Chapter 267: A traitor has emerged from among us
Esquire's decision to abandon the city was difficult!
A fortress like the Dandra Fortress, which can accommodate more than 100,000 troops, is quite huge, covering an area of nearly 10 square kilometers, and it took nearly two years to build it with the investment of manpower and material resources.
But...... They had to do this, because the water source had been polluted by the plague, and there was no point in continuing to hold on, it would only make more and more people infected by the plague, and every day the troops stayed in the fortress, it was equivalent to losing hundreds of soldiers, and the people were panicked, demoralized and ineffective, if the enemy really appeared, it was uncertain whether the coalition forces could fight or not, and like this, it was better to completely abandon this fortress and let yourself die and survive!
Although the heroes were reluctant to Esquire's decision, they were all the best of their respective races, and they were naturally excellent in terms of intelligence, so of course they could think clearly about the pros and cons, so after a while of silence, everyone unconditionally supported Esquire's decision.
When the decision was made, the heroes breathed a sigh of relief, and Gru smiled bitterly and said, "In the end, we still have to be like Alantir......"
Solam said angrily: "Even if we have to go out of the city, but I still say the same, Alantir must be the vanguard to face the demons, our troops are now demoralized, only the bones and scum under his command are not affected, at such a moment, he should do his duty!" ”
"Yes, that's right!" Hearing this, the rest of the mage heroes also nodded and said, "The coalition troops can be stationed in the back!" ”
The mages of the Bradaka Kingdom and the necromancers of the Kingdom of Helles are not formed in a day or two, so Gru can only be silent and not comment after hearing the proposal of the mage heroes, and as for Eraric, he is even more eager to do so......
Since it was decided to abandon the fortress, the coalition forces quickly moved quickly, and the intact troops began to withdraw from the fortress in an orderly manner while guarding against the attack of zombies.
However, after confirming that the priest's magic does not work against the inved, the coalition will have no choice but to abandon the remaining infected who have not yet been completely mutated just because they were scratched in the fight against zombies!
This decision was cruel, so in order to prevent the injured from mutiniating out of control of their emotions, the heroes decided to hide the truth from them after discussing it for a while.
They gathered the infected but unmutated ones and placed them in the same camp, and erected a large number of canvases around the camp to block their view and prevent them from knowing the retreat of the defenders of the fortress.
Originally, as long as the measures were taken properly, these infected people might not know about this decision until they died, but unfortunately, and I don't know why, it didn't take much time for these infected people to know that they had been abandoned!
There were hundreds of similar wounded, and when they heard that they had to stay in the fortress and could not withdraw with the troops, these wounded were in an uproar, although they themselves knew that they might not be saved, but out of the instinct of survival, they always had the illusion that they could still be saved, and now the coalition forces had made such a cruel decision, which made them completely unacceptable at the same time of despair.
Especially among the wounded, there are many once noble mages, which exacerbates the conflict, when these infected people are clamoring to find an explanation for Esquire, they have a fight with the soldiers guarding them, the infected are already like ashes, in this case, they don't care about the feelings of colleagues at all, in the process of fighting, there are many infected people who actually open their mouths to bite the guards on the body!
As a result, there were nearly 100 more infected people among the guards at once......
The scene was out of control for a while, and when Esquire got the news and hurriedly came with a large army to suppress it, what they saw was a mess and corpses.
There is no way, the bitten person is also red-eyed, everyone understands what kind of fate will be after being infected, for these infected people who have harmed themselves, they simply adopted an attitude of killing them all, and aimed the butcher's knife at their former colleagues......
This is actually the most terrifying part of the T virus, human relations, friendship, family affection and even love will be vulnerable at this moment......
All the infected died, including the bitten guards, this was a massacre, in order to prevent future troubles, the rest of the guards could only deal with it in cold blood, Eschel watched this scene, his face twitched all the time, and finally he could only turn into a sigh.
"Burn their bodies!" After all, he ordered, if left unchecked, the corpses would get back on their feet after a while.
Then, he began to investigate how the news leaked and led to this tragedy.
If no one had reported to the infected, they wouldn't find out they had been abandoned until the army had withdrawn from the fortress, but now that the news had leaked out in advance, it was necessary to find out who had done it.
Originally, Esquill thought that it might be done quietly by one of the infected's friends, but what he didn't expect was that in the end, all the fingers pointed at the priests and priests that Eraric had brought! Because the last people who come into contact with these infected people are the priests who want to continue researching what the plague is all about!
Well, not long after Elarik arrived at Dandra Fortress, he had a big pot on his back! When he was angrily questioned by Esquire, he still had a confused expression on his face, and he didn't know what was going on.
Coupled with Elaric's arrogant attitude at the beginning, this incident instantly caused a huge rift between Erathia and Bradaca.
This is especially true when Eraric finally checked and couldn't find out which priest leaked the news, the people of Bradaka, who thought that Elarik was not unable to find out, but wanted to shield the priest under his command, but God was merciful, Elarik really didn't find out who did it......
Although there was a lot of delay due to this incident, the army of the fortress of Dendra was still withdrawing according to the plan, and they had to do it before dark, because if it was night, when the army was in chaos, there might be many more casualties due to the attack of the mutants.
In the evening, as the sun began to sink in the west, the fortress completed its great evacuation, the high walls were abandoned, the gates of the fortress were blocked, and Dandra was completely reduced to an empty city...... Oh no, it should be said that it is a city overrun by zombies.
When night falls, the mutants burrow out of the sewers to begin their activities, but they can't find any more blood to eat, so they roar angrily.
The coalition forces retreated to the plain about two kilometers away from the fortress and camped, in order to prevent the deviants in the fortress from escaping, they also specially set up a large number of mine magic traps near the fortress as a warning, but even so, the soldiers still couldn't help but shudder in their hearts when they heard this terrible roar coming from afar in the fortress.
"Well, it always feels like we've jumped from one trap to another......" Esquire said to the rest of the mage heroes, and there was an awkward silence.
"Now the only hope is that the demon will appear soon!" Gru said: "If it were me, at this moment when the evacuation was just completed, it would be the best time to attack, and it would be dark again, so it is very likely that the demon will appear tonight!" ”
"Get ready!" The lightning on Solam's body flowed around quickly, looking at the dark night sky in front of him, his eyes sharp.
Eraric didn't speak, huddled in the corner of a group of heroes, looking a little unusual.
He couldn't help but be unusual, because just now, a priest came to him and whispered something in his ear.
Among the priest troops he brought with him this time, there was a priest who didn't know when he disappeared!
When he got this report, Elaric was almost immediately sure that the missing priest was the one who informed the infected of the evacuation!
"Damn it! There is a traitor among us! Eraric was cursing to himself, he couldn't figure out who the missing priest was, but he couldn't investigate the matter anymore, because if he did, he would be the target of public criticism, and the nerdy mages of Bradaka, would lay all the blame on him......
So now, he can only pretend that nothing has happened, and wait quietly with the other heroes.
Time passed little by little, and when it was almost late at night, there was a slight sound of water in the night, and a figure suddenly came out of the river that flowed through the Grand Canyon!
It was a man dressed as a priest, with a cross necklace in his hand and a hammer of sanction on his shoulder, drenched, who, after emerging from the river, looked warily at the shore around him, and then looked back.
Needless to say, this priest is the missing priest in the Elarik troops......
"This position, it's already far away from the fortress coalition forces, and even the undead troops of Arrantiel have been left behind, almost ......" The priest muttered to himself, and then his expression relaxed a little.
At this time, his figure suddenly appeared blurred, and the whole person gradually changed, from the original image of an inconspicuous greasy uncle wearing a priest's robe, to a female succubus with reverse wings on her back and flames burning on her hooves!
If Roy was here, he might be able to recognize it at a glance, and the succubus in front of him was the Bainia he had seen at the beginning!
As a superior demon, Bainia, who has the same magical talent for transfiguration as her sister Baiara, hides in the priest army of Eraric, and even the angels are unaware of her demon's existence......
"Hahahaha!" After Bainya finished her transformation, she couldn't help but let out a poignant laugh: "I have finally escaped, Baiyala, my dear sister, wait for me, I will come back to you soon!" But now, I'm going to find my powerful ally......"
With that, Bainia unleashed her demonic hooves and ran towards the distant forest, leaving only a series of scorching trails of flame on the ground, leaving the mark of her previous visit......