The quill rustled across the parchment, and lines of scribbled handwriting recorded the various phenomena of the circle. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The precise correction spell released the flaw, and the dark pyramid-shaped circle continued to show a strange blue-purple light, and the swaying halo reflected on the face of Emperor Augustine, and the original ancient face gradually showed a look of anticipation and excitement.

"It's coming... It's almost there..."

In the laboratory where there were no outsiders, Augustine no longer wore the robes that represented the majesty of power. The plain white robe was stained with a lot of "xenomorph" blood at this time, but he didn't care about the image problem at all now, because his long-term research had finally reached the moment to produce results, and the verification again and again gradually came to an end, and there were only a few crucial steps left to completely complete the construction of the circle model.

Recording the last handwriting, he got up and prepared to personally fetch the "xenomorph" used for today's experiment, but the response given to him by the palace attendant made the undead emperor's face gloomy-

"What do you mean? 'Xenomorph' is gone?"

The first thing he thought about was whether the "xeno-hunting" orders issued over the years had been carried out, but after carefully recalling the amount of "xeno-species" used during this time, he realized that it was because the experiment was at a critical juncture that he killed too many "xeno-species" to obtain blood, which led to the current shortage of "materials".

"Your Majesty, the 'Hunting Order' has been issued again, this time with a higher bounty and an increase in the amount of hunting, but... No new 'xenomorphs' have been captured recently. ”

"It's true that these things become more and more difficult to catch over the next few generations, and you don't blame them. ”

Augustine had no intention of losing his temper with his chamberlain, any magic experiment required a large amount of materials and countless failures to complete, and he had long been mentally prepared for this, but now the experiment was stuck in the key steps, which really made him depressed.

You know, this is not an ordinary spell improvement experiment, but a powerful magic circle that can really change him, and even the entire Tasman undead!

"It's no longer enough to let these lambs and ordinary mages hunt..."

Augustine knew what the problem was, so he immediately decided to send his own right-hand men to search for and encircle him - and although he had a near-eternal claim as an undead, he didn't want to wait any longer for a mage of the demigod level.

"Let Hylux be on standby, I'll use tracking to locate these 'xenos', and let them go out to hunt them down tonight," Augustine casually ordered, but saw another chamberlain walking over hurriedly, "What's the matter?

There weren't many people in Tasman who could make Augustine fall in love, and the waiter's expression was clearly something wrong. But Augustine never imagined that he would hear the news of the "lamb" raising the flag to rebel...

"I haven't heard of anyone jumping out to resist for so many years, but now they suddenly come out to make trouble..."

Augustine's eyes narrowed, and he immediately placed his suspicions on several council elders who had been at odds with him. As a monarch, he never believed in coincidences, especially when this kind of thing suddenly happened on the eve of the army gathering and preparing to leave, no matter how he thought about it, it was full of deliberate traces.

"If there is any news, I will report it together. ”

The past few days of experiments have made Augustine a little out of current affairs, and when he heard that the orcs were blocked from attacking Karen, he nodded in surprise: "It seems that humans are not as fragile as imagined, and it is a good thing to let the orcs consume a round first." ”

He originally had the idea of driving the orcs to be the vanguard, but now that the orcs were blocked, he was even less in a hurry to let the undead soldiers rush forward. Thinking of the group of "lambs" who had rebelled in the Tasman, he had a plan in his heart and walked to the council chamber in the heart of the palace.

Any movement of the Tasman army must be approved by written orders and magical seals from the Emperor.

Speaking of which, this is what Augustine has always wanted to do - of course, what he wants to do is to suppress the elders of the council, and as for those "lambs"...

When the army of the undead invades the kingdom of Karen, are you still worried about the problem of "not enough lambs"?

..................

"Gather them together and go to the village and set up camp. ”

Hundreds of kilometers away, in the northwest of the Tasman Kingdom, in the drizzle, Roddy did not respond to Elder Luther's words, but turned around and gave orders to the soldiers around him.

At this time, it was getting late, and the baggage carried by the previous team was placed in the camp on the outskirts of the village, and now that more than 200 "xenos" had been captured at once, he naturally had to consider the next food and lodging problems.

Fortunately, the abandoned village was evacuated in a hurry due to the "plague technique", and the materials left behind could be eaten with confidence after being purified by the "Holy Light Technique", which saved a lot of trouble.

Elder Luther and several "demonized" old men were guarded by soldiers and followed by Roddy, while the rest bowed their heads in the rain. They were all imprisoned by spells, and they didn't have to worry about escaping, but apparently no one had similar thoughts at the moment - for many of them, ending their painful life on the run was a relief.

Once inside the village, the procession began to bury the pot and cook rice into porridge mixed with dried meat like no money, and many of them even choked up and cried when bowls of fragrant rice porridge were distributed to these xenos who had not eaten meat for a long time.

Because most people have forgotten the taste of this food.

At this time, Luther also realized that the group of people in front of him came from different ways, especially the young man who had left him aside... The other party didn't have any aristocratic style at all, and his demeanor was abnormal.

He wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say anything because of the compelling momentum of Roddy's silence in the rain. The other party occasionally chatted with the mage next to him for a few days, and would also sweep his gaze to his own people. Luther's intuition could confirm that the other party had no murderous intent, but the deep eyes made him unable to feel at ease.

"You're their leader, aren't you?"

Luo Di suddenly turned his head to Luther and said, "Go and call a dozen guys over there, and save my people from doing it." ”

His words made Luther's heart tremble, but the situation was stronger than people, and he hurriedly got up and walked to the edge of the village, and was shocked to find that eighteen hunters who had gone out to hunt were actually hidden here.

Luther himself could not lock on to the location of the clansmen lurking outside the village so far away, and this unfathomable strength suddenly made him give up the last bit of thought, and honestly led the people back to the center of the camp.

Akasha boiled fragrant milk tea and brought it to Roddy, who sat down on a humble stake and looked condescendingly at Luther who was cowering, and finally picked up the conversation:

"Tell me about your background. You were one of the first humans to be infected?"

"It's... My lord, about 70 years ago, I and more than 30 villagers from the same village became like this, and as a result, I was ostracized by other villagers and had to hide in the woods..."

Luther answered Roddy's questions honestly, and at the same time gradually solved many questions in Roddy's heart.

In fact, the reason why Roddy mentions the word "infected" is because he can see the identity of the person above the other person's head as an "infected human". This is completely different from the previous name of Norana "demon subspecies", at least it still retains the name of the "human" race.

So it was easy for him to associate the words "infected", "demonic", and "subspecies".

In Roddy's eyes, these "xenos" were simply named "Tevelyn" - the name of the half-demon race in one of the games he remembered, and it was quite appropriate now, because it was easy to deduce a fact from Luther's words:

The first generation of "infected humans" still have the identity of "humans", they have not grown tails, their skin color is normal, only their bodies have been mutated, and they all have the ability to "demonize".

And their descendants, the third generation, were born with a "demon subspecies" like Nora who had a demonic tail. From this point on, Tevelin's body has undergone a complete change - from Luther's account, we know that from the second generation, Tevelin's physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary humans, almost never getting sick in the face of the harsh living environment in the wild, and has strong self-healing ability and night vision.

"Then it stands to reason that you shouldn't be so down-and-out. ”

Roddy is a little strange, he is physically strong and not sick, how can this not be exterminated, right?

"It's... Mainly because of the 'Blood Moon Plague' and the hunting of those humans. Elder Luther had a bitter face: "Every year there is a night that makes us miserable, and many newborn people die in such pain, and if they are weak for a few days, even when they are adults, it will be just as difficult. ”

"What day exactly?"

"We don't have the habit of keeping dates, we just know that it's a day when the rain will stop, and then a dry winter will follow. Every year at this time, many people are captured by those humans because of their weak health, and their actions have become more and more frequent in recent years, so..."

Elder Luther had completely accepted his fate and confessed everything he could, but Roddy felt that the amount of information he had received that night was really a lot, and he couldn't figure out why the undead were capturing these Tevelins - after all, Tasman didn't shout "purify the demons" all day long in the church of justice, but as far as the basic principle was concerned: since this is what the enemy wants, then he must hide it himself.

So he had already made up his mind to let the Tevlins disappear into Tasman.

"I have a question. ”

Melinthra, who had been listening to her, suddenly spoke, causing both Roddy and Luther to turn their heads.

"You just said that you were infected in the village with your companions... How did you get infected?"

"It's... A flame falling from the sky. ”

Luther recalled the terrifying scene more than seventy years ago, and his face involuntarily showed a little pain: "The purple flames enveloped everything, and my whole body was burned by the flames, but I only felt that my whole body was cold and abnormal, and I even felt that I would freeze to death—"

"Wait. Merinthera's face became solemn, "You say... Purple flames, very cold?"

"It's... Yes..."

Luther's words stammered, for Merinthra's sudden aura suffocated him like drowning, and even the horses around the village neighed in fright, and the Tevlins in the vicinity were silent, and each felt like they were being choked by an invisible hand...

"Merinthera!"

Roddy's low drink made her wake up suddenly, and it was clear that only Roddy and a group of soldiers with the "Mark of the Dragon Slayer" were unaffected. Although there is no dragon crystal, the "dragon power" is just as powerful when it is manifested through magic shocks. Merinthera knew that she was out of shape, and hurriedly reined in her momentum.

"What comes to mind?"

Hearing Roddy's question, Merinthera realized that he was holding his wrist. Most of the violent emotions that had just risen in my heart suddenly dissolved, and a subtle strangeness that made my heart flutter seemed to spread all over my body along my wrist.

Roddy saw that her breath had calmed down, and his palm loosened without a trace. Merinthera exhaled, trying to suppress the strangeness in her heart: "The disaster he said may have something to do with... My people are related. ”

Others didn't understand what it meant, but Roddy's eyes widened: Demons and Shadow Dragons are still related?!(To be continued.) )