Volume 3: The Land of Mist Chapter 15 Paper Crown and Iron Plate
Escorted by black-armored guards, dozens of large carts loaded with bread and cheap wine appeared at the end of Rose Avenue, and cheers suddenly broke out in the April Fool's Day parade.
They all struck the "scepters" in their hands, rang the bells hanging around their waists, and shouted loudly: "For the king , for the king!"
Hundreds of marchers wearing paper crowns rushed towards the relief team in a mighty manner, and their momentum frightened the attendants around the carts and trembled slightly. Even the knuckles of the fully armed guards holding their weapons began to turn pale, fearing that the mob would break through their formation and cause a riot.
In previous years, the relief activities were carried out at the roadblocks set up in advance, and the parade teams were diverted in advance. But even so, there were always bloody conflicts and deaths every April Fool's Day. But this year, I don't know what the people in the upper echelons had in their heads. They told them not to go out in advance in the morning, and now they let them go out without any cover.
But there is no way, orders are orders, and they have to obey them even if they will cost their lives.
The marching crowd first moved slowly, then trotted, and finally almost rushed towards the relief team at the end of the avenue.
But before the parade arrived, a wall of fire suddenly rose up and blocked the street.
The crowd was frightened by this sudden change and stopped in their tracks.
Jesse Walder, dressed in the Duke of Thorns' gorgeous clothes and riding a white horse, rode in front of the relief team with an arrogant look under the gaze of everyone.
Following behind him were not only the black-armored guards, but also two magic chanters wearing robes decorated with golden roses. One of them had flames in his eyes, and it was he who summoned the wall of fire.
"Open a small hole in the wall of fire and let them come in one by one in an orderly manner to receive relief. Any mob that dares to attack the Rose Palace will be burned to death."
Jesse said this to the guard.
His men immediately carried out this order.
Most people in the slums may have never seen real magic in their lives. Now this raging wall of fire is a better deterrent than weapons. Under the organization of the guards, the people who were excited before lined up one by one and came forward to receive relief.
But a person who came to get food was burned to death.
He walked to the cart and said to the guard according to the April Fools' Day tradition:
"To the King..."
Jesse on the side waved to the wizard next to him, and a flame instantly ignited it.
Amid the crackling of flames and the shrill screams, the guard beside Jesse shouted to the panicked crowd:
"This relief is the mercy of His Majesty Jesse Walder. Everyone who comes up here should think carefully about what they should say!"
So the second person who came forward said tremblingly:
"Praise...Praise King Jesse."
The beggar called Jesse the king just for the purpose of playing on April Fool's Day, but the guard turned around and looked at Duke Jesse after hearing that - even though it was April Fool's Day, and even though Blackwater Province was actually out of the control of the Empire, it was not a good thing for such words to spread.
But Jesse burst into laughter when he heard it.
"Okay, give him double ."
He said cheerfully.
With this opening, every poor person who came forward to receive relief knew what to say. And by the end, the entire team began to shout:
"King Jesse! King Jesse! King Jesse!"
Amid the thunderous shouts, Jesse couldn't help but spread his arms, his face full of ecstasy.
Then, a sharp and exaggerated voice came from somewhere in the crowd:
"King! Please put on your crown!"
This voice was extremely contagious. Just hearing it made the already enthusiastic crowd shout even more enthusiastically:
"Crown! Crown! Crown!"
In this warm atmosphere, Jesse excitedly signaled to the servant beside him to bring the crown of thorns.
At this time, the magic caster beside him reminded:
"My Lord, it may not be appropriate to wear the crown today..."
"Give it to me. This is a legend from many years ago. And don't you hear the voice of the people?"
His attempts to dissuade him failed, so he could only helplessly watch as Jesse took the silver crown of thorns from the black velvet box, faced the crowd that kept shouting "crown", and put the crown on his head with excitement.
In an instant, cheers broke out from the crowd, and hidden among them was a barely noticeable high-pitched laugh.
The two magic casters present felt that something happened the moment Jesse put on the crown, but before they could feel what it was, a voice attracted their attention.
"puff……"
A beggar who had just received relief drank a big sip of wine and immediately vomited it out, then he retched a few times.
The guards immediately surrounded him. Seeing this, he hurriedly explained:
"My Lord, this tastes like vinegar."
"vinegar?"
Upon hearing this, a guard snatched the cup from his hand, smelled it, and then his face immediately wrinkled.
At this moment, the sound of vomiting was heard not far away. It was a beggar who had just stuffed bread into his mouth and vomited it out.
The filth he vomited was full of mold spots and wriggling maggots.
"Let's go back to the palace first."
After putting on the crown, Jesse regained his calm expression and said to the guards around him.
He ignored the sounds of vomiting around him, and the screams of the relief team members when they discovered maggots crawling out of the bread and mold growing, and turned and walked towards the Rose Palace.
"Your Excellency the Duke, Your Excellency the Duke, something is wrong here..."
The two magic casters looked at the chaotic scene around them, standing there at a loss as to what to do.
What is going on?
Jesse, or the one who used to be the "king", ignored the two people and walked slowly towards the Rose Palace not far away.
But not long after he walked, he stopped.
A girl with blood all over her body and short hair standing at the door.
She wore an iron plate with a horn emblem around her neck. Her face was expressionless, and her eyes were fixed on the crown on Jesse's head.
"There's no need to go in. What happened inside is over. All the people involved in the coup have been brought to justice."
The girl said to him.
Jesse, no, the demon general who had bypassed the restrictions of the World Shell and stepped into the real world through the Paper Crown Transformation Ceremony stared at the girl in front of him and said:
"That's even better. That little bug saved me some trouble."
Hearing this statement that was obviously not from Jesse, William, who was controlling Liliana's mirror image, couldn't help but sigh:
"You are amazing, Valk. You can actually send the demon general into the human world..."
Through the other party's speech, William basically confirmed that the guy wearing a crown in front of him was a certain demon general, and judging from the food corruption not far away, he was most likely a demon general under the command of Ms. Hungry and Corrupted.
Using that well-known April Fool's Day story as a medium to connect the Moon Realm and the real world, he would send Moon Realm monsters of the Demon General level into the real world on his summoning day.
This method is similar to "ritual magic" - both of them recreate a historical event through imitation, thus affecting the present.
In other words, the unfortunate child of the Wald family should have been replaced and taken to the Moon Realm, but it is not known whether he went to the Theater of Chaos or the Lake of Entropy.
William thought to himself, and immediately notified Blake to come to reinforce Thorn City immediately.
The surrounding space was blocked in advance, so William couldn't use [Teleport] to come here directly. If he teleported to the nearest available teleportation point first and then flew over, the time it took to go back and forth would be enough for those Void Kings who were eyeing him covetously to cause trouble in the Snake Trace.
Blake was relatively close to Thorn City, and his speed as Crow Feather Storm was fast enough. As long as he could finish the battle quickly enough, he could return before Black Crow Wang went berserk and lost control.
What he had to do now was to use 80% of Liliana's skill level to deal with the demon before Blake arrived.
In other words, no injury is required.
As a game, this is quite challenging.
But this is the reality. If I fail to do it, many people will die...
I should have been more prepared if I had known this earlier.
On the other side, Shi Jin looked at the girl who suddenly mentioned the name "Valk", as if he was somewhat puzzled as to how a mortal with a weak body and humble power could see through his path to the world.
No, it should be said that it is impossible for her to see that she is a Moon Realm being.
"Who are you……"
Just as Shi Jin was about to ask, three pitch-black ring blades suddenly shot out from the iron plate on the opponent's chest.
Everything happened too suddenly, or perhaps Eclipse had not considered the possibility of a sudden attack. William did not give the demon general any time to react. The three illusory ring blades were set on Eclipse's body, and then a large amount of shadows surged out of it, wrapping it into a huge black gem emitting cold light and floating in the air.
William felt a crack on the iron plate on his chest.
[Shadow Cage] has extremely limited effect on confining Moon Realm monsters of the Demon General's level. Taking this opportunity, William quickly took out two other iron plates from his pocket.
He held one piece tightly in his hand, and threw the other piece with all his strength towards the crowd not far away.
Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was not too far, and Liliana's slender girl's arm strength was enough to throw the iron plate far enough.
Of course, if those people were far enough away, William would not need to consume one of his precious response terminals to protect them.
After all, he only has three on him now.
The iron plate, emitting dazzling light, drew a beautiful arc and shattered in the air, forming a golden barrier that protected the relief team and the April Fools' Day parade crowd not far away.
At this moment, dense "rustling" chewing sounds began to be heard from the huge black gem that imprisoned the Eroded. Countless flying flies and insects completely ate up the dark shadow cage that imprisoned it from the inside out.
The demon general Shijin, still wearing the skin of Jesse Walder, floated in the air. At this moment, his eyes were dark, flies kept flying out from his cuffs and collar, and then arranged in complex rune patterns around him.
Shiojin's face remained calm, but that was only because he was not familiar with how to express his emotions with human expressions. In fact, he was already furious at this moment.
As a demon general, how could it be imprisoned for a short while by such a weak human?
In its perception, the blood-soaked girl in front of it had extremely weak vitality . Even if it breathed a little heavier, it could kill more than a dozen of them unintentionally.
But she imprisoned herself?
It's as incredible as an elephant being tripped by an ant.
"Tell me, how did you do that?"
Eclipse said this and took a step forward.
With just one step, the rock pavement in front of the Rose Palace began to break and decay as if time had been accelerated, and a faint green mist also filled the air.
The surrounding trees instantly grew old and died, and the gate of the Rose Palace not far away also began to decay - first the wooden part turned into rotten sawdust, then the rock became brittle and broke and kept peeling off, and finally even the metal gate was like it had grown ringworm spots, spreading patches of dark red rust.
But the girl stood in the cloud unscathed. There was a layer of snow-white halo faintly covering her, which protected her.
"The residue after decay... So you are the erosion?"
As the girl spoke, a white mist quickly spread out from her raised hand, and in the blink of an eye, everything around her was frozen.
The corruption stopped instantly. The green mist that seemed to be able to corrode everything before had no effect on those things covered by frost.
It turned out to be the demon general Erosion under Ms. Hungry and Corrupted, a high-level moon-realm monster in charge of the realm of things that have already been completely decayed.
William thought to himself.
The green mist did not rely on external corrosion, but accelerated the internal time of those things so that they were devoured by themselves. Therefore, as long as they were temporarily solidified and sealed with frost spells, they would not be affected.
"Who are you?! You know my name!"
After cooperating very well and magnanimously admitting his identity, a scepter made of human bones quickly appeared in Shijie's hand and he rushed forward.
It seems that it has no intention of getting an answer to the question it asked earlier.
After all, it was not designed for humans. The scepter was a little too big for Jesse's body, so the movement when it was swung was very funny , but the dark green light on the scepter was by no means a funny thing.
A cloud of ash fluttered down along the trajectory of the scepter's swing. It was the air that had died and turned into dust.
Accelerate time to the limit, and finally fast forward to the end of entropy destruction of all things, turning everything into ashes. This is the other party's power.
Because the authority of the Eclipse was too close to the domain of the Ruins Lord Odin, Camilla had fought a war with her in the past over the ownership of the Eclipse.
If this stick hits the target, even William himself will suffer serious injuries, and he might even be forced to restart due to the probability of instant death.
As for Liliana's mirror image, it would turn into foam and disappear if it was touched by the slightest aftermath.
But William did not dodge or defend, but concentrated on preparing a spell.
In a moment, a spear made entirely of ice appeared in his hand.
After completing this ritual, the iron plate on his chest was immediately covered with spider-web-like cracks and was almost broken.
Then, William threw the frost spear silently at the demon general.
Divine-level frost magic [Declaration], a magic spear that is sure to hit the target once thrown.
And the place he was aiming at was the crown on the opponent's head.
The paper crown.
