Chapter Twenty-Three: Changes in the Capital

As the night wore out, and the Canduran sergeant, who had finished burying his robes, felt tired like never before, both mentally and physically, and Lacdenan ordered everyone to return to the camp stationed in the wasteland. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

All the horses were chained to the stables in the camp, and they were not brought out because of an inescapable battle of guards.

In the tent of the Chinese army, Lac Dianan was discussing secrets with Ed and others, and the latter looked incredulous after listening to the former's account about King Leorik.

"Anyway, we're going to get back to Tristram right away." Rakdenan said in a deep voice.

"Time is running out, Lord Gracewald and Lord Kane have invited the men of the Ranger Camp and the Convent, believing that they have reached Tristram, although we have not received the help of Westmar, but with the return of the two of you, we are not without the strength to fight."

Ed and Adria looked at each other, still basking in the horror of what King Leoric had done.

Seeing this, Lac Dianan sighed and said, "Ed, your father is a loyal knight, he is not so easily deceived and degraded, I believe that time has destroyed his wisdom and martial arts, and there are some ill-intentioned people who have interfered with it. ”

As he spoke, a holy figure appeared in Rakdenan's eyes that made him resentful.

"Master Dawn, go meet your father." Lac Dianan said, and the two nodded silently.

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By this time, Tristram was already in chaos.

When the Light and Guardian Knights marched out of the city, Archbishop Lazarez relied on the decision of King Leorik to forcibly recruit a group of knights from the former head of the knights, Gracewald, and several official knights led thousands of trainee knights (most of them players) to the palace to strengthen the sealing array in the catacomies.

But to everyone's surprise, when Lázares led them into the cemetery, there was no more news, and it was not until midnight that day that a disorganized figure crawled out of the entrance, scarred all over his body, and his eyes were dull and dark.

He was one of the official knights leading the team, named Farnham, who was already in a near-death state at that time, and was rushed to Pippin for treatment before he was lucky enough to save his life, but his idiosyncratic heart had faded, and his strength was not as strong as before, and he had become a complete drunkard.

Deranged, he did not receive Pippin's rehabilitation, and left the Knights' base camp with his wounded body in tow, where he spent his days drunk and drinking gruesome things.

At first, the drunken inhabitants only dismissed him as a joke, but gradually, he spoke more and more realistically and madly, and he painted pictures of the catacombs with his teeth and claws, how the deformed monsters in his mouth had slaughtered his companions in front of him, and the blood-drenched scenes came to life in the eyes of everyone, and quickly spread to every corner of Tristram.

Farnham was driven mad by the demons, and his crazy words also set off a wave of exodus from Tristram's residents.

King Leorik has truly become a demon minion! The palace has become a paradise for demons! Disaster is coming, and so is Tristram!

The residents, who had previously scoffed at these rumors, had to choose to believe them, so much so that Tristram can now be described as deserted.

Then, the Ranger and Nuns arrived almost at the same time and camped in the empty base camp of the Knights of Light and Guardian, waiting for Lac Dianan to return with Westmar's reinforcements.

But on the night when Nermus slaughtered civilians, when Lac Dianan decided to rest, Leorik's palace began to kill horrific people.

Princess Leah, dressed in simple clothes, entered a gorgeous dormitory and comforted Queen Leorrick, who had lost her beloved son Albert, Ella.

After some painstaking persuasion by Leah, the queen's face finally improved, but then there was a terrible scream outside the window, which made the two frown.

Ella, who has official knight-level strength, tells Leah to hide, and she quietly investigates outside the door, but to her surprise, King Leorek, who is full of evil spirits, carries the blood-stained sword of the king, and rudely pushes open the door of the dormitory.

Ella stared blankly at the blood-red King Leorik, speechless in horror, who was expressionless and raised his blood-glittering sword as Leah watched through the cracks in the cabinet, and the sword fell, and a beautiful head rolled to the ground.

Leah covered her mouth bloodlessly, the agility in her eyes was gone, only shock and sadness remained, tears rolled in her eyes, and finally slid down on her skin.

Leorik sneered, feeling nothing about killing his wife, and suddenly, as if sensing something, he looked around Ella's dormitory, and finally cast his gaze on the cabinet where Leah was hiding.

Leah's eyes shrunk, her thin and delicate body trembled, and she looked at the deranged Leorik in horror, slowly approaching step by step, blocking the light projected into the cabinet.

In the darkness, Leah closed her eyes in despair, and she remembered a figure that appeared like a hero, leaving sad tears again.

Wow!

Leorik opened the door of the cabinet, glanced at it indifferently, and then closed it again, he was surprised that he had sensed the existence of life in the cabinet, but he had found nothing under the investigation.

Leah waited for a long time, but still did not feel the expected pain, she opened her eyes blankly, and carefully looked through the gap again, and found that only her and Queen Ella, who had been separated from her head and collapsed in a pool of blood, were left in the dormitory.

She didn't dare to go out, for fear of running into the mad Leorik, the kind king who had loved her so much.

Once inside, Leoric wandered aimlessly through the palace, slaughtering every being he came across, human or demonic.

Just as Lac Dianan had predicted, the priests of the palace at this time had completely thrown themselves into the arms of the demons, and those priests who had always longed for the light had long been sacrificed by them to the supreme beings in the catacomics.

In addition, all the members of the Knights who were responsible for guarding the palace have also been transformed into demons, and their duties are still to guard the palace, but the person in charge has changed, from the former Leorik to the current King of Fear.

Lacdianan speculated that King Leorik would not have been casually seduced by demons, and that the latter had remained true to his beliefs, as he had claimed, but after twenty years of extreme fear, he had finally lost his mind at the moment when Lazares disappeared.

Like the mad Farnham, Leoric went mad and began his killing journey.

Twenty years ago, Leorik led his priestly order and the Knights of Light and Guardian to proclaim himself king in the Canduras region, and at the suggestion of Archbishop Lazarez, he chose the impoverished Tristrium as the capital and the dilapidated Heradim Monastery as the royal palace.

However, soon after, the King of Fear, who had been sealed under the monastery, also awoke, and when he woke up, he was very weak and unable to break out of the seal, and then he released his fear on Leorik, who was the king, but Leorick successfully resisted it with his strength as a Gundam Grand Knight and in his peak state.

Over the next twenty years, the Lord of Dreads regained his strength while attempting to destroy Leoric's mind, and gradually corrupted the entire palace priesthood and knight guard under his command, searching for resources for him to break through the seals.

And the resource needed by the King of Fear is fear, and the fear psychology of human beings is its best supplement, so when the time is ripe, the villages around Tristram have been poisoned by demons, using a small spatial teleportation array to break through the world boundary and teleport from the Sinking * Fallen Demon and other demons, constantly hunting human beings, especially human children.

The demons put the children they had hunted in wooden cages, brought them back to the catacommodaneous graveyard and tortured them, and their fragile hearts had a hundredfold effect on the Lord of Dread when they collapsed.

So White did not die immediately, but lost a leg.

As if tired of killing, King Leorik strolled back to the palace, and in a lonely state, climbed the stairs, and sat down in the midst of the throne, laughing wildly and bursting into tears.

In the shadows outside the palace gate, the Great Knight Wright quietly appeared, his eyes had turned into demonic pupils like Dahl, and beside him, a human player followed unhurriedly.

"My student, when will you become a noble demon like me!" Wright said with a fanatical expression, when he transformed into a demon, he was addicted to it with unprecedented power.

"Dear teacher, I need to hide among the human beings and provide the necessary information for the noble demons!" The player said sincerely, but he kept sneering in his heart.

Wright didn't force it, turned to the direction of the palace and said, "I really don't know where Lazarez got his confidence, and he actually wants to leave this waste man behind, in order to hook Lac Dianan and Glaci, hum!" It's wishful thinking. ”