Under Jack's leadership and Sander's response from the sky, Elsa and the others finally succeeded in breaking through the army of rat people surrounding the mansion. However, for the large number of nezumi, the damage that this team can bring is of no use, and the seriously injured or dead nezumi are quickly divided and eaten by their companions, and become the motivation for the other nezumi to move forward. And the safe passage that the proprietress made out was quickly filled by the rats again after they passed.

"Damn, these are people!" cursed the proprietress who had tumbled off the fence. Those crazy nezumi may have been ordinary residents of the Iron Keep just a few days ago, but in just a few days, it seems that everything has changed. The entire Iron Fort has been transformed from a thriving frontier city into a terrifying human purgatory.

"When I first heard the cheese boy talk about the plague, I thought it wasn't a big deal. But now I can understand why he was so desperate to find a cure for the plague. "Shande, who has changed back from a giant bat to a human form, is still wearing the same black aristocratic dress, but perhaps because of his frequent transformation, his clothes are not as neat as they were seen before, and some tears and stains of various colors can be found on his clothes.

"Even if you search all the faiths, it's hard to see such a crazy hell. I can't imagine what the man who did this plague was hoping to do. Raven turned to look at the rats who were screaming at the wall. For the Spellcaster, this irrational madness is even more unacceptable than death. And in the same way, even if not from the perspective of a curse spreader, the cursed crow can feel the strong malice that carries with it in the rat-man plague.

"Have you noticed...... Are there too many rat people here?" Jack suddenly said while a few people were still escaping death from the rat man pile.

"What do you mean? Haven't they always been so many? they were the same when they were in the Salon Territory, and they are still the same, as if they were dead. The proprietress frowned, and she carefully wiped the nezumi blood from the twin knives, it would be too worthless to be infected with the plague by accident.

"It's the conversion rate. I've noticed a little bit before. It's just that I'm not sure, but the number of rat people is really too abnormal. Mona came up with a tomahawk and said that when the female warrior was on the city wall just now, she had helped the soldiers on the city wall kill a few nezumi who had climbed too high.

"Yes! it's the conversion rate!" Jack nodded, Mona saying exactly what he wanted to say. Because he became a wolfwalker, Jack lost the emotions he remembered when he was a human, but because of this, he was able to look at what he had experienced from a more objective perspective. Coupled with Wolfwalker's keen inspiration, "Monkey" was actually the first of all to realize that there was a problem with the number of nezumi.

"Do you mean that the patients in the plague area you have seen before have not been transformed into nezumi at such a high rate?" Cursed Raven had already received some information about the nezumi plague before coming to the Iron Keep, and he also knew something about what happened to the cheeses in the county of Saron.

"What's more! The plague of the Ssalonians has no ability to turn the entire city into monsters overnight. Referring to the epidemic encountered before, the proprietress also said.

"And at that time there were almost everywhere corpses that died of illness without turning into nezumi, but do you think about the corpse of a human on the way back from the outside?" Jack added, "I think even if the whole city were to become nezumi, the number was about the same as the monsters we saw." ”

"Really...... The rapid mutation can be understood as burying the plague seed in the city a long time ago, but this high and terrifying conversion rate is probably the focus of the other party. It seems that the other party has made some kind of breakthrough. The Raven listened to the words of several people.

"Don't talk about it here, you have to let others know if you have any conjectures, not to mention that the city lord is still waiting for you. Shander said, pointing to the castle lord's mansion, which was still intact, and motioning for a few people to hurry up and hand over the items escorted back to the city lord of Worf.

Several people nodded, they also knew that the contents of Elsa's package were very important, and it could even be said that this thing was the main reason why the people who were still holding on here did not escape. In fact, at the beginning of the chaos, these people had the opportunity to escape from the Iron Castle as soon as possible, but in order to wait for this thing to be delivered to the city lord, Shande and the others did not hesitate to spend such a big price to stick to this mansion.

Walking through the halls of the Lord's Mansion, the usual elegance of the castle lord's mansion was long gone, with the wounded and refugees occupying most of the building's space, and the rest was basically used as a storage room for food and medicine. As the de facto owner and guardian of the city, Wolf can only support the enchantment that protects the mansion in his study. At this time, the city lord of Woff has long lost his usual peace, and this old man can see the situation of the entire iron castle through the barrier, and it is precisely because of this that the destruction caused by the plague is also in his eyes.

"You're here?" said Wolf's voice was hoarse, his eyes bloodshot, and he could tell that the old lord hadn't rested for a long time.

"We've got it. Elsa said as she poured the contents of her backpack onto the table in front of the old man. It was a strange orb, the size of an ordinary human head, and it was pure black, but in this black there were occasional white glimmers. No one said what material the sphere was made of, even if it was a curse crow, it could only be judged by the changes in the magic power near the sphere. It is not known what it is useful or what other information it is about.

"Great, with it I can seal the Iron Castle. Wolf lifted his hand, and the orb rolled itself to the old man's hand as if it had been summoned by some invisible call.

"Is it really necessary to do this? I don't know much about the Guardian Warwitch's legacy, but the price to be paid to seal up such a huge city would be incalculable, right?" said the Cursed Crow with a frown. The reason why Wolf sent them to retrieve the crystal ball that was kept elsewhere in the city was to completely close the communication between the Iron Fort and the outside world, and imprison the infected nezumi in their city.

"Originally, this spell was prepared to wait for support when a strong enemy attacked. I didn't expect to use it to trap the people in the city. Wolf smiled bitterly, he looked at the crystal ball in his hand, and said, "Each city lord of the Fierce Hammer Realm has one such crystal ball, and this is the backhand we have made for the barrier plan. But I really didn't expect it to be used to prevent the spread of a plague. As for the cost of this spell, you don't have to worry about me, the price was already paid when these cities were established. All I have to do is activate it. ”

"Has it come to this?" asked the Raven, though he had just returned from the nezu-infested city, no one knew more about the current situation in the Iron Castle than the old man in front of him. And since the lord of Wolf City has proposed to seal the entire city, it also means that the situation in the Iron Castle has become completely uncontrollable.

"I see every healthy person being infected into a monster, and I see all emotions and reason being consumed by twisted desires. This plague, if we don't delay it as much as possible, not only the hammer, but the entire lion, and even the whole world will be horribly destroyed. Wolf said calmly, his voice not sounding like he was stating a terrible plague. However, this did not mean that the city lord was not angry, on the contrary, the calmer Wolf's tone was, the more it proved that the ravages of the plague had made the old war witch angry to the extreme.

"They, I mean the people who spread this plague, they're experimenting. Salon Territory is just the beginning, and now that these guys have mastered the method of converting all the infected into nezumi, they must not be allowed to continue, you must stop this plague! And as long as he is not dead, he will definitely go to the Blue Lion King Capital, go there to find him, and tell him what happened to the Iron Castle. Tell him to go to the Grand Duke of Hammer and he will help him. The old city lord said solemnly, "I have a teleportation circle in my basement, which can get you out of the Iron Castle. After you leave, I'll activate this spell and seal the entire city. I'm sure you guys can find a solution. ”

Silence, facing the city lord of Woff at this time, several people didn't know how to respond, this burden was too heavy, and no one could easily open their mouths to make a promise. Raven was the first to react after hearing Worf's words, and he bowed to the old man, just as Cheese had seen Worf for the first time. Then the sorcerer silently opened the door to the study and walked out. With the crow taking the lead, Elsa and the others also said goodbye to the city lord of Wolf with the most solemn etiquette they knew, and they knew that if they did not solve this plague, then the old city lord and the entire iron castle would probably not appear in their lives again.