On the outskirts of the imperial capital, the royal tombs,
It was only a dozen hours since last night's riot ended. Orlando rushed here immediately after appeasing the people. On the day of Fernando XIII's wedding to Catherine 3 years ago, a Frost Bone Dragon suddenly appeared and attacked the entire place. Wedding ceremony, while people in the imperial capital struggled to resist this evil monster, a mysterious team attacked the royal mausoleum. All the guards guarding the royal mausoleum were killed, and the corpses of more than 10,000 holy knights were stolen. Walk,
At that time, Orlando rushed over immediately after hearing the news. Unfortunately, despite all his efforts, he still could not find out the mastermind behind this incident. He had never been able to figure out that those dead holy knights were not buried with them at all. Most of them are just shrouds. Why would anyone be interested in these cold corpses
However, what happened last night seemed to make Orlando think of something. After calming down the riot in the imperial capital, he rushed here as soon as possible and stood in front of a filled tomb for three hours.
The atmosphere in the air was very solid, which made the Holy Knights following Orlando feel very depressed. Although they felt strange about their leader's behavior, no one dared to speak, or even wink in private. This is the holy land of the Royal Knights. Since Fernando I founded this powerful organization, those powerful holy knights will be buried here after their death. Over the past 200 years, more than ten thousand holy knights have slept here.
Since the Holy Knight does not pursue enjoyment in the world, there is no decoration even after death. It is nothing more than a tomb, a shroud, and a small stone tablet placed on the tomb. However, three years ago, After that bizarre corpse robbery, most of the tombs here had been dug up, so that the stone tablets were in a mess. Later, Orlando sent someone to rearrange them, and after spending a lot of effort, they finally removed the stone tablets. The stone tablets and tombs were rebuilt, but the empty tombs had to be filled with soil first.
The tomb that Orlando was standing in was no different from the other tombs. If there was one difference, there were almost no weeds on this tomb. It seemed that people often came here to pay homage to the deceased who were originally buried in the tomb. Orlando stood in 3 An hour later, he suddenly squatted down. He stretched out his hands and rubbed hard on the stone tablet covered with a layer of soil, revealing the words engraved on the stone tablet: Barcelona-Sandra,
Seeing this familiar name, Orlando once again fell into deep memories,
17-year-old Orlando stood excitedly on the training field of the military camp with his companions. They had just passed the basic training of the knights. Next, they will have formal holy knights to conduct one-on-one intensive training. If they can do it within 3 years Through this training, they can carry out the inheritance of the gods and become a true holy knight.
"What's your name?" A bearded man walked in front of the childish Orlando and asked him loudly,
"Orlando."
"Oh, then why did you become a Holy Knight?" The bearded Holy Knight asked again,
"This is my dream. Dreams don't need reasons. I only have the determination to work hard to realize this dream without thinking about why." Orlando replied loudly,
"Haha, okay, then from now on, you will be my student, young Orlando trainee knight." The bearded man said with a smile: "Well, let me introduce myself first. I am the third squadron of the first battalion of the Royal Knights." A member of Team 7, my name is Barca, Barca-Sandra."
"Hey, are you a noble?" Orlando asked curiously.
"Hmph, are you here for a blind date or to study? Why are you asking so many questions?" Bearded Barcelona said displeasedly.
"Idiot, why are you raising your feet so high? I just need to swipe you and you will fall down."
"Hold on, have you eaten today? Shield slam is one of the most deadly moves in close combat, and you look like this, are you fanning me to relieve the heat?"
Barcelona is quite ruthless on the training ground and will only scold Orlando for what he does wrong. Orlando, who is determined, never defends himself. After his shortcomings are pointed out, he will use more practice to correct and correct them. improve,
"Very good, Orlando. You have completed all the training in advance. Tomorrow you will go back to the Cathedral of San Nebiro to perform the ceremony of inheritance of the gods. I hope you can be blessed by a certain god, so that you can become the same as me. A true holy knight."
Seeing the excitement on Orlando's face, Barcelona decided to pour some cold water on him. He coughed and said: "Well, don't be excited. In fact, out of 1,000 trainee knights, less than 500 can pass this training, and those who receive the blessing There are less than 100 lucky ones every year. I hope you have good luck and a certain god happens to be in a good mood and sees you again."
"What, this is impossible, Orlando, you, you have been personally blessed by the God of War." Barcelona's face was filled with incredible shock. He is just an extremely ordinary holy knight. Whether it is martial arts or belief, he belongs to the Knights. At the worst level, some people even say that Barcelona was able to enter the Royal Knights entirely because a certain servant of God suddenly showed kindness and happened to meet this guy.
Seeing Orlando repeat today's scene in a positive tone, Barcelona's face suddenly became happy: "Ah, it's true, I actually taught a future leader of the Royal Knights, uh, I I thought it would be great if you could be favored by a servant of God."
"Well, okay, Orlando, your strength has far surpassed mine. I have nothing to advise you, but I still have one thing to remind you. Even as the leader of the Royal Knights, you still don't You can relax your own martial arts training, which is the foundation of all your glory."
Barcelona stood in front of Orlando, facing Orlando who was wearing a gleaming golden armor, and said earnestly: "No matter how rich you are in the art of command, even if your belief in the gods exceeds the piety of everyone, if you yourself If your martial arts skills are not good, no one will truly believe you. You must know that the Royal Knights have never failed. If you lead them to victory, others will say that is the prestige of the Royal Knights. And who can prove your piety? More than others, only martial arts is the best way for you to convince others."
"That's right. Your strength has improved a lot compared to before. It seems that even as the leader, you have not left behind your own training." Holy Knight Barcelona, who was teaching you earnestly in front of Orlando, suddenly turned into what he was last night. A mysterious warrior wearing black rune armor. At this moment, several heralds galloped over from a distance and shouted: "General Orlando, something bad is going on. A large-scale plague has broken out in the imperial capital."
"What's going on?" Orlando was shocked. Once a plague broke out in a densely populated city like the Imperial Capital, it would be extremely terrifying. If the spread of the plague failed to be controlled, it would not be impossible for millions of people to die.
"It was yesterday..." The leader of the herald jumped off his horse. He said hurriedly without taking a breath: "It was those black warriors yesterday..."
Back to a few hours ago, when the sun rose and a new day came, the grieving citizens who had lost their loved ones were handling funeral arrangements with the help of the Imperial City's army. According to the custom of the Imperial Capital, the bodies of these dead relatives would be laid out. They were kept there for a few days for their relatives to come and pay their respects, and then they were transported to the cemetery for burial.
Because so many innocent citizens died in the killing last night, the place to place the corpses was also limited. Later, they had no choice but to occupy a large area of the street. This would definitely not be allowed in normal times, but here In this special moment, no one will raise any objections.
A sad husband was suffering in front of his wife's corpse, and their child, a cute little girl who was less than three years old, didn't understand what happened to her mother. She shook her mother hard, hoping that she would not die. Instead of sleeping, she got up to play with herself, but no matter how hard she tried, her mother remained motionless.
Scenes like this can be said to be all over the streets. At least 20,000 to 30,000 citizens died in the killings and riots last night. In a sense, this has affected almost 20,000 to 30,000 families. It has been 200 years since the establishment of the imperial capital. , the people here thrive and thrive. These 20,000 to 30,000 families will affect at least more than 40,000 to 50,000 citizens. About one-fifth of the members of a city are in great grief at the same time. Is it possible? Isn’t it the biggest tragedy
While countless citizens were crying and mourning their lost relatives, the 3-year-old girl found that her mother was moving. She thought it was the result of her own efforts, so she threw herself into her mother's arms. , hoping to be caressed by her mother, but she soon discovered that her mother was not moving, but her body was slowly expanding.
"Huh." The innocent little girl looked at her mother with curious eyes. She saw her body slowly swelled up, and there seemed to be something squirming under the skin. She felt very sad when she saw it. She was scared, but just when she was about to tell her father, the body of the little girl’s mother suddenly exploded.
There were at least more than 200 corpses exploding at the same time, and they were spread over most of the entire imperial capital. The explosion caused by this corpse did not directly kill people like the fireball technique. All humans within the explosion range were contaminated. Covered with the flesh and blood of corpses, this scene was even more horrifying than last night when soldiers wearing black rune armor went on a killing spree. Countless citizens whose faces and bodies were stained with the flesh and blood of corpses after the explosion screamed and ran outside.
The little girl's body was covered in blood and flesh because it was closest to her mother's body. She looked at her father in horror and found that the muscles on his face were constantly falling off, revealing half of his skeletal face. , this was corroded by the flesh and blood splashed after the corpse exploded. The little girl was immediately frightened and cried, but she didn't know that her own face and body were corroded faster, and there were still countless unknown things under her skin. The famous thing squirmed rapidly, and within ten seconds, a large area of the little girl's body was exposed. However, she still maintained her crying movements and still made childish and innocent crying sounds.
Soon, the little girl's body exploded. Not only her, but many of the citizens who were enveloped by the first wave of corpse explosions also exploded after most of their bodies were corroded. This second wave of corpse explosions will start from the first wave. The corrosive flesh and blood emitted by the explosion of Bo's corpse spread further and infected more citizens.
The flesh and blood after the explosion of the corpse is full of infection more powerful than the plague. Any living creature contaminated with these red and white flesh and blood will begin to rot in a very short period of time, first the skin, then the muscles, until the whole body is nothing but There was only a pile of bones left. This scene was far more frightening than the killings last night. Countless people screamed and fled, hoping to continue living. However, among these people were many citizens whose flesh had been contaminated by corrosion. , they took this terrible plague-like thing further away, so more people fell into the shadow of this plague,