"This can't be… can it?" Matthew asked, shocked to see the corpses before him that hadn't rotten yet. The leather and metal armor on its body was all decayed, and many of the clearly dead corpses were turned into Skeletons as well.
However, the corpses that were still undead were not dead. They hadn't decayed and nothing in particular had happened to them at all.
"Are they really the lost legion?" Romus asked. "That would make these corpses 400 years old."
"They must be," Ning said. "Didn't Mari mention that the emperor lost the first time around because a majority of his soldiers were suddenly gone? They must have been sent down here."
"How?" Romus asked.
"Teleportation," Ning said. "That's one way to do it. Lay an ambush for the incoming soldiers and send them all down here. Even when the necromancer calls for them, they can't go out because everything is closed off."
Romus nodded. "Now that he is hundreds of years dead, they have remained immobile, with nothing to…"
