"Thud!!"
The ferocious beast fell to the ground, raising its hands in an attempt to seize the prey before it once more. But in the next instant, the pitch-black greatsword pierced its heart. A flash of light followed, and the howling beast fell silent forever, reverting to a corpse.
"Phew..."
Katima pulled out her divine sword and looked around. The once lush green plains were now littered with corpses, resembling a battlefield piled high with bodies and drenched in blood.
"That was the last one."
Fang Zheng glanced at the zombie beneath Katima's feet and spoke. Katima nodded slightly.
"Seems so... Um, Mr. Kasugano."
"Hm?"
"Did we... walk into a trap?"
It was no wonder Katima thought so. They had only just arrived in this world, yet they had been attacked by enemies so quickly. Naturally, she wondered whether someone had already laid a trap for them.
However, Fang Zheng dismissed Katima's suspicion.
"No. I can't sense anyone watching us nearby. Maybe we were simply unlucky and ran into a zombie horde."
"A zombie horde..."
Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Katima drew a sharp breath. She looked around again. There were far more than a thousand corpses in sight. If this had been a deliberately arranged trap, that would have been one thing. But if they had merely stumbled across it by chance...
"Are there... still living people in this world?"
Looking at the dark forest ahead, Katima shuddered. The thought that this world might contain nothing but those terrifying corpses, savage as beasts, filled her with dread.
"Who knows? That depends on how advanced this world's civilization is."
Fang Zheng walked up to a zombie corpse, lowered his head, and examined it closely.
"This thing's skin is quite tough. If it showed up in your world, Katima, you'd probably be