The soldiers blocked all the main channels and surrounded the mall opened by the gray elves, but this did not stop the rumors and the truth in the rumors from fermenting rapidly among ordinary people. Soon, countless statements about darkness, blood, sacrificial rituals, and heretic cults spread in the town. At night, the bones carried out from the mall seemed to confirm everyone's statement.

Duke Berdvin Franklin, the Duke of the West, arrived at the scene in a low-key manner under the escort of soldiers. He frowned and looked at the mall where the slightest smell of blood was still floating in front of him, and the ignorant and foolish people who were looking at him in a distance, and were in a very bad mood.

There is no need for a duke to pay attention to what happened in a small town in person, but when the incident happened, Berdevin Franklin happened to hunt in a hunting ground near Jinlin Town.

Recently, cult forces in the kingdom have been making trouble. The king sent a message not long ago that he was careful of cult chaos. Several unsettling horror incidents have indeed occurred in the western region. Duke Berber Franklin was worried about this, so he chose to come to this secluded place for winter hunting to relax. However, he did not expect that the cult incident seemed to be against him. At this critical moment, it emerged under his nose.

"Sir," said a close confidant, leaning over from the side, "Do you want to disperse those untouchables?"

"They are just ignorant and don't know what horror is," said Bodevin in a bad mood. "I asked the soldiers to block the road to save the lives of those idiots, but since they are so stupid that they can't understand this, let them gather outside the street and don't affect it."

"Yes, sir, your kindness is touching," said the cronie bowed his head, "you want to go in... see?"

"I came for this."

Bodevin opened the door of the mall, and a strong smell of blood immediately came to his face.

Dried dark red blood can be seen everywhere in the mall. On the ground, on the wall, on the roof, even every table, chair, every decoration, and every windowsill, blood is covered with blood. It is like a madman dipped in all the blood and carefully applied it to every surface, making the scalp numb.

And among the frozen blood marks, you can see deeper human-shaped marks, which are extremely strange.

"What's going on with these marks?" Berdevin Franklin asked, sensing a subtle magical fluctuation from the marks.

"It was caused by corrosion, sir," a priest dressed as a priest walked out of the staff who were sorting out the scene. He performed a ritual of the Holy Light Cultist in front of the Duke of the West and answered respectfully, "Judged by the traces of the scene, those who were affected by evil magic or participated in the cult sacrifice first carried out crazy self-harm activities in this hall, and applied their blood to all corners of the room. Then they concentrated in these places, and the remaining blood in their bodies began to boil and corrode under the influence of evil demons. The flesh and blood flowing down formed these corrosive marks, so when we came here, all we saw was the corpse."

Anger appeared on the face of the Duke of Westward: "I don't want to know too many details, I just want to know who did it."

"This is a typical sacrificial ground for the death of all things," replied the Holy Light Priest, "They advocate destroying the living flesh and blood limbs and embracing death. According to my judgment, the cultists who performed this evil sacrifice were collected on the scene of this scale of blood sacrifice among the corpses collected. The cultists will choose to destroy themselves with their victims to achieve their goals to the greatest extent."

The Duke of the West looked into the priest's eyes: "Their purpose? What are their purpose?"

"They should be planning to create a plague and walk the plague into the western border of the kingdom and the moss forest at the same time," the priest pointed to the nearby walls. On the walls polluted by blood, you could vaguely see the light golden holy light runes flashing slightly, and the wisps of black air quickly dissipated under the sacred light. "When I arrived here, the entire building was filled with the breath of plague. Fortunately, the Lord guided me to discover the conspiracy of the cultists in advance, so that I could dispel the evil magic that was about to be formed and set up a purification barrier. Sir, you no longer have to worry about the plague."

"These depraved and twisted freaks! Their souls should be taken away by the devil and never run out of hell!" Bedvin Franklin was very angry, but he tried hard to maintain his demeanor and nodded to the Lord of the Holy Light, "Father, you saved this town and the lives of everyone around the town! You deserve my thanks and reward."

“Purification of evil is the way the Lord has given us,” said the priest compassionately. “I am more worried than my personal gains that are terrible cultists to attack areas that have not been sheltered by our Lord.”

"Near this mall is the church of the Blood God, but the priests there know nothing about the evil that happened to them," the Duke of the West shook his head, "The first one to arrive was the Holy Light Priests you led..."

"It's not the messengers of the Blood God," Pastor Holy Light immediately spoke, "It's just that their magic is useless at this time. The power of the God of Holy Light is specialized in fighting evil, and we just happened to encounter a matter of our own."

The Duke of the West showed a thoughtful look: "Fight against evil... The cultists in the kingdom are becoming more and more rampant. At this time, all we need is the power to fight against evil..."

The priest lowered his head deeply: "The servant of the God of Holy Light will be unshirkable."

...

The cultists were plaguing the nobles in Ansu, but in the southern area where they were the first to stir up the wind and rain, the situation was gradually calming down.

It seems that after the demise of all things and the sleeper suffered consecutive setbacks, the Dark Sects felt a little tricky about this desolate and backward area adjacent to Gondor's wasteland, and with a large number of choices within the kingdom, they temporarily gave up their plans to continue making trouble here.

Gao Wen could not guess the cultist's idea, but he was happy to accept this rare peaceful time and planned to take this opportunity to continue clicking the tech tree on the territory.

The basic rune array parsed by Jenny and Rebecca is gradually coming in handy.

On the desk in front of him, there was a universal arm armor that had been dismantled. This is the "i-type scorching ray gun" currently equipped by soldiers in the territory. Compared with the initial rough experimental model, the mass-produced arm armor seems more reasonable in structure, and the components are more standardized, making it easier to replace. After opening its shell and a layer of protective cover, you can see the modular rune trigger, magic capacitor, magic card slot and scorching ray substrate located at the front of the arm armor. In addition, two spare slots can be seen at the location of the magic card slot, which is designed according to Gao Wen's previous instructions for convenience for later transformation and upgrading.

Jenny and Rebecca stood beside the table, who took out a rune substrate and handed it over: "Give this to you."

Gao Wen took the substrate, and on the edge of the hexagonal metal plate, he saw a neat line of steel stamped text: General-purpose i-type-force field shield module.

He opened the limit snap on the magic guide slot inside the arm armor and installed the new module in place. With a slight click, several runes on the force field shield module emitted a slight light. The energy from the magic capacitor has successfully activated the new component.

Jenny explained next to her: "After opening the force field shield, the number of shootings of scorching rays will be reduced by half, but the force field shield is not a function that needs to be turned on all the time. You can rely on adding a new rune trigger to control its deactivation activation. As an energy shield with limited defense area, soldiers can only turn on the force field shield when they engage in close combat."

Rebecca immediately added: "We originally planned to get a level 3 eggshell shield, but later we found that the energy consumption was too high and the arm armor could not last for a few minutes, so we had to get the level 2 magic field shield in first!"

Gao Wen raised his eyelids and glanced at the Tie-headed girl: "What the hell is the Eggshell Shield? That's the Mage Shield! Don't just name it just because it looks like an Eggshell?"

Rebecca scratched her hair: "Hey hehe, you just need to know what I mean..."

Gao Wen glanced at the girl with no choice: "How much has the next generation of armor been implemented?"

"Oh, we have successfully integrated the combat backpack and armor into one piece, and it is detachable, so that the magic array on the armor can be used directly as the combat backpack for energy. If necessary, the backpack can be discarded and reduced weight or replaced. Because there is also a magic capacitor in the breastplate, it can continue to fight for a period of time when it is removed from the combat backpack," Rebecca said enthusiastically while taking out the drawings she drew overnight.

Show Gao Wen, "You see, we first integrated the first-level breeze shield into the breastplate. It consumes the lowest amount. Although it does not have much physical protection, it can filter toxic breaths and disease-like spells to make soldiers safer in harsh environments. Then, according to your tips, we also added heat insulation and weight reduction runes to the inner layer of the armor. These are all magical or first-level spells. They can be continuously operated with combat backpacks as energy..."

Rebecca described excitedly, and Gao Wen nodded with satisfaction. Although all the basic functions are realized, the idea of ​​achieving similar enchanting armament through the new magic array is obviously correct. However, Rebecca stopped as he said, with a little frustrated expression on his face: "But you mentioned before that a spray device is added behind the armor. As long as the soldier shouts 'Chaya!', he can charge forward while spitting fire. I really have no idea. I want to add a fireball magic array behind it, but I found that it will blow up all my teammates around..."

Gao Wen almost choked himself to death with a saliva: "Puff, didn't I tell you that was a joke!?"

"But it sounds so handsome!" Rebecca looked at Gao Wen with shiny eyes, "and there were also a bunch of glowing streamers behind the armor. As long as you jump three meters high, you can fire arcane missiles and other things in all directions..."
Chapter completed!