Gloria felt hungry. At the same time, she wondered if she was still capable of feeling hungry. The pain, the indescribable pain tormented her day and night, it felt like every bone in her body, every muscle was being twisted and pulled by someone. Gloria was completely unable to control herself under this painful torment, and she was clearly aware that she was gradually turning into a beast under the oppression of pain, but she was helpless. Gloria cowered in the hole, surrounded by animal bones and frozen bodily fluids. Three days, if someone said that three days can turn a beautiful and healthy woman into a monster, Gloria would only think of it as a horror story, but now, the story happened to herself.

She had forgotten many things, but fortunately she remembered her name, Gloria von Ssalon, the third daughter of the Count of Salon and the youngest. As the heir of a lord, Gloria's life had been uneventful until ten days ago. Plague, the word has long been associated with the Earldom of Salon in the north, and the cold and long winter can cause most infectious diseases to dissipate between the snow and ice. However, it broke out, at first as hunters and farmers on the edge of the territory, and the closed traffic of the Middle Ages made it difficult for the Count of Salons to know the movements of his territory in the first place. So when the first infected people appeared in Valley City, the capital of the county, the entire county was already seriously ill and unable to return. Those who are infected will initially develop fever, confusion, and pain, and their bodies will develop black spots, which will turn into black tumors, and the tumors will burst and leak brownish-green foul-smelling pus. And if that's all there is to it, or if the plague only ends up dying, then a young lady like Gloria, who lives in the castle, wouldn't be too dangerous. But, as the leading scholar of the realm has said, death is not the worst outcome in many cases.

Gloria remembered that even in the greatest pain she would never forget those eyes, those long, narrow, dark green eyes that shone in the dark, in pairs, in the darkness, in the faint light of the torches, which made people feel fearful from the bottom of their hearts. Perhaps this is also why the first warrior of the county, the chief knight of the lord, could only let Gloria escape alone. Gloria still doesn't know what those eyes belong to. But she knew that whatever those things were, she was slowly turning into those things.

"Boom...... ......Driven by instinct, he opened his eyes, and his eyes seemed to be covered with a green film, and everything became grotesque and blurry under the distortion of this film. Correspondingly, Gloria's sense of smell has become extremely acute, and she even has the illusion that even if she closes her eyes, she will not bump into anything by relying on her ears and nose alone. The smell of blood, the smell of decay, the smell of snow, and the sour smell from herself made Gloria lose her sense of smell forever.

Hunger, the most primitive instinct drove her to get up from the hole where she was hiding, and her sharp nails made a creepy sound as she cut through the stones. Go for anything that you can eat, those that still have body temperature, anything.

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The sun was about to set, and Cheese stood in the snow, watching the sun as it was about to fall into the mountains. The cold wind doesn't seem to want to rest with the sun, but rather intensifies. At night on Longji Mountain, no one wants to leave the town after dark, and the farmers also drive their cattle to the shed early, and they themselves go back to the warm room. For three days, Cheese hadn't really thought much about the theft, and for him, the criticism of the townspeople and the complaints of the proprietress were far less important than the trials that the teacher had given him. However, now that the two had discovered a close connection, the mage had to take the matter seriously.

After an afternoon's visit, Cheese had roughly determined where the cattle had been lost, and combined with the speculation in his head, he felt that he was dealing with some kind of beast, at least in the way of behaving. Since it was a beast, it had to have a nest, and combined with the size of the lost animal, the mage could also roughly guess the range of the hungry creature. Now, all he had to do was wait patiently for the beast to come out of its lair driven by hunger. The cold wind and snow could not block the mage's vision, and he could even sense the location of the hibernating snake under the snow if he wanted to. So Cheese believes that he will never miss the opportunity to arrest.

Here it comes!

Opening and closing his eyes, Cheese silently took off his gloves, and although the heavy leather brought good warmth, it also reduced the mage's casting speed. Faced with this type of enemy, Cheese needs to make the most of every moment. He took out a sheepskin kettle from his bosom with one hand, made a few random gestures with the other, and then stuck it to the kettle, and the temperature of the kettle began to rise. In a moment, Cheese unleashed the spell, and he opened the lid of the kettle, pouring a kettle of hot sheep's blood on the snow in front of him. The warm blood quickly lost its temperature, but its smell had already drifted away with the wind.

"Come on, good dog, come on. ”

Soon, the person Cheese was waiting for came to the appointment. What kind of monster it was, Cheese had never seen it in a single book in the library, and had never heard of it in anyone's mouth, and the monster that appeared in the snow looked like a mixture between a man and a mouse, and the mixture seemed rough and casual. Cheese promises that even the biological experiments done by the evil mage will be much more pleasing to the eye than this thing looks. Mottled hair, messy eyes, and a snout with dark red blood.

Obviously, the monster had also discovered that its intended tasty prey was just a disguise for the mage, but for it, cheese itself might also be a good meat to eat. However, perhaps it was the instinct of the beast or the remnants of humanity that made it not pounce directly, but looked at Cheese from a certain distance and hesitated, as if it was watching.

But the mage didn't give it a chance, Cheese's eyes flashed with the glow of magic, and he cast his spell so fast that the monster had already finished casting before he could react to his actions. The ice and snow under the monster's feet seemed to come to life in an instant, turning into a snake, coiling up along the monster's feet, no matter how the monster struggled, the snake composed of ice and snow clinged to it. Even if it is shaken off or slapped a little bit, more snow becomes part of this snow snake.

"Solidify. ”

With the words in Cheese's mouth, the soft snow instantly turned into hard ice, and the monster's struggle was over, not that it didn't want to continue struggling, but that the solid ice had blocked its body, making it unable to move. Looking at the restrained monster in front of him, Cheese realized that his palms were already covered with sweat before he knew it.

"Okay, now let's see, what the hell are you. The mage approached his prey excitedly, but he didn't notice that some fine cracks had appeared in the cage of ice.