Soldiers blocked all the main roads and blocked the shops opened by the gray elves, but this did not stop the rumors and the truth in the rumors from fermenting rapidly among ordinary people, and soon there were countless stories about the dark, bloody The rumors of rituals, sacrificial ceremonies, and heresies spread in the town, and the bones carried out of the commercial hall at night seemed to confirm everyone's theory.
Baldwin Franklin, the Duke of the Western Territory, arrived at the scene in a low-key manner under the escort of soldiers. He frowned, looking at the commercial building that was still emitting a slight smell of blood, and the ignorant people in the distance looking over their heads. I'm in a bad mood.
It is not necessary for a duke to personally pay attention to what happened in a small town, but when the incident happened, Baldwin Franklin happened to be winter hunting in the hunting ground near Jinlin Town.
Recently, the cultists in various parts of the kingdom are making troubles. Not long ago, the king sent a message telling him to be careful of the cults. There have indeed been several disturbing terrorist incidents in the western region. Duke Baldwin Franklin is worried. That's why he chose to come to this secluded place for winter hunting to relax, but he didn't expect that the cult incident seemed to be specifically against him. At this juncture, it popped up under his nose.
"My lord," a trusted aide leaned over from the side and said in a low voice, "Do you want to disperse those untouchables?"
"They're just ignorant. They don't know what terror is," Baldwin said in a bad mood. "I asked the soldiers to block the road to save the lives of those idiots, but since they are too stupid to understand this, let them Let them gather a street away, as long as it doesn't affect here."
"Yes, my lord, your kindness is touching," said the confidant, bowing his head. "Would you like to go in and see for yourself?"
"That's why I'm here."
Baldwin pushed open the door of the trading house, and a strong smell of blood rushed to his face immediately.
Dried dark red blood can be seen everywhere in the shop. On the ground, on the walls, on the roof, even on every table, chair, every piece of decoration, and every window sill, there is blood all over it. All the blood, carefully smeared on every surface, makes the scalp tingle.
And among the solidified bloodstains, one can see human-shaped marks with deeper colors, which are extremely strange.
"What's the matter with these imprints?" Baldwin Franklin sensed subtle fluctuations in magic power from the imprints, and asked.
"It's caused by corrosion, my lord," a man dressed as a priest walked out of the people cleaning up the scene. He performed the ritual of a Holy Light believer in front of the Duke of the West Territory, and replied respectfully, "Judging from the traces on the scene, the Those who were influenced by magic or participated in cult sacrifices first carried out crazy self-mutilation activities in this hall, and smeared their own blood on all corners of the room, and then they gathered in these places, and the remaining blood in their bodies began to flow under the influence of evil magic. Boiled and rotted under the influence, their oozing flesh formed these rotten marks, so when we came here all we saw were bones."
Anger appeared on the face of the Duke of the Western Territory: "I don't want to know too many details, I just want to know who did it."
"This is a typical sacrificial site for the death of all things," the priest of the Holy Light replied, "They advocate destroying fresh flesh and blood limbs and embracing death. According to my judgment, the cultists who performed this evil sacrifice collected In a blood sacrifice of this scale in those bones, the cultists will choose to die with the victims to achieve their goals to the greatest extent."
The Duke of the Western Territory looked into the eyes of the priest: "Their purpose? What is their purpose?"
"They should be planning to create a plague, and spread the plague to the west of the kingdom and the moss forest at the same time," the priest pointed to the nearby walls. On the blood-tainted walls, you could faintly see pale golden holy light runes It was flickering slightly, while wisps of black air quickly dissipated under the light of the holy light, "When I arrived here, the whole building was already filled with the smell of plague. Fortunately, the Lord guided me to discover the evil cultists in advance. Conspiracy, I was able to dispel this evil magic that was about to take shape in the first place, and set up a purification barrier. My lord, now there is no need to worry about the plague."
"These depraved and twisted freaks! Their souls should be taken away by the devil, and they should never escape from hell!" Baldwin Franklin was really angry, but he still tried to maintain his demeanor, and He nodded to Priest Shengguang, "Father, you saved the lives of this town and everyone around it! You deserve my thanks and reward."
"Purification of evil is the path entrusted to us by the Lord," the priest said compassionately. "Compared with personal gains, I am more worried about those crazed cultists attacking areas that have not been protected by our Lord."
"The Church of the Blood God is near this trading house, but the priests there don't know anything about the evil that happened around them." The Duke of the West Region shook his head, "The first ones to arrive are the few you led Priest Shengguang..."
"It's not to blame the emissaries of the blood god," Priest Shengguang said immediately, "it's just that their magic is just useless at this time. The power of the god of holy light is specialized in fighting evil, we just It just happened to happen to me."
The Duke of the Western Territory showed a thoughtful look: "Fight against evil... The cultists in the kingdom are becoming more and more rampant. At this time, what we need is the power to fight against evil..."
The priest bowed his head deeply: "The servant of the God of Holy Light will be obliged."
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The heretics are troubling the nobles all over Anzu, but in the southern region where they first disturbed the wind and rain, the situation has gradually stabilized.
It seems that after the successive setbacks of the Doom Society and the Eternal Sleeper, the dark sects felt a little troublesome about this desolate and backward area adjacent to the wasteland of Gondor. With a large number of optional targets in the kingdom, They temporarily gave up their plans to continue to make trouble here.
Gao Wen couldn't guess what the cultists were thinking, but he was happy to accept this rare peaceful time, and planned to take this opportunity to continue to click on the technology tree on the territory.
The basic rune array analyzed by Jenny and Rebecca is gradually coming in handy.
On the desk in front of him, there is a general-purpose gauntlet that has been disassembled. This is the "I-type scorching ray gun" currently equipped by soldiers in the territory. Compared with the original rough test model, it has completed mass production. The internal structure of the gauntlet is more reasonable, and the various parts are more standardized and easy to replace. After opening its shell and a protective cover, you can see the modular rune trigger, magic capacitor, guide card slot and The scorching ray substrate is located at the front of the gauntlet, and besides that, there are two free slots at the position of the guide card slot, which are designed according to Gao Wen's previous instructions, and are convenient for later modification and upgrade. expandable area.
Jenny and Rebecca stood by the table, and the latter took out a rune substrate and handed it over: "Here you are."
Gawain took the base plate, and on the edge of the hexagonal metal plate, he saw a line of neatly stamped words: Universal Type I-Force Field Shield Module.
He opened the restriction buckle on the magic guide slot inside the gauntlet, and installed the new module in place. With a slight click, several runes on the force field shield module emitted a faint light from the magic power capacitor. energy has successfully activated this new component.
Jenny explained next to her: "After turning on the force field shield, the number of shots fired by the scorching ray will be reduced by half, but the force field shield is not a function that needs to be turned on all the time, you can control it by adding a new rune trigger Disabled and enabled. As an energy shield with a limited defense area, soldiers can only activate the force field shield when engaging in close combat."
Rebecca immediately added: "We originally planned to get a third-level eggshell shield directly, but later found that the energy consumption was too high, and the gauntlet couldn't last for a few minutes, so we had to give the second-level spell force field shield to it first. Get it in!"
Gawain raised his eyelids and glanced at the iron-headed girl: "What the hell is the eggshell shield? It's a mage's shield! Don't name it just because it looks like an eggshell, okay?"
Rebecca scratched her hair: "Hey hey, anyway, as long as you know what I mean..."
Gao Wen looked at the girl indifferently: "How many functions of the next-generation armor have been realized?"
"Oh, we have successfully integrated the combat backpack and the armor, and it is detachable, so that the magic circle on the armor can be directly powered by the combat backpack, and the backpack can be discarded to reduce weight or Replace it, because there is also a magic power capacitor installed in the breastplate, so it can continue to fight for a period of time even if it is separated from the combat backpack," Rebecca said enthusiastically, and took out the painting she drew overnight Show Gao Wen the blueprint, "Look, we first integrated the first-level breeze shield into the breastplate. It consumes the least amount of physical protection. Although it doesn't have much physical protection, it can filter poisonous breaths and disease-like spells, allowing soldiers to The environment is safer, and according to your tips, we have also added heat-insulating and weight-reducing runes to the inner layer of the armor. These are all magic-level or first-level spells, and they can be used when there is a combat backpack as energy. To keep running…”
While Rebecca described excitedly, Gawain nodded with satisfaction. Although all the functions were realized, it is obviously correct to use the new magic circle to achieve the effect similar to enchanted weapons. However, Rebecca said He stopped talking, with a frustrated expression on his face: "But you mentioned before adding a spray device behind the armor, and the soldier can charge forward while breathing fire as long as he shouts 'Char! There is really no clue, I want to add a fireball circle behind it, but I find that it will blow up all the teammates around... "
Gao Wen almost choked himself to death with a mouthful of saliva: "Pfft, didn't I tell you that it was a joke!?"
"But it sounds super handsome!" Rebecca looked at Gawain with sparkling eyes, "And there are a bunch of glowing ribbons on the back of the armor, and you can shoot arcane missiles in all directions just by jumping three meters high What… "
"Forget about all of this!!"