Creak!

The unexpected jolt resulted in Elder Grenn and the parliament officials to lose their stability inside the carriage.

Elder Grenn boiled in anger, "What insolence?!" He shouted while rubbing his swollen face that happened to crash at the carriage window.

Officer Guwang Ho was not able to hide his discomfort either. "Coachman, you'd better have a good explanation with this act of audacity!" The annoyed officer Guwang Ho exclaimed.

The coachman replied in a fluster, "S-Sorry, Mr. Ho, but something is blocking on the road."

"What?" An utter escape from Guwang Ho's mouth.

"He is telling the truth, Officer Ho," confirmed one of the soldiers outside. "A big tree is laying across the road."

Elder Grenn raised a brow.

"Then, what are you still dazing off? Lift it off, quick!" Officer Guwang Ho roared a command; a pulse in cross-shape appeared on his face.

"Yes! Officer Ho!" The soldiers of the parliament shouted a reply, then they hastily went over to lift the blocking tree.

The tree was seemingly big, but they were no ordinary humans. So four of them could easily lift it off.

Before the soldier lifted it, one of the soldiers gaze landed on the bottom part of the tree.

"The heck is this," the soldier muttered with a frown.

"Hey, what are you up too over there?" The second soldier questioned as he walked towards him.

He replied saying, "This tree seems to be cut on — purpose?" After saying this, he felt a strong arm was pulling him.

He reflexively glanced around just to find himself in a different location from a second ago.

"Eh? Where am I? Where is this place? Where is the road, the lying tree, the carriage, and the others?" The confused soldier looked around him and noticed that he was surrounded by tall trees.

"These trees are the same trees in Deep Forest!"

"Did an evil spirit hoodwink me?!"

"So the gossips were true. This place is really cursed by evil spirits!"

The soldier felt a chill as he warily glanced around him.

Around this time,

Guwang Ho knitted his brows, "What the — what takes those idiots longer, are they slacking off?"

Elder Grenn smirked. "Hehe, Officer Ho, your men are probably exhausted. I wish to give you a comfortable accommodation if you decide to go back to my manor and let us settle this issue tomorrow. What you say?"

"....."

After the officer did not reply, "This is a chilly night for a long trip. I'm just worried about you and your people going through all the trouble of coming here. I, as one of the leaders of this empire's strongest family, shall at least show my gratitude to your hard work in the parliament. It would be better to lay down in a comfortable bed together with a beautiful young woman while sipping an expensive liquor from the far east." Like an enticing devil, Elder Grenn challenges the officer's endurance for temptations.

Guwang Ho got excited at the last line of Elder Grenn, "Oh— Ahem!" However, the word remained at the tip of his tongue, then cleared his throat. He wanted to agree to the Elder's offer, but he noticed that something wasn't right.

Guwang Ho frowned, then he shouted, "Soldiers!"

"....."

"Coachman?!"

"....."

No one replied. The three people inside the carriage felt something was amiss.

"Mo Hung," Guwang Ho called out to the officer like him, sitting beside him.

The two of them instantly went down the carriage, but they saw nothing except for a blocking huge tree on the road, about 10 meters away from them. And the 5 riderless horses, touching their noses on the ground. Even the coachman was nowhere to be seen.

"What the heck happened here, where did everyone go?" Mo Hung questioned in surprise.

Overwhelmed by the eeriness, they abruptly felt a bothering chill from within their bodies. For all they knew, this place was popular for many bad rumors about some people spirited away by evil spirits.

"Something happened." Guwang Ho uttered.

Without waiting for the danger to come, the two of them immediately enveloped by golden brilliance.

It was better to be ready than sorry. Although their soldiers unnaturally went off to who knows where they could not find any traces of battle.

A moment later, they heard an unhurried stepping noise that made all the hairs of their body stand up-right. They looked ahead to where the noise was coming from and saw two figures moving towards them from the opposite side of the laying tree.

The darkness in the area obstructed their vision so they could not give a clear countenance of the other party; only the lamps that were hanging on the coachman's horse gave the place a slight illumination.

Warily, Officer Guwang Ho and Officer Mo Hung squint their eyes. However, their quicken heartbeats muddled up their clear thoughts.

The two shaded figures stopped only when they stepped on top of the laying tree. The officers warily readied themselves. The things ahead of them were probably some kind of devil reincarnation just by looking at their faces. Looks like rumors about this place were true.

"Monsters?" Mo Hung subconsciously asked.

"Cooooooold evening to you venerable sirs of parliament! My name is Undying Zombie, and this person beside me is known as Immortal Witch."

In a playful way, said the person with a creepy pale face, and a long cut from his forehead to his nose down to his right face, black circles below his eyes, and seemingly a cut on both sides of his mouth, with marks of dry blood -- stayed on it.

The person he introduced as the Immortal Witch was having a pale face similar to him, with black circles around her eyes, black lips, and she was wearing a black long gown and black pointed cap.

The two officers were taken aback when one of the supposed monsters in front greeted them and spoke a human language. Looks like they were not monsters but humans in disguise. However, their disguises were kind of weird and eerie.

"Tsk, what are they?" Guwang Ho uttered while staring at the entities in front, both of them looked gruesome. Just by looking at their faces sends shivers down the spine to any person. Even the golden stage Guwang Ho and Mo Hung were no exceptions. They warily stared at them.

However, when they noticed that these two individuals were having low energy, Guwang Ho felt reassured.

"Heh, Are you the one who cut down that tree to block the road?" Mo Hung asked while raising a brow.

"Hehehe, yes venerable sirs, that is our doing!" Undying Zombie which was Yeman in disguise together with Night the Immortal Witch replied to Mo Hung.

Elder Grenn heard something outside. He focused his hearing and tried to listen to their conversation.

"What's your reason for doing this?" Guwang Ho asked.

"Hehehe, it's just a simple matter, that's no concern of you, venerable sirs of parliament!" Again in a mischievous way of speaking, Yman replied.

The two officers knitted their brows.

"What do you mean?" Mo Hung asked.

"Hehehe, we only wanted the head of someone who was hiding inside that carriage," Yeman's voice turned cold as he pointed the carriage.

Elder Grenn's eye bulged upon hearing it.

'Tsk, who is this insolence?!' Elder Grenn grumbled behind his breath.

Guwang Ho and Mo Hung frowned and a glint was visible on their eyes.

"Say, are you the assassins from other families?" Guwang Ho asked with a flicker of killing intent.

"Hehe, families? Well, you can say that. But we are not a member of the noble family. We are from the clan of Reanimated Corpse!"

He shouted while spreading his arms, inviting them to attack him.

"Reanimated Corpse?!!"

The officers frowned at the name of the clan. Not only their names were unheard, but also their clan name.