about three months to max out the jobs the Demon Lord made for us." If the Demon Lord made jobs especially for them, Lake wondered if undead couldn't get normal jobs.
Lake remembered the Temple head telling him gods could refuse to give jobs to people and groups they didn't like so it would make sense for the other gods to exclude undead because the Demon Lord was the only one who used undead in his army. That meant the Demon Lord was probably making jobs for undead because they couldn't get any stronger if he didn't.
"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's for me." Lake didn't really need anymore information, he already knew he wanted to stay as far away from the Demon Lord as possible so it didn't really matter what this giant offered him. "Ok in that case you can leave in a few minutes."
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