In silence, time always feels slow, just when everyone else is waiting fast and a little impatient. Cheese finally found the results he was looking for. After a few comparisons and more nuanced analysis, the mage found something that would justify his previous hypothesis, which could also explain some of the situations that had happened to the people in the Iron Keep or earlier.

"These guys are failures of the rat-man virus. Cheese took off his gloves and with a wave of orange flames engulfed the disposed of the Twisted Knight's body parts.

"Nezumi virus? what is that?" Although Sander had already heard the mage explain what was happening in the county of Saron, it was the first time that Louise had heard of the novel name of nezumi virus, and the wolf witch asked with a frown, this kind of thing that would bring massive population destruction would not make people happy.

Although it may be easier for Sander to come forward and explain, but looking at the vampire looking at the scenery, the mage also knows that he can't be counted on at this time. At the moment, the ins and outs of the nezumi plague were briefly explained. After hearing this, the expression on Louise's face became solemn.

Unlike the Bloodline, the Wolfwalker takes a more active approach, so a normal Werewolf clan, whose members are likely to be spread across a variety of professions, is happy to hide themselves from the crowd, and can therefore smell danger or opportunity before their complacent opponents. Louise is a hermit to the outside world, but for many years she has been blending in with ordinary people as a doctor in the slums and a wise man who answers difficult questions. The little children living in the slums of Iron Castle know that they are injured and go to Grandma Louise, and the cherry pie made by the old man is also the sweetest aftertaste of their childhood.

This integration is a two-way street, and although the wolfwalkers are not human, they have the same emotions as ordinary people, especially a lone werewolf like Louise who has lost her clan, and she has almost made the people in the slums her second clan. And the plague, the appearance of the plague in this era means a large number of deaths, and many towns that were originally full of people may only be left with rats and cockroaches after the plague swept over. Ordinary plagues are so powerful, not to mention that this rat-man plague is still some kind of magical plague that has been artificially designed, according to Cheese's speculation. The old wolf witch thought of this, and the momentum on his body changed a little.

"What kind of rat-man plague you said made these guys look like this?, but I didn't think they looked like rats?" Louise asked, indeed, although the knights' bodies were twisted and deformed, there was no rat-like or rat-man tendency to change in them.

"That's why I say these guys are failures, or that the plague virus on them is a failure. Unlike the completed Nezumi virus, the virus on these corpses is not contagious, and it does not have the ability to completely transform the victim into another creature like the Nezumi virus, the virus simply destroys the original body structure, and then uses magic to drive the host into such a deformed monster. Cheese explained. The reason why he had such an idea was that he felt that the appearance of these knights was somewhat similar to those rat men in mutation, but it was obvious that the virus found in the Iron Castle was still in a relatively immature state, and it was likely to be an early test subject.

"So, that means that turning these hapless Night Watchmen into the people they are now is also the one who caused the plague in Earl Salon?" Louise continued, and from what Cheese had just said, it seemed like a natural thing.

Hearing the wolf witch ask this question, Shander unconsciously took two steps closer. If the mages approve of this, then it means that they are dealing with an organization or individual who can develop a highly completed work such as the Nezumi Plague. Judging from the power of this early test subject, it is not good news that it will fight such an opponent.

"I don't think so. Cheese shook his head, however, and continued, "Judging from the situation of these knights, I think they must have been injected with the virus so that anyone could turn them into this. And, do you remember how they appeared?"

"I remember them coming out of the shadows out of nowhere. Elsa said. The way these twisted knights appeared was so shocking that the proprietress remembered it well.

"That's right, these guys are just humans infected by the virus after all, and they don't have any spells, and the way they appear is too weird, I think it's likely that the people who created them deliberately sent them to us. The mage said.

"There's one more thing I don't understand. Why are we so scared when we see this guy? If Louise hadn't been here this time, I'm afraid we wouldn't be in a much better place than we were yesterday. Shander said. He still felt the abnormal fear of seeing these twisted knights, and in the vampire's memory, he was not so scared that he was completely unable to resist even when facing the old ancestor of the Black Blood Family. This is beyond the effects of ordinary magic, and even if it is not the plague spreader himself who transforms these knights, the person who can unleash this power must be very dangerous.

"I think the only way to solve this is if we find the caster. But since neither Lady Louise nor I have felt such a terrible magical reaction in the Iron Keep, I am inclined to be a spell in a system that we don't understand. You know, it's often the scariest things that go unnoticed. Cheese guessed. Indeed, if there was a terrifying spellcaster in the Iron Castle who could surpass the existence of the Black Blood True Ancestor, there was no reason for both himself and the Wolfwalker to turn a blind eye to him, even if he used the power of a different system, it was impossible for him to be silent.

"By the way, there's one more thing I want to pay attention to. The mage added, "Last night when Sander was unconscious, a member of the Lady of Many's Sect attacked me. Are there many such people in the Iron Keep?, and with the people who have been killed by the plague before, the composition of our enemies may be more complicated than we think. "Cult god, this is an annoying being like an ant. They are huge in number and developing rapidly, and every cult god is vulnerable, because without the blessing of the evil god, they are ordinary human beings, but every cult god is also dangerous. Because no one knows what kind of spell they have mastered, just like the priestess who Cheese fought against last night, a believer who can invite the evil god consciousness without going through the external arrangements of the altar and the magic circle can be said to be a high-explosive bomb that does not know when it will explode, if there are many of them, and they all have this dangerous technique, Cheese does not plan to fight them. Because that's not worth the cost.

"Evil God Sacrifice?" Louise's brow, which had just been furrowed, furrowed again, "There is no such thing in the Iron Castle. But I did smell something out of this world last night. Bats, you'd better explain. ”