"Ugh~"
"This smell is too strong!"
In the dark underground waterway, boots stepped on the smelly sewage, making footsteps. After Edward discovered the truth and danger of the ghoul, he immediately contacted Tucker of the city guard the next morning and even met him. After a series of facts proved, Edward finally moved them and asked them to assist him. He began to search for places in the city where ghouls might be hiding, as well as ordinary people who had been infected with corpse poison, and immediately killed them. Isolate and get treatment.
Edward obtained the detailed details and intelligence of the previous series of monster attacks. The identity of the corpse, the place of death and various information were all sent to Edward one by one. Edward compared them one by one, hoping to learn from these dead people. The identities of these deceased people range from nobles to slave trackers, from officials to boatmen. Just looking at their identities, no similarities can be found.
The only similarity is that each of them is a young man with a strong body. Perhaps this is the reason why they were selected. The other party is selectively creating ghouls and then thinking of ways to do so. Select the powerful ones from these ordinary low-level ghouls and transform them into high-level ghouls.
Edward currently doesn't know how many ghouls there are in the city. Currently, there are more than a dozen people who are known to have witnessed fatal attacks. After investigating the missing persons today, there are hundreds of people. As for those who have not been found in the dark, there are even more. I don't know. There are too many unidentified and unregistered people in Babs City, and the personnel are complicated. It would be impossible to find out about this kind of thing.
Edward immediately thought of the tampered stone slabs he had found before, which led to the sewers. The city of Babs was Farragut's mid-term work, and it was the famous man who designed the Saint-Sal City of the Church of Light in his later years. Architect.
Edward was walking in the dark sewer holding an oil lamp. The semi-circular sewer has a sloping ground with high sides and a low middle. It is nearly four meters wide. The whole body is built with square stones, like a developed channel system. , connecting all places in the city. Even if it rains heavily, this canal system can easily drain the torrent in the city away from Babus.
"I didn't expect that there is such a large space underground? There is also such a developed underground drainage system. Master Farragut's design concept has fully taken into account the overall situation and practicality of urban planning. This is the true style of a master. "
Just from this shocking underground drainage system, you can feel the transcendence of Farragut when he designed Babs City. This underground drainage system was also later used in the city of Saint-Sal. Although Edward He is not an architect or an artist, but as a knowledgeable wizard, he is also involved in this knowledge. Edward also admires these real masters very much.
Edward followed the place where he had discovered the doubtful point before, closing his eyes and constantly using his mental power to detect the force field to feel the network of this underwater channel. At the same time, he compared it with the Babs map in his head and saw the corresponding one. Wherever you go.
"Blood stains?"
“It’s available here too!”
"Coming this way!"
Edward's keen eyesight and perception kept tracking down the clues he wanted, and found that many people had been in and out of this place recently. There were stains and footprints on many edges, as well as traces of armor scraping against the stone walls. This place If underground drains are not cleaned regularly, no one will enter or exit them.
Edward continued to track forward and found that as he gradually approached the core area of the underground water canal, the passages here became more and more complex, the spaces at the corners became larger, and the center went deeper into the ground. Generally speaking, people like this Going around and around in the complicated waterways, I am afraid that he has long been lost in them, but Edward is still walking in them easily, but he finds more and more traces. He is sure that he has found the corpse. Where ghosts hide.
"Dong dong dong!"
"Wow!"
The sound of hurried footsteps, with the splashing sound of footsteps stepping through water, and coming from all directions, quickly towards Edward, Edward immediately frowned: "How is it possible? Did you find me?"
And judging from the sound, it was coming from various footsteps and surrounding Edward. It was certain that Edward's traces had been discovered, and Edward could be sure that the place he was currently deep in was almost close to their lair. Edward Immediately recall the previous scene.
"Alert witchcraft!"
Edward was immediately startled and couldn't think for a moment. The other party was moving very fast. In the blink of an eye, Edward saw several ghouls with red eyes, wearing tattered clothes and roaring coming out of several passages. He rushed forward by himself.
"Roar!"
At this moment, Edward was at the corner of a passage, and a dozen ghouls suddenly appeared and attacked Edward from three directions at the same time. Edward immediately pressed his palms against the wall. In the entire underground waterway, a large number of slender The stone thorns grew out instantly and penetrated all the dozen or so ghouls rushing towards them. A large number of stone thorns crisscrossed the space, nailing the ghouls to death.
However, they still did not die. Instead, they continued to struggle desperately. Edward turned around and ran away. He felt that a large number of ghouls were chasing him. There were so many ghouls that he could not count them. Edward chose a way to escape, but he just turned the corner. Encountering a huge group of ghouls heading towards him, Edward turned to another place and after passing through several passages, Edward realized that he was surrounded.
Edward thought that the number of ghouls might exceed his imagination, but it was too many. Edward immediately used his extraordinary bloodline witchcraft to kill the oncoming group of ghouls, with a large number of stone thorns. The protrusion quickly dispersed the opponent and opened a bloody path.
When Edward stretched out his hands, he saw that his hands were covered with a layer of stone skin. His entire arms turned lime white and were as hard as marble. Edward rushed towards the ghoul, quickly passed through and was scattered. Among the ghouls, those who blocked the way had their heads smashed to pieces by Edward's heavy stone fists, or were directly knocked away with one blow, allowing the other party to keep pounced on. Edward, who was covered with a thick layer of stone armor, did not think anything of it. Intentionally, he knocked out hard.
At this moment, a voice wearing a black cloak kept stepping on the stone wall, swimming like a gecko, and rushed towards Edward. The long sword immediately unsheathed and slashed towards Edward. Edward immediately used the palm covered with stone armor to directly He grabbed the long sword and made a sonorous sound as the two sides crossed each other.
But Edward immediately discovered that the opponent's long sword was constantly emitting a strange power fluctuation at the level of mental perception, and his own stone armor was constantly dispersing. Suddenly, Edward's expression changed drastically: "Extraordinary power."
By this time, it was already too late. The opponent pulled out the long sword from Edward's hand, cut a long gash in Edward's hand, and swung it towards Edward from bottom to top. Edward turned around quickly, but was still hit and fell. Fell aside.
A long wound appeared from Edward's abdomen to his chest. Fortunately, he escaped quickly, otherwise he would have been disemboweled. Severely injured, Edward pressed down on the rock wall beside him and immediately saw the entire underground cave's rocks. It was torn apart and the whole thing collapsed.
Looking through a stone slab at the corner of Babs City, Edward crawled out from underneath covered in blood and lay on the ground. His clothes were soaked with blood. Although he urgently cast healing spells and bandages, his expression still changed. Extremely pale.
It was not just the injury, he could also feel a strange force constantly eroding his body and mental power, suppressing and eroding his mental power. When his mental power could not resist, this strange force The power would immediately directly interfere with reality and act on his body. Edward immediately remembered the cursed witchcraft that the great sage Anthony told him. This was probably this weird power.
Holding on to the wall, Edward slowly walked out of the dark alley and appeared on the street. He was about to take a detour home to deal with his injuries and find a way to deal with this seemingly troublesome and weird curse. At this time, Ba The alarm bell in Booth Center suddenly rang. When Edward did not understand the meaning of the bell, the panicked crowds on the streets and the constant messages made Edward understand the meaning of the bell.
"The king is dead!" 8)