135. Virus (4)
"Lord Howl, that group of monsters destroyed the entire city, and now they have surrounded the City Lord's Mansion!"
In a town called Cass within the Lance family's sphere of influence, the lord Hal Lance and the other five mage apprentices were at a loss.
"Aren't the monsters unintelligent, why don't you let the City Lord's Mansion go?" muttered an apprentice in despair.
They are already the only humans in the city, and the rest of the servants and slaves of the City Lord's Mansion have all mutated, and even killed a careless apprentice while everyone was not paying attention.
Curses or toxins, not only are they useless against the infected, but they can instead encourage the virus to mutate again, so much so that they have extraordinary powers, but they can't do anything about it.
Although ordinary ancient elemental magic can cause great damage to monsters, they are not good at it, and the most important thing is that the number of monsters is simply endless, and even the bugs that can be crushed with their hands and blown away with their breaths have joined the siege of them.
"I've already asked the family for help, the mages will come to save us and defend the City Lord's Mansion!" said Hal in a hoarse voice, he couldn't do anything, he couldn't even fly away, and the monsters that could fly were no less than those on the ground.
"They're coming! they're coming!"
The attack of the infected body is silent, without any roar, they are under the attack program set by the devil, silently carry out the killing order, without flinching, without hesitation, the dead infected body will be torn apart and eaten by the companions behind them in the next second, turning into nutrients to promote further mutation.
When the number of infected individuals is spread throughout the island of Ceylon, and all of them are enemies of the anti-mage, the difference in quantity makes up for the quality gap, and although it is not at all the opponent of the official anti-mage, it can besiege ordinary anti-mage apprentices to death.
Cass City didn't survive even an hour before it was torn to shreds by an overwhelming barrage of infected people, and elsewhere on Ceylon, situations like Cass City happened all the time.
Adam was in no hurry to go out and hunt for official-level mages, in fact, in just three days after the virus spread, he had obtained more than six hundred merits while sitting in the laboratory, plus what he already had, one thousand merits were close to completion.
"Quack, master, this is so interesting! It's so easy! I feel like a god now!" The devil is addicted to the new game, and he doesn't need Adam's request, and he is happy to take the initiative to attack the city.
Adam stood with a blank face, a huge light curtain in front of him, the map of Ceylon Island was enlarged and put on, and the location of each town was marked, the red ones were the occupied areas, and the green ones were the unexplored areas, and in this way he deduced the distribution of high-level forces on the entire island.
There was no difficulty in the task, and Adam was not willing to waste time here, although each person only needed a thousand merit points, but the extradimensional mage did not prohibit the trial apprentices from continuing to harvest after achieving their goals, and Adam decided to collect as many points as possible to speed up the process of the trial.
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On the other hand, most of the remaining trial apprentices of the War Alliance have already gathered outside the defense circle of the anti-mage, and originally in their plan, advancing a thousand kilometers will encounter the defense circle of the anti-mage family, but now although they have encountered obstacles, it is the infected body that has no consciousness and cannot communicate in the way.
The Trial Apprentices were constantly attacking the Infected, and the War Alliance assembled to improvise a headquarters where they discussed what to do with the Infected.
"Lilith, you were the first to investigate, is there any new information?" asked a male apprentice as thirty members sat around a large round table.
"What is now certain is that the mutation is derived from a virus that spreads through the air and blood, is lethal to ordinary creatures, but not to mages. Lilith was exhausted, she only knew this bit of information, and there was no way to investigate it, because the infected had no way to communicate.
"I speculate that the virus didn't come from the Antimage. Lilith paused, then said.
"You mean, the trial apprentices did it?" someone questioned.
Lilith exhaled lightly: "That's right, you should know that this matter is very serious, if it was done by the anti-mage, the Fifth Element Holy Tower would be issued in the form of a task and handed over to us to solve, but three days have passed now, and there is still no movement on the bracelet." ”
Everyone was silent for a moment, the absence of a mission was the biggest suspicion, and they had also guessed whether the virus was spread by the trial apprentices, but they thought about it carefully, none of the apprentices in this period had such attainments in pharmacy.
"If it was our people who did it, who would it be?
"I don't know. ”
I don't know why, Adam's name flashed in Lilith's mind, although there is no evidence, she thinks that Adam did it, but doubts still exist, what is the benefit of executing ecocide on ordinary creatures?
In the midst of the discussion, an apprentice suddenly entered and said, "Those monsters, retreat." ”
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In the inland basement, the devil asked Adam, "Master, what about the apprentices?"
A probe is inserted into the mother body of the virus, which the devil has named Garfils, and the light curtain that connects the probe shows what is happening in the gathering place of the trial apprentices.
Although the number of infected individuals is almost endless, the difference in strength between individuals and the elite of this group of mage apprentices is too great, and the apprentices can wipe out a large number of infected bodies with a random magic.
"Divide a batch of insect infections to monitor them, and the rest retreat. Adam replied as he continued to extract cells from the mutated infect.
The devil's self-confidence has swelled lately, and he cried out: "Master, although the children are not their opponents, they can also make them anxious, is it too cheap to let them go like this?"
"No, I need to end this boring trial as soon as possible, I can't kill all the official mages of the fifteen forces on my own, I need their strength. ”
The devil was not reconciled: "Master, that war alliance is not friendly to you, maybe you are already wanted." ”
Adam said indifferently, "I know, but they are not worth my calculations, their life does me more good than harm, and the infected not only do not have to thwart them, but can even reveal some information." ”
The devil's eyes rolled, and he understood Adam's intentions, and said with a wicked smile: "I understand the master, and I will find a few hard bones for them when the time comes." ”