Chapter 223: Killing & Plague (5)
When Orlando rushed back to the imperial capital. The plague had spread to half of the city, and the despair and panic it had brought about had long since enveloped the entire city of Fernando. In fact, the plague spread by the explosion of corpses is not as terrible as imagined, but the scene of the harm it causes is too terrifying, which makes people feel that it is irresistible, if those who are shrouded in the explosion of corpses are willing to die, then it will only take a short time for this "plague" to be calmed down.
It's just that human beings are always selfish, even if they suffer bad luck, they still start to escape with a fluke mentality, and some people even see that they have no hope of survival, so they simply run to the crowd, and if they want to die, they will drag others to die together. The ugliness of human nature is vividly revealed at this moment, and the plague gradually spreads through the city under the influence of this selfishness.
Orlando listened to the report of his subordinates on the current situation in the shortest time, before he returned, the Holy Knights had tried to suppress the spread of this plague with their own light power, but unfortunately the Holy Knights were better at fighting and defending, and they could ignore the impact of this plague on themselves under the protection of the Holy Light, but they could not suppress the outbreak of corpses, nor could they drive out the plague on those who were splashed with corroded flesh and blood.
"How's Pastor Light?" Orlando asked quickly.
"General, we've already gone to please, Archbishop Red, they're on their way...... Ah, here they are!" said one of the holy knights.
Orlando turned around sharply, just in time to see Red striding over with a dozen young priests, and behind them, there was a team that was not in formation at all, this was because of the difference in physical fitness between priests, and the good ones could still keep up with Red, while some priests who were not in good health or were very old were slowly falling behind, but no one stopped, even if they were walking, they were moving as far forward as possible.
Orlando's heart was very moved, and he hurriedly greeted him and said to Red, "Great, I'm much relieved that you guys can come." Now that the plague is beginning to spread widely, pray now that the power of light can suppress this evil spell. We will decide on a specific plan based on your final results. ”
Red nodded at Orlando, and immediately gave the order to the priests he had brought, and the priests who rushed to the front immediately met the most chaotic part of the crowd, and Orlando's Holy Knights followed closely behind them to protect them without waiting for Orlando's order.
Red personally struck, and a golden pillar of light suddenly rose into the sky, and in a long verse of praise, Red completed a "Holy Rain" magic, and he aimed the scope of this magic at the thousands of people rushing in his direction. Although Red's own strength is not very strong, the "Praise of Light" in his hand is a powerful demigod artifact, with the help of this demiartifact, Red turned the golden light curtain in the sky into a drizzle, and sprinkled it in the crowd.
A middle-aged man whose face and arms had begun to rot was already full of panic, but after being bathed in this golden drizzle, he immediately felt much more peaceful in his heart, he subconsciously looked down, but found that the rotten muscles on his arms were slowly beginning to heal, he didn't understand what this meant for a while, and stopped to look at the people around him blankly, but found that his body had a similar effect to himself on his corroded companions just now.
"Ah, God of Light, I, I'm gone, I'm all right!" the man finally understood what had happened, and he frantically stretched out his arms to the sky and shouted, and after a few shouts, the man suddenly fell to his knees and burst into tears. Not only this middle-aged man, but also the crowd shrouded by Red's entire magic found that the corrosion on their bodies was slowly subsided, and their bodies began to heal at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
"Ah, that's great!" the priests and the holy knights who protected them also shouted, and Red's achievements lifted everyone's spirits, and more and more priests rushed over to join the battle against the plague before they had time to rest.
It's just that the effect of the battle is not satisfactory, except for Red, who can fully dispel the corrosive plague with the power of "Praise of Light", and can make the wound heal on the spot, the other priests can only achieve different degrees of dispersal effects according to the size of their own strength, and only a few very old cardinals can barely achieve the healing effect, but they also pay a lot of mana, but in a few minutes, these cardinals are already sweating profusely.
Orlando sighed softly, no matter what, at least the Light Priests could suppress the spread of this plague, and that would be enough. So Orlando immediately issued a military order, he mobilized the elite troops he could control at hand to immediately enter Fernando City, and then divided the entire city into several areas, firmly controlled the plague-infected people, and prevented them from spreading the plague to other areas, and then organized the priest to go into the areas where the plague was scattered under the protection of the Holy Knights to rescue, and strive to minimize the loss this time.
In order to appease the citizens in the plague-spread area, Orlando directly mobilized a large number of supplies, providing them with food and water, so to speak, as long as they did not break out and did not escape the blockade, it was possible to meet their various demands. Just as a precaution, Orlando mobilized the most elite Third Legion, that is, the shooters of the Jonas Legion, to station in the blockade line, and any citizens of the imperial capital who tried to flee would be shot on the spot for spreading the plague.
It's not that Orlando is ruthless, it's that the power of the Church of Light is limited, if they don't control the spread of this plague, then the speed of their rescue can't keep up with the speed of infection, and once more people in the imperial capital are infected with this plague, it will be a terrible disaster. For the safety of tens of millions of people in the imperial capital area, Orlando issued a sniper order with tears in his eyes.
In order to minimize the panic of the citizens, Red and they fought continuously and without sleep, many priests fell due to weakness, but they still stood up tenaciously after waking up, they now successfully chanted a light magic, they can save at least dozens of people, and if they delay for a minute, it is likely that hundreds of people will die.
This battle against the plague lasted for five days and five nights, and when Red rescued the last infected patient with the plague with a "dispel the plague" magic, he could no longer support his weak body and fell limply, but fortunately, Captain Bacon had followed Red and quickly reached out to support him.
In any case, this disaster is finally over, but Orlando still did not dare to be too careless, he still divided the imperial capital into dozens of districts by blocks, and each area was isolated by elite troops to prevent the plague from recurring or spreading on a large scale again, until 5 days later, that is, on January 10, 206 in the Bright Calendar, Orlando announced that martial law was lifted.
This sudden disaster brought a heavy blow to the imperial capital, Queen Catherine declared that someone had usurped the throne, no matter how Faras responded, it was inevitable that the people of the imperial capital would be in turmoil, and the killing on the night of January 1 and the plague that began the next day took the lives of at least 400,000 citizens of the imperial capital.
The soldiers of the imperial capital also suffered heavy losses in this disaster, 4 regiments were not satisfied, 2 brigades were directly canceled, and the imperial capital army also exposed deeper problems, due to the rapid expansion of the previous period, so that the number of troops reached the standard, but the quality of the soldiers was far inferior to before, such as the siege of Lane's mansion, Lane with the pseudonym Fabia obviously won the official competition, but the unconvinced soldiers were instigated by a few words of hidden spies, and finally a riot occurred.
In addition to these, the losses of the Royal Knights and the Church of Light were also significant, and of course these losses occurred mainly in the later stages of helping the plague patients. Although the Holy Knights and the Priest of Light have a way to protect themselves, they are human after all, their bodies will bleed, they will feel hungry, they will inevitably get tired during long battles, and once they lose their minds, it is likely that there will be a hole in the original tight protection on the outside of the body, which will also bring casualties. While the number of casualties was not significant, the number of Holy Knights and Priests of Light was quite small, so the losses were still significant.
When the dust settled, people couldn't help but start to reflect, what happened to the imperial capital? Why did that endless disaster fall? And when the imperial capital Tian licked his wounds, Orlando's demeanor of angels descending that night also spread throughout the continent, and there was a ** who could use forbidden spells. Division, a holy knight who can perform angel descending, and an ally from Cassano, the magister named Fabia, can also cast a small forbidden spell, although it is not as powerful as Victor's ability to turn half of the imperial capital into ruins, but it is enough to level a manor house of tens of thousands of people in Faraz, you must know that on the battlefield, even if there are 100,000 people on each side fighting, a forbidden spell of this scale is enough to deal a devastating blow to the enemy's position.
I don't know if it's because of these things, at least the harassment that the Clay tribes, orcs, and Seker City have every month has disappeared this January, but countless people have begun to think about countermeasures in secret, and a large number of secret diplomats are constantly running, they are passing on a shocking news, but on the surface, the whole continent has fallen into a strange silence, as if there has never been any rebellion on the mainland, as if it was as peaceful as it was decades ago.