People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 316 Rat plague
In the dark depths of the crypt.

There are dense scarlet eyes in front of his eyes, as well as the sharp rat chirping sound.

Lienna's face was a little pale. She wasn't afraid of these rats. For ordinary spellcasters, these rat groups might still pose a little threat.

But she is a wizard specializing in flame magic, and she is best at cleaning up such a large area of ​​"strange sea".

What really terrified Lienna was that so many swarms of rats reminded her of the terrible natural disaster recorded in the books of the Imperial Library—the Great Plague of Justinian!

It is said that during the Great Plague, a large number of cities in the empire were reduced to dead cities, countless fertile farmlands and crops waiting to be harvested were abandoned, and one-third of the entire population of the empire disappeared.

In Constantinople, the most densely populated city, thousands of people die every day.

In the face of the plague, no matter whether it was the royal nobles living in the purple house, the bureaucrats in high positions, the brave generals, or the ordinary and humble civilians, they all lost their lives without discrimination.

The wooden cart loaded with the corpses was kept around day and night, and it was too late to transport all the corpses out of the city.

They can only be left wrapped in mats, lying in the streets and alleys waiting to rot, eaten by mice and mosquitoes.

An illustration in a book of the Great Plague struck her deeply.

There was a drawing of a ghoul with thinning green hair and shriveled skin clinging to its skeleton like a mummy, with a belly the size of a pregnant woman.

Lying on the pile of corpses, he ate until his belly burst open, and the meat in his stomach bag flowed all over the floor.

Ghouls, monsters that seem to never be able to fill their stomachs, force themselves to death. One can imagine how many people died in that disaster.

Lienna opened her hand, and the fireball that was originally used for lighting suddenly swelled, from a fist-sized orange flame to a golden fire snake, staring at the group of rats while swallowing the flame snake letter.

Perhaps it was the sudden increase in temperature that stimulated those mice.

squeak--

The dense cries of rats, accompanied by the boundless swarm of rats covered with pustules under the wet hair, rushed towards her like a tsunami.

boom.

The golden fire snake flew out, instantly setting off boundless flames in this narrow underground world.

I do not know how long it has been.

The fire started to grow smaller and gradually extinguished.

Previously, the terrifying rat swarm seemed to be able to swallow all living things, but now there was only a smell of burnt fur and flesh, as well as the lingering smell of decay.

Lienna covered her mouth and nose, frowned and looked at the dark ground covered with a thick layer of black ash. Her mood didn't improve much, because she knew very well that the rats in the underground palace couldn't be killed cleanly. of.

Once the group here is dealt with, there will be more rats in invisible corners. It is impossible to clean up these rat groups without finding the root of these rat groups.

Anna must be notified.

She took out the double-headed eagle emblem she carried with her, brought it to her mouth, and lowered her voice: "I need support, Anna, immediately bring Eve and Lothar to help me——I found a person who may destroy the whole world." The catastrophe buried by the empire."

As she spoke, she was about to leave the underground palace when her footsteps suddenly stopped.

She held her breath, not daring to take a breath.

Listening carefully to the rustling movement from afar.

Is it a mouse? !
Liyena's eyes widened, and she no longer cared about the mud and filth under her feet splashing onto her clothes. She chanted a magic shield spell, and ran desperately towards the entrance of the tunnel with her two long legs. .

With a loud bang.

The bricks of the wall were cracked, and countless gaps were cracked in the wall above her head. From the gaps, there were countless disgusting rats full of abscesses, and they were desperately burrowing in. In the blink of an eye, the cracks quickly expanded to the top of Liena's head. .

Lienna gritted her teeth, and the mice that rained down hit the magic shield around her body, exploding into bloody and filthy marks.

She realized that she had done a stupid thing. The Pyroblast technique she used burned and cracked the wall bricks above her head.

The movement attracted the neighbors of this group of rats again.

She ran with all her strength, and vowed that if she could escape this time, she would learn short-distance teleportation no matter what!Or go bankrupt and buy a Noble Phantasm engraved with a small teleportation array.

Damn it, even if you don't know these things, you must at least learn a levitation technique.

Liyena turned her head and glanced at the mice that came flooding in like a tide, and she couldn't help but feel a trace of despair in her heart.

...

Imperial Library.

Lothar squatted by the pool that was said to lead to the Golden Horn Bay and watched for a long time, but he couldn't see "Neko" again. The surface of the dark and deep pool rippled as he reached out to touch it.

"What kind of sea dragon is Nicole?"

"I don't know, but it must be a pure-blooded sea dragon."

Anna looked at Lothar's suspicious expression, and said helplessly: "I really don't know, there are so many dragons in this world, and many dragons even exist only one or have long been extinct. Sea dragons are more powerful than terrestrial dragons. Rare—you can't expect sailors and parazoologists to be able to describe the body and features of a dark figure swimming by at the bottom of the water, can you?"

Lothar suddenly realized.

"So Hai Long is collectively referred to as Hai Long?"

Anna nodded and said: "That's right, and Neeko is still in her infancy, and she will shed her skin a few times in the future, and her body characteristics may change even more than now."

This is considered abnormal development?
Anna's words awakened Lothar's long-sleeping biological knowledge.

"Stop squatting there and playing with water, let me show you something good."

Anna took Lothar slowly from the stairs on the top floor of the library to the floor below.

She pointed to a bookshelf next to her and said, "On the first row of the third row from the left, that red book with a calfskin cover is an illustrated book of dragon life, a masterpiece of Master Lateran. You may would be interested."

Lothar nodded and said, "Thank you."

Anna frowned, and said again: "Although I don't know how you filter out the crazy factor in the dragon's blood and maintain your own humanity, I still have to remind you that if you are not sure, don't continue in the short term. Draw the blood of the dragon."

In this regard, of course, he accepted it graciously.

In fact, Lothar is also affected by the dragon's blood, but the "dragon blood" defined by the system is much weaker than the "dragon blood" in this world.

Seeing that Lothar was still going straight to the bookshelf and took out the book with the red cover, Anna could only snort softly.

"I don't want to hear the news that a black dragon appeared in Jerusalem one day to cause harm to the countryside. When that time comes, your little king asks me to round up you, and I will not refuse."

Lothar replied with a smile: "No, don't worry, I'm just curious."

A complete picture book of dragons is of course of great significance to Lothar.

Dragons say they are rare, but they are rare, and they say they are not rare, but they are not rare.

He can hold the dragon blood of ten different dragons, and now he has held six copies.

Equivalent to six out of ten skill slots.

Next, he doesn't plan to find some dragon creatures to make a living, such as the elephant-nosed dragon, the short-necked dragon, which is slightly stronger than ordinary monsters, and the dragons hunted in knight novels , often these low-level dragon beasts.

Not to mention the strongest known Copper Horn Charmander, at least some higher dragons like Spinosaurus must be hunted.

Seeing that Lothar was engrossed, Anna smiled, and was about to turn around and go downstairs when she suddenly felt a burning sensation from the double-headed eagle emblem hanging on her chest.

She picked up the sigil and immediately recognized that it was Lienna contacting her.

"This guy is not going to throw the blame on me because he is too disgusting on the way to clean up the ghouls?"

Anna quickly connected to the communication, her face turned pale with the rapid voice transmission inside.

"Lothar, I need your help with something."

Lothar said without thinking: "No problem."

Seeing Anna's expression changed, he immediately closed the book and put it back to its original position.

"In a hurry?"

"In a hurry."

"Then what are you waiting for, let's go immediately."

Anna opened her mouth, but didn't say any words of thanks, but just grabbed Lothar's palm.

"Empty your mind and don't think about it. Next, I will use the teleportation array of the Imperial Library. The process may be a bit uncomfortable, but it will be fine if you get used to it."

Following a flash of white light, the two had disappeared in place.

In the corner of the library.

Eve was concentrating on reading a book about spell models when a hand suddenly reached out from behind and grabbed her arm.

"Eh?"

The unkempt witch only had time to let out an exclamation before her figure suddenly disappeared.

Only one spell book was left open, and it fell to the ground with a plop.

(End of this chapter)