adventurers in the sewers

Chapter 89 The Demonic Tide Arrives! (Please Subscribe!)

That night, I went to report to the Black Rock Corps.

Around 10 p.m., when most residents were already asleep, a loud and piercing alarm suddenly rang out, waking everyone in the city from their sleep.

Louis was still awake. Upon hearing the bell, he immediately sat up in bed and reached out to touch the neatly arranged and brand-new equipment hanging on the shelf beside his bed.

But before he could do anything, there was a loud banging on the door.

"Louis, are you asleep? If you're awake, don't rush to put on your gear. Nora made us a few sets of work clothes."

The person speaking outside the door was Dai Na.

To guard against the possible arrival of the demonic tide, Nora also stayed at Louis's house tonight, sharing a room with Dina.

From the moment she entered the house during the day, Nora had been tinkering with something, and now it seemed she had achieved quite a bit.

"Wait me a moment."

Louis responded, quickly put on his shirt and shorts, and opened the door.

Merry, who shared a room with him, was also woken up and groggily got up and dressed.

When the two walked out of the room and entered Dana's room, they saw Nora laying out work clothes on the bed, three large and one small, clearly custom-made according to the team members' body sizes.

The fine stitches on the clothes show that Nora put a lot of effort into sewing the work clothes.

But when he saw the style of the work clothes, Louis's expression turned strange.

"Nora, your design concept is pretty good, but are you sure we really want to go out wearing clothes like this?"

"Is there anything wrong with that?"

Nora turned her head, looking at Louis with her bright, pale yellow eyes: "Work clothes should serve a practical purpose. Our workplace is the sewers, are we afraid of being laughed at by the creatures of the sewers?"

Louis quickly waved his hand, and under Nora's glare, he had no choice but to obediently change his clothes.

Soon, the four members of the team put on their work clothes.

A set of work clothes consists of a close-fitting, waterproof, and odor-resistant short-sleeved leather shirt, a jumpsuit with leather boots, and an outer layer of waxed canvas robe that almost reaches the ankles.

In addition, they wore leather bird-beak masks on their heads, with the beak part stuffed with various substances to filter odors and toxic gases, and transparent glass eyepieces embedded in the mask's eye area.

Add to that a wide-brimmed black leather hat that covers their hair and long leather gloves, and that's their current look.

Louis looked through his glasses at the three crow-men—two large and one small—and felt a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

Nora, that girl, truly lives up to her reputation as a designer ahead of her time. Designing guns and grenades is one thing, but she even came up with a protective suit resembling the bird beaks of early 17th-century Western designs from my previous life.

With this outfit, I'm more than qualified to work in the sewers, and I'd even be qualified for epidemic prevention.

With so many layers on top, you can swim in sewage without any water leaking in.

The only downside was that this outfit always reminded him of the Black Death that swept across Europe, which wasn't a good omen.

Of course, locals like Dina wouldn't feel that way.

Even she, who always enjoys arguing with Nora, couldn't help but praise, "This protective suit is really good. The lining is waterproof and breathable, and it doesn't feel stuffy at all."

Merry, the little crow-man, nodded repeatedly.

Nora didn't speak, but instead turned her gaze to Louis, who hadn't offered any opinion.

Louis touched the leather under his robe; it was soft yet resilient, seemingly dyed, with an overall pale reddish-brown hue.

After hesitating for a moment, Louis couldn't help but ask, "Excuse me, what is the material of this leather jacket—?"

Nora: "I think it's better if you don't know."

Louis:

But in the end, Louis said nothing. He had seen Nora's character before and should have expected this outcome if she were in charge of designing the clothes.

"The Black Rock Legion is probably in a hurry, let's go to the legion first."

Louis changed the subject.

Nora thought for a moment and said, "The wall facing the Monster Wasteland is quite close to us. Why don't we go check out the situation first?"

"If we go straight into the sewers, we won't even know the scale of the demonic tide. We might be kept in the dark even after the city falls."

Louis nodded slightly; he also wanted to see just how terrifying the demonic tide that had put the entire Blackrock City on high alert was.

The group set off immediately, only to find that there were almost no pedestrians on the streets, just guards patrolling around and groups of adventurers like themselves rushing towards the north city wall.

Before long, they arrived at the foot of the city wall.

At this time, the city gates were tightly closed, and the torches on the city walls stretched out in a continuous line, indicating that they were already filled with soldiers.

Since they were not on duty guarding the city walls, Louis and his party were stopped by the guards when they first tried to climb the walls.

Fortunately, they happened to run into the middle-aged officer who had received them before. Louis quickly took off his mask and greeted him, and was then allowed to pass.

"Mr. Louis, your team's mission isn't urgent yet. The demonic tide is still about twenty miles from Blackrock City, and it will take some time before it reaches the city."

"When the demonic tide comes within range of the archers, its advance will be greatly slowed down, making it less likely for it to get close to the sewage outlet."

As the middle-aged officer led Louis and the others up the city wall, he said, "So you can come to the city wall now to see the situation of the demonic tide, but please report to your posts as soon as possible within the next three hours."

Louis nodded and said, "Don't worry, we'll take a look for a few moments and then carry out the mission."

As they chatted, they finally reached the city wall and looked out into the distance. All they could see was darkness outside the city, and the moon had been swallowed up by dark clouds at some point.

However, darkness also comes in different levels.

In ordinary darkness, you can at least see the outlines of things, but at the horizon, there is a patch of absolute blackness that keeps swallowing up the slightly lighter shades of darkness.

With the eyesight of a professional, Louis could see farther and more clearly than the average soldier.

He could see the constantly shifting edges of the dark clouds and noticed that their shape resembled a triangle, with the foremost corner already crossing the horizon, rushing forward extremely fast and fiercely.

"Is the one at the front the leader of the demons?"

Louis strained to focus his gaze and could vaguely make out a figure moving at an extremely fast speed at the very front of the demonic tide, almost separated from the main force.

The figure was not huge, nor was it strangely shaped; it looked like a normal person.

Are they humanoid demons? Or something else entirely?

Louis secretly guessed.

Just then, from the city wall about a hundred meters away from Louis, a deep and powerful female voice rang out: "Your Excellency Caleno, it's that woman who charged at the very front."

"It was she who, with her overwhelming strength, broke through our Frostclaw tribe's defenses, leading to our tribe's crushing defeat."