It had only been decades since the fall of the Empire, yet the city looked truly wretched. The bricks and cement that were supposed to be sturdy as well as the unknown materials used to build houses had mostly fallen apart.

The undead curse not only transformed living beings into undead, but also withered away and eliminated anything that was still alive, so it was only natural that the city would be in this state. It truly was a curse that killed the world itself. Whenever Lee Shin-Woo looked at it this way, he realized how frightening the curse actually was.

"The other cities we've gone to weren't like this," said Jin.

"Well, those cities were small and located on the outskirts of the Empire... They looked relatively okay since there wasn't much in those cities."

Lee Shin-Woo was right. The cities they'd passed through until now didn't have an abundance of goods, while this unknown city shut within great walls was an entirely different story. There was both a commercial district and a slum. There was a city hall, and crisscrossing streets ran between the houses and buildings. There were also traces of various trades left all over the city. Not only were there leftover goods, there were also people. Or undead, to be more prec...