「Ghouls are not Undead?」

The image of Ghouls in Vandalieu’s mind was that of Undead monsters with long claws and fangs, strength greater than that of Zombies, and a love for feasting on dead flesh.

However, he could feel the comforting warmth from her body that he hadn’t felt since Darcia had died, and his【Sense Life】skill detected life in her. She might not be a human, but she was definitely a living creature.

『Bocchan, we ordinary people are told that Ghouls are higher-class Zombies, not very different from Vampires.』

According to Sam, Ghouls were treated like an inferior species of Vampires. They lived and had children. However, they were powerful monsters that attacked people, had great physical strength and resistance to pain and secreted venom at the claws of their hands and feet.

And they apparently turned freshly-killed corpses into members of their own kind in some evil ceremony.

「Hmm, we are not higher-class Zombies, but you are half-correct, Sam.」

But according to Zadiris, the reality was quite different.

Ghouls were apparently not an inferior species of Vampire, but their lesser relatives.

「To put it simply, the founder of us Ghouls was the twin brother of the founder of Vampires, or perhaps his younger sister. That means that Ghouls are also children of the goddess Vida.」

「But Ghouls weren’t mentioned in the legend that Mom told me?」

「Well, I do not know the details, but this is something I heard from the eldest member of the generation before last.」

According to the legend that Vandalieu heard from Darcia, Vida birthed Lamias, Scyllas, Harpies, Arachne and Centaurs, but nothing about Ghouls being among those monsters.

Well, it wasn’t like Darcia knew everything, and it was the kind of story whose contents would differ slightly from region to region.

It seemed that the Ghouls of Zadiris’s village believed in Zadiris’s story… But that didn’t mean that they were particularly friendly towards humans. Nobody would want to try to become friends with people that branded them as monsters and tried to kill them.

In fact, Zadiris had killed numerous adventurers in the past, and lost companions to them.