Just when Earl Ronan was surprised by Erica's sudden refusal, at the border of the territory more than ten kilometers west of Ronan Castle, Marco was leading a group of knights on horseback to the edge of a town on the border.

This is a medium-sized town with a population of less than 10,000, and right now it is also being attacked by mutant zombies just like Ronan Castle. However, the gap between the two cities is still very obvious, after all, the difference in population

As a result, the scale of the damage here is far less terrible than that of Ronanborg. But on the contrary, unlike Ronanborg, this town has no city walls, or even facilities such as low walls or moats. In addition, the size of the town

It is not big, but it can be considered a hub town, so since the disaster, there have been many mutant zombies chasing the escaping survivors and spreading to the surrounding areas. Although this has caused the number of zombies in the city to decrease a lot, the town is close to

Villages or small settlements were greatly affected, and several villages were even directly destroyed.

Marco and others were originally planning to follow Viscount Greville to the central region to eliminate the rebellion. However, when they arrived at the predetermined location, what they encountered was not the aristocratic rebels that had already assembled, but rivers of blood.

town and the living dead monsters wandering in the city.

After encountering this unexpected situation at the beginning of the period, the army still had some riots, but then under the command of Viscount Greville, it recovered in time, and used overwhelming force to eliminate monsters in several towns and collect survivors from various places.

I learned some local conditions from my mouth.

Based on this information and the intelligence sent by ravens from various places, Viscount Greville and others can learn that the entire central area of ​​the Principality of Michael, especially those areas where corrupt nobles are densely populated, has been completely occupied. These monsters suddenly appeared in the city.

Among them, the defenses in the cities were unable to compete with it, so almost overnight, the cities in these areas where rebellion was expected to turn into ghosts.

It is indeed good news that the rebellion is gone, but although the rebellion is gone, there are a lot more monsters, and the principality has also lost a huge population. Based on the analysis of the principality’s population statistics about two years ago, the approximate population in the central area

The number is about 120,000, and the densely populated areas are often towns where nobles and merchants gather. After all, the main wealth here is the merchants from the north and south and the nobles with a large number of farms. As for now, the destruction

It is precisely in these places that the severity is most serious.

From the beginning to now, almost every town that the counter-rebellion army has encountered has been in a state of empty houses, and there are even horrific scenes of complete death in the city. But fortunately, not every town in the central area is like this.

Horrifyingly, at least some remote castles and villages are still living as usual, and even some caravans camping in the wild have never encountered monster attacks.

After integrating and analyzing these clues and previous survivor intelligence, the senior officials of the counter-rebellion army determined that these monsters did not come from outside, but started to erupt from various places in the city. Although there was no specific information on the source, these monsters did not come from outside.

The one-sided information all targets the aristocratic residences in each city, and judging from the facts, the most severely affected in each city are indeed the aristocratic residences in various places.

However, investigating incidents is not the specialty of the counter-rebellion army, so Archduke Michael quickly dispatched his secret intelligence organization "Night Owl" to assist the counter-rebellion army in investigating the matter, and also ordered the counter-insurgency army to disperse according to the original plan.

Victimized towns everywhere, and also specifically ordered to block information from the central region to avoid causing additional panic to people in other areas.

From slaying thieves to killing monsters, on the surface it seems like they just changed the identity of the enemy, but in fact the pressure and difficulties everyone has to face are far more demanding than slaying rebellion. After all, these monsters are also

Undead monsters such as the living dead, and almost most of the soldiers in the counter-rebellion army have never come into contact with such monsters, so some unnecessary mistakes will inevitably be made at the beginning. This is unavoidable

Yes, even the warriors under Greville's command will always be stressed due to mental tension and fear when facing the undead. After all, in the many customs and legends in the principality, any story related to the undead will be mentioned.

one thing.

Undead can spread.

No matter what kind of legends or folk poems, as long as there is the appearance of the undead, this kind of disease-like fear will definitely be mentioned. However, all humans who are killed by the undead monsters will also die after death.

will be assimilated into undead monsters, and the assimilated undead monsters will continue to spread death. In other words, there will be as many undead as there are living people in the world.

At the beginning, Viscount Greville was also worried about the occurrence of this general situation, but later after investigation and research by Nite Owl's spies, he came to an unexpected conclusion.

These monsters are indeed the undead, or they are the living dead, and some of the living dead still have traces of spells on their bodies. However, the reason why they are so strong is because of the influence of other forces, and the source of these forces is still unknown.

Unable to detect.

At the same time, these monsters do seem to have the ability to assimilate the undead, because after careful investigation, the Night Owls discovered that although these living dead appear to be similar in appearance, they actually have some major differences in species internally. It seems that

The more powerful ones should indeed be the living dead who were originally transformed by some kind of spell. Although they still appear to be humanoid, their insides have been completely transformed into twisted and weird structures and organs, and these strange

Their structures and organs endow them with powerful destructive power, but fortunately, the number of this type of living dead is very rare, and they can almost be regarded as one in a hundred. The other type is more "original", even in addition to being strengthened for unknown reasons.

Apart from their muscles and bones, other body changes are still the same as those of living people. Although they are much stronger than the normal living dead, in the final analysis they are still as fragile as the normal living dead, so this type of living dead

The dead should be the product of the spread of the undead.

And there is another key factor, that is, this kind of spread seems to be time-sensitive. At least since the arrival of the counter-rebellion army, the injured soldiers and rescued survivors have not been transformed into the living dead, and in

After appraisal by advanced healing magicians, this view was finally confirmed.

Finally, a good thing happened, so this incident indeed relieved a lot of pressure on the counter-rebellion army. At least the soldiers did not have to worry about being turned into undead monsters when fighting monsters.

But in addition, there is another thing among the monsters that gives Viscount Greville a headache, and that is the tentacle monster that looks like an octopus. Although the details and characteristics are very different, Mr. Viscount has a vague feeling

He believes that this kind of monster is closely related to the cult group that once ravaged Lavender City, because during that night of riots, he saw many such tentacle monsters next to the monster Toller.

Although Night Owl's spies also think so, it is a pity that no one can find any relevant clues at all. Putting this aside, no one dares to underestimate the ability of this monster, because of this

The seemingly slow and limp tentacle monsters will control and direct the intelligent living dead to attack the counterinsurgency army like a battlefield warlord. In the beginning, they did cause the counterinsurgency army to suffer a lot.

Later, when the counter-rebellion army recaptured a large city with a population of tens of thousands, Archduke Michael ordered the counter-rebellion army to disperse and attack the surrounding towns. This time, he emphatically ordered Viscount Greville to rescue Luo.

Nanbao, because there has been no news from the team sent by Archduke Michael to Ronan Castle last night, and Earl Ronan has not sent any news, the entire Earl of Ronan, especially Ronan Castle, has lost contact with the outside world.

After receiving the news, Viscount Greville immediately led his troops to the Earl of Ronan in the East, and accompanying him was Chris's knight team. The main reason why Viscount Greville let the knights accompany him was because of his

There was no cavalry in Greville's regiment, so in order to be able to serve as a forward for the regiment, he specifically found Marco and asked for assistance. After all, if he arrived at Ronanburg earlier, he would be able to understand the situation there earlier.

In addition to this, Viscount Greville also took a fancy to the new strength displayed by the knights when fighting undead monsters. In the past, the profession of knights was not very popular in the principality, because among many war group warriors

In their eyes, the so-called knights are just a group of noble young soldiers, that is, a group of knights riding on tall war horses, wearing gorgeous carved full-body armor, and waving vases with long swords and shields inlaid with gold and silver.

But this time Mr. Viscount and many warriors looked at the knights in a different light, because in the battle against the undead monsters, this group of knights seemed to have the ability to specifically restrain the undead. Especially several high-ranking knights headed by Marco

Knights, they are just like the warriors in legends, wielding luminous swords and wearing halo armor to fight against evil monsters. Whenever monsters come close to them, they will be burned until they smoke, and even the things in their mouths will

Even chanting prayers can cause the monsters to cause a certain degree of damage. Although the lower-level knights are not as dazzling as Marco and the others, their courage and strength when fighting against the undead monsters still made many people laugh at them before.

The warriors of the Chapter felt ashamed.

Although everyone wanted to ask Marco and the others for some reasons after the war, but if you think about it carefully, you still seem to be embarrassed to ask. After all, even in terms of battle groups, every battle group in the principality has its own

Little secrets, especially those related to combat, are treated as top secrets and are strictly forbidden to be spread. Therefore, everyone naturally regards the knights' abnormal abilities as their trump card. If they are not willing to take the initiative to tell them,

Then everyone will never ask. The same is true for Viscount Greville. He values ​​​​the strength of the knights in fighting undead monsters, and believes that as the vanguard team heading to Ronan Castle, the knights are definitely the most suitable.

But the choice.

Although Viscount Greville has prepared for the worst, he is still reluctant to hope that Earl Ronan will die quietly. Although the two have no personal relationship, in the past, there was a strong relationship between the Greville and Ronan families.

The exchanges between the two families are still very close, because the two families have been the right-hand man of Michael's family for generations since a hundred years ago. However, after the establishment of the principality, the two families stopped communicating in private in order to avoid suspicion, but the brotherly friendship between them in the past was still deep.

It was deeply imprinted in the hearts of the descendants of the two families, so when it came to rescuing Ronan Castle, the first thing Viscount Greville thought of was to rescue Earl Ronan first.

And now, after a long journey, the knights led by Marco arrived outside this border town covered in dust.

Marco frowned while riding on his horse and looked at the living dead wandering in the city. As expected, an undead attack also broke out in the Earl of Ronan. And because Earl Ronan was a lord who was good at managing people's livelihood, the people in the Earl of Ronan

The population has always been much higher than that of the neighboring corrupt nobles' territories. Judging from the statistics two years ago, the population of Ronan Earldom at that time was already a full 80,000 people.

If Archduke Michael's "contradictory" factors were taken into account, the population of the earldom would probably double.

Perhaps in normal times, Marco would still be happy because of the prosperity of Ronan Castle. After all, if the count prospers, the national strength of the principality will increase to a higher level. But at this moment, this kind of prosperity just makes Marco feel

He felt angry and sad. After all, more people means more monsters, and at the same time, the greater the loss to the principality. If the principality declines, then the master he serves, Chris Michael, will also be affected, and

She is also very likely to feel sad about it. For a knight who has sworn to serve the monarch, the monarch's pain is his own shame, and Marco is a person who is very optimistic about the knight's reputation, so he treats Ronan

The earldom was naturally angry at the loss, and at the same time felt heartfelt sadness at the misfortune of the people here.

Marco was planning to let everyone rest for a while. After all, everyone had traveled more than ten kilometers on horseback. Everyone was fully armed and the horses had been running non-stop for so long. Even if the knights were able to hold on, they would not be able to survive.

The war horses are almost reaching their limit. And this place is still more than ten kilometers away from Ronan Castle. If the war horses fall, there will be no replacement horses, because the knights' war horses are just like the armor and weapons they wear.

They are not ordinary things. If the horses are missing, the knights' combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Another point is that Marco and others were not the first people to enter Ronan Castle, because before they came here, many Night Owl spies had sneaked into Earl Ronan's territory from other places. Their purpose

It is to try every means to obtain first-hand information about Ronan Castle, and then it is necessary to confirm the safety of Earl Ronan.

Night Owl's spies are not just a group of secret scouts, most of them are skilled assassins, so it is not unreasonable to let them advance here before the knights, because the Night Owl's ability to move forward is better than dealing with humans.

In fact, it is more suitable for dealing with monsters, because they can use some unknown means to block their own breath and existence, and even those monsters and beasts with very good perception capabilities will not easily detect them.

With this assurance, Marco decided to stop and take a breath.

"Knights, listen! Dismount..."

"ah--"

Just before Marco finished speaking the order, a childish scream suddenly came from somewhere in the town. It was obvious that this was probably the voice of a child, and after this scream

, Marco heard another noisy wail and roar.

Marco was suddenly surprised and happy after hearing these sounds. His surprise came from these sounds, because these sounds indicated that there were survivors in the city, and there should be a lot of them. Compared with the previous ones in the west where the whole city was completely dead.

The scene, this small border town in the Earl of Ronan, added a touch of hope and joy to Marco and many knights.

Marco, who was about to dismount, quickly clamped his legs together, and then pulled out his sword with a "clop" sound. He waved his sword and pointed at the town ahead, then turned back to face the knights.

He shouted loudly: "Knights! Justice is undefeated! Kill evil!"

The exhausted knights behind them all cheered up again, picked up their weapons in unison, and shouted together: "Justice is undefeated! Kill evil!"

Then, under the leadership of Marco, all the knights took off their helmet coverings, then raised their weapons and rode towards the town.

As they charged, the armors and weapons of the knights were undergoing subtle changes. Especially for Marco, the leader of the knights, his changes were the most obvious.

From the moment they shouted the slogan, Marco's armor began to glow with a faint golden halo, and then the halo gradually turned into a transparent film that stuck to every part of the armor.

A position, and finally attached to the Kaijia and turned into some luminous golden patterns. The same is true for the long sword in Marco's hand, but the light of the patterns on the long sword appears brighter and more sacred, and the film
To be continued...