Soldiers blocked all the main roads and surrounded the merchant houses opened by the gray elves, but this did not stop the rumors and the bit of truth in the rumors from quickly fermenting among the ordinary people - and soon there were Countless theories about darkness, blood, sacrificial rituals, and heresies were spread in the town, and the skeletons taken out of the business hall at night seemed to confirm everyone's theories.
The Duke of the West, Baldwin Franklin, arrived at the scene quietly under the escort of soldiers. He frowned and looked at the business building in front of him that still had a slight smell of blood, as well as the people in the distance who were probing their heads. Looking at the ignorant people here, I feel very bad.
It is not necessary for a Duke to personally pay attention to what is happening in a small town, but when the incident occurred, Baldwin Franklin happened to be hunting in the hunting ground near Jinlin Town.
Cultists have been causing trouble all over the kingdom recently. The king not long ago sent a message to be careful about cults causing trouble. There have indeed been several disturbing terrorist incidents in the Western Territory. Bird Duke Franklin was worried about this - so 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, under his eyes It came out from under the bed.
"Sir," a close aide approached from the side and said in a low voice, "Are you going to disperse those untouchables?"
"They are just ignorant and don't know what terror is. "I asked the soldiers to block the road to save the lives of those idiots," Baldwin said in a bad mood, "but since they are too stupid to understand this, let them gather a street away, don't As long as it affects you here."
"Yes, sir, your kindness is touching," the confidant said, lowering his head. "Do you want to go in and see for yourself?"
"That's why I'm here."
Bardwin opened the door of the store, and a strong smell of blood immediately hit his face.
Dried dark red blood can be seen everywhere in the shopping mall. There is blood on the ground, on the walls, on the roof, even every table, chair, every furnishing, and every window sill—— It was as if a madman had taken all the blood and carefully smeared it on every surface.
Between the solidified blood marks, you can see darker human-shaped marks, which are extremely strange.
"What's going on with these marks?" Baldwin Franklin sensed subtle magic fluctuations from the marks and asked.
"It's caused by corrosion, sir," a man dressed as a priest walked out from the people who were cleaning up the scene. He performed the courtesy of a Holy Light believer in front of the Duke of the West and answered respectfully, "Judging from the traces on the scene, people who were affected by evil magic or participated in cult sacrifices first carried out crazy self-mutilation activities in this hall and smeared their own blood in all corners of the room.Finally, they gathered in these locations, and the remaining blood in their bodies began to boil and corrode under the influence of evil magic. Their flowing flesh and blood formed these corrosion marks, so when we came here, all we saw were bones. "
Anger appeared on the face of the Duke of the West: "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 Holy Light Priest replied. "They advocate destroying living flesh and blood limbs and embrace death. According to my judgment, this evil sacrifice is carried out The cultists are among the bones collected at the scene - for a blood sacrifice of this scale, the cultists will choose to kill themselves together with the victims to achieve their goals to the greatest extent. "
The Duke of the West looked into the priest's eyes: "Their purpose? What is their purpose? "
"They should be planning to create a plague and spread it to the western border of the kingdom and the Mossywood Forest at the same time." The priest pointed to the nearby walls. On the walls stained by blood, vaguely visible The pale golden holy light runes were flickering slightly, and the wisps of black air were quickly dissipating under the holy light. "When I arrived here, the whole building was already filled with the smell of plague. Fortunately, the main It guided me to discover the cultists' conspiracy in advance, so that I could dispel the evil magic that was about to take shape as soon as possible and set up a purification barrier. Sir, there is no need to worry about the plague now. "
"These depraved and twisted freaks! Their souls should really be taken away by the devil and never escape from hell! "It was rare for Baldwin Franklin to be truly angry, but he still tried to maintain his demeanor and nodded to the Holy Light Priest, "Father, you saved this town and the lives of everyone around it. ! You deserve my thanks and reward. "
"Purifying evil is the path entrusted to us by the Lord," the priest said with compassion. "Compared with personal gains, I am more worried about those crazy cultists attacking areas that have not been protected by our Lord. . "
"The church of the Blood God is near this business building, but the priests there have no idea about the evil happening around them." The Duke of the West shook his head, "The first one to arrive was Instead, it was the Holy Light Priests you led..."
"It's not the fault of those messengers of the Blood God," the Holy Light Priest said immediately, "It's just that their magic happens to be here. It's just of no use when the time comes. The power of the God of Light specializes in fighting evil, and we just happen to be in trouble. "
The Duke of the West looked thoughtful: "Fight against evil... The cultists in the kingdom are becoming more and more rampant. What we need at this time is the power to fight against evil..."
The priest lowered his head deeply: "The servants of the God of Holy Light will be obliged to do so. "
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Cultists are plaguing nobles across Ansu. However, in the southern region where they first stirred up trouble, the situation is gradually calming down.
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It seems that everything will be reunited after deathAfter the Eversleepers suffered successive setbacks, the Dark Cult felt a little troubled by this area, which was adjacent to the Wasteland of Gondor and itself desolate and backward. As there were still a large number of optional targets in the kingdom, they temporarily gave up and continued to work here. plan of things.
Gawain could not 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 light up the technology tree in the territory.
The basic rune array analyzed by Jenny and Rebecca is gradually coming into use.
On the desk in front of him, lay the disassembled universal arm armor. This is the "Type I searing ray gun" currently equipped by territorial soldiers. Compared with the original crude test, Model, the internal structure of the mass-produced gauntlet appears to be more reasonable, and the various parts are more standardized and easier to replace. After opening the outer shell and a protective cover, you can see the modular rune triggers and magic power inside. The capacitor, the guide card slot, and the scorching ray substrate located at the front of the gauntlet. In addition, two free slots can be seen at the guide card slot, which were designed according to Gawain's previous instructions. , an expandable area for later modification and upgrade.
Jenny and Rebecca stood next to the table. The latter took out a rune base plate and handed it over: "Here you go."
Gawain took the base plate and placed it on On the edge of the hexagonal metal plate, he saw a neat line of steel-stamped text: 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 There was a faint light - the energy from the magic capacitor had successfully activated this new component.
Jenny explained from the side: "After turning on the force field shield, the number of scorching ray shots 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 rely on adding a new one. Rune trigger to control its activation and deactivation. As an energy shield with a limited defensive area, soldiers can only activate the force field shield when engaging in close combat."
Rebecca. Then he added: "We originally planned to get a level 3 eggshell shield, but later we found that the energy consumption was too high and the gauntlet couldn't last for a few minutes, so we had to put in a level 2 mana shield first. !”
Gawain raised his eyelids and glanced at the iron-headed girl: “What the hell is an eggshell shield? It’s a mage shield! Don’t name it just because it looks like an eggshell. ?"
Rebecca scratched her hair: "Hey, hey, you know what I mean anyway..."
Gawain gave the girl a confused look: " How far have the functions of the next-generation armor been realized?"
"Oh, we have successfully integrated the combat backpack and the armor into one, and it is detachable, so that the magic circle on the armor can be used directly. The combat backpack is used to supply energy. When necessary, the backpack can be discarded to reduce weight or replaced, because there is also a magic capacitor installed in the breastplate., so it can continue to fight for a period of time without the combat backpack," Rebecca said enthusiastically, while taking out the drawings she drew overnight to show Gawain, "Look, let's first put The first-level breeze shield is integrated into the chest armor. It consumes the least. Although it does not have much physical protection, it can filter poisonous breath and disease-like spells, making soldiers safer in harsh environments. Then according to your tips, we also Runes for heat insulation and weight reduction have been added to the inner layer of the armor. These are all magic-level or first-level spells. They can be operated continuously with a combat backpack as an energy source..."
Rebecca described it excitedly, and Gawain nodded with satisfaction. Although some basic functions were implemented, the idea of using a new magic circle to achieve an effect similar to enchanted weapons is obviously correct, but Rebecca said He stopped as he spoke, with a slightly frustrated expression on his face: "But as you mentioned before, adding a jet device behind the armor, the soldier only needs to shout 'Char! 'I really have no idea about the function of being able to breathe fire and charge forward at the same time. I wanted to add a fireball circle at the back, but I found that it would blow up all the teammates around me..."
Gawain almost He 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 also a bunch of luminous streamers on the back of the armor. As long as you jump three meters high, you can launch arcane missiles in all directions..."
“Forget all this! ! ”