"Warning: You were damaged by the disease, causing 0 points of damage (33 of which have been resisted)."
"Warning: You are damaged by the disease, causing 0 points of damage (31 points of which have been resisted)."
"Warning: You are damaged by the disease, causing 0 points of damage (40 of which have been resisted)."
Brando suddenly stopped and called up the battle log in his retina. A light green light screen appeared in front of him, which was already covered with shocking system records.
He immediately raised his head and saw that he had entered the Queens District. This area was usually the busiest business area in the entire Rushta. Dozens of the most famous chambers of commerce in the empire were stationed along both sides of the street. Those majestic and spectacular buildings were immersed in the atmosphere at this moment.
In the darkness and silence, every door and window was closed, and a layer of mist filled the streets.
"Mist?" Brando suddenly raised his hand to grab it, then opened his palm, revealing the corpses of several flying insects.
"What's wrong, sir?" Behind him, Medissa and Hipamila also stopped. The latter looked at his movements curiously and asked.
However, the little silver elf princess stared at the colorful insect corpse in Brando's hand without saying a word, with a steady light in her eyes.
"Know?" Brando asked.
"This is a swarm of plague insects. They were born in the mist of the Gray Light Field, and they thrived by devouring the corpses of demons and the stench of fallen souls," Medissa replied quietly: "I have seen them more than once.
"
"This is a larvae," Brando nodded: "It's not fully grown yet, what you've seen should be an adult."
He squinted his eyes and looked at the dead street in front of him. He knew in his mind where Medissa had dealt with these bugs. Plague bugs are residents of hell and are born from scavenging. Usually a group is descended from the same mother parent.
The mother parent is a giant adult insect, and there is often only one in a group. Plague insect swarms rarely leave the mother parent too far, and they almost never migrate out of the Gray Light Field.
But there is one exception.
Among the twelve branches of tree shepherds, the Gu Insect Lords have been insect wizards for generations. This branch of tree shepherds controls a huge number of plague insect swarms. As early as the era of the Holy War, tree shepherds and silver elves have
, humans have fought against each other more than once, so Medissa should have seen these visitors from hell more than once at that time.
Mayad, the Gu Insect Lord of this generation, was captured by the Empire decades ago and imprisoned deep in an underground prison in Rushta. But even Andesa was jumping around outside not long ago. I think this Gu Insect Lord is also
I won't be lonely.
"It looks like Her Majesty the Queen isn't the only one in trouble."
"Are you ready to fight, Lord?" Medissa asked.
"First add defensive spells. These larvae won't cause us much trouble, but it's hard to tell inside." Brando frowned. Every tree shepherd is difficult to deal with, and Andersa is one of them.
Weak, although Mayad is not that strong, it is extremely difficult to deal with.
In the game, he had dealt with this Gu Insect Lord, so he found it difficult. This is the periphery of the plague mist. In the center area, the disease damage can reach more than 100 points per second. He is not good at praising.
The baptizing pastor of the poem could not move at all.
Although the impact of magic damage on him is minimal at the moment. He may even be able to completely resist the disease damage in the central area, but it is difficult to say for Medissa and Hipamira.
He didn't want to cause any more trouble at this time. His most urgent goal now was to go through Rushta to the west to meet up with the others and confirm whether Akane had been rescued. If everything went well, they could leave the empire directly.
Already.
The channels to leave the empire have been arranged for a long time. The eldest son of the emperor and the northern nobles will fully cooperate with him. They can pass through the Evergreen Walkway. Or they can detour through the Principality of Antobro. This road is relatively safe - at least for now.
It seems so.
As for what happened in the Imperial Capital, in fact it had nothing to do with him or the Eruin people. Anyway, it was Her Majesty's trouble.
He looked at the thin mist carefully, thinking that if he was lucky, he could pass directly through the edge of the mist. However, the element of Mayad is the fog of the soul, not just the fog of plague. It is easy to get lost in this fog, and it is difficult to leave if you want to.
Not that easy.
What's more, the other party is a psychopath, and I'm afraid he may not allow a few living people to escape unscathed from his plague mist.
It's just that it's too late to go back now. Behind is the trade area. Who knows if the Silver Queen will catch up.
Hipamila set up a defensive light shield as instructed, but Medisa had no reaction. Brando glanced at her and then remembered that the people of silver were immune to diseases, and they also won in their confrontation with the Gu Insect Lord.
The more you lose, the less you lose.
"Bai Yin's bloodline is really enviable." He couldn't help but sigh.
"My lord is not bad at all," Medisa smiled: "I am just a pitiful ghost. I am not worthy of your lord's envy."
"Really? How can there be such a cute ghost?"
Medisa's eyes widened, her silver eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, and Hipamila beside her couldn't help but giggle.
The atmosphere relaxed a lot for a while, and the three of them also slowed down their pace. Queens is a little more than two kilometers long. The entire area consists of a main street, with magnificent shops and tall buildings on both sides of the street. It's like the old times.
The temple of Kronu, the god of commerce, stands in the mist not far away. It has already become a monument-like building to commemorate the glory of the gods in the past.
Brando could almost see the gold patterns inlaid on the mottled outer walls. They were dim and the scenery of the past was no longer there. The Temple of Flame was very generous in not knocking them down. Of course, it also expressed its respect for Martha and her obedience.
In fact, in the countryside of the empire and in many areas of Eruin, people still maintain their faith in the old gods, but they can no longer get a response.
Without response and protection, there is no priest. The temple of Krunu, the god of commerce, is like a mottled empty shell, silent in the mist for thousands of years.
In fact, this temple was not the only one that was silent. The entire Queens District was shrouded in deathly silence, with only the footsteps of three people sounding in the sky on the stone street.
The further we walked in, the thicker the mist became. From time to time, an insect would hit Hipamira's light shield and crash into a puddle of green water. It flowed down the light screen, scaring the priestess's face to pale.
On the other hand, the little silver elf princess looked very calm and walked forward almost without changing her expression. Only at this moment can people be reminded that she was once the supreme commander of an army.
Although according to human age, she was only fourteen years old when she became famous. She was just a young girl.
Brando was almost not taking any chances at this time. He knew that the silence was because there was probably no one alive in the Queens District. This was the area with the richest nightlife in the entire imperial capital, close to the aristocratic district. From evening to late at night,
It's often the busiest time, and nobles often sneak out to experience life. Although it can't be said to be crowded, at least it's not empty.
There was not a single body visible on the street, but looking at the carriage parked crookedly on the side of the road or bumping into the sycamore tree, one could understand what had happened before. The carriage's shaft frame and noose fell to the ground empty, and the horse that pulled the carriage also fell to the ground.
There are no bones left.
Hipamila looked solemn.
Brando was wondering where Sidney and Veronica had gone, and whether it had something to do with Mayad's sudden appearance.
It was at this time that the fog in front of them suddenly buzzed and parted to both sides, and a fist-sized insect rushed towards them. Brando reacted very quickly and drew his sword without thinking. The sword flashed. The insect had already snapped.
It turned into two pieces and fell to the ground with a click, its six legs still twitching.
As soon as he lowered his head, he found that the thing looked a bit like some kind of beetle, with a dark body and six legs as sharp as knives. Before he could speak, Medissa on the side answered first: "This is an adult beetle. We are already close to the parent beetle."
Already."
Being close to the mother parent means that it is close to Mayad. Brando did not expect that instead of passing through the fog of plague from the edge, Brando came to the center of the fog of plague.
However, when they reached this place, it meant that the other party had discovered them. If they tried to escape, they would be deceiving themselves. He simply did not take back the sword in his hand, but raised his head and took a look. There was a tall and majestic building in front of him. Brando thought about it for a moment.
, then I remembered that it was the headquarters of the patrol cavalry.
He took a moment to glance at the light green light screen floating on his upper left. As expected, the damage recorded in the battle record had risen to nearly a hundred, which was slightly weaker than what he had encountered before. However, he only escaped from the dungeon in this era.
Mayad was not at his strongest.
"It looks like he's waiting for us there." He turned back to Medissa and Hipamila and said.
"Yes," the little silver elf princess nodded: "But it's a little strange, sir."
"What's wrong?" Brando knew that Medisa's experience was no worse than his own, or even better, and that his understanding of the tree shepherd was no less than his own, so he seemed to attach great importance to the latter's opinion.
"The swarm of insects is too small," Medisha replied softly: "Even if Mayad hides it consciously, there should not be so few insects in the fog of plague. Moreover, we only met an adult insect when we got here. Some are too small."
It’s unusual.”
Brando raised his eyebrows and then noticed this. He had only fought against Mayad once in a limited opportunity, and he was not the main attacker at that time. The Knights of Gracius who accompanied him at that time were only responsible for containing the insects.
It’s just a group, the real main focus of the Diamond Force Guild.
He recalled the experience of that battle. There was indeed an overwhelming swarm of insects in the fog, which was a bit different from the two or three sparse ones now.
"What do you think?" Brando asked cautiously as the three of them walked forward cautiously.
"I thought of a possibility," Medisa shook her head slightly: "But I don't dare to confirm it yet."
Brando saw her biting her lip, a thought flashed through her mind, and she didn't ask any more questions.
The patrol cavalry headquarters in the mist is like a living creature of flesh and blood. The towering fortress-like building is its back, and the city wall is its winding neck and spine. It curls up here, motionless, as if it is falling into a silent sleep.
middle.
There was no sign of anyone alive in the fortress, and it was obvious that all of them had been killed. Fortunately, the patrol cavalry still had a camp outside the city. The headquarters in the city usually only had a squadron of cavalry stationed on duty. However, even so, this accident was enough to shock the top brass of the empire.
, you must know that among the patrolling cavalry in the imperial capital, noble children account for a large proportion.
The commander of the patrolling cavalry is the Imperial Earl, a master second only to the Extreme Realm. If he was here when the accident happened, then the Cruz people would have even greater fun.
The three of them walked all the way through the city gate, and the suspended suspension bridge did not cause them any trouble. Then they came to the deserted courtyard, the main entrance of the manor, the corridors, and the spiral staircase. There was no one in the entire fortress, and there were not even many insects.
They only encountered a few attacks along the way, not so much from the plague swarms, but from the individual bugs that remained here after the swarms.
But the thick fog of plague that shrouded this place told Brando that this was definitely the center of the plague insect swarm, not a place after the insect swarm passed by.
They went all the way to the third floor of the fortress, which is also the top floor. This is the center of the entire patrol cavalry headquarters. In theory, the Earl's office should be here.
The internal structure of this type of military building is similar. Brando is quite familiar with the Cruze fortress. He quickly followed the corridor and found the location of the Earl's office. At the door of the office, he finally saw the only building in his trip.
Several humans.
To be precise, several corpses.
Two of them were lying on the corridor, face down, wearing the uniforms of patrol cavalry. The uniforms were pale in color, and black blood seeped out from under them, seeping into the thick carpet.
Another man was leaning against the wall, his face was bloody and bloody, and his facial features could no longer be seen clearly. It seemed as if something had chewed a big hole out of it. He was dressed more gorgeously, with an earl windbreaker, gold-trimmed breeches, and boots, all over his body.
They are all decorated with bits and pieces, and they also wear an extremely luxurious breastplate.
Unfortunately, this breastplate failed to save his life. There was a large hole on the left side of the breastplate, and dark red blood flowed from it. This should be the fatal wound.
The corpse leaned against the walnut wall behind with its head tilted, blood smeared all over the wall, and his sword scattered on the side. Brando confirmed the identity of the other party when he saw the sword.
Red Falcon proves that this person is the commander of the patrolling cavalry, a certain count from the empire.
Brando raised his hand, and the sword flew up from the ground and fell into his hand, then flashed and disappeared into the dimensional hole.
Although the sword of the imperial patrol cavalry commander, the Red Falcon, is not as good as the holy swords such as Harangea and Odyssey, it is still a rare and famous ancient sword. Otherwise, it will not be passed down from generation to generation. He can
I don't have the habit of leaving good things to the Imperial people.
There were several adult plague bugs crawling around next to the body of the patrolling cavalry commander. As soon as Brando moved, they immediately discovered the strange intruder and screamed and rushed towards them. But Brando hadn't taken action yet.
, the priestess next to her took a step forward, waved the Mountains and Rivers with both hands, a perfect home run, and directly knocked away these insects.
The insect buzzed and hit the wall on one side, then shattered into green juice on the ground.
Brando also frowned. He suddenly thought that these bugs did not take the initiative to attack him before, but passively attacked him after he alerted them. In fact, the closer they got to the mother parent, the more cautious the plague bugs became. , they will madly attack any creature approaching this area, whether it is humans or animals.
This is not the behavior a plague swarm should have.
He couldn't help but turn around subconsciously, only to find that Medisa was also frowning deeply, looking thoughtfully in the direction of the Imperial Earl's office not far away.
There, there was only a half-broken wooden door in the thick fog.
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