The Rise of the Cemetery

The Wizarding World, Iron Forest City.

This is already the third day of the siege of Tielin City.

Terrible uninvited plague creatures are entrenched outside Iron Forest City, and they can be seen in all wilderness, tidal flats, jungles, and hills where they can hide. They used this as a base to attack all human towns and villages.

Except for the protection of the Wizard Tower in Iron Forest City, all scattered human gathering points have been attacked and lost by plague creatures. This made the plague creatures outside Iron Forest City gather more and more, forming a terrifying army of plagues. Saila, the plague girl, even sent several small teams led by the plague messengers deep into the jungle, spreading the terrible plague toxins wantonly, and also added countless mutated plague creatures to her team.

The flow of people in Tielin City was extremely crowded.

Due to the raging plague, all the people around Iron Forest City poured into the city, which brought huge troubles and heavy burdens to the city administrators. The few noble gentlemen in the city hall are already very busy, but the law and order in the city is still deteriorating rapidly.

The city guards, who were short of manpower, had to recruit a large number of mercenaries and adventurers to fill the defense system, barely maintaining the situation from deteriorating.

Most of the refugees who flocked into Iron Forest City had their families with them, but they couldn't find a suitable job to make a living. All of a sudden, the streets and alleys of Tielin City, and under the corners and eaves were crowded with refugees who had nowhere to go. The big mouths waiting to be fed, and the faces full of pain are heartbreaking. And in their eyes, there is only despair and numbness, pain and silence.

Those refugees without power are easy to deal with. The vicious mercenaries with big sticks and the daily food distribution can suppress the dissatisfaction and resentment of this group. But those nobles who are blocking the entrance of the city hall every day are not so easy to dismiss.

The power and wealth of the nobles all come from their own territories. Now that the plague is rampant outside, the territories, manors, and castles of these noble gentlemen have become a paradise for plague creatures, and their dissatisfaction and resentment are gradually accumulating. Throughout the day, there was an endless stream of calls and petitions asking the wizard to send troops to wipe out the plague creatures outside the city.

It's a pity that the wizards stationed in Iron Forest City, whether they are from the government or from local families, are not interested in going out to wipe out the plague creatures. They just stick to the public wizard tower and don't know what they are researching. Of course, they are not completely silent, at least they made the decision to admit refugees.

However, the nobles in the city hall who are in charge of maintaining the city's operation are always full of malicious speculations. The wizards asked to admit refugees into the city. I am afraid that the greater purpose is to reduce the number of plague creatures outside the city. After all, most of the plague creatures were formerly honest farmers, merchants, and handicraftsmen.

Every day, the Adventurer's Guild is probably the busiest in Iron Forest City.

Hundreds of adventurer missions of all kinds occupy the magic light screen in the center of the hall, but most of them are high-risk missions to go out to investigate the dynamics of plague creatures, and the scarlet mission to find the leader of plague creatures has been occupied for a long time. took the top position.

Bounty task: Investigate the leader of the plague creature

Task content: The plague that has been raging around Iron Forest City recently was concocted by an extremely terrible plague daughter, and she is also the mastermind behind all plague toxins and plague creatures. Anyone who can provide the whereabouts or clues of the Plague Maiden will be rewarded heavily by the Wizarding Association depending on the importance of the information.

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According to the information obtained by many adventurers, anyone who can provide clues to the whereabouts of the Plague Maiden will be rewarded with 1,000 wizard gold coins by the Wizard Association.

Such enviable generous rewards also set off a wave of gold rush among the adventurer team, but unfortunately, after a few impulsive adventurer and mercenary teams left Iron Forest City, there was no news from them. As a result, the enthusiasm of the adventurers dropped rapidly, and no one dared to take on this kind of death mission.

But today, a new task appeared on the light screen of the adventurer's hall, attracting the attention of many adventurers.

Reward Mission: Rescue Baron Thomas' Wife and Daughter

Task content: Go to Oser Stone Fort and connect Baron Thomas's wife and daughter into Iron Forest City. At present, a team of more than 20 people has been recruited, and now we are urgently recruiting two thieves. The reward is 700 wizard gold coins.

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To be honest, this kind of task of finding relatives and escorting family members almost completely occupied the task screen in the past few days, but unfortunately there were very few people who responded.

Now the outside of Iron Forest City has completely become a dead place, plague creatures are raging, and ordinary people have difficulty in surviving outside, so how can they drag their families through the long epidemic area. Under such a dangerous environment, only those fighters still have room to move. Ordinary merchants and farmers met those servant corpses that jumped like flying, could beat and explode, and they were simply delivering food. Letting them leave the city is simply forcing them to die.

What's more, Oser Stone Fort is located 30 miles away from the side of Oshugu Mountain Road, which is the hardest hit area where the first batch of reinforcements from Iron Forest City were attacked by plague creatures. No matter how high Baron Thomas raised the reward, no adventurer would be willing to lose his life in the hands of those terrifying monsters.

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Iron Forest City, Ella Public Wizard Tower, a secret room.

Wizard Les carefully cut open the huge and swollen chest and abdomen of the servant in front of him, and enchanted the sharp scalpel with "sharp" and "armour-piercing" effects. Cutting the opponent's hard skin as tough as rawhide Paper is generally light and easy. With the muffled sound of "Bo", a dull and rotten smell burst out from the opened chest cavity, and the chest of the newly captured plague creature was presented in front of Les like an opened package.

Wizard Les was not the only one in this gloomy and silent witchcraft secret room. More than a dozen guys dressed as wizards gathered outside the mask of the wizard array, watching the entire dissection process by various means. And in the vast and huge witch formation, there is only the simplest stone platform, a servant corpse, and a wizard.

"The plague creature looks like a humanoid creature, but it is already very different from human beings, even from undead creatures. This is almost a brand new species." Wizard Les pressed the back of the scalpel Multiple parts of the servant's body to detect the stress response of the opponent's body.

While peeling off the dry and withered muscle layer with a scalpel, the chest and abdomen were completely presented.

"As you can see, all the internal organs of the body of the servant at the bottom of the other party have disappeared, replaced by strange beetles of various sizes and shapes. It is these strange beetles that drive this body to move. Perhaps We should say that what we are facing is not a humanoid creature at all, but a mysterious Zerg with extremely high contagiousness and amazing fecundity!"

While Les was busy explaining, countless black beetles gushed out from the opened chest cavity. These black beetles vary greatly in size, from the big ones the size of a thumb to the small ones comparable to rice grains. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are more subtle plague beetles, but then you need to use more subtle witchcraft instruments to see clearly.

"At present, what we need to focus on is the source and origin of these plague beetles. It is best to find out their fatal flaws as soon as possible. However, from the current research, it can be determined that these plague beetles seem to be composed of chaotic groups of individuals. But in fact they have an extremely keen group intelligence. Like this..."

Following his words, the scalpel in Wizard Les' hand dropped slightly, firmly nailing a black beetle the size of a thumb to the stone platform. Immediately, an indescribably weird sound wave began to stir within the mask of the witch array.

The sound waves were sharp and piercing, with a palpitating rush, obviously similar to the alarm messages of some human beings. However, the frequency of this sound wave is extremely high, and ordinary humans cannot perceive it at all. It is only because all the wizards present are wizards above level 5 that they can hear this sound with their powerful spiritual perception.

As soon as the sound wave was transmitted, the black beetles that had been running around and drilling around just now changed astonishingly in an instant. Like a human army with high intelligence and order, they turned around and crawled to the position of the trapped beetles.

Countless beetles piled up, like an ever-growing black mountain, rushing along the blade of the scalpel to Wizard Les' right hand. The dense and wriggling form already made several female wizards frown, looking extremely disgusted. And the sound of gnawing and gnawing was endless. If the scalpel hadn't also solidified with a strengthening technique, I'm afraid it would have been eaten away by them at this moment.

And at this moment, the body of the servant who was originally trapped by the powerful witch formation also began to respond, and the extent of the struggle became more and more intense.

"In addition to having the characteristics of some Zerg creatures, these beetles also have several rare special forms. For example..."

When Wizard Les said this, the swift black beetles were about to nibble on the tips of his fingers.

In the next second, the blue snake-shaped lightning enveloped the black insect swarm.

Amidst the crackling and crackling sound, the swarm of insects that were still thronging with insect heads disappeared in an instant, turning into puffs of thick black smoke floating in the air.

Rice conveniently blessed himself with an "air bubble", isolating his entire body in a huge bubble, avoiding being contaminated by these black smoke.

Some high-ranking wizards who had a feeling in their hearts performed their own witchcraft one after another, and detected the black smoke through the mask of the witch array.

"There is a breath of life..."

"It's just some smaller bugs..."

"They just disintegrate..."

"..."

Soon everyone came to the basic conclusion that ordinary attack methods could not directly kill these terrifying black beetles, they would only decompose them into smaller and terrifying spores. Perhaps this is the true form of the black beetle!

After undergoing various elemental attack tests, the wizards discovered that ice-based witchcraft can only reduce their activity, and only flames can better kill these granular plague spores that are invisible to the naked eye. As for other elemental witchcraft, these plague spores can only be effectively killed when they reach the level of element annihilation.

This may be the fundamental reason why this plague is so difficult to extinguish.