My World Traveling System: The Harbinger of Death

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Since the moment he died Stein believed that was it.

However, even after life, death came but in the ways he did not expected.

The power of the Lich Frankenstein brought him back to life as a stitched zombie, he woke up as thunder fell over his body and reanimated him back to become an unliving existence.

He raged and screamed in the agony of living while being dead, he roared fiercely and tried to kill anyone around him, but the only thing that greeted him was the laughing skeleton that took everything from him.

And at his side, there was the death knight with the spear, still bloody with the blood of Hanna and himself.

"YOU BASTARD!"

He roared as he tried to take down these two formidable enemies the moment he was brought back, but a force he could not fight against kept him in check, his soul had been enslaved by the power of the Lich and he was made into his greatest creation.

"Welcome back to life- or well, unlife! There as no way I wouldn't use you to make myself a new soldier with the strength of a titan! Now, you're my soldier and you'll do as I say. My servant of the death, work well for your creator, alright?"

"Like hell! I will kill you!"

"Haha! I am already dead!"

The cynical laughter of the necromancer only made Stein rage longer, but nothing there was he could do. He could only resent him and regret everything, while sorrowfully cry for his lover who had died.

However, to his surprise, she had also been brought here, one day as he cleansed the labyrinths of the Necromancer like a slave, he found Hanna once more, she was a Zombie and was given the task of cleaning as well, of course, she remembered things as well, but her mind and her thoughts were corrupted and broken, she was traumatized and sorrowful.

"Hanna…!"

"Ah… W-Who are you?!"

"Hanna… its me… S-Stein!"

"G-Get away from me! You're not him! Y-You're not him!"

"Hanna… its my face… despite what I am now… I-"

"Get away from me!"

Hanna only cried as she ran from Stein, his horrid, stitched appearance only scared her more and more, he stopped following her around, as he only regretted it more to see her innocent soul being caged and trapped in the body of a rotting corpse.

Stein didn't knew for how long he was an Undead, but for this entire time he had been trying to see if Hanna could remember him or try to identify his face as Stein. But through many years of trying, she always was terrified, sorrowful, and depressive.

It was only until one day the peace was disrupted by the raid of Paladins from the church, they annihilated everything with holy light and even destroyed Frankenstein Phylactery, killing him for once and for all, the undeath knight with the spear was formidable though, and took a few paladins with his amazing strength, but ultimately ended in the same position as his master.

Stein saw the paladins rescuing the living prisoners that the necromancer had for his experiments, as he was hiding from them fearing that they would kill him for being a zombie, however, he saw Hanna running towards them with a hopeless smile, as she cried to them, her brothers.

"Ah, my brothers! You've come to save us!"

"W-Who is that?!"

"Kill that zombie, quickly!"

"Eh? W-Wait! I…!"

FLASH!

A ray of holy light reached Hanna in an instant as Stein regretfully saw his beloved getting attacked and almost killed, her stomach was destroyed but as a zombie, she was still alive.

"NOO! LEAVE HER ALONE!"

Stein roared loudly as Hanna couldn't believe that the paladins would try to kill her. The rage of Stein reached the paladins as they fought against him all together, his tremendous might overwhelmed them, who were all tired and wounded, his massive fists crushed their skulls into the ground and their bodies splattered over the entire place.

He raged angrily as a monster and no longer a man, he was not going to let fate take away the one he loved once more…

"Y-You damn monster!" a blonde-haired paladin roared, as he slashed Stein's back and almost cut him in half, barely surviving, Stein fell over the ground hopelessly, as he looked at the ruthless paladin approach to him with a holy blade on hand.

"You'll pay for this, you undeath monster!!!"

"Groooaarrr!"

However, the groan of Hanna was heard from the back of the weakened Paladin, she took him by surprise and began to ravage his neck, tearing apart his flesh fiercely and throwing him into the ground.

"H-Hanna…!"

"Stein… I am sorry for not remembering you…"

Hanna cried sorrowfully, as Stein moved with all his might and killed the paladin before he could move another second.

He was almost sliced in half, and she had a massive wound in her stomach, but the two were still here, existing, and together, even… in the sorrowfulness of being undeath.

Hanna helped Stein get patched up, as Stein slowly helped her fill the hole in her stomach, the two were the only thing left in this raid and didn't knew where to go and what to do. But ultimately, they managed to confess each other's love, even in their horrid, rotting forms.

However, after the initial raid of paladins, a group of vampires reached the facility and began to quickly plunder everything the necromancer had researched. Clementine greeted the pair and offered them a chance to live amongst them.

The former beings they once hunted now became the saviors of their new lives outside the labyrinth of the Undead, as through special methods, the two became Vampiric Undead known as Ghouls, and since then, had lived with the Vampire Clan, cooperating together, and growing stronger together… until today.

A story filled with bittersweet memories, but perhaps, one that didn't had such a sad end, the innocent yet monstrous pair of Ghouls were now here. Stein had decided to fight, his timid personality was clear, but he looked over the spectators, as a sickly Ghoul woman with dried blonde hair smiled back at him…

"Hanna… I have to fight… for you!"

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