Chapter 49: The Empty City

About 5 kilometers ahead, there was a city, and Joyka, who was in charge of the pathfinder, left for a few hours and rode back

If I'm not mistaken, the city you see should be the eastern border city of the Snowy Federation, said Porfishagrad, Cassius

Hehe, fat man, you guessed it right, I saw a road sign at the intersection outside the city, which read: Polfi Shagrad, Joyka smiled

In the past, when Mr. Regunor asked me to go to the snow and ice fields to train, I had been to Porfishagrad several times, and Cassius said that Ray, you must have been to this city before

What Ray thought about for a long time before he reacted, what you said was Uncle Regunor who took me out of the Federation ten years ago, in fact, I didn't know where I had been at that time, I just knew to follow Uncle Regunor

You've certainly been there, Cassius explains, because Porfishagrad is the only way to enter the Slavian Plain from the Snowy Federation, and the city is famous for its alchemy, with a population of about 50,000

50,000 fat man, you're sure you're not mistaken, then Joyka put away her smile, and I walked around the outskirts of the city, and there seemed to be no one in the city, and the houses in the city were empty and dilapidated, and the whole city seemed to be abandoned

How could Ishnova cover her mouth with her hands to express her surprise

Although everyone had heard of the cataclysm in the Snowy Federation before, Ischenova still had illusions, she felt that the scope of the cataclysm was only small, and most of the people in the Federation were safe, but now that she heard Joyka's narration, the illusion in Ischenova's heart collapsed

So what do you think about going into town or bypassing Joyka to ask everyone's opinion

Cassius spoke to Ischenova for a few words, and then said to Joyka: "Let's go into the city and have a look, I want to know what happened."

Said to the city thunder also

Lyle and Dani also said that they wanted to go to the city, but the Ukrainian nationality had no opinion, anyway, he joined the team only to supervise, and only Sophia and Leonard did not say anything, in fact, it was only Sophia's opinion left, because Leonard was the only one who looked ahead

Sophia turned her head to look at the woods behind her, expecting that the figure with the long silver hair would suddenly appear in her field of vision, but after waiting for a long time, Sophia finally accepted the facts, she reluctantly turned around, suddenly showed a resolute smile, as if she had made up her mind, mounted her horse and said: Let's go

This is the fourth day that the friends have left the Star Sword Canyon

I remember that four days earlier, they had entered the silverwind taiga with the captured red-haired witch on fast horses, and went to the country to the west, where the situation was unknown, and the barbarians' warhorses were as fierce and rugged as their masters, and the companions had traversed the entire silverwind taiga in just one day

However, as soon as he stepped into the snowy Federation, an unexpected change happened, Owen suddenly had a headache, he rolled on the ground with his head in his hands, and let out a heart-rending wail, which overwhelmed everyone, Sophia quickly took out the cross and wanted to treat Owen, but he didn't expect to be slapped away by Owen

Owen's eyes were blood-red, and his face was bruised, revealing a hideous face that he had never seen in front of his companions, and he roared angrily at Sophia: Don't come near me, Sophia was stunned on the spot, she had never seen Owen make such a big fire, especially to herself

Just as everyone was at a loss, the griffon borrowed from King Duris descended from the sky, and Owen mounted the griffon's head and flew away without looking back

Although the temperature in the Plains of Slavia is cold, it is completely small compared to the snowy Federation on the other side of the silverwind taiga, which is forever icy and snowy. And the barbarians who have lived on the ice fields for many years are also difficult to eat, if it were not for magic, it is really hard to imagine how weak humans can survive in this forbidden area of life, and develop into a country that can compete with the Central Church, and from another point of view, the magicians who were originally exiled to the Far North are indeed great

However, although the environment was too bad, the friends still stayed in the place where Owen left, camped in the icy and snowy wilderness, endured the baptism of the cold, and insisted on waiting for Owen to come back, two days later, there was a sudden sound of wings flapping in the wind and wind, everyone ran outside excitedly, and sure enough, the griffin carrying Owen away flew back again, looking at the shadow that was getting closer and closer from the sky, everyone laughed and frowned, and Joyka even quipped: As soon as Owen, this kid comes back, I will beat him up so hard that I have eaten two days and two nights of wind and snow for him

Of course, the happiest thing was undoubtedly Sophia, and she was even speechless with joy

But the so-called expectation is greater, the disappointment is greater, the griffin is back, but there is no silver hair behind the monster, only a strip of cloth torn from the griffon's claws, and a few red words are written crookedly: Don't wait for the next time

Although these words are too sloppy, several friends who spent their childhood with Owen recognized at a glance that they were Owen himself's handwriting, and what is even more surprising is that these words are written in blood, and Sophia uses magic to read the information on the blood stains, and she finds that the blood is Owen's own, and Owen is in unimaginable pain when he writes these words in his own blood

No one knew what Owen had been, or was going through, and they couldn't get any more information, and the griffin flew away on its own accord after the strip of cloth was removed, cutting off the idea of finding Owen's whereabouts

If Owen wanted to hide, no one could find him, Cassius looked in the direction where the griffin had gone, and Nan Nan said

In desperation, the partners could only give up and wait, and hurry according to the original plan

Everyone rode on horseback and galloped on the ice field for about half an hour, and a group of blackened buildings appeared in view

Joyka: Is this the city you are talking about, Ray raised his spear and pointed at the group of buildings in front of him, and asked Joyka

That's right, let's be careful, Joyka is leading the way

They continued on until they came to a giant street sign with the inscription Porfishagrad

Sure enough, this is the Porfi Shagrad Cassius Road

At this moment, the red-haired witch at the back of the group suddenly became agitated, and she moved desperately on horseback, her bound hands and feet, and the sound of Yiyi rattling came out of her mouth

An Fendian dragged the red-haired witch on the reins of the horse, took out a voodoo doll, pricked the doll with a needle, and the red-haired witch screamed and fell silent again

On that day, the red-haired witch with a mysterious identity was captured by her companions when she attacked the Star Sword Canyon, and she was extremely seriously injured, but she survived very tenaciously, Sophia sealed her magic with the evil imprisonment in light magic, and then Shan Yu ordered to use the voodoo doll unique to barbarians to control her, so that she could rest assured that this terrible enemy was handed over to her partners to take away, about the identity of this mysterious woman could not be ascertained at all, Sophia and Dani examined her body, and found that her skin all over her body had left traces of being burned by fire, and her face was unrecognizable, and she couldn't see her original appearance at all, her eyes lost her pupils like all mad magicians, and she lost the ability to speakShe can make a simple voice, but her demeanor seems to be quite sober, and she seems to understand what others are saying to her, which is very different from other mad magicians

At present, the red-haired witch is tied to the horseback with hemp rope by her companions, and was originally under the care of Owen, but now that Owen is gone, the responsibility for taking care of her falls on the U

Although this small episode occurred at the back of the group, it did not have much effect on everyone's actions, and the companions tapped their mounts and let the horses step by step into the city

Once a bustling city of 50,000 people, it is now a dead empty city, desolate and desolate, and how could it have been explained without seeing it with her own eyes, Joyka's simple words

The houses, shops, colleges, and other buildings in Polfi Shagrad were all abandoned, and the residents seemed to have evacuated in a hurry. Clothes and other items were abandoned in these buildings and in the streets, on both sides of the street for night lighting lamp posts were crooked, because no one had cleaned for a long time, the originally wide street was covered with snow more than a foot thick, and it was very difficult for horses to walk on it, many buildings had traces of looting, and no valuable items were left in the houses, and even the toilets were removed, and occasionally one or two buildings were completely destroyed, leaving only a pile of decaying tiles, and the friends drove all the way to the city center, only to see the city builder who named the city after himThe bronze statue of Joseph Porfisa, the great alchemist in the history of the Snowy Federation, still stands majestically in the central square, vaguely recognizing the prosperity and splendor of the city

Riding on horseback, seeing the miserable state of the empty city all the way, Ischenova wept and couldn't imagine if the other cities in the Snowy Federation had become ruins like Porfishagrad, or worse

Didn't the people say that there were 50,000 inhabitants in the city, where would they go, Dani muttered inopportunely

But there was no one to answer her question, because that was exactly what everyone was looking for.