Frozen continent.

At the foot of a majestic iceberg more than 7,000 meters high.

The naturally formed cave made it the first place favored by local intelligent beings who settled here to rest and recuperate.

As time flies, for thousands of years, the cave residents continued to expand the cave, eventually making it one of the top ten residential areas in the frozen continent.

In addition, the residents here discovered a vein of magic stone from deep underground a hundred years ago and cultivated ice spiritual grass suitable for the local environment.

With two specialties and a large population, this place suddenly became one of the core strongholds for trade in the frozen continent.

On weekdays, you can always see caravans or travelers who are not afraid of the cold in the ice and snow outside the cave entrance, coming day and night.

However, after reports of a plague appeared in this residence.

In just a few days, no outsider dared to come.

Deep in the cave, a circle of lower open space has been opened up along the lines of the earth.

The milky white buildings of the entire residential area are distributed in this circle of open space like terraces, and most of the buildings are lit with fire.

It seems that the occupancy rate is quite good.

Just like the road surrounding the mountain, there are light source buildings like water wells every kilometer. These wells continuously release white light, illuminating a kilometer radius area.

If you just look at it from a high altitude, you will feel that this city in the cave has a unique flavor and is full of alternative artistic flavor.

The environment in the residential area is quite comfortable. The wizards have used geothermal arrays to keep the temperature of most residential areas at around 18 degrees Celsius.

Just look at the surface.

Most people would probably think that there is nothing wrong with this city and that it is very livable.

Only those who know the truth will know.

This residence called the City of Ice Birds has become a hell filled with panic and despair.

The city has already been under martial law.

No one is allowed to leave the house except the official team wearing protective robes.

Every two hours, robed guards on the streets knock on doors to check on the owners.

Once a sick person is found, they will imprison him and take him away as if he is facing a powerful enemy.

It was said that they would be taken to a wizard sent by the royal family for treatment.

In addition, from time to time, these robed guards would find completely petrified owners from some completely silent houses.

In the earliest days, the robe guards would also take away these petrified people.

However, as the wizards continued their research, it was proved that these petrified people were hopeless, and might instead be sacrifices to evil gods.

The Robed Guards tend to crush these petrified men and burn them to ashes.

In the deepest open space of the city.

Piles of petrified human fragments were piled up to form a hill.

Then, more than a dozen wizards specializing in the fire system stepped forward, stretched out their staffs, and silently chanted spells.

Tens of seconds later.

More than a dozen fire snakes flew out and wrapped around the pile of petrified fragments, making a squeaking and burning sound.

Gulzar looked at the lit fire, and then looked at the Ice Bird City behind him.

The mood is extremely complicated.

In the past, Gulzar was extremely envious of the high-class people who could live in this city.

Their life in Gulzar seems worth a lifetime of struggle!

Unexpectedly.

In the blink of an eye, everything changed.

This treasure of the frozen continent has also turned into a place that makes their conversation change.

As the Knight of the Morning Star, Gulzar also had to take responsibility and come to understand the situation of the plague on the spot.

The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became!

The petrification curse is 100% caused by a very powerful evil god!

To be honest, the plague caused by such a curse... the wizards of the royal family have admitted frankly that they can only do their best to obey fate.

The patients who were admitted were not completely petrified.

There is no treatment at all, just waiting to die.

In fact, research on the petrification curse is increasingly reaching dead ends.

Already, a legendary wizard with a royal background proposed burning all the patients to death.

Even if the plague cannot be controlled.

He plans to destroy all cities and patients with plague in one fell swoop!

His proposal did not receive support from many people, but... the high priest vetoed the proposal.

But Gulzar, who watched the whole process, knew in his heart.

If this approach can successfully prevent the spread of the plague, the high priest will not mind.

However, the high priest directly refuted the legendary wizard's whims.

The most critical thing about the evil god’s plague is to find the source and route of its spread.

If these two key factors cannot be found, what is the use of killing all infected people?

Could it be that if the entire royal family is infected, all descendants of the royal family must be slaughtered?

Maybe this approach would actually comply with the evil god's control behind the scenes and become the preliminary preparation for some evil secret method of the other party.

For example, the evil god of despair mentioned in ancient records.

His favorite sacrifice is the despair of ordinary people when they feel powerless.

He will instinctively give powerful feedback to the evil god who provides him with a large amount of these emotions.

Gulzar sighed softly and left the ground. He jumped lightly and arrived near a well halfway up the city.

Perception opens up.

Gulzar immediately heard the sound coming from the second apartment building to his left.

A human mother and daughter were hugging each other and squatting in the corner crying out of despair.

A half-demon realized that he was infected and was mutilating himself and screaming in the room.

In the first apartment on the right, in a relatively beautiful room, a mother with pointed ears was comforting a little boy whose skin was beginning to turn petrified.

This woman must have known something and didn't let the robed guards take away her child.

Based on Gulzar's understanding.

The little boy is already in the middle and late stages of the illness, and will soon become ill and turn into a stone statue.

And the mother who took care of him was actually not having an easy time, and the aura of the petrified curse appeared on her body.

Thinking about the next test, she will be taken away as a patient, right?

And in the building across the road ahead.

Gulzar was slightly startled, but he suddenly saw a guard officer wearing a robe stabbing himself to death with a sword.

The officer is not sick.

But judging by the messiness of the place where he committed suicide.

I'm afraid this is his home, and his family members... were either turned into stone sculptures, or were all taken away.

"Did the frustration of being helpless against his family make him despair and die?"

Gulzar murmured to himself. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he quickly let out a sigh.

He discovered that after the death of an officer who was not infected, his soul still disappeared!

It didn’t dissipate naturally, but simply disappeared!

"He didn't turn into a stone sculpture. How could his soul disappear?"

Gulzar's body shook, and the power of the Morning Star was fully activated.

His eyes twinkled with starlight.

Suddenly!
Chapter completed!