At the same time as the miracle of the county town of Stuart, Meryl Winter County, which is more than 1,000 miles away from the county town, is the port of Titan.

"Vomit ......"

A middle-aged woman who was fetching water at the mouth of the well suddenly vomited.

Crash.

The wooden bucket filled with water fell to the ground, and the water overflowed the ground.

The people next to her didn't have time to help, and the woman who was covered in vomit staggered, suddenly her eyes turned white, and she fell to the ground heavily.

"Look, she's got worms in her stomach!"

A bystander pointed to a puddle of filth on the ground and exclaimed.

……

The same situation occurs throughout the port of Titan, especially in slums and civilian areas.

In just half a day, more than 100 people have already vomited, and 40 or 50 of them have fallen to the ground, most of them are elderly people, women and children who are relatively weak.

After receiving the report, the port guard in charge of patrolling the city sent someone to verify the situation, and immediately reported the situation to the public security administration at the wharf, which then reported it to the city lord's office.

"Oh my God, it's a ferocious plague!"

As soon as the document of the City Lord's Mansion received the report, his expression changed greatly when he saw the content described in the document:

"Quick! Report to the city lord! There is a plague in the civilian area! ”

What they didn't know was that during the period when the case was reported and they dealt with it, a similar situation occurred not only in the port of Didan, but also in the small fishing villages near the port of Didan.

The City Lord's Mansion, which received the alarm, urgently sent a team of mages to investigate the epidemic, and at the same time, the fast horse with the letter written by the City Lord himself also galloped out of the city gate.

Two days later, even though the City Lord's Mansion sealed off the epidemic area in time and gathered all the people who found the disease together, the plague quickly spread throughout the city.

People's panic is like an epidemic, out of control.

On the third day, the weakest part of the first comatose patients died one after another.

People who began to feel hopeless exploded completely.

The nobles, who had been waiting on the sidelines, quietly packed their bags and tried to escape.

Riots* erupted in the blockaded civilian quarters, and the mob broke through the blockade of the city guards with their fists and bodies, surrounding the city lord's mansion and the noble district. They clashed violently with the private soldiers under the command of the nobles, killing and wounding hundreds of people in a short period of time, resulting in a bloody case!

In the bloody case, there was even a nobleman's son who died on the spot.

He startled his horse in full view of everyone, fell headfirst to the ground, and his brain burst on the bluestone ground!

This scene completely angered the other part of the restrained aristocracy.

They banded together and sent powerful mages and warriors to worship and warriors, and the armed clash turned into a one-sided slaughter.

By the time the port army sent by the City Lord's Mansion arrived and suppressed this bloody conflict, nearly 2,000 people had died in the massacre and tens of thousands were injured!

Subsequently, the lord of the city, the Count of Nice, ordered the docks and gates to be closed, and all ships and personnel were not allowed to leave the port, whether nobles or commoners, and violators were punished for treason!

When the royal family received a letter from the city lord of Didan Harbor asking for help, the Archmage Slote sent by him as soon as possible rushed to Didan Harbor, and what he saw was a dead city.

It is not the plague that leads this situation, but the crazy people in despair.

The closure of the Castle Lord's Mansion cut off the last hope of the people, and even the nobles began to resist and besiege the Castle Lord's Mansion and the port army, as well as try to break through the city gates.

However, the commander of the port army was a good friend of the lord of the castle and a royalist loyal to the royal family.

Moments before the alliance of nobles and commoners was about to break through the blockade, he took out the orders of the lord of the city, the Count of Nice, sank all the ships docked in the harbor, then cut the nooses of the four gates, and completely destroyed the gate winch, and finally sat behind his desk and drank the last glass of wine.

In the desk drawer in front of him were two letters.

One is his last letter, and the other is a handwritten letter from the lord of Nice to him.

The day before, the lord of Nice had died of a plague.

His last letter and the honored sword were placed together, and there was only one line on the paper:

"- Loyal to the sword, loyal to the royal family, worthy of the heart."

At this time, it was already the seventh day of the outbreak of the epidemic in Didan Port, and there were less than 30,000 people left in Didan Port, which had a permanent population of nearly 150,000.

Archmage Slot, who led the team to the rescue, wrote in his memoirs:

“…… They are no longer human beings, they are living corpses. ”

……

“…… Even Perret has an outbreak? In this way, the Ice Plains Demon Clan probably won't let go of the Holy Empire. ”

Lin An looked at Angelia's note and closed his eyes, "This is their last madness." ”

On the other hand, there is a constant stream of good news from the Lancet.

In the past few days, the alternation of bad news and good news has become the main theme.

The advance of the all-out counteroffensive was unusually smooth, but the high command learned a lesson, and no longer rashly advanced and greedy for military merit, but fought steadily and steadily, and the three fronts were advancing in a relatively balanced and mutually resonating manner.

At present, the Chinese army, which is at the forefront of the battle line, is less than 600 miles away from the former bloody fortress Mapei.

The bad news was that the outbreak in the rear of the Terrans was even more violent than everyone expected.

The last madness of the Icefield Demon Race spread all their blight and insects, and it seemed that they were trying to die with the entire human race.

Fortunately, this conspiracy was discovered in advance and reported to God.

The Deep Blue God guards Merlin, the Lord of the Blue is in charge of Perre, and the Abyss Lord guards the Holy Empire.

Legendary mages have teleportation spells, which can appear in more than a dozen cities in an instant, and as long as the legendary mages can arrive in time, they are often able to turn the tide and become the reassurance of the victims.

Under the condition that people's hearts are controllable, the epidemic is not a truly invincible devil, and the situation like that of Didan Port is just an exception.

In contrast, the city of Stuart, which was also ravaged by the plague, was like a paradise on earth.

Since it was not possible to gather all the people of the villages and towns near the county town, there were still some cases of plague spreading in the county town.

However, the religious influence of the "sacred tree miracles" still enveloped the entire county, and due to word of mouth, it quickly spread to the surrounding area.

This led to the fact that people's psychological embankment was extremely stable, and not only did there be no cases of despair and madness, but the entire county town generally declined in public order cases for most of the next six months, and the road was not left behind.

Coupled with Princess Elizabeth's previous speech, the nobles and commoners got along harmoniously, and when the illness began to appear among the commoners, a large number of nobles generously donated resources and money, and the work efficiency of government officials was unprecedentedly improved, and they truly did what the people were anxious about and thought about what the people thought.

“…… This is the power of religion! ”

Lin An thought, "It seems that in the canon of the Holy See, the description of the 'kingdom of heaven on earth' during the demon calamity period is indeed true, not exaggerated. ”

The more calamity and despair we are, the more we can reflect the edifying power of religion in people's minds.

In the Demon Calamity War more than 2,000 years ago, many sects led by the Holy See have indeed made irreplaceable achievements for the human race.

It can even be said that without the Holy See, the Terrans may not have been able to survive to this day.

The divine magic used by the cleric to restrain the demons, and the healing and enhancement magic to comfort the human race's body and mind are beyond the reach of even the most powerful mages.

The most obvious proof is that, despite the great decline of the Holy See, in the midst of this plague, with the pacification and help of the clergy of the Holy See, the Holy Empire, which has a humid climate all year round and a population as dense as Perret, has suffered the least plague among the three empires.

This is not only in terms of population mortality, but also in the mental state and social environment in which people are generally relatively stable after encountering the epidemic.

"Perhaps, it's time for us to face up to the power of the Holy See."

With the token of the pentagram, Lin An spoke to the emperor:

"If you have any ideas, don't mind me, or the attitude of the other crowns—unite the forces that can be used, I don't think they will."

“…… Well, with your words, I can do it more freely. ”

The emperor really cared about the thoughts of the pillars of the human race, including Lin An's "master".

……

The dying madness of the Ice Plains Demon Race still brought deep damage to the human race.

On August 19, 2218 in the magic calendar, the Ice Plains Demon Race spread a general outbreak of plague in the rear of the human race, and then caused nearly 3 million casualties and hundreds of millions of property and resource losses due to this disaster, which was known as the "Death of August 19".

From the perspective of future generations, the "Death of August 19" is generally regarded as a sign of the all-round start of the "Ice Field Counteroffensive War" and a harbinger of the coming of the "Second Demon Disaster War".

As a result of this opportunity, the three major Terran empires, which had just ended the civil war for less than a year, quickly reached a comprehensive armistice agreement, and the Pere Empire and the Holy Empire began to intervene in the war on the northern front - under the sting of the madness of the demons, the Terrans united like never before.

“…… This was another political, military, and diplomatic victory for the great emperor during his reign, and laid the foundation for the subsequent alliance of the 'Second Demon Calamity', showing the emperor's keen vision and iron fist as always. ”

A famous scholar who devoted his life to the study of Abraham III and the history of that particular war, Sherivsky. Nixon wrote in his writings.

Of course, in the absence of knowing the established historical trajectory, most people generally do not understand the thirty-year period of Abraham the Great's decision to make a general armistice from the point of view of the time.

This is enough to affect Merlin's national policy for the next hundred years, and make Merlin lose the best opportunity to dominate the continent.

There was a wave of opposition in Merlin, but Abraham the Great met with the heads of several major political factions and some of his important ministers at the Champs-Champs.

After leaving the palace for a whole day, these men began to do their best to appease the opposition within the faction, to assist the emperor in promoting the armistice agreement, and to secretly reorganize and expand the private army, buy food from abroad, and hoard resources.

After that, the national conscription, in the name of advocating blood feud between the two races and calling on the human race to take revenge, began to be officially put on the table.

The emperor issued a conscription order, and many civilians who had lost their relatives and friends in the plague, or who had been displaced, joined the army in order to avenge and survive.

In just one month, the Merlin Empire expanded by one million.

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