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By the time the priest dragged the mage in black out of the tent, the sun had already risen to the center of the top of the head, but because of the dense leaves of the dark forest covering the top of the head, even the fierce sunlight became gentle.

Lily and the others were packing their things and preparing to go on the road. When they saw the figure of the priest, they greeted his body one after another. The priest responded patiently one by one with a smile, and thanked everyone for their concern.

Seeing this, Azul, whose hands were bound and unable to move, snorted and turned his head away—he had already learned how to behave, and he didn't dare to speak easily again.

In fact, no one paid attention to him. Because of the monsters, everyone was on high alert and did not dare to take it lightly. Even during the break and meal, no one was willing to take the share that belonged to Asur. In the end, it was Afra Take it to him.

However, Azul obviously didn't realize the root of his poor popularity. He felt that most of it was because there were priests fanning the flames in the middle.

After all, the priests from the Holy See of Light are blessed with the blessing of the Goddess of Light, so they are born with an affinity to attract others. Otherwise, the Holy See would not be able to dominate the family for such a long time in the past 1000 years-this made Azul think about himself His thoughts became more and more unshakable, and he hated the priest even more, deeply regretting that he hadn't killed this little boy who got in the way at the beginning.

No one tried to figure out his psychological activities. At this time, in everyone's mind, the word Azul was almost synonymous with the plague.

But unexpectedly, in the next few days, although Asur was noisy, he could be dealt with with a silence spell. The high-level monster that appeared once seemed to have fallen asleep completely, and never appeared again. Lily They didn't say anything, and they even doubted Chris's judgment in their hearts. After all, before the previous "Azul" kidnapped the priest, Chris didn't find out the other party's identity.

But even if there are no high-level monsters, the dark forest is already dangerous enough, like the hell spider that appeared before, and the devil tree they encountered again and again, the man-eating thorns, and the blood-colored rose, so that everyone can handle it exhausted.

"Blood Rose" is not the name of a flower. In fact, it is blood-red and ugly like a mass of flesh and blood, but it is filled with a strong floral fragrance, which is used to relax the enemy's vigilance, and when the passing travelers are unguarded, Taking the opportunity to drill out from the ground, entangle the whole person, and then slowly eat away.

The devil tree, the man-eating thorns are also similar.

It sounds terrible, but fortunately, these are just ferocious plants, not even low-level monsters, and their combat effectiveness is not over the top. Although everyone is exhausted, there are no casualties.

Moreover, although the dark forest is dangerous, it actually has a lot of precious resources, and it is not completely fruitless along the way.

For example, swordsmen found a rare ore that could be used to refine swords to make them harder and sharper.The black-clothed mage discovered dragon-grain wood, a rare material used to make staffs. Due to the small quantity, the only few fell into the pocket of the discoverer Chris, and he distributed one of them to the priest. The dragon grain wood, together with the red magic crystal obtained before, was just used to make a powerful staff.

With it, the mana output of the priest can also be increased and assisted, which is equivalent to being able to use intermediate healing skills without any effort, and others can only look at it with envy.

Seeing that they had passed through the center of the dark forest and were getting closer and closer to La Serena, the border city of the Garter Empire, everyone gradually relaxed their vigilance. Before, there would be a swordsman guarding Asur during rest, but now No need, of course the rope and spell on him cannot be lifted.

However, just when everyone thought they were about to see the dawn of victory, an accident happened.

The thing happened to a swordsman, not Asur they had been guarding against.

After more than ten days of running-in, the team got along pretty well. Feizel is a very winking person, and Lily and the others are not difficult to get along with. Although Chris is not talkative, he never takes the initiative to find others Trouble, more often than not, his sense of presence is even lower than that of Asur, not to mention the priest, his brilliant communication skills have only failed on Asur, and the gang of swordsmen soon became familiar with him Talk about your family.

So every day when it’s time to eat, it’s usually time to rest and chat. The swordsmen are very skilled and can help the priests cook corn soup. There is also a bird in the dark forest with thick feathers and thick subcutaneous fat. , its meat is very delicious and non-toxic, so it is often used by Fezel and the others to add food, roast it or use it to make broth.

But on this day, when everyone was busy preparing food or building tents, a swordsman who was adding seasoning to boiling water suddenly fell forward and fell to the ground.

Everyone was startled, thinking that he was attacked by Blood Rose.

"Tom, what's the matter with you!" Fitzger yelled.

"It's nothing," the swordsman named Tom waved his hand and got up by himself. "I just suddenly feel dizzy, maybe it's because I've been squatting for a long time..."

"Good guy, don't scare us!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and some even went up and jokingly punched him on the shoulder.

Tom himself was quite embarrassed, and he touched his head and continued to cook the soup.

No one took this little incident to heart. Out of caution, the priest once offered to help Tom heal, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he had to let it go.

The two people on duty at night are Tom and Dantonio. This is also a consistent rule. Generally, a mage and a swordsman are paired together. Resist it.

In the middle of the night, Dantonio began to feel a little sleepy. He yawned one after another, and chatted with Tom, because there was no movement for several nights, and the nerves of the two were not good. So tense, D'Antonio finally couldn't help but tilted his head on the tree trunk and fell asleep. His sleep was interrupted by the screams. In a daze, D'Antonio realized that the owner of the voice was Lily , I couldn't help being shocked, and the whole person woke up.

Immediately afterwards, he saw the most horrifying scene he had ever seen.

In the range not blocked by the crowd, he saw Tom lying under a tree not far away, his whole body began to turn purple and black, and pimples appeared on the exposed skin, some of which were festered and were oozing out. Some of them were full of pus, some of them hadn’t festered yet, they were round and shiny, and some places seemed to be corroded, the sunken places were dark, and the surrounding skin was all shriveled.

No one can live in this state, so even if no one speaks, D'Antonio has an intuition that Tom is dead.

Yes, Tom was dead, Lily found out just before D'Antonio woke up when Lily came out of the tent.

No one knows the cause of his death.

Even Dantonio, who was watching the night with him, just woke up. When he saw the tragic death of the other party, he remembered that he didn't feel anything in his sleep, and he felt more and more afraid.

Although the cause of death was not known, Tom's appearance was familiar to many people present, including Yannick, Feizel and so on.

This is a typical symptom of the Black Death.

The scene was dead silent, and the beauty of the early morning did not affect everyone. Those who were timid could even feel the chills on their bodies, and their footsteps involuntarily retreated slowly, away from the miserable corpse.

Azul was sensible now, and stood silently on the sidelines, for fear of being angered.

But no one cared about him.

"Black Death..." Feizel struggled out of the name, "Why did it appear here?"

No one can give him an answer.

The illness that happened to Tom was almost menacing, and there was no other sign except that he fell to the ground with numbness in his hands and feet the day before.

This is a huge mystery.

Yannick didn't stay in a daze. He told everyone to retreat, and then threw several healing spells on the corpse. According to the rumors he heard, all the priests of the Holy See seemed to do this. It is said that this can effectively prevent the spread of the Black Death.

Everyone also slowly recovered from the panic. Aphra dug a pit with spells. The swordsmen didn't dare to be careless. They first wrapped their hands in a thick layer of linen and coarse cloth, and carried Tom's body into the pit. Then fill it with soil.

Looking at the pit that had been filled with soil again, everyone felt very heavy. They have cultivated a good friendship with each other for so many days. Lily and Aphra picked a bunch of moonlight grass and put them on the pit to express their gratitude. Mourning, I couldn't help sobbing.

But it wasn't just Tom's death that weighed on their hearts.

Everyone knows the horror of the Black Death, but so far no cause has been found.Of course, the Holy See and the Magic Guild are attacking each other, and the various conspiracy theories derived from this can be ignored for now. What people want to know more is how to prevent this terrible disease.

But unfortunately, until now, outside of the dark forest, it is heard that the disease continues to spread.

And now, in the dark forest, their partner died because of this.

Who will be next?

Terrible guesses and conjectures entangled them, and the previous relaxed atmosphere disappeared. Everyone silently packed up their things and continued on the road. Needless to say, everyone speeded up their pace in a tacit understanding, and they would no longer be distracted to find those strange things , wishing to leave this forest as soon as possible.

Chris didn't have any special reaction. Generally speaking, as long as it is not in a major crisis, he will not be the one who is in charge, and he has no interest in giving orders.His greatest interest is still to study the ring on the priest's hand, and it seems that he will make progress soon - because one day the priest woke up in the middle of the night and found his beloved mentor sitting next to him, staring at him with resentful eyes. He almost scared him out of his body, and when he calmed down, he realized that what Chris was looking at was the power ring in his hand.

This kind of research spirit of forgetting to eat and sleep made the priest admire him and was even more troubled.

Because of this, every night before going to bed, when he tactfully asked Fezel to change his "roommate", all he got was an ambiguous expression of "you don't need to explain, we all understand".

What the hell do you know? !The priest thought grumpily.