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Two thousand years ago, the Rocard Empire, since the reform of the "Sage Emperor" Wenlis the Great, established a unique centralized system, and later converted to the Holy Light Cult, the national power is rising, the territory continues to expand, until the outbreak of the Demon War, 8 years ago, the Rocard Empire has developed to an unprecedented power. Read the full text of the latest chapters on hua-79-

Although at this time, the emerging Shumiro Empire across the sea in the southeast was also in a more rapid rise, but because the distance was too far, the two empires could not threaten each other, and even if there was any conflict of interest between the two countries, the rule of the Rocard Empire was quite confident that because its own country has nearly 2,000 years of historical precipitation and civilization heritage, it is absolutely impossible to compare with the eruption household that has only been established for more than 100 years on the other side of the Olopa Sea.

At that time, the entire empire was so immersed in such self-confidence that it had been in peace for too long to forget how it would respond to the impending catastrophe.

In that peaceful town. After finishing his work at the shoe store and church choir, the young painter Howard came to the embankment as usual to do the happiest thing of his life: sketching.

Although half a month ago, he was disturbed by Duros, the "child king" of the town, but under the intervention of Miss Falaia, Howard finally kept his brush, and since then, Dulos and his friends have not come to disturb Howard again.

Howard didn't even think about how he had been helped by Miss Fareya, or how Miss Farea would feel about him. Although he was still young, the concept of nobility had already left an imprint on his young mind. Therefore, Howard believes that he is only a temporary luck, coupled with the protection of God in the light.

It was because of this thought that Howard became more devout in his belief in the God of Light.

But for Howard now, he didn't have the heart to think about anything else, and the only thing he could do now was to contain the world in his sight into the sketchpad one by one.

Time passed minute by minute, and I don't know how long it took, but the light around him suddenly dimmed, and it was already enough for Cheng Dù to continue painting.

"Is it getting dark so soon?" Howard looked up, and saw that the sky was pitch black.

He remembered that he had come to the embankment at noon to paint, and now that he had not yet painted a quarter of the way to the painting, the sky had darkened, and the sun was shining brightly just now.

However, the truth of the matter is despairing.

Howard, who had come back to his senses from the world of painting, heard an increasingly loud noise coming from the town. Immediately afterward, he saw countless figures surging in the darkness. The townspeople didn't know what was going on, so they scrambled out and scurried around like headless flies.

A man rushed up to Howard in a panic and kicked his easel down in a hurry.

"Mr. Ulton, what's wrong with you?" Howard saw as his boss and teacher, Shoemaker Ulton.

He had never seen a shoemaker so panicked.

"Huhu...... Finally, at last, I found you, boy......" The shoemaker had not yet cleared his breathing, pressed his hands to his knees, bent over and kept breathing, "Quick, run...... Don't run again...... I'm going to die......"

"Why, where are we going?" was a remark that left Howard completely confused.

"Damn...... I've said it all...... Whew...... Leave you alone, I'm going to run for my life!"

After saying this, the shoemaker ran away without looking back, leaving little Howard dumbfounded and unaware.

Mr. Ulton said that he was going to flee for his life, but he didn't say where he was fleeing, and he didn't bring any luggage, which was inexplicable. As little Howard walked through the streets of the town with his easel and a sketchpad, he thought of some unusual things about the shoemaker just now, but his young age did not make him think more deeply.

In the darkness, Howard had an indescribable uneasiness. The streets were empty, the panicked crowd didn't know where they were going, and the street lights weren't lit at night as usual, which was particularly eerie. What's even more strange is that the houses and shops on the street have their doors and holes open, and the things inside are turned over, as if the owner of the house fled before he had time to take all his belongings in a hurry. The street was filled with the stench of something burning, but there was no source of fire in sight, and what was even more strange was that countless pieces of rags of clothes were flying in the air, fluttering in all directions, like snow.

It's not the first time Howard has walked at night, but he's never felt so frightened and overwhelmed as he is now.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps behind him. Before Howard could turn around, he was hit hard by the other party, knocking the easel and drawing board he was holding in his arms to the ground. Howard stared at it and saw that it was none other than Duros.

"You ......" Howard was taken aback, he thought that the famous "child king" was coming to bully him again.

However, before he could say anything, Dulos closed his mouth with his hand.

"Don't talk, come with me. Dulos said to Howard with a rather stern expression and an extremely subtle voice.

I saw that Dulos's face was pale and his lips trembled slightly, and he didn't look like he was here to bully him, so Howard also nodded to him.

Dulos took Howard's hand and turned to run down an alley behind him.

When the two children rushed through the short distance of more than 20 meters and ran into the alley, Howard noticed that there was a petite figure in the alley.

"Miss Falaia!?" Howard was surprised to see the face of the third person hiding in the alley, Falaia was a noble 'girl' child, she should have taken great care to be clean, how could she hide in this filthy, rat-infested alley?

"Shhhh......h

At the same time, Dulos pressed his head down, and the three children hid behind a pile of garbage.

Immediately afterward, a series of rhythmic bells of "ding", "ding", and "ding" were heard from the other side of the street. As the bell gets closer and closer, a vague shadow emerges from the street and gradually approaches the alley where the children are hiding.

When the shadow was close enough to be discernible to the eye, Howard discovered that it was a caravan pulled by four goats.

In Olopa, most of the animals used to pull carts are horses, but there are also carts pulled by oxen and mules, but only one cart is pulled by sheep, and that is the hearse used to transport the body at funerals.

Howard was puzzled, he only saw a mysterious man in the hearse wrapped in a black 'colored' cloak, his head hidden in a rain bag, his face could not be seen clearly, but judging from his figure, it should be a slender man, holding a long whip in one hand and a spirit-conjuring bell in the other, constantly shaking the bell rhythmically and slowly. The trunk that drove behind was filled with countless things that glowed with pale 'color', and I couldn't see what they were, but I felt that they seemed to be alive.

The hearse moved forward in a "zala" and "zala" under the pull of the four goats, and it did not move fast, but it gave people a heavy sense of oppression. The wheels ran over the easels and sketchpads that Howard had left on the street, and Howard was quite anxious in his eyes, but he didn't have the courage to rush out and rescue these treasures, so he could only watch his treasures being crushed.

At this time, at the other end of the street, a total of five citizens, two men and three 'women', rushed out, all of whom were carrying large and small burdens in their hands. It seems that they are going in the wrong direction on their way to escape. But what they didn't expect was that as soon as they turned the corner, they actually collided with the mysterious hearse.

"Ah......h

The five men panicked, shouted, and fled in all directions. However, none of them could escape, because the man in black in the hearse suddenly shook the conjuring bell in his hand violently, emitting a series of rapid, life-threatening bells.

The moment they heard the bell, the five citizens were immediately unable to move, and their bodies seemed to be frozen in the action before they lost their movements, as if all their nerves had been sealed. The five men were terrified, watching the hearse approach them, but unable to scream or run for their lives. As the hearse passed by them, the man in black in the car swung his long whip and 'whipped' it at these people. The people who have been 'whipped' and beaten have a pale 'colored' flame coming out of their bodies from the inside out.

The bones of the human body are rich in phosphorus, and the so-called "ghost fire phosphorescence" will be produced when the phosphorus in the dry bones is ignited, but this can only happen to the bones that have been dead for a long time, but now even the phosphorus on the living is artificially ignited, and in turn the body of the living is completely incinerated from the inside out.

In less than a few minutes, the pale 'colored' phosphorus fire completely and completely incinerated the human body, leaving a pile of bones, and then even the skeleton was shattered into powder, emitting an unpleasant stench of burning. The victims' clothing was not sufficiently incinerated and turned into pieces of cloth that fluttered in the wind.

After the living person was completely incinerated, the remaining pale 'colored' sparks automatically focused and floated into the back compartment of the hearse, becoming one of those pale 'colored' points of light.

The three children in the alley were completely dumbfounded, and they broke out in a cold sweat. At a young age, they did not run away or scream, not because they were calm enough, but because they were equally unable to move or speak at the sound of the conjuring bells shaking violently, and it was not until the urging bell slowed down that the three children's nerves gradually recovered.

"W-What's that?" Howard realized he was alive after seeing the hearse disappear around the corner of the street......

Once again, the Lich King Callowen awoke from his sleep.

After returning to the Isle of the Dead from the scorched woods, Karlovin dreamed more and more often of the distant past, as he had done before, of his time as a child Howard. No, it should be said that since the Vampire Prince left this world, this dream has been constantly haunting him.

"I don't have to hint so often, I know what to do. Karlovin said into the air.

Karlovin walked outside, and the member of the Guard, Emilia "The Ripper of the Rainy Night", had been waiting for a long time.

"Come with me. The Lich King didn't talk nonsense, and turned and walked towards the inner court.

"Master, where are we going?" Emilia was a little surprised, she didn't expect the Lich King to take the initiative to invite her into the inner court, you know, it was an absolute forbidden place for the Lich King, and even the personal guards were not allowed to enter.

"Come along and know that I have something to 'give' to you. ”

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