rune hunter

Chapter 349 Demon Power
On one side was the flames soaring into the sky, and on the other side was the stinky black rain. After the city of Sword Castle was drained of blood, it ushered in the scene of hell again.In the temporary camp set up by the exiles from Istaren, the streets are full of mad patients. Like werewolves, they howl at the invisible moon in the sky. They chase and bite when they catch up. , without reason.

Anyone who is bitten by them will soon become confused and become a lunatic just like them.In this chaos, the original source of the disease has been unverifiable, and the soldiers have nothing to do with the geometrically increasing number of patients, and they cannot use weapons to target their relatives.

There are also black thorns spreading all over the sky. Wherever the patients spread, the black thorns will pounce on them, occupying the walls and ground, wrapping around their ankles, and hanging them upside down.Those black thorns look soft, but their skin is tough enough to be chewed by human teeth. As long as the mobility of these patients is restricted, their threat will be reduced by 90.00%.

However, this kind of large-scale magic must pay a price. At the source of the black thorny roots, Laurana half-lyed on the giant net made of thorns, with almost no blood on her face.The roots of these black thorns came from her body, breaking out from the flesh and blood on her back.Such a huge consumption would be sucked dry by an ordinary person in an instant, and Laurana, as the host, did not have the powerful recovery ability of El, and what she relied on was only the alchemy she had mastered.

With difficulty, she took out a tube of golden reagent from her sleeve, pulled out the cork and put it in her mouth. The pungent smell made Laurana frown slightly, and an abnormal flush appeared on her face.

"Mr. Apache, how much longer do you want to try? I can't last too long!" She struggled to get up and asked the busy kobold next to her.

"Okay, okay, it will be ready soon, this is not a child's play, my eldest lady..." Apache waved his hand, waved his head and waved the small shovel in his hand, muttering, and placed it in front of him The sleepy patient's eyes had begun to turn white, and there was more and more white foam on the corners of his mouth. Seeing him twitching continuously, he seemed to be in extreme pain.But all bystanders present knew that as soon as he let go of the restraint, he would immediately turn into a raging mad dog.

Apache slapped the patient's forehead with a shovel, squinted his small eyes and carefully observed the patient's reaction, and felt that the effect was not obvious. He retracted his hand and swung it round again, and the patient's forehead immediately swelled A big bag rolled his eyes and passed out.

After knocking out the patient, the kobold geomancer was relieved. He wiped his shovel and turned to Laurana and said, "The good news is that I found the answer... The bad news is that I don't know how to solve it. It's not magic, nor is it a disease, but some kind of... er, parasites, like fungi in the ground. I guess it might be some kind of mushroom spores brought by the rain, which will emit some kind of poison after being absorbed by the human body. A hallucinogen that affects the brain."

"Mushroom spores? Poisonous mushrooms?" After hearing this answer, Laurana's mind went blank. Even with her experience as an alchemist, she had never heard of such a weird attack method.All kinds of highly poisonous mushroom powders are very common in alchemy experiments, but I have never heard of anyone who can put mushrooms in the clouds to make rain fall, which is beyond the understanding of human beings.

No matter which ancient evil god created such a whimsical thing, the first question now is how to cure it.Fungal hallucinogenic toxins are a nuisance, even in alchemical theory, with few immediate antidotes.

"You can stun them first, and then let those little nuns try to use exorcism." The kobold suggested kindly.The reason why detoxification is not used is because this method has been tried just now, and now it is a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

"Let's try it, there is no other way to go." Laurana sighed, took out a test tube filled with gray potion from her cuff, took a deep breath and poured it down.

The black thorny roots wrapped around her back suddenly trembled, turning the girl's weak body upside down, tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood from her back.The girl screamed involuntarily, but quickly gritted her teeth.A puff of water vapor rose from her back with a sizzling sound, wrapping the wound on her back in it.

This is not the effect of the medicine, but the growth speed of the black thorns has exceeded the limit of the host, forcing her to cut off the roots to protect herself.The black thorns that had lost their host twisted wildly like a snake. Starting from the roots, they withered and dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye. The surface appeared carbonized as if it had been burned, and the shattered powder fluttered in the wind.

The patients who were originally trapped by the black thorns fell off one after another, but before they got up from the ground to find their targets, the withered powder of the black thorns fell down, making them lose consciousness.

Laurana half-kneeled on the ground, her body was trembling constantly, her face was pale, and she almost couldn't hold herself back and passed out.The head chef of the gray goblin, who was hiding aside and had already prepared, rushed up immediately, supported the girl's body, and brought the thick soup to feed her to drink.

"You are still so young, how can you spoil your body like this." The kobold looked at the pale girl, shook his head and sighed.

"Anyway... I just want to do more for this team." Laurana slowly recovered from her weak state, showing a reassuring smile to the kobold.

At the cost of sacrificing all the black thorns, Laurana pulled all the patients under her control into a dream. Of course, accidental injury was inevitable, but at this time, she couldn't care less.The rain in the sky has no intention of stopping, which means that crazy patients will appear again, but at least the people of Istaren are now mentally prepared.

Orders were sent out from the tent, and the Istaron warriors who stayed behind began to regain control of the situation, gathering the sleeping people together, and the nuns and priests carried out unified purification, and more manpower was used to deal with sporadic new patients , The exile camp began to operate in an orderly manner.

From the beginning to the end, even when she was about to run out of fuel, Laurana did not send out any warning signals, because she knew better than anyone that the battle between the army and the Brotherhood in front might be more dangerous at this time.

Generally speaking, Laurana's speculation is equal to the truth, but the real situation at this time is even more chaotic than she expected.Those big crows who pretended to be ghosts only caused temporary confusion to the troops. After El dealt with Hemchacha, the most snarky, the other crows immediately dispersed.But at that time, he didn't realize that the real threat came from those delirious civilians rushing over from the street!

At first, the soldiers who were bitten by the civilians showed the same symptoms, and then the soldiers who were not injured at all started to go crazy. When General Hank found out that something was wrong, the madness of indistinguishable enemy and friend had already spread.The comrades-in-arms who could have been entrusted with their backs suddenly drew their swords and faced each other, which dealt a fatal blow to the soldiers' psychology. Even the sober ones didn't know how to distinguish the enemy from the enemy.

If it was the troops formed by the local lords, there would be basically no hope for such chaos equivalent to the roar of the battalion.Fortunately, the Night Watchmen are truly elite soldiers, and their former opponent was the most unreasonable lunatic in the world.Although the situation in front of them was chaotic, it was not enough to make them lose their combat effectiveness.

A bright halo flashed across the night sky, and the soldiers who fell into madness still showed no sign of recovering their consciousness, which represented the failure of Tiana's efforts.As a light magician, she is proficient in illusion, but she does not have the advantage of an alchemist in the face of this unknown disease.A look of pain flashed in General Hank's eyes, he waved his hand expressionlessly, and gave the order to kill.

The night watchman soldier wept and waved his butcher knife at his comrades in arms. As a soldier, he had no choice on the battlefield. Since he couldn't find a solution to the problem, he could only swing his knife at each other.

Tiana bit her lips tightly, trying not to let herself shed tears. She almost cast all the expulsion and purification spells she knew, but she was still powerless to the situation in front of her.This is not magic, nor is it plague, she doesn't even know how to describe the evil power in front of her.

A saying that mages often say is—knowledge is power, and now she feels her powerlessness for the first time.Tiana collected herself, as if she had made up her mind, took out a small silver knife from her pocket, and pulled open the sleeve of her left hand.

A powerful hand stretched out from the side, grabbed her wrist like iron pliers, and snatched the knife from her hand.The girl's eyes were sore, she pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "I want to try again..."

"Save your magic power to deal with that prophet. It seems that if you don't knock him down completely, this kind of evil power can't be dispelled." El inserted the silver knife into his arms, and looked at the front of him. Misty said coldly: "There is no war that can be won without bloodshed. Since we have decided to go to war, we have already made such an awareness."

A series of warning fireworks rose in the night sky on both sides of the east and west, which indicated that the Istaron warriors on the two wings were also in a hard fight. Under the light of the fire all over the sky, the expression on El's face remained calm.

"We have all underestimated that Prophet. Compared with his gang members on the bright side, these pretentious tricks are his real trump card." El's eyes shone with a blue light, piercing the dark night .He reined in the horse's head suddenly, stretched out his bow and set an arrow, and aimed at the shadow in the distance.

"The whole army is on alert! Watch out for enemy attacks!" General Hank, who was driving his horse around in the army, also noticed the abnormality and shouted loudly, drawing out his long sword.Thanks to those crazy soldiers, the originally neatly formed night watchman troop had lost its original formation at this time. Even if they responded immediately, they could not fill all the gaps.

Almost instantly, the dark mist on the opposite side suddenly began to stir, and the running wolves rushed out of the darkness, pressing over like a tide!
　Sorry, I drank too much yesterday...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)