Volume 11: The Cursed Hammer Witch Chapter 13 Plague (Part 2)
"They discovered a very terrifying, extremely aggressive energy at the site."
It was as if the wails of hundreds of people overlapped together. The monster, whose body had swollen to several meters high and was constantly flowing with blood and pus, said in a dull voice:
"It was a pure white energy, and for some reason it was extremely corrosive and aggressive. When we discovered it, the entire crater was a sea of blazing white fire. A wizard who had awakened his magic power tried to collect some of the energy for reference, but both the sealed box and himself were burned to ashes by the white flames. Those flames even spread to other places, burning all the way up along the energy until the source was destroyed."
"The scientific expedition team has no way to calculate and measure these energies, and the blood sacrifice has not received a response from the gods. Moreover, the flames are not only burning locally, but also burning underground. Although the speed is not too fast, experts have estimated that they may reach the earth's crust in fourteen days. By then, some terrifying phenomena are likely to occur. Some researchers believe that this may be the 'holy light' claimed in many folk legends, an extremely terrifying and blasphemous force specifically targeting gods and divine power. Moreover, some ascetic orders have recently been conveying some specious things."
"The Pope of the Ancient Holy City claimed that it was the will of heaven that had come, and that it was the reflection of something extremely terrifying that had appeared in the human world. It was claimed that the promised day had arrived, and now all the people on the continent would be judged, just like the legend a thousand years ago."
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There were faint buzzing sounds in the conference room.
Some people are unable to carry out normal communication activities, but can be transformed through magic props.
These holy ministers, who were rarely seen on weekdays, were constantly exchanging opinions with magic props in this black tower. Their exposed brains were bubbling with bubbles, and they seemed to be arguing fiercely about something. When the conversation became heated, they would swing their limbs, as if to strongly express their opinions.
The title of the old pope seemed to be a very intimidating title to the officials present. Although they believed in the gods of today, they still had a certain degree of fear and worry about the independent city on the border. It was not a question of strength, but a question of philosophy to a certain extent.
Many civilians and even officials believe that the legendary holy light is real, but they always think that the power should be used to overthrow the current country, and then they themselves can become nobles and princes. However, the more they desire power, the less light they can produce. It is said that there were some users of holy light in the past, and they were all saints among saints. However, three hundred years ago, after the last saint died together with the then Demon Sword Emperor and the Twelve Princes Legion, there was no news of any users of holy light. If it were not for the fact that some painful power still remained on the battlefield at that time, people would even doubt whether the users of holy light existed. But now that the blue fire fell from the sky, the words of the pope naturally became more credible.
However, the current Knight Emperor seems to have a different opinion on this matter.
"Extreme natural phenomena exist all the time, and there is no urgent reason to report this. And if the old pope didn't have some very strange artifacts in his hands, I would have crushed his body into scraps and fed it to my pet. Don't pay attention to the rumors of hypocritical gods. Can stories from thousands of years ago make people today succumb? Even the elves at that time have died out, not to mention humans. I don't believe in anything except gods who show real miracles."
The great emperor waved his seventeen-fingered hand, picked up the maid standing beside him, and stuffed her into his mouth as her face flushed with happiness. In the blink of an eye, he crushed her into a ball of meat paste. His powerful voice gradually echoed in the black tower, suppressing all the noise.
"And you have always known my character and my joy. So the reason you are reporting this is not because of a simple phenomenon, nor because of the reptile's jump, but because something really happened, right?"
"Yes."
The reporter hesitated for a moment, looked at the great emperor with a big mouth in his abdomen chewing a human leg, and whispered:
"Around the light energy, dozens of villages and towns have gradually lost contact. The magic network connection is gradually failing, and the mage has discovered a brand of bright light along with the energy after investigating through teleportation. It seems that some living creature is actively searching here to plunder other people's lives. Now according to my report time, more than 36 villages have been determined to have been destroyed, and the number of others is unknown."
"If it was just the disappearances in the countryside, the commander would not have planned to issue an emergency notice to disturb the rest of His Majesty the Emperor. However, we discovered a very strange and terrifying sacrificial scene around the only meteorite that fell in the city. And an extremely terrifying plague broke out in the surrounding area, which can even be said to make people tremble in their hearts. Because of the discovery of the existence of this plague, the commander urgently decided to let his subordinates report the incident to His Majesty. And before the report, a local censor once applied for subspace transmission to try to correct the plague."
"A total of fourteen people, the Magic Awakening Expedition Team, set out six hours ago. Then two hours ago, they were spotted in eyewitness reports from the surrounding towns. They have been infected by the unknown plague and can no longer return to their original form. They have become messengers of death. And the latest report says that the small town of Silun has fallen."
"……plague?"
The Knight Emperor stopped chewing.
Listening to the report from the audience, even the people who had just been arguing stopped.
It's not because of anything else, but because of the wording of the report. Reports in Congress obviously need to be thought about, and the use of certain words conveys certain precise meanings.
In other words, some cities fell, literally.
It was as if the place was occupied by enemy soldiers, and we had lost control, completely lost information and knowledge of the local area.
"What's going on? What kind of plague can be called the messenger of death? What kind of state can be called the fall? Is it the tricks of those necromancers? Or the corpse puppets of the night elves? Or is it something else? Don't you have a precise word to describe it?"
