The suburbs outside the small city where the King of the Abyss, Medula, is located.

As a place where Abyss believers are kept, there will naturally be no shortage of places polluted by the Abyss.

With the arrival of the Queen of the Abyss, this place gradually became weird and terrifying.

On a hill outside the suburbs.

A group of lumberjacks are taking a break.

There have been several strange incidents near this hill. It was said that some kind of monster appeared, so this place has always been regarded as a restricted area by default.

But a few months ago, there were rumors that the monsters in this restricted area had been captured and executed, so some poor hunters came here to try their luck, but to my surprise, nothing happened.

So, under the temptation of a certain nobleman's high price, these loggers were sent over to cut down a kind of precious wood in this mountainous area.

Perhaps due to the fact that this mountainous area was once a restricted area, the loggers quickly found those precious trees. After a good harvest, even when they noticed the cold wind blowing in the forest, the loggers did not go too far.

care.

As the captain of this team, a one-eyed old lumberjack suddenly let out a sigh, raised his head and discovered something.

He stuffed the remaining half of the dough into his arms, hesitated for a few moments, and walked towards the hillside.

"team leader?"

Someone saw the one-eyed captain's actions, raised his head and asked in confusion.

"Old Green, what are you doing? It's getting colder and colder today. I think we should go down the mountain."

A woodcutter who recognized the captain stood up and shouted loudly.

"It's time to go down the mountain, you all are ready."

The old captain nodded in agreement and continued walking up the hillside at a leisurely pace.

On the hillside, an old tree with a crooked neck grew unexpectedly.

The branches of the old trees are dry and withered, and the leaves have long since fallen.

However, in the eyes of the old captain, the old tree seemed to exude a kind of gentle and soft light. This soft light gave him a sense of joy and made him somewhat suspicious that there might be some treasure hidden in the old tree.

In the circles of lumberjacks and hunters, there is a rumor that after discovering a treasure in the mountains and giving it to a great noble, the family will prosper and rise in class. There are several new cases every year.

Although those examples never include familiar names.

But no one would doubt that it was fake.

They naively thought that noble men would not be shy about deceiving themselves and others.

As long as you find the treasure, you can usher in a happy new life.

The old captain's mind was filled with these thoughts, and he didn't even pay attention to the increasingly loud inquiries from his teammates behind him who had discovered his abnormality.

The old captain picked up the ax and swung it violently, with a bang!

The ax cut easily into the bark of the old tree.

Then, something strange happened. The old captain was shocked to find that black liquid overflowed from the wound on the crooked old tree, and the liquid quickly spread to the handle of the axe.

"hiss!"

The old captain suddenly came to his senses and nervously released his hands.

The black liquid quickly submerged into the end of the wooden handle, but it failed to catch the old captain.

Just when the old captain secretly rejoiced.

Click!

The ax head was suddenly squeezed out of the tree bark and fell to the grass.

Then a jet of black liquid suddenly spurted out from the old tree's wound, covering the old captain in the blink of an eye!

"What kind of ghost tree is this!"

Several lumberjacks behind him were shocked when they saw this scene, and they opened their mouths and shouted.

Suddenly, the one-eyed old captain became the focus of everyone's attention.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a horrific scene happened.

The black liquid quickly turned the one-eyed old captain into a jelly man made of liquid.

Then it only takes a few seconds.

This black jelly man had sharp spikes growing out of his body, a human face protruded from his lower abdomen, and he let out an intrusive wail.

"Weird...monster!"

"Oh my god, this is still a restricted area!"

"Run, run!"

The lumberjacks all screamed in surprise, turned around and tried to escape down the mountain at all costs.

However, with the appearance of the first sacrifice.

The entire mountainous area centered on this hill seemed to come alive in an instant.

Black liquid seeped out of many trees, and then these black liquids emitted streams of black gas, affecting the surrounding insects, animals and plants.

This caused them to undergo abyssal transformations one after another.

The abyss monsters undergoing mutation are in desperate need of nutrition.

It is also born with a strong hostility towards all non-abyss living creatures.

ah!

On the way down the mountain, several lumberjacks suddenly fell to the ground.

However, a lot of spider silk shot out from the cracks in the ground and entangled their ankles and even waists.

There was a violent shaking of gravel on the ground.

Abyss Demon Spiders, each about the size of a carriage, crawled out, opened their mouths to bite their prey, and then quickly fled back to the ground.

"Oh my God, we...we are finished, we are dead!"

Seeing the miserable state of their companions, the few people who finally made it down the mountain turned pale and screamed strangely.

Although they had gone down the mountain, it would still take at least an hour to get out of the forest.

But in the mountain forest in front of them, a dark wind was blowing, and black liquid appeared on the ground visible to the naked eye.

The lumberjack who had just stopped the one-eyed old captain opened his mouth to say something. He tried hard several times before mumbling:

"How can I die here?"

"My twin girls are still waiting for me to go back and buy them cakes!"

"my wife……"

"Lucky for you, at least you still have a younger brother who can take care of your wife and daughter. I'm the only male left in my family."

The person next to him heard this whisper and tightened his grip on the dagger at his waist. He had thrown away his logging ax just now.

"I must escape, I absolutely can't die here!"

After saying that, the man suddenly rushed towards the road ahead.

He rushed out twenty or thirty meters away.

boom!

In the woods beside the road, a black shadow rushed over and instantly knocked down the lumberjack.

The next second, the lumberjack had turned into a mosaic.

The other people were stunned and sweating profusely.

"Roar!"

In the woods, there were more roars.

In just a few seconds, more than a dozen sturdy Abyss Rats crawled out of the shadows.

These demon rats had various sarcomas on their bodies, and a strange odor emanated from them, almost killing the lumberjacks.

"We...we are dead!"

The few remaining lumberjacks suddenly collapsed on the grass. Facing the power of the abyss monsters, they were just mortals and seemed to be unable to do anything except wait for death.

On the outskirts of the mountainous area, local patrols also encountered attacks.

In the blink of an eye, there was only one person left in the thirty-person patrol.

That was an Abyss believer. Standing here, he was also favored by the power of the Abyss, and was thus protected from attack.

However, because of this, the abyss believer fell into a state of ecstasy in the abyss and lost his mind.

"The abyss is supreme!"

"Praise the abyss!"
To be continued...