In the dark, Mei Li heard a familiar voice, that was the voice of her parents.
"Father? Mother? Are you still alive?"
Mei Li turned around, and suddenly two ferocious and pale faces suddenly appeared in front of her, with Lan Yan's eyes staring at her.
"Why don't you save us!"
"Unfilial daughter!!"
Their bodies suddenly caught fire, and Mellie woke up from her sleep.
"ah!"
Her chest was rising and falling, and she was breathing heavily, looking like she was in shock.
"Having a nightmare?"
Fina's voice came, and when she looked carefully, the black dog Huohuo was not with her either. Meili immediately climbed out of the tent and found that her things were almost packed, and it started to snow again.
Then there was a dog barking, and she looked back and saw that Huo Huo was wrapped in several pieces of cloth and seemed to be patrolling.
"I'm here to help."
Mellie started moving quickly. She didn't want to do nothing, but she didn't seem to realize that her legs no longer hurt.
Soon, they packed up their tents, put them on the bags on both sides of the saddle, and were ready to set off. Miss Fina was going to take her to the nearest village and warned them to be careful of evil spirits and to change their lives in a village. This was very difficult for Meili.
It's a challenge, but life has to go on, and little people like her are already used to a hard life.
With uneasy hearts, they embarked on the journey. The nearest village was a small mountain village more than ten kilometers east. It was also mainly logging, but there were several flat lands around where food could be grown. Maybe Meili could be found there.
Work.
Riding horses, they set off, traveling through the white forest.
Fina rarely takes the initiative to speak. In order to avoid the atmosphere becoming awkward, Mellie often takes the initiative to find topics.
After chatting for a while, she discovered that this female knight living in the mountains had no common sense at all. She didn't even know what money was, and she didn't know the whereabouts of the person she was looking for.
Moreover, that was already four years ago. A teenage girl went down the mountain to explore the world alone. Meili, who is also a woman, felt pessimistic about this. The world is very big and cruel. If she is not like Fina,
If you understand the outside world, you will be deceived quickly.
Thinking of this, Melly began to worry about Fina who was looking for someone.
She is her savior, and Mellie doesn't want her to be deceived by bad people.
It didn't take too long to get to the next village, but they hid in the uninhabited mountains last night to avoid evil spirits, so it took a long time to get out. By the time they found the main road, it was almost noon.
The wide road is surrounded by felled wood. Since there are no trees, the sides of the road are usually covered with weeds and are relatively bright.
But Fina suddenly stopped, her face serious, and the black dog Huohuo lowered his tail uneasily. Melly seemed to notice something, and when they approached quietly, they discovered that there were actually things on the road full of mud and snow.
There is a well-organized army.
It's the army sent by the empire!
Before Melly could be happy for too long, she was frightened by a hiss. She saw Fina pointing in one direction. Melly looked towards where she pointed, and saw a figure standing on a big rock next to the army.
A strange soldier who is as thin as a monkey.
wrong!
His eyes are burning with blue flames, they are evil spirits!
For a moment, Mellie held her breath. She felt as if something was strangling her neck. What was going on?
Evil spirit soldiers, or soldiers turned into evil spirits, no matter what, they actually have discipline and have sentries. Doesn't it mean that their intelligence is not even as good as that of wild beasts?
Seeing this scene, Mellie felt huge fear.
"They are getting stronger and stronger, and they will also gain a certain amount of wisdom. We'd better hurry up and reach the village before them."
Mellie agreed with her suggestion, so they quickened their pace, bypassed the main road, and headed for the village along the mountain road.
However, the evil sentry sitting on the stone had already turned his head in the direction they left, and the blue flame in his eyes kept flickering.
…
The Mage Tower is located in the Blue Stone Castle in the eastern part of the Luas Empire. It is close to the Blue Ice Sea and is one of the few ports in Luas. Due to the invasion of the demons, the royal family came to this place with their army where they could escape to the ocean at any time.
In the city, the Mage Tower, which had been abandoned for a long time, also welcomed its new owner.
Originally, the Mage Tower was built to guard against sea monster attacks, but now it has become a temporary place for the Luas Empire to handle official business. Since the royal city has become ruins, the new king of Luas, Jean Duris, has to be here.
An enthronement ceremony was held.
The old sage Ethan carried a pile of magic scrolls and staggered to the wizard's tower. He looked up at the sea monster statue on the tower mountain, then sighed and entered the tower.
Tall stairs were the old man's nemesis. He had no choice but to use magic to let his shoes drive his withered legs up the snake-like stairs.
Soon, he heard the new king's roar.
"We must return to the royal city immediately! Build everything up instead of staying in this place."
Seeing the old Imperial Master, the royal guard guarding the iron gate consciously stepped aside, and then knocked on the door.
"Your Highness, the Imperial Master is here."
"Let him in."
There was a loud roar from inside the door, and the guard pushed the door open.
The white-haired sage sighed, and he stepped into the threshold. Many people were sitting inside, and they all turned to look at him.
King Jean's face was a little red, and it seemed that he was still angry. After the war, he had been advocating to return to the ruins of the royal city. This was opposed by all the ministers, because the cold winter had come, and they marched rashly.
It will only increase the risk. You must know that all countries are staring at opportunities. They are like scavenging vultures, waiting for opportunities, and now is the time when the Luas Empire is at its weakest.
"Your Highness the King, are you still insisting on going back?"
the old man asked.
"Of course! The king must sit on the throne, not in a remote corner like this. If this continues, others will only regard me as a local emperor."
Gene said.
Ethan watched him grow up and was still his magic teacher.
"We will go back, but not now. I'm afraid I have to bring you some worse news."
He slowly placed a magic scroll on the table and spread it out. The magic scroll was very large, almost occupying half of the table. Suddenly the light of magic shone out, and a three-dimensional scene appeared on the scroll. In the picture,
Hundreds of "people" with eyes flashing with blue fireworks were wandering by the river. No, they seemed to have a purpose and seemed to be going somewhere.
"Evil spirit?"
Jean had heard of these things, living corpses, and disgusting black magic. Everyone knew that this was after An Mihu defeated the Demon King Hades, and it cursed the world. At that time, many people blamed
Anmihu, it was his failure to completely kill the Demon King of Hades that led to this disaster.
"This is not bad news. Just send a few soldiers to clean it up."
He said coldly.
"It is true that we did this before, and it was very effective, but recently they seem to have become more abnormal and more powerful. Everyone, do you remember the time when the corpse turned into an evil spirit?"
The old Imperial Master looked at everyone, and they all knew it very well.
"In one day, if you die at night, it will be faster. If you die during the day, it will be longer, but it will not exceed too long, so the corpses will be burned the next day. But now, they are changing faster. Everyone, please pay attention to these things and continue
The following events happened right under our noses, in the Blue Stone Castle, please take a look."
He pushed the first scroll aside and put the second scroll. He saw an old woman kneeling on the ground in pain on a street somewhere in the city. She was holding a blood-stained corpse on the ground, surrounded by people.
Man, it looks like something happened to him.
The silent picture makes people feel inexplicably depressed, maybe because the picture of the magic scroll is not rich in color and the color is cold.
However, at this moment, something terrible happened. The bloody corpse suddenly opened his eyes, and a dazzling blue flame burned his eyes. Suddenly, a terrible change occurred in his whole body, and he turned towards the old woman.
The person was biting away, and the scene was suddenly interrupted, with everyone frozen in panic and fleeing.
"This! Could it be that..."
The king's face turned pale, as if he realized the seriousness of the problem.
The old man frowned, nodded, and said: "The transformation time of the corpse now is less than an hour. This is a very terrible disaster. Not only that, the older corpse is also driven by this evil energy. We
I don’t know how many bodies are still buried underground. It’s not safe anywhere now, especially the Royal City.”
Hearing this, King Jean swallowed. There were hundreds of thousands of people in the royal city. After that battle, no one would deal with the battlefield. In other words, there were at least four to five million evil spirits wandering there.