Xiyue cleaned up her pursuers cleanly, her strength had already been sharpened in battles large and small, and there was no problem with one enemy at all.

"You haven't answered me yet, why are they chasing you?" Xiyue asked the gray moth while checking the identity of the person who came.

"I don't know, it's too dangerous outside, let's hurry back." Naturally, the gray moth lied, and then said something very surprising.

Xiyue raised her eyebrows and said jokingly: "What, don't you want to run away?" ”

"What is running away, I'm just out for a walk, hurry up, there's another wave behind." The gray moth said righteously.

Yes, Grey Moth suddenly felt that it was good to follow Ryan, the world was too dangerous.

And......

He subconsciously glanced at Xiyue's shoulder, there was a scorched black mark, it was a wound suffered in the battle, although it was not serious, but it still moved him very much.

No one looked down on him since he was a child, he was an illegitimate child with a bad fate, and when he grew up, he was a thief that everyone shouted and beats, and he only got false attention when he spent a lot of money in the gold cave.

To put it mildly, except for his old lady who died early, no one cares whether he lives or dies.

And when he was in danger, Xiyue actually stepped forward alone, which really moved him to the core, and he hadn't felt this feeling of being cared for for for many years......

Gray Moth was alone in his heart, and if Xiyue knew, he would definitely tell him that he "thought too much".

Don't say it's him, even if it's an ordinary person who doesn't know and is hunted down by these people, Xiyue will help, this is the spirit that a great adventurer should have, and it has nothing to do with the gray moth himself, after all, everyone is really not familiar.

After the two returned to the camp, the gray moth fell asleep, and this night he slept unusually peacefully, and had a very strange dream, in which an old man with a goatee asked him kindly if he wanted to be his "walker".

The gray moth didn't know what "walking" was, and cursed "Mader's staff" and went back to sleep in his dream, but he didn't notice that the bell he picked up was flickering with fluorescenities......

The counterinsurgency campaign has come to an end, and only after the remnants of the rebels have been wiped out, the aristocratic coalition can begin to retreat.

The form is very good, Ryan and the others also silently began to calculate the return date, and they have been out for more than half a year, and they are homesick.

At the same time, one of the last people who should have appeared, but quietly returned to Lintonshire before them, and this person was none other than Baron Brace, who had long since died.

When Ryan confirmed his death, he planned to take his body with him, but he was later ambushed in Bald City and discarded it during his escape.

No one expected that Brace, who was completely dead at the beginning, would actually "live" again......

Dressed in slightly shabby clothes, with a stiff demeanor, Brace walked mechanically, and apart from the occasional twinkle in his eyes, he was indistinguishable from the walking dead.

He avoided the populated area along the way, and returned to the barony like a ghost, and the officer guarding the city gate looked down, and did not recognize it for a while, and stretched out his hand to him to ask for "filial piety".

Blaise raised his lowered head, and the officer finally recognized who was standing in front of him, and he was immediately frightened, and he lay on the ground and did not dare to come out.

But he just glanced at the officer on the ground and walked towards the castle, the officer only felt that he had picked up a life, and for a while he was still in the mood to investigate why his lord was like this.

Although the soldiers guarding the castle wondered why he had come back in this form, they didn't have the courage to ask, and could only secretly guess that he might have lost the battle at the front.

The first to notice Brace's anomaly was the old butler in the castle, who had served the family for three generations, and Brace had grown up watching him since he was a child, and he was too familiar with it.

Bresie, who was behaving too abnormally, could naturally notice that something was wrong.

Suppressing the shock in his heart, he was about to quietly make the discovery public, but Blaise grabbed his arm first.

The old butler was nervous and wanted to find an excuse to leave, but he saw a strange smile on Brace's face, and his eyes turned into scarlet swirls.

The old butler's body trembled uncontrollably, and he wanted to shout for help, but his throat seemed to be choked, and he couldn't make any sound at all.

Soon, the old butler's body became cold.

Blaise threw his body into the well and began to feast on his feast.

In just one night, all the people up and down the castle were turned into walking dead......

The people outside the castle didn't know about all this, because all that was alive after witnessing it was a fat rat.

Needless to say, the Cultist is Queenn the Faceling, who had used the Cultist to attach Brace's arm and planted a seed in his mind, and now, the seed has sprouted!

The people of Lintonshire did not yet know that a crisis was brewing......

In the dimly lit room, Quinn sat in a plush chair, while the original owner of the position, Blaise, knelt in front of him with blank eyes.

"Humph! Those fools had already said that this method would not work, and they wanted to gamble with the foundation of the council, and now not only have one of the evil artifacts been lost, but the soul of the Holy Lord has also been destroyed, which is really stupid. ”

Quinn lowered his hand from Blaise's forehead and scolded the fool several times in his heart.

Although he was also a member of the Council of the Apostles of the Evil God, the success or failure of the rebellion was only learned from Blaise's memory.

The decisive battle had not yet begun when Blaise died, and the reason why he remembered these fragments was because he had "witnessed" the battle throughout the whole process before receiving Quinn's instructions to rush back and carry out a new plan.

"That idiot of the second executive, if he had listened to the opinion of the CEO and fully supported the Nightmare Project, where would there have been such a tragic failure?

It's a shame that such a perfect boarder has to be exposed now in order to cover the council. ”

Quinn looked at Brace, his tone full of regret.

Yes, Blaise was indeed dead, and now controlling the movement of his body was the presence called "Nightmare" in his mind.

This thing Ryan had also come into contact with, and when the first orcs invaded Kanna, he had been unconscious due to overuse of the power of the dragon crystal.

The cultist plans to take advantage of the situation and implant a "nightmare" in his mind, so as to achieve the goal of controlling Ryan and even the entire territory.

It's a pity that they didn't know about the existence of Long Jing, and the "nightmare" they carefully cultivated was knocked out by Long Jing with a shockwave before it began to take root, and they planned to go straight to the soup.

Quinn was the only survivor of the cult at the time, and he was stripped of his face by his master because of his failed mission, and became the current Faceling, suffering unimaginable pain every day.

Unwilling, he hit the idea on Brace, and it was much easier to deal with this guy, just a little trick planted a "nightmare" in his mind.

The "Nightmare" is like a seed at the beginning, and it does not have any special manifestations, and during the period of the host, it will continue to devour his spiritual power to grow.

The Nightmare matured at the time of Blaise's death, which was an excellent time for it, as the host's soul was unguarded.

It directly swallowed Brace's soul, occupied the magpie's nest by itself, and became the new "Baron Brace".

As a result of digesting the memory fragments in his soul, he is no different from Brace, but his behavior can be very incongruous, because the "nightmare" is still learning how to control this body.

The second executive in Quinn's mouth is the unlucky guy who summoned the evil god in the decisive battle and was finally killed by Douglas himself.

The power structure of the Council of the Apostles of the Evil Gods is different from that of other churches, with the highest authority being the Council, the supreme leader being the Speaker, and a varying number of councillors.

They held the supreme power of the Apostolic Council, and were responsible for developing the Council, making decisions for the future, and so on.

However, unlike other parliamentary organizations, although the speaker and members of parliament have decision-making power, they do not have executive power, and the decisions they make are ultimately delegated to the hands of the executive officers, who have full power to implement them, and the parliamentarians are not allowed to intervene.

The executive officers are all powerful priests, and their number is not fixed, there are more than a dozen of them at the most glorious time, and there is no one at the most depressed time.

The most interesting thing is that while the evil god is the only one and supreme, there is a difference in the evil god to which each executive is allegiated.

Because the evil god is a complex composed of multiple wills, in layman's terms, it is a split personality or multiple splits. Each personality represents a different will.

For example, the second executive is loyal to "blood and violence", so he leads and facilitates this massive rebellion to please the evil gods.

Quinn's allegiance to the CEO is loyal to the protagonist "Nightmare and Darkness", and they do not advocate the use of direct rebellion to achieve the purpose of the council - the destruction of the world.

So, they used a trace of the evil god's divine blood to cultivate the first "nightmare", that is, the mother.

They rely on their "nightmares" to host powerful transcendents or nobles with actual fiefdoms, and finally achieve the goal of controlling a country or even the world.

The project was a success, but was soon halted by the council, which was unable to achieve the ultimate goal due to the sheer amount of resources invested.

As a result, there was a plan proposed by the second executive to directly launch a rebellion, using the southern border as the foundation, and eventually swallowing the entire territory of the Tistan Kingdom and even the entire continent.

The people of the council were stunned by his rhetoric, and finally unanimously decided to cut the investment in the "Nightmare" project and devote most of the resources to the "rebellion plan".

Obviously, the strength of this unlucky bastard's cowhide that was blown out but did not do it not only consumed the wealth accumulated by the council for many years, but also made the Grand Duke of the South aware of their hiding place.

In order to protect the lair from being discovered, the council bosses finally remembered this pawn that they had almost abolished, and they planned to do something to attract the attention of the Grand Duke of the South and create an opportunity for them to divert the lair.

This is also the reason why Quinn said that it is a pity, because the boarder who is chosen to be exposed is an outcast, and he is to be abandoned.

The Nightmare Project has had a difficult time over the years, and its quality has been uneven, and it is very rare to grow to a level of perfection like Brace, and if you give it time, it can become a "real" Brace, but now it has to be abandoned as an outcast.

"It's a pity, your title is too low, just a baron, if you have a viscount fief, I will protect you in front of the executive officer." Quinn shook his head regretfully.

"Now that the castle is completely under control, we have to find an opportunity to make the next step, and the bigger the movement, the better, so as to attract the attention of the Grand Duke of the South." Quinn rubbed his chin and began to plan his next move......

In September, the weather is getting cooler, and the harvest is about to be harvested again, and the farmers who work in the fields during this time have smiles on their faces.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Under the setting sun, a group of soldiers dressed in neat military uniforms and carrying brand-new blades ran neatly on the spacious cement road, all young men, full of vitality.

The leader was Hans, and today was the day of routine training, so he took the soldiers of the city defense battalion, that is, the third battalion, out of the city early in the morning for field training, and only now returned to Dorman City.

Dorman City is now a little more lively than ever, as Archon Hervian has been strictly following the guidelines set by Lane and working hard to expand the population of the territory.

In less than a year this year, he has added thousands of people to Kana Territory by various means and channels, and has enriched the towns and Dorman City a lot.

During Lane's absence, Delai was the supreme military commander of the whole territory, and he never slackened, not only training often, but also eliminating a group of unqualified soldiers and recruiting a group of recruits, so recently you can often see recruits training outside.

"Lord Hans, you're back, and the Legion Commander has called you over." As soon as Hans returned to the station, a young officer stepped forward to inform him.

"Well, okay, I'll be right over." Hans agreed, but he had some doubts in his heart, after all, it had been quite peaceful lately, and Delai had not looked for him alone for a long time.

He saw Delai in the office, and the other party was looking at something intently, and the word "Chuan" was squeezed out of his brow.

"Legion Commander, do you have anything to do with me?"

Delai glanced up at Hans, sighed, and said, "You come and see this." ”

Hans strangely took a note, only to see that it was a detailed account of everything that happened in Castle Brace, including some of Quinn's subsequent plans. The final inscription reads Rat Caller.

"This ...... It's just ridiculous, how is that possible? ”

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(End of chapter)