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At first, Loftus-Cheek thought it was dark cracks that had climbed the wall.

But when I looked closely, I found that it was a dark red blood vessel.

Everything in his vision quickly turned bloody, and the strange veins reached his feet. Cheek felt the urge to retreat, but remembering the pact he had made with the pollution of the City of Calamity, he chose to stand still and not show weakness.

Although he still didn't know how far the "City of Calamity" had been activated, the other party definitely had a higher level of activity now.

Sure enough, the tiny, dense dark red veins stopped at his feet, and then staggered around where the Primordial Witch stood, giving Chirk a safe area of more than a meter as a foothold.

The bloodshot weaved a large web around it, and soon every inch of the floor, walls, and ceiling extended red veins.

At this moment, compared to a building, a palace, a large city that houses more than a million people, and one of the most prosperous international metropolises in the world, it is becoming more like a living thing, or even some incomparably large creature itself. The whole city gradually came to life—it was once the confines of the "outside world", but now it was rapidly assimilated by the city of calamity—and Chick frowned, the smell of rust filling his nostrils, and he almost felt that if he calmed down, he could hear the other person's heartbeat.

When the rings around Cheek were completely woven, the "Brass Book of Trenthorst", which had been struggling, gave up resistance.

Its living nature sensed danger from all directions, and although it was dangerous to be held by the Primordial Witch, if the other party let go, the essentia endings that belonged to the City of Calamity would inevitably rush up, wrapping and polluting it with heavy flesh and blood.

The City of Calamity is a pack of wolves watching around, it's an insignificant piece of meat, and the Primordial Witch is the one with a shotgun in her hand.

In the unsettling silence, Cheek could hear his own heartbeat.

Plop, plop.

He ran his fingers around his long black hair, watching it all with an unchanging face, his light brown eyes slowly sweeping around.

Chick thinks that the other party must be intimidating and intimidating him, because the dense blood vessels and the white walls as a carrier look like the inside of a human being, and he seems to be already in the other party's body, and it is as if he will be digested immediately.

Suddenly, he had a hunch, and his body twisted slightly.

An inconspicuous blazing white flame grazed the part of Chick's upper arm and flew out of the window, crumbling as soon as it left view.

"Aiming at the back of my heart?"

Loftus-Cheek was not surprised by the surprise attack, it had just been freed from its restraints, it had gained some freedom, and it was normal for it to stretch its body and feel the power it had regained.

It's like witches. Every time I am promoted and gain new powers, I can't resist using these new methods to plunder my life.

The blow just now has more power than Sequence One...... Is this a demonstration against me?

Don't want to fulfill the agreement and want to force me back?

Loftus-Cheek certainly can't allow that to happen.

His long black hair floated out, ending in a snake mother with spindle pupils that offered sight from all angles, even through attacks from the spirit realm. His body became more supple and flexible, but his breath suddenly disappeared—the level of "being able to hear the breath but not noticing that the person was around" was now left at all.

If you don't see Him again, you have to wonder if there's nothing in this area.

At the same time, Chick's eyes wandered, and he began to try to make contact with the blood mist that drifted around him, trying to interact with the derivatives of the City of Calamity. The blood mist was just making irregular movements in the air, unresponsive to Chick's reach.

But as He showed a little bit of spirituality, the blood mist slowly drifted towards Him like an insect that had discovered a sweet tooth.

To be on the safe side, Loftus-Cheek had already taken off a small accessory on his body.

It was an extraordinary possession of the Reaper, compressed to the size of a fingernail and worn like a ruby by a simple metal chain. He tentatively poured spirituality into this extraordinary property, wanting to preserve some of the blood mist and take it away, and study it slowly.

Although it looks and smells like blood, it is actually the power of essentia, and no matter how little it is a part of the city of calamity, it may be helpful for you to contact the other party again in the future.

Just as he had expected, the red mist diffused and attached to the extraordinary properties, the outer part of the dark red extraordinary properties getting brighter and brighter, and the middle color getting darker and darker, as if it had vaguely become a special shape.

Loftus-Cheek couldn't help but squint his eyes and look closely.

Suddenly, a chill hit, and the long snake hair of the primordial witch turned in all directions at the same time, and the vision covered all angles!

The petrified curse suddenly reflected countless figures in different postures in his sight.

They were based on dark red veins, and somehow used the power of Calamity City to completely obscure their form. Despite their indistinct figures, they hold a variety of weapons in their hands. Some held long knives in their hands and looked like cavalrymen without horses, others held bows and arrows with arrows already pointed at Chick's head, and the most common weapons were swords and spears, making experienced battle-ready moves.

However, the Primordial Witch was one step quicker to perceive, turning all these phantoms who wanted to sneak up on her into stone statues.

At the moment of being petrified, they took possession of entities, making the originally spacious Gozen passage extremely crowded in an instant.

"If this blow just now is successful, it will have the power of sequence 0!"

"Tsk, it's not good to create a 'natural disaster' within the scope of the City of Calamity, maybe it will become a help to the other party and cause changes."

"But when I was still preparing, I leaked a little bit of killing intent, which caused me to notice...... It should be called Him. ”

"This blow will definitely not be the only attack, even if it lands on me, it will only hurt me a little harder, but it will make it impossible for me to dodge the attack from behind...... Fortunately, I'm still in good shape, and I'm still the best and strongest 'assassin' in the world. ”

Cheek frowned, looking at the stone statues around him with apprehension.

Upon closer inspection, he saw someone in charge of the striker, someone watching the enemy from the flank and providing intelligence, and someone providing buffs and spell assistance to teammates...... Although the number is not too large, this is a fully equipped army!

Crash!

The snake's hair swept through and destroyed all the stone statues, leaving the entire interior in shambles.

Although Chick could swear that he had never had the slightest disdain for any essentia, either in the past or in the present, it still continued to surprise him.

Even if you cheer up, it's not enough.

"If he was ready to continue attacking, would the next blow be stronger, faster, and more stealthy than the previous one?"

A hint of anxiety and unease rose in Chick's heart, and the snakehead behind him scanned around as if it had gained its own life, turning the surrounding veins, walls, and glittering decorations into lifeless stones. He casually glanced out the window, and the area facing the open window had all turned to stone, while the surroundings were still normal, like strange sculptures embedded in the street.

He turned around, but saw that less than an arm's length on his side, a red figure suddenly appeared.

The other party was dressed in pitch-black full-body armor, and his handsome face had a strange and scrutinizing smile. The crimson blood that flowed through the gap flowed down the arm, slicing across the blood groove of the long sword, and converging into a small puddle on the ground.

Chick's pupils constricted.

He opened his mouth as if to scream, but his teeth grew suddenly, and the soft feather fan in his hand opened in unison, all of which became the sharpest knives.

In the face of this strange guy, Cheek immediately chose to take the initiative to attack and find a retreat route for himself.

……

Before Crane's doppelganger received Mrs. Scraold's prayer for help, he was on duty at Fort Source as usual.

Offering some help to his devotees, and also occasionally granting their small wishes, is already a daily routine for Klein's gods.

Although he had known for a long time that "wish" was not the true way to play "miracles", now he no longer needed to stick to the way and rules of playing, he could give a little girl in the Rorsted Islands in a patched old dress a rag doll she wanted, or he could get a copy of "The Craft of Winemaking" for the residents of Tsukijo who wanted to be a winemaker.

Wishing fulfillment does not necessarily require God to deliver the object to the person making the wish himself, but directly fulfilling the wish is only one of the ways.

It's like when the little girl in the old dress was picking up scattered firewood and leftovers on the street, a child who had a temper tantrum with her parents threw down the rag doll, which was already a little damaged and dirty, and landed right in front of her, so happy that she almost screamed on the spot.

After she returned, she carefully selected the needle and thread, sewed the rag doll badly, washed and dried, and kept it with her for a moment.

And the residents of Tsukishi, who had the dream of being a brewer, got this "Encyclopedia of Brewing Techniques" from the hands of the team who went out to purchase, and happened to find the "Dictionary of the Ancient Phossack Language" in the large library of the City of Miracles, so they studied it with difficulty.

Those who have the ability to rely on their own efforts to realize their wishes, Klein provides them with opportunities and channels to work hard, and those who are not able to realize their wishes, and their wishes are very small, Klein also helps them as much as he can.

In his spare time, he feels that he has a feeling of "do what you want, don't exceed the rules" as the old saying goes.

He was almost at the point where he could do whatever he wanted, but there were still countless things in the world that made him want to sigh. Of course, proper daily contact with believers is conducive to maintaining humanity. If you look too much, you will feel the urge to simply leave the world to God.

After today's KPI was completed, Klein's clone, who was sitting in the position of "World", habitually glanced at the main body that was still covered by the fog and showed no signs of waking up at all, and then stood up, stretched, and moved.

It was at this time that he heard Mrs. Scraold's prayer.

Klein nearly got up from his seat on the spot.

"Symbols of disaster, destruction and natural disasters appeared in the north of the continent?" He looked ahead in disbelief, and the gray mist suddenly rose directly above the bronze table, turning into a display screen, and an aerial shot of the Vorsack Empire appeared.

As soon as he approached St. Millon, the picture was frantically distorted and stuttered as if it had received interference, bursting with a large number of black and white snowflakes, and even the display began to distort, as if it was about to collapse.

Klein frowned, and with a slight tap of his index finger on the long bronze table, the display immediately stabilized again.

As Klein forcefully increased the power and intervened directly in St. Millon, the images of the snowflakes began to reappear, but somewhat blurry, and still in black and white. It can be seen that in the confrontation between the Source Fort and this part of the "City of Calamity", the former is slightly superior.

Crane scanned the city of St. Milon and found that the city was in ruins, and everywhere was full of signs of damage from unknown sources, comparable to Beckland, which had been bombed for a while. In the black and white world, Klein tries to find traces of living people, but finds that there is not a single living life form anywhere, and even if there is a living reaction, he is not sure that it is a person.

Fortunately, after searching for a while, Crane found that there were still a large number of life reactions in the northwest and northeast directions of the city, and when the aerial photography passed, the picture there was still displayed normally, and it seemed that the city of calamity had not yet eroded over there.

Why did the pollution of the City of Calamity suddenly appear in Vrsack?

Isn't it supposed to be in Bansey? Behind the door of that wacky telegraph booth, and it's been cleaned up by the Church of Thunder!

"When is the matter...... Where is Medici now? ”

Crane reached out and grabbed his citrine pendulum out of the air.

The crystal shook slightly, and he quickly got an accurate answer. Klein's expression suddenly became a little complicated, on the one hand, he was a little glad that this was about ten minutes ago, and he still had time to do something, but on the other hand, he was very shocked by the destruction caused by the city of calamity, in just ten minutes, only a third of the area of this million-level city was still alive!

"Even if the City of Calamity is cleared, these areas of Fusak will no longer be usable!"

"The land here will be permanently altered by essentia erosion, and if you're lucky, you might be able to do it like Bansey, at least during the day...... No, Bansey is already terrible, for the safety of ordinary people, these areas are unusable......"

After a brief analysis, Klein immediately began to think of a way to check Medici's status.

In the observation just now, he didn't see the other party at all.

"Fortunately, Source Fort still has some advantages over Calamity City, is this the power of the pillar essentia, or is the other party's activation level not high enough?"

As soon as Klein's mind moved, the gray mist around him drifted over, and a dark cloak appeared on his body, and Antigonus followed suit, and sat down in another chair beside him, ready to be called.

Ready for emergency and quarantine, he closed his eyes and dangled his wrist in the air, the citrine pendulum hovering directly in front of him.

"Medici's current position."

"Medici's current position."

……

After reciting it seven times, Crane's body twitched suddenly, and he saw a large area of blood red.

This was followed by a sharp pain in the center of the eyebrows.

Rumble!

Yuan Bao suddenly trembled violently, he gritted his teeth to stabilize his body, and a pale golden mysterious pattern began to appear on his forehead.

In an instant, the source castle stabilized again, and his aura became deeper and more lofty, slamming into the bloody color.

TBC

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Rumble!

The sudden shaking of the ground made Chick unsteady on his feet, and the guy who meant "the will of Calamity City" froze for a moment. And he immediately seized this small opportunity, and the short knife hidden in his hand flew by, like a faintly glowing air, cutting off most of the opponent's neck.

The opponent's movements became a little sluggish, and he did not even resist Chick's attack.

Immediately after, there was an earth-shattering crash somewhere in the sky, and then a large black crack appeared in an instant like broken glass, and one corner of it peeled off, and the color of the sky gradually returned to blue.

Someone's attacking this area!

Loftus-Cheek was overjoyed and immediately prepared to take advantage of it and leave. But at this moment, the other party suddenly raised his head and threw the long sword in his hand at Chick, who was too close to dodge and was hit by the long sword on the shoulder.

Suddenly, dense red blood crawled through the wound and instantly burrowed into Chick's body!

The next moment, Chick's figure disappeared completely, and he stood there, his eyes blinking, and for a moment they turned back to black.

(End of chapter)