North District, Church of St. Samuel.

Audrey stood in front of the window, looking apprehensively into the distance.

She saw that the fog on the horizon was gradually thickening, pale yellow and stained with iron black, and slowly rendering in her direction.

"Hopefully, it's in time."

Audrey pursed her lips, not knowing what the mist meant, but knowing that it was not a good thing.

Suddenly, she noticed that the branches outside the window were shaking, and the glass was shaking slightly.

"The wind is coming!"

Audrey inexplicably felt joy.

A terrifying storm visible to the naked eye suddenly emerged from the Cathedral of the Holy Wind in Joewood, and then unleashed an unimaginable hurricane towards the east.

Woo!

The sedimentary mist was blown away, and the rich yellow and iron black faded rapidly.

Woo!

Dry branches fell to the ground, and dust and dirt rose into the air and disappeared with the mist.

Woo!

Many pedestrians' hats were off their heads, and their bodies were so shaky that they had to hold on to trees or walls.

The sailors in the docklands are back in the port city and are witnessing a typhoon. The smoke in the East and Factory areas has been lightened, and the slight discomfort of healthy people has been relieved.

Boom boom!

Lightning jumped, thunder exploded.

They soon subsided, and the rain began to cleanse the earth of the diseases and pestilences brought by the Witch of Despair.

"Whew!"

Seeing this scene, Audrey couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, her mood became a little better, and she asked hesitantly, "Ember, that Lady Bernardette, is she a descendant of Russell the Great?" ”

It's hard not to associate Gustav's surname. But what Audrey cares about most is whether the lady who made her pray can catch the murderer and catch the witches who are planning to bring the 'original witch' to come.

"Hmm."

Ember looked at the dark clouds in the sky and bowed slightly, "She is Russell's youngest daughter and an angel. ”

"Angels?"

Audrey's eyes moved slightly, a little surprised and a little surprised.

If so, then there is certainly no problem.

After all, it's an angel!

——

"The Mysterious Queen?"

The desperate lady looked at the long, straight-haired lady with chestnut hair who was blocking her way, her eyebrows frowned slightly, but after a while, her eyebrows rose again, the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, revealing a charming smile, and said comfortably, "You also happened to pass by here?" ”

"Passing by?"

Bernadette's sapphire eyes looked at her calmly, and she whispered, "No, I'm here for you." ”

"That's it~"

The Lady of Despair chuckled, and in the middle of a moment, a sharp, crystalline ice spear suddenly condensed in her palm and threw it at Bernadette. Taking advantage of this opportunity, her figure quickly fled towards the alley behind her!

She thought that her whereabouts were secretive, and she had dealt with it beforehand, so she didn't worry about being blocked by Beckland's demigods in a short time, but she didn't expect that she would be blocked by Bernadette, who was an outsider!

She couldn't understand why the other party would find her hidden whereabouts so quickly, and she didn't know why the other party was meddling. But as a Sequence 4 Witch of Despair, growing up as an assassin step by step, she understands that she can't be distracted at critical moments, can't talk nonsense, and it's never too late to think about all issues later.

As the mysterious queen of one of the four kings of pirates, Bernadette is also a descendant of Russell Gustav, and is also considered a 'famous' figure in major secret organizations. In addition, the 'mission' carried out by the desperate lady is also related to it, so I also have a certain understanding of her abilities.

The other party is the sequence 3 of the voyeur's path, although it is one sequence higher than himself, but he is not too good at fighting. Because Sequence 3 of the Secret Man's Path is a master of prophecy. With the 'mysterious reappearance' she possessed alone, it was impossible to keep herself.

But Bernadette's father is, after all, the former Russell the Great, and the inheritance he inherits and the heritage he has is also unknown to the desperate lady. What's more, this is still Beckland, and once too much time is wasted, it will be even more difficult for her to get out when the demigods of the three major churches arrive.

Therefore, she chose to attack directly and take the opportunity to get out!

"Click!"

Wherever the ice spear passed, the hoarfrost condensed and sealed the world.

The pea vines that fell from the sky quickly condensed and froze, turning into emerald green ice picks! And all of this is still spreading, and the layers of crystal light are constantly extending towards Bernadette, freezing everything around them.

She had to break through the obstacles with great difficulty before she had the strength to catch up. And by that time, she must have long since left the street and blended into the crowd!

The Lady of Despair thought in a good mood, and the corners of her mouth outlined a bright and beautiful sweet smile.

However, in the next second, her smile completely froze on her face.

Because at some point, Bernadette, who was supposed to be frozen by layers of crystals, appeared in front of her again and blocked her way!

The Lady of Despair stared, and black flames rose from the ground around her, spreading the disease, and planning to set everything around her on fire and create a large-scale fire.

But the next moment, she heard a mouthful and mysterious incantation coming out of the mouth of the mysterious queen:

"Cage!"

In an instant, the brilliant stars that swirled around the mysterious queen flew away one after another, turning into a large net that seemed to make people breathless and pounced on the desperate lady. The starlight instantly condensed, creating a huge transparent amber that completely enveloped it like a delicate specimen.

At that moment, the Lady of Despair's face finally changed slightly, and there was a trace of surprise and fear on her beautiful face, and she finally realized what kind of existence she was fighting against.

It was no longer her, but He, an angel!

Bernadette's gaze remained calm, and she slowly withdrew her gaze from the Lady of Despair and cast it into the distant sky.

"The wind is coming."

She muttered under her breath.

In the next moment, pea vines appeared out of thin air, and they quickly fell from the sky as they collided with each other in the wind, entwining the desperate lady who had sealed the amber as a specimen, and suddenly retracted in a short stay, returning to the sky, and disappearing from everyone's sight.

And disappeared from the sight of others, as well as a lady wearing a girly yellow cake dress and a black old-fashioned soft hat.

The wind blew away the disease-spreading mist, and the rain washed away the plague that remained on the ground.

But for those who have already fallen in the fog, there is simply nothing the Storm Church can do.

Although a large number of extraordinary people rushed to the East Side at the first time, and although the cathedrals of the Eastern District were the first to help, in the East District, in the dock area, and in the factory area, those who were either old or with hidden diseases fell down in the fog like felled trees, and those who came into contact with them at this time were infected with the plague and died quickly, and the adults and children who were still relatively healthy also felt slightly unwell.

In their eyes, the pale yellow and iron-black mist was like a 'grim reaper' descending.

And for those who have been carried away by death, there is nothing they can do.

The surviving people looked at the people who had fallen in the fog on the streets, their eyes full of sadness.

And there are many more man-made plagues that have infected the body and are coughing violently.

"Ahem!"

"Ahem, ahem, ahem—"

The cough is getting louder and louder, and it is spreading rapidly like a plague. In a short time, the whole street and the whole area resounded with coughing one after another.

The expressions of the first extraordinary people who rushed to the rescue changed drastically, and they immediately realized that something was wrong, but when they just wanted to take measures.

The next second, I found that these coughing people were the same people who had already fallen in the haze.

They had already been thought to have died in the plague, but now they were coughing violently, and the appearance made people worry that they would be coughed out of their lungs.

"Ahem, cough, cough~"

Old Kohler coughed in pain, only to feel something in his throat being spit out like a bullet out of his stomach. He struggled to get up from the ground, not forgetting to pick up the paper bag that he had prepared for the New Year, and he couldn't just throw it away.

"I'm not dead?"

Old Kohler thought a little incredulously, the cough just now almost killed him, and he felt that even the internal organs were coughed out. But after coughing, he felt a little lighter in his body, his waist was no longer sore, his legs didn't hurt, but fortunately, his heart was still beating.

Old Kohler suddenly changed color, as if remembering something, and exclaimed:

"That's right, my cigarettes!"

He hurriedly searched the ground, and finally found the crumpled cigarette that broke in two and exposed the tobacco. It was only at the moment when he picked up the cigarette that he saw that there seemed to be another apple on the ground, a black and spoiled apple that had long since rotted.

Old Kohler was stunned for a moment, and he finally remembered that it was this apple that he had just coughed up!

But he remembered that the last time he ate an apple was a few years ago......

——

"Mom, Mom, how are you feeling?"

Freya, who spit out the apple, got up from the ground and hurriedly helped Liv up.

"I—I'm fine......"

Liv looked at the two apples on the ground that had been spit out and rotted rapidly, and was a little surprised and unsure of what had just happened.

They helped each other out of the apartment, and saw that the street was full of people who had just woken up, their faces still full of horror and confusion, and the ground was littered with rotten apples, clumps sticking to the ground like scars.

But soon, the torrential rain washed the poisonous apples into the sewer piece by piece, and they were never seen again.

"Daisy!"

Liv looked at her confused daughter beside her, suddenly exclaimed, and hurriedly ran in the direction of the public school. Freya followed her, and two emaciated women burst with incredible endurance and speed as they ran towards the public elementary school on the edge of the East End.

In the distance, they saw a small, thin figure rushing out of the church next to the school, it was Daisy.

She is Liv's daughter and Freya's sister.

"Daisy!"

"Mom! Freya! ”

They ran towards each other, hugging each other in the streets and in the torrential rain, with the joy of rediscovery and reunion after the catastrophe.

I don't know what happened, but at least they're alive.

——

Relying on the miraculous item he obtained from Ember, the copper-green mottled cross, Crane was quite lucky to have a back and forth with Mr. A. But even so, he didn't dare to fight for a long time, because the side effects of this cross were too great—

As long as he holds it for more than an hour, his sequence will be lowered by at least one level, and the speed of this regression will get faster and faster, and in no more than three hours, he will completely become an ordinary person. When it was really a last resort, he would rather throw away this cross and run for his life.

Fortunately, the battle did not last a full hour.

Because just when the two were 'fighting', all the colors in front of him became intense, as if they had been splashed with oil paint by the gods.

The feeling flickered, and Crane found himself moving away from where he had been, and saw the bronzed, soft-haired Azke Eggers appear next to him.

"Mr. Azik, you're not hurt, are you?" He breathed a sigh of relief uncontrollably, and at the same time threw the Darkless Cross out like a hot potato.

Azk looked at Klein's movements in surprise, and then smiled:

"Yes, but it's not a big deal for the undead."

——

In a room underneath St. Samuel's Cathedral, the 'Necromantic Master' Dali Simone held a telegram just sent from the Eastern District in her hand, and reported with a somewhat solemn expression:

"The smog has brought a lot of spreading diseases and plagues, and even if the Church of the Storm intervenes in time, the impact is still very large. At least 100,000 people have been directly affected, while at least 200,000 residents have been affected on the periphery! ”

"Two hundred thousand?"

Audrey closed her eyes a little unbearably, not daring to think about how many lives were taken by this tragedy.

"Miss Daly."

Ember raised his head and asked slowly, "How many people are still in the church?" ”

"There's no one left."

Dai Li shook her head, "Everyone was sent out except for my team. ”

Before leaving, Archbishop St. Anthony told even the deacons to obey Ember's arrangements and instructions. All the night watchmen in the church had been sent out, and Dali and her team stayed because they were also responsible for guarding Chanis Gate.

Ember was silent for a long time, and then asked, "What about the number of victims?" ”

"I haven't counted it yet."

Dai Li said in a low voice, "But the estimated number of direct deaths is at least more than 100,000." ”

100,000 people, ordinary small towns may not have this population size!

"Deacon Daly, new telegram."

At this moment, the night watchman who received the telegram suddenly had a strange expression and handed a telegram to Dali.

Dai Li took the telegram, glanced at it with a solemn expression, and then froze in place, looking at the big words on it in a daze:

"Estimated number of victims, 0."

Dai Li couldn't help but ask, "Did you translate it wrong?" ”

"Nope."

The telegraph operator cut the bulletin, "The telegram was sent twice, and that's the number!" ”

Audrey asked a little unbearably, "What is written on it?" ”

Daly glanced at her, her expression became as strange as that of a telegraph operator, and said:

"The number of victims is out, 0."

“0？”

Audrey exclaimed, "How is that possible? ”

"yes, how is that possible?"

Dai Li frowned, "The telegram says that the people affected by the plague miraculously recovered and were completely healthy after spitting out a piece of poisoned apple. ”

"Poison apples? Snow White? ”

Audrey subconsciously had an association, and suddenly felt happy in her heart, knowing that someone had saved the people of the Eastern District!

It was the Deep Blue Priest who summoned the wind to dispel the haze and the rainstorm to cleanse the plague, but he clearly did not have the extraordinary ability to do so. And the archbishops of the other two major churches did not either, and this was a strange high-order extraordinary person.

And the name of this high-level extraordinary person is already coming out:

Bernadette Gustaf!

Audrey looked up at Ember in surprise, and Ember nodded imperceptibly, confirming the girl's guess.

Audrey had a shallow smile on her face, with a little reserved pride:

Although she didn't do it directly, although she was only in charge of praying, at least she had some credit.

Rounding it off, it's equivalent to her saving Beckland!

This is far more proud of Audrey than the 'Tarot Society' to prevent the evil gods from descending, and the 'Night Church' to capture criminals!

And what makes Audrey happiest is that the number of victims is zero.

This means that no one will lose their lives in this catastrophe!

(End of chapter)