There were still vast numbers of ghouls roaming the tunnels on the sewer's "third level." Among them were elite undead strengthened and transformed by the aura of the underworld. But after the Plague Rat King and the Plague Ghoul Overlord had both died, these undead creatures had lost control at the source.
They had gone from their previous frenzied charge back to wandering about in a daze.
Especially after the survivors with life force had been moved out, the ghouls could no longer sense any "food," and had quieted down again. Most of the time, undead were quiet—unless you provoked them or they got "hungry."
Still, the sight of so many ghouls gathered together was terrifying. There were even enough to give Murphy a headache.
He knew that these weren't even all the corpses in the sewers.
More corpses had been brought to the honeycomb-like caves in the stone walls, where they were still being infused with death energy and transformed. Natalie said the Plague Rat King had used dark magic here to ensure the Plague Ghoul Overlord's successful birth, filling the area with massive amounts of death energy and the aura of the underworld. And it would be difficult to dispel in the short term.
That meant the sewer catacombs had to be sealed off from the surface!
Otherwise, it wouldn't be long before more ghouls, water wraiths, and vengeful spirits swarmed back through the first sewer level, which had only just been cleared.
But if the catacombs were sealed off completely, the undead creatures wouldn't perish on their own. With the aura of the underworld continuing to strengthen them, in a few months Murphy might have to organize another small-player raid to clear out the sewer catacombs. And by then, he might be facing nearly ten thousand fully