Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Ruins of Mist Town
"Ding! The magic airship Santiago-37 has arrived, please be prepared for the friends on board, please do not use magic in the cabin, wield heavy weapons, and play with explosives, thank you for your cooperation. Next stop: Misty Town, please get ready for your disembarking friends. β
In the midst of a loud magical sound, the fourth-year people who were willing to participate in this trial boarded the airship in turn.
Except for those who are in trouble, those who are sick, and those who are not sick, there are about 700 people who went this time, which is slightly less than expected, but it is almost enough, and it is full of 3 airships.
Propelled by a huge propeller at the tail of the airship, the airship flew around the borders of the Atlantean Empire towards Misty Town.
The speed of the airship is not the highest among the air vehicles, but it is also more than 100 kilometers per hour, so it is expected to reach it in about 1 day.
Idle on the airship is also idle, so Karel takes out the dwarf saber and starts to fix the walkie-talkie for his girlfriend and a few teammates.
Lu Lin is a fox shaman, and the fox's ears are above the head, so she has to lengthen the microphone to avoid reaching her mouth.
Suni is simple, put it directly in her ear, and then fix it with a metal clasp so that it doesn't fall out during the battle.
And the paladin Aurelar and the elf druid Estrid are a little troublesome, the paladin is wearing metal armor, which has a certain impact on electromagnetic waves, and the helpless Karel had to cut a hole in the helmet of the full compound plate armor, put a small walkie-talkie in it, and then adjust her walkie-talkie when Aurelar was wearing the helmet, as for Estrid, because the body shape changed too much after the transformation, Carel made a collar with elastic material, and then fixed the walkie-talkie on the collar, Although the effect will be slightly worse, but it is enough, the only question is whether the elf girl can accept this shameful play.
Although the time on the ship was boring, everyone chatted and farted quickly, and gradually, everyone on the airship had only one thought left in their hearts: "Didn't you say that you would arrive within one day?" Why hasn't it arrived yet? β
So, everyone began to make a fuss, after all, the cabin of the airship is so big, and a large group of people are inevitably a little uncomfortable crowded in it.
Soon, the flight attendant came out and explained that the reason why the airship had been flying for so long was because it hadn't found Misty Town, and even the airship tower outside Misty Town hadn't been seen.
"Isn't there a navigator? Can you get lost? β
"Sense of direction eaten?"
"Is it that the airship tower was demolished by Warcraft..."
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Hearing these explanations, of course the students were not happy, are you stupid? Either you're lost, otherwise how could it be so slow?
"Hey! Hey! Look, what is that! Just as everyone was chattering again, a male student with a longbow suddenly pointed out the window and shouted.
"Oh my God!"
"Nope! That's impossible! β
"Oh my God! How so? β
"Is this a joke?"
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The voice of one person could not be heard far in the noisy cabin, but it was more than enough for the people next to him to hear it, and when one or two people began to look in the direction pointed by the archer cadet, the eyes of more people around were also moved.
"Mist Town has been completely destroyed!"
I don't know who whispered it, but that's the only answer now.
The once bustling town of Misty is now left with a scorched ruin, and on the dark ruins, all kinds of charred corpses can be vaguely seen, as well as all kinds of animals tearing the corpses, and there are stumps and broken flesh everywhere, which is simply miserable.
The arrival of three massive airships startled the scavengers below, causing them to flee in a panic, and then the airships turned off their engines and hovered silently above the edge of the ruins of Misty Town.
With the sound of ropes dragging and dragging, 10 on one side, a total of 20 slip ropes were thrown from the airship, and then the trainees slid down from the huge airship in order, without the airship tower, this was the only way that people could get off the airship.
When all the students landed, everyone waited in place with a tacit understanding, and then all the students of the Assassin Department and the Archer Department began to step forward and rummage through the ruins for useful clues.
The slaughter of a town is no small thing.
The whole town had clearly been burned by a fire, and the ground was covered with pitch-black carbon marks, and in the ruins of houses, all kinds of charred corpses lay crookedly, and there was a faint smell of rancid smell in the air.
"It looks like I've been dead for 3-4 days." Sniffing his nose, Karel said, then squatted down and touched the blackened wood on the ground, it seemed that it should have been something like the main beam of the house before it was scorched, and touched the charcoal ash in his hand.
Karel and Suni walked over to the corpse and carefully turned over a corpse lying on the ground, the poor burnt dehydrated fellow was unexpectedly thin and turned the corpse over, and Karel was surprised to find that her front was still in good condition, and it looked like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.
He took out the dagger and cut off most of the girl's carbonized clothes at once, because of the dehydration, the whole body became a piece of jerky, so there was very little decay.
"Come here, you guys come and see this." Karel, who had made a discovery, called out to the students around him who were busy looking for clues, and everyone gathered around to watch the girl.
There was a huge scar on the front of the corpse, straight from the ribs to the hip bone, almost splitting the girl in two. Although the scar is not deep, the surrounding tissues are all charred and carbonized.
"It's almost like a warrior's lit weapon." One of the onlookers expressed his opinion, and it was obvious that this kind of wound could only be cut out by a sharp blade, which showed that the person or creature attacking this town had the ability to use tools, and if it was a monster, a monster with a fire effect on its claws could only be found at least near the magma in the center of the earth.
"Scour the ground and see what footprints there are, especially the area around town that we haven't walked on." Suni tested the depth of the wound with her hand, and then said to the people around her.
Just as Karel was about to take a look elsewhere, a golden light on the ground caught Karel's attention.
"This isβ" Karel bent down and picked up the small golden object from the charcoal dust on the floor, a strange fragment that glowed golden red under the blazing fire, but the edges were burned so much that it was impossible to see what it was.
Anyway, it was a clue, and Karel put away the piece and walked to the side, listening to the noise over there, he probably found something.
A cellar! Sure enough, the group found a well-preserved cellar, and several people lifted the baffle of the cellar with all hands and feet, and an archer walked in with a candle, and sure enough, after a few steps, the candle was extinguished at once, and then the archer jumped backwards in an instant, jumping out of the cellar.
A group of people looked at each other, and then waited at the door of the cellar, during which a few druids came and unleashed the Typhoon skill into the cellar, blowing black ash everywhere, and was blown away by the thieves and archers guarding the mouth of the cellar.
When all the black ash had dispersed, Karel took the lead and walked in, the cellar was not large, only twenty or thirty square meters, and at the innermost end of the cellar, lay a few rotting corpses.
It looks like he hid in as soon as the disaster came, and then suffocated to death, and there are traces of this suffocation struggle on the surrounding walls.
Holding a roll of bandages, Karel covered his nose and mouth, the smell of rot here was too bad, and when he walked in, several rotting corpses were crawling with small black bugs, holding a half-charred wooden stick, Karel carefully provoked several corpses, in vain to find some clues about this disaster, but unexpectedly, he really found a little clue on the ground.
When the corpse of a male leaning against the wall was removed, and then the light of the cellar entrance, Karel vaguely saw some strange marks on the ground, and then approached with a candle in his hand, and sure enough, the traces here were words!
They're coming...... More than two meters...... Kill people when they see them...... Flame... Weapons...... avenge
These words are written in blood!
Perhaps because there was no light, he couldn't read his own words clearly, or because of the blood clotting, the handwriting on the ground was blurry, but through the blurred handwriting, it can also be deduced that the murderer who caused this qiΔ was a guy who was more than 2 meters tall and could use weapons and flames.
"Is there such a creature in the Misty Swamp?" Turning to Suni, Karel asked.
"No, the misty swamp is basically full of water-based and earth-based magical beasts, and there are no intelligent creatures that use fire." Looking at the blood book on the ground, Suni said with a solemn face.
"Could it be an invasion from another country or a bandit or a bandit?" For some reason, Karel came up with such a question.
"Probably not, there is no strategic significance here, there is no need to attack, as for the bandits, no matter how small the misty town is, it is also a town, and the bandits who can take down the town, I haven't heard of it." Hearing Karel's question, Suni shook her head and said.
At this time, there was also a harvest outside the town, and a few warrior cadets wandering around found a few deep footprints in the grass near the town. This footprint has three toes, all forward, and the heel is a large rounded arc.
"This weight is almost 2 tons!" Lu Lin took a step next to the footprint, leaving only a shallow trace, and the footprint was deep in the dirt.
Lu Lin compared her feet with the footprints on the ground, and found that her feet were pitifully small, not even as big as one of the other party's toes, such a large footprint, such a deep depth, it was obvious that the attacker had a very huge physique.
In the face of such a huge footprint, the people around him fell into deep worry, and it seems that this experience is not so easy.