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Chapter 485: Devil's Lake, Purgatory City

"It's going to start again. ”

A death knight who was standing guard on the walls of Purgatory City raised his head to look at the rising sun, which was slowly rising, huge and round, as vibrant as egg yolks, and then lowered his head slightly to stare at the reddening of the fire under the city wall, and couldn't help but murmur in a low voice, revealing unwillingness, numbness, resentment, and confusion - such emotions are not common in a determined Inquisition Knight!

Located in the Devil's Delta in the northeast corner of Corvado County, backed by the Hawker Mountains and surrounded on three sides by Devil's Lake, Purgatory City is one of the famous and insurmountable military towns of the Roland Empire!

The Hawker Mountains are one of the main branches of the Frost Mountains, more than 8,000 miles long, originating in the southern wilderness of the Red Demon Empire, crossing the Corvador County of the Roland Empire, and at the same time extending into the abyssal territory of the Dawson Federation, and the Starfog Valley is also located on the edge of the Hawker Mountains, separated from Purgatory City by more than 700 miles.

The existence of the Hawker Mountains is equivalent to assuming an impregnable barrier northeast of Purgatory City, but relatively speaking, it has also saved Starmist Valley from the soldiers of the Death Knights.

As for the Devil's Delta, it is actually an island in the middle of the lake that lives in the middle of the Devil's Lake, and its area is extremely huge, more than 1,000 square kilometers, otherwise it would be impossible to build a purgatory city at the level of the main city that can accommodate more than a million people!

Devil's Lake is much larger, over 9,000 square kilometers, and is roughly shaped like a wide horseshoe, while the Devil's Delta, where Purgatory City is located, is the inner area of the horseshoe.

Devil's Lake is definitely famous in the Roland Empire, of course, its name is more of a fierce name, a fierce name! Just from its name, people can't help but feel that Devil's Lake should be extremely dangerous, and in fact, it is indeed - The water of the Devil's Lake is dark and brown, and during the day, the lake seems to be boiling, and there is a visible heat rising from the lake, and from time to time there will be one or two blisters, if you stand on the edge of the lake at this time, it will indeed make people feel quite hot, but at night, the Devil's Lake will turn sharply cooler, and the lake will burn with a cold blue flame, like a ghost fire floating in the night of the abandoned cemetery!

However, even in such a harsh environment, the Devil's Lake is not completely dead, and there is a ferocious creature that breeds in large numbers in the lake -- the manta ray! The size of the manta ray is not large, the small one is only the size of a palm, and the large one is only about thirty or forty centimeters; their body shape is similar to that of a piranha, with a large head and a small belly, and a mouthful of sharp and abnormal fangs! The 'sharpness' here is not just a casual talk, as long as it is targeted by the devil ray, whether it is metal, wood, Stones, or creature limbs, their teeth can be easily chewed!

In the book "The Fangs of Manta Rays", a mage has conducted a series of experiments on manta rays in the Devil's Lake, one of which is that 100 adult manta rays need to eat a 100-ton mammoth, and it only takes ten minutes! This is equivalent to each manta ray can eat a ton of meat in ten minutes, and it is still the meat of a mammoth! Although I don't understand why a manta ray, which is only thirty or forty centimeters long, can swallow a ton of fresh meat, this experiment undoubtedly proves the ferocity of manta rays!

And the color of the manta ray is as dark as the lake water, so when you stand on the edge of the devil's lake, even if there is a manta ray swimming in front of your eyes, you may not be able to notice it! And every year, it is for this reason that countless careless travelers or adventurers become the snack of the manta rays in the lake.

The already strange water of the lake, coupled with the extremely ferocious manta rays, suddenly made the devil's lake extremely dangerous. If you want to cross the Devil's Lake unharmed and reach the Devil's Delta on the other side of the lake, in addition to space teleportation or flight, you may want to consider a viaduct or something. However, the narrowest stretch of the lake is more than thirty kilometers, and it is not easy to hypothesize a bridge over such a long distance out of thin air, and for military reasons, the Death Knights stationed in Purgatory City have always rejected such proposals.

Although it is naturally not a problem for a strong person like the Death Knight Captain Aldrich, not everyone in the city can teleport at will like Aldrich, and no one can have the luxury of using a flying magic scroll as a means of transportation!

This is of course impossible, and the answer is - ferry!

Of course, the ferries that can sail normally on Devil's Lake will not be ordinary ships, even metal warships made entirely of metal will be eaten by the huge number of manta rays in the lake, and the real mystery is that these ships on the surface of Devil's Lake will be wrapped in a layer of leather, leather made of Death Charge War Horses!

That's right, even if the Death Knights' unique war horse, the Death Charge War Horse! This kind of war horse not only has a variety of excellent attributes, but their leather can even resist the erosion of the Devil's Lake, and at the same time, the devil rays in the lake will not attack this kind of war horse! Although ordinary people don't understand the reason, because of the particularity of the Death Charge War Horse, the navigation problem of the Devil's Lake is solved.

Of course, since the Death Charge War Horse is the exclusive war horse of the Death Knights, those Death Charge War Horses used for shipping are all stripped from the dead war horses, and they have always been only in the hands of the Death Knights. Therefore, all the ships that can be used to sail on the surface of Devil's Lake are controlled by the Death Knights, and by controlling the shipping, the Death Knights also earn a large amount of 'tolls' every year!

Earlier, upon learning of Elliott's intentions to march, the Death Knight Captain Aldrich ordered the withdrawal of all ships, which was equivalent to completely isolating the other side of the lake from the Devil's Delta!

Therefore, the 500,000 army led by Elliott said that it surrounded the city of Purgatory, but in fact, it was just looking at each other from afar between the Devil's Lake and the Death Knights in the city! And in the face of such a dangerous and strange Devil's Lake, Elliott, the upstart of the Red Demon Empire, and the archon who had just been promoted, was also helpless; perhaps it was precisely because of this that he had to come up with a poisonous trick similar to the "Desperate Scheme" such as "Operation Thunder Extermination".

Nine days ago, on the 18th of May, Elliot had ordered a large pit to be dug on the shore of the lake directly across from the gates of Hellgate, and every day after that, a varying number of Inquisitionists were pushed into the pit and burned alive!

At this time there stood about seventy or eighty Roland captives by the fire pit, men and women, tall and strong warriors, delicate and poor house women, old and young, gray-haired old men, and babies who had not even learned to stand...... However, these people have a common feature at this time, their hands are tied, and in addition to the reflection of the burning fire in their eyes, there is also unstoppable fear!

The tall Elliott was shaking a toothpick-like dagger in his hand that was as wide as his palm. With a strange arc on his lips, Elliot walked slowly behind the captives, his footsteps ringing like the bell of death in the hearts of all the captives, making them unstoppable.

Finally, Elliot walked up to a young Roland man who looked like a warrior, rested the unsheathed dagger on the other party's neck, and grinned slightly: "Roland, tell me, are you a follower of the false god Payit (Thunder Saint King)?"

As he spoke, Elliott's right hand suddenly exerted a slight force, and the dagger he was holding in his hand suddenly slashed through the neck of the Roland youth, and suddenly there was a terrible blood overflowing from the neck of the Roland youth! Of course, such an injury was not fatal, but the terrifying feeling of 'almost dying' still deeply stimulated the Roland youth's body! So at the moment when the skin on his neck was cut by the dagger, the Roland youth's body instinctively stiffened and was cold!

"You have to think clearly before you answer, if you are a heretic who believes in the false god Pait—yes, the Inquisition's favorite heretic! Then I can only push you into this fire pit, and let your soul be purified in the flames, and I hope that at last your soul will really meet the false god you believe in!"

"Of course, if you are not a believer in Payit, then all this is just a misunderstanding, and I will use this dagger in my hand to cut the rope that binds your hands, and I will also give you a hundred gold coins to express my apologies to you. ”

"Now, then, tell me, are you a follower of Payit?" asked Elliot, smirking at the Roland youth.

Hearing this, the Roland young man couldn't help but close his eyes, but he could see that his eyelids were beating violently, which showed the struggle in his heart at this moment.

The Roland youth did not let Elliot wait for a long time, but after about a minute, he opened his eyes again, and the confusion and struggle in his eyes disappeared completely, and there was only endless fanaticism and piety! I saw the Roland youth staring at Elliot with blazing eyes and said loudly: "Come on, you damned heretics! Don't think that threatening me with death will make me give up my faith! For me, money can be given up, life can be wanted, but I will never abandon my faith!"

"On this day, I will go to the kingdom of thunder and accept the summons of the Holy King!" said that, the young man of the Roland people took the initiative to jump into the fire pit that was burning with raging flames!

Through the crimson flames, the body of the Roland youth could be vaguely seen rolling in the flames, and his screams lasted for three minutes before they gradually died out!

Hearing the screams of the Roland youth, the captives beside the fire pit behaved differently, some looked at the fire pit with death, some closed their eyes unbearably, some trembled with fear, and some glared at the many guardians of the Holy Sepulchre next to them with great anger...... But there was one thing, all of them were surprisingly quiet.

"Ah, it's gratifying that you've found a loyal believer for your Inquisition!" said Elliot 'happily' in the direction of Hellcity, knowing that the Death Knights on the walls might not be able to see it really, but they could hear their own voices clearly!

As he spoke, Elliot's tone suddenly changed, and he said mockingly: "It's a pity that he died in the end!"

"He was fearless when he was born, and his soul must live forever when he died. At this time, an old man who looked like a priest on the side said lightly.

(End of chapter)

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