Wizard World, Iron Forest City.

This is the third day after Tielin City was besieged.

Uninvited terrifying plague creatures are entrenched outside the Tielin City. They can be seen in all the wilderness, mudflats, jungles and hills that can hide. They use this as a base to attack all human towns and villages.

Except for the protection of the Wizard Tower in Tielin City, which has not been breached, all the gathering points for scattered humans to survive have been sneak attacked and lost to the plague creatures. This has led to the gathering of more and more plague creatures outside Tielin City, becoming a terrifying army of plague. The plague girl Saila even sent several small teams led by the plague messengers to penetrate deep into the jungle, spreading terrible plague germs and adding countless mutated plague creatures to his team.

The crowds in Tielin City were overcrowded.

Due to the plague, all the people around Tielin City flocked into the city, causing huge troubles and heavy burdens to the city managers. Several noble men in the city hall were already busy, but the security in the city still took a sharp turn.

The city guards, which were in short supply, had to recruit a large number of mercenaries and adventurers to fill in the defense system, barely keeping the situation from deteriorating.

Most of the refugees who fled into Tielin City were home to their families, but they could not find a suitable livelihood to make a living. For a moment, the streets and alleys of Tielin City were filled with refugees who had nowhere to go. A big mouth that was hungry and painful faces were heartbreaking. In their eyes, there were only despair and numbness, pain and silence.

Those unpowered refugees are easy to deal with. The vicious mercenaries holding big sticks and the food distribution once a day can suppress the dissatisfaction and resentment of this group. However, the nobles of all sizes and big and small who block the door of the city hall every day are not so easy to deal with.

The power and wealth of the nobles all come from their own territory. Now plagues are rampant outside, and the territory, manors and castles of these noble men have become paradises of plague creatures, and their dissatisfaction and resentment are gradually accumulating. Throughout the day, there are endless calls and petitions for the wizard to send troops to clear out the plague creatures outside the city.

Unfortunately, the wizards stationed in Tielin City, whether they are from government sects or local families, are not interested in going out to clear out plague creatures, but are just guarding the public wizard tower and not knowing what they are studying. Of course, they are not completely unmoved, at least they made the decision to store refugees.

However, the several great nobles in the city hall were always full of malicious speculations. The wizards asked to store refugees into the city, and the bigger purpose was to reduce the number of plague creatures outside the city. After all, most of the plague creatures were predecessors of these once honest farmers, merchants and handicraftsmen.

Every day, the busiest one in Tielin City is probably the Adventurer Guild.

Hundreds of adventurer tasks occupy the magic light screen in the center of the hall, but most of them are high-risk tasks to go out to detect the dynamics of plague creatures. The red-word task of finding the head of plague creatures has occupied the top spot for a long time.

Bounty Mission: Explore the leader of plague creatures

Mission content: The recent plague that has ravaged the surrounding area of ​​Tielin City was fabricated by an extremely terrible plague daughter, who is also the behind-the-scenes controller of all plague germs and plague creatures. Anyone who can provide the whereabouts or clues of the plague girl will give high rewards depending on the severity of the intelligence.

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According to the news that many adventurers have heard, the Wizards Association is willing to provide a reward of 1,000 wizard gold coins for anyone who can provide clues to the plague girl's journey. As for those who can find the whereabouts of plague girl, they can receive 5,000 wizard gold coins.

Such envious large rewards also set off a wave of gold digging in the adventurers' team. Unfortunately, after the mercenary team left Tielin City, there was no news. As a result, the enthusiasm of the adventurers quickly declined, and no one dared to take on such a task of sending death.

However, today, a new mission appeared on the magic light screen in the Adventurer Hall, which attracted the attention of many Adventurers.

Reward mission: Save Baron Thomas's wife

Mission content: Go to Ossel Stone Fort and connect Baron Thomas's wife and daughter to Iron Forest City. A team of more than 20 people has been recruited, and now two thieves are urgently recruited. Rewards are 700 wizard gold coins.

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To be honest, such a task of finding relatives and escorting family members almost completely occupied the task light screen a few days ago, but unfortunately there were only a few responders.

Now outside Tielin City has completely become a dead place, with plague creatures raging, and ordinary people even survive outside. How can they drag their families through the long epidemic area with their families? In such a dangerous environment, only those warriors still have room for activities. Ordinary merchants and farmers encounter those servants who jump like flying, can beat and explode themselves and deliver vegetables. Letting them leave the city is completely forcing them to die.

What's more, Ossel Stone Fort is located 30 miles away from the Woshugu Mountain Road, which is the hardest hit area where the first batch of Iron Fortress reinforcements were raided by plague creatures. No matter how high Baron Thomas raised his reward, no adventurers would be willing to throw their lives in the hands of those terrifying monsters.

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Iron City, Ella Public Wizard Tower, a secret room.

The wizard of Les carefully cut open the huge and swollen chest abdomen of the corpse in front of him, enchanting the sharp scalpel with the "sharp armor" effect, cutting the hard skin of the opponent's tough skin as tough as raw cowhide is as easy as tearing paper. With a muffled "pop", a dull and rotten foul air rushed out of the opened chest cavity, and the chest of the plague creature that had just captured appeared in front of Les like an open package.

In this gloomy and quiet witchcraft secret room, there are not only wizards Les. More than a dozen wizards dressed in wizards surrounded the light shield of the witch formation, and they watched the entire dissection process with various means. In the wide and huge witch formation, there was only one of the most simple stone platforms, a servant corpse, and a wizard.

"Pelvic creatures look like humanoids, but in fact they are completely different from humans, and they are even far from undead creatures. This is almost a brand new species." The wizard Les pressed multiple parts of the body of the servant corpse with a scalpel to detect the other party's body's stress response.

While using a scalpel to peel off the dry and withered muscle layer like a dead tree bark, he made the chest and abdominal cavity appear intact.

"You can see that all the organs inside the body of the lower corpse on the other side have disappeared, replaced by strange beetles of all sizes and strange shapes. And it is these strange beetles that drive this body to move. Perhaps we should say that we are not facing any humanoid creature at all, but a mysterious Zerg with extremely contagious and amazing fertility!"

Just as Rice was busy explaining, countless black beetles burst out from his open chest cavity. The size of these black beetles was huge, the size of a thumb, and the small ones were comparable to rice grains. Of course, it is not ruled out that there are even more subtle plague beetles, but you need to use more subtle witchcraft equipment to see clearly.

"What we need to focus on at present is the source and origin of these plague beetles, and it is best to find out their fatal flaws as soon as possible. However, from the current research, we can confirm that these plague beetles seem to be composed of disorderly individuals, but in fact they have extremely keen group wisdom. For example..."

As he said, the scalpel in the wizard Less's hand gently dropped, firmly nailing a black beetle the size of a thumb onto the stone platform. Then, an indescribable strange sound wave began to stir inside the light shield of the witch formation.

The sound waves are sharp and harsh, and have a heart-wrenching rapidity, which is obviously similar to some alarm messages when humans transmit. However, the frequency of this sound wave is extremely high, and ordinary humans cannot detect it at all. It is just that the wizards present at level 5 or above can hear this sound based on their powerful spiritual perception.

As soon as the sound waves were transmitted, the black beetles that were running around just now had an amazing change in an instant, just like a human army with a high degree of intelligence and order, turning around and crawling towards the trapped beetles.

Countless beetles stacked up, like growing black mountain peaks, rushing along the scalpel's blade to the right hand of the wizard Les. The dense and wriggling form has made several female wizards frown and look extremely disgusted. The sound of chewing at the crackling sound is endless. If the scalpel is not solidified and has a solid technique, they may have been gnawed at this moment.

At this moment, the body of the servant corpse, who was originally trapped by the powerful witch formation, began to react, and the struggle became increasingly greater.

"In addition to the characteristics of certain Zerg creatures, these beetles also have several rare special forms. For example..."

When the wizard Rice said this, the fast-moving black beetles were about to chew on the front of his finger.

The next second, the blue snake-shaped lightning flashed over the black insect swarm.

Amid the crackling sound, the swarm of insects that had just been crowded with insects disappeared in an instant, turning into thick black smoke floating in the air.

Rice gave himself a "air bubble", separating all his body from a huge bubble, avoiding the black smoke.

Some high-level wizards who were feeling something used their own witchcraft and detected the black smoke through the light shield of the witch formation.

"There is a breath of life..."

"This is simply some smaller bugs..."

"They just break down..."

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Soon everyone came to the basic conclusion that ordinary attack methods could not directly kill these terrifying black beetles, and would only break them into even more tiny and terrifying spores. Perhaps this is the true form of black beetles!

After experiencing multiple elemental attack detection, the wizards found that ice-based witchcraft can only reduce their activity, and only flames can better kill these granular plague spores that cannot be seen by the naked eye. As for other elemental witchcraft, only by reaching the level of elemental annihilation can these plague spores be effectively killed.

This may be the fundamental reason why this plague is so difficult to extinguish.
Chapter completed!