Wizarding World, Iron Grove City. "Words * love * first * hair

This is the third day of the siege of Iron Grove.

Uninvited, terrible plague creatures roam the outside of Iron Grove City, and they can be found in all the wilderness, tidal flats, jungles, and hills where they can hide. They use this as a base to attack the towns and villages of a human being.

Except for Iron Grove City, which has the protection of the Wizard Tower, which has not been breached, all the scattered gathering points of human existence have been attacked by plague creatures. This made the plague creatures outside Tielin City gather more and more, and it became a terrible plague army. The Plague Maiden Serra even sent several small teams led by the Plaguebringer deep into the jungle, spreading the terrible plague germs and adding countless mutated plague creatures to her ranks.

The city was crowded with people.

Due to the raging plague, all the people around Iron Grove City poured into the city, causing great trouble and a heavy burden to the city administrators. Several nobles and lords in the city hall were already busy, but the security in the city was still rapidly improving.

The city guards, who were desperately short of manpower, had to recruit a large number of mercenaries and adventurers to fill the defenses, barely keeping the situation from worsening.

Most of the refugees who flocked to Tielin City brought their families with them, but they could not find a suitable livelihood to make ends meet. For a time, the streets and alleys of Tielin City were crowded with refugees who had nowhere to go under the eaves of the corners. The big mouths waiting to be fed, and the faces full of pain, are prohibitively heartbreaking. And in their eyes, there is only despair and numbness, pain and silence.

Refugees who have no power can be dealt with, and vicious mercenaries with big sticks and a daily food distribution can suppress the discontent and resentment of this group. But the nobles and nobles who blocked the door of the city hall every day were not so easy to deal with.

The power and wealth of the nobility came from their own domains. Now that the plague is rampant outside, the domains, manors, and castles of these noble lords have become a paradise for plague creatures, and their resentment and resentment are accumulating day by day. Throughout the day, there was a constant stream of calls and petitions for the wizard to send troops to rid the city of the plague creatures.

It's a pity that the wizards stationed in Iron Forest City, whether they are public or local families, are not interested in going out to clear the plague creatures, but they just guard the public wizard tower and don't know what they are studying. Of course, they are not completely unmoved, at least they made the decision to admit refugees.

However, the nobles in the city hall who are responsible for keeping the city running are always full of malicious speculation, and the wizards are asking for refugees to be admitted into the city, and I am afraid that the greater purpose is to reduce the number of plague creatures outside the city. After all, most of the plague creatures were formerly these once-honest farmers, merchants, and craftsmen.

Every day, the busiest place in Iron Forest City is probably the Adventurers' Guild.

Hundreds of adventurer missions of all kinds occupy the magic light screen in the center of the hall, but most of them are high-risk tasks to go out to detect the dynamics of plague creatures, and the scarlet quest to find the leader of plague creatures has occupied the top position for a long time.

Bounty Mission: Spy on the plague boss of the creatures

Description: The plague that has recently ravaged the area around Iron Forest City was concocted by an extremely terrible plague woman, who is also the mastermind behind a plague germ and plague creature. Anyone who can provide clues about the whereabouts or clues of the plague girl will be rewarded by the Wizards Guild with a high reward depending on the severity of the information.

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According to the news heard by many adventurers, the Wizarding Association is willing to provide a reward of 1,000 wizard gold coins for anyone who can provide clues to the plague girl's whereabouts, and those who can find the whereabouts of the plague girl can receive 5,000 wizard gold coins.

Such an eye-popping reward has also set off a wave of gold rush in the adventurer team, but it is a pity that after several impulsive adventurers and mercenary teams left Tielin City, there was no news again. As a result, the enthusiasm of the adventurers quickly declined, and no one dared to take on this kind of task of sending them to death.

But today, a new quest has popped up on the magic light screen in the adventurer's lobby that has attracted the attention of many adventurers.

Bounty Mission: Save Baron Thomas's wife and daughter

Content: Go to Oter Stone Fort and bring Baron Thomas's wife and daughter into the city of Iron Forest. At present, a team of more than 20 people has been recruited, and now two thieves are urgently recruited. Reward: 700 Wizard Coins.

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To be honest, such a task of searching for relatives and escorting family members almost completely occupied the mission screen a few days ago, but unfortunately there were few applicants.

Now the outside of Tielin City has completely become a dead place, plague creatures are raging, and ordinary people have no problem surviving outside, how can they drag their families through the long epidemic area. In such a sinister environment, only those who are engaged in war still have room to operate. Ordinary merchant farmers encounter those servants who can jump like flying, can fight and can blow themselves up, and they are simply delivering food. Letting them out of the city is simply forcing them to die.

What's more, Oter Stone Fort is located 30 miles on the side of the Woshugu Mountain Road, which is the hardest hit area of the first reinforcements of Iron Forest City when they are attacked by plague creatures. No matter how much Baron Thomas raises his reward, no adventurer will be willing to throw his life into the hands of those terrible monsters.

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Iron Grove City, Ella Public Wizard's Tower, a secret chamber.

Wizard Rice carefully slashed open the huge and swollen chest and abdomen of the corpse in front of him, and enchanted a sharp scalpel with the effect of "sharpness" and "armor piercing", cutting through the opponent's hard skin as hard as raw cowhide as easily as tearing paper. With a muffled "pop", a dull and rotten filth erupted from the open chest, and the chest of the newly captured plague creature appeared in front of Les like an open package.

Wizard Rice was not the only one in this gloomy and silent witchcraft secret room, more than a dozen guys dressed as wizards gathered outside the light shield of the witch array, watching the entire dissection process with the help of various means. In the vast and huge witch array, there is only one of the most humble stone platforms, a servant corpse, and a wizard.

"The plague creatures look like humanoids, but they are very different from humans, and even from the undead. It's almost a whole new species. "Wizard Rice pressed the back of his scalpel against several parts of the corpse's body to detect the stress response of the other body.

He used a scalpel to peel away the dry and withered muscle layer like dead tree bark, so that his chest and abdomen were fully revealed.

"As you can see, all the organs inside the body of this lowest-level servant corpse of the other party have disappeared, and have been replaced by strange beetles of different sizes and shapes. And it's these weird beetles that move the body. Perhaps we should say that we are not dealing with humanoids at all, but a mysterious Zerg that is extremely contagious and surprisingly fecund! ”

While Les was busy explaining, countless black beetles poured out of the open chest cavity. These black beetles vary greatly in size, from the largest being the size of a thumb to the smaller being a grain of rice. Of course, it is not excluded that there are more subtle plague beetles, but that would require the help of more subtle sorcery instruments to see clearly.

"At present, we need to focus on the origin and origin of these plague beetles, and it is best to find out their fatal defects as soon as possible. However, current research has determined that these plague beetles appear to be a chaotic swarm of individuals, but in fact they possess extremely keen group intelligence. For example......

As he spoke, the scalpel in Wizard Rice's hand dropped slightly, firmly nailing a thumb-sized black beetle to the stone platform. Immediately, an indescribably strange sound wave began to stir within the light shield of the witch array.

The sound waves are high-pitched, piercing, and tinged with a palpitating rapidity, apparently similar to the alarm messages of some human communications. However, the frequency of this sound wave is extremely high, and ordinary humans can't detect it at all, and it is only because all the wizards present who are above the 5th order can they hear this sound with their powerful spiritual perception.

As soon as the sound wave was transmitted, the black beetles that were still running around just now had an amazing change in an instant, just like a human army with a high degree of intelligence and order, they turned around and crawled towards the location of the trapped beetles.

Countless beetles stacked on top of each other, like a growing black peak, and surged along the blade of the scalpel towards Wizard Rice's right hand. The dense and wriggling form had already made several female wizards frown, looking extremely disgusted. And the clattering gnawing sound is incessant, if the scalpel is not also solidified with a solid technique, I am afraid that this moment has been eaten by them.

And at this moment, the body of the servant corpse that was originally trapped by the powerful witch array also began to react, and the range of struggle became greater and greater.

"In addition to the characteristics of certain Zerg creatures, these beetles also have several special forms that are rare. For example......"

By the time Wizard Rice said this, the swift black beetles were already eating at the tips of his fingers.

In the next second, a blue snake lightning enveloped the black swarm.

In the crackling and popping sound, the swarm of insects that had been crowded with insects just now disappeared in an instant, turning into thick black smoke floating in the air.

Les blessed himself with an "air bubble", isolating his entire body in a huge bubble to avoid being contaminated with these black smokes.

Some high-ranking wizards who felt it had their own tricks were used to detect the black smoke through the mask of the witch array.

"...... with the breath of life"

"It's just some smaller bugs......"

"They just break down ......"

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It soon came to the basic conclusion that ordinary attacks would not directly kill these terrifying black beetles, but would only cause them to break down into tiny, terrifying spores. Maybe that's the true form of the black beetle!

After a variety of elemental attack tests, the wizards found that ice sorcery could only reduce their activity, and only fire could better kill these granular plague spores that were invisible to the naked eye. As for other elemental sorcery, only by attaining the elemental annihilation level can the plague spores be effectively killed.

This may be the fundamental reason why this plague is so difficult to extinguish.