The priests rally around Arria's body and prayed a prayer of great light, and at the same time lit the holy lamp above their heads, so that his body could be bathed in the 'light' of the Holy Light, hoping to ward off evil spirits from him.

They did everything that had been announced by the Divine Court to exorcise the dark creatures, and they held back their fears and carefully cleaned up the uncleaned spider silk from Arria's body once again.

After this incident, the people of the village were already frightened and wanted to find out the main cause of Arria's death.

After discussion, everyone thought that Aria may have been bitten by poisonous insects in the process of going to the Fallen Dragon Vein, and was cursed before falling unconscious and finally dying.

And the reason why he went to such a notorious place as the Fallen Dragon Vein for no reason was that everyone thought that he might have been tempted by the dark forces to do such a thing.

The Misty Forest is adjacent to the Abyss Territory, and the 'Moon' Sage who betrayed the Divine Court and brought the second catastrophe to the continent was once the commander of the undead power.

The place where 'he' was buried was exactly the place where you could reach it by heading east in the direction of the Falling Dragon Mountains.

After involving the forces of darkness and the Moon Sage, the sub-elves finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

Such a big thing is not something that the people of Augur Village can solve.

Everyone unanimously agreed that no matter what, after dawn tomorrow, they must clear a 'road' from the blocked area at the entrance of the village, drive away those snakes, insects, rats and ants, and ask the Shenting Center for help, asking them to send someone to help here.

After making this decision, the panicked villagers decided to wait for Li Min's arrival.

It's just that this night is particularly long, everyone stays in the church, and can hear the cries of the 'quack' crow outside.

They may have been lured by the returning Aria, and these carrion-loving Death's Emissaries may have smelled the scent of the dead.

The frightened villagers were even more frightened by the sounds of the birds that represented misfortune, and they could clearly hear what seemed to be a rustle of crawling around them.

It's darker outside!

The fog was mixed with the smell of rotting flesh and a deathly eerie aftermath that filled the village so thick that the villagers hiding in the church could not see clearly.

In the dim sky, the light of the holy lamp, which symbolizes great light, in the church is also very dim.

'Rustle-'

'Rustle-'

There was no sound in the crowded church, and the priest in charge of recording inadvertently looked up, as if he saw a large spider shadow crawling on the wall.

"It was lying on top of the wall, staring at us coldly."

He was terrified, but when he blinked again, he felt that it was just his hallucination.

"But I swear, I heard that 'rustling' sound, like a devouring sound, like the sound of a giant spider crawling up the wall on the night it was resurrected from Arria, dragging a long tail."

"But no one believed it!"

Everyone's minds were on the verge of collapse, and the priest informed the venerable Pastor Yerga of his discovery, but his face was tired and unimpressed.

Because the sky is slow to light, and the crows seem to gather more and more.

They like to appear in groups, and they are extremely cohesive, and their ugly croaking is how they greet and interact with their kind.

If they are allowed to gather here, I am afraid that they will attract more crows and bring more misfortune.

The chirping of black crows reverberated all around the village of Ogur, and it reached the depths of the dark forest.

The village chief, Soke, finally couldn't sit still anymore and decided to negotiate with Pastor Yega to bury Arria's body again.

The sub-elves are hospitable and caring for their people, but they do not welcome the return of the dead spirits.

Because of the reappearance of the dead, the village chief wanted Arria's body to be temporarily buried in the back of the church.

According to Sock, the church is sheltered by the statue of the sage of the 'sun', and there is a strong belief in the saint that it must be able to calm the souls of the dead.

After they reported to the Divine Court and settled the matter, they moved Aria's body to another suitable place for burial.

This proposal was approved by all the villagers, and the three priests had no choice but to agree to the village chief's request.

"We recited the exorcism spell, sprinkled holy water, performed rituals to appease the spirits, and re-bound Arria's body with ropes soaked in holy water, and Pastor Yaga and I personally put his body back into the earth."

"My beloved God of Light, let Arria's soul rest in peace, so that his family and friends can be completely reassured."

Judging from the pastor's notes, even after Aria was buried again, the people in the village were not really relieved.

They were just priests in a small village on the edge of the continent, and they weren't even sure if the ritual of exorcism worked.

The pastor must have been very worried in his heart, he did not sleep that night, but kept writing down his state of mind at that time.

Thankfully, Aria never 'woke up' since.

Perhaps it was the blessing of the divine court, or it was the exorcism ritual, the holy water, or the 'suppression' of the church, which calmed his grave, and in the fear of the people in the village, he slept peacefully in the grave that night.

In the next two pages of the diary, the pastor's record is noticeably looser.

It's just that the god of luck did not favor this group of people in the village.

The sunrise they had hoped for did not appear, and after Aria was buried, the crows that surrounded the village did not disperse, but grew more and more.

They spread their wings and formed dark clouds that obscured the sky and the sun, as if blocking all sunlight and plunging the village into endless darkness.

In this situation, everyone began to feel more and more uneasy-

It was at this time that misfortune struck again.

The two sub-elves in the village fell into a coma, just like Arya, who had been cursed before, and fell asleep.

"I began to feel worried, remembering the curse on Arria."

The priest, who was the first to take care of Arria, immediately remembered Arria's situation when he saw the two unconscious sub-elves.

"I asked the village chief, Soke, and I was very worried to learn that they were the first to come into contact with Arria's return, and that they were brave and even injured in the process of stopping Arria."

"Sure enough! Their wounds also had those weird gray spots. ”

"My God, is this the punishment of Heaven for us?"

"My God of Light, have you forgotten to protect your people? Give us light again, so that darkness can be hidden! ”

By the time the note had passed, the pastor had felt desperate and began to put his prayers and expectations into his pen and notebook.

However, the heavens did not hear his heart, and after the two sub-elves fell unconscious, other people in the village who had been in contact with Aria lost consciousness one after another.

All of them had been wounded, and all of them had gray spots on their wounds.

The sky no longer seemed to be shining, and the crows grew bigger and bigger, and the hiss of 'quack, quack' resounded over the entire village, making the village of more than 100 people like a dead grave.

The village that was once full of laughter and laughter has become eerie and silent, replaced by despair, death, and darkness that spreads unbridled and occupies the place.

All the unconscious sub-elves have appeared on their bodies without exception, and the gray spots on their bodies have spread at an astonishing speed, more than several times faster than Aria at the beginning. Flying

In the eyes of the priests and the villagers, the night was extremely painful, making them feel extremely long, but there was a kind of helplessness in which there was no hope.

In a desperate situation, the 'evil' in everyone's hearts is aroused, and they discuss the idea of throwing the sub-elves who bring bad luck away from the village.

Song Qingxiao and the other four did not know exactly how these people argued, and the pastor did not record the details of the villagers' discussions that night.

The pastor in charge of taking the notes simply left one sentence like this:

"We are already outcasts of light."

His pen is very heavy, and it can be seen that when he left these words, the helplessness and fear in his heart were mixed with a trace of helpless resignation.

"Transformed into a fallen dark elf." The elf holding the lamp of the soul showed a sad look on his face, "The purer the elf's heart, the more it is coveted by dark creatures, and once it is affected, it is easy to mutate and transform into a fallen dark elf. ”

At this time, the 'elves' have been tainted by the power of darkness, and will no longer be accepted by the elven race, and will be ostracized by their former companions.

Even the elves would think that such a kind of soul is in fact 'dead', and that it is only a shell that is alive.

The originally pure-hearted villagers of Og Village were afraid to take over the upper hand after seeing their clansmen who were in a coma due to Arria's infection, and the greedy people ordered them to abandon their kind.

They believe that the giant spider totem that appears on these people's bodies is the source of the curse, and that if they can 'dispose' of these people before the curse, they will definitely bring life to the village.

So after some quarrel, the powerful tribesmen took advantage of the darkness of the night, half of them were responsible for opening the way, and half of them were responsible for transporting them out of the village, and buried them alive in a distant place.

It's just that the trip didn't go well, some people were injured, and everyone was extremely scared.

The crows swirled around them, as if they could smell the imminent death here.

Everyone has come back from a good job,

"Anus was bitten by a viper, and he did not dare to speak until the blood was all over the ground, which made everyone avoid him like a plague, and he wept madly for it."

This is an incredible thing for the elves who loved each other and helped each other in the past.

But now everyone is afraid of death, for fear of being favored by the spirits of the dead, and leading to catastrophe.

"I was frightened by the way the villagers stared at Anus, much like the eyes of the grim giant spider I saw on the wall that night."

"What should I do?"

"When will it light up?"

These two similar questions fill the pages of the notebook that follow, and you can imagine how much fear the long night brought to the pastor.

The people of the village buried more than a dozen of their kind alive, looking forward to the dawn.

But they didn't know that the moment they chose to abandon their fellow human beings out of fear, they had been abandoned by the light.

The white and immaculate statue of the 'Sun' sage in the square was enveloped in a dark mist at some point, and it seemed to be covered with a thick haze, which could no longer reassure the villagers.

The most terrifying thing is that after a long time, the people in the village heard the footsteps of 'click, click, click' again, and it seemed that a large number of 'outsiders' were invading the place.

The magic lamp at the entrance of the village had been extinguished, but no one dared to light it anymore, and the village fell into despair and dead silence.

Arria's body is laid to rest, but the second group of villagers seems to have inherited his dark will and returned to the place again.

What follows is the nightmarish scene, these returning deceased, as if with the curse of the abyss of sin, want to pull all their compatriots into the endless abyssal territory and become slaves to the darkness.

The village was overrun by the dead, and those who survived were left alone.

Poisonous snakes, rats, and bugs are attacking the village with impunity, as well as these undead who will wake up at some point.

"There are more and more cemeteries next to the church, but I already doubt that the light will shine here."

"The coffin is no longer enough, and everyone uses the church as the last resting place......"

"Pastor Dora was attacked, and we comforted him, he was a devout believer in light, and he would be blessed by the god of light, but I knew in my heart that the god of light had given up on him."

"Poor Pastor Dora, he is kind and welcoming, helpful, has been in the village for many years, and is very much liked by the villagers of Oak."

"He is the pastor who is most likely to be transferred to serve the sages in the Divine Court next year."

July 23, 340 in the federal calendar. 19:06:32 p.m.

"Actually, I don't know what day it is, and I can't say for sure what time it is, but I have to write it down like this, or I'll go crazy."

"The night I returned from Arria, the village never had a cycle of day and night, and this is already a dark territory."

"There are more and more undead who have returned, and they roam the village so recklessly that we have to hide in the church."

"Compared to them, it's as if they're still the masters of the village, and we're just 'trespassers' hiding in the shadows."

“……”

"The church is about to be discovered, probably because of the cries of the crows, and these unfortunate birds are hanging around the head of the church and refusing to leave, as if to guide the undead."

"They're starting to pound on church doors, and I don't know how long we'll be able to hold back."

There are fewer and fewer people in the village, from more than 100 people at the beginning, to 100 people, dozens of people in the back, and even fewer and fewer.

"Pastor Yega is very badly injured, and he is too old to last long."

"The holy water is running out, and the church door can't stop these undead who smell blood."

"There are fewer and fewer people, I'm hurt, maybe I can't hold on anymore."

"These undead have no pain, and when they are injured, gray spots will appear, giving birth to fierce spiders, and the silk they spit out will wrap their original bodies."

The priest kept a detailed record of his observations over the past few days, including the use of holy water and the parts of the body that would knock the spirits back.

"I will hide my notes under the emblem of the Divine Court, the mark created by the Great Sages, and it will lead our souls from despair to light again."

"If the latecomers see this, they will understand what is happening here and understand the weakness of the undead, and bring the news of their existence back to the Divine Court in time."

"In the end, the remaining twenty-one people decided to restrain themselves."

Everyone climbed into the coffin that had been prepared long ago, and the last person covered the coffin, and painted the coffin village with the last holy water, sealing the coffin lid.

All the people inhabit this square inch, quietly waiting for death to come.

"I love you, I respect the great sage, even if my consciousness will fall into endless darkness, my body and mind will always yearn for the light."

"Forgive your lost believers, O my god of light, and hope that your light may lead me back to peace."

"I will always be loyal to the Divine Court, and yearn for the light—"

The diary came to an abrupt end at this point.

When the pastor wrote the back, the notes were actually very messy, and in some places there were even long traces like earthworms, so it is conceivable that his situation was so bad that he was uncontrollable, but he still persevered with a strong will.