ACT098: Core area

Until 7 years ago, Wendy was an ordinary girl in a remote mountain village in the Aaronic Empire, and in addition to her and her parents, there was a younger brother who was 5 years younger than her. Although the woodcutter's father has no ability to make money, he is a good man who takes care of his family, chopping wood every day to support his family, although his life is poor, the family is very happy, but unfortunately the good times do not last long!

The Brick people have long been oppressed by the Empire, where the "color theory" prevailed, and they were forced to take on the most menial jobs in society, while also enduring discrimination and bullying from the Aarons. Some of the Bricks tried to resist, but the sporadic riots could not shake the empire at all, but gave the emperor [***] the opportunity to train his troops.

One day, Wendy's young brother is playing in the woods near his home as usual, but returns in the evening with a few strangers covered in blood. Wendy's parents, seeing that they were all Brick, let them into the house without asking for their identities, and then took herbs to heal their wounds, and prepared food, and then let them hide in the cellar.

At that time, Wendy and her younger brother did not know why her father wanted to help these strangers, and Wendy only understood her father's thoughts when she was older.

The day after taking these people in, a team of emperors [***] came to the door, and the other party broke in and broke a lot of things, Wendy and the young brother tried to rush to stop them, but the father just dragged them both to death, knelt there without saying a word, and let the soldiers wreak havoc on their home.

After rummaging for most of the day, the soldier who found nothing did not leave. Although the first-line troops of the emperor [***] are of good quality and strict military discipline, the local miscellaneous troops are not of such high quality. Especially in those remote areas where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the "security forces" and the hooligan gangs basically mean the same thing.

Wendy, who grew up so beautiful, was naturally a beautiful embryo when she was a child, and although her mother worked hard for housework, she was also quite beautiful, so these rogue soldiers started the crooked idea of the mother and daughter.

Realizing what these people were thinking, Wendy's father finally couldn't help but stand up and protect his wife and daughter behind him. Seeing her father, who didn't know martial arts, staggering under his fists and feet, and several other men walking towards her with a smile, Wendy felt unprecedented fear.

Fortunately, at this time, those Bricks rushed out of the cellar, one of them was the owner of the chess piece, don't look at those soldiers with guide guns, but they were just ordinary people who were slow to react, and they were cut to the ground by the opponent's scimitar in three or two strokes.

Although the other party saved Wendy's family temporarily, it also caused them more trouble, so the lead chess piece owner invited Wendy's family to their camp. These Bricks had just staged an uprising not long ago, but unfortunately they were finally suppressed by the emperor. The remnants of the insurgents are ready to send the families of the dead to the Republic of Langson for refuge, so the Brick "Swordsman" intends to repay the Wendy family by sending them over.

Wendy's father thought for a moment, agreed to the other party's proposal, packed up and followed the other party out of the home where he had lived for most of his life, and embarked on an unknown journey.

The insurgents' secret camp is located in a dense forest on the southwestern border of the Empire, less than 40 kilometers from the Oss region and only three days from Wendy's home. Following these righteous men, Wendy's family successfully arrived at the secret camp, where about 2,000 people, mostly old and weak, waited for the opportunity to flee to Langson.

Food and drinking water were scarce in the camp, and the remaining volunteers were anxiously awaiting the return of the liaison staff. Without the Wehrmacht's response, they simply would not have been able to cross the Oss region to reach the territory of Ronsen. And within the empire, the army is hunting down these remnants of these "rebels" everywhere, and once discovered, it is not difficult to imagine the end......

Virgil's troops left the post early the next morning to investigate the mysterious forces posing as Laxis, following the directions provided by Weiss. And the soldier who was beaten by Wendy, although his face was still swollen, he was already able to move normally, and he didn't know what he could use to recover so quickly.

It is worth mentioning that although the other party was beaten very badly, he did not show resentment on his face, but revealed a sense of guilt as if he had done something wrong.

Curious, Weiss didn't try to ask anything. His intuition told him that there was probably a scarred "black history" behind it, and he didn't want to be disgusted by Wendy because he was too gossipy.

Packing up, everyone left the outpost not long after Virgil's headquarters left, heading towards the target area. The area that Lytis drew is not large, and if everything goes well, it can be searched in half a day. And even if there is no result during the day, at night, it is easier to find the abnormal point that has a fight with the searchlight.

Along the way, Wendy kept a straight face and didn't say a word, thanks to her emotion, everyone was silent to death, but the speed of the journey was much faster, and it was not even noon to rush to the vicinity of the target area.

"It should be around here, everyone should be vigilant, there is a mutation point here, and there is a high probability that there are powerful monsters nearby. They want to eat the magic cores created by the crystallization of the mutation point, and if they find us, they will attack 100%. ”

Everyone cautiously entered the target area, according to Litis's calculations, the core mutation point was somewhere within a radius of ten kilometers, in case a monster took the lead, there would inevitably be a fierce battle waiting for them.

However, not long after everyone entered the area, they strangely found that it was unusually quiet, and Lytis used the only remaining hand-held detector to find that the concentration of magic in this vicinity was not at all as high as expected, but as they gradually deepened, the concentration was constantly decreasing, and soon it had reached the normal level of the outside world.

"Damn, what's going on? Could it be that my machine is broken?"

Reaching out and patting the detector on her hand, Litis was a little confused by the phenomenon of violating "common sense" in front of her. Although the Magic Storm was said to be a "storm", it was completely different from the normal weather storm, and there was no such thing as an area like the "eye of the storm", which made her wonder.

"Am I wrong?

Muttering to himself in distress, Lytis walked around with the detector hoping to find something, while the others cautiously watched their surroundings, when Weiss noticed that there seemed to be something strange in the dirt directly in front of Lytis, which was the same color as the dirt, but had a small arc. Littis stepped on it, with all her attention on the detector, and then an inaudible "click" sounded from beneath her feet...... (To be continued.) )