Chapter 162: The king is dead
"Vomit~"
"This taste is too volatile!"
The dark underground waterway, the boots were stomping in the smelly sewage, making sounds of footsteps. After Edward discovered the truth and danger of the ghouls, he immediately contacted Tucker of the city guard the next morning and met his boss. With a series of facts, Edward finally moved them and asked them to assist him, and began to find places in the city where ghouls might be hidden, and ordinary people who had been infected with corpse poison, and immediately isolated them for treatment.
Edward obtained the detailed details and information from a series of monster attacks, the identity of the corpse, the place of death and various information, and sent them to Edward one by one. Edward compared them one by one, hoping to find anything from the identities of these dead people. The identities of these dead people are all from nobles to slave boatmen, from officials to ship workers, and they cannot find any similarities just from the identities.
The only similarity is that each of them is a young and strong man, and each of them has a strong body. Perhaps this is why they were selected. The other party is selectively creating ghouls, and then finds ways to select powerful people from these ordinary low-level ghouls and transform them into high-level ghouls.
Edward doesn't know how many ghouls there are in the city. At present, there are more than a dozen people who have witnessed death attacks. If the number of people missing today is investigated, there are hundreds of people. As for what is not found in the dark, it is even less clear. There are too many people in Babs City without identity and registered people, and the personnel are complicated. It is difficult to find out such a thing.
Edward immediately remembered the stone slabs he had discovered before, which led to the sewer. The city of Babs was a mid-term work by Farragut, and it was the famous architect who designed the city of St. Sal, the Church of Light in his later years.
Edward walked in the dark sewer with an oil lamp. The semicircular sewer was underneath the inclined ground with high and low in the middle on both sides, nearly four meters wide, and built of square stones. It was like a developed channel system that connected all parts of the city. Even if there was a torrential rain, the canal system could easily discharge the torrents in the city from Pabs.
"I didn't expect there was such a large space underground? With such a developed underground drainage system, Master Faragette's design concept has completely taken into account the overall situation and the practicality of urban planning. This is the true style of a master."
Just from this shocking underground drainage system, you can feel the transcendence of Faragette when he designed the city of Babs. This underground water canal system was later used in the city of St. Saar. Although Edward was not an architect or artist, as a learned wizard, he also had a dilemma on this knowledge. Edward admired these real masters very much.
Edward followed the place where he had found doubts before, closed his eyes and constantly used his mental power to explore the force field and felt the network of this underwater channel. At the same time, compared with the Pabs map in his head, it depends on where he went.
"Bloody?"
“There are also here!”
"Let's walk here!"
Edward had a keen eye and perception and kept tracking down the clues he wanted. He also found that many people had been in and out of here recently. Many of the edges had stained footprints, and traces left by armor brushing through the stone walls. If this underground water canal was not cleaned regularly, no one would have been in and out.
Edward then followed forward and found that the passage here gradually became more and more complex, the space at the corner became larger, and the center became deeper and deeper. Most people were probably lost in such a complex waterway. Edward was still walking in it easily, but he found more and more traces. He was sure that he had found a place where the zombie hiding.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
"Crash!"
The rapid footsteps, the sound of stepping on the water, came quickly towards Edward from all directions, and Edward immediately frowned: "How is it possible? Have you discovered me?"
And looking at the sound, it was a matter of certainty that Edward's trace was discovered, and Edward was sure that the place he was in deep was almost approaching their nest. Edward immediately recalled the previous scene.
"Alarm Witchcraft!"
Edward immediately realized that for a moment of thought, the other party was very fast. In the blink of an eye, Edward saw several ghouls with red eyes and roaring in tattered clothes rushing towards him.
"roar!"
At this moment, Edward was at the corner of a passage, and more than a dozen ghouls suddenly emerged attacked Edward from three directions at the same time. Edward immediately pressed his palm on the wall. In the entire underground channel, a large number of thin stone thorns grew out instantly, piercing the dozen ghouls rushing upwards. A large number of stone thorns in the space were crisscrossed and nailed the ghouls to death.
However, they were still not dead, but instead struggled desperately. Edward turned around and ran away. He felt that a large number of ghouls had chased him, with a large number of them, and could not count them. Edward chose the way to escape, but just by the corner, he happened to meet a large group of ghouls coming towards him, turning to another place, and after traveling through several passages, Edward realized that he was actually surrounded.
Edward thought that the number of ghouls would probably exceed his imagination, but this was too many. Edward immediately used his extraordinary blood witchcraft to kill the oncoming ghouls. A large number of stone spikes quickly spread the other party, opening a bloody path.
Edward stretched out his hands and saw that his hands were covered with a layer of stone skin, and his whole arms turned lime white, as hard as marble. Edward rushed up at the ghoul and quickly passed through the dispersed ghoul. The person blocked the way was smashed into pieces by Edward's heavy stone fist, or directly hammered it away with one blow, allowing the other party to continue to pounce on it. Edward, who was covered with a thick layer of stone armor, did not care at all and ran out.
At this moment, a black cloak kept stepping on the stone wall, wandering like a gecko, rushed towards Edward. The sword was immediately unsheathed and slashed towards Edward. Edward immediately grabbed the sword with his palm covered by stone armor. A clanging sound was made between the two sides.
But Edward immediately discovered that the other party's long sword was constantly emitting a strange power fluctuation at the level of mental power perception, and his stone armor continued to dissipate. Edward's face changed drastically: "Extraordinary power."
It was too late at this time. The other party drew a long sword from Edward's hand, cut a long hole in Edward's hand, and pulled Edward from bottom to top. Edward quickly turned around, but was still hit and fell to one side.
A long wound appeared on Edward's abdomen to his chest. Fortunately, he avoided quickly, otherwise he would have been broken. When Edward was seriously injured, he pressed the rock wall beside him and immediately saw that the stones in the entire underground cave instantly split into pieces and collapsed.
Looking through a stone slab on the corner of the street in Babs City, Edward crawled out of the bottom with blood and lay on the ground, his clothes soaked in blood. Although he urgently used healing witchcraft and bandage, his face still turned pale.
Not only was it a problem of injury, he could also feel a strange force constantly eroding his body and mental power, suppressing and eroding his mental power. When his mental power could not resist, this strange force would immediately interfere with reality and act on his body. Edward immediately remembered the curse witchcraft that the great sage Anthony told him. This was probably this strange power.
Edward slowly walked out of this dark alley with the wall and appeared on the street. He was about to take a detour home to deal with his injuries and find ways to deal with this curse witchcraft that seemed extremely troublesome and weird. At this time, the alarm bell in the center of Babs suddenly rang. When Edward didn't understand the meaning of the bell, the panicked crowd on the street and the constant news made Edward understand the meaning of the bell.
Chapter completed!