The terrible alarm swirled over the imperial capital, and the sudden chaos of the crowd around made it impossible for the carriage to run normally, Joshua didn't have time to think too much, so he opened the door and got out of the carriage directly, he picked up a few people in the imperial capital who fell next to the carriage in panic, and then looked up at the east side of the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Good Fellow......"

Exhaling lightly, Joshua's brows furrowed, and he couldn't help muttering, "This is amazing. ”

On the east side of the city, there was a flickering fire, a red light illuminating several blocks, and black smoke was rising into the air, covering a large area, and Brandon and Nostradamus also got out of the carriage, and they also watched the scene.

"That place is a residential area...... What's the situation? ”

The rich experience allowed the blonde swordsman to quickly judge that the fire in the city was not big, and when the city guards reacted and rushed to extinguish the fire, it would not cause much damage, but he still had a solemn face: "Could it be that any mage had an accident when he was doing a forbidden experiment in his own home?" ”

Mage experiment accidents, this kind of thing often appeared decades ago, and every time it will cause a lot of damage, but now, there is a special mage experimental area in the Imperial Capital Royal Mage Association, if it is not to experiment with any forbidden spells but ordinary magic, then it is definitely better to go to a more professional experimental area than at home.

"No, it wasn't an experimental accident."

The old mage saw it very clearly, and his eyes flashed with magic light: "There are no magic fluctuations, there is no gathering of a large number of elements, and if it is an accident, then the experimental mage should have come out to clean up the situation a long time ago...... This is a simple alchemy explosion, not an accidental ...... of a mage's experiment."

After a moment of silence, he paused word by word and said clearly: "Perhaps, this is a deliberate attack." ”

The sudden explosion occurred only once, and the panicked crowd gradually regained their composure, especially when they realized that the explosion was far away from them and did not threaten their lives, and the courage returned to their hearts.

I have to say that as the residents of the imperial capital, most of them have a good level of education, and the calm crowd passed through the streets in an orderly manner under the command of the city guards who rushed to return to their respective homes, and there were no accidents on the way.

The guards also came to the black carriage, they saw Joshua and the other three, and originally wanted to go up and check it, but under the reminder of one of the guards, the others also found that the inconspicuous emblem on the carriage represented the Imperial Royal Mage Association, and the robe on the white-haired mage with his back to them was a crystalline white robe that only archmages could wear.

In the imperial capital, the person who dares to pretend to be the archmage of the Mage Association is afraid that he has not yet been born.

And those who can ride in the same carriage with the archmage are not nobles, but also powerful professionals, and this group of city guards simply bypassed these three people and went to other places to preside over the order.

- It's a fool to provoke this group of people.

Brandon was still pondering the cause of the explosion, and at this time, the fire on the east side of the city had become faint, and the city guards seemed to have controlled the fire, and Nostradamus was also thinking about it, but it didn't take long for him to speak, "Let's go to the scene and see what happens?" ”

The old mage's eyes were full of doubts, although he had guessed before that this was a deliberate attack, but the reason did not make sense at all - the place where the explosion occurred was on the east side of the outer city, a residential area where ordinary residents lived, and the explosion there would kill one or two residents at most, and destroy one or two houses, not to mention other places with the same power, even in the commercial street of the same outer city, it could kill dozens of people, and the loss of money would not know how many times.

So he wanted to go and see what was going on.

And Joshua and Brandon naturally didn't have any objections, they were also very curious. Especially Joshua, he had a vague guess in his heart, but he didn't know if this guess was right or not, so he had to go to the scene to see the situation to understand the situation.

The three of them returned to the carriage, and under the driver's drive, the carriage turned around and drove towards the other side of the street, without the dense pedestrian congestion on the street, and they were a little faster.

It didn't take long for them to pass through the central main road of the imperial capital, past countless shops and houses, to the east side of the city, the scene of the explosion.

The scene of the explosion has been cordoned off, countless city guards are patrolling around, cleaning up, some guards originally wanted to stop the carriage from moving forward, but just like their previous counterparts, after seeing the emblem of the Royal Mage Guild on the carriage, they respectfully moved out of the way, and Joshua and the others came to the scene smoothly.

Near the ruins of a dwelling, several guards were tidying up the site, and in the ruins, the fire had been completely extinguished, leaving only scattered black smoke coming out of the burnt black wooden beams.

The fire was very intense.

With just one glance, Joshua could make a rough judgment - for among the ruins, apart from the stone and the almost melted steel that had been burned by the heat, all the other wooden furniture and decorations had been reduced to ashes or charcoal, and not even a single intact wreck could be found, and natural fires and explosions could not have caused such damage, only spells and alchemical materials could have done it.

On the side, Nostradamus also confirmed his opinion, he frowned, and stroked his white beard: "Sure enough, it was a deliberate explosion and fire, fortunately, because the celebration is approaching, and the surrounding people are wandering the streets, so the casualties should not be large." ”

And after more detailed observation, Joshua also roughly confirmed his previous judgment.

"Cultists."

He whispered to himself, "It must have been a good thing they did." ”

The so-called cultists, in a broad sense, are members of sects that are not the beliefs of the seven gods, among them are primitive druid ancestral spirit beliefs, and there are also orc shamanic sacrifices, but these are not a cult word, at most they are infidels, so in a narrow sense, cultists are those demon believers who play bloody rituals.

The origin of the cultists cannot be explored, but it can be concluded that its history is at least equivalent to that of the Church of the Seven Gods, and their energy is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, in the western wilderness of the mainland, there are many tribes that believe in various demonic cults, they kill the living, draw magic circles with blood for sacrifice, and even carry out extremely terrifying sacrificial rituals such as 'mutual cannibalism', 'self-cannibalism' and 'collective suicide', in order to obtain the evil power of the abyss.

Most of the people who believe in demons have deep desires, as long as they fall into it, they can't extricate themselves, they pursue chaos, death and riots in the entire social group, so that everything returns to the primitive form of no order, the law of the jungle, when the Far South encountered a dragon disaster in the previous life, there were many cultists who deliberately instigated refugees to riot, and even captured several small cities to divide one side, causing great chaos and dealing an unusually heavy blow to the order of the entire kingdom.

The bloody murder cases that occurred in various parts of the Northern Empire were also the actions of cultists in Joshua's opinion, and they should have planned to carry out a secret summoning ritual through blood sacrifices, but the abyss was sealed by the sages in the last era, as long as the seal is not unsealed, then it will be difficult to succeed in the summoning ritual except for the Book of Ebon, which is directly connected to the abyss.

The explosion of the imperial capital, in the eyes of the warriors, was a summoning ritual that was close to success, but finally failed, Nostradamus believed that this explosion was caused by alchemical creations such as gunpowder, but Joshua knew that materials such as sulfur saltpeter were originally needed in the demon's summoning ritual, and the two did not conflict.

"However, I actually dared to summon demons in the imperial capital, and I almost succeeded...... You know, in a few days it will be a celebration feast for the extermination of the orcs. ”

Turning his head and looking at the center of the imperial capital, the huge obsidian palace, Joshua touched his chin and chuckled: "I really don't know what kind of move that Your Majesty will make at this time." ”

At this time, the news of the explosion had also reached the center of the imperial capital, in the royal study of the Morlay Palace.

With a cold snort, a terrible storm was brewing in it. (To be continued.) )