Belk Loren walked step by step on the path leading to the inner city castle area. The sharp stinging pain from several small wounds on his body kept stimulating his already tired spirit and maintaining his sanitation.

The fog was already thin, but the remaining bloody smell in the air was still entrenched, and suspicious shadows flashed by, and footsteps came from the depths of nearby streets and alleys. Every shadow and footsteps might be hidden monsters - they may have completed their transformation or are transforming, and Belk could not take risks in any case.

That voice still lingers in his mind:

"It turns out like this...you can live by eating stones... sir."

For this reason, people can be willing to become monsters.

At this moment, the young marquis suddenly remembered a sentence he saw in a report:

...The grain was collected six times in the above-mentioned areas, and the households were empty, the leaves were all eaten, and the number of hungry people...

It was once just a description and a few numbers. He also felt shocking, but he was just shocking.

Now, he finally saw with his own eyes what that "world" looks like.

It is incredible that there is only a city wall and a castle between that "world" and his "world".

He finally knew why most of the prince’s decrees were difficult to implement, and finally he knew why those noble lords could never rely on.

People living in the castle cannot imagine what the outside world looks like.

Belk looked up and saw the main entrance of Solin Castle in front of him, the suspension bridge... did not rise, nor did he see the guards.

An indescribable uneasiness suddenly surged into my heart, and Belk immediately accelerated his pace.

He held his sword tightly, crossed the suspension bridge, walked through the empty courtyard and barracks, pushed open the main fort gate with a crack, and entered the same empty and uninhabited long hall.

There was no sign of activity in sight, but there was an unsettling smell of blood everywhere, with traces of battle left by battle everywhere in the hall, and people's blood and broken and falling crystal clusters.

It was not an external invasion, but a battle that broke out from the inside out. The guards had a brief confrontation, but in a very short period of time, they took the initiative to stop the battle...

Belk quickly made these terrible judgments through the scene traces. At the same time, he kept running quickly to the second floor along his memory and ran to the hall on the second floor of the castle.

The door of the hall was open, and there was no guards, and in the middle of the hall, Belk saw the scene he least wanted to see.

A tall figure in black armor stood there - Edmund Moen heard the movement from the door, and turned his head, and a face that had been spread by crystal clusters reflected into Berk Loren's eyes.

Belk felt his heartbeat suddenly disappear, and then immediately drew his sword and prepared for the battle, but soon he discovered that Edmund Moen's vision was not completely confused and crazy. In those eyes that were about to turn into crystals, there was still the light of rationality as human beings.

He stepped forward with caution: "Your Highness—can you hear me?"

Edmund Moen stared at Belk, his body trembling slightly, as if two wills were fighting for dominance of this body, and during the battle, a hoarse voice came from his throat: "Kill me and take action immediately."

This terrible command made Belk's brain briefly blank, but he woke up two seconds later and made the calmest judgment.

He raised his sword and strode forward: "Yes, Your Highness."

An illusory and hot fire light ignited on the sword. Because he knew what strength the prince in front of him had, Belk gathered all his magic power in this attack. With a sharp sound of breaking through the air, his sword stabbed Edmund Moen's heart.

However, when the tip of the sword was only a few centimeters away from the heart, Edmund's left hand suddenly raised, and the palm covering the crystal cluster directly grasped the hot golden sword. After a series of dazzling flames and a sour creaking sound burst out between the palm and the sword blade, Berk's sword could no longer move forward.

Two pairs of eyes stared at the scene, then Edmund raised his head and spit out a word: "Run."

Belk instantly released the hilt of his sword. He did not stop at all, rushed to the side of the hall and then jumped, directly breaking through the window and jumping out of the castle.

In the shadows at a corner of the hall, a cluster of winding vines slowly squirmed, accompanied by a rustling sound, they all finally shrank into the depths of the darkness.

...

On the west side of the Giant Mu Road, in the Giant Rock City and Bai Pine Areas, on the land controlled by the royal family, the thick fog has completely dissipated.

The fog leaves the city and the countryside, and in places that have been infected by the fog, people become monsters.

Countless twisted giants formed by flesh and blood and crystal clusters are gathering together to form a disaster that spreads like fire. As long as there were once people, a terrible crystal cluster legion will gather, wearing black robes. The individuals like giants are the commanders of these legions. Under the leadership of these commanders, the crystal cluster giants occupied all villages and towns in just a few hours, and then began to spread towards the direction of the Kingdom Army stationed.

One of the important strongholds of the Kingdom Army, the City of Stone is under attack, and this city, known for its thick walls, is facing the greatest test of its history.

"Defend the line of defense!! Shield player - hold on!"

"More tin oil is needed here! More stone bombs are needed!"

"The combat mages are exhausted - on the top of the catapult! The guards mages are about to arrive!"

The oil buns burning with raging flames and the stones etched with runes rose into the air and flew out of the city wall to the distance. The huge crossbow arrows blew through the air with the thunder of the strings, smashing into the middle of the "crystal cluster tide" in the distance. The knights and the noble officers supervising the battle ran on the city wall, commanding the battle at the top of their lungs, using various magic to strengthen the city wall, and boosting the soldiers' morale that was almost shaking. However, under the city wall, the monsters were still gathering more and more.

This is the crystal cluster army transformed from all the population in the entire region. In the face of this number that has already caused qualitative change, mere stone bullets, tincture oil, and even the fireballs and lightning of the mages seem weak and powerless. These attacks fall on the heads of those monsters, just like a stone thrown into the sea and it is difficult to make too big waves.

A noble officer wearing dark blue armor and sashes on his shoulders stood on the city wall, watching more and more crystal cluster monsters coming from afar. Those monsters are not only relying on powerful bodies to fight, but also have terrifying spell casting ability - powerful arcane lightning constantly erupts from the densest places of monsters. After each lightning, a terrible crack will appear on the wall of the Giant Rock City, or a group of soldiers will fall. If the situation develops like this, it will only be a matter of time before the fall of the city will be.

"How much tincture and rock bombs do we have?" The noble officer turned his head and stared at a nearby knight adjutant.

"It's possible to hold on for two days, sir, but it's probably not enough - there are too many monsters, and there are countless others behind it!!"

Grease is the most effective way to fight against those monsters, but the oil buns thrown by the catapult cannot stop the tide-like attack at all. The mages who can continuously release large-scale flame spells...they have too few and all their magic power has been exhausted!

The noble officer's face was gloomy. He heard a loud noise from the west wall, followed by screams and noises.

A large number of soldiers on the verge of collapse fell into chaos. From the attacked area, the defending troops began to show obvious wavering and retreat.

The supervising knights stepped forward as soon as possible and used their morale-boosting combat skills to forcibly maintain the defense line. The soldiers affected by extraordinary power returned to the city wall under the influence of hormones and nerve excitement. However, their eyes were already bloodshot, their behavior was unbalanced, and their inner consciousness was approaching collapse. It was completely unknown how many times they could control the catapult.

What's even more terrifying is that even the knights who supervised the battle behind the soldiers... had already appeared on their faces.

These are already the elite troops of the kingdom. They can fight head-on with powerful East Knights on the battlefield all day, but that is just a war against "people". Now, they are facing monsters.

This is beyond the limit of human willpower.

Another knight adjutant ran up to the city wall with horror on his face and his tone was shaken: "Sir, it has been confirmed that many monsters carry the clothes and armor fragments of the third, fifth, and sixth Knights and the Kingdom Army soldiers. They... they are transformed from our soldiers!!"

The noble officer stared at him: "How many people know the news?!"

"All the defending troops saw it..."

It's over.

The Knights and the Conscript Corps stationed on the North-South Line of Jumu Roadkou are all over, and the city should be over soon.

But before the noble officer could sigh, a nightmare shout suddenly came from a distance:

"Count Thorin died in battle!!"

After a brief shock, the noble officer immediately widened his eyes, trying to find a foolish messenger who was shouting in front of the formation, but soon he realized that the sound came from under the city wall and among the monsters.

A broken corpse was thrown into the sky by the monsters, and Earl Thorin died with his head and just entered the sight of the soldiers guarding the city.

In the end, the count failed to regain his territory and castle.

The defense line on the city wall began to collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye, and began to retreat, and large gaps and gaps began to appear. The defending troops fell into an irreversible retreat, and the supervising knights no longer had the ability to reorganize the defense line.

Because even the morale of the knights has collapsed.

Dozens of huge arcs of arcane attacked the city wall at the same time. With the continuous explosions, the magnificent stone high wall shook violently, as if it was about to collapse in the next second.

This city is no longer possible to be defended.

The moment he realized this fact, the noble officer and his adjutants heard a series of sharp whistling sounds coming from the sky. With this whistling sound, the entire sky was quickly covered by large shadows.

Countless ice cones and howling winds swept across the battlefield, as if the cold winter that had just ended returned to this world again. In this sudden ice storm, a new frozen barrier quickly blocked the city wall, and hundreds of monsters were nailed to the frozen cliffs by ice cones.

However, the next second, this line of defense formed by solid ice was subjected to continuous attacks, and about half of the monsters nailed to the ice began to struggle: this fatal damage for ordinary people could not completely kill them.

Accompanied by the sound of Kala, the entire ice wall cracked rapidly.

A majestic female voice came from the sky and resounded throughout the battlefield: "The mountain corps was cut off with me, and the Wang Family Knights and the Guards led civilians to break out to the northwest!"

This is the voice of Duchess Victoria Wilder.

The Knight Adjutant reminded him, "Sir, it is the order to retreat."

The noble officer glanced at the almost completely collapsed line of defense and took a deep breath.

"retreat!!"

On the 12th of the month of recovery in Ansu 738, the largest fortress of the Kingdom Army on the Holy Spirit Plain, the Giant Rock City fell.

A huge army of crystal cluster giants began to spread towards the city of San Sunil.

...

A few days later, Saldrin, who had just crossed the Pompeii region and was advancing north along the east bank of the Dorgon River, and his steel rangers led met a completely unfamiliar enemy.

A particularly tall human who seems to be infected by some crystal parasite.

The earth was burned by the individual burner, and a large number of completely carbonized corpses and scattered crystal clusters were piled up in pieces within the range. Fully armed combatants were on guard against the periphery, while Saldrin and several steel rangers were inspecting the strange corpses on the battlefield.

The advanced ranger frowned.

What happened in the north?
Chapter completed!