As soon as the light subsided, an intense heat felt on my cheeks.

''Ooh-oh, you mean like a literal hot start?''

　Everything as far as the eye could see was engulfed in a blazing fire with sparks flying.
　A row of tenements, an aristocrat's mansion, and a crumbling object that seemed to have been the symbol of the city were all on fire.
　Some of these objects were clearly human beings.

　But compared to the nightmarish scene that covers the sky, it's still easy to see.

''Oh, oh, oh, oh!''


　A veritable hell.
　Numerous anguished faces fill the city with an eerie, glowing tail.
　It's a swarm of ghosts.

''Nii-cha........''

　Stella sits anxiously on my leg, but she doesn't whine and scream.
　As it should be, she is an eternal little girl who has watched over one star from its beginning to its end. She is the will of the star that neither grows nor transforms.
　Stella, the embodiment of an eternal dream for a man, cupped her lips tightly together and was about to carve the end of one city into her little chest.

'Well,'

　It's a disgusting sight, but before I blow it up, I wonder where the pledges are.

Eeeeee...

　We didn't have to look for it to find it.
　Behind us, a translucent, pale, glowing, translucent boy of about five or six years old was crying and screaming.
　We could see a small hand underneath the nearby rubble.
　It was probably the ghost of a child who had been crushed by a house after failing to escape.

'Hey, kid. Are you okay........there's no way you're okay.

　After casting a dead spirit contact spell on himself, he patted the boy's head.
　When I looked to the side, I saw a banner with the symbol of the city painted on the nearby wall.
　It's enough of a thing to serve as a magic circle. It seems that the one who summoned me is definitely this girl.

"Ugh, gusu........

　Well, I knew it, but I couldn't have a conversation with it.
　It looks like a whining child, but this ghost is also like a broken radio that keeps automatically replaying the unresolved feelings and memories of the time just before death. Nevertheless, the strong feelings I had just before I died are enough of a wish to call me.
　When the ghost is a pledge like this, the theory is to have the memory read directly to you and know your wish...or pledge.

'Don't cry...'

　But before I could read the memory, Stella-chan grabbed the boy's hand.
　Stella-chan, who is manifesting with Ava's summoning, can touch the ghost.
　After watching for a while, something began to flow from Stella-chan to the boy, accompanied by light.

''........that's not good!''
"Nee-chah?

　I hurriedly pulled Stella away from the boy and she said, "Why? He tilted his head slightly.
　No, I guess I did it for good........

''If I forced you to give him a positive soul or something, it would cancel out the negative soul and this kid would disappear.
I'm sorry.

　When I gently admonish her, Stella-chan bows her head honestly.
　You don't have to transform to be able to reflect on it, good girl.

'I didn't know, so it's no use. You'll have to be more careful next time.''

　Okay, okay, I give her a pat on the head, and Stella is chagrined.
　Stella-chan is still in a state where she can't be said to be fully recovered, and we can't force her to do so.

　Before, I was weak, so I could put it straight into the sealing beads, but now it might be a bit impossible.
　If it's a cheat ability, whether it's the will of the stars or a f*cking god, I can neutralize it without question, but that doesn't make it any less pitiful to force it to be petrified and carry it around with a magic eye cheat like Zado, so I wonder if there wasn't some kind of moderate ability.

''Good, good, good, good...''

　I was thinking about it when Stella was patting the boy on the head.
　She didn't seem to be giving him any energy like I told her to.

'Ugh, Mum. Where are you?　Momma!

　Huh?　
　New information came from the mouth of the boy who hugged Stella.

'Nee-cha, it's my mom!'
'Oh!　Well done, Stella, well done.
Heh.

　Laughing a little proudly, Stella squeezes the boy in a hug.

'So that means you're looking for your mother.

　First of all, he's definitely not going to be alive, but at worst he'll have to fulfill his pledge by meeting the corpse or the ghost.
　Then it wouldn't necessarily be in its original form, and rather than read the mother's face from the boy's memory........

'Stella-chan, can you hold hands with the boy and bring him to me?
Yeah!

　It doesn't seem to be a ghost, and you can take at least one boy's ghost with you. On the other hand, if you leave them here, they might start wandering around aimlessly.
　The boy seems to calm down when Stella is around, so rather than trying to figure out a way to seal him up, I'll give him a role to play. I've been told by Eva not to treat her daughter-in-law unkindly for revealing it to the public.

　So, I started to explore the city, blowing up all the debris in the way.

'There are still some living people left wandering outside the Sun Temple...'

　I heard a voice that seemed to come from the depths of the earth, yet it was wriggling out of nowhere.
　I can't pinpoint the direction I'm hearing it. It's magic.

'Who's there?'
I am Neurid, the Immortal King. I am Neulid, the Immortal King, who seeks to resurrect the dead from their tombs sealed in King's Landing and to establish a kingdom of the dead. Now join me in the army of death!

　Moving bodies crawled out of the surrounding rubble, building windows, and back alleys with the pronouncement of the unseen ne'er-do-well.

'I see. So you're the one responsible for this scene, huh?

　The spirits of the dead are transported to the chamber of the gaff and become energy that circulates through the universe.
　On the other hand, the body that the spirit soul was in leaves a mold in the part of the body that the soul was in.
　This mold is infused with negative soul energy using deadly magic, etc... These are the moving corpses (living dead). They are commonly referred to as zombies, skeletons and other corpse monsters.
　I'm sure you'll be able to find a lot of people who will be able to help you.

I'll take you up on that. I'm just in the mood for warriors.

　Excited by the prospect of a killing spree, I beckoned to the horror movie-esque zombies.
　I got up, and countless zombies were attacking me, screaming their disgusting cries of disgust to join me in their ranks.

Well. If your opponent is undead this is your guy's cue!

　As soon as I shouted, a long-barreled automatic handgun decorated in white and silver was placed in my hand.
　Although it has the shape of a handgun, it is not a weapon created by a so-called modern weapon cheat, nor is it an item made by a craft cheat.
　Its name is the Holy Silver Gun. It is an item that was captured from the guildmaster of the Anti-Undead Guild of a certain VRMMO when they were in conflict with the AUG.
　To tell the truth, if a non-authorized user had it, the trigger would be unreasonably heavy and impossible to pull, so they would have to use their own physical strength to forcefully use it.
　Why would they bother using such an inconvenient item?

''Abya!''
Shaggy!

　The zombies I randomly shoot at disappear like smoke.
　This is reason number one: the holy silver gun can fire holy silver bullets that have a special effect on the undead without enchantment.

'There you go, what's up?

　While adding another copy of the Holy Silver Gun, you'll be able to clear out the approaching corpses one after another in two pistol style.
　Normally, you'd need to reload along the way, so dealing with two guns at the same time requires a special loading technique.
　However, my holy silver gun is customized to generate an infinite number of holy silver bullets, so there's no need for loading. Hence, it's suitable for cleaning a large number of undead.
　This is reason number two.

''Abaye!''
Tawaba!

　I hit an approaching zombie with the barrel and gun handle and blow its head off.
　It's sturdy enough to never be destroyed by my abuse, which is reason 3.
　It will never be destroyed no matter how roughly I handle it, so when combined with a kick, I can fight to the fullest in melee combat.
　Even against an unlimited number of undead, I'm tireless and can fight virtually endlessly.

　Furthermore, as I shot out the ghosts that attacked me from the sky without question, a round of applause rang out from nowhere.

''Kuhahahaha!　I see, you're a bit of a player. But you will not escape alive from the City of Death, which is trapped in my wards.

　A black shadow in a robe that looked like a neunyan was smiling high in the distance, protected by the dead spirits far above.
　A glowing light that seemed to envy the living shone brightly behind the hollow eye sockets, and a distorted smile was carved into his face, which was just a wrinkled skin stuck to a skeleton.

　That magical wave of disaster is rich... or is it the No Life King?
　By the way, Rich is a powerful undead who is a sorcerer who has mastered necromantic magic in search of immortality and is able to cast ritual magic on himself to become a powerful force.
　The No-Life King is a being that Rich has leveled up through further time and exploration.
　For now, you can think of them as incredibly powerful undead monsters.

　As I see it, Neunyan is the No-Life King.
　It's one of the highest ranked monsters in my self-defined rankings of otherworldly monsters, and it's safe to say that he's the one who caused the tragedy in this town.
　Although the mastermind himself is only showing his face is nothing more than a bypass, this is probably also a stage of destiny prepared by the will of the world's stars... in other words, it's a promise that's always been made.
　If you are concerned about this level of convenient development in another world, you will lose.

"I will wait in the throne room of the castle. "I will wait for you in the throne room of the castle, but only if you are able to get rid of the immortal generals I have assigned to you.

　But I don't give a shit about fate or convenience.
　In the past, and in the future.

Then, farewell--
The dimensional wedge.

　I hit the dimensional wedge cheat without questioning Neunyan, who tries to escape with transfer magic - not the dimensional transfer cheat, but the transfer of otherworldly magic - without question.

''Wha-ni?''

　Neunyan is dismayed that he can't transfer.

'You didn't know?　There's no escaping the Great Demon King and the otherworldly trippers who are passing by!

　He also ejected the chain of the Holy Cross directly from the item box and pierced Neunyan's chest, which was full of gaps, with the tip of the cross.
　I lightly pinched the chain with my finger and pulled it out with a quick yank without regard to the No-Life King who was moaning in pain. Then the chain jangles and pulls the neu-nyan to the ground with tremendous force, knocking it down to the cobblestone ground.
　The physical damage of falling doesn't work against the No-Life King, but of course I'm not going to defeat him with it.
　I took the weight on the other side of the chain out of the item box and tossed it towards the rising dust cloud, and sewed the fallen No-Life King to the ground as if the Holy Cross chain had a will.

'Capture complete.'

　He walks up to Neunyan, who can't move, and stomps on his ugly face, which is unbearable to look at.

''I don't have anything against you, but I'm avenging the kid. I'll kill you in addition.
"Oh, foolishness you can't just arrest me and kill me for making a pact with the evil god Bazade!
Then disappear from existence. I'll cleanse you of all your regrets and grudges with this one.

　When I took out the unmarked holy sword from the item box and held it in my reverse hand, Neunyan began to dismay me by throwing away the room I had been given until then.

''Hey, what's with that sword!　No, no, no, no!

　You're so strong, it's like you've figured out what the nature of this sword is.
　At the same time, you understand what your fate is going to be. You also know what your fate is going to be from now on.

''The inner secrets of the Sword Star School, the Holy Nail!

　A magical wave for the undead is kneaded into a magical wave for use against the undead, covering the blade with a light that eradicates negative energy, and pierces through the back of Neunyan's throat.

''Kaaah!

　With a deafening scream, the top-tier undead monster, the No Life King, vanished without a hitch.
　At the same time, the dimness that seemed to be a ward cleared, and the dead spirits huddled in the sky were also losing their shapes from the sunshine that began to pour down.
　A few zombies are moving, but their movements are no longer coherent. They seem to have lost their controllers and gone wild.
　Unlike ghosts, the living dead only slow down when exposed to sunlight, so it can't be called purification.

''But a No Life King should be a pretty big deal, though.

　I defeated it easily as usual, but the No-Life King is much more powerful than a bad Demon King.
　Moreover, it was worrisome that the No Life King evolving from a sorcerer bothered to mention the name of an evil god.
　To a sorcerer, the evil gods may borrow or use their power, but they shouldn't be an object of worship.
　Was he trying to sacrifice all of King's City to the evil gods, or something like that?　I don't think it's a very sorcerer-like action, but maybe this other world is an exception.

　But when you think about it, it doesn't really matter what this guy's purpose was.
　The search for that boy's mother is much more important than finding the truth.

"Speaking of which, I found a drop item.

　There is a book with a bad-looking human skin binding on the ground around where Neunyan disappeared.
　I don't know what it is, but it emits a powerful magical wave, and it drips with a mesmerizing effect that any decent human being would perceive as 'beloved' with a single glance.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

　And when he speaks, it's just like that.
　Those of us who are fascinated by it may think it's the whispering of a loved one, but to me, it's just noise.

"Saiyakumote, Hikari ni tetsui...!
Shut up.
Nah, nah, nah, wow.

　Let's just throw it in the item box for now.
　I could break it, but it looks like some kind of important item!