Tome of Blood

  Chapter 157-7-Attack from the Undead

  After leaving the Moonguard Principality, Charlotte accelerated her pace.

Castel's convoy did not stop at the two counties, but went all the way north. After traveling for about ten days, it finally entered the northern part of the New Moon Kingdom and arrived at the border with the Earl of Castel. The neighboring Violet Principality.

  After entering the Principality of Violet, the surrounding landforms have obviously changed. Large tracts of plains have disappeared, replaced by rolling hills and endless forests.

  Under the blue sky, the silver ribbon-like river passes through the hills and low mountains, flowing quietly, shining sparkling brilliance in the sun, reflecting the white clouds.

   From time to time, free deer and hares can be seen jumping out of the forest, drinking and playing by the stream, and large clusters of wild flowers are dotted among the bushes, attracting colorful butterflies to compete.

  It is hard for Charlotte not to be attracted by the beauty like an oil painting, and similar beautiful scenery can be seen everywhere in the Violet Principality.

  However, in contrast to this paradise-like beauty, the number of villages and towns here has become significantly scarcer, even enough to be called sparsely populated.

   Sometimes, you can still see traces of battlefields that have been around for many years while walking.

  The dilapidated and damaged chariots covered with mushrooms and moss, vaguely recognizable bones, and rusty armor or fragments of weapons...

   "The Principality of Violet was once one of the main battlefields of the Star-Moon War, and these battle traces were left by the second Star-Moon War more than ten years ago."

   Seeing Charlotte's curious eyes, Sebastian introduced.

  Charlotte nodded slightly.

  She also read the records about the Star-Moon War when she was in Boulder. The decades-long war almost reduced the population of the entire northern part of the New Moon Kingdom by half, especially the Violet Principality, the main battlefield.

   Only the Earl of Castel escaped under the protection of the kingdom's heavy soldiers.

  At this time, the importance of Mithril Mine becomes apparent. In order to prevent such an extremely important battle

  The strategic supplies fell into the hands of the Fallen Star Kingdom, and the New Moon Royal Family spent all their money at the beginning, stationing a legion directly on the border between the Roman Principality and Castel, the enclave of the Fallen Star Kingdom on the mainland.

  Decades of war have passed, and the entire north has been almost destroyed, but the Earl of Castel, which is a little further north, has become more and more prosperous, more or less because of this reason.

   There is no war, and a large number of refugees from the north of the kingdom are accepted. At the same time, it is located in the traffic arteries and main commercial routes of various forces, and it has its own mines. In this mode of natural selection, Castel will have ghosts if it cannot develop.

   In comparison, the Principality of Violet, which is the main battlefield, is much more bleak and unlucky.

  The rare and beautiful scenery is charming, but this beautiful scenery also represents poverty and backwardness.

  Wars are never grand and passionate, but cruel and full of tragedy.

   Along the way, Charlotte can even see the ruins of some villages, many of which are dead bones, obviously disappeared in the war.

  To Charlotte's surprise, although the Violet Principality's wilderness is enough to be called dry bones everywhere, she hardly felt the breath of the undead.

   You must know that battlefield relics are often the birthplace of undead.

  It is difficult for the priests to pray for so many dead in time and help their wandering souls return to the kingdom of God, so there will always be remnant souls wandering on the battlefield.

   But along the way, Charlotte has never seen even one undead.

   Not even at night, at most you can only hear the roar of monsters.

   "Undead? Maybe they were all attacked by mercenaries? The Violet Principality has a vast forest area, which can be called a paradise for monsters. There are many mercenaries active here, and of course, there are also many robbers."

   Sebastian guessed.

  Warcraft are feared by ordinary people, but in the eyes of extraordinary people, they are walking wealth.

  The vast violet forest is not only a paradise for monsters, but also a paradise for mercenaries.

  Violet Principality, East Unet Blackland, Snake Ridge Mountains…

  These three places are the most active places for free mercenaries in Myria.

  However, Charlotte was not very satisfied with Sebastian's answer.

  As a vampire who has mastered necromantic magic, Charlotte has a fairly good understanding of the undead.

  Undead are special spirit bodies, good at hiding, and will more or less retain the wisdom of their lives. This kind of existence is not something everyone can conquer, even mercenaries cannot deal with it so cleanly.

   Not only that, after entering the Violet Principality, Charlotte obviously felt that the concentration of magic power in the air here was higher than other places.

  Violet has many monsters, and it is probably closely related to this high-magic environment.

  In this environment, undead are indeed easier to be born.

  Especially the magic power of Violet is obviously a bit chaotic, and this environment is more conducive to the undead.

  Charlotte didn't think the mercenaries could easily hunt down the wandering undead so cleanly.

  Unless... a church force like the Holy King's Court will regularly "purify" the entire Violet from beginning to end.

  But Charlotte didn't think the Holy Court would be so idle.

  However, although she was puzzled, Charlotte just buried it in her heart.

   She was just passing through Violet.

  Although it is strange, although she is a little curious, she will not stay for research and exploration.

  Because of the low mountains and hills in the terrain, the roads of the Violet Principality are not particularly easy to walk. However, the speed of Castel's convoy is not slow.

   It's not that the speed has been increased, but that there are too few gathering points of violets, and there are not even noble castles and cities.

  There were few places to stay, and Charlotte gave an order to hurry on the road as soon as possible, so the speed of the convoy naturally increased.

  Different from Yuehu Duchy and Boulder Duchy, Violet settlements, even those small villages, often have tall wooden walls.

  As for the towns built around the castle, they have solid stone walls, which look like fortresses.

  Charlotte knew that this was another result of the decades-long Star-Moon War.

  For the people of Violet, only a tall city wall can give them enough sense of security.

  Charlotte could clearly feel the scars left by the Star-Moon War on the Principality.

Many villages and towns she passed along the way will be deeply vigilant to Castel's convoy, closing the gates or city gates tightly, and only when the convoy has confirmed their identity and gained enough trust, will they be carefully let in. rest.

  Of course, after knowing the identity of the convoy, the villagers will become extremely enthusiastic again. For the desolate Violet, Castell in the north is a fertile place that people yearn for.

  The Principality of Violet is indeed much poorer.

   This point can be felt from the banquet where the nobles invited her. The overall feeling is not even as good as the nobles of the same level in Boulder. Whether it is the decoration of the castle or the food of the banquet, it seems a bit poor.

   But in contrast, Charlotte noticed that the force of the Violet people was much stronger than that of Boulder or even the Moonguard Principality.

  In noble castles, there is a high proportion of extraordinary people, even a baron has followers of advanced people.

  The same is true in the village, the militiamen guarding the village are almost all Transcendents.

  Charlotte reckons that this is inseparable from the fact that the Violet Principality's magic power is significantly higher than other places.

  However, unlike the enthusiastic villagers, although the Violet nobleman was extremely enthusiastic when he invited Charlotte, the keen Charlotte could perceive the alienation under the politeness of the other party when attending the banquet.

  Although she was very decent on the surface, Charlotte could feel that the nobles of Violet did not welcome her.

  However, she doesn't care, it's just a way, if you don't welcome her, it just saves the cumbersome communication.

   After bidding farewell to another lord, Castel's convoy moved on and entered the northern part of the Violet Principality.

  The people here are less populated and the trees are more lush.

  The northern part of the Violet is the Violet Forest that traverses the northern part of the New Moon Kingdom. After passing through the forest, you will arrive at the Castel Territory.

  As for Violet’s capital, Lint City…it’s located a little further west of the Principality. Charlotte, who is going northeast, won’t pass by, and naturally won’t go there to visit Duke Violet.

  The Violet Forest is vast, and it takes several days to travel through the entire jungle.

   Fortunately, the caravans traveling with Castel arrived at their destination one after another and parted ways.

  Up to now, there are only a few caravans whose destination is Castel, and the number of the entire caravan is less than 700 people.

  There are fewer people, fewer caravans, and the speed of the team can be faster.

   Even so, it would take at least three days to cross the Violet Forest. During these three days, the entire convoy would need to spend the night in the forest.

   It is night, and the moonlight like water shines through the dense forest and under the forest.

  The convoy that had been marching for a day also settled down, and set up tents and bonfires around the carriage.

  A circle of spice called Avila was sprinkled around the camp. This spice has the effect of repelling monsters and mosquitoes, and can ensure the safety of the camp.

  Of course, just having spices is not safe. There are many monsters in the forest, and there are always some immune guys, so extraordinary knights are stationed on the edge of the camp, keeping vigilance at all times.

Ordinary people naturally stayed in the camp, as did the accompanying merchants. It was very cold in the forest at night. They gathered around the crackling bonfire, rubbing their hands to keep warm, and listening to the troubadours playing and singing ancient songs .

From time to time, the howling of unknown monsters can be heard coming from the depths of the forest, startling bats and birds, making the jungle under the night appear more mysterious and dangerous, and making ordinary people in the camp shiver uncontrollably. After getting closer to each other, I felt at ease.

  Charlotte likes the environment here very much.

  Night is the home of the vampires, and as a natural magical creature, Charlotte also likes the high-magic environment of the Violet Forest.

  She stayed alone in the tent, closed her eyes and meditated, while reviewing the various blood magics she had learned.

  I saw her body turned into a cloud of black mist with a bang, and then turned into countless black bats...

  The foggy shadow of the shadow art department under the dark resonance and the night bat of the transfiguration art under the wild resonance are really understood by her play.

  The next moment, the bat turned into a girl in human form again, but behind the girl was a pair of huge bat wings.

  Blood flashed in Charlotte's pupils, and a shadow appeared on her body, quickly covering her in the night.

  Charlotte jumped up and flew out of the tent.

   No one noticed her actions.

  Only Sebastian couldn't help but glanced at the sky. After sensing the familiar aura, he quickly retracted his gaze, continued to lazily hold the goblet, and drank the fine wine.

  Charlotte flapped her bat wings and flew into the sky. She was a little unskilled at first, but soon she flew smoothly, releasing the power of the blood race to her heart's content.

  Need to conceal her identity on weekdays, and she must be careful wherever she goes, not to reveal her own power, and only in a forest as deep as Violet can she feel the extraordinary power without any scruples.

  Charlotte, who has mastered more than ten kinds of blood magic, even if she doesn't use the power liberated by her ancestors, she is no longer what she used to be!

  However, just as Charlotte was about to fly to the nearby woods for a stroll, a shrill scream suddenly pierced the night sky.

  Charlotte's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately put away her thoughts of playing and lowered back to the ground.

   Returning to normal, Charlotte came to the edge of the camp.

  Here, several extraordinary knights are picking up their weapons and preparing to walk towards the forest.

"What happened?"

   Charlotte asked.

  Seeing the girl, several knights saluted respectfully, and then said:

   "Lord Earl, it's Darren, he just went to the woods... It's convenient, I'm afraid he encountered a monster..."

   "Warcraft? Didn't he bring Avila spice?"

  Charlotte frowned and asked.

  The knights looked at each other, but no one could answer this question.

  The thick **** smell gradually drifted from the forest, and Charlotte's heart skipped a beat.

   "Let's go and have a look together."

  She looked solemn and authentic.

   As she spoke, she walked towards the forest first, and the knights quickly followed.

   And when Charlotte entered the dense forest, he soon saw the extraordinary knight Darren who fell to the ground.

   It's just that, at this moment, this extraordinary knight is dead.

  His death was extremely tragic and terrifying. All his armor was torn off, his body was full of marks of beast-like sharp claws, and his chest and abdomen were directly cut open...

  And a shadow shrouded in darkness was lying on his body, greedily biting his flesh and blood.

   "Blood... Gorefiend?!"

  The two extraordinary knights guarding Charlotte's eyes widened and couldn't help but exclaim.

  Charlotte stared slightly.

   "No...not Gorefiend..."

  Looking at the shadow in the darkness, she narrowed her eyes:

   "It's the undead."

  The clouds covering the moonlight dispersed, and the silver moonlight penetrated the branches, illuminating the figure in the darkness.

  The knights also saw clearly what the attacker looked like.

   That was indeed not a monster-like Gorefiend, but a rotting corpse in tattered armor.

  In its eye sockets, there is a faint green fire burning.

   And at this moment, roars came from deep in the woods.

   Green "lanterns" are lit up in the dense jungle, densely packed, countless...

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  (end of this chapter)