Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Building System

It materialized so abruptly that Aiden blinked in surprise.

“A quest…?” he muttered.

This was the first time it had happened since he was reincarnated in this world.

Slowly, he focused his eyes on the message.

[Quest Received

Quest: Conquer the Town

Description:

Eliminate all remaining inhabitants of the town and claim it as your territory.

Objective:

Kill all townspeople.

Reward:

Unlock Building System]

Aiden stared at the screen in silence.

The words lingered in front of him, glowing faintly in the dimming light of sunset.

Kill all the townspeople.

There were easily over a thousand people living here.

Men.

Women.

Children.

For a brief moment, Aiden didn’t move. The wind blew across the rooftop, carrying the distant crackling of fire from the Dustwind clan compound behind him.

His eyes slowly swept across the town.

Every house had its doors shut. Every window was closed, and they were hiding. Also, afraid.

They knew something terrible had happened.

Aiden thought about it for only a second.

Just one.

Then the hesitation in his eyes vanished.

His gaze turned cold.

Without another word, he raised one hand slightly.

“Go,” he said calmly.

The command spread through the undead like a silent wave.

Down below, dozens of skeletons and undead warriors suddenly turned toward the town.

Then they began to move.

The sound of bones clattering against stone echoed through the quiet streets as the undead rushed forward.

They spread out quickly, moving through different roads like a tide of death.

Moments later.

A scream shattered the silence of the evening.

One of the skeletons had kicked down the door of a small house. A man inside barely had time to react before a rusted blade pierced through his chest.

Another scream followed from somewhere down the street.

Then another.

And another.

The quiet town instantly descended into chaos.

Doors were broken open.

Windows shattered.

People who had been hiding inside their homes were dragged out by skeletal hands. Some tried to run, but the streets were already filled with undead.

A woman ran while holding a child in her arms, her face full of terror.

She didn’t make it far.

A skeleton lunged forward and slashed its blade across her back. She collapsed onto the ground, the child crying loudly beside her.

All across the town, the same scene was happening.

Panic.

Screaming.

Desperate attempts to escape.

But there was nowhere to run.

From the rooftop, Aiden watched everything.

The last light of the setting sun slowly disappeared behind the horizon, leaving the town under the growing darkness of night.

It took another hours before the screams in the town finally died down.

By then, night had completely fallen. The last light of the sun had long disappeared, leaving the town under a dark sky lit only by the pale glow of the moon and the scattered flames still burning in a few places.

The streets were silent again.

Bodies lay everywhere, on the roads, inside broken homes, near shattered doors. Blood had soaked into the dirt, and the smell of death hung thick in the air.

Aiden still stood on the rooftop, watching the town from above. His undead were scattered throughout the streets, standing quietly among the corpses like silent sentries.

Then suddenly.

A familiar notification appeared in front of him.

[Quest Completed

Quest: Conquer the Town

Status: Completed

Reward: Building System — Claimed]

Aiden’s eyes narrowed slightly as he read the message.

“So it’s finally done…” he murmured.

He tapped the reward without hesitation.

The moment he claimed it, something changed.

A deep rumble suddenly spread through the ground beneath the town.

Then.

A thick, black aura erupted from the center of the town like a rising storm.

The air instantly turned cold.

Aiden’s eyes widened slightly as he watched what was happening.

The dark energy spread rapidly, flowing across the streets like a shadow swallowing the land. It rolled over the houses, the roads, and the open fields surrounding the town.

Wherever the aura passed, life withered instantly.

The green trees around the town began to rot before his eyes. Leaves shriveled and turned black, falling from their branches like dead insects. The grass covering the ground faded into a dull gray as if all life had been drained from it.

Even the soil itself darkened, becoming dry and lifeless.

Within seconds, the once-living land surrounding the town looked like a place that had been dead for decades.

Aiden stared at the scene in silence.

But then something happened that even he didn’t expect.

The bodies lying all over the town suddenly began to move.

At first, it was small.

A finger twitched.

Then an arm slowly lifted from the ground.

One by one, the corpses began to rise.

Aiden’s eyes widened slightly.

“What…?”

A man who had died near the broken gate slowly pushed himself up from the ground. His body was pale, his eyes dull and lifeless.

He had become a zombie.

Not far away, another corpse suddenly dissolved into a cloud of dark mist. The shape twisted and formed into a floating figure with hollow eyes and a faint, ghostly body.

A wraith.

Elsewhere, flesh rotted away rapidly from several bodies, leaving behind bare bones that clattered together as they stood up.

Skeletons.

All across the town, the dead were rising.

Hundreds of them.

Some staggered like zombies, their movements slow but steady. Others floated silently through the air as wraiths, their forms flickering like shadows. Skeletons assembled themselves from scattered bones, picking up broken weapons from the ground.

The entire town was slowly filling with undead.

Aiden watched the scene unfold, genuinely surprised.

Even more strange was the way these undead behaved.

They weren’t attacking randomly.

They weren’t acting like mindless monsters.

Instead, many of them looked around in confusion, as if they were waking from a deep sleep.

A zombie touched its own face slowly, as if trying to understand what it had become.

A wraith hovered silently above the ground, staring down at its own ghostly hands.

Some of them even spoke.

“What… happened…?”

“I… I was hiding… inside the house…”

“My family…”

Fragments of memory remained.

Although their bodies had changed, their minds hadn’t completely disappeared. They still remembered who they were.

But one thing about them had clearly changed.

Almost at the same time, every single one of them turned their heads in the same direction.

Toward the rooftop.

Toward Aiden.

Their eyes, whether hollow, glowing, or ghostly, locked onto him.

And in that moment, something inside them shifted.

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