Chapter 7: Weird

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In the slum of the Sea of Stars, a young woman sat up amid screams of terror.

The bright moonlight of the desert night shone through the window on her. Beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his pale face.

She clutched at the sheets, gasping for breath for a long time.

A terrible nightmare that still haunts her even when she wakes up.

The young woman rolled over and got out of bed, poured a glass of cold water and drank it, the cool liquid crossed her throat, and then she exhaled a long breath of turbidity.

Return to the bed and lie down on your side. Waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare, she had some difficulty sleeping.

She misses her husband who left with his children. Ever since he had escorted a group of slaves on a long journey, she had woken up in nightmares every night.

It's been a month, and she's feeling more and more in a trance. Severely lacking sleep, she appeared to have gone down insanely. The strands of hair that fell on the pillow are the best proof of this.

I heard that the new wizard slaughtered a small town, angering the town's patron saint. Now the town's undead have wandered to the Sea of Stars to take revenge. During this time, many people are haunted by nightmares.

A priest claiming to serve a deity named the King of Light has recently been preaching in the Sea of Stars, and many say that after participating in the sacrifice it organizes, they will no longer be harassed by the undead and say goodbye to terrible nightmares.

The young woman secretly decided that she might also go to the sacrificial ceremony tomorrow.

Tossing and turning, the young woman gradually fell asleep again.

The next morning, the woman who was getting more and more tired got out of bed. Beat a basin of water and put your face in the water. The desert nights were always so cold, and the cold water that had invaded her after a night of cold irritated her nerves. Use this as a pick-me-up for yourself.

Every morning she had to work in a nearby bakery, earning a monthly income of a hundred copper coins. As a woman who married from the east side of the desert, she still adheres to the customs of her homeland. Wrap a headscarf around your face before going out.

After a busy morning, I finally had some time to rest. Several women who worked together met under the vines in the courtyard of the bakery.

Mrs. Fawkes, with a little sharp cheeks, took a packet of nuts from the basket and placed it on the old wooden table, beckoning the women who worked with her to eat it to pass the short rest.

"Hey, bastard!"

A man with a lewd smile ran past them and reached out and grabbed Mrs. Pym's big ass. The other party grabbed a stone and threw it, and after it didn't hit, he crossed his waist and scolded twice.

The young woman, tormented by nightmares, found a chair and sat down. Yawned, and watched listlessly as Mrs. Pym pursued the nasty man.

"Still having nightmares, Mrs. Hiraj?" greeted Mrs. Fawkes' shrill voice

Mrs. Hiraj's face was covered by a turban, and there were a double number of heavy dark circles under her eyes.

"yes, I have nightmares every day. Look at my hair falling out," Hiraj pulled off his turban slightly, reaching out and grabbing his hair a few times. Spread out your palms to show a lot of fallen hair to the other party: "Didn't you say that there was a sacrifice of the King of Light?

"Of course it works, you see how good I am!" Mrs. Fawkes immediately praised the sacrifice of the King of Light, and added, "You know, that wizard from the heart is a dark wizard. Dark wizard, you know, it's something worse than the devil, but it's a pity that he angered the undead and was avenged against us."

Hiraj also sighed repeatedly, and the two made an appointment to go to the sacrifice ceremony together in the evening. He went back to the bakery and got back to work.

In the afternoon, at the end of the day's work, Mrs. Hiragi invited Mrs. Fox to her house for a seat. Wait until the evening to go to the ceremony.

The ceremony took place in a dilapidated and remote hut, and the original owner was a bounty hunter, but unfortunately he had died not long ago.

Several people came one after another, and the small hut was slightly crowded.

Everyone sat on the ground, with a charcoal fire burning in the middle, and a black pot hanging from the charcoal fire.

A man with a black hood and a mask on his face sat quietly in the innermost seat, with a small bowl in front of him containing an unknown plaster. People whispered about the beginning of the ritual of the waiter.

When the people were almost there, the masked people began to praise the greatness of the King of Light. But in other words, it's just empty clichés.

Then the masked man slowly stood up, chanting a spell that no one could understand, and walked around the coals in the middle.

The people also stood up and followed in his footsteps.

Finally, after a high-pitched incantation, the sacrifice stopped. Silently pulled out a dagger from his waist and handed it to the person behind him. He returns to his previous position and sits down.

The woman who took the dagger gritted her teeth and reached over the charcoal-scorching black cauldron. The dagger slashed through the wrist, and blood flowed into the black cauldron.

Amid the exclamations of several women attending the ceremony for the first time, she walked briskly towards the masked man. Reach out and pull out some plaster from a small bowl and rub it on the wound.

The wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, much to the amazement of the newcomers.

The rest of the people followed suit.

After everyone bled out, the mask went to the black cauldron. Holding a glass bottle in his hand, he said something.

Wisps of twisted smoke floated out of the black cauldron and automatically drifted into the glass bottle in the masked man's hand, condensing into drops of liquid.

After collecting the smoke, the masked man reached into the black cauldron with his dry hand. Dipping in unknown black juice, it keeps drawing a vertical line on the forehead of the believer.

The ceremony was nearing its end, near the time of Lady Hiraj. Suddenly there was a loud bang.

The door to the hut was broken, and a wizard with a silver chain with a six-pointed star pendant at the end of the chain strode into the room.

Three wizard hearts surrounded him, and he sneered, "I've got you, filthy rat." ”

Ignoring the exclamations of the people, the wizard's face reflected in the light of the fire, light and dark, some hideous and terrifying.

The silver six-pointed star pendant emitted a burst of light, and the palm wrapped around the silver chain stretched out. A fiery fireball like a whirlpool condensed in the palm of his hand, and the bursting fireball of the third-level sorcery Talos.

The masked man suddenly let out a disgusting and hoarse cry, and his dry hands were crawling with filthy maggots.

With a flick of his hand, the maggots were thrown at the wizard by him.

The whirlpool of fireballs inside exploded at the same time, striking the maggots. The fireball, which was powerful enough to blow three hundred square meters, made only a muffled sound. A strange green smoke emanated from the maggot, enveloping the fireball.

The crowd began to flee in all directions in terror.

Amid the masked man's eerie laughter, the believers who had been smeared with unknown juice let out a terrible scream.

Distorted souls rose from them, quickly gathering around the masked man.

The silver pendant hanging from the palm of the third-level wizard shone even brighter.

A golden chain was formed, the soul chain of otherworldly creatures.

The chains quickly wound around the Masked Man.

The gathered souls fused together, and the faces in the souls twisted and screamed, and under the control of the masked man, they rushed forward and rushed towards the soul chains.

The third-level wizard snorted coldly, he had been chasing this group of filthy rats for a long time, the strength of these rats was very weak, but the methods were always unpredictable. I was about to cast the spell again, when suddenly my eyes lit up.

How could the masked man be the opponent of a third-level wizard by hiding and hiding like this, the moment the soul flew out. The nails cut through the palms of his hands, and yellow-green pus and blood flowed out, slamming against the stone wall behind him. With a sound of Zra, a large hole was carved into the stone wall.

The masked man suddenly turned into a beetle in the sky and flew out of the hole.

"Miscellaneous!" the wizard roared, the pursuit of a third-level wizard was not so easy to escape.

The sorcery in his hand changed immediately, and a dark cloud of lightning sparked over the swarm, and the arc of Ziz shone among the swarm, burning the insects into conversations and falling from the sky.

The wizard turned and strode out of the hut, his robe flying out of the sky without wind.

However, as soon as the dark clouds approached, the charred corpses on the ground turned into worms. The worm grew in the wind, and in a moment it broke through its cocoon, and then turned into a flying insect and flew in the opposite direction. It is clear that they have a delicate connection with each other, and they cannot flee in all directions, but can only gather together.

The third-level wizard was furious and released the dark clouds again. But it only enveloped part of the bugs.

With a cold glint in his eyes, the wizard turned in the sky. Raised his hand to shoot out a purple light, and an eyeball flew out of the purple light. The eyeballs quickly chase the fleeing bugs.

As the eyeballs flew away, a huge squid-like creature appeared at the wizard's feet. The huge floating squid held the wizard and spewed out blue smoke that instantly accelerated towards the direction where the bug fled.

The wizard on the squid didn't stop, and the bursting fireball in his hand continued to condense and excite, whistling away. But they were all deftly avoided by flying insects.

Exploding fireballs exploded in the sky with a booming roar. In the quiet night of the desert, the sound kept coming, and the owners of the houses were awakened, and the lights were shining through the windows of the houses.

A yellow beetle emerged from the sand behind the wizard. There was a soft thud and a cloud of smoke exploded.

The smoke coalesced and turned into a mask, and the man bowed down and fled to the nearest house.

The wizard who chased him in the air noticed the abnormality at once through the information transmitted by the eyeballs in the sky.

The "cunning bug" did not hesitate to harness the squid and chased it back.

Looking at the masked man who fled into the dwelling, the bursting fireball condensed in the hands of the third-level wizard was about to be activated, when he suddenly discovered something, and turned his head to look at a grocery store not far away.

"I see," the wizard said to himself, giving up the chase and flying in front of the grocery store. Too kicking open the door of the grocery store.

A terrified Mrs. Hiraj watched the terrifying wizard enter the grocery store, followed by several screams. With a bang, the grocery store was reduced to rubble. A Level 3 wizard carried a wooden box and flew into the sky from the ruins.

At the same time, a few swarms of bugs appeared in the houses not far from the city and followed the departing wizard.

The battle between the wizards and the bugs happened too quickly. It wasn't until ten minutes later that several teams of Knights of Truth and the Unsullied arrived to cordon off the scene.

As the only believer who survived without being smeared with sap, and the only witness to the whole incident, Hiraj was immediately detained by the Knight of Truth and taken to the Golden Garden.

Later, more Knights of Truth arrived and cleaned up the grocery store that had been blown into ruins. Several bodies were lifted from inside, and a wooden box was later found.

If the third-level wizard who flew away was there, he would definitely see the strange thing at a glance, and the wooden box that was later discovered was exactly the same as the one he had taken away.

It's a pity that he can't see it for the time being, and the third-level wizard who chased him all the way quickly fell into a trap and was completely hypnotized after being blocked from power.

A dozen monks with strange stripes on his face put him on a magic carpet and flew towards the depths of the desert.

Some tranquility in the golden garden at night. Bahrain in the room was calculating some witchcraft questions.

Several explosions rang out in the sky, followed by a rumbling explosion on the ground.

"Witchcraft?burst fireballs" Balin frowned as he walked out of the house to the edge of the public garden and leaned over to look at the city at night.

Soon, one after another, councillors came out of their homes and gathered in the public garden, talking to each other and asking each other.

The quiet golden garden gradually became noisy.

Soon people were attracted by the golden wizard's heart and gathered towards Bahrain.

"Everyone dies, Mr. Wizard, do you know what happened? Is it an explosion caused by witchcraft?"

Bahrain, surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside the crowd, frowned even deeper. But he shook his head, indicating that he didn't know what was going on. However, the explosion must have been caused by someone using Level 3 sorcery to burst the fireball.

Seeing that the wizard didn't know, everyone's discussion became louder.

Once again, people dispersed and gathered into small groups to exchange ideas with each other.

Bahrain is also surrounded by a group of Republican legislators.

Finally the neat footsteps of the army could be heard at the entrance to the garden, and a procession of Knights of Truth made their way through the crowd. The people quickly fell silent, watching their head, speculating on what might happen next.

Under the gaze of the people, this group of Knights of Truth walked up to Bahrain. The leading Knight Captain saluted Balin: "Everyone dies, Mr. Honorable Councillor, the Lords Homeland Security Committee needs your help, please come with us"

Balin's eyes narrowed slightly, nodded, and followed the group of Knights of Truth.

It turned out to be not the Unsullied, but the Knights of Truth of the regular army. Is the situation so serious?

A group of glorious congressmen exchanged ideas, and several Republican congressmen hurriedly walked towards the third floor of the Golden Garden.

At this time, political parties must be concentrated together to deal with unknown events, especially now that an honorable Republican congressman has been taken away by the Homeland Security Council, I wonder if there will be any major events involved? The general election is imminent, and any unexpected event may affect the re-election of the Republican Speaker.