Knight and Wand

Chapter 363 Land of Death
Pulling back Gungnir, Leon handed the magic spear to Olivia: "Help me hold it."

The girl took the weapon and saw him bending down and skillfully groping the body of the vampire guard.

Leon pulled off the vampire soldier's pistol along with the holster and hung it on his plate armor belt. After thinking for a while, he untied a belt from another corpse and tied it around his wife's waist.

Olivia raised her arms obediently and let him help her put on the strange thing.

"Is this also a kind of weapon?" The girl asked, lowering her head and looking sideways at the exquisitely shaped iron lump around her waist.

"Well, this is similar to the Molten Gun in Uncle Hem's hand. The difference is that it fires metal bullets. This kind of alchemical weapon was also used in my hometown in my previous life. It is very convenient. I will teach you how to use it when we get to a safe place. If there are pursuers, we can save a lot of effort by using this to kill the enemy." Leon explained simply.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Since there are more convenient weapons, Leon doesn't mind keeping up with the times. The caliber of this exotic firearm is much larger than the ordinary rifle bullets he has seen in his previous life. It is very powerful and can be used to kill ordinary enemies from a long distance. It is much more labor-saving and efficient than the two of them rushing up with weapons to kill.

Olivia nodded in confusion.

Leon turned around and picked up the two rifles that were not damaged by him, tried to figure out the approximate structure, turned on the safety, pulled off the cloak full of bullet holes behind him, wrapped up the magazines and grenade-like throwing objects he touched and put them on his back, then he quickly left the building with Olivia.

He really wanted to go back and burn the hall full of corpses behind him clean, but time obviously did not allow the two of them to stay any longer.

Even if we have guns, there is no guarantee that there won't be military weapons with stronger firepower. If those escaped vampires can call for an army, it will be difficult to fight against them in our current poor condition.

"Let's go." Carrying a package full of guns and magazines and holding Gungnir, Leon kicked open the half-closed door and ran down the stairs. He had no time to search the building for any vampires who had escaped. The two ran out of the first floor and came outside.

What came into view was an exceptionally gloomy and dark sky.

Dark clouds covered the earth, the sun could not be seen, and the surrounding environment looked like the underworld.

Leon looked up at the sky, unable to tell whether it was early morning or dusk, and scanned the courtyard of the mansion deep inside. His eyes immediately turned to the vehicles that were still parked there.

The exterior style is unique, but it doesn't look much different from cars on Earth, at least they all have four wheels.

Since those vampires came in cars, there must be enough power in the cars.

"follow me."

Leon walked towards the exotic vehicles and did not choose the models that looked gorgeous. Instead, he came to a vehicle that looked to have a higher chassis and larger wheels.

Olivia blinked and asked in surprise: "You can use this weird thing?"

Leon stuck the wand into the ground and raised his hand to press the keyhole: "Maybe, let me try."

It's time for the caster to sneak into the door and pick the lock, which is the most handy part. As long as it is a mechanical structure in the physical sense, this thing cannot prevent the all-pervasive magic tricks.
Sure enough, as expected, he tried to sense the internal structure of the door lock, fill the air pressure and twist the lock cylinder. After a few seconds, the car door clicked and was unlocked by Leon.

But a shrill alarm also sounded.

The vigilant Olivia was startled and immediately raised her sword, ready to smash the iron shell that suddenly emitted a strange scream.

"Hey! Don't do it!"

Leon quickly raised his hand to stop his wife: "It's normal, it's just a burglar alarm, there's no danger, it's just an iron car, not a golem. Well, since it hasn't deformed, it shouldn't be a golem. Anyway, there's no need to be so nervous."

"Oh." The knight girl retracted her overreaction and her pretty face flushed with embarrassment, but fortunately the blood on her face covered it up.

After Leon calmed Olivia down, he opened the car door, leaned in, and found the place to insert the key on the strange steering wheel that looked like an enlarged game controller.

After some attempts, he used the same method to activate the internal ignition switch. Hearing the roar of the engine and the alarm fading away, Leon breathed a sigh of relief.

Shrinking his huge body, he struggled to get into the armor with a clang. Adjusting the width of the seat, which was a little narrow for his huge body, Leon asked Olivia to wait outside for a while.

He finally got in, tried the steering angle of the rudder, found and confirmed that the accelerator and speed gears were all in his hands, the entire pedal under his feet was a brake, and the handbrake handle that looked like a switch was on the front panel. Then he asked Olivia to bring up the seized weapons, put away the holy sword, and help him hold Gungnir, which was too long to be placed on the car window, and sat in the back seat.

After several years, Leon drove a car he hadn't driven for a long time. He was not afraid of not having a local driver's license. He boldly increased the speed gear, turned the direction, and drove this powerful steel creation out of the courtyard.

It's not that he was a very talented and brave driver in the past, but even if he hit something, Olivia and he would be able to react and jump out of the car directly. We were not afraid of car accidents, so we were fearless.

The car roared onto the road. Apart from the courtyard, there was nothing but a desolate wilderness. Apart from the withered dead trees, there was no sign of human habitation.

"Is this iron carriage similar to the ones in your hometown?" Olivia watched her husband drive the metal carriage with ease. She curiously touched the back seat and looked out the window suspiciously, "Are we in your hometown now?"

"No, I'm sure this is not my hometown 'Earth', and of course, it's not where we lived before." Leon turned the steering wheel, chose a direction that was completely different from the previous escape tracks, and drove off on the road at the fastest speed.

"Although there are stories and legends about blood-sucking monsters in my hometown, they are probably all fake. Moreover, this car has guns that I have never seen before. The details inside and outside are not similar to similar products in my hometown."

Leon glanced at the suburban manor that was getting farther and farther away in the rearview mirror. When he saw the familiar pendulum clock on the dome of the building, he frowned, but at this moment he could only put aside his doubts and concentrate on evacuating.

After driving along the highway for more than ten minutes, the building behind him had long disappeared from sight. Seeing that there were no pursuers behind him and no helicopters chasing him in the sky, Leon gradually felt at ease.

He kept the car in the highest gear, driving at lightning speed. Even without trying to identify the strange characters on the dashboard, Leon could tell from the objects moving backwards outside the car window that the speed was probably over 250 kilometers per hour.

Perhaps whether it is in this world or on Earth, it has already seriously exceeded the speed limit.

In his previous life, he naturally never dared to drive like this, but now, with his ability to see bullets clearly, this speed was completely within his control.

He can run at this speed in short bursts on his own two legs, but he just can't last as long as a vehicle.

However, the car had already driven more than 60 kilometers, but both sides of the road were still deserted and lifeless.

The bare land reminded Leon of the dead underworld where everything withered under the dark clouds in the past.

He glanced at the dark clouds in the sky that had not yet dispersed. Although they were not as bright as the magic clouds, they still gave him a strong sense of foreboding.

"This iron car has run such a long way and can still maintain this speed. Can it keep running like this?" Olivia exclaimed in a low voice while leaning against the car window.

The girl turned her head, her eyes sparkling. "Can we make such a powerful magic iron car in Avalon? With this thing, it will probably only take two or three quarters of an hour to run from Avalon to Orlando City. It's even faster than the claw flying. Wouldn't it mean that we can get to wherever we want in no time?"

Leon was amused by Olivia's expectation. He stared at the road ahead and shook his head helplessly: "It is very complicated to make this iron car, and it can only run on the flat road below. Moreover, it is difficult to build a flat road leading directly to Orlandon with the power of the kingdom. Perhaps in the next few hundred or thousand years, our children will see the appearance of such a tool."

Given the miserable road conditions in the Western Continent today, even if one really moved a ready-made off-road vehicle, it would not be able to drive far before it was scrapped in the wilderness and mountains.

Without the support of infrastructure, driving is not as efficient as riding a horse. After all, at least in the realm where Olivia and he lived, there were war horses that could travel a thousand miles a day.

"Ok?"

Leon paused for a moment, and saw several figures appear at the end of his field of vision.

anyone?

Is it a living person? Or a vampire?
Looking at the figures in front of him, standing in the middle of the highway stupidly and fearlessly, Leon turned the rudder slightly and changed direction to avoid them.

The car was traveling at high speed, making a terrifying sound as it passed by the figure. But the brief moment of intersection was enough for Leon and Olivia to see the figure wandering in the middle of the road.

"Zombies." Olivia frowned.

The girl stared at the black dot that was getting smaller and smaller as it was left far behind, making sure she was not seeing things.

Those are undead ghosts whose bodies have already shriveled up.

She turned her head and looked at Leon in front of her: "Could it be that the blood demon used magic to move us to a place where it caused a demonic disaster?"

Leon pondered and nodded: "I guess that's right. We are no longer in the world we originally lived in, just like I came to your world from Earth. However, the demon used some unknown method to throw us, along with our bodies, into this strange plane. Now it seems that this place has also been harmed by the demons from the spiritual world."

Olivia had learned the ancient Lorelian language with everyone else and was very familiar with magic. After getting married, she knew that the person she loved was a foreigner. Naturally, she was familiar with the concept of the alternate dimension. Upon hearing this, her face turned pale.

"What should we do? Can we go back?"

Leon waved his hand behind him and said comfortingly: "Don't be afraid. Ines and I have been to the future and came back, right? It's just an alternate dimension. It's not the first time we've encountered such a situation. It's just a small matter. Since we can be thrown here by that blood demon, there must be a way to go back."

Hearing his confident and reliable words, Olivia breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Leon glanced at the rearview mirror and saw his little lion relaxing and leaning back in his seat, but he silently suppressed the anxiety in his heart.

As a time traveler, out of curiosity, he studied the theories of alternate dimensions in necromancy and astronomy in depth, and also hoped to find out whether there would be a way to return to Earth in the future. However, the conclusion was very cruel.

In reality, he was not as relaxed as he appeared in front of Olivia.

It’s not that easy to go to another realm.

Whether it is an alien planet in the same starry universe or some strange realm or plane in the void outside the starry universe, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven to travel back and forth.

If the blood demon had the ability to allow the two of them to cross the void intact with their bodies, why didn't he just exile himself and Olivia into the void and kill them directly?
Leon now even suspected that he had been bewitched by the devil from the spiritual world and had fallen into hallucination. Maybe he and Olivia were still standing there?
Feeling his breathing getting heavier and the weakness in his body gradually increasing, Leon realized that the effect of the Neti card of the Boiling Heart was fading faster than before, and the duration was almost reduced by half an hour.

"Olivia, do you feel uncomfortable?" Leon asked, enduring the feeling of emptiness in his body.

"I still feel as stuffy and heavy as before, but don't worry, I can still hold on. It won't be a problem to deal with a battle like that." Olivia moved her fingers. She had never experienced such a sluggish control of her body and muscles. "Are we sick?"

"Maybe. It seems that foreigners like us are not used to the local climate here." Leon smiled bitterly and glanced at the inside of his elbow, where the arm armor ring was flattened in the elbow pit.

Now that he was basically certain that he was no longer in his original realm, he discovered this wonderful fact.

In the past, I never realized that the armor on my body had so many unnecessary structures that would hinder movement.

This is impossible. The armor on his body was made by a dwarf master craftsman himself. How could he make such a low-level mistake that even an apprentice would not make?

Besides, the custom-made knight's armor was expensive and he was very flexible in the past. If it was as difficult to use as it is today, why would he discover it now?

This is probably some kind of difference brought about by the alternate dimension.

No wonder I tried to figure out the formula for gunpowder for so long but failed. It turns out that different realms will change even the cognition of physics and geometry.

Feeling the air that was still sufficient for him to breathe, Leon couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was not poisoned by the local air in this place. He was probably lucky enough not to be poisoned to death by the local air.

After a while, he suddenly saw a sign on the side of the road indicating the direction of the fork in the road, and finally the outline of a man-made building appeared in the distance.

Leon estimated that he had already traveled more than 200 kilometers on the road. After a slight hesitation, he turned and drove there.

I don't know what kind of energy this car uses. If it runs out of gas halfway through the journey, Olivia and I will have to hike and we won't know when we will see the next human habitation in this dry wilderness where not even grass grows.

He had to find supplies while the car still had power. Neither he nor Olivia were made of iron and could not photosynthesize. After continuous intense fighting and magic power consumption, he was hungrier than ever.

The low buildings were getting closer.

The car slowed down and drove into the street, and the surrounding area looked like a remote town.

But now it has become dilapidated and lonely.

From the shadows, bursts of roars were heard.

Leon looked at the dim streets and alleys, and the undead zombies running towards the vehicles after hearing the engine sounds. He felt as if he had walked into the wrong set and entered into the Resident Evil.

While the strengthening effect of the Boiling Heart on his body had not yet worn off, he braked on his own initiative, pushed the door open and got out of the driver's seat, and pulled out the diagonal Gungnir from the open window of the back seat.

Olivia got off the car from the other side. Facing the zombies rushing towards her, the girl raised her right hand and wanted to summon the holy sword again, but gave up.

The weak undead before them posed no threat at all to the two of them, so there was no need to waste magic power on them.

Olivia made a hand knife with her right palm and cut across the iron road sign. She grabbed it and weighed it. It was thick enough to fit her hand, so she decided to use it.

The girl walked towards the zombies, waving the road sign like a battle axe. In a short while, she and Leon had finally put the undead in this block to rest.

After cleaning up the undead on the other side, Leon lowered the wing blade of his magic spear and squatted down to look at the clothes on the zombies.

Although it looked badly stained, one could still tell that the clothes on the deceased had not been exposed to the weather for long.

Turning around, I caught a glimpse of the state of books and magazines in an abandoned newsstand on the roadside, which seemed to confirm this speculation. Although the exposed papers were dry and wrinkled beyond recognition, they had not yet reached the point of complete rot.

Leon walked over and pulled out a newspaper that had been dried to an extremely hard state from the inside of the shelf, and carefully tore open the title page.

Relying on the vague memory of reading the vampire before, he tried his best to recognize the strange words and collect information.

However, the soul magic that had not yet taken shape did not allow him to match a few words.

After a lot of guessing, he could only recognize "climate and astronomical phenomena", "Dawn City", "respiratory disease", and "curse", which were also deeply impressed in the vampire's memory.

The already blurry printed illustration seemed to be a rescue scene for some large-scale disease. The large photo published in the newspaper was full of body bags, stretchers and medical staff on the roadside.

The disaster affected a wide area.

Could it really be a disaster like the Resident Evil?

Leon lowered his head and looked at the blood all over his body. He was suddenly shocked. Could it be the sin of those vampire undead?

He quickly looked at the girl who was looking around in the messy roadside shop and shouted, "Olivia, let's find a place with water and wash off the blood on our bodies!"

Leon didn't dare to gamble on whether his and Olivia's physical immunity could resist any exotic diseases here.
(End of this chapter)