From a distance in the Alps, there were about twenty people who were parked on the roadside to rest and there seemed to be something upside down around. The Ghost Sword Brigade was a guild that only recruited women, but because of this, their reputation was very famous. But those who had really fought with them knew that their members were all powerful warriors.

"Because our president is a coach of close combat in reality, and he was also the president of the fencing club when he was a student," Coria said with a look of pride and admiration on her face. "She will train us to use weapons very strictly!"

"You president is that 'scarlet rose'?" Lianda, who was sitting in front of her, asked in confusion. Because the Alps and Lianda only had two horses, they could only ride one of them. Fortunately, Lianda was petite, so she didn't look very crowded.

As for "Scarlet Rose", she was an emerging player in the battlefield in the later stage of the "Death Battle" a year ago. It is said that once she and her newly built Ghost Sword Brigade were besieged by the Principality Guild. She led the way into the enemy formation and instantly killed six Principality players, almost scaring the people in the opposite guild. Afterwards, the six players jointly asked her to show her attribute panel on the forum. Although the game itself does not have video recording and shooting functions, it can do these things, so she

She was shown her panel on the forum, and afterwards she was reported by a large number of players on the grounds that she was "suspected to use plug-ins", because many "high-end players" said that even if their agility point was higher than her, it would not be possible to achieve her "slashing six people in three seconds" speed, and there was nothing else except "plug-ins". But the final result was that the official directly stated on the matter, "no third-party software was monitored", and many players expressed dissatisfaction with the result.

In another larger battle afterwards, the "Death Battle" in the final decisive battle on the Homer Plain, the Ghost Sword Brigade shone again. The fast swordsman Kasperba faced the president of the "Rose and Sword" of the Principality Guild. The two fought a fair one-on-one duel under the gaze of dozens of people (including players and NPCs), and the battle ended with Kasperba an overwhelming victory. This battle was called "Blood-stained Rose" by the NPCs who were watching the battle, and also won the title of "Scarlet Rose" for the fast swordsman Kasperba. According to the players present, before the war, players and NPCs on the "Rose and Sword" side were shouting "Rose! Rose!" before the battle ended. Kasperba, who was covered in blood of his opponent, raised the thin sword in his hand, and the NPCs in the Kingdom camp also shouted "Rose" together to mock the other party.

"Did she really have no plug-in?" Lianda asked suspiciously.

"Of course! How could our president use plug-ins?" Coria said dissatisfiedly, "Those who are just jealous of our president's strength!"

The Alps did not comment on this. The Alps belonged to the player who joined the game after the "death battle" a year ago, and a large number of players were lost after the "death battle". From then on to now, the "Scarlet Rose" is undoubtedly the senior of the Alps. The players who stayed there at that time can indeed be called "old players".

With a nervous mood, Alps brought Lianda and Coria to the group of horses. As soon as they approached the Alps, they confirmed that the group of horses was the Ghost Sword Brigade, because all the members were women. Alps saw the "Scarlet Rose" at a glance. She sat on a stone beside the docking carriage, stepping on the corpse of wolves. She was carefully wiping the sword body of the thin sword in her hand with an oiled cloth; she was wearing dark red leather armor and wearing a head

She wore a ship-shaped hat unified by the Ghost Sword Brigade and a large white feather stained with blood; she was also wearing a gray cloak to cover her leather armor and weapons, and the cloak was buckled by a silver-black owl brooch on her shoulder; and the fast swordsman Kasper herself was as beautiful as the legendary one. Just looking at her appearance, she only thought she was a mature and intellectual woman, but when she held the sword, she would become a "scarlet rose" that was not weaker than any man on the battlefield.

As soon as they approached, Coria, who was sitting behind Lianda, raised her hand and waved at them, "President! It's me! I'm back!"

Several members of the Ghost Sword Brigade who were cleaning up the wolf corpses all over the ground raised their heads, "Coria? I thought you were dead!" A tall woman carrying a cross gun came over. The race she chose was barbarians, so that the muscles she stretched out her hand were stronger than those in the Alps at this moment. The barbarian fangs gave her a wild beauty.

"There's no way, who made me meet a mad dog? I almost couldn't come back." Coria crawled down from the horse with the help of the female barbarians. During this period, she touched the wound and kept sucking air conditioning. The bumps and pain along the way also made her look pale, "I almost died after being stabbed in the abdomen."

"Mad Dog?" After hearing the name, several other women put down their lives in order to get over. Even the fast swordsman sitting on the stone raised his head, but he met the Alps on the horse. The Alps nodded nervously, and the fast swordsman responded with a polite smile.

"Hmph, thanks to us saving her, otherwise she would be dead!" Lianda, who was riding on the horse, said proudly with his hands on his hips.

"Thank you for your care. This child is always uneasy." The female barbarian also answered unexpectedly and politely.

"Hehe, nothing!" Lianda smiled embarrassedly.

"Hey! You obviously didn't do anything!" Coria said angrily.

"How could you say that? I sewed your wound on you, otherwise you would have lost blood long ago." Lianda said with a bulging face.

"You have the nerve to say this..." Coria turned pale as she recalled the pain at that time.

"Coriya!" said the female barbarian, "You should not be so rude to those who have helped you."

"But..." Coria looked at the female barbarians and bulged her face, then turned her head away, "Yes."

"Wow, I'm really injured!" A girl in leather armor next to her looked surprised at the bloody bandage on her abdomen, showing a look of surprise, "Isn't it really that you fell down?"

"You'd like to throw one to show me!" Coria responded angrily, but because she spoke loudly, she started to cry out in pain.

"Stop kidding," the female barbarian said and gently gave the girl a hand knife. The girl quickly covered her head and ran away. "Where is Sister Kame?" The female barbarian looked around.

"Take Keding and the others to chase the fleeing bandits." Another girl replied.

"This is trouble." The female barbarian frowned, and then she noticed the Alps that had been embarrassed and silent. "Oh, sorry, I didn't even notice you. Are you passing by?"

"Uh, I'm..." Alps didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Coria pulled the corner of the female barbarian's clothes, and came to her and whispered: "This is the one who saved me!"

At this time, Lianda left and drove the horse to the right side of the Alps, blocking the women of the Ghost Sword Brigade and the Alps, "Sir Al, since we have also sent us, then I'll leave! You can immediately reach the Rune Hill after you leave the Pass of the Wind Valley."

"Are you going to the Rune Hill?" the fast swordsman sitting on the stone suddenly asked loudly, and all the other ghost sword brigades looked at the Alps.

"So you are going to Rune Hill?" Coria, who had been with her for a long time, was also stunned.

What's going on? This atmosphere? The Alps nodded a little crampedly.

"I advise you not to go," Kathaba, the fast swordsman, stood up, "we just escaped from there too."

The Alps were stunned.

"Can Scarlet Rose escape? I'm so curious about what kind of opponent it is." Lianda showed a malicious smile, while the rest of the Ghost Sword Brigade looked at her with serious eyes.

The fast swordsman himself smiled disapprovingly, "If the opponent is something that can be killed with a sword, maybe I will fight."

"But unfortunately, using a sword can't kill the plague."

...

"There were three deaths in two days," Anthony said while sitting at the table drinking sour wine, frowning, not only because the wine was too sour or too troublesome, "It was cut into pieces, and a player and two NPCs died, including an alcoholic foreign merchant and an alcoholic guard."

"The owner of the Drunken Fish Tavern said that that thing only killed the drunk people." Joel, who was lying on the bed, said hoarsely. He felt that his voice would be like this forever, which really hit him a little.

Anthony drank the wine in the cup in one sip, and frowned and put down the cup, "If this continues, the Duke will probably issue a wine restriction order, and it will be bitter at that time."

Joel did not respond to his words. "Hermi found it?"

"No, but find something else." Anthony took out a wrinkled parchment, "This is a shopping list I have tried every means to get. Don't ask where I got it." Anthony continued to see that Joel didn't speak, "The list shows that the church has recently purchased many daily necessities for girls, which are not in previous shopping lists. After all, there are almost only monks in the church in Golden Falls, and the only women are the restroom girls in the tombs," Anthony said, shook his head, "they can be my grandma at their age."

"Hermi is in the church," Joel said.

"No direct evidence, no one witnessed it." Anthony shrugged, "but that's about it."

What do they want to do? Joel asked himself, of course, because Hemi is a saint, they certainly wouldn't let themselves take her away. "How long will it take?" Joel asked.

Anthony rubbed his nose, "This is a very time-consuming, energy, and…"

"Money." Joel nodded slightly, then got up from the bed. He was wrapped in bandages and his whole body was still burning. It made Joel unable to fall asleep. Fortunately, he no longer relied on sleep after he came out of the cemetery. "I need some things, cloak, armor and..."

"Are you sure you can move?" Anthony looked at Joel with bandages on the bed suspiciously.

Joel didn't reply, but nodded. Simoken's ointment was better than expected, and the wound finally stopped bleeding after repeated burning - if it bleeds, it would burn again, and then the blood stopped. The skin under the bandage was beyond recognition, and Joel didn't even have the courage to look at himself in the mirror. It would be a monster, Joel told himself.

"Simoken will strangle me to death if he knows it." Anthony said, shook his head, "How did you do it? Let an NPC be so good to you." Joel just saw him not saying anything, and Anthony took out the cooked leather armor that had been prepared from the "backpack". "Rhino leather, high-quality goods, and inlaid with tempered steel sheets, which cost me a lot of money."

Joel took the folded leather armor and cloak, "I will give it back to you."

"Hmph, that monster's head is worth three bags of gold," Anthony smiled. "The price just increased by the furious Duke yesterday, so I've been considering an investment."

Joel didn't say anything, but looked down at the leather armor, reached out and touched the steel plate on it, and could feel the cold touch through the bandage. "Okay, it's almost time for me to leave," Anthony said, standing up, "I might be away for a while recently." He paused, "I'm not going to run away. I'll leave this matter to Feiyu to help continue investigating. That guy is pretty good and very efficient in doing things."

Joel just looked at Anthony coldly, and Anthony only showed a helpless look, then turned around and left the room. After Anthony's footsteps disappeared, Joel put down the leather armor on his hand, climbed down from the bed, and stood up again. The burning sensation from the scars all over his body made him feel upset.

Then his eyes fell on the leather armor placed on the bed.

...

The Alps didn't expect that the legendary "Scarlet Rose" fast swordsman Kasperba would sprain her ankle, which was why she kept sitting on the side. Moreover, she herself did not have the airs that the legendary master should have, and she gave people the feeling that she was just a big sister who treated people well.

"She was too excited when fighting before," explained Balem, a barbarian warrior, shrugged, "because we haven't fought much during this period of time in Rune Hills."

"At first I thought it was just an attack from the wolves, but I didn't expect there were bandits behind me!" said Luluen, the girl in leather armor. When Coria said that she was an extremely excellent scout.

The Alps, sitting among them, nodded after hearing this. The Valley of Wind is different from other places. The land here is barren and is the most desolate part of the journey from the southern border to the northern border. I heard that there were towns here, but they eventually disappeared overnight. Now only these indigenous tribes still live in this desolate Valley of Wind. Most of these indigenous tribes live in the deep valley or in dense forests, but some of them make a living by robbing vendors on ancient avenues. The entire tribe has become robbers. The wolf taming technique passed down from generation to generation by these ancient tribes is also used to commit crimes.

The Duke of Jin Falls, decades ago (about four years ago in the real world, when the "death battle" had not yet erupted), joined forces with the sentry town outside the pass of the Wind Valley to sweep the robber tribes in the Wind Valley, burned down their strongholds on the hills, and slaughtered their tribesmen. Although some of them escaped into the mountains and forests, the robber tribes have never threatened them for decades.

Are they back now? Alps couldn't help but think.

"Those guys are very smart," said Belle. "After seeing us killing a few wolves, I decisively ordered the retreat, but my sister ordered us to pursue..."

"So Sister Meka took Ding Ke and the others to chase them." Luluen sighed.

"Will there be dangers to pursue this rashly?" Alps asked uneasyly. After all, this is the territory of those robber tribes. They are familiar with the terrain and are proficient in the ways of traps.

"On average people may be dangerous," said the fast swordsman sitting on the stone confidently, "but there will be no problem with what is left to Meka and Keding."

"Meka is the military advisor of our Ghost Sword Brigade," Balem explained to the Alps, "and Dingke and the others..."

"It's a troublemaker." Coria commented.

"It's the problem child." Luluen added.

"I probably understand." Alps nodded with some restraint. Although he actually didn't understand anything, he didn't want to dig into this issue anymore. "So what's going on with the plague you just mentioned?"

The Alpine problem suddenly silenced the girls who were still chattering just now, and Casper, who was sitting on the stone, moved his body.

"It's a blood plague. People infected will die very miserably. Although they are mosaiced, they can still feel very miserable. A large number of NPCs have been infected, and no less than two villages have been destroyed by this plague. And although there are not many, players will be infected," Kasperba said with a gloomy expression. "The infected players will be directly prompted 'whether to give up their existing characters'."

"Will players be infected?" Alps was stunned. This was unprecedented, because the special physique of mercenaries allowed them to be immune to diseases. Even in places where corpses were everywhere on the battlefield, there would be no trouble. The "death battle" once caused many towns to be destroyed by plague, but players still fought on these ruins.

But now there is a plague that players will also be infected with. Once infected, the system will ask "whether to give up the character", does this mean that the plague is incurable?

"Where did this plague come from?" Alps asked with a serious expression.

Kasperba looked at him and glanced at the eyes behind his armor.

"I don't know, but at the center of the plague outbreak is the stone furnace castle among the hills."
Chapter completed!