Marcus picked up the dagger carefully, gently touched the pattern on it, and said something vaguely.

Rachel lowered his head and said softly to Karin: "He seems to still retain human memory, but he doesn't know how to express it."

Karin turned her head and said, "That means he is not dangerous, right?"

Rachel shook his head and said: "No, in my opinion, his behavior is more like a child with an uncivilized mind, and his temperament may change drastically due to a small incident at any time. I don't think this is a safe performance."

Karin said: "In my impression, Marcus is like a gentle and humorous brother, always loyal and patient to his friends."

Rachel closed his eyes, then opened them again later and said, "Todd told me that the Marcus test should continue."

Karin: "Continue testing? How to do it?"

Rachel made a gesture, and the knights quickly drove the monks who were onlookers away, clearing a path.

Leading Marcus toward the cemetery of the monastery, Rachel used his mind to open a tunnel gate hidden in the cemetery, revealing a long corridor that slopes downward.

Without the urging of others, Marcus entered the door short and walked into the dark and long passage.

On the way he was traveling, he clearly knew every corner in the passage, even every pit on the ground, as well as heartily.

At the end of the tunnel, a gate shimmering with metallic luster appeared in front of Marcus.

These four sentences are engraved on the door.

"As in;"

"As it is outside;"

"As it is above;"

"As it is below."

Marcus stretched out his trembling hand and slowly opened the door.

The sculpture of the Holy Father stands high above the upper part of the underground hall, and the dim fire light fills the entire space with a touch of warmth.

An old man with white beard and hair, dressed in a gray monk robe, smiled and looked at Marcus who entered the room, and slowly said, "You are finally back."

Marcus stood stiffly and looked at the old man in disbelief.

The old man said reproachfully: "Did you slip somewhere to play on the way? It took so much time just to ask you to send a letter to the Watchtower."

Marcus opened his mouth, but there was no sound from his mouth.

The smile returned to the old man's face: "Forget it, Marcus, you can come back safely."

Marcus knelt on his knees, and finally squeezed a word out of his mouth with a crying voice: "Father..."

The old man dissipated in an instant, like gravel being blown to the sky by the wind, and there was no trace of it anymore.

From the beginning to the end, Rachel, who didn't see any old man, let alone any vision, looked at Marcus who was kneeling on the ground and whispered to himself: "Perhaps Todd is right."

A figure walked out from a corner of the room. He leaned on a cane and looked at the huge Marcus in surprise.

The figure walked under the firelight, and it was Hudgens.

Huggins walked around in front of Rachel and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure...?"

Rachel nodded: "I'm sure, he is Marcus."

Huggins lowered his voice and said, "He is a dead soul."

Rachel: "Strictly speaking, he is different from the undead outside. According to Theodore's notes, he is the only one who has survived the first batch of guilds that were transformed into heirs to the undead."

"After him, the process of the transformation of the undead was gradually perfected, and only then did the throat bones and Myris' examples of the transformation into the perfect undead."

Huggins stared at Marcus's back: "In other words, Marcus is the first undead, but because the transformation is not perfect, so he has physical and mental defects?"

Rachel: "That's right."

Huggins asked hesitantly: "Then what does your Majesty want...?"

Rachel: "Todd wants to test how much humanity Marcus still retains and whether it is possible to cooperate."

Huggins glanced at Marcus again, then turned to the corner and said, "What are you hiding? Come out."

Soon, from the other end of the room, three people came out one after another.

They are Edgar and Raglan.

These people present are all members of the San Sidro Monastery assembly, and they are also old acquaintances of Marcus.

Edgar, who has a goatee, still doesn't have the word steadiness in his temperament.

He picked up a branch and tried to poke Marcus, who was motionless.

Huggins stopped him in time and dragged him to the corner.

The Raglans took small trembling steps and hid against the wall among the knights, saying that they didn't want to come out again for half a step.

Faced with all this, Huggins sighed helplessly, turned his head and said: "Your Majesty just asked us to come, but what should we do now?"

Rachel, who was always observing Marcus, said, "In fact, you don't have to do anything, just stand here."

Huggins puzzled: "Standing here? But..."

Before he could say anything, Hudgens found that Marcus had actually stood up and walked straight towards him.

Putting on a defensive posture, Huggins made plans to run at any time, but Marcus just stayed in front of him and didn't make any more moves.

Marcus looked at Huggins' face carefully, and after a long time he said intermittently: "Baker...Master..."

Harkins smiled bitterly towards Rachel, who was full of doubts: "Marcus used to get me the nickname because I always have food..."

Marcus turned his head to Edgar again, and said laboriously: "Rabbit... son..."

Huggins explained: "It's also a nickname, because Edgar runs fast..."

Marcus once again turned his gaze to the Raglan couple who were hiding among the knights, and slowly said, "Stingy... ghost..."

Rachel stopped Huggins: "You don't need to explain this nickname, I think it's quite appropriate."

Marcus looked around and seemed to be looking for something.

Huggins seemed to anticipate the other's thoughts, and asked: "Are you trying to ask, where did the silly big guy go?"

Marcus looked at Huggins and nodded slightly.

Huggins sighed heavily and explained to Rachel: "The silly big one is the nickname of Jerry~lightnovelpub.net~ Rachel was silent for a while.

As the deputy commander of the Knights of the North Island, Jerry once led a fleet to investigate the secrets of the necrotic plague, but the entire ship was infected with the necrotic virus.

Finally, with the help of the Valkyrie, little Jerry was brought back to Twilight City, but he had already become a dead soul without a soul who only knew how to kill.

Huggins said to Marcus while gesturing, "I will explain to you about the little Jerry thing later, what else can you think of?"

Rachel approached Karin and said in a low voice: "Marcus's memory is slowly recovering, and perhaps his intelligence is slowly improving. Could it be that the undead can gradually regain consciousness?"

Karin said: "I don't know, but I guess Marcus should have passed the test."

Rachel closed his eyes and opened them again quickly, saying, "Todd said he passed the test, but he cannot enter Twilight City for the time being, and he must be supervised by someone. Otherwise, he has all the freedom."