Listening to the returning member of the Knight Order, Kane walked over.

As soon as he saw Kane approaching, he immediately saluted.

"Your Majesty."

"Tell me about the situation you've observed. What specific dangers are there?"

The knight nodded.

"Our squad began scouting straight ahead, and about three kilometers from here, we discovered a fishing village."

"But as we approached the village, we smelled a very strong stench of corpses. Upon getting closer, we found that the entire fishing village had been destroyed, with only many skeletons lying around."

"When our squad entered the village, the villagers' skeletons began to move. These corpses had become undead, and due to sensing the presence of the living, they started to attack."

"For the purpose of gathering intelligence, we only killed a few undead before withdrawing from the village to conduct reconnaissance around it."

After listening to the knight's report, Kane nodded.

Then he pondered a bit and approached Kreya.

"Kreya, let's take a trip together."

After all, Kreya understood the rules of death and had some experience in manipulating the undead.

Perhaps she could discover some clues.

Upon hearing Kane's words, Kreya nodded.

Longbei, standing nearby, asked, "Is there something going on? Do you need us to join as well?"

"There is a situation, but it's not serious. Mainly, we're going to investigate some clues."

Upon hearing Kane's words, Longbei nodded and didn't say more.

If it's just looking into clues, then there was no need for him to go. That's not where he should be, nor is it his business.

Unless it's a fight, he preferred to stay in the camp and rest quietly.

The other members watched Kane and Kreya leave without questioning further, knowing that Kane wouldn't hesitate to ask for help if needed.

Then Kane and Kreya, following the Knight Order member, headed towards the mentioned fishing village.

Once off the beach, a plain was revealed with only a few short shrubs and scattered trees standing around.

A narrow path stretched out from the seaside, likely leading to the fishing village.

Kane and Kreya, accompanied by the Lantern Knight Order, soon detected a faint foul smell in the distance.

It indeed was the stench of decaying corpses.

While walking, Kreya glanced around, saying, "You can definitely sense a faint presence of death elements in the air."

After walking a bit further, the odor of decay intensified, and they could see a small village in the distance.

It was bathed in the cold moonlight.

The Lantern Knights surrounding the village maintained a certain distance from it, careful not to disturb the undead within.

Upon seeing Kane and Kreya approach, the Lantern Knights nodded in acknowledgment.

Shortly after, Abby stepped forward, leading the squad conducting the reconnaissance.

Looking at Abby, Kane asked directly, "What's the situation with this fishing village?"

Abby shook his head, "There are no living people, and from the signs of burning and combat, it seems the village was destroyed about a month ago."

However, they only scouted a bit during their battle within the village before retreating.

Abby was aware of Kreya's abilities and hoped she might gather some information.

If not, even these low-level undead, more insignificant than ordinary people, could be easily dealt with.

After listening to Abby's brief report, Kane nodded.

"If that's the case, let's go in together."

With that, Abby assembled all the surrounding knights.

A total of ten Lantern Knights followed Kane and Kreya into the village.

Even before entering, they saw two decaying corpses wandering at the entrance.

They were still dressed in the tattered clothes the villagers used to wear.

The clothes were shredded and hardly recognizable, with only some fabric scraps clinging to their bodies.

The fluids and slime seeping from their bodies adhered to the rags, preventing them from falling to the ground.

These two undead had likely been disturbed by Abby and his team but, after failing to find their target, were now wandering aimlessly nearby.

Only after some time without sensing the presence of the living would they find a dark place to resume their rest.

Observing the two undead, Kane turned his head, giving Kreya a slight nod.

Kreya nodded in response.

Soon a cluster of flames, black and white, appeared in her hand, and with a wave from Kreya,

the black and white flames split into two, shooting out like arrows.

In an instant, they struck the two corpses.

The burning black and white flames quickly enveloped and incinerated them.

Before long, the entire corpses were dried and solidified.

The undead from those decaying corpses were just the lowest level of Walking Dead.

Their combat power was on par with the most ordinary skeletons.

They were not the lowest combat force because, though their attacks were slow, if they hit, they could easily cause toxic infections to enemies.

While ordinary skeletons are fragile, they at least move normally.

Both are equally matched.

After being burned by Kreya's black and white flames, the Walking Dead were directly elevated to the next level of zombies.

Like ordinary skeletons upgrading to various professional skeletons.

Like skeleton archers and skeleton soldiers.

In essence, there's no change, but in reality, the improvement is substantial.

At least there's not much difference from the power they display.

The black and white flames burning on them elevate their power to another dimension, but also bring them under Kreya's control.

Kreya closed her eyes and began to feel the fragmented memories of these two undead.

The reason undead become undead is that when they die, if their soul hasn't completely dissipated, some fragments of the soul remain in the body.

Through some magical methods, the body is made to move, transforming into the undead.

This is the origin of the most basic and lowest-level undead.

And naturally, necromancers and those with similar abilities can control the undead to detect their soul fragments.

After watching those fragmented pieces for a moment, Kreya opened her eyes.

"The information revealed is very limited. The status of these two walking dead during their lives was probably just ordinary fishermen.

What we do know is that, for some unknown reason, an undead catastrophe broke out in the village in the middle of the night, and they were joyfully surprised by the commotion outside, then they were killed."

Indeed, not very meaningful information.

"Let's continue."

Saying this, they proceeded directly into the village.

It's like crossing some infrared tripwire.

As soon as they set foot in the village, it was like an alarm went off.

Throughout the village, from every shady spot, the lying corpses started to rise.

They gathered, approaching Kane and his group.

They emitted meaningless roars, thrusting out their arms in claw-like gestures, staggering as they rushed forward.

Faced with such a situation, Kane and his group were not the least bit panicked.

If there was any threat to them in this village, it might just be the thick smell of decay in the air.

This had quite an effect on Kane's spirit, the scent was indeed too overwhelming.

Moreover, Kane could sense that the power of these walking dead barely reached the level of Copper Power; after all, before becoming undead, they were just ordinary people.

The evaluation of Copper Power was very reluctant, merely because some death elements remaining within them allowed them to move.

The combat power of these undead was likely still inferior to ordinary people.

Of course, this assumed that ordinary people wouldn't succumb to fear; under normal circumstances, they could handle one or two.

Yet fear is always the most dangerous issue.

This time, Kreya did not ignite black and white flames in her hands, but instead, the hooves at the front began to blaze with black and white flames.

Then Kreya stood up and stamped firmly on the ground.

The flames rippled from the ground, spreading outward.

Passing under the feet of the Lantern Knight Order members and Kane, they felt nothing.

However, once touching the approaching walking dead, the flames quickly spread over their bodies and in just a few seconds, began to blaze fiercely.

After enveloping their whole bodies, in just one or two seconds, these walking dead became like the earlier two, transformed into dried zombie forms.

Then various memory fragments awaited Kreya to examine and extract useful information.

The multitude of memory fragments to search through caused Kreya to close her eyes, needing to carefully peruse.

And the burning black and white flame zombies throughout the village couldn't stand against it, all falling under Kreya's control.

Kane counted the number of undead.

He then roughly assessed the area of the entire fishing village.

The number was obviously reduced.

These walking dead undead were probably only a portion of the village's former population.

Not even half.

At this moment, Kreya opened her eyes.

She roughly knew the entire process of how this fishing village met its demise.

"About a month ago, one night, a rather powerful undead creature passed through this fishing village, transforming some of the drunken men into undead."

"Subsequently, these drunkards began an indiscriminate attack on everyone in the village, and some dead bodies rewakened as walking dead."

"It took less than a single night for the entire village to be destroyed.

But not everyone died inside; more than half managed to flee under the escort of some robust youth."

After listening to Kreya, Kane nodded.

This meant this condition of the fishing village was deliberate.

There wasn't much else to investigate within the village.

Kreya waved her hand, burning all the undead to ashes, then threw another black and white flame into the remaining village houses.

Quickly, the entire village was engulfed in flames.

Of course, the flames used here were normal flames, thanks to Kreya's mastery of burning-related rules, using ordinary flames presented no problem.

After confirming nothing was omitted. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Then everyone returned to the beach vicinity.

At this time, all members of the knight order had returned.

No dangerous situation was found.

Kane sat by the bonfire, lost in thought.

Was it a coincidence?

Encountering an undead-related event as soon as they landed.