Chapter 321 Devourer and Killer
West side of Lion Lake City.
A devilish warhorse slowly walked to the foot of Lion Lake City.
The horse was covered in heavy black armor, but it was obviously not a living creature - its eyes emitted a strange red light, and it had two curved horns on its head.
This is a demon warhorse. Covered with armor, it looks no different from the undead horse that Leon had seen when he was fighting the Legion of Terror on the seashore.
But the 'person' on the horse's back, let's just say it's a person, after all, it looks like a human... It's not a decayed undead ghost, but more like a bloody corpse that has just lost its flesh and blood.
It looked a bit like the Fallen, only taller and more terrifying. Its head, almost completely devoid of flesh and blood, revealed its rosy cheekbones, and its two large eyeballs were looking around.
He was wearing a suit of dark red and black armor and holding a glowing battle axe in his hand.
This set of equipment looks very unusual, and anyone can tell at a glance that this is the leader of the Fallen army.
"Devourer!"
King Vidis had heard of this image.
And then, he felt a little regretful - he shouldn't have thrown out those rogue knights and gangsters who were causing trouble in Lion Lake City.
At this moment, a black mist was emitted from around the Devourer's body.
Along with the black fog, there appeared an incomprehensible whisper. Perhaps it was some kind of spell. Just listening to it from a distance would make people feel upset.
The black fog gradually lingered, covering the scoundrels who were screaming with broken legs.
Then, those scoundrels began to howl in pain and tear themselves apart frantically!
Most people would probably have nightmares for a long time after seeing this kind of scene - more than a hundred scoundrels, in the thin black fog, were cruelly tearing their flesh and clothes into pieces one by one.
Start from the head, scalp...eyelids...face, neck...
Then the torso and limbs...
Where the fingers grabbed, the skin and flesh were separated and blood was blurred.
They tore it very slowly, as if they were torturing themselves, tearing it piece by piece, picking it off piece by piece.
Blood rained down along with their skin and flesh, turning the open space outside the city into a mess .
Soon after, these scoundrels had ripped off all the skin on their bodies, even the soles of their feet.
They...or rather, they, became a new type of Fallen.
Like the Devourer, they stared at the living people on the city wall with their big, shiny eyes.
There were more than a hundred rioters, and Vidis threw them out of the city, which was equivalent to adding more than a hundred soldiers to the Devourer...
King Vidis swallowed with some difficulty.
He was now the only person on the city wall who remained calm.
The Firdsvain warriors around him, including their leader, the 'Solid Shield' Haakon, were vomiting non-stop.
Perhaps these Firdsvain warriors were once ruthless thugs, but no matter how ruthless they were, they had never seen a massacre of hundreds of people collectively slicing themselves to death...
The Devourer stared at Vidis for a few seconds, then turned and left, and the black mist left with it.
The disturbing whispers also faded away along with the Devourer and the black mist around it.
In the distance, terrible howling and wailing continued to sound...
That means there are other living people who have been transformed into fallen ones!
The wailing coming from afar made the Firdsvain warriors in the city constantly recall the horrific scenes they had seen before, and their eyes were filled with horror and despair.
As the black fog and whispers continued to move, the wailing gradually spread to the entire surrounding area of Lion Lake City, and perhaps could be heard within a radius of dozens of miles.
"Your Majesty, someone from the south shot a letter in with a bow and arrow... What happened to you? Did you all vomit?"
At this moment, Count 'Forkbeard' Eli found King Vidis with a crumpled piece of kraft paper, and then looked at Lord Haakon and the soldiers on the city wall with a strange look.
The people of Firdsvain rarely vomit, except when they drink too much, because they don't get seasick.
Ali, the "Forked Beard", was a blond hunk with a beard so long it completely covered his neck.
His long, dense, and coarse beard pricked his neck uncomfortably, so he used a silver buckle to split the beard into two parts, which is the origin of his nickname.
This is a typical feature of the Vanskerry people - a thick and 'stylish' beard. In their eyes, this is a male fashion and a symbol of strength.
Vidis is also a handsome hunk, with a full beard that can cover his neck - for the big guys coming from Vanskerry, covering the neck with a beard is the starting price. They think that those who can't cover their necks are "immature brats" and cannot be entrusted with important tasks.
At this moment, except for Vidis, almost all the Vanskerry people had a lot of vomit residue on their beards...
The leader of the 'Solid Shield' Haakon wiped his mouth and said with lingering fear: "Forkbeard, you didn't see it just now... It was simply a nightmare!"
"I think this letter is the nightmare! Your Majesty, this is a letter from Leon from the Sarleon Kingdom..."
Count Airy handed the letter to Vidis.
"To King Vidis: I'm sorry that I have to lead you to Lion Lake City to face all this, because other than this method, I can't make you trust me and send troops to support Lion Lake City... You should be able to see what that terrible monster is doing. It will turn all humans into fallen ones. And I'm sure that it is forcing people's souls to submit. I don't want to become like that, and I think you don't want to either... So, I hope to work with Firdsvain to make it go back to where it belongs. As for the dispute between our two countries, I promise that before killing this terrible monster, the Kingdom of Sarleon will not harm Firdsvain at all. Your friends Gondor and Earl Edin will ensure this. - Duke of Long River Town, Leon Griffin, salutes."
This is the content of the letter, written by Li Ang himself.
At the end of the letter, in addition to Leon's griffin emblem, there is another emblem - Gondor's Trident of the Sea King.
This means that Gondor was with Leon when he wrote this letter.
Maybe Gondor fell into Leon's hands, or maybe it cooperated with Leon.
But in any case, Vidis did not believe that Gondor would betray him, which meant that Leon's promise in the letter that "no harm would be done" might be true.
The three of them looked at each other in silence.
"It seems that the one who shot the letter into the city was a Noldor Elf. He rode a fast horse and shot the arrow and ran away, running towards the village of Payne. Most of the Fallen move slowly and seem unable to stop the light cavalry."
Count Eli was smart enough to speak first, thus preventing Vidis from asking about the details.
Well, they can't stop the light cavalry, but the problem is that the Firdsvain troops in Lion Lake City have no cavalry...
Only these three lords had horses.
Moreover, there are quite a few people on horseback in the Fallen Army, but their numbers are small.
Those horses were all bloody monster horses without skin.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now? We brothers are all infantrymen. I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to confront that monster head-on..."
Haakon asked hesitantly.
"Find a brave warrior to ride my horse out of the city and go to Payne to ask Leon what he plans to do! You... send people to ride your horses to Weird Fox Town and Kaine Castle to gather all our troops..."
Vidis gnashed his teeth and tore the letter to pieces: "We have no choice!"
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Payne Village.
"...Sir, I think that the one we saw in the north of Xiaofurnace was Wolfbird, the Wolf of Omens."
The largest manor in Payne Village has been converted into a military camp. Leon met Andongjia who had just arrived in the camp.
Andongjia brought a knight from Ravenstern—or rather, he was brought in by force, because the knight named Kelvin was tied up tightly.
"No, that's not the 'Wolf of Omen'... maybe it should be called the 'Murderer'! That's not the incarnation of the legendary god Vejovis, but a complete monster! It's not only attacking Ravenstern, but also slaughtering you Misty Mountain people!"
Kelvin shook his head, still objecting to Andongjia's statement.
Kelvin is a member of the Order of the Ravenspear. He roams around Dawnforge all year round, leading a small force and is good at guerrilla warfare.
This guy is very familiar with the Red Brotherhood slavers in Ravenstern. His main business is to capture Misty Mountain people and sell them to slavers.
This is also the traditional business of many knight orders in the Raven Stern.
Not long ago, he crossed the Misty Mountains, intending to find some "goods" in the ice fields of the Misty Mountains.
Unfortunately, his team was almost wiped out - he encountered a bloodthirsty monster that was indiscriminately slaughtering the village of Gosbul, a village in the ice field north of Xiaolu City.
Fortunately, this guy was an excellent rider and escaped in a panic with a few of his men, but their luck was really bad. Before they could escape back to Xiaolu City, they ran into Andongjia again.
Andongjia was fighting in cooperation with Ursula at the time. He was with a large number of people near Xiaolu City and encountered several wild Raven Knights. They had to be captured.
Then Andongjia learned about the Bear Claw Tribe that had a grudge against her. It was a bit absurd that a Misty Mountaineer got the news of another tribe through a Rookstern Knight who was fleeing...
Kelvin told Andongjia that the Bear Claw tribe's raiding party was in Gosbul Village, north of Xiaolu City, but they were facing a massacre being carried out by a monster.
So An Dongjia went over to take a look from a distance - she was not going to rescue them, she wanted to see if she should add insult to injury...
Then she saw the monster, and she thought it was Wolfbird, the Wolf of Omens, a messenger of the god Vejovis, and she had no intention of going against the gods.
But Kelvin believed that it was a monster from the Stern Raven Realm , and now it has turned into a bloodthirsty devil.
Andongjia was not sure what it was, but whether it was a god or a demon, Andongjia could not ask directly face to face, so she tied Kelvin up and took him away.
"The Wolf of Omens does kill those who disobey him occasionally. I heard from my father... But perhaps this is also the will of the god Veyovis. However, it seems that the incarnation of the god this time is indeed a bit tyrannical."
Andonga shrugged. "So I took those who were willing to follow me away to avoid any misunderstandings. I'm not sure if people who have learned the language of Pendor and lived in Ravenstern for many years are still considered Misty Mountain people in the eyes of the god Vejovis."
"No, Ms. Andonga, that is definitely not your god! I know Misty Mountain... I have also heard rumors about the Wolf of Omens, but the actions of that thug are completely inconsistent with the rumors..."
Kelvin was still emphasizing with Andongjia.
"Yes, that's why you can come here alive..."
An Dongjia nodded, agreeing with Kelvin's opinion, then turned to Leon and said, "Sir, I only saw him from a distance, but this guy had a direct encounter with the incarnation of God. Misty Mountain and Stern Crow Realm...there is indeed a big problem now."
Li Ang sighed and nodded: "This seems to have happened at the same time as the discovery of heresy in Lion Lake City...An Dongjia, is the Wolf of Omen really the incarnation of the god Viyovis?"
"Indeed... But in our legend, the Wolf of Omens is a chosen messenger sent by the gods to ensure the survival of the Misty Mountain people..."
Andongjia nodded and said.
The Misty Mountain Tribe is a people favored by the god Viyovis.
For the people of the Misty Mountains, if a shaman sees the god Vejovis in the form of a mountain cat or a snow leopard, it is a symbol of good luck, indicating that the tribes of the Misty Mountains are thriving.
But if the people of the Misty Mountain reach a dead end and the tribe falls apart, the god Vejovis will send his incarnation on earth - the 'Wolf of Omen' Wolfbird to lead the tribes of the Misty Mountain.
As the chosen messenger of God, Wolfbird will appear in the howl of wolves, and then he will make the Misty Mountain Tribe quickly unite in a short period of time and regain the territory that God Veyovis originally belonged to, that is, the land and ice fields in the north of the Kingdom of Crowstern.
In the legends and records of Misty Mountain , this messenger of God has appeared several times, but according to rumors, it does not deliberately kill the people of Misty Mountain. Instead, it will take over the leadership of the tribes of Misty Mountain in a powerful and swift manner - of course, there is usually killing in the process, but it is only to quickly resolve the problem.
Brutal killings usually occur in Crowstern - Wolfbird will select elites from each tribe to attack the land of Crowstern, and in the process allow the people of Misty Mountain to obtain a large amount of survival resources and continuously restore the strength of Misty Mountain.
More than 150 years ago, the Kingdom of Ravenstern was established because the people of Ravenstern united to repel the "Wolf of Omens" Wolfbird and the Misty Mountain Army led by him.
But, but.
In all the legends and records, Wolfbird always appeared in winter, and appeared when the Misty Mountain people were facing internal disputes and powerful enemies outside, and were basically unable to hold on and were facing the crisis of genocide.
That is to say, whether in legends or records, Wolfbird appears as a 'God-chosen hero' to the people of Misty Mountain, representing the resurrection of Misty Mountain!
However, it is not winter now. It is summer when resources are most easily found, and the Misty Mountain people are not facing the danger of extinction...
And the Wolfbird that appeared this time was also inconsistent with the rumors.
"Antonja, Kelvin, are you saying that Wolfbird showed up when he shouldn't have, and it's slaughtering the Misty Mountain people?"
Leon asked.
"My lord, it's not just that... I am from the Order of the Ravenspear, and the so-called Wolfbird I saw looked very similar to a traitor in our order..."
Kelvin said to Leon: "He is seven feet tall (two meters one), with two eyes, one black and one blue - this is exactly the same as the appearance of 'Sir Crow' Boris!"
