"Warning: You take Plague damage, dealing 0 damage (33 of which have been resisted)."

"Warning: You take Plague damage, dealing 0 damage (31 of which have been resisted)."

"Warning: You take Plague damage, dealing 0 damage (40 of which have been resisted)."

Brando suddenly stopped, and called up the battle log in the retina, and a pale green screen of light appeared in front of him, which was already covered with shocking system records.

He immediately looked up, this was already Queens, which was the busiest commercial area in the whole of Rusta on weekdays, and dozens of the most famous chambers of commerce of the empire were stationed along the sides of the street, and those majestic buildings were now immersed in darkness and silence, every door and window was closed, and a layer of mist was in the sky over the street.

"Mist?" Brando suddenly raised his hand and grabbed it, and then opened his palm, revealing the corpses of several flying insects.

"What's wrong, sir?" Behind him, Medissa and Hipamela also stopped, and the latter asked, watching his movements curiously.

However, the little princess of the silver elf stared at the colorful flying insect corpse in Brando's hand, without saying a word, with a calm light in her eyes.

"Acquaintance?" Brando asked.

"These are the plague swarms, they live in the mist of the Grey Field, and the putrid stench that devours the corpses of demons and fallen souls thrive," Medisa replied quietly, "I have seen them more than once. ”

"It's a larva," Brando nodded, "It's not fully grown yet, and the ones you've seen should be adults." ”

He squinted his eyes at the dead street ahead, knowing where Metisa had dealt with the bugs; The Plague Swarm is a scavenging inhabitant of Hell, usually born of the same female parent of a race. The mother is a large adult worm that tends to have only one head per colony, and plague swarms rarely move too far from the mother, and they rarely migrate out of the Grey Field.

But there is one exception.

Among the twelve branches of the shepherds, the Gu insect lords have been insect wizards for generations, and this branch of the shepherds has a huge number of plague insect swarms in their hands. Back in the days of the Sage's War, the Shepherds had fought with the Silver Elves and Humans more than once, so Metisha must have seen these visitors to Hell more than once at that time.

The Gu Worm Lord of this generation, Mayad, was captured by the Empire decades ago and imprisoned in the depths of an underground prison in Ruusta, but even Andessa was alive and kicking around outside not long ago, and this Gu Worm Lord would not be lonely.

"It looks like Her Majesty is in more trouble than us."

"Prepare for battle, my lord." Metisha asked.

"Blessing the defensive spell first, these larvae won't cause us any trouble, but it's hard to say anything inside." Brando frowned. Each of the shepherds is difficult to deal with, and Andesa is the weakest of them, and Mayad, although not strong there, is extremely difficult to deal with.

In the game, he had dealt with this Gu Worm Lord, so he felt that it was tricky, this was the outer periphery of the Plague Mist, and the damage of the plague in the central area could reach more than 100 points per second, and it was difficult for the Baptist Priest who was not good at hymns to do so.

At the moment, although the magic damage has little effect on him. It may even be possible that he can completely resist the damage of the epidemic in the heartland, but for Medisa and Hipamela it is difficult to say.

At this time, he didn't want to cause more trouble. His most urgent goal now is to cross the Ruusta to the west to join up with the others, and to make sure that Akane has not been rescued, and if they are happy, they can leave the empire directly.

The channel to leave the empire has also been arranged a long time ago, and the eldest son of the emperor and the northern nobles will fully cooperate with him, and they can walk through the evergreen walkway. Or take a detour to the Duchy of Antobro, which is a safe road - at least for now.

As for what happened in the imperial capital, in fact it had nothing to do with him, with the Eruins, and it was a problem for Her Majesty the Queen anyway.

He scrutinized the thin mist, thinking that if he was lucky, he could go straight through the edge of the mist. However, the element of Mayad is the fog of the mind, not the simple fog of plague, it is easy to get lost in this fog, and it is not so easy to leave.

What's more, the other party is a psychopath, and I am afraid that he may not allow a few living people to leave unscathed from his plague mist.

It's just that it's too late to go back now, and there is the trade area behind it, who knows if the silver queen has chased after her.

Hypamela raised a defensive light shield, but Medisa didn't react, and Brando glanced at her, only to remember that the Silver People were immune to disease, and in their confrontation with the Gu Worm Lord, they also won more and lost less.

"The bloodline of silver is truly enviable." He couldn't help but sigh.

"The lord is not bad," said Medisa, "I am just a poor ghost down there, where is the envy of the lord." ”

"yes, how can there be such a cute ghost?"

Metisa's eyes widened, and a mist seemed to be shrouded in her silver eyes, and Hipamela couldn't help but giggle.

The atmosphere eased for a while, and the three of them slowed down, Queens was a little more than two kilometers long, and the whole area consisted of a main street lined with palatial shops and tall buildings, and the temple of Crunou, the god of commerce in the old days, stood in the mist not far away, and now it was a monumental building commemorating the glory of the gods of yesteryear.

Brando's almost palpable gold streaks on the mottled façade were dim, the past was gone, and the Temple of Fire was graciously not knocked it down, but of course it was a sign of respect for Martha and her gods, and in fact in the countryside of the empire and many parts of Eruin, people still maintained their faith in the old gods, but they could no longer be answered.

Without response and shelter, there would be no priest, and the temple of Crunou, the god of commerce, was like a mottled shell, silent for millennia in the mist.

In fact, it wasn't the temple that was silent, the whole of Queens was shrouded in deathly silence, except for the footsteps of the three people that rang out over the stone streets.

The further you went, the thicker the fog became, and every now and then a bug slammed into Hipamela's shield and snapped into a puddle of green water. Flowing down the light curtain, it frightened Miss Priest's face.

On the contrary, the little princess of the silver elf seemed very calm, and walked forward almost without changing her face, and only at this time could one be reminded that she had once been the supreme commander of an army.

Although according to the age of human beings, she was only fourteen years old when she became famous. It's just a girl in the prime of her life.

Brando was almost no luck at this time, he knew that the silence was because there was probably no one left alive in the Queens, this was the area with the richest nightlife in the entire imperial capital, close to the aristocratic district, and it was often the most lively time from evening to late night, and even nobles often sneaked out to experience life, although it was not a water carriage dragon, but at least it would not be empty.

There was not a single body to be seen on the streets, but the carriage that was staggered to the side of the road or crashed into a plane tree made it clear what had happened. The carriage and lasso fell to the ground, and even the horses pulling the cart were left with no bones.

Hipamela looked solemn.

Brando, however, wondered where Sidney and Veronica had gone, and if it had anything to do with Mayad's sudden appearance.

It was at this time that the mist in front of them suddenly parted to both sides with a hum, and a fist-sized insect rushed towards him, Brando reacted extremely quickly, and drew his sword without thinking about it, and the sword flashed. The worm had snapped into two pieces and fell to the ground, and its six legs were still twitching vigorously.

He bowed his head. I found that this thing looked a bit like some kind of beetle, with a dark body and six legs as sharp as knives, and before she could speak, Medisa on the side preemptively replied: "This is an adult, we are already close to the mother." ”

Close to the female parent. It means that Maiad is already close, and Brando does not expect that instead of passing through the Plague Mist from the edge, he has walked to the center of the Plague Mist.

However, when you go to this place, it means that the other party has discovered them, and it is self-deception to run away from them. He simply did not withdraw the sword in his hand, but looked up to see a tall and majestic building in front of him, and Brando thought for a moment before remembering that it was the headquarters of the patrol cavalry.

He took the time to glance at the pale green light screen floating above his left, and the damage on the battle record had indeed risen to nearly a hundred, which was slightly weaker than the one he had encountered, but Mayad, who had only escaped from the dungeon in this era, was not his strongest period.

"Looks like he's waiting for us there." He turned back to Medisa and Hipamela.

"Well," the little silver elf princess nodded, "but it's a little strange, my lord." ”

"What's wrong?" Brando knew that Métisa's experience was no worse than his own, and that he was not inferior to himself in his knowledge of the shepherd, so he took the latter's opinion very seriously.

"There are too few insect swarms," Medisa replied softly, "even if Mayad had consciously hidden, there shouldn't have been so few insects in the Plague Mist, not to mention that we have only encountered an adult worm when we have come here, which is a little too unusual." ”

Brando raised an eyebrow, and then noticed this, he had only fought Mayard once in a limited opportunity, and it was not him who was the main attack at that time, the Knights of Greyius he was accompanying at that time were only responsible for containing the swarm, and the real main attack was the Diamond Force Guild.

He thought back to the experience of that battle, and there was indeed an overwhelming swarm of insects in the mist, a little too different from the two or three sparse ones at the moment.

"What do you think?" The three of them cautiously walked forward, and Brando asked cautiously.

"I think of a possibility," Medisa shook her head slightly, "but I'm not sure yet." ”

Brando looked at her biting her lip, and a thought flashed through her mind, and she didn't ask any more questions.

The headquarters of the patrol cavalry in the fog was like a living creature of flesh and blood, its back was its back, and the walls were its sinuous neck and spine, and it was curled up here, motionless, as if it were falling into a silent slumber.

There is no sign of living people in the fortress, and it is obvious that all of them have been killed, but fortunately, the patrol cavalry still has a camp outside the city, and the headquarters in the city usually has only one squadron of cavalry on duty, but even so, this accident is enough to shake the upper echelons of the empire, you must know that in the imperial capital, the children of nobles account for a large proportion.

The commander of the patrol cavalry was the Imperial Count, second only to the masters of the Arctic Realm, and if he was here at the time of the accident, then the Cruz people would have had even more fun.

The three of them walked all the way through the city gates, the suspended drawbridge did not cause them any trouble, then the empty courtyard, the main entrance of the manor, the corridors, the spiral staircase, there was not a single person left in the entire fortress, not even many bugs, they only encountered a few attacks along the way, not so much the plague swarm, but the individual bugs that remained here after the swarm.

But the thick plague fog that hangs over this place tells Brando that this is definitely the center of the plague swarm, not the place where the swarm passes.

They made their way to the third and most top floor of the fortress, which was the center of the entire patrol cavalry headquarters, where the Earl's office should theoretically be.

The internal structure of such military buildings was much the same, and Brando, who was familiar with the Cruz fortress, soon followed the corridor to the location of the count's office, and at the door of the office, he finally saw the only human beings on the trip.

Several corpses, to be exact.

Two of them were prostrate in the hallway, face down, dressed in the uniforms of patrol cavalrymen, pale in color, black blood seeping from under them and seeping into the thick carpet.

The other man leaned against the wall, his face was blurred with flesh and blood, and his facial features could no longer be seen clearly, as if something had gnawed a big hole, and he was dressed more ornately, with an earl's trench coat, gold-trimmed breeches, long boots, bits and pieces of ornaments all over his body, and a breastplate of extreme luxury.

Unfortunately, this cuirass did not save his life, and there was a large hole on the left side of the breastplate, from which dark red blood flowed, which should have been a fatal wound.

The corpse leaned its head against the walnut parapet behind it, blood smeared the wall, his saber scattered aside, and Brando's vision of the saber confirmed the other's identity.

The red falcon proves that this person is the commander of the patrol cavalry, a certain count of the Empire.

Brando raised his hand, and the sword flew from the ground and landed in his hand, then flashed, and then disappeared into the dimensional cave.

Although the sword of the Imperial Patrol Cavalry Commander is not as good as the holy sword of Harangea and Odysvis, it is also an ancient famous sword, otherwise it will not be passed down from generation to generation, and he is not in the habit of leaving good things to the Empire.

There were still a few plague adults crawling around next to the corpse of the patrol cavalry commander, and as soon as Brando moved, they immediately spotted the strange intruder and screamed and pounced on it. However, before Brando could make a move, the priest next to her took a step forward, waving the genus of mountains and rivers with both hands, and a perfect home run, directly knocking these bugs away.

The bugs buzzed and slammed into the wall on one side, shattering into a cloud of green juice.

Brando also frowned, he suddenly remembered that these bugs did not take the initiative to attack him, but only passively attacked them after he had alarmed them. In fact, the closer they get to the mother, the more cautious the plague swarm becomes, and they will frantically attack creatures close to the area, whether they are humans or animals.

This is not the behavior of a plague swarm.

He couldn't help but subconsciously turn his head, only to find that Métisa was also frowning deeply, looking thoughtfully in the direction of the Imperial Count's office not far away.

There, there was only a wooden door that was half-broken in the fog.

…… (To be continued......) I752