"All of you go forward, don't stop, don't rest, now is not the time to rest...... Here, put him on my back, don't rub it off, hurry up. ”

On the street, not too far from Iris Street, a large group of people was moving quickly in the direction of the south gate.

Felix adjusted his position and carried the boy with some leg injuries on his back, and then he walked briskly to the front of the group.

At this time, it was not yet full of dawn, the deep night had not yet faded, and the panic caused by the magic mutation and turmoil at night was still on everyone's face.

However, fortunately, there were no enough crystallization ore warehouses in either place to cause an explosion, and the previous shipments into the city were all processed and processed finished magic crystals and new steam weapons with relatively little magic content, so although the survivors were forced to work for most of the night due to the turmoil, there were no significant losses after all.

However, the seemingly limited but eerie earthquake, and the already noticeable change in the magic in the environment, made Felix, who was in charge of the transfer and transfer of personnel, extremely alert and nervous.

As someone who had been warned by Xiuge, Felix was extremely sensitive to these subtle changes, and he immediately organized a team to conduct a quick reconnaissance of the southern city at night, risking being attacked by the children of the Abyss.

After confirming that everything was normal in the southern city and that there were no nocturnal children on the streets, Felix immediately informed General Butz and the Hermit of Gene of the discovery, and then, after an extremely difficult meeting, the original personnel transfer plan was changed, and all the tasks were scheduled.

In this matter, the sword-wielding hermit Jeant was firmly on Felix's side.

As a spellcaster, Jeant was well aware of the serious consequences of changes in the concentration and stability of mana in the environment, and the unknown reasons that caused this change were even more terrifying, so he decisively mobilized the survivors and some soldiers in the Law Council to fully support Felix's transfer plan.

Perhaps the Descendants of the Abyss really gave up on these "ordinary foods" completely, or perhaps luck was finally on the side of the survivors this time. With the help of manpower and magic, Felix managed to secure the transfer of two teams.

The new station, which had been erected in advance next to the city gate on the south side, also successfully received the displaced survivors and the supplies they had transported.

By the time Felix finally got a chance to drink and eat, the sky had become completely bright.

Although there are still traces of the panic of last night's earthquake in the station built on the basis of the southern wall and the south gate, everything here has been restored, so to the cordial greetings of many people, Felix walked slowly with a piece of hard bread in his mouth, not deliberately accepting the respect and courtship of others, but fulfilling his duty.

The area that clings to the gates and the edge of the ceremonial arena will soon be connected to the checkpoints and strongholds constructed by the Emergency Committee of the City of Seren.

Now, the eyes of all who arrive here are shining, for they have learned that they will soon be able to escape from this terrible hell on earth.

As he walked, Felix came to the south gate.

He had been very familiar with this place for a long time, and in the past time, he had saved his own life and that of the children through the supplies that the Legit Master Valery had been sending in from outside the city.

Looking at the defensive line that had been established and the crowd of people who were constantly carrying supplies, Felix's face flashed a trace of trance.

On the day of the armistice celebrations, the south gate was the beginning of all the catastrophes, but now it is the hope of all life...... This made Felix's mood delicate.

Felix stuffed the remaining small slice of bread into his mouth, and then he saw that beside the city gate, there were several strange figures, who were directing some soldiers to sort out and return some of the items piled up next to the city gate.

"Huh? Mage? ”

Felix's eyebrows moved slightly, and he noticed that these spellcasters did not seem to be members of the city's Dharma's resident residence, and although they were also wearing the Legal's standard clothes, their clothes were much cleaner and their overall mental state was much better than that of the city's mages, and there were no signs of long-term ordeal.

"Did they come in from outside the city? At a time like this? Risking to come in? ”

Felix's heart was full of doubts, and just as he was walking towards these people, one of the male mages, who was of medium stature and somewhat simple appearance, suddenly turned his head to look, and he smiled brightly at Felix, and then he raised his hand and greeted him very kindly and cordially.

"Is that Mr. Felix?"

The tone was extremely friendly, and he was so humble that he didn't look like a mage.

Felix was a little stunned, and before he could react, the mage from outside the city of Seren had already walked towards him: "It's me, Valery...... I didn't expect that we would be able to meet early. ”

"Valery?"

Felix was a little stunned, he raised his hand, brushed off the two crumbs of dry bread stuck to his mouth, and then immediately stepped forward: "Is it Master Valery?" Why are you ...... Appearing here? ”

As he spoke, his gaze drifted to the side of the city gate, only to see that the huge ritual field that blocked the city of Salem was still functioning, but last night's turmoil had obviously caused some damage to the ritual field, and Felix could see that the translucent 'wall' was now flickering at a slow frequency.

"Of course I came in from outside, in the early hours of the morning!"

For the mage in front of him, who was a little unfamiliar, but had indeed helped countless survivors in the city, Felix really couldn't show the caution and respect he usually had for other mages, and he asked with some anxiety, "Master Valery, did the emergency committee let you in?" At a time like this? ”

Valery raised his hand and gently tapped Felix twice on the shoulder, he glanced at the swaying figures in the camp, and then sighed: "I didn't ask the emergency committee to come, I asked for it...... You should know a little bit about last night, it was a mess everywhere. ”

"The emergency committee was worried about the new situation in the city and the sudden collapse of the ceremonial arena in Selen, so they organized a group of volunteers to come in."

As he spoke, he pointed to the mages of different ages, but they were all busy: "There are more than thirty people in total, not a lot...... However, it was sufficient to complete the Committee's groundwork. ”

"What do you mean by groundwork?"

"Solidify the ceremonial arena from the inside, probe the city, and also conduct the first round of screening of people who are about to leave the city."

Valery whispered, "The Emergency Committee will not allow any monster to escape from the city, so this work must be carried out strictly...... This is already the bottom line for everyone, including the plateau and plain countries, and a consensus has been reached in this regard. ”

"Okay, is it up to you to take care of these things?"

"No, it's not me ......"

Valery shook his head: "It's a young lake-level female mage, she is a member of the Ernst family, she just arrived in the early hours of the morning, and then directly submitted her application...... Now she is in charge of everything in our temporary team......"

As he spoke, Valery's body suddenly trembled, because the young female mage he was talking about suddenly looked in this direction, so a rather cold aura immediately enveloped the two people in the conversation, Felix secretly glanced twice, only to feel that although the eyes under the other party's lenses looked a little tired, they looked extremely sharp, like two deadly ice blades.

She walked briskly, her gaze swept over the two of them, and finally landed on Felix's face.

In this overwhelming sense of oppression, Felix swallowed his saliva, and then consciously made a brief self-introduction, after hearing that Felix was currently in charge of the transfer and transfer of personnel in the city, Vilene Ernst immediately stepped forward and asked, "You are the person in charge of personnel transfer?" Okay, so do you know a mage named Hug Ernst? ”

"Well, of course I do."

There seemed to be a light in the female mage's eyes: "Where is he?" ”

However, Felix was a little speechless, he hesitated, gritted his teeth, and said, "If the plan has not changed, then Mr. Shuge is probably in the northern part of Salem City now...... He's staying with the monsters. ”

Hearing this, Wei Lin's expression quickly froze, her eyes narrowed slightly, and her gaze lowered to the ground.

After a moment of thought, Wei Lin raised her eyes again, and a look of helplessness flashed from her tired eyes, but before she could continue to ask, an unusually dazzling bright red magical light suddenly flew up from the northern part of Salem City, and it soared into the air, and exploded in the air, forming a series of huge circles.

"Not a universal magic signal......"

Wei Lin's gaze lingered on these strange magical patterns for a moment, then she immediately turned her head and asked, "You should have developed your own set of signal usages, what does that mean?" ”

Felix also stared at the sky, he licked his dry lips, and replied, "In Mr. Shugg's improvised usage, the red circles represent the monsters' mutations, and the more numerous, the more intense their mutations become......"

He counted the number of red circles in the sky, and his voice trembled slightly: "Anyway, before leaving, he asked us that once we see these signals, then everything in the city must be as advanced as possible, because it means that those 'silts' are changing in some unpredictable direction!" ”

……

Shuge also had an extremely difficult night.

It's just that the intensity of the situation he faced was more exaggerated than what most people experienced.

The complete change in the state of magic in the environment has not only brought about the disorder of various magic crystals and products, but also all the magical creatures that are in the Van En and benefit from the magic itself, all of which are under its influence, either rapid or subtle.

As the heirs of the Abyss, who are closely related to the Abyss Court, the changes that have taken place within them are even more striking.

Xiuge's night's rest lasted only two hours before it was completely interrupted, and the reason was that after experiencing the stimulation of the magic power, the group of Abyssal Descendants in the city began to actively change their strategies, and with the continuous mobilization of the subject's will, they were no longer scattered, but emerged from all corners of the northern city, and began to condense and combine.

Their wisdom has clearly risen to another level.

Now that the Descendants of the Abyss are no longer attached to the pipes, crevices, and underground tunnels that are inaccessible to ordinary people, they have focused all their attention on the building, perhaps realizing that Shuge may be using some magic or ritual to cover their whereabouts, and have resorted to a very crude but effective strategy - sabotage.

That is, the most thorough and violent impact on the large and small buildings in the line of sight.

The building chosen by Xiug as a hiding place suffered this treatment, and Xiug saw the children of the Abyss gather into a black mountain, and then imitate the insects and beasts they had devoured, transforming their bodies into rock-hard scales and horns, which then crushed directly towards the building itself.

In this case, even the protective rituals and the illusions of the Roots of Fate have no way to ensure the safety of the hideout.

Seeing that Shuge was forced to appear, the children of the Abyss were even more ecstatic about this, and on the wriggling black hills, one after another human figures that had been devoured and digested by them appeared, and they shouted, invited, and even pleaded to Xiuge with various voices, their language became more fluent, and the vocabulary they used became more and more complex.

In this way, Shug fled with the endless pursuers until dawn.

Then he found that the bright sunlight no longer seemed to be able to affect these fellows in the slightest, and not only that, but they had finally gained a thorough insight into Xiuge's intentions with their growing wisdom.

Faced with the Descendants of the Abyss, who had begun to show obvious signs of splitting and were preparing to turn in the other direction of Salem City, Shug reluctantly sent the most serious warning signal into the air.

He only hoped that the survivors in the city and the emergency committee outside the city would quickly advance the evacuation plan......

(End of chapter)