Chapter 154: New Base

"Bella, I think we gotta get outta here now," I say as I get up from the table and grab her on my back, starting to run through a window.

’Bella, you’re late on the predictions again,’ She said we’d leave in 1 month, but we haven’t even finished breakfast and I’ve already detected enemies invading.

"Tsk, h-how the heck did those bastards find us so fast!" She grumbles as I run at full speed, the enemies have breached the ice perimeter of my magic and I know a large number of people have invaded.

"..." In my memories, she’s always been bad at predicting when we’d be found, it’s ironic how she hasn’t been captured yet since I’ve only been serving her for about 10 years.

I dodge a shot of holy magic while forming a giant ice wall, the enemies are really fast.

"Bella, you should sacrifice all the other dead to help us escape or it’ll be tough," I tell her, anyway there’s nothing but a bunch of weak zombies that she shouldn’t care about.

"Okay! Just hurry up!" She speaks hastily as several undead appear in our path, I generate ice platforms for us to hop across while creating giant ice walls as obstacles.

’It’s so much easier to use ice here than in the Murim world,’ I form the ice mist I used in the Murim world, but this time it’s much stronger and similar to Azuli’s.

As we advance, I see a knight entering the mist area and instantly turning into an "ice block" as his body is perfectly frozen.

’It worked! And it’s very similar to Azuli’s ice dome,’ Who would’ve thought I’d copy that crazy girl in something like this, I start spreading more of this ice mist.

Unfortunately, without a dome to lock the mist in, it will dissipate in a few minutes, but it’s enough for us to escape.

"Wow! When did you learn to do that?" Bella asks me as I run towards the nearby forest.

"Just now, I just thought of something to escape and it worked," I say while running, placing a hand on my head to prevent it from falling, I detach it and hold it close to my chest while carefully holding Bella with the other hand.

"Way to go, Shizune! Show those motherfuckers how strong we are!" She speaks with arrogance and a huge smile on her face.

’...’

"That’s not enough to deal with paladins, and I’m sure there are at least 3 of them there," My ice walls were shattered by a brutal blow and those arrows were too strong to be just from knights.

"P-Paladins?! We need to get out of here fast then!" She speaks nervously, if it were just one or two paladins, we might even be able to win, but 3 paladins along with dozens of church knights is impossible.

Also, Bella is weak, there are different types of necromancers and Bella is the most common type that only revives the dead and controls them.

But there are types that steal the strength of the dead and the living, drastically increasing their power, besides obviously controlling the dead, there are those who literally don’t die to most things by using their powers on their own bodies with magic.

This type can only be killed by holy items and there are a few other types, but none of that matters since Bella is of the most common type, meaning she has the same physical abilities as a normal human.

Paladins, on the other hand, generally have superhuman abilities, not to mention most of them know how to use magic, magic in this world is a rare thing that depends on talent at birth.

Regular magic doesn’t grant anything extra, unlike necromancy, which grants all necromancers a long life.

However, regular magic is more versatile, and those who have magic cannot use necromancy, and those who have necromancy cannot use magic.

So without me, Bella has no one to use magic and defend her, but I believe that before she had me, she had some other high-class undead or she would already be dead.

"You seem more creative! That’s great," Bella compliments me for the ideas of jumping on ice platforms to avoid obstacles and using the ice mist to escape.

"Yes...a bit of new creativity..." These are ideas I picked up from previous worlds, the ice platforms I used in training fights with Lyuei, and the ice mist is similar to what Azuli did.

I’m quite fast, so we’ve managed to put a good distance between us, but I don’t know where we should go.

"Bella, do you have a place to go?"

"Yes! In the middle of this forest, there’s one of my bases, with your speed we should be able to get past the initial forest boundary and be safe to move forward."

"Just go straight ahead without making any turns, there are also some of my things there, and it should take a while for them to find us!"

"Also, it’s outside the kingdom’s border, so those damn church members won’t be able to follow us, and they’ll need authorization, and with their annoying bureaucracy, it’ll take them a while to get permission to leave," Bella explains as I run straight ahead.

"Great, then let’s go there, master," I say as we fall silent, running at a faster pace.

I also don’t notice anyone following us anymore, so we continue at a more relaxed pace for a few hours until we enter a very dark and gloomy forest with a lot of fog.

"Master...can you feel that..." I say, reattaching my head to my body as I approach the area, which quickly becomes a plain with a large structure that I deduce is the base Bella mentioned.

"Yes...but keep going," She speaks as I continue moving forward until we reach the base’s gates.

We both stop in front of the gates.

"Get out now if you don’t want to die!" Bella yells at whoever is inside, and soon a girl with long black hair and green eyes comes out of the base, she’s short and has small breasts, but is quite pretty.

"I-I’m Estella Cravenmoor, p-please let me stay here," She speaks with a trembling voice, showing nervousness.

"I-I’ll do anything, j-just don’t kick me out, p-please, I have nowhere to go," She says with tears in her eyes as Bella thinks for a moment.

"Can you cook?"

"Y-Yes," She just answers with a nervous yes.

"Alright, you can stay," As soon as Bella says this, I pull Bella aside and take her a little further away.

"Bella, what a horrible idea is this? That girl is a necromancer, and by her appearance, she’s at least over 150 years old!" I say angrily, as Bella is so stupid to just accept this.

"It doesn’t matter!! She’s just an oppressed necromancer like all the others, she can stay here and cook for me."

"Bella, do you really want to have her competing for authority with you? She might try to steal me," She’s a necromancer, all necromancers are greedy for powerful undead.

She’ll obviously try to steal me from Bella, and honestly, that girl already seems horrible to me just by her act of being a weak and scared girl.

To begin with, if she’s alive, she’s obviously not weak, especially since she’s over 150 years old and no one has killed her yet, she’s most certainly a powerful necromancer.

"She would never steal you from me! Besides, shut up! I do what I want, and if anything, I can just kill that girl! Now stop being so pessimistic, I want to rest."

’Damn...it had to be a necromancer as stupid as this one to be the one giving me orders?’ Honestly, if I had free will when I first arrived in this world, I would have fled from Bella.

She’s very stupid and is always showing signs of this stupidity, I really wonder how she’s lived so long being so dumb, there’s not a single necromancer who would want to have another necromancer around.

Since it literally means having a terrible competition by your side, and on top of that, most necromancers are treacherous, even this Estella girl betraying Bella and trying something won’t take long.

"Alright, master..." I just agree coldly, I can’t argue with a master’s orders like this.

"Now let’s go, it was a tough escape," She speaks as if she had done something, when all she did was be carried by me, I roll my eyes and follow her.

"Estella can stay in the base, but she’ll cook for me, and if she tries any funny business, I’ll kill her!" Bella speaks arrogantly, but Bella is forgetting the most fundamental thing of all.

All of Bella’s power comes from undead like me, I’m about 95% of Bella’s total power, but with another necromancer here, Bella would have to fight for control of my body.

In other words, she can’t depend on me, which is obviously something that can’t be fixed since Bella is currently dependent on my power.

Moreover, this necromancer in front of us is not controlling any undead, so I think she’s the type that steals power from the dead, which means she must be absurdly strong in a direct fight, besides regular necromancy.

"..." Estella bows to Bella, thanking her, but I just look coldly at this dangerous woman.

"Shizune, do as you please for now, I need to go to my lab to reanimate some of the dead I left here," Bella speaks as she enters the base, while I stay here looking at Estella, who stops her fake trembling and cowardice.

"I heard what you said..." She speaks, looking at me without that false shakiness and fear.

"..."

"Your master seems strong, but her strength and arrogance are blinding her, you’re already smarter, I liked you and would love to have you by my side," She speaks with a smile.

"I suggest you be careful, or I might accidentally end up killing you, it would be a shame if a chandelier fell from the ceiling directly onto your head, or the food was accidentally mixed with poison, you know how clumsy us undead can be," I say as a threat.

"Of course...you’re well-preserved, how did you die?" Undead, when revived, remain in the appearance they had when they died, even if healed, they don’t go beyond the appearance they had when dead, but my body doesn’t have any noticeable injuries.

"Poisoned," In my memories, my death was by poison, which is why I have no wounds and my body is in perfect condition.

"Headless knight...that necromancer seems to have incredible talent, as expected from my senior," Estella speaks with a smile as she enters the base, making it clear her interest in my body.

I follow her, entering the base. I see that the paladins or the church won’t be the biggest problems.

I know Yui wants me to be good, but eliminating this woman is a good thing, she’s clearly a terrible and disgusting person, most necromancers are bad people, and this woman has already made her intentions clear.

’I wish Bella was more concerned.’ Bella is undoubtedly a powerful necromancer, but since she only has the standard necromancy ability, she probably doesn’t stand a chance if Estella betrays her.

But if Estella is hiding in this base, she’s probably weakened, I should use this chance to "accidentally" eliminate Estella, I’d rather be under the control of someone as stupid as Bella than under the control of someone like Estella, who gives off bad vibes from the first encounter.

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