Chapter 97

The contents of the letter sent from the Magic Tower were anything but ordinary.

Report from the Monster Research Division.

Monster movement has recently been detected on the outskirts of the capital. For monsters to arise in the central region, where no magical corruption exists, is highly irregular.

"What is this......?"

I couldn't believe what I was reading. Monsters arose from land steeped in magical corruption. But the capital was blessed, purified ground, free of any such corruption.

Furthermore, the monsters observed in the capital are displaying regular behavioral patterns — patterns inconsistent with a monster's natural tendencies.

The doubt we'd been carrying was coming into sharper focus by the moment — the theory that these monsters were being created by someone, controlled the way a necromancer controls the dead.

Monsters that had only ever appeared in the North, and now, the very moment the Grand Duke arrived in the…