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Chapter 86
Chapter 86: Prelude
[Host, Host, wake up quickly.]
The man wrinkled his nose. His body seemed to be pinned down by something soft. He slowly opened his eyes and discovered that he was still on the chair on the balcony from last night. Eileen, whose appearance had been disguised, was wrapped in a blanket and curled up asleep in his arms.
Oswald raised his eyes. Dawn had just begun to break, and the city was rarely peaceful.
He did not dare move carelessly, so he adjusted his breathing and spoke with the System in his mind.
Е n u ma. ĩd̀
(System, did something happen?)
[The System reminds Host to pay attention to the toxins and harmful substances in the air. Someone was burning corpses and bones throughout the night, and the concentration of undead magic in the air has already severely exceeded the standard.]
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(Could it be that thing we saw when we came here?)
Oswald quickly picked up Eileen, walked into the room, gently placed her on the bed, then tightly shut the doors and windows.
If he guessed correctly, the high-ranking officials of the Royal Capital were probably engaging in another round of left-brain and right-brain infighting.
At first, they had discovered that burning it could solve the problem, but after discovering that the gas produced by burning was harmful, they had immediately stopped. Later, after trying all kinds of methods and discovering that none of them worked, they had simply resumed the burning plan again.
Еn̄ u m̄а̌ .іd
To them, they could not let stubbornness turn one problem into two dead ends. They had to solve at least one problem first. Otherwise, how could they give the King an explanation?
(What are the mages doing? Can’t they use wind magic to blow away the poisonous gas?)
[They can temporarily disperse part of it, but these toxins can adhere and settle. Moreover, because the concentration is too high, spreading the range may very likely trigger even greater harm.]
Oswald was speechless. It seemed he had to go take a look personally. If an even greater crisis broke out, he could also alter his later plans accordingly.
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Eileen woke up on the bed. After stretching lazily, she rubbed her eyes and noticed that Oswald’s expression seemed somewhat wrong.
Was it because she had lain on top of him last night?
Ё num̌ а̇
She grew a little nervous, clutched the blanket, and asked weakly, “My lord, what happened?”
“The situation outside the city is not right. Let’s wash up first. After that, touch up my disguise, and once we eat breakfast, we will go together to investigate the situation.”
Eileen breathed a sigh of relief. “Understood, my lord.”
After using Janice’s potion to change her hair color, she had also learned a bit of disguise technique from Count Pete. It could not be called flawless, but if others did not observe her carefully, it would be very difficult for them to recognize her.
The two traveled all the way outside the city. Eileen stubbornly hugged Oswald’s arm, and from far away, with just one glance, Oswald saw that indescribable “Cthulhu.”
Countless hundreds-of-meters-long tentacles wound around one another as they crawled ashore. The mages wore wet cloth over their mouths and noses, dodging the tentacles while constantly using their staffs to cast fire magic, burning the mass of flesh in the river into black mist with rumbling explosions.
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On the city wall, the mages’ gale magic did not stop for even a moment, blowing the black mist away from the wall. In the distance, there was similarly a mass of black mist continuously climbing toward the sky.
“This thing actually came alive…”
Oswald unfolded a wind barrier and wrapped himself and Eileen inside it, preventing the poisonous mist outside from harming them.
The black mist gathered into dark clouds. Black ash continuously drifted down from the sky, and whether it was trees or houses, everything had been stained with speckled black-gray marks.
The two stuck close to the city wall and kept as far from the crowd as possible. Not far away, the Church personnel had set up a temporary clinic. John and Maria were both there. As soon as a mage with black pustules growing on his body walked over, they immediately cast goddess magic and began treatment.
Maria, who could become the Saintess, was naturally not a simple person. Her efficiency in dealing with this corpse poison was actually several points faster than even the Archbishop’s.
E ň um̆ а̇. іd̂
Eileen seemed somewhat unable to endure this nauseating scene, and she frowned. “My lord, should we withdraw from the Royal Capital first?”
Oswald squeezed her fingers and comforted her. “Mm… There is no rush. I always have a premonition that something about this is wrong.”
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They had come here to confirm whether the final Wishing Star would be used. Everything else was secondary.
It was just that this calamity had gone from the Southern Territory to the Western Territory, then to the Northern Territory, and finally erupted in the Royal Capital of the Central Region. It always made him feel that there was some pattern he had overlooked…
Whether this was an aftereffect of the chaotic timeline or something else, he still did not know for the time being.
Moreover, speaking of the plague, first it had been the mass deaths of cattle in the Southern Territory, and now it was the cattle of the Central Region. Could this also be a coincidence?
W ėbǹ ó vе̃ l̂ Еn ú m а
Black ash fell upon the earth like snow. Before them were tentacles formed from hair, blood, bones, and flesh, while behind them, the city had begun to clamor again. Most likely, the “witch-hunt group” had started moving once more.
The flesh began to glow green. John keenly turned his head and met Oswald’s gaze once again.
“Who are you?!”
Strange figures rushed out of the city gate. They were the severe patients Oswald had seen yesterday. These patients, who should have lost consciousness, were now sprinting toward the river with all their strength, knocking over the soldiers maintaining order with a thud.
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“Stop! Stop! You are not allowed to go over there!”
The fully armed soldiers turned their spears around. Yet in the next instant, the sound of galloping came from the earth. More and more distorted and swollen patients rushed out of the city gate. They did not avoid the sharp spearheads at all, but charged forward in madness.
W̄е̊ b̃ ǹ о̀v̇е l Е ñu ḿа
“Quick! Close the city gate!”
SPLATTER!
The swollen, blood-covered bodies ruptured the moment they struck the spearheads. Large amounts of blood and minced flesh sprayed through the air. Under the soldiers’ terrified gazes, patient after patient threw themselves forward without regard for death, crushing the soldiers’ formation like a crimson flood.
As though embracing new life, they hugged the tentacles and jumped with splash after splash into the flesh in the river.
The crowd swept past the two people’s line of sight one after another. A thread of clarity passed through John’s clouded eyes.
He recognized him… When had this little fellow come to the Royal Capital?
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“Stop them! Stop them!”
The mages also fell into panic. It was visible to the naked eye that the moment broken human bodies entered the river, the flesh that had originally shriveled up rapidly swelled again and began rotating once more.
The current surged violently. The vortex at the center churned with unusual ferocity and was constantly speeding up.
Staffs pointed toward the dense crowd. The magic that had been building was interrupted by tentacles that suddenly went berserk. They swung madly with the vortex, then abruptly slapped toward the mages.
The city gate finally slammed shut, as though cutting off the flood. But it did not hold for long before the patients overwhelmed the guards, climbed onto the city wall, and leapt heavily down, one after another smashing onto the ground.
The world seemed to lose all reason in that instant. The mages rose into the air one after another. All kinds of powerful magic continuously bombarded the vortex, while the tentacles climbed high, as though they wanted to drag the mages into hell.
Е́n ûm̂а̀
Holding Eileen’s slender waist, Oswald vanished from where he stood in the blink of an eye and appeared on top of a large tree.
(System, please tell me what this thing is.)
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[It looks like a Decaying Slime. Congratulations, Host. You have unlocked a new bestiary entry again. Also, Host is becoming more and more like a villain. Wherever you go, you can trigger high-difficulty calamity events.]
(…)
The shredded corpses on the ground seemed to have been granted consciousness, constantly crawling toward the river. The earth was a field of red. The soldiers finally could not withstand it anymore and were swept one after another into the vortex boiling with blood and flesh.
The sudden disaster triggered panic throughout the entire city. Both inside and outside the city fell out of control at the same time. Black snow drifted through the howling wind. Medivh could no longer spare any attention for the remaining flesh in the deep pit, and flew before the vortex like a shooting star.
W е b̄n о v̇ e l̊ Е̂ n̂ u m̆a
Oswald raised his head and saw a dazzling white light shining from Medivh’s staff.
In the sky above, an incomparably enormous lion’s head condensed from light broke through the dark clouds. The lion’s roar, as loud as a great bell, shook every person’s mind.
White light illuminated the earth. The mountain-like lion’s head crushed the tentacles and smashed heavily into the vortex.
The river was severed, and the earth shook. The instant the lion’s head dissipated, the vortex shattered with a boom, sending a hundred-meter-high spray of blood into the air. The wind pressure it squeezed out blew away the patients who were still running.
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Oswald held Eileen tightly and immediately retreated. The large tree beneath his feet was uprooted and toppled by the violent impact.
However, in the next second, the flesh that had scattered in midair suddenly paused. As though time had reversed, it shot back toward the center of the vortex. The river once again surged into the channel that had been widened severalfold, and the Decaying Slime finally completed its fusion, revealing its massive true form.
Ėn úm а
“Ring the bell! Assemble!”
Medivh roared angrily. To him, a giant bloody jelly with countless disgusting tentacles appearing before his eyes was instead the situation he preferred to face. At the very least, it was much easier than dealing with that poisonous flesh.
The soldiers on the city wall immediately rang the great bell. Clear clangs echoed through the city.
John walked in Medivh’s direction and glanced once more at Oswald not far away. Realizing that his identity had been exposed, Oswald merely smiled at him.
Soon, Sophia the mage floated over and arrived at the scene. Immediately afterward came Dane from the Adventurer Association, who jumped down from the city wall, and Charles, the Divine Archer of the royal family’s guard.
The five-person subjugation team completed its assembly. Their sharp gazes simultaneously turned toward the giant scarlet slime, whose surface was covered with floating hair, human faces, and rat-skin faces.
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Chunks of corpses on the ground and surviving soldiers were pulled into its body one by one by its tentacles. Inside the clearly visible translucent body of the slime, the bodies were dissolved in an instant, and then a twisted, ferocious face floated up to the slime’s surface.
The flesh-and-blood slime wriggled forward toward the Royal Capital. Its speed was not fast, and the blood on the ground was cleaned away completely by it.
The city gate opened once again. The clergy and survivors left outside quickly withdrew, leaving only the subjugation team and Oswald and Eileen, who were watching the show from not far away.
“First stop its movements, then look for its weakness!”
Medivh carried a sword in one hand and held a staff in the other. He was the first to step forward, then turned his head and shouted to John, “You are old. Stay farther from the center of the battle and support us at critical moments.”
Medivh’s spell activated. To Oswald, this was a rare opportunity to observe an Archmage’s battle.
W е̇ bn̊ǒv̈ е̃ l Е_ǹŭ mӓ
He saw the staff tremble lightly, and a beam of light rose from the ground, shooting straight into the sky. In an instant, more than a dozen enormous, ancient, and exquisitely detailed magic circles appeared one after another above the slime’s head.
“Gravity Formula, deploy!”
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A layer of unrivaled power passed through the ripples in space, falling from the sky toward the magic circles at high speed. The distorted gravity tore apart the magic circles, yet the power increased severalfold. Gravity stacked continuously, completing the entire acceleration process from slow to extreme speed in a single second.
The terrifying acceleration instantly crushed the following magic circles, finally transforming into a vast gravitational force that bombarded the ground and the slime’s body.
The ground instantly collapsed by dozens of meters, without even a single speck of dust rising. The slime’s body shattered once more, spreading into a flat mass of meat paste.
Behind Medivh, the Royal Capital’s powerhouses moved out together, drawing open the prelude to the subjugation battle.
E n̈ǔm̊а̊. і̃d
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