Chapter 0712 Sewers
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Wizards who have always studied bloodline transformation and mutation have discovered many strange phenomena and methods that have never appeared before from these plague creatures, which has also greatly enriched their personal databases.
They were like a group of researchers who worked tirelessly to crack the puzzle of plague creatures' body samples, buried in the sorcery laboratory all day long, not asking about the world. And this time was the terrible time when the plague creatures were madly wreaking havoc outside Iron Grove City.
It was the sunniest noon of the day, and the three sturdy steel gates of Tielin City firmly protected the passage into the city behind them, and the towering city walls were crowded with people, and the patrol teams were constantly cut off. The cold light flickered throughout the city, and the reflection of the steel equipment of the city guards could be seen from afar.
The original crowded scene outside the city could no longer be reproduced, and there were no more people and caravan beasts on the wide and flat blue-striped stone avenue, only a few skinny lonely figures could be seen slowly and clumsily wandering along the avenue.
Every time an ugly creature resembling a corpse broke into the Iron Forest City within a hundred meters, a piercing screech of a bowstring would be heard above the city walls. The Steel Crossbow can completely tear through the hard outer skin of the Servant, and in order to increase its lethality, each Steel Crossbow has a triangular arrow in the shape of a cross, which can deal the maximum open damage when shot into the Corpse's body.
No, this hapless servant had just crossed the invisible line of death with a trace of popularity, and a steel crossbow nailed it firmly to the stone slab. As it struggled to its death, puffs of strange and thick black smoke drifted out of the wound on its chest, dissolving little by little into the bright sunlight.
"Boom" two more crossbow bolts exploded.
This time it was two special rockets, and the mysterious alchemical substance smeared on the arrows instantly rose into the flesh and blood, and a huge sorcery flame rose instantly. The corpse that was still twisting and struggling just now turned into a humanoid fire man in an instant, and it burned to ashes within a dozen fingers. The flames crackled in the air, and patches of black powder were sprinkled on the moss-covered slates.
Every once in a while, one or two vicious servants would pounce from the grass and bushes outside the city, and they would rush towards the city walls at a speed not inferior to that of a cheetah.
They are obviously not intellect, and they know how to dodge the crossbow bolts by changing lines and running in a different direction. However, their fate ended under the walls. The sturdy runes that flashed from the towering and steep walls were beyond the power of their red claws, and they could only jump and bite in vain, screaming at the guards above.
The guards could easily kill them with their crossbow arrows, and even their corpses were burned by the torches that were thrown. The flames that rose as the black smoke burned licked the walls, and an invisible barrier of sorcery quietly emerged, blocking the remnants of the black smoke, which prevented the city guards above the walls from being infected by plague spores.
And when the witchcraft barrier emerged, the wizard tower in the center of the city 3 miles away also began to shine, and some mysterious witchcraft runes appeared on the tower from time to time.
This is the guardian power of the Wizard Tower.
When the walls of Tielin City were built, it was a resonance system of the witch array built around the Ella Public Wizard Tower. The surrounding city wall is a huge witch array circuit, which can span nearly 3 miles of distant space and project the energy of the wizard tower onto the city wall almost without loss.
This is a more environmentally friendly wireless energy delivery method than the Klein plane, and if Karthas, Kelthugad and others see it, they will definitely do whatever it takes to take this technology into their arms.
You must know that the current Crane Plane Mage Tower is still more done by throwing spells when assisting in the defense of the city. The spell is modeled and instilled in the mage's tower, and it consumes a huge amount of energy to cast it on the distant city walls. If the city is too large, the energy lost in the whole process can even reach 3 or 4 percent.
The wizarding barrier of the Wizard Tower of Tielin City just now is directly transmitted by the wizard tower to a certain facility on the city wall, and then the wizard on duty inside transforms it into the corresponding witchcraft effect. The most intriguing part of the process is of course the sorcery that transmits elemental energy across remote spaces.
The existence of this facility also proves that the wizards of the wizarding world are obviously more comfortable and skilled than the mages of the Crane plane in the specific use of the underlying elements.
While the city guards on the city walls were cheering for the killing of the hateful servants, deep in a dense bush in the distance, the plague girl Syla had seen everything that had just happened on the city walls.
It had been three days since she had come outside Tielin City, but she was not allowed to enter.
After all, this is a core city in the central part of the country guarded by a powerful wizard force, and it is not at all comparable to those remote towns.
For three days, she kept driving her subordinates to run to the death of Tielin City, just to test the weak points of the city in front of her little by little. Such a huge city, which houses nearly 170,000 people, cannot be without a single hole in its defenses. And she only needs to find this loophole to send her growing number of men into this city, so that the humans inside can also try the terrible nightmare of being eaten by poisonous insects.
Soon, she saw a "beautiful" scene from thousands of broken soul feedbacks that made her ecstatic.
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In the narrow, filthy sewers, poor Thom trembled and groped his way forward.
The dim candlelight could not illuminate much of the area through the dirty glass mirror, and Thom, who was full of fear, did not dare to look at the sticky and slippery things under his feet, but turned left and right along the tunnel, and from time to time used a lantern to illuminate the slowly flowing sewage in the middle of the tunnel.
In the dim vision, the foul-smelling and pungent sewage slowly flowed and surged, and strange things floated on the viscous and dark water surface from time to time. Or some broken household items, or some dirty life, in short, they are disgusting things.
But for a young boy who has been hungry for three days, it is lucky enough to find food to satisfy his stomach among the discarded debris. He is not qualified to pick and choose "food" at all.
Thom held a lantern and searched the winding pit of the sewer, occasionally fiddling with the water with the long stick in his hand.
In this filthy and filthy tunnel, there are many refugees and homeless people like him who are looking for food, and there are some "evil people" who specialize in walking in the dark. They are either terrible wizards who believe in black magic, or kleptographic assassins who specialize in assassination and snooping, or they are more likely to be hungry and blue-eyed madmen who just want to enjoy a hearty "human flesh" feast.
The danger in the sewer does not all come from these same kind, but may also come from the "sewer" itself.
It's a huge city with wizards, and the sewers are full of useless "items" that wizards throw away. And most of these "items" are extremely dangerous, not only highly contagious, but also may catalyze some bad "things".
For a long time, the sewers of Iron Forest City have been filled with terrifying legends of corpses, vampire bats, and polluted ooze monsters, and many scavengers have mysteriously disappeared, so it is also necessary to fight for food here.
The closer you get to the rich area, the more likely you are to find something good in the sewers of the wizarding area, and although it is dangerous, it is more profitable after all. As a result, that area has been leased by one of the largest gangs in Iron Grove City, and any outside scavengers entering that "territory" may face death.
In fact, the so-called largest gang is just a small third-rate force on Punk Street, and its members are composed of twenty or thirty hooligans and villains. But even so, this is already the object that the lone Tom does not dare to provoke.
In order to avoid these terrible evil forces, Tom can only search the remote edge of the city in the sewers. The probability of finding food here is undoubtedly very low, and even if the occasional slip through the net floats down from the "upper class", I am afraid that it will have already rotted and deteriorated, but Tom does not pick it.
In the dim silence of the sewers, the dim candle flame could only illuminate a tiny area, and everywhere you looked, there was a deep, dead darkness. And in this terrible dead silence, a pair of scarlet flickering terrifying eyes can always be seen in the depths of the darkness.
After swallowing rotten and mutated food for a long time, even rats and bats in the sewer are no longer normal.
Tom stood still.
One more turn in front of you is the end of the sewer. There are sturdy iron fences and mysterious witch circles set up by wizards, and any living object that comes near it will die from the terrible attack of sorcery.
Usually looking for this place, Thom is about to turn back and search carefully along the way he came.
But today, Thom, who is timid and cautious by nature, smells something different.
There was an indescribable pungent sour smell hidden in the foul and stuffy air, and the water surface on the tunnel was floating with a faint green fluorescence.
"Wizard stuff!"
Thom took a step back in fright, a little further away from the water.
According to the older scavengers, finding this fluorescent thing in the sewers means that the sorcerers have discarded the waste. Although ordinary people can't use it, and it's too dangerous, if you take it back and hand it over to those guys, it may still be possible to exchange it for a lot of food.
Thinking of the fluffy and delicious white bread, and the refreshing fragrance of buckwheat, Thom clenched the stick in his hand and turned the bend tremblingly.
A terrible scene unfolded before him.
At the end of the sewer leading to the river, the huge arched iron fence had somehow corroded a gap, a gap for people to enter and exit.
The thin iron bar of the baby's arm at the gap also flowed with a dark green and pungent acidic solution, which corroded it with a loud sound. These iron bars, which would normally resist the ramming of a heavy hammer, softened like melting candles and twisted into a terrifying and terrifying appearance.