Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Gloom of Neopolis

The seal has been activated. I thought it would be launched again when the crowd gathered at the memorial site, but I didn't expect the cultists to take the lead. And what a terrifying thing it is that the scope of influence is so large......

Griffith teetered on his horse, his mind blank with powerlessness and despair.

Locals and tourists alike are still unaware of this. Whether it is the rapid and mournful sound of the trumpet or the ashes falling from the sky, only the extraordinary can hear and watch.

Unable to comprehend the scene, Amber held her head down and almost rolled off her military horse.

......

"The Prologue Has Begun...... On a hill overlooking the town of Hepu, a thin painter who had been friends with Griffith casually paints the picture scroll in front of him.

Crazy towns, twisted monsters, and a swarm of figures fighting around altar-like objects at the foot of the mountain.

"Did you create this vision?" asked Meditius respectfully from the side, "Your power is unimaginably great!"

"No, it's the power of the seal," the artist shook his head, "I'm just drawing the scene that comes to my mind, and I can't stop or change it." It's a bad feeling. ”

"I see, Mad Maniac, then we will act according to the future you have drawn," Meditius's expression became more and more respectful, and he slowly stepped back, turning to the people around him, "Everyone, it is 10:15 a.m., and soon, the future prophesied by the Creator will come, take the Imprisoned Crystal, and we will go to find the trace of the Queen." ”

After Meditius stepped down, several of his attendants bowed and left. Only the calm and resolute reef couldn't help but look at the artist's painting again.

On the scroll centered on the calm and peaceful town of Heura, black swirling lines are growing and spreading, and countless black faces and blood-colored pupils are twisted in an indescribable posture.

In the corner of the scroll, there seems to be a white, clear figure surrounded by a whirlpool of pain and terror......

Seeing the chaotic painting terrify the heavily armed reef, he hurriedly closed his eyes, turned around and ran.

"Hey~ Don't you plan to see me finish painting before leaving?" The painter trembled the corners of his eyes slightly, and said softly in a decadent and bleak tone, "Isn't it good to look at your own end?"

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"Amber, go back to the Church of Grace!activate all available powers!" Griffith shook the blonde girl's shoulders and shoved her with the authorization of the former enemy council, shouting almost hoarsely, "The Cultist's seal has been activated, stop the memorial immediately!" If the citizens don't listen, set up trebuchets and shoot at the open space outside the memorial to disperse them!"

"Okay, okay, I've relented!, don't shake it!" Amber grabbed Griffith's arm and shouted, "What about you? Where are you going?"

"I'll go to Iloti and take her to the Church of Grace for refuge," after making sure the girl was listening to her, Griffith turned and whipped his horse, "We'll see you at the entrance of Cangyue Mountain!"

The apprentice knight clamped his legs, and the military horse galloped like a gallop like a wind, carrying the rider on his back towards the villa on the seaside halfway up the mountain.

I didn't even see a figure along the way. Griffith sped across the flat, uncluttered cobblestone pavement to the Dr. Zion's family's residence.

Griffith's heart was so nervous that he began to hallucinate—as if he had entered the living room, where Iloti was sitting on the couch with her legs crossed and drinking a small coconut, and the bearded doctor was writing a report on his head.

"Doctor, Iloti!" shouted Griffith, who rushed into the villa.

The empty living room responded to him with silence.

Griffith was even more uneasy, his sword in hand, the ice gas swirling around him, and he rushed up to the second floor like a gale, only to find that there was still no one there. Iloti also had several dresses on her bed.

Griffith's mind went blank and he rushed downstairs and slammed open the door to the lab.

Dr. Zion's busy lab is a mess. The test tubes and petri dishes that had been full of them had been emptied and scattered on the floor, and the precious books and notes were piled up in the sink and burned to ashes.

Several clay pots rolled around on the ground...... The orchids that were planted in the jar for testing had withered, and powdery dead branches and broken leaves were scattered all over the ground.

In a conspicuous position on the desk, there was a notebook, and on the cover of the notebook was a line written in undried ink—

"Drug Experiment Record and Final Treatment Plan".

"Griffith, the situation has reached a point of no return.

"Although your mood is urgent, please read my notes carefully. I rarely keep a diary, so it's not very long, and the notebook will burn within fifteen minutes of you flipping through it.

"I felt extremely guilty and sad, but reality forced me to take immediate action. ”

【Turning the page】

"On March 15, 1441,

"Iloti's condition is showing signs of deterioration again, her body is getting weaker, healing and prayers are useless, and we don't even know the cause. I am no longer able to continue my work at Hormonwarts, and I have submitted my resignation to Principal Tyberion, which has not yet been approved.

"I suspect it's related to the mythical Neopalis syndrome, but there is a lack of research and evidence. ”

"On April 1, 1441,

"The reply from Neopalis came to disappoint the fact that Neopalis syndrome is too old and that the surviving record borders on mythology, scattered and worthless. ”

"On June 6, 1441,

"A friend of mine from my time at Holmonwarts came to visit me from the Southern Continent, and I was amazed that there was a fierce battle going on there, and I wondered how he had crossed the sea.

"He described to me a miraculous lost world that has no trace in all literature. In a huge basin, in the hot and humid forest, there is an ancient troll ruin. The forest is inhabited by many gigantic creatures that resemble the descendants of legendary dragons, ruling the world with strange and monstrous giant insects.

"I wasn't interested in his story and Iloti's treatment was the only thing I cared about. However, a specimen he brought out quickly changed my opinion.

"It looked like the dry stems and leaves of a plant, and it looked like a small piece of octopus tentacles. He mysteriously told me that this thing has an extraordinary vitality, a ladder to eternal life.

"Strangely, I can't remember his name after he left, and his image only left a vague shadow in my mind. But I remember what he said clearly, and that specimen also remained in my lab. ”

"On June 11, 1441,

"There was still signs of the specimen being alive, and I thought it had completely withered. But as soon as it comes into contact with the nutrient solution, its sliced tissue will become viable.

"It's even trying to break through the walls of the Petri dish. I have to reinforce the seals. ”

"On September 16, 1441,

"I've done my research during this time, and I can't remember exactly when it started. By the time I came to my senses, research materials were already piling up in my warehouse at Lab 13 in Holmonwards. If I let the principal know that I took up so much material without reporting, I would definitely be fired.

"I didn't want to do it anymore. Iloti's condition was at its last moment, and this specimen and my experiments were the only hope.

"On September 27, 1441,

"Animal testing went very well. I suspect that the specimen contains unknown extraordinary properties. Animals treated with the test drug were able to heal quickly from injuries and diseases, even if they were near-dead, replacing the necrotic parts with new organs and tissues.

"Some of the subjects have undergone rare mutations, and their organs and limbs have become so surprisingly active that even cutting off their heads and destroying their hearts will not kill them completely.

"Subjects will have bloodthirsty impulses, but this is easy to solve, and I suppressed them with the same method as dealing with the naturalized blood, and the experiment was extremely successful. I'm such a genius.

"I don't have time to wait, and while no one understands the cause of Iloti's illness, just being able to provide new vitality and metabolism to her failing body will solve the problem. Her condition was so specific that I had neither the time nor the time to find anyone else to test it, and I had no choice.

"The test animals need to be disposed of. ”

"On October 3, 1441,

"I made it!"

"On October 5, 1441,

"It's amazing, Iloti is completely rejuvenated, healthier and more beautiful than before, and I can even feel her spiritual energy awakening and surging, and she will grow into a great extraordinary.

"I'm going to take her out of Hormonwarts, Tiberion, the old stubborn who will take my little angel. ”

Griffith silently flipped through the short notes. There was no new record after October 5th, except for a passage from Dr. Zion, which appeared to have just been written.

"Griffith, I've had some unfounded premonition all this time that I'm going to lose my Iloti and that I can't stop it. I told my sister about this concern, hoping to turn to the Blanton Knight for help through her. They carefully studied my concerns, but could not do anything, and the kingdom ordered them to move to new territories in the south.

"Before leaving, Severos came to visit me and conveyed my sister's opinion. They have a premonition of impending danger, and if the unforeseen happens, I can turn to you for help.

"Just now, I sensed some kind of terrible seal activated, and all my samples fell into irrepressible madness at the same time.

"Immediately after, my nightmare became a reality. Iloti was possessed by something terrible and left me unstoppable. I'm not a coward, I'm not a helpless bucket, but I'm crawling like a worm in front of that terrible being.

"I destroyed the experimental log, this terrible trait cannot be diffused. I have to leave and find a way to suppress this madness, I can't be officially imprisoned.

"Please protect Iloti and seek support from Miss Alaandelle's family. ”

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After separating from Griffith, Amber rushed to the Church of Grace to warn her, and then rushed to the scene of the Hanami Festival to support. If something happens there, she can act first.

The town of Hepu, which is usually very peaceful, has a pitiful number of people today, and after returning from the city, I went to the Sacred Grace Church to toss around, and now it is almost noon, and the residents are either going to the memorial site to set up stalls or go there to play.

At the moment when the situation was so urgent, Amber was very unfortunate to get lost. She couldn't find even a patrol officer on the empty streets. You can only go in the direction of Cangyue Mountain.

She turned a corner and suddenly smelled a strange smell of blood.

Amber walked around vigilantly to the doorway of a private house. There, the wooden door of the small courtyard was smashed open, and several white-feathered chickens circled the doorway and the street in horror. From time to time they glanced at their own chicken coop in the yard, and then flinched a few steps away, as if there were terrible beasts crouching there.

Amber fearlessly rushed in. Neither the beasts nor the cultists could stop the Thunderbolt and Storm Divine Choice.

In the small courtyard, chicken feathers, minced meat and blood were all over the ground, scattered all the way to the chicken coop. Outside the chicken coop, there is also a strange rooster.

Amber glanced cautiously and saw that the rooster's neck, head, and body had shriveled unnaturally, shrunk into a small ball like an orange that had been forgotten and dried in a cupboard. Although the rooster's body was torn and bitten, there was too little blood......

Amber's blue eyes sparkled, and her usual lively and sensual temperament was gone, replaced by the oppressive and cold temperament of the distant sea before the storm. Long golden hair floated in the air, blue arcs bursting in the air.

She cast her eyes on the messy chicken coop and took a step forward, the moment her boots hit the ground, the waves rolling as if a storm was coming.

There was a sobbing sound from ahead......

A charming and familiar girl with a charming back is kneeling in the chicken coop, her long hair tied into a long ponytail and wearing a close-fitting white dress. She was kneeling in a filthy chicken coop with bloody chicken feathers on her body. The girl was holding something and sobbing and making a beastly biting sound.

"Iloti, is that you?" Amber froze for a moment, a myriad of assumptions flashing through her mind. The most likely one made her shudder.

The biting sound suddenly stopped, and the girl slowly turned her head. The big beautiful and agile eyes of the past flowed like wild beasts, with crimson light and terrifying madness.

Amber subconsciously raised her hand to block it, and before she could see the situation in front of her, a loud bang came from the Adamantite gauntlet. Then, a series of lightning strikes exploded into the sturdy gauntlet.

"Bang!"

Amber jumped backwards, slammed through the wooden fence of the yard and stepped into the street, distanced himself from the enemy in front of him.

A cloud of blood ensued, and Amber hurriedly raised her knee to block, and the thud knocked her back several yards away.

"Ahem, ahem......" A girl in a white dress emerged from the blood mist and convulsed and curled up in front of Amber.

The Iloti she knew had become something she didn't know.

The girl who bloomed like a flower was enveloped in a distant and ancient aura, and endless terrifying power was radiating from her body outward. Around her, flowers, grass, white-feathered chickens, and insects grew and twisted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then withered into splinters that swept away with the wind in an instant.

The swirling and roaring arc of electricity around Amber dissipated. She felt that her strength had been greatly suppressed, and every move she made was extremely difficult.

"Kill me, quick!" said Iloti in agony, "Please, while it's still too late! ”