The mercenary team from Zhongzhou escorted the Hongling Merchant Group through the Bull Mountains and arrived at the Church of Light. Apart from some ordinary robbers and some difficult gangsters, they did not encounter anyone along the way. No matter how dangerous it is, although Linn is young, he is also a Templar. After revealing his identity and power, ordinary people will not dare to embarrass him.
He hired a boat along the Na'vi River and traveled all the way, finally entering the Kingdom of Mara. Here, Linn's Storm Mercenary Team and the Hongling Merchant Group were stationed in a passing remote town.
The town is very quiet and peaceful. It is a typical agricultural town. There is also a waterwheel mill in the town. The mill belongs to the church of the town. Farmers in the town can use it as long as they pay a fee. The streets of the town are built. It was very neat and looked like it had some age.
Because it is close to the Na'vi River, the land is fertile, and there is a forest next to it. Whether it is hunting or farming, it is enough to support themselves. Moreover, this is the direct territory of the royal family Mornar, and the tax is lower than other noble territories. Therefore, the townspeople Life is pretty good.
"Do you think the villagers here are a little strange?" After Lin En patrolled the town, he returned to the few houses where he stayed. The Hongling Merchant Group is a small business group, with only two people in it. Thirty people, including Lin En's mercenary team, there were only more than thirty people, crowded into two adjacent houses.
Du Wei thought about it for a moment: "Don't you think it's strange? It's very enthusiastic, especially the fiery eyes of the girls in the village. They must have taken a liking to me!"
Linn frowned and said: "Everyone here has the same smile, and when we entered the village, the guys looked at us. It was so strange. This was not like the scene of foreigners entering the village, and we Or half-orcs, you know, this is not Zhongzhou, but the Kingdom of Mara, and humans regard us as aliens!"
“Maybe it’s because the people here are more enthusiastic!”
"I think we should be more careful at night!"
That night, streaks of fog slowly spread out from the periphery of the town, gradually swallowing up the entire town. When the fog slowly approached the house where Lin En and others were stationed, they immediately saw a few people watching outside. Swallowed by the mist, he disappeared immediately amid a strange and intrusive chewing sound.
Lin En, who had always been vigilant, was immediately alarmed when he heard the shouts of the night watchman outside. He rushed out and called everyone. Only then did they realize that the entire village had been covered by this strange fog.
However, this kind of fog was afraid of fire and heat, and they did not dare to go close to the room. Lin En and others lit the house on fire, dispersed the fog, and rushed out with torches, only to find that there were indeed countless monsters waiting for them outside.
This is a kind of monster that maintains a human form but has no face. Their body surface is constantly exuding cold air, and a layer of white frost seems to be condensed on the skin, like a walking corpse.
Hundreds of people in the town have all turned into this kind of monster. These faceless corpse monsters are constantly besieging Lin En and others along the stone streets of the town. The pastor of the Church of Light in the village who originally hosted the church is also at this moment. Transformed into an extremely terrifying supernatural monster.
The people who rushed out of the yard saw a monster nearly four meters tall with huge fleshy wings standing on the street, approaching them continuously. This monster had no legs, and its feet were like crawling mud, constantly dragging them. Crossing the ground, approaching them.
Lin En's face suddenly turned pale: "Evil... devil... devil's descendants?"
Du Wei felt his feet trembling: "Damn it, is it another lunatic who is sacrificing to the devil in the abyss?"
This is not the first time that Zhongzhou has witnessed the power of demons. Legends about demons have been circulating in human legends for a long time, but real records have only appeared in the past few decades.
It is rumored that there is a book of demons in the world compiled by the demon king of the abyss. This is a book that comes from the abyss and is full of evil and filth. Even if you just read the content recorded on it, you will be attracted by that book. The terrifying power swallowed him up and dragged him into the bottomless abyss.
The demon illustrations and real names circulated from this book let the world know how to summon and sacrifice these terrifying beings from the abyss. Many people, in order to gain power, satisfy their own wishes, or live forever, Or in order to get rid of diseases or resurrect their relatives, they offer sacrifices to these terrifying abyss demons.
However, these demons are not benevolent people. Everyone who offers sacrifices to them will eventually be swallowed by them and assimilated by their power. At the same time, they also cause a lot of chaos on the Alan continent, but most of them In the early stages of the incident, it was immediately quelled by the power from the Church of Light or the Church of the Sun.
Lin En did not expect that within the Kingdom of Mara, there was an entire town that was swallowed up by the power of the devil, and everyone in the town became the slaves and dependents of the devil.
Lin En and others held torches high and kept fighting among the monsters, trying to break out of the siege and escape from this town that had been completely eroded by the power of the abyss.
But these faceless corpse monsters cannot be killed at all. Even if they are cut into two pieces, pierced through their heads with bows and arrows, and smashed with hammers, they still merge slowly like plasticine. Regrouped, it seemed as if they were immortal as long as they were shrouded in mist.
The man-eating fog enveloped the entire sky, even the moonlight was covered up. Lin En and others lit fires everywhere in the town, and the flames shot into the sky, but the surrounding man-eating fog tightly enveloped every exit and corner of the town. There was no way they could escape from here until daybreak.
However, hundreds of faceless corpse monsters continued to besiege them, and the huge demon relatives, raising their huge arms, easily destroyed the house and beat their companions who had no time to escape into meat patties one by one, spitting out acid. As long as it is contaminated with the corrosive solution, large areas of flesh and blood will immediately break away and turn into withered bones in an instant.
They were afraid that they would be annihilated before dawn. Lin En used the magic of the Templars to constantly deal with these monsters, and then continued to fall into desperate situations.
This is the first mercenary team that Lin En formed, and it is also the first time he goes on a mission. Before his dream and future have begun, he may die here, taking the lives of many of his companions.
"Your Majesty the Goddess!"
"I pray to you, call your name with my most devout faith, and ask you to grant us salvation!"
"No evil can escape judgment, and no sin can cause harm to the world!"
As Lin En prayed over and over again, his belief gradually became solidified, breaking through the usual boundaries, and in an instant he mastered a first-level divine spell that was impossible to use before, and it was a first-level divine spell. The most powerful attacking magic among them is the divine power.
The light from the Templar's long sword instantly penetrated the Demon Familia. The flames and light wrapped around the Demon Familia's bodies, emitting a strong light that vibrated out and tore the Demon Familia apart.
With the death of the devil's family, the other faceless corpse monsters went crazy and attacked them crazily. At this time, with the death of the devil's family, the man-eating fog he summoned also dissipated, trapping Lin. The boundaries between En and others are no longer there.
The members of the Storm mercenary team formed a battle formation and finally broke out of the siege and fled the town swallowed by the abyss. Everyone left here scarred and exhausted.
The next day, the priest of the Church of Light led a large number of knights to arrive here, surrounded the entire town, and cleaned up the remaining monsters, but the mastermind and controller were still not found.
Lin En delivered the Hongling Merchant Group to its destination and received a generous commission. After staying in Babs City, the capital of the Mara Kingdom for a few days, he prepared to return to the Arabel Kingdom, but before leaving , they stopped for a night at the legendary holy lake Sirnano, and this night completely changed Linn's fate.