?The Vatican righteously rejected the unreasonable demands of the Fugger family, and solemnly stated that the Fugger family has a suspicious relationship with the evil witch on the top of Bloken Mountain, and is suspected of hiding witches. The Vatican will investigate this matter.

Conduct in-depth investigation.《》.

Of course, doing in-depth investigation is just a way to save yourself face.

The Fugger family is not a pushover.

However, in the view of the Holy See, even if they do not agree to the request of the Fugger family, the Fugger family cannot do anything to themselves. No matter how powerful the Fugger family is in the secular world, they are just rich laymen. Now the Holy See is because

Just because you don't have time to take care of yourself and don't want to cause more trouble, just because you don't want to tangle with the Fugger family, doesn't mean that you are afraid of this rich man. If you really want to make trouble, organizing a crusade in the name of God to wipe out Augsburg is just a waste of time.

A matter of minutes.

In the opinion of the Holy See, the development of the facts was exactly as it expected. After the Fugger family's demands were not met, at best they stopped discussing the loan with the Holy See and never took any other action.

The witch hunt continued under the control of the Holy See. Although Martin Luther's Protestantism raised a cry, the voice was too weak and could not shake the status of the Holy See.

However, some small things happened secretly.

I don’t know when and where a saying came out that cats are the accomplices of witches. Evil witches use cats to sneak into thousands of homes and cast spells on the targets they choose.

Some sayings about having noses and eyes were miraculous from the beginning.

The kindest aristocratic family in a certain town all turned into living corpses overnight, and before that, many people in the town saw a strange black cat jumping into the aristocratic family;

Why are babies missing one after another in a certain village? The villagers kept watch all night, but saw a tabby cat jumping into someone's house, taking the baby away, and giving it to a witch hiding in the forest.

This theory spread more and more widely, eventually causing a strange change in the witch hunting trend.

Almost all of Europe began killing cats.

In Switzerland, people use sharp knives to stab cloth bags filled with cats until the cats are stabbed to death.

In Copenhagen, cats were thrown from the tall clock tower to hear their dying cries.

Soon even the royal families of various countries joined in, and even regarded this behavior as a sacred ritual.

When Queen Elizabeth I held her coronation, the priest's loud prayers were accompanied by the screams of boxes of cats in flames.

In just two or three years, cats throughout Europe were almost wiped out.

The cat is dead and the mouse is happy.

The whole of Europe is overrun with rats. They walk the streets during the day and party at night. They are simply rampant to the extreme.

But until this time, no one was aware of the catastrophe that was about to sweep across the entire continent.

I don't know from which day people began to discover that rats began to die. The corpses of rats that were once rampant were everywhere in their homes, on the streets, and in the wild.

At first, this kind of death was still secretive, and people only saw dead rats during the day. But soon this large-scale death began to occur during the day, so that everyone could see the dead rats.

the whole process.

People living all over Europe often see such a scene.

A fat, big mouse staggered out of the dark corner of the corridor, and walked grandly to the street or to the middle of the house. Then the mouse stopped for a moment, as if to steady itself, and then stopped in the same place.

He spun around on the ground, screamed softly at the same time, and finally fell to the ground with his mouth half open, vomiting blood.

One or two rats are nothing, but when groups of ten or hundreds of rats die like this on the streets or in people's rooms, panic spreads uncontrollably.

At this time, the Holy See stood up and announced that God took pity on the people who were infested by rats and sent a miracle to kill all the guilty rats to save his people.

God knows how this old man got to work as a cat when he had so much free time.

However, this statement was still recognized by most people, until one day, people found that people around them began to die one after another like mice. Their symptoms were exactly the same, first fever, cough, then chest pain, and then coughing up blood.

, and finally vomited blood, until the whole person died.

There had been plague outbreaks in Europe before, and people had some knowledge of prevention and began to isolate diseased areas and take corresponding measures.

According to past experience, some people may die, but it will be over soon.

The Holy See once again stood up and took the opportunity to build up its reputation, announcing to people that this was a disaster sent by God. All those who are arrogant, blind, ignorant and do not believe in the Lord will be punished. It also said that the believers of the Lord will not be affected and should really be harmed.

It's the weak believers and evil heretics.

But things didn't develop as expected.

The Holy See soon discovered that they had come forward a little too early.

More and more people are dying, and even many bishops in the diocese are getting sick and dying one after another. What's even more scary is that these bishops have advanced magic. In previous plague outbreaks, they relied on magic to protect themselves from the plague.

The virus is contagious, and now the magic seems to be ineffective in the face of the disease.

This storm of death quickly swept across the entire European continent. Even if various countries issued city closure orders and strictly prohibited anyone from entering or exiting the city, they could not isolate the spread of the disease. It was as if there was an invisible messenger of plague riding on the wind and riding electricity.

Rushing to various places as quickly as possible, spreading the disease without missing a beat into every corner where there are living people.

Everyone may fall down and die at any time. The corpses are piled up in the streets. No one has taken care of them. They are just rotting there. The cities are like cemeteries, filled with a disgusting stench. People can no longer see anything.

In the future, we can only sit in despair among the dead bodies and wait for death to come at the next moment.

All of Europe is in a state of death.

All the major magical powers could only cower in the face of this violent disease and barely protect themselves.

Even the Wizards Guild, a power system that has been passed down for thousands of years, has never seen such a violent plague in any record. They have used all the methods that have been proven to be effective in dealing with the plague, from magic to medical skills, but none of them have been effective.

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Only the wild wizards felt somewhat fortunate that this plague of unprecedented scale had saved them, and finally caused people's attention to temporarily shift from them to this disaster that might have wiped out the entire European continent.

At this time, three years had passed since the death of Jacob II's only son, and no one had yet connected this disaster destined to be recorded in history with the small conflict that occurred on the outskirts of Augsburg.
Chapter completed!