(58) Red hair in a cage
The catastrophe was fortunately brought to an end, and the damage caused was almost negligible - eight thousand casualties, more than half of the trade area was destroyed in the battle, and the various economic losses were nearly 20,000 units in gold.
After the plague finally ended, more than 15,000 people, most of whom were large merchants and nobles who had settled in Bologna, had lost faith in Bologna and moved to other territories.
Coupled with the citizens who left Bologna City before the plague spread and lived in the annexed villages and did not want to move back, only about 60,000 people remained in the city, because the monsters that appeared in this disaster were too sensational, and they were not to blame for being afraid.
There are many things that Dio has to deal with, from calming the panicked populace and curbing the spread of rumors to repairing the ruined city and restarting Bologna's trade network, all the big and small things that the young lord needs to deal with, but before dealing with them, Theodoric needs to take some time to ask some very necessary questions of the 'resurrected' red-haired red-haired ones.
Ice Hunter is now locked in a makeshift cage, surrounded by guards from the Lord's Mansion on the lookout side, and no one dares to release this 'monster' from the cage until he is fully identified as a human and asks what happened.
Ice Hunter was very satisfied with his life in the cage, he didn't make any gestures of resistance, and even when Dio came to question, he didn't complain in the slightest, Red Fur had been eating since he woke up, and he didn't bother with other things at all.
"Ice Hunting... The men I sent out reported to me that you are dead. Can you explain to me why you're still alive? ”
Dio asked the caged man as he saw that Ice Hunter was tearing at a whole roasted beef leg, which was not something that a normal person could eat.
"I'm not dead... Instead, he was thrown into a strange world along with the buildings of the evil sect. ”
Ice Hunt said as he gobbled it up.
"The buildings summoned by those cursed gods should be from which world, and they also use a technique called anti-summoning to send those functional buildings back to which world, and when they counter-summon, I happened to be in their building."
The strange complex almost completely disappeared in an instant ... In fact, they were just summoned by the cultists of the Cursed God.
"So, you're still alive, aren't you? Lucky to be! ”
Dio was in a slightly better mood, so he asked Ice Hunter again.
"Can you pinpoint the location of those strange structures that are being 'counter-summoned'? I'm going to send the army and finish them off! Never again! ”
"You don't have to think about that. That place doesn't look like a normal world, and there is no way for ordinary people to survive there, there are undead monsters everywhere, the sky is covered with clouds, the temperature is so low that it can freeze people into ice lumps, and ...... There is almost no food. ”
Ice Hunt stopped biting the calf's leg and said to Theodoric with some trepidation.
"In the first week I was there, I was so hungry that I almost had to cut off my own flesh and eat it, there was so little to eat."
"Well, I can see it."
Dio looked at the oily face that Bing Hunt had gnawed and the miserable cow leg that had been bitten, and nodded.
"I also want to ask... What's the matter with the girl you carried back? Who is she? Why with you? ”
"She? Oh! Her name is Cecilia and she is a relationship with me...... As for what the relationship is, it is difficult to explain. ”
"When did you meet?" "I met when the evil gate complex was lurking......"
"Is it your girlfriend?"
"Ahem...... How can it be! Cecilia and I have only known each other for a month! ”
Dior's words almost choked the red hair to death.
"Oh...... That's right. Dio asked another question. With your skills, you shouldn't be bound by these monsters, right? ”
"You ask this? I'm not stupid...... Breaking into the pile of the dead many times is actually just trying to find the lost Cecilia. ”
As he spoke, Ice Hunter shrugged with a smile. "She's important to me, so I can't see her in a dangerous situation."
"I don't admit it yet...... Sure enough, it's your girlfriend! ”
"Why are you struggling with this? You have more important questions, right? ”
"There are more important issues ......"
After Dior smiled, his face suddenly became serious.
"What's the deal with that power of yours? That huge stitch monster had caused us a lot of trouble before, but you had easily eliminated it. ”
"Do you mean those two tricks? The names are all my name, and the source of that power is the armor on my body. ”
"The power on the armor? This is actually a set of enhanced equipment? ”
"It's what you think, but it's different in power."
Ice Hunter tapped the breastplate on his body and replied.
"These monsters seem to have a completely different system from the functional buildings you use, and the strength of the guys trained by their bonuses can be improved again through secondary training, and even can be trained for the third time...... Normal, Expert, Master, this is the 'Pawn' level, but they also have a hero level. ”
"I stole this armor from an undead hero on a skeleton horse, and that guy is really good at fighting...... But he couldn't beat me, I cut him down, and one of his equipment became my trophies. ”
After saying that, Ice Hunter continued to nibble on the meat.
That is to say...... As long as you wear that equipment, anyone can fight with that magical skill like those guys? ”
Dio's heart pounded, and as a person who had experienced combat firsthand, he knew very well how powerful these bizarre bonus equipment were.
There is nothing wrong with that...... But I advise you to be careful not to hit these equipment. ”
Ice Hunter warns the lord.
"These equipment are very evil, wearing them for too long will cause a big change in personality, and become the fanatics of the 'Cursed God Cult' you see, my advice is to destroy all of these equipment and not leave any of them."
"Wearing it for too long will change your personality? But I think you're acting normally, huh? ”
"Me?"
Ice Hunter said with a very strange expression.
"I'm a person...... It's a little different, the kind of power that can demagogue doesn't work for me. ”
If we talk about the filth and depravity of power, I am afraid that it is difficult to find something in the world that is more filthy than the power of ghosts and gods, and the spiritual pollution that can make ordinary people's hearts change greatly can only make Ice Hunt listless at most.
"That's right...... You didn't tell Dongdong about my 'death', did you? ”
Ice Hunter thought of a very important question.
"Of course I didn't tell her that she is ...... now It's also a bit of a bad situation. ”
"Huh?"
"I'll tell you the truth! Knock knock her...... He's dead. ”
When Ice Hunter heard this, he immediately became excited, and he dropped his ox leg and grabbed the iron fence with both hands.
"What? You said...... Knock knock dead? You bastard! Why is this happening! ”
If it weren't for the iron cage in the way, Ice Hunt would probably have punched Dio in the face.
"Calm down! Calm down! Knock Knock Death...... And then she was alive again. ”
“…… What? ”
The red-haired man pulling the iron bar is stupid.
"I don't know what's going on! Knock Knock was pierced in the heart with a dagger by a Cultist of the Damned Cult who had blended in with the seriously ill in front of the eyes of many people...... They put her body on the church table, and she came back alive on her own. ”
Dio sighed in embarrassment.
"Some of the frightened citizens felt that she had become an immortal monster, so they suggested that I put her to death...... But there are many more people, who claim that it was Dong Dong who dispelled the plague and saved everyone, and I don't know how to do it. ”
"Knock knock her...... What's going on now? ”
"It looks like it's alive and you're locked up like you. But your identity is easier to explain...... Because you have never died, and because there are many agents who have witnessed your bravery, everyone is happy to accept a warrior who can turn the tide. ”
"That's ......"
Ice Hunt breathed a sigh of relief, Dio's words just now scared him a lot, Dong Dong was not only the object of his protection of the terms of the deal with that powerful woman, but after several months of getting along, the little guy had become the existence for which Ice Hunt was willing to wield a sword.
"Rest assured! Those undead monsters are not as amazing as you think, and the resurrection of the dead is just a dead corpse, as long as the heart is still beating and the blood is still flowing, then you can determine her identity. ”