quicksilver blood

Chapter 475 The Crow and the Silver Maiden

Xi La walked in the desolate village, full of emotions in her eyes.

It's only been locked up for half a month.But in the past half a month, the world has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Not only did Roland become the new Pope, but the God of Contract and Lord of Violence also began to move.

To the east of Bansa, there was also violent turmoil in Caral.The Druids split into several factions due to conflicts of ideas, and the South Wind Ring school, which was targeted the most, even split directly from Karal and got an olive branch from Titan.

Now Karal's Blight is running around like crazy, preferring to kill the wrong one, vowing to kill every druid who betrayed Karal.Under the persecution of these Blighters, some Druids who originally planned to stay out of the way could only choose to join the South Wind Ring to receive protection.

At the same time, another great plague came to Caral.A large number of people and animals died violently in the wilderness, cities and villages gradually became deserted, and the whole country was on the verge of collapse.

The situation of Farajo is not optimistic.I don’t know who lifted the seal of the big rift. The deserted people from the underground formed a coalition force that rushed out frantically and defeated the two legions of Farajo in a row. Now they have occupied one-third of the country, and the remaining mountain people have also responded. The official call was to move to the safety of the rear.

Now the whole of Farajo has fallen into the tense environment of wartime.Some people even tried to cross the border northward and flee to Suze for refuge—of course, in order to stabilize people's hearts, they were all arrested without exception.

Things were a little better for Titan, but not peaceful.There was a prince who was relatively late in the list who suddenly got help. First, he used some unknown means to get the support of some veteran frontier nobles, and then he got the protection of the two gods, Ke Ni and Nix.Now his supporters have accounted for more than [-]% of the God's Council, and this number is still increasing.

Because of his presence, the Titans were thrown into considerable chaos.Those who want to kill him, those who want to frame him, those who want to be loyal to him, plus some people who are ready to fish in troubled waters, now Titan can be said to be entangled with many forces, and the water is extremely deep.

Although Su Ze's Royal Institute of Alchemy seems to have invented something extraordinary recently, compared with the situation in other countries, it can be said that Su Ze is the most peaceful country now.

Now Xila was instructed by Roland to go to the east of Bansa to investigate the mass disappearances that frequently occurred in Bansa recently.

Although this incident has not yet been determined, Xila heard Roland's meaning, and it seemed that Roland thought it was because the plague from Caral was transmitted across the border.However, Sira disagrees with this conclusion.

No matter how powerful the plague is, it is still just a plague after all.It is not a living thing, and it can only be transmitted by relying on living organisms.

In Sira's conception, the plague is such a weak thing.There is no plague that cannot be eradicated under the sun.

The solar domain already partially overlaps with the purification domain, and Tyre's priests never lacked purification magic.Moreover, Tire has always tried his best to maintain the purity of his concept, and his priests are all good at dispelling the plague.

Therefore, Sira does not think that there is any plague that can spread in Bansa.

The plague was naturally restrained by Tyre.Just pick a silver-ranked priest at random, and you can use sunlight to purify the plague of a city at will.

If Caral's plague really came across the border, all it needed to do to stop it was send a few bishops.Only two bishops are needed, and their purifying aura can cover the entire Iris Swamp seamlessly.It only takes half a day to dispel that plague.

However, when Sira really arrived here, he realized that things were not quite as he had imagined:
In other words, the situation was much more serious than he expected.

The so-called "mass disappearance" is not just a problem that can be explained by the extent of the disappearance of a few people.Because Sira hadn't reached the Iris Swamp, she had passed by three empty villages in a row.

And along the way, as he went further and further east, there were more and more bloodstains on the trees and the ground.The leaves began to wither, yellow and wither, and some dark red blood stains faintly appeared on the ground, as if someone's corpse had been dragged on it.

However, there are no dead bodies.

This is what really puzzled Xila.

Even if he died from the plague, at least there would be a corpse, right?

However, there was none.Not even a piece of meat, not even a bone, was found, and there was not even a trace of a fight in the house.

No matter who it is, it's impossible to kill them so cleanly.

After all, even if everything is burned to ashes, there is always a place to burn fire, right?
Xi La would not believe it at all if anyone could lead so many people to a certain place for mass slaughter.This kind of thing has completely violated the teachings of the gods. Even if they can hide it from Tyre, they can't hide it from the rats of N'Zoth.

It was this weird sense of confusion that made Xi La feel something was wrong.

It's like breaking into a foreign world without human beings, and it's like Xi La suddenly can't see the existence of human beings.This creepy feeling of not knowing if something is wrong with the world or with you is unsettling.

Frowning tightly, Xi La walked all the way to the iris swamp that he was familiar with, and finally determined where the source of the uneasiness in his heart was.

I saw that the iris swamp, which was originally slightly green, now glowed with a chilling scarlet light, like a half-dried blood pool, exuding an ominous atmosphere.

And on the swamp, some huge "crows" are pacing slowly on it.

They wore black heavy linen cloaks, their heads drooped, and their long and messy hair blocked their vision. At first glance, they looked like "suspected humans."

From the limbs exposed under the black cloak, Sira can vaguely see that these people—if they are really human—their forearms and legs have been cut off, and they are tied to long and tough oak sticks. Stuffed and fastened with straw and twine, they walked like four-footed beasts through the scarlet swamp.

Where their limbs were broken, the dark red blood that had been continuously squeezed out had already soaked the straw and wooden sticks, dripping down and flowing into the swamp.And the swamp accepted their blood, and a very slight white smoke came out like boiling.

"...my Tyr... what are these things!"

Even if he was as calm as Xila, he still had to feel terrified and calm at such an abnormal scene before him.

In a panic, he murmured subconsciously.His right hand unconsciously grasped the cross that Roland gave him when he parted.

However, for some reason, Xi La felt that his prayer seemed to instantly anger the crow monsters in front of him.

While hearing his prayer, the crows froze, and then slowly turned their heads.Their faces were full of bloodstains, as if they had been repeatedly cut by a knife, and their untamed vertical pupils were full of hatred and killing intent.

Inexplicably, an illusion that she might die emerged in Xi La's mind.

Sira was horrified, and without thinking, she immediately lit her holy fire.

As the golden holy flame blazed on him, the eyes of those monsters staring at him became even colder.

"Everyone stop—"

However, at this moment, he heard a soft and clear cry resounding among the crow monsters.

After hearing that voice, one by one, the crow monsters took their eyes off Sira without hesitation.In less than ten seconds, all the crows seemed to ignore Sira and continued to walk on the swamp on their wooden quadrupeds.

From the beginning to the end, they did not make a single sound.The silence is terrifying.

After feeling that the near-death crisis was gradually subsiding, Xi La turned her eyes to the direction of the sound.

Among the countless giant human-shaped "crows" wearing black tattered cloaks and using wooden sticks as their limbs, a white-robed girl with beautiful platinum-blond long hair and pure blue eyes like lakes stood quietly among them.

To see her is to think of the afternoon sun, the aroma of coffee, the pages of a book, and the soft voice of a girl.It was a beautiful girl with the intellectual charm of a Bansa woman.

While Sira was looking at the girl whose temperament was completely different from the surrounding scene, he noticed that the girl was also looking at him.

To be precise, she is more like the cross that he hangs on his chest.

"Sir, I would take the liberty to inquire," she said, with a voice as sweet as a warbler, "do you know Roland?"

　I don’t know if there are any masters who are waiting for the update this morning, if so, let’s apologize first...

　　Because of the problem of only sleeping for five hours for a month, I was a little sleepy yesterday. When I was typing a chapter after zero o’clock, I was so sleepy that I nodded while typing, and my consciousness was completely blurred. It's like sugar... so I had to move today's first update to night...

　　Therefore, readers can go to bed after midnight. The update after midnight may not be posted at any time. It is not too late to read it in the morning~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)