Ainz - Wraiths 3

Neia’s question of why no more bufolk had rushed over after they broke down the gate was immediately resolved.

She could hear multiple screams. It was almost as if the city itself, inorganic though it was, was shrieking.

“Wh-what’s…?”

“The result of having the undead I sent in spreading fear. It’s possible that hostages will get trampled in the panic, but…we’ll just have to let that go as a tragic accident.”

She saw several frantic—probably, judging by the expression—bufolk running toward them. They looked like a collection of little animals being chased, and she almost felt sorry for them.

They must have been awfully frightened to come running toward a being even more powerful than those undead without realizing it.

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When she looked in the direction he was pointing, she saw naked humans.

Their hands, men and women alike, had been nailed to trees. They seemed to have frantically tried to escape the fear, which left their arms covered in blood.

The subhumans must have tried to make a barricade out of humans.

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When she turned toward where he was looking, she saw that there were human corpses mixed in with the subhuman dead. They must have been trampled in the panic caused by the fear.

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Volume 12, Chapter 3.3