The Holy See rightly rejected the Fugger family's unreasonable demands, and solemnly stated that the Fugger family had a suspicious relationship with the evil witch on the top of Brocken's mountain, and that they were suspected of hiding witches, and that the Holy See would conduct an in-depth investigation into this.

Of course, in-depth investigation of this sentence is just a face-saving statement.

The Fugg family is not a soft pimple to pinch.

However, in the eyes of the Holy See, even if they do not agree to the requirements of the Fuge family, the Fuge family cannot do anything to themselves, even if the Fuge family has power in the world, it is just a rich layman, and now the Holy See is too busy to take care of itself and does not want to cause more trouble, so it does not mean that it is afraid of this big guy, and it is really going to be in a hurry, and it is only a matter of minutes to organize a crusade in the name of God and sweep away Augsburg.

And the development of the facts seemed to the Holy See to be exactly what it expected, and the Fugue family, after their demands were not met, at best, stopped discussing the loan with the Holy See, and did not take any other action.

The witch hunt continued under the control of the Holy See, and although the Protestants of Martin 61 Luther shouted, the voice was too weak to shake the position of the Holy See.

However, some small things happened in the shadows.

At some point, there is a saying that cats are the witch's accomplices, and that evil witches use cats to infiltrate homes and cast spells on their chosen targets.

Some of the sayings of having noses and eyes spread in the beginning.

The most benevolent aristocratic lord's house in a certain town was all turned into living corpses overnight, and before that, many people in the town saw a strange black cat jumping into the nobleman's house;

The villagers kept watch all night when a certain village lost babies one after another, but saw a flower cat jump into someone's house and take the baby and give it to the witch hidden in the forest.

This statement spread more and more, and eventually led to a strange change of tone in the witch hunt.

Almost all of Europe began to kill cats on a large scale.

In Switzerland, people use sharp knives to poke cloth bags full of cats until they poke them to death.

In Copenhagen, cats are thrown from high bell towers to hear their dying screams.

Soon even the royal families joined in and even regarded this act as a sacred ritual.

When Queen Elizabeth I was crowned, the priest prayed loudly to the sound of boxes of cats screaming in the flames.

In just two or three years, cats throughout Europe were almost wiped out.

The cat is dead, and the rat is bad.

The whole of Europe is flooded with rats, crossing the streets during the day and partying at night, which is simply rampant to the extreme.

But until this time, no one was aware of a catastrophe that was about to engulf the entire continent.

I don't know what day it began, people found that rats began to die, and the corpses of rats that had been rampant all over the house, on the street, and in the wild.

In the beginning, this kind of death was still hidden, and people only saw the dead bodies of rats during the daytime, but soon this mass death began to occur during the day, so that everyone could see the whole process of the rat death.

People living all over Europe often see such a sight.

A large fat rat staggered out of the dark corner of the aisle, and walked out into the street or in the middle of the house, and then the rat stopped, as if to stabilize itself, and then stopped and circled in place, and at the same time barked softly, and finally fell to the ground with its mouth half open, and spat blood.

One or two of them were nothing, but when ten hundreds, thousands of rats died in swarms of this in the streets, in people's rooms, panic spread irrepressibly.

Then the Holy See stood up and declared that God had mercy on the rats and had sent a miracle to kill all the sinful rats to save his people.

God knows how his old man is so free to make a cameo appearance in the cat's work.

However, this statement was still agreed by most people, until one day, people found that the people around them also began to die one after another like rats, their symptoms were exactly the same, first fever, cough, then chest pain, then coughing up blood, and finally vomiting blood in a big gulp, until the whole person died.

There had been plague outbreaks in Europe before, and people had some knowledge of prevention, and they began to isolate the sick areas and take corresponding measures.

According to past experience, some people may die, but it will soon be over.

Once again, the Holy See took the opportunity to gain prestige and declare to the people that this was a calamity from God, that all arrogant, blind, ignorant and unbelievers would be punished, and that the believers of the Lord would not be affected, and that the real harm should be done to those believers who have no firm faith and evil heretics.

But things didn't turn out as expected.

The Holy See soon found out that they had come forward a little early.

More and more people are dying, and even the bishops of many dioceses are dying of diseases one after another, and what is more fearful is that these bishops have advanced spells, in the previous plague outbreaks, they relied on spells to protect themselves from the virus infection, and now the spells seem to be ineffective in the face of the disease.

The death storm quickly swept across the continent, and even countries issued lockdowns that forbade anyone from entering or leaving the city, they could not prevent the spread of the disease. It was as if there was an invisible plague messenger riding the wind and driving the electricity, rushing to various places as fast as possible, and sprinkling the disease into every corner where there were living people.

Everyone could fall down and die at any moment, the corpses were piled up in the streets, there was no one to clean them up, they were rotting there, cities were like cemeteries, filled with a disgusting stench, people could no longer see any future, they could only sit in despair among the dead bodies and wait for death to come in the next moment.

All of Europe was in the grip of dying.

In the face of this violent disease, the major magic forces could only shrink up and barely protect themselves.

Even the Wizards' Guild, a thousand-year-old power system, had never seen such a violent plague in any recorded way, and they had used all the methods that had proven effective against the plague, from magic to healing, but none of them worked.

Only the wild wizards were slightly glad that the plague of unprecedented scale had saved them, and had finally turned people's attention away from them for a moment to a catastrophe that threatened to wipe out the entire continent.

By this time, three years had passed since the death of Jackberg II's only son, and no one had linked the catastrophe destined to go down in history with the skirmish that had taken place outside Augsburg.