Zach looked at the chaos in front of him.

The original administrative office was temporarily converted into a ward.

Books and official documents were piled up in and out of the house in a mess, and many of the papers were covered with red blood, and the air was filled with rotten and bloody smell.

Several disassembled armor parts were spread on the ground, and a large mouth was cracked on the breastplate, and some flesh and blood tissue was stuck on it.

More than a dozen medical staff wearing linen robes were shuttled back and forth with surgical instruments, while half of them were surrounding a simple bed in the middle of the room.

There were more than a dozen fully armed guards and mage apprentices in gray robes standing outside the door.

After seeing the visitor, everyone stopped their work and knelt on one knee at the visitor.

"Lord..."

"Lord..."

A scream of pain sounded from the room.

"Bastard, you've stitched half of the needle and threw it away. Do you want me to continue sewing it myself?"

Zach looked over and saw a strong man lying on the hospital bed, holding a thin line in his hand, and one end of the thin line was connected to a silver needle on the ground. It was obviously a doctor who was just now panic and accidentally fell.

The other end of the thin line was connected to a shocking wound on the strong man's chest.

Rather than saying it is a wound, a large piece of flesh and blood on the chest has been torn off.

Zach could even see snow-white ribs, and the wounds had already become suppurated and infected, showing rotten black.

"teacher!"

Seeing Zach's arrival, the man sat up regardless of his injuries, and a stream of pus and blood splashed out from the wound on his chest.

Several of the trainee mages who followed Zach were frightened by the scene in front of him. Even Agesha covered her mouth and tried not to scream.

The person on the bed was General Grantham, who ruled all the armed forces in the Principality of Zakaland.

Although it is an armed force, in this civilization where the caster is far superior to the mortals, most countries will not maintain a truly army, and most conflicts between mages are resolved through high-level mediation, and wars rarely occur.

Therefore, what Grantham led was only a security army. Its function was limited to maintaining balance and stability in ordinary people's society. Their daily tasks were basically to clean up bandits and solve some extraordinary creatures and extraordinary events of low-level levels.

A month ago, he led a security army of thousands to the north of the Principality to investigate a large-scale urban population disappearance. After that, he lost contact. The Executive Yuan sent people several times to contact him without any response.

"All up and continue treatment." Zach said to the medical staff around him, and looked at Grantham who was grinning on the hospital bed: "First recuperate well and wait until the injury stabilizes."

Seeing Zach turning around and leaving, Grantham struggled and shouted regardless of his injuries: "Teacher! Ah, it hurts so much! Teacher! Listen to me! We...we are wiped out!"

Seeing Zach stopping, he breathed slowly, enduring the severe pain of the wound, and said:

"On the way to the north, we received the news from Dafalanren's hand...huh...huh..."

“The snowflake-like disappearance report of towns…unprecedented in scale…and there are signs of unidentified biological activity…”

"When we arrived at the hands of Françon... the entire city..., including the residents of several surrounding towns, have all disappeared... and only an empty dead city was left."

Zach frowned. Franren is the center of the northern province and an extremely important city.

But he did not urge the other party, but just continued to listen quietly.

"A few weeks of investigation...reveal nothing...even our own people are constantly missing...until...three days ago...ah...be gentle!"

The doctor next to him was trying to sew the wound, but Grantham's physical toughness was a little beyond his expectations, so he could not increase the intensity.

More footsteps sounded in the corridor outside the door.

Tyros appeared at the door. The newly appointed lord was stopped by Zach just as he was about to speak, so he had to stand quietly aside.

Grantham's crown was clenched tightly. After a while, the pain seemed to be relieved, and he continued:

"Three days ago...we were preparing to rush to the next town to continue investigating...When we passed through the northern forest... Suddenly... An abnormal explosion happened... Then..." Grantham seemed a little shocked: "A blood mist enveloped everyone...number creatures appeared inside...no...monsters..."

"Everyone...everyone died...only I... escaped. The wound was left at that time."

"Monster?" Tyros couldn't help but ask, he had already put on a black robe with gold wire that represented the official mage. "What are the characteristics of those monsters?"

"The fog was very big at that time... the battle was chaotic... it was difficult to see clearly... and it was difficult to describe." Grantham lowered his head, as if he was trying to recall. He immediately saw the bloody wound on his chest, and seemed to have gained some inspiration:

"Those things... are like rotten flesh and blood stuffed together, and like some skinned corpses... but not like any creature I've seen... in short, it's definitely not a beast... well..."

The doctor's potion made him lower his head and groan.

Tyros frowned and did not continue asking, but turned to Zach and said:

"Teacher, not like any creature I know."

The trainee wizards and the professors of the college also shook their heads.

"But the scope is so wide, and it involves unknown creatures..." Tyros paused for a few seconds. "It could be a high-level reality abnormal event."

This sentence made everyone on the scene stop and turned their attention to Zach.

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When the mages gathered in the temporary infirmary, the ongoing celebration in Kingdom Square was naturally suspended.

At this time, an intern wizard on the platform was shouting to the crowd.

"All people pay attention!" Seeing the crowd calmed down a little, he continued: "Today, Lord Lord has urgent matters to deal with. The ceremony ends early. Please follow the order and leave the square!"

There was another commotion in the crowd.

"Hey Bad, it's been fine just now, why did the mages suddenly leave?" Pipp and Bad have been through the capital Zacharand Port, and this time they came from the southern province to participate in the ceremony.

The two were looking forward to the celebrations for the next few days, but they didn't expect that the journey would come to an abrupt end.

"Who do you ask me?" Bud said impatiently. He naturally knew nothing about the chaos in front of him, just like Pip.

"You ask him." Paip pointed to the local man next to him.

Bud looked at him, but found that the other party was not looking at the platform, but looking to the east, with doubts in his eyes.

Looking along the other person's sight, Bud saw that the Dongcheng District in the distance was hidden in a faint red light. Behind the layers of houses, there seemed to be a faint red mist rising slowly.

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In the temporary ward, Zach was frowning, thinking about the severity of the situation.

He agreed with Tyros's point of view that the scope of influence spreads to the entire province, and that involves unknown organisms, only high-level realistic anomalies.

The so-called realistic abnormality is a general term for all extraordinary phenomena that do not follow the rules of this world.

In most cases, it is caused by the invasion of rules from another world.

‘This makes no sense. Although Patos World is located on the edge of the mage world group, it is still far from the front line of the civilized war. How could hostile creatures in another world appear?’

Zach glanced at the people in the room and continued to think:

‘Let’s go back, if that happens, it’s unlikely that, based on these arcane mages who are not good at fighting and who are only focused on research on the daily basis, it may be difficult to achieve anything.’

After thinking a little, Zach began to issue orders quickly.

"Tyros, you are the only official mage here except me. This is the spiritual key of my mage tower. You can hurry to the mage tower as quickly as possible, contact the holy tower to report the situation, and ask for support from war mages. Activate the Astral Gate and be ready to evacuate residents at any time."

Grasping Tyros' shoulder, Zach said seriously: "If an accident occurs, you must protect the people and guard the Star Gate!"

Tyros nodded heavily. He had never seen his teacher look so serious.

The black-haired mage turned to everyone present:

"I will immediately rush to Franren's hand to confirm the situation. After Teros opens the Astral Gate, everyone will follow me..."

Halfway through speaking, Zach suddenly turned his head and looked out the window, looking towards the east of the city.

Without any explanation, Zach opened his five fingers, and a translucent shield instantly enveloped everyone in the room.

Boom ~

Almost at the same time, a violent explosion sounded outside the window, and the shock wave shattered the glass, and the flying debris hit the translucent shield and swayed left and right.

Before everyone could react, Zach clenched his five fingers into a fist, and the walls on the outside of the room instantly turned into powder, and his whole person flew out with a loud bang, flying towards the location where the explosion occurred in the city.

When everyone got up from the ground, there was only a mess left in the room, with broken bricks and glass, paper and dust flying in the wind.

Grantham was so shocked that he fell off the hospital bed, and was lying on the ground and moaning.

Everyone hurriedly helped him back to the bed, then came to the big hole in the wall, and looked in the direction where the loud noise came.

I only saw that the Dongcheng District, which was close to one-quarter of the capital, was rushing into the sky at this time, and there were scattered explosions.

A large area of ​​blood mist with strange red light was slowly rising, slowly spreading around the breeze.

The Kingdom Square near the north of the city was already in chaos, and the gathering crowds were affected by the explosion, killing and injured countless people.

The survivors tried to escape in all directions, but could only crowd together and trample on each other, screaming one after another.

Tyros was the first to come back to his senses, and he looked back at Grantham on the hospital bed: "Is this kind of red mist you encountered in the northern forest?"

The latter looked at the chaotic scene outside the wall and nodded blankly.

Things are more difficult than expected!

"Administrator Pullman, Dean Aegsha, you and I will act quickly according to the teacher's order."

"Okay, I will lead the city defense guards to the east of the city immediately. When you are ready, you will go and have a good time with me." Pullman replied simply, then jumped out of the window.

He used the aerial technique to land steadily, and then quickly left the Executive Yuan with his subordinates waiting outside and headed towards the city defense center.

The professors also acted one after another. Before leaving the ward, Agesha looked back at the disappeared wall.

"It seems that I haven't seen the teacher fight for a long time."
Chapter completed!