Chapter 716 What is more terrifying than the plague is...
During the long night, boundless darkness enveloped the entire Erengrad. Dead silence was like an invisible net, trapping this once prosperous city and trapping people's fragile nerves that were on the verge of collapse.
In the dark street, a group of city patrol soldiers who were on duty ran out of the alley in a panic. The soldiers' faces were pale, and their faces were distorted with fear. Several soldiers dropped their weapons and walked towards the street as if they had seen a ghost.
They ran wildly, and some even fell down in extreme fear, rolling and crawling out of the dark alley.
By the time Rhodes and Yeskovic arrived, the entire Blackwater neighborhood was enveloped in an atmosphere of terror. The Northern Army and the Fifth Army Corps had surrounded the neighborhood where the incident occurred. At this time, the city security forces
It no longer has any effect, and only the veterans who have experienced hardships on the battlefield can stabilize the situation.
Rhodes got off the tall war horse, and the crowd immediately made a passage for him. The giant bear Ursock followed beside him, with a huge body and head, a mouth of snow-white fangs, and glowing red eyes.
, with every step, the dull roar continued.
Such a giant beast would originally make people feel scared, but the current scene, such majesty and domineering power make people feel a sense of security and dependence.
"Great Lord, ahead are the occupied neighborhoods and monastery."
Federline, commander of the Fifth Army Corps, said.
Rhodes glanced at the dark streets. At this moment, compared to other corners of the city, it seemed more gloomy and deep. The monastery of Goddess Sarak was shrouded in a dense black, and the silver moonlight fell on the monastery.
The long spire shows a mysterious terror. It seems like a defiled goddess turned into a vengeful evil ghost.
Rhodes turned his head and glanced at the patrol soldiers next to him. Those witnesses, those soldiers who originally went in to destroy the enemy, now became prisoners, sandwiched among the northern soldiers, shivering. Some had a mental breakdown.
Stopped twitching and crying.
"What did you see?"
Rhodes asked coldly.
As soon as a city patrol soldier wearing a steel helmet was released, he knelt on the ground with a look of fear on his face, his voice trembling and his face bloodless——
"Monster...terrible monster..."
The soldier answered in a trembling voice.
"What kind of monster?"
Rhodes asked next. His voice was still cold and there was no expression on his face.
"Indescribable, a monster that has never been seen before..." The soldier's hands shook even more violently, as if he was unwilling to recall those dark, indescribable and terrifying memories.
"I'm afraid of the dark...fire...I need light..."
He hid in fear at the feet of a legionary infantryman, nestling under the faint red light of the torch. His lips were still trembling.
"Tell me what kind of monster you saw!"
Rhodes asked in a commanding tone.
Ursok stepped forward and sniffed the frightened soldier with his warm breath.
But the strange thing is that the giant bear's behavior did not scare the soldiers, but gave the desperate soldiers a bit of comfort and support.
His eyes calmed down a bit, and he finally uttered a few words hesitantly——
"A monster with three eyes and a body covered with tumors..."
"Its blood is green...like mucus..."
"Maggots crawled out of their eye sockets and out of every rotten hole in their bodies..."
The soldier was trembling as he described and recalled. But soon, he didn't want to remember anymore. He covered his ears, as if fear had strangled his spiritual throat again. He stopped saying anything, and just held on to the torch.
The skin was almost burned.
"I'm afraid of the dark...afraid of...the dark..."
The soldier murmured.
"You are dismissed, soldier."
Rhodes said coldly, walking past the frightened soldiers. Other soldiers who fled during the siege were captured by regular army soldiers and treated as deserters. They were handcuffed, but no one resisted. In the darkness,
Numbness and panic were written on the faces of every security force soldier.
A few minutes later, when the torches of the regular army legionnaires illuminated the entire street, people could clearly see the monastery occupied by the followers of the evil god.
The originally white and spotless stone wall turned dark black. With the help of torches and moonlight, people saw the flickering black vines on the stone wall, clinging to the wall like tentacles.
"Oh my god! They... they're moving!"
Someone in the crowd of onlookers exclaimed.
Only then did Rhodes take a closer look. Indeed, those black objects crawling on the walls of the monastery were like blood vessels of the devil, beating weakly under the dim moonlight. The horror of the scene shocked everyone present. Although these things
It may not have actual lethality, but its visual effects have deeply shocked the soldiers who surrounded and suppressed it.
Rhodes knew that these northern warriors had experienced hundreds of battles. They had fought against beastmen, greenskins, and even trolls. They had seen all kinds of beasts. However, this primitive and chaotic power,
But it can arouse fear from the depths of human hearts...
Soon, the crowd became commotion.
"Disperse the crowd and let's go in."
Rhodes immediately gave a serious order.
"No! No! I won't go in! No..."
The town guard soldiers behind him then screamed in horror.
However, no one paid attention to them.
Under the personal leadership of the great lord, the legion's regular infantry began to drag heavy battering rams and hit the monastery gate.
They saw that the original large iron gate was now covered with black tentacle-like plants. To be precise, it was impossible to tell whether they were part of an animal or a plant. Those disgusting tentacles made a sizzling sound of flesh being crushed when they were hit.
There was a sound, and some sticky juice was being squeezed out from the smashed stumps. From inside the gate, there were deep roars from time to time. It was unclear whether they were from humans or beasts, or they were not human at all.
, it’s not that of a wild beast. That sound is...weird...it makes one’s hair stand on end.
Rhodes knew that in the face of these primitive terrors, the battle must end quickly. Otherwise, it would be a huge drain on the warriors' mental strength.
No one can stand in front of a monster like a Chaos Egg for five seconds. With that fat body covered with abscesses, no need to guess, Rhodes also knows what the previous patrols encountered. The threat of Nurgle is getting bigger and bigger, and the potential
The threat even exceeds the plague itself. More and more desperate civilians are taking refuge in the evil god, or are being stared at and infected by the evil god unknowingly.
The plague brings rapid death, and the evil god sometimes even prevents this rapid death, but slowly turns the infected civilians into indescribable monsters... When they gradually lose their minds, those humans... If they still
If it can be called a human being... then it slowly becomes a lackey of Chaos...
This kind of threat is the real threat. Obviously, the severity of this gathering of people for sacrifice has far exceeded the last time. Last time, the city patrol security team could barely cope with it. This time, they have not met their opponents yet.
, the spirit has collapsed.
A dull loud noise interrupted Rhodes' thoughts. The door of the monastery was knocked down. From the lawn that had turned into a quagmire, countless strangely deformed creatures emerged... Those creatures were all exceptions, and they all looked like human beings.
His head and body have already turned into various deformed monsters...