Soul echo

Chapter 10 The Solution
The news of the 'dancing' plague quickly reached the ears of the nobles, and they rushed to each other to confirm the authenticity of this matter.

The plague, the plague is coming!
When the news was confirmed, the nobles and wealthy businessmen hurriedly ordered people to pack up their belongings and hurriedly prepared to leave the town.

Because the plague spread very quickly, in just over ten minutes, half of the people in the town were infected. The streets were full of dancing and singing crowds, and it was still spreading towards their area.

The plague is spreading, and so is panic.

It's not that they don't know that the plague may have been contagious long ago, but it has been lurking until now.

It's just a fluke, thinking that I might not have been infected, otherwise, why hasn't it happened until now?

"What do you want to do?!"

The lord of Resta realized something was wrong when he heard the news, and hurried out, and immediately saw a large group of people pulling big bags and even valuables, and they were about to leave the town in carriages and horses.

The young lord looked at them, his blood surged and he rushed straight to the sky.

"Where are you going? You are not allowed to leave!" He roared hysterically, but it only made some people's movements a little sluggish, and more people ignored it as if they hadn't heard anything.

Seeing their actions, the young lord hated these guys for an instant.

On weekdays, he is high-sounding and loyal, but in fact he is just coveting his property.

A "kind" merchant hesitated for a moment, but he still persuaded him: "Master Baron, you should run away too, the plague is about to spread throughout the town, if you don't leave, maybe we will suffer too, and this plague is not must……"

"To shut up!!"

The lord roared, his hair stood on end, "This is my territory, I will not escape! You are not allowed to escape either!"

The businessman who was yelled at was also angry, and he persuaded him with good intentions that there was no reason to be yelled at.

"My lord, do you still think of yourself as a lord? Where's your army? Where's your loyal army and knights?!"

With a roar, he felt a lot more relaxed, and the businessman turned his head away, ignoring the mad lord, and it is more important to run for his life now.

After being yelled at by the businessman, the lord was also stunned. He looked around blankly, except for the trembling deacons and servants who wanted to speak, there was no one else.

His castle isn't here, he's on vacation, but he's brought some guards with him.

But now, there is no sign of those guards at all...

"Did anyone see West and the others?" The lord frowned, suppressing his anger, and asked the servant, "Where are they? Why didn't you see them?"

"My lord, they've run away!"

When the lord asked about this matter, the deacon couldn't hold back any longer, and cried, "Not only did they escape, but they also took our horses away!"

"What?!" The lord's expression changed suddenly.

The lord had nowhere to go, but other nobles and merchants had already prepared to escape, and some of them had already embarked on the road of escape. They crowded the streets that were not very spacious, and some people rushed into them in order to seize the chance of escape. The others made this 'route of escape' a mess, and instead delayed their steps.

When they came to the city gate, they found that the door that should have been open was closed tightly, and a carriage was lying in front of the gate.

"who is it?!"

Running in the front was a knight in half armor and riding a steed. When he saw that the city gate was closed, he was furious, "Which idiot is on duty today, dare to close the city gate without the order of the lord! Open it! !"

"I made them close it..."

A dull voice came from below the city gate, and people cast their gazes away.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
People's eyes quickly became flustered, and they saw a 'giant' coming out of the shadows.

Abbé Piero is clad in steel armor, wrapped and hung with strips of cloth covered with scriptures.

The 'giant' in armor held a giant hammer in his hand, with a shoulder-high handle holding a square hammer the size of a skull, which could smash anyone's head.

The window of the carriage in front of the city gate suddenly opened, and two muskets were placed on the window sill, shining brightly in front of everyone.

More and more people gathered in front of the city gate, and their eyelids twitched when they saw Father Piero's posture.

"You're not fools, so I'm going to be blunt—the bard who came to Resta two months ago was the cause of all the incidents. As the first people who came into contact with that guy, you have already been infected. The plague is gone, it’s just that it hasn’t happened yet.”

The priest's words aroused the fear hidden in everyone's hearts. It's not that they didn't think of it, they just didn't want to believe it.

Weiwei raised the sledgehammer and paused.

The shock extinguished the fire of resistance that had just risen in people's hearts. They looked at the sledgehammer in the priest's hand and felt timid.

"Maybe the plague has already spread out, but because of this, I want to keep you here, so as not to let the plague have any more opportunities to spread."

The priest's words were like a cold wind, blowing into everyone's hearts, chilling to the bone, "Even if it is, beat you all to death here!"

…………

Amos stood aside, panting heavily, and asked, "Did you hear something just now? Don't say it, I just want to make sure."

Zhong Ye patted his head, then nodded with annoyance, "Yes."

After recovering his breath, Amos let out a breath, then put his finger in his mouth and whistled.

Immediately, there was a sound of hoofbeats, and Lettuce ran out of the backyard with a backpack on her back.

"I'll make a long story short." Amos unloaded the rucksack from the horse, called Zhong Ye for help, and carried it into the church.

"I already know what's going on now. Resta doesn't actually have any plague at all. In other words, the plague is just an appearance, and it's rooted in those murders and disappearances!"

In the church, Amos knelt down on one knee to the statue of the sun with a sincere attitude, and confessed in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Resta is in a critical situation, and I need to borrow your kingdom and divine power from the earth. I hope you can forgive me for this." The fault of the humble witcher."

The statue of the sun didn't respond at all, and quietly hovered above the pedestal, but Amos had already got up and asked Zhong Ye to clean up the tables and chairs in the hall with him.

"More than half a month ago, I came to Resta, and I didn't have any contact with the nobles. I just knew that the nobles here like to greet each other with dancing and singing, and then I went to the occupied area. It took half a month to go back and forth. In the past half month, there were several homicides and disappearances in Resta, but in fact, they were all 'homicides'!
"Under one layer of rituals, there is another layer of rituals hidden!"

Zhong Ye frowned, and told Amos about Jihai's discovery and the bard, and the witcher suddenly realized.

"The bard left, but he didn't leave Resta. Those believers of the God of Plague are real believers. The rituals they arranged need a place to coordinate the overall situation. That's why I was able to track down that stronghold. ——Although Priest Piero did not recognize it, every witcher has to study in the Odiumon library for three years and pass the knowledge test before he can go out for a walk. I have seen this ritual in the library .

"'Murl the living and use the corpses to nourish the plague', even if this ritual is only half completed, it is enough to cultivate the plague poison. Once the ritual is completed, the entire town will become a plague god spreading terror to the world. .

"The book that recorded the rituals did not specify how many corpses were needed to cultivate the plague, but when I was looking for the symptoms of the plague, I suddenly thought that this matter might not be that simple, so I went to the murder that happened two days ago At the scene, after careful observation, I discovered another flavor hidden under the 'plague'!"

Amos drew a seven-pointed star in the cleared space, and placed seven utensils on each horn.

He lit seven candles, and the candles lit blue light, adding a touch of coolness to the bright and bright church.

Then, he solemnly took out the sealed distortion sculpture and put it in the center of the circle.

Against the backdrop of the cold flames, Amos's face looked gloomy and ferocious, "Every murder scene has traces of two deaths, and the reason for only one corpse is that the other corpse has become the carrier of the plague. Day and night, the temperature rises and falls and floats to all corners of the town, so that little boy and you smell that smell-in fact, it is a corpse squeezed into a blood mist!

"The two rituals overlapped and deceived everyone, including me and Priest Piero, as well as the believers of the God of Plague. Everyone was deceived.

"The ritual hidden under the plague ritual has been completed. That bard is a believer in the abyss. No matter whether we catch those believers of the plague god or not, the disaster will definitely break out today!"

"Do you still remember what you heard?" Amos raised the corners of his mouth, but his eyes were full of coldness without a smile, "I didn't understand it at first, but now I'm sure that the bard put himself The body was split into multiple parts, and with the sublimation of the corpses in each murder scene, it spread to every corner of Resta, and now his body is everywhere, and his soul is everywhere."

Zhong Ye narrowed his eyes, "So?"

The demon hunter pointed to the aberrant sculpture, "It's hard to kill him in that state. If you want to solve this disaster, you need to summon him, let him descend, and have an entity!"

Hearing this, Zhong Ye laughed, "Summoning requires a spell, right? By the way, where is Father Piero?"

"It's too late. The priest should be sealing off the town to prevent the nobles and rich merchants from leaving the city. Do you remember what you heard?" Amos drew out his long sword and pistol, and pointed to the magic circle with his chin, "Read it."

Facing the heptagram circle, Zhong Ye took a deep breath and pulled out half of the sword in his hand.

"Sincerity and bliss, praise and joy!"

then--

Light comes!

(End of this chapter)