It only took half a day for Alicia and Melissa to arrive at Fairmoran with the cart carrying Daron. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, as soon as they entered the town, both of them noticed the strange feeling of the place. The whole town is very quiet. There is no one on the street, and it even makes one wonder if there are people living here.

Alicia glanced at Melissa and asked:

"It's so scary quiet here, has Fermoran always been like this?"

Melissa also shook her head with an unknown expression, and said:

"No, it's always been a very lively town, I don't know if something happened. ”

Looking back at Daron, who was tied to the car behind him and frowning tightly from pain, Alicia urged:

"Let's go to the doctor first. ”

Melissa nodded, because the road in the town was too narrow, so both of them dismounted and started walking. As they walked all the way, they rarely saw a few townspeople, all of whom looked lost and depressed. After turning three or five corners, an empty field appeared on their left-hand side, presumably the square in the middle of the town.

There was a huge bonfire burning in the square, and people stood by in twos and threes, watching a man with a gauze covering his mouth and nose push a small cart to the fire, and then two other men with scarves and masked faces carried down an object wrapped in a white cloth from the cart. The thing seemed to be quite heavy, and the two men each carried the end of the white cloth and tossed it twice in the air, and finally threw the thing into the fire with the help of inertia. The white cloth slammed on the firewood with a heavy noise and began to burn, so thick black smoke began to rise above the campfire. An old woman in the square suddenly began to hide her face and sob, because she was crying too much, her legs and feet were weak, and she knelt on the ground. The woman next to her looked sympathetic and bent down to comfort her.

Alicia and Melissa watched all of this with some uncomfortable feelings. After a while of further walking, they came to a two-story building. Melissa nodded at Alicia and said:

"Here it is, that's it. ”

Temporarily handing the rope leading the horse into Alicia's hands, Melissa went to the door, knocked twice, and shouted:

"Excuse me, is Dr. Dryman at home?"

After about three breaths, no one responded. So Melissa continued to knock on the door with greater force, shouting as she knocked:

"Dr. Dryman, please open the door!"

"No need to shout, little girl. An old voice rang out, and both Alicia and Melissa looked to the right. There, a rickety old man was standing.

"Since three days ago, a lot of people in the town have been sick, and all of a sudden, so many people have come to see the doctor, and the doctor's house is crowded. So, yesterday the doctor moved everyone to the cathedral in front of the square, where he stays during the day. ”

"Dare to ask the old man, what kind of disease do they have?" Alicia remembered the scene she had just seen in the square, and an ominous premonition swelled up.

"It's a plague. ”

Now Alicia understood that the thing wrapped in a white cloth she saw just now was actually a human corpse. Plague is a serious disease that is highly contagious, so the corpses infected with the plague must be burned and disposed of, otherwise more people will get sick if they are left there.

The old man glanced at Talon, who was tied to the car with a pained expression, and said:

"Looks like your friend is not very sick...... It doesn't seem to be the plague, so go to church, the doctor should be there...... By the way, don't forget to cover your mouth and nose with gauze or a hand towel when you get there, and be careful not to get infected. ”

"Thank you, old man!"

After thanking the rickety old man, Alicia and Melissa led Daron back to the square, where there was a tall building with a spire-like roof and a sun-shaped coat of arms placed at the top.

Melissa bolted her horse to the doorway, and Alicia pulled out three napkins to cover each other's mouths and noses, and pushed the cart carrying Daron into the spacious gate. Once inside, even wearing masked scarves, Alicia and Melissa could feel the turbidity and fishy smell in the air.

The entire hall of the church was filled with mattresses, and on each mattress lay a frail patient. Their moans mingled together, making the atmosphere of the entire hall gloomy. The tables and chairs in the hall were moved to the sides of the room and erected on the walls, as if to accommodate enough patients. Beside the patient, a middle-aged man with glasses and a somewhat bald head was busy running around, and after checking the status of each patient, he would say something to the person standing next to him, and then the person who was standing nodded and quickly took certain medical measures.

"Dr. Dryman!" Melissa shouted to the middle-aged man in the chaotic hall. I saw that the man turned his head in some surprise, and then ran over a dozen beds.

"Oh, it's Melissa, what's wrong?"

Before Melissa could speak, Alicia grabbed the conversation: "I'm sorry, my friend is sick, can you please help me take a look?"

"Oh, let me see. Dr. Dleiman didn't say anything more, wiped his hands with his white coat, and walked over to the cart.

"Did you bandage this wound, Melissa?"

"Yes, doctor. ”

"Well, it's handled professionally, please take it off and let me see it. ”

So, Alicia and Melissa helped Daron undo the bandages on his body, revealing two black scars on his abdomen and shoulders.

"Uh-huh......" Dryman looked solemn, and he earnestly lifted Darron's eyelids, checked the color of his tongue, and carefully examined the state of the wound. After that, he sighed.

"Oh, uncle, don't just sigh, my friend, is he still saved?" Alicia on the side was desperate.

"Hiro, Xhaka, you two come and help carry this patient upstairs to his private room. Hearing Dryman's call, two strong men came from the hall and lifted Daron up the corner stairs. The people who helped in this hall seemed to be friends and relatives of the patients.

At the same time, Dryman motioned for Alicia and Melissa to go up to the second floor, and on the way, Dryman glanced at Alicia meaningfully and said:

"Little girl, I want you to tell me honestly what caused your friend to hurt like this. ”

So, Alicia went to the private room on the second floor and explained to Dreman what had happened in the Necronomicon Mountain. The two strong men who had helped carry Daron had returned to the first floor, and Melissa and Dryman, who had heard Alicia tell the whole story, were extremely surprised.

"You, you, you, you mean, you really defeated the undead prince of Necronomicon Mountain?!" Dryman was dumbfounded, it seemed that the people who lived near Necro Mountain were familiar with the legends there. And Melissa, although she had heard Alicia talk about this result before, was even more surprised now that she heard about her whole experience in Necronomicon Mountain.

"That's right. "Alicia doesn't shy away from it, after all, she's doing a great thing. It's just that because she lost part of her memory, she only said what she saw, about how she seemed to be another person, and how to purify the whole mountain, she didn't know anything, so she added her own speculation at the end of the story.

"Unbelievable......" Dleman continued with a slight pause in his crooked glasses, "but in that case, it's not hard to see why your friend was hurt like this. In my opinion, he must have been cursed. ”

"Cursed?" said Alicia, urging Dleiman to continue.

"Yes, if I'm right, the power of the curse flowed into the Undead Prince's body when his magic sword slashed him. If you don't get this dark power out of your body, your friend won't last more than three days. ”

"Oh my God!" Melissa covered her mouth in surprise. Alicia was overwhelmed by the shocking truth when she heard it, and she looked at Darron's face, which was a little distorted by pain, and burst into tears.

"Well, how can we save him? Melissa, they all say you're a doctor, so you must have a way, right?" Alicia asked, holding Dryman's hand.

"This ...... I can treat ordinary injuries, but exorcism is not the domain of our doctors, so I'm sorry. Dleiman bowed his head helplessly.

Alicia was a little desperate, but she still didn't want to give up and said:

"That'...... Who can save him?"

"If the priest of Faris is here, then he will be saved, but ......"

"Falis's priest?!" Alicia's eyes suddenly lit up. She remembered that she had just said goodbye to Illiana, the greatest priest of Faris, the Saint of Light, a few days earlier, and now the two of them had not gone far. Alicia, who had rekindled the flame of hope, quickly got up at the same time as she had this idea, wanting to go out to find the traces of the two priests. But on second thought, Illana and Jaireen hadn't told her where they were, and that there was an easy road from the town they had been in before, and they might go anywhere in Garbadia.

Daron had only three days to live, and Illiana didn't know where she was at this time, so she was looking aimlessly, and the chances were slim. After thinking about it, Alicia felt that the chances of success were slim, so she asked Deleman again:

"There's no other way?" her gaze kept moving between Dreman and Melissa, "Is there no one around here who can save him?"

After a bitter silence, Alicia gave up hope. Now that Talon was dying, it was useless to wait here, so she decided to search for the trace of the Holy Maiden. Even if the chances are slim, they are not zero. As the hero King Ain Yekelan famously said, "No matter how small the possibility, as long as you don't give up trying, there will always be hope." But if you give up, then at the same time you give up, that possibility has become zero. ”

As if she had made up her mind, Alicia got up, but at this moment, Melissa suddenly exclaimed excitedly as if she had remembered something:

"Yes!!"

"Huh?" Alicia didn't react for a moment, and let out a stupid voice.

"Wow, somebody's going to save him!" said Melissa in euphoria, and she tugged at Alicia's sleeve in excitement.

"Who is it?" Alicia saw Melissa so excited, and she was full of anticipation again.

"Sage! no, it's a magician! oh no, it's a sage!" Melissa was already a little incoherent with excitement. Seeing that Deleman and Alicia were both looking at her blankly, she swallowed her saliva, rearranged her thoughts, and said:

"In the nearby mountains and forests lived a brilliant magician, whom I had heard said, he was a sage. Your friend's injury was caused by magic, so since you are a sage, there should be a way to remove the magic!"

After repeating Melissa's words three times, Alicia's face also bloomed with excitement.

"Really?"

"Really, really! but ......"

"What's wrong?" Seeing Melissa's hesitation, Alicia asked uneasily.

"I've heard that the sage is a bit of a strange person. ”

"Hey, even if he's really a weird guy, there's no other way now, let's go. ”

"Well, it's enough to get to where he lives, and it's enough to go back and forth in one day, and we'll go. ”

Alicia was overjoyed, and after she entrusted Daron to the care of Dremmann, Dlemann smiled at her with a reassuring smile.

Alicia and Melissa came outside the church, put away the masked scarf on their faces, and sat down on horseback, when Melissa turned to Alicia behind her as if she remembered something:

"I couldn't ride fast because I had to pay attention to the people tied to the back when I came, but now it's different, so please be sure to hold on to me. ”

"Oh, okay. Alicia replied blankly, wrapping her arms around Melissa's waist. She was a little puzzled, because it seemed to her that the horses were galloping fast enough when they came.

"Drive!" Melissa kicked the horse's belly hard and tugged the reins back in her hand. So Alicia screamed in shock, because the horse made a "babbling" sound, and the front hooves were now raised high, Alicia felt that her whole body was constantly leaning back, and her center of gravity shifted back for a while, she closed her eyes, desperately hugged Melissa's waist, and clamped her thighs.

Just when Alicia thought she was about to lose her support and was about to fall, the horse's front hooves hit the ground and began to run in stride. It was really amazing, probably because there was no cart behind the horses at this time, and Melissa was skilled in horsemanship, even in such a narrow street, she could gallop rapidly.

Like a gust of wind, the horses had already run out of the town, and in the north-west direction of the forest, they were three times faster than when they came, and they were all up to a cloud of dust.