On the outskirts of the imperial capital. Royal Mausoleum.

It had only been a dozen hours since last night's riots ended, and Orlando rushed here as soon as he pacified the people. On the day of Fernando XIII's wedding to Catherine three years ago, a frost bone dragon suddenly appeared and attacked the entire wedding ceremony, and while the people of the imperial capital struggled to resist this evil monster, a mysterious team attacked the royal tomb, killing all the guards guarding the royal tomb, and more than 10,000 bodies of holy knights were stolen.

At that time, Orlando rushed over immediately after hearing the news here, but unfortunately he tried his best, but he still did not find out the mastermind behind this matter, he has always wondered, those dead holy knights did not have any burial at all, most of them were just a shroud, why would anyone be interested in these cold corpses?

However, Orlando's encounter last night seemed to have reminded him of something, and he rushed here as soon as he put down the riots in the imperial capital, and stood in front of a filled grave for three hours.

The atmosphere in the air was very solid, which made the Holy Knights who followed Orlando feel very depressed, and although they felt strange about their leader's behavior, no one dared to speak, not even to make a look in private. This is the holy place of the Royal Knights, since Fernando I founded this powerful organization, those powerful holy knights will be buried here after death, and for 200 years, there are more than 10,000 holy knights sleeping here.

Since the Holy Knight does not pursue the pleasures of the world, even after death there is no decoration, nothing more than a tomb, a shroud, and a small stone tablet placed on top of the tomb. It's just that after the bizarre corpse robbery incident three years ago, most of the tombs here were dug up, so that the stone tablets were also in a mess, and then Orlando sent someone to rearrange them, and after spending a lot of effort, the stone tablets and tombs were rebuilt, but the empty tombs could only be filled with soil first.

The tomb where Orlando stands is no different from any other tomb, and if I have to say a difference, there are almost no weeds on this tomb, and it seems that people often come here to mourn the dead who were buried in the tomb. Orlando suddenly crouched down after standing for three hours, and he stretched out his hands and rubbed the stone tablet covered with a layer of dirt, revealing the words engraved on the stone tablet: Barça Sandra.

Seeing this familiar name, Orlando once again fell into deep memories.

The 17-year-old Orlando and his companions are excitedly standing on the training ground of the barracks, they have just passed the basic training of knights, and then there will be a formal holy knight to give them one-on-one intensive training, if they can pass this training in 3 years, then they can carry out the inheritance of the gods and become a real holy knight.

"What's your name?" asked an uncle with a beard on his face as he walked up to a childish Orlando.

"Orlando. ”

"Oh, then why did you become a Holy Knight?" asked the bearded Holy Knight again.

"It's my dream! I don't need a reason for it, I just have the determination to work hard to accomplish it, not to think about why!" Orlando replied loudly.

"Haha, well, then from now on, you are my student, young Orlando Cadet Knight. The bearded man smiled and said, "Well, let me introduce myself first, I am a member of the seventh squad of the third squadron of the first brigade of the Royal Knights, my name is Barcelona, Barça-Sandra." ”

"Hey, are you a nobleman?" Orlando asked curiously.

"Hmph, are you here for a blind date or are you here to study? Why do you ask so much?" said the bearded Barça unhappily.

"Idiot, what are you lifting your feet so much, I just need to sweep you and you will fall!"

"Forcefully, have you eaten today? Shield slamming is one of the deadliest killings in hand-to-hand combat, and the way you look now are you fanning me to relieve the heat?"

Barcelona on the training ground is quite ruthless, and will only loudly reprimand Orlando for what he has done wrong, while the resolute Orlando never pleads, and after being pointed out his shortcomings, he will use more practice to correct and improve.

"Very well, Orlando, you have completed all your training ahead of schedule, and tomorrow you will return to the Cathedral of San Nebiro for the ceremony of the Inheritance of the Gods, and I hope you will be blessed by a certain god so that you can become a true Holy Knight like me. ”

Seeing the excitement on Orlando's face, Barcelona decided to pour some cold water on him, he coughed and said: "Well, don't get excited, in fact, less than 500 of the 1,000 trainee knights can pass this training, and those lucky ones who receive blessings are less than 100 per year." I hope you are lucky, a certain god happens to be in a good mood and sees you again. ”

"What! Orlando, you, you have actually been personally blessed by the god of war?" Barcelona's face was full of incredible shock, he was just an extremely ordinary holy knight, whether it was martial arts or faith, he belonged to the worst level of the knights, and some people even said that Barcelona was able to enter the Royal Knights entirely because a certain divine servant suddenly showed kindness, and he just ran into this guy.

Watching Orlando repeat today's scene in an affirmative tone, Barcelona's face suddenly blossomed: "Ah, this is true? I actually taught a future head of the Royal Knights? ”

"Well, well, Orlando, you're far superior to me, and I don't have much more to advise you on. But I have one thing to warn you about. Even as the head of the Royal Knights, you still can't relax your martial arts cultivation, which is the foundation of all your glory. ”

Barcelona stood in front of Orlando, facing Orlando in a shining golden armor, and said: "No matter how rich you are in the art of commanding, even if your belief in the gods exceeds the piety of all people, if you are not good at martial arts, then no one will really believe in you." You must know that the Royal Knights have never failed at all, and if you lead them to victory, others will say that is where the prestige of the Royal Knights lies. And who can prove that your piety is more than others? Only martial arts are your best means of convincing others. ”

"Yes, your strength has improved a lot compared to before, and it seems that even as the head of the regiment, you have not lost your own practice. "The Holy Knight Barcelona, who was teaching in front of Orlando, suddenly turned into the mysterious warrior wearing black rune armor last night, and at this time, several heralds in the distance galloped over and shouted loudly: "General Orlando, something is wrong, a large-scale plague has broken out in the imperial capital!"

"What the hell is going on!" Orlando was taken aback, an outbreak of the plague in a densely populated city like the imperial capital would be extremely terrifying, and if the spread of the plague was not controlled, it would not be impossible for millions of people to die.

"It was yesterday ......" The herald jumped off his horse, and he hurriedly said, "It's those black warriors from yesterday......

Rewind the clock a few hours ago, when the sun rose and a new day came, the grieving citizens who had lost their loved ones were dealing with the aftermath with the help of the Imperial Capital's army, and according to the customs of the Imperial Capital, the bodies of these dead relatives would be placed for days for their relatives to mourn before being transported to the cemetery for burial.

Because so many innocent citizens had died in the killing last night, there was little space for the bodies, and they had to take up large swaths of the streets. This would certainly not be allowed in normal times, but at such a special time, no one will raise objections.

A sad husband was suffering in front of his wife's corpse, and their child, a lovely little girl who was not yet three years old, did not understand what was happening to her mother, and she shook her mother vigorously, hoping that she would not sleep, but get up and play with her, but no matter how hard she tried, her mother did not move.

Such scenes can be said to be all over the streets, and the deaths were lost in last night's killings and riots, not to mention 2 or 30,000 citizens, in a sense, this almost affected 2 or 30,000 families, the imperial capital was established for 200 years, and the people here multiplied, these 2 or 30,000 families will at least affect more than 4 or 500,000 citizens, and about one-fifth of the members of a city fell into great grief at the same time, isn't this the biggest tragedy?

Just when countless citizens wept bitterly and mourned their lost relatives, the 3-year-old girl found that her mother moved, she thought it was the result of her own efforts, so she threw herself into her mother's arms, hoping to get her mother's caresses, but she soon found that her mother was not moving, but her body was slowly expanding.

"Huh?" The innocent little girl looked at her mother with curious eyes, and watched her body slowly bulge, and there seemed to be something squirming under the skin, and she was very frightened to see it, but just as she was about to tell her father, the body of the little girl's mother suddenly exploded.

At least more than 200 corpses exploded at the same time, and it spread throughout most of the cities of the imperial capital, the explosion of this corpse did not have direct damage to people like the fireball technique, and all humans within its explosion range were covered with the flesh and blood of the corpses, this scene was even more terrifying than the wanton killing of those warriors wearing black rune armor last night, and countless citizens with their heads and faces stained with the flesh and blood of the corpses after the explosion screamed and ran out.

The little girl's body was covered with bloody flesh because it was closest to her mother's corpse, she looked at her father in horror, and found that the muscles on his face were constantly falling, revealing half of the skeleton's face, which was corroded by the flesh that splashed up after the corpse erupted, the little girl immediately cried in fright, but she didn't know that her own face and body were corroded faster, and under her skin, there were still countless unknown things squirming rapidly, but in ten seconds, the little girl's body revealed a large number of bones, but she still maintained the crying movement, still making a childish and simple crying sound。

Soon, the little girl's body exploded, not only her, but also those citizens who were shrouded by the first wave of corpse explosions, and after most of their bodies were corroded, quite a few also exploded. These two waves of corpse explosions will spread a farther distance from the flesh and blood that can corrode the human body emitted by the first wave of corpse explosions, thus infecting more citizens.

The flesh and blood of the corpse explosion are full of more infectious power than the plague, and any living creature will begin to decay in a very short time after being contaminated with these red and white flesh, first the skin, then the muscles, until only a meal of bones is left in the body, this scene is far more terrifying than the killing last night, countless people screamed and fled, hoping to continue to live, but among these people there are many citizens who have been stained with corrosive flesh, and they have taken this terrible plague-like thing farther away, so that more people have fallen into the shroud of this plague。