rune hunter

Chapter 48 The Sister's Resentment
The city of Istaren has been preparing for war at any time since its establishment 300 years ago. The people born in this city are brave by nature and never fear any enemy.But at this moment, the swarm of insects covering the sky made the sword meaningless, and the Istarenians suddenly realized that they were about to face a strange war they had never experienced before.

"It must be the problem on the side of Hongshi Ridge!"

Tiana raised her staff and aimed it at the bell tower above the castle, the air rapidly spun and condensed into a sphere at the front of the staff, and was shot out with a bang.The huge reaction force pushed the girl's petite body back a few steps, and a moment later, a bell resounded through the sky in the distance.

"The cockroach is the reconnaissance unit of the landwalker, mainly used to detect intelligence and weaken the defense." Tiana turned her head and said loudly to Antonio: "It takes at least twenty war king insects to hatch a cockroach army of this size. , and this number means that our opponent is an established army commanded by the 'Princess'."

"Why did the ground walker come to the surface world for no reason?" Antonio got up from the ground in embarrassment, and shouted angrily: "Besides, how many troops can pass through the tunnel dug by the kobold?"

"Don't underestimate those bugmen. The reason why they got the title of 'Earthwalker' is not just because they live underground." Tiana waved her staff, releasing clusters of sparks, and scattered the cockroaches above her head. open.

"I ordered martial law across the city in the morning, and sent a troop to solve the trouble in Hongshi Ridge. Those soldiers will not even be able to send out the alarm." Antonio was just halfway through speaking, and saw the distant place outside the city. A puff of black wolf smoke shot straight into the sky on the horizon.

"Smoke? Yes, the best way to expel these flying cockroaches is to use smoke!" Tiana's eyes lit up, and the burning sparks on the staff immediately turned into thick smoke. The flying cockroaches ran clean.

"Since they can still emit wolf smoke, it means that the situation over there can still be controlled." Tiana breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly raised her head and asked Antonio as if remembering something: "My lord, do you know that His Majesty Maryvian Where is it?"

"In order to prove her innocence, Marievian took the nuns of Santa Ana Monastery to check the hidden patients in the morning. I think they should be at the north gate at this time." Antonio smiled wryly and shook his head, "Tia Miss Na, you may be a bit suspicious. It would be understandable to say that the plague is a natural disaster, but those bugs are not governed by the gods."

"I'm worried that someone will take advantage of the chaos and make trouble." Tiana said: "My lord, please issue an order to light the smoke and expel these flying cockroaches. I'll go to the north gate to see the situation."

Compared with the chaos in the city, the area of ​​the north gate of Istaron is eerily quiet.

The city gate was closed tightly, leaving only a doorway for one person to pass through.Besides the soldiers at the gate of the city, there were many more nuns with brown-red maple leaf patterns painted on their chests.

When the cockroaches were discovered, these nuns were the first to react. They put their palms together in a well-trained manner, and chanted the hymn of life neatly.The white translucent expulsion barrier slowly opened, forming a single piece within hundreds of meters of the city gate and both ends of the city wall.The flying cockroaches trying to corrode the city gate were quickly dispersed.

Sister Maple Leaf from the Santa Ana Monastery to which the Goddess of Life belongs is well-known for her ability to cooperate and cast large magical barriers.There are 28 Maple Leaf Sisters who came with Marivian this time, enough to carry out a city-wide purification in Istaron.Out of concern for the plague that broke out in the north, the Temple of Life specially assigned the elite forces of the monastery to come out.

Such a large group of nuns would be respected as a guest of honor anywhere in the kingdom, but today they were all pulled out by the holy nuns to check on the patients at the gate of the city.This wasteful act of killing a chicken with a sledgehammer caused dissatisfaction among many nuns, but no one dared to raise any criticism in front of Maryvian.

In the days since El followed Jupiter's caravan to Istaron, the number of caravans coming from the north became less and less.These caravans basically left the north early at the beginning of the outbreak of the plague. The wise caravan leaders were lucky to escape because of their decisive decisions. As for those of them who hesitated a little, they couldn't escape the clutches of the god of death. .

No one knows what happened behind them, and no one is willing to go back to investigate. Only plausible rumors are spreading fear.These caravans gave up almost all their goods, fled the crap from the King's Road, and crowded under the city of Istaren.

The original intention of Antonio ordering the city gate guards to stop these people was to prevent the spread of rumors about the plague.But the magician girl suggested that further inspections should be carried out to prevent hidden disease carriers and spies of the cursed sect.And after that, Mary Weian unexpectedly proposed that she be in charge of the inspection.

Even Antonio found this sudden request extremely suspicious. Although he had not been in contact with her for a long time, he had a deep understanding of the seemingly pious but lazy character of Miss Saint Nun.It would be hard to believe that His Highness would repent and start a new life.But if it is true that the Church of the Gods and the Sect of the Damned are colluding secretly, as Tiana reported, then she should not use this method to clear the suspicion. In fact, the young lord even feels that Maryvian's accusation against Tiana is fundamentally wrong. I didn't take it to heart.

Antonio, who was suffering from a headache, didn't bother to worry about the reason in the end. He simply ordered the guard of the city gate to spy on this incomprehensible holy nun, to see what tricks she would play.

"Sister Maryvian, we found another patient in the incubation period of the disease, but it can't be definitely the plague." An older Maple Leaf nun came over and said in a low voice.

"Well, you can deal with it yourself." The holy nun snorted without raising her head, still focusing on the task at hand.There was a stack of blank arrest warrants on the table in front of her, two of which had already drawn a portrait of a girl in black, and the name "Shirley Assal" was filled in the name column.

The portrait of the girl is lifelike, almost no different from a real person. Even people who don't understand art can see the author's superb brushwork skills, but no matter how good the painting is, it's just a wanted warrant.The author himself is lying on the table without any image and writing quickly, and he seems to be gnashing his teeth if he looks carefully.

"Sister Maryvian, the swarm we just encountered is very strange, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary locust plague." The older nun said with some concern.There are specializations in the art industry, not everyone understands the biological encyclopedia like an alchemist, and the nuns focus on studying theological classics on weekdays, and know little about the underground world.

"It's just a cockroach scout, there's no need to make a fuss." Maryvian drew another head portrait in a blink of an eye, picked it up and looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction.She stood up and walked to the notice board at the gate of the city, and stood on tiptoe to stick this wanted notice in the most conspicuous place in the middle.

"Your Highness Holy Nun!" The older nun held back the veins popping out of her forehead, stopped Marivian who wanted to continue painting, and shouted in a low voice: "Don't you bring all the sisters to the gate of the city to check sick?"

"The lord gave us the right of temporary arrest." Maryvian stared at the arrest warrant she posted seriously: "Blessed by the lord, we have a photographic memory, and we have remembered the face of the prisoner in our hearts. The lord said evil If evil is rewarded, evil must not be tolerated in the world."

"So who is this girl?" The elder nun finally couldn't help rolling her eyes: "What's the use of the arrest warrant you drew yourself without an official seal? And you didn't even write the reward!"

"The Lord said that money is something outside of one's body." Maryvian said without changing her expression, and she turned to look at the older nun curiously: "Sister Katyusha, why do you know so well?"

"That's not the problem!" The older nun laughed dryly, and suddenly remembered a more important issue: "Istaren seems to be under attack, Sister Maryvian! Look, smoke has risen outside the city! We Do you want to cooperate with the soldiers to defend or return to the castle to take refuge?"

"Watch what happens."

Talking about a seemingly wise choice, the nun is still staring at the portrait on the arrest warrant. It is hard to say whether this order has passed through her brain.

She rummaged through her pockets, but couldn't find a single coin.As a poor nun with a noble status, it is naturally impossible to carry vulgar belongings.After thinking for a while, the girl still wrote down an astronomical number on the wanted notice, and signed Antonio's name on the back.

(End of this chapter)