After I died, my personal maid rebelled.

The first place where the undead calamity broke out was in the southern territory.

When people talked about this calamity, especially the undead python in the northern territory and the bone dragon in the western territory, the undead army in the southern territory seemed somewhat insignificant.

Just like before, after learning that the undead army in the Southern Territory had been brought under control, no one paid attention to whether the Southern Territory had resolved the calamity.

Even Teemo doesn't dare to gamble now, wondering how many undead are behind that stone wall.

But he was the Duke's most trusted scout and the young lady's most capable soldier. Licking his dry lips again, Timo dismounted and mustered his courage to approach the wall.

There's really nothing to be afraid of. The Duke is an undead, isn't he? If one day the Duke also started to smell like this, I would never despise him.

Timo was thinking about strange things. He pressed his ear against the stone wall, but he couldn't hear any sounds of the undead. Mosquitoes were still buzzing around him, leaving his face covered in red welts.

After touching the flashbangs in his bag and wiping the sweat from his palms, Teemo gripped the protrusions and gaps between the rocks and struggled to climb upwards.

As the sun sets, the river shimmers with a brilliant red glow.

As he climbed step by step, Teemo, feeling somewhat exhausted, kept taking rapid breaths. Just as he was about to reach the top of the wall, a long shadow loomed over him.

Timo looked up in a daze. Because of the setting sun, the man's face was somewhat blurry, but Timo still recognized his mage's attire and the unique mage's staff in his hand.

The two remained silent. Just as Timo was wondering if jumping from there would break his leg, the man bent down and reached out his hand to him.

Timo was stunned for a moment, then grabbed the man's hand and let him pull her up.

"Soldier, from the Central District?"

The man handed his water bottle to Timo, who was slumped on the ground, and asked with a smile.

"No, I'm a soldier from the Northern Territory," Timo replied weakly. He unscrewed the water bottle and poured all the water into his mouth. The cool water made him feel a little better.

"Is that so, the Northern Territory?" The man stroked his chin and continued to laugh. "I thought the Northern Territory would rebel against the king like us."

"I don't care about any of that. I'll do whatever the Duke tells me to do."

Relieved, Timo remembered his business and quickly got up, looking at the other side of the stone wall.

On the river and in the woods, the skeletons moved slowly, bringing swarms of flies with them to the foot of the city. Their blank, empty eyes looked at the two people on the city wall, and their sharp claws scraped against the stones with a grating sound.

Just as Teemo had expected, there were many wandering undead here, but not as many as he had imagined, probably only a few hundred.

"The sunset is beautiful, isn't it?" The man picked up the water bottle, stood next to Timo, and pointed to the setting sun that looked like it was falling into a valley.

"When I was young, I tried to find the end of the sun, but it was just a vast ocean. I thought there must be a force that allows the sun to move from east to west, and there must also be a force that we cannot see that allows the sun to move from west to east in another direction."

Timo was dumbfounded. Was this guy a chatterbox? Why did he always want to talk to him about strange things?

Also, if you are a magician from the Southern Territory, then we should be enemies!

"I don't understand that either, but His Excellency the Duke said that the world is a sphere, the sun is a sphere, the moon is a sphere, and all the stars are spheres. All the changes we see are caused by these three spheres constantly rotating around each other."

Thinking that the other person was a good person, Timo gestured with his hands the knowledge he had learned from the Duke, which he himself only had a vague understanding of.

"A sphere..."

Seeing the other person frown, Timo quickly added, "The Duke said that we can assume for now that the sun is stationary, but in fact, the sun is rotating and moving forward, and at a very, very fast speed."

"Hmm, very interesting. I must verify this hypothesis when I have the chance." The man finished thinking and laughed heartily.

But the next second, he abruptly changed the subject and warned, "If you want to invade the heart of the Southern Territory from here, I advise you to give up now, soldiers. There are hundreds of thousands of undead in this hundred-mile-long cage."

"Over ten thousand?"

Upon hearing this, Teemo gasped. A cage a hundred miles long... There were hundreds of undead he could see right now, so what the man said must be true.

Now, let alone the Northern Army attacking into the heart of the Southern Territory from here, even if the Kingdom's 50,000 Imperial Guards wanted to cross over, they would have to pay an extremely heavy price.

"I only recently learned that the higher-ups in the Southern Territory said that they had completely wiped out the undead army in the river valley region."

The man took out a cigarette and offered it to Teemo, who shook his head and refused. He then lit the cigarette himself, took a deep drag, and sighed, "Until the war broke out, they found me and sent me here to guard the area. As I flew here, I found myself surrounded by an endless horde of undead."

"It's said that there were only tens of thousands of them at first, but for some reason, the number of undead has been increasing..."

The smoke dissipated in the wind, and the smile on the man's face vanished. His orders were to immediately use magic to blast open the city walls should a large army from the Central District attack from this location.

Conversely, the mages on the other side of the valley cage were ordered to use the same method—blowing open the city walls to release the undead army into the heart of the southern territory—if the southern capital, Fertile City, was besieged by the central army.

When the man first saw Teemo, he was a little nervous. After all, if he really did that, he would definitely become one of the worst sinners in human history.

Fortunately, only Teemo came here.

Moreover, the soldiers of the Northern Territory are unlikely to be truly loyal to the royal family.

The man's words sent a chill down Timo's spine. He rubbed his face hard, forcing himself to calm down. The upper echelons of the Southern Territory were a bunch of lunatics, a bunch of incurable lunatics!

He had to deliver this message to the young lady immediately!

Bracing himself, Teemo quickly turned around, then suddenly stopped before leaving, looking at the man and asking in a deep voice, "What if the undead break through the walls while you're all here guarding them?"

Both understood each other's purpose; if they were to clash head-on on the battlefield, they would not exchange any words.

But now both sides share the same goal: to absolutely not open this Pandora's box.

The man, a cigarette dangling from his lips, remained silent for a long while before looking up and smiling at Timo. "Then I'll become a Calamity Messenger, and we'll fight side-by-side."

He waved his staff, using buoyancy to slowly send Teemo back to the ground. In mid-air, the man's voice gently rang in Teemo's ears.

"I remember, soldier from the Northern Territory, my name is Philip."

……

As Kate and Luna waited anxiously, at noon the next day, the exhausted guards all withdrew to the military stronghold.

Luna stood high on the haystack, and only after repeatedly checking to make sure that none of her people were missing did she breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the entire guard retreated, and what they brought back was probably not good news.

Neither she nor Kate anticipated that the bad news would be so devastating, it was truly chilling.

"Hundreds of thousands of undead!"

Kate slammed her fist on the table and stood up, pacing back and forth with her hands behind her back. Suddenly, she came to the map and her trembling finger accurately pointed to the horrifying cage area.

Now everything became clear: why the enemy troops stationed in the strategically important town were so brave, daring to fight the Northern Army's elite forces to the last moment.

And why hasn't the enemy sent troops to support us...?

It turns out that from the very beginning, the valley passage was a dead end, a dead end that would drag them down with them if they dared to touch it!

Now a new problem has arisen for them: should they tell the Central Army, which is planning to conquer Silver City and use its numerical advantage to penetrate into the heart of the Southern Territory, about this news?

Furthermore, what is the Northern Army's next plan? Will it continue to invade the Southern Territory, or will it stop in time to prevent the Southern Territory from self-destructing?

Even Kate, who always considered herself resourceful, suddenly had no answers to these two questions. He returned to his seat, feeling utterly weak, and listened as Timo continued his report.

"Young Miss, Commander, that mage also revealed some information," Timo said solemnly. "It's rumored that the number of undead in the cages is constantly increasing; initially there were only tens of thousands..."

"Hehe." Luna suddenly chuckled, drawing puzzled looks from everyone.

She rose confidently and swiftly ordered, "Quickly, send the message back to the Northern Territory and let my elder brother make a decision!"