"Cadman City."

Lieutenant Mia looked at the city in front of him, still covered in shadow in the sun, with a complicated and nostalgic look.

Although the city was stacked like a chaotic building block due to the Astral Catastrophe, it was twisted and reshaped in an indescribable way, not only greatly shrinking the area, but also causing all kinds of unimaginable spatial collapses within the city.

But there are some things that can be judged without appearance, just as no one can mistake their hometown.

When she stood in front of the city with her elder, she immediately recognized that this was her lost home, which she had quietly regained one day.

She was born here, her family disappeared into the disaster of Cadman City, and she thought she would never see them again in her life, but fate is a who likes to see people cry. Son, there will always be such and such strange stories shaped by nature.

"Mia!"

Mistress Kudell's call quickly woke Lieutenant Mia from that mental emotion, and she realized that she had missed the order, and immediately responded to the Superior in the manner of a standard soldier:

"Yes!"

"The battle on the Maginot Line is not over yet, but the current situation in Cadman City cannot be left unattended, so I have decided that you will lead a People's Army to temporarily settle in Cadman City to assist His Excellency Acting Mayor Hillier in restoring order in the city as soon as possible and taking over the rest of the city's armed forces."

Kudell is going to be in a bit of a bad state.

He was almost killed by the silver wolf before, and even his dual identity as a vampire and a knight of the Holy Grail would take him some time to recover, but the change in the situation could not help him take his time, so he could only send the power at his hand first.

He said to his only heir at present:

"Hold on here for a while, and General Flanders will lead the militia to take your place. You were born here, right? You must be familiar with this place. ”

"Yes, Master Kudell."

Lieutenant Mia, who became a vampire, still maintains a military demeanor, as she has experienced something unforgettable that makes her seem more aloof than the other vampires.

But the good news is that Midnight's Blessing has finally made her less skinny than before, and even heavy firearms like the Troll's Hammer can be used independently, which frees her from worrying about her observers being implicated in her bad luck.

Of course, the visual impact of a lady carrying such a heavy weapon still impressed everyone.

In the face of Kudel's inquiry, Mia replied crisply:

"I was born on Fink Street, one of the busiest and most chaotic streets in Downtown, and I grew up roaming the streets of Cadman City with a group of friends, so I'm familiar with all parts of the city, but it's said that Cadman City has a lot of spatial distortions, so I can't guarantee that I'll be able to recognise them."

"Everybody feels new to the city now, but we have to accept it."

Kudell sighed and said:

"Go on a mission, wait for the follow-up instructions, and after you finish your duty in Cadman City, I will integrate you into the KPA Assault Force and go to various places to carry out missions, the reason has been told before, the KPA is in dire need of a good grassroots commander like you.

Also, until we get the source blood, it's better to keep our distance. ”

"I'm totally fine, General."

Lieutenant Mia answered, but she also moved her wrist a little uncomfortably, her experience as a child made her a girl who would not rely on others, but after becoming the heir of Master Kudel, she felt that strange sense of dependence, which made her uncomfortable.

Therefore, Lieutenant Mia was also relieved in his heart about General Kudel's arrangement.

She soon entered the city with an elite People's Army composed entirely of vampires, Elder Hillier had been instructed in advance and cooperated with her work, there were many things in the city, but the first priority was to reassert the rule of Translasia, and in order to do so, it was necessary to deal with the large and small forces and mountains in the city.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to send a messenger to contact the grass kings, Mia also made a trip back to Fink Street.

But it is a pity that there is no longer any familiar scene in the neighborhood in his memory, and there are even traces of the fierce battle, as if it has been burned several times.

This is normal.

I don't know what is the reason for the once bustling and chaotic Fink Street, which has caused the cultists of dusk to be entrenched here for the past nine months, and the hidden danger was only completely cleared half an hour before the city returned, this has been the darkest place in the city for some time, which good family would choose to live here?

Mia, dressed in military uniform, stood alone at the corner of a ruined street, her bloodshot eyes full of loss.

His home had been destroyed by the war, leaving him in ruins.

Alas, he lost his best friends North and Papel, who grew up together, and the city's return to the physical world brought him a small hope but then it was shattered, and his family may have lost their lives in the chaos that preceded it

I became alone again, as if I had been abandoned by the world.

This caused Mia to feel a pang of pain in her heart, and she bent down and picked up a delicate half-burned diary from the black ruins with her gloved hands.

It was my sister's diary, a gift she had saved up for her last birthday.

The complicated experience of this time made Mia finally unable to maintain her composure at this moment, she wanted to cry, it didn't mean that she wasn't strong enough, it was just that the repeated malice of fate made her a little difficult to resist, but vampires couldn't shed tears, the world didn't treat them well, and even the right to express grief has been denied.

The decorated lieutenant held the diary in her arms, her shoulders shook as if she had lost the whole world again, and as if she was alone in the dark night, the pain in her heart was like a snail, a long but patient slow movement, and happiness was like a rabbit's tail skimming the autumn field

"Who's there! Come out! ”

Even in such a sad time, the perception given to her by her vampire bloodline, coupled with her natural sense of hunting, still allowed Mia to catch the movement of the alley behind her for the first time.

She scolded, turning around, she had an extra copy of the Colt-1911 with the insurance open, the tech gurus of the arsenal making elite weapons for the ration of officers, with more firepower and destruction than the previous revolver.

Her finger is on the trigger and ready to attack.

This is the instinct of the most elite fighters of the KPA.

But in the next second, Mia, who had a cold face, saw two half-grown children in tattered clothes hugging her together, looking at her in horror, and a bag full of meat buns was thrown beside them.

It was the first ration ordered by General Kuder to the inhabitants of the city, a brother and sister who had just received supplies and were about to go home, their faces were thin and looked like they had been malnourished for a long time, the girl's hair was a little yellow, and the boy's neck had a strange tattoo with starlight.

That's not the point.

The point is that Mia recognized the two children at once, and when she put down her pistol tremblingly, the two children recognized her too.

"Sister!"

The half-grown girl let out a scream of excitement and was about to pounce on her, but was stopped by her brother behind her.

"Vampires! My sister has become a vampire! Don't go near her! ”

Mia's little brother was also a little excited, but he still retained the last of his senses, and Mia, who had already rushed towards his younger siblings with this shout, also stopped, causing her mood to crash like a roller coaster against the cold rock wall.

yes, become a vampire yourself.

No one in Cadman City would dare to speak out against the Midnight Clan, but in reality, what they really think about vampires is always reflected in the education of their children.

The performance of her younger brother made Mia's heart seem to be blocked by a stone, and the joy of reunion after a long absence cooled down a lot.

"What stupid are you talking about! Let go! You've become an astral monster, and we didn't give up on you? ”

But Mia's sister was obviously fierce, and a punch in the eye of her stupid brother made the latter scream, and she was not afraid of it at all, and ran like a cannonball into Mia's arms.

The vampire lieutenant also hugged his family to the death, as if he was embracing the world again at this moment.

"Woo. We miss you so much, Mia couldn't find you when the city was swept into the astral plane. Where have you gone? ”

Mia's sister cried and questioned her.

Mia couldn't answer, and she didn't want to, for she, North, and Papel were working for Dorothy's Big Sister Rats in the black market of the sewers during the city's disaster, a pretty good job a kid in the lower city.

It's a pity that Dorothy's eldest sister is very strict in her picking, and she will only ask the most sensitive and capable children to act as her temporary subordinates.

Because of this, Mia was able to escape by accident when the city above was swept into the astral plane.

"Mom and Dad, are you still there?"

Mia comforted her sister, her voice trembled a little and asked, at this time the younger brother who was covering his eyes stepped forward and whispered to the eldest sister:

"Mom and Dad are here!

When something terrible happened in the city, Dad took us to hide in the house of Aunt Madeleine, who was a blood servant, and she protected us and gave us food, but unfortunately, Aunt Madeleine was kicked out of the inner city by her master the other day and now lives with us. ”

"It's all there. It's good to be all there. ”

Mia breathed a sigh of relief, and then she asked:

"The neighbors."

"The neighbors are."

Sister Mia glanced at the ruins in front of her with some sadness and horror, and said:

"Very few people escaped, many disappeared into those labyrinthine alleys, and Dad said we were lucky, and he said we all had to thank a guy named Murphy, who was that?

Do you know him? ”

"You should call him 'Master Murphy.'"

Mia hugged her brother and sister, and she said earnestly and softly:

"It was a great and kind man, he was the governor of Translasia, our lord and savior."

"Wow, will Lord Murphy be king in the future?"

The younger brother asked curiously, which made Mia not know how to answer, she helped her younger brother and sister pick up the fallen meat buns, and led them to their current home, on the way she thought for a while, and said:

"I don't know if Lord Murphy wants to be king, but he is already the undisputed leader of the land, and if he wants to be king, then all the people of Translancia will be willing to put him on the throne.

Well, just like the wolf girl and King Louis!

He will surely become a king who is better than all of them. ”

——

"See, even if you don't have much power of your own, your loyal warriors are already planning to help you become king, my Murphy."

In the dark alleys of Fink Street, Trace, who is studying the strange phenomenon of space folding, jokingly says to Murphy:

"Guess if one day, Maxim brings you a yellow dress, it should be a rich purple robe and a crown according to our custom."

"Don't make a fuss, just the rotten land of Translasia, whoever wants to be the king should be, I shouldn't be."

Murphy, who was holding a sword to secure Tracey, complained:

"Besides, even if the allusion to the yellow robe is really going to be staged, shouldn't it be Kudel who crowns Miriam? She's been doing things here. And the girl. Her name is Mia, and I've heard Kudell tell her story.

Together with her platoon of hunters, she besieged a hunter voter, and her will to fight was so fierce that Kudel broke the taboo for her.

She is a fierce warrior and will definitely become a pillar of power for Transncia in the future. ”

"Soldiers like Mia are already everywhere in the People's Army, they died in the heat of the war and were blessed by Midnight to become the backbone of the Blood Vultures, after this battle, the Cadman People's Army will become a powerful force in the Continent, and our Blood Vulture Clan will also dominate the future of the Night."

Tracey sighed:

"A black plague really changed a lot of things, and it is foreseeable that it will continue to change more traditions. So much has already happened in May of the year 1112, I really don't know what history will say about this year in the future. ”

"Well, I guess I'll give this year a nickname, something weird like 'Year of Turmoil.'"

Murphy complained:

"You see, Lao Su Tou fell from the subspace into the material world, lost his godhead and had to use faith to ignite the divine fire, isn't this the standard 'Sage Advent'? Let me say that this time the critics on the mainland have finally grabbed the real material to play up their so-called chaotic era.

The incident between Old Su Tou and the Lord of the Hunt is just the beginning, and there will definitely be more to come.

But it's okay.

We're not as fragile as we used to be, we're ready to play. ”

The vampire looked up from the dark and cramped alley, as if he had been in a strange tube building looking at the dim sky, and he said:

"Another 100,000 people are in hand, plus the power of Hogg's side can finally develop the creator faction unaffected, Tracey, we have finally survived to the stage where we can 'storm soldiers', and then as long as Kafhoka is taken, the manpower problem will be permanently solved."

"But it will take time for your foreign warriors to grow."

Tracey had gathered enough information about the space samples, and she put the psionic slices back into her belongings, then turned back to Murphy and said:

"You have to make sure that the 'recruits' who come here on a large scale have enough time to grow, and a large-scale war like the Black Plague is unlikely to happen in the short term."

"I think you're planting the flag, Trace."

Murphy pursed his lips, crossed his waist, moved his shoulders and followed Tracy out of the dark alley, and said:

"God knows what kind of surprises Dusk and the other forces have in store for us, but now that even the Black Plague has been dealt with, all the challenges that lie ahead are not to be feared. What's more, if it's just a training ground, isn't the Genoa Peninsula one of the best low-intensity combat zones?

Halflings have been begging us for help, and maybe it's time to respond.

Of course, this will have to wait until we get rid of the trouble at hand, Hygeson, and its last group of gnolloll thugs.

I had to take this issue out of my own hands. ”

"Uhgesen made a sacrifice."

Tracey whispered:

"Now, judging by its series of performances, I can be sure that the gnolll has made the final preparations, and it is very likely that the moment it chose to become the chosen hunt, it had already come to its senses, and it used its body to trap the escaped lord of the hunt.

But it can't be dragged on too long.

The Lord of the Hunt will erode it, and even if it is just an escaped spirit, it is an unbearable weight for mortals. ”

"I understand."

Murphy nodded and said:

"I'm going to give it one last ride myself, it won't be long, no, voila! Our great hero, Lord Norman, is being tortured there. ”

Murphy pulled Tracy and hid in the alley next to her, and the two noble men peeked out, and in a room not far away, the embarrassed Norman was talking to the three people in front of him.

Old Potter laughed and patted him on the shoulder, Amber seemed to be crying, and Lady Natalie, whose armor was stained with blood, kept her posture as a commander and listened to his report.

That's great.

The undamned are still alive, the damned are already on their way, and the good days of Transencia are still to come.

(End of chapter)