Who knew how much time had passed before the undead monsters that had invaded Uruk were finally annihilated or driven away, allowing Uruk to regain its peace.
With Ryougi Shiki's retreat, Luo Zhen and the others were able to join the battle. On top of that, Gilgamesh had prepared for this beforehand, making arrangements to deal with undead monsters. Only then could Uruk resolve the invasion so smoothly.
Fortunately, all the undead monsters invading Uruk were the type that relied on numbers to win. If beings on the level of Ugallu or Bashmu among the northern monsters, or the wyverns among the southern army, had appeared in the enemy ranks, this crisis would not have been so easy to resolve.
Thus, this crisis could be considered a close call that they had safely overcome.
However, it was not as though there had been no cost at all.
Even though Gilgamesh had ordered the citizens not to leave their homes and to avoid revealing their aura as living beings as much as possible, how could ordinary people possibly conceal the aura of life?
The citizens of Uruk were merely ordinary humans. They were not Magi, or even warriors. Even if they wanted to restrain their auras, it was not something they could accomplish just by wishing to.
Therefore, casualties had still appeared in Uruk.
This time, a full eight hundred and twenty-four people were attacked by undead monsters. After being injured and falling into a weakened state, their souls were directly carried away by Galra Spirits.
Together with the one hundred and thirteen victims from before, nearly a thousand people had died in Uruk over the past two days, their souls taken into the Underworld to fall into eternal slumber.
This was no laughing matter.
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