The horror of the night is dark, and the fire in the furnace is not extinguished. The stench from the grave renders everything meaningless - the world is dying for the village not far away. With all their lives, they are dying.

This is the "normal" fate of an ordinary human being in this world - to be discovered by some evil life, and to die before it has time to notify the superiors.

"Hasn't the messenger returned?"

A handsome-looking young man in the armor of an ancient warrior seemed to be too weak to hold up the equipment on his body. But he still pulled himself together, and asked a nun who had just walked in beside him.

"Hehe......"

A chuckle was followed by a violent cough, followed by several mouthfuls of blood. Wiping the blood from the corners of her mouth with what should have been a white nun's dress, the nun lifted her supposedly beautiful face—but now, like the handsome guy opposite, her face was scattered with some bruise-purple and pale scars.

It is a symbol of being cursed by the plague.

"It looks like I'm not back yet...... handsome young man belongs to the type that no matter his body or appearance, whether it's a beautiful woman or a who will flock to the nightclub. He shook his head with a miserable laugh, and said, "Old Mero, his wife, and Yara at the east end of the village, ...... this morning It could also be when the previous one died. ”

"The messenger may never return—if they are good, they may die on the way; If it's bad, they might go into the city and be burned alive. After calming her breath, the nun raised her head and said, word by word, "The plague is getting worse and worse. But...... The soldiers who suppressed us have not yet come. ”

"This doesn't make sense, even if it's serious, the knight will burn down the village that is badly infected with the plague. And...... The plague came so fast that it was only five days...... No, maybe it's been seven days. The handsome young man frowned: "Could it be that only our village is infected?" Alas...... We should continue to pray to the Great God Emperor......"

"Hahaha......" A burst of almost crazy laughter interrupted the young man's words, and the nun, who had not been covered by the plague, coughed violently again: "The emperor abandons ...... Got us! …… The emperor has ...... He's dead! The plague, which killed us all; Our...... Close relatives; Child...... Friend...... The emperor never appears, the emperor is dead! Forty thousand years dead! ……”

"Shut up! - Sister Yara, I will forgive you for being confused. The young man was silent and sighed in a low voice, "This planet may be dying...... Pray with me and pray that the world after death will be blessed by the Emperor......"

"The Emperor doesn't care about us, but there are other gods." After a moment of silence, the nun suddenly raised her head slowly and uttered the chilling words: "Turn your back on the light!" Those old gods may have true power! ”

"You are blasphemy! - But I will still forgive you, I have no strength to kill you; I don't want to...... Yara, you are playing with fire, and I am willing to walk hand in hand with you into the Emperor's light. The young man's hand slowly stretched out to the nun named Yala: "I don't know if the nun is not allowed to marry in the afterlife......

"Smack-" The nun slapped the handsome young man's hand, and her face struggled—she also struggled to her feet: "What I want is for us all to live!" We have to do something! ”

Almost word for word, Mother Arra staggered out of the young man's room with weak steps: "By the time we all survive, I will not care if the light is holy or not, the emperor or not—I will no longer be a nun!" ”

That night, a nauseous and uncomfortable shrill horn suddenly remembered that the whole village was awakened. What they saw was a mysterious and disgusting green fog surrounding the entire village in the evil bright moonlight.

When people get up and gather together, or continue to lie in bed and wait for death because they really don't have the strength. A group of ancient knights stepped out of the green mist, accompanied by the sound of the nails trembling.

When he had reached a point where the light of the torches was sufficient, the handsome young knight stood with his sword in hand, and weakly realized that it was not a soldier sent from the city. It was a group of knights he had never seen before—they were actually filled with a heavy aura of death, and some of their faces were beginning to rot. But they are as great as a wall. Some of the armor on their bodies was no longer able to accommodate their huge bellies or hands and feet that had swelled from decay, and some of them even had a section of their intestines falling out.

The villagers struggled back, terrified. Even the young handsome knight was frightened and took a step back, but his faith in the emperor and his heart to protect everyone kept his fear and disgust at bay.

"Who are you?" The young handsome knight roared, holding the giant sword that could be carried with one hand in both hands and shouted, "Don't go forward!!" ”

"Oh? …… Haha, we don't mean to offend, but it's you who call us. ”

A tall rotten knight at the head smiled with disgusting teeth, a smile that showed no good side to him, but the words ...... But it is indeed very reasonable: "We are the sons of the great and loving Father Nurgle, and we are not like the other evil gods that you call them." We are very 'friendly' - of course on the basis of our mutual understanding. You will be saved from the pestilence, and we have come. ”

"Nurgle...... Nurgle!? One of the four evil gods, Nurgle?!!! Having heard his lifelong enemy from books alone, the young man suddenly let out an astonishing roar: "Everyone stand back! I'm going to stop them!! ”

"Brave dwarf—but so what?"

The Plague Knight, the believer of Nurgle, glanced at each other "sadly": "Abandon your pseudo-emperor faith, just like we did at the beginning." You see, has your puppet emperor helped you? When you died one by one, did the puppet emperor remember you? Agree to our terms, and we will not destroy you...... Instead, we will keep you alive. ”

"Yes! ――”

Before the young handsome knight could answer, a female voice suddenly sounded in the crowd. The young handsome knight turned around in surprise and saw that he had a crush on his childhood sweetheart - of course, the childhood sweetheart was used to kick him. Sister Arra responded to several plague knights, and said with some trepidation: "I summoned you!" ――Some people in our village don't plan to follow the puppet emperor to death like this! (To be continued.) )