Chapter 176 30. The Third Apocalypse Forecast
This is an ordinary day in Allen Continent.
Oh, the "New Year" that the young and kind lord said makes today no longer ordinary, but the way of celebrating is a bit strange. “Stay home and prepare to run away”? It looks like something nobles would do.
Many residents are anxious because they are unable to work. In their simple understanding, whether they have work or not is related to whether they have food to eat, and they have not watched "The Fall of the Mage Tower" for ten hours.
Krian and his companions spent time playing cards that were said to have been invented by the lord.
"If you can reveal all these cards, I will eat them all!" Kerrian shouted at Losey, throwing out a card.
"It seems that Master Kerrian is going to have an extra meal today." Losey sarcastically threw the cards out,
Krian did what he said, grabbed the leather and stuffed it The mouth bites. When Losi and his companions tried to stop him, he had already swallowed them whole.
"Krian never lies!"
"Krian who never lies, we have no cards now, what do you want to play next?" Another person pointed on the table.
"Miss Ruth's pub has them," Losey said.
“Buy something solid!”
Krian was kicked out early in the morning to buy playing cards.
In the distance, in the new town, there is something called a street lamp by the lord. Kerian heard from a neighbor’s servant of a knight’s retinue that this is called a magic lamp. Even the nobles cannot afford to use it. The lord Your Excellency actually uses it as a public... public... public facility, or so the baron said.
But the people here are almost used to the luxury and eccentricities of their lord. It doesn’t matter if the magic lamp shines on the street. The people who flush the toilets are all elite water elements. According to Losey’s brother’s playmate Father said that the lord is also planning to build a mage tower! In other words, Xingyue Bay is not open to navigation yet, otherwise the people outside will be scared to wet their pants.
So those quirks make the citizens feel uncomfortable at most, and they are not allowed to defecate and throw garbage everywhere... Of course, the town is so beautiful, and if you really do this, old Zoron will be like a cat smelling mice, and you don't know which corner it is. He came out of nooks and crannies, dragged his lame leg and ran faster than the young people while waving his crutches to beat you——
He also gave everyone a holiday to celebrate the "New Year" but did not allow the citizens to go out casually... …
Krian sighed and wrapped himself in warm cotton clothes. Everything that happened when he came to Xingyue Bay was like a dream that he didn't want to wake up from... Then he took a deep breath, and the coldness that poured into his lungs made him truly live in this world.
The nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. It was almost seven o'clock, and the sky was still dark...
Krian shivered, and suddenly saw a group of people passing by in the distance. He puffed up his chest excitedly: "Lord!"
Annan was startled by him and said hesitantly: "I remember you...Krian, right?"
Because Losi is the one who has the best chance to become a professional among these territorial citizens, Annan is a little bit I followed him, so I knew Kerrian who was hanging out with him.
"Yes! My lord!"
Krian almost offered his loyalty.
“Where are you going?”
"Uh... Losi lost in the card game and ate the cards. I'm going to buy it from Miss Ruth!"
Annan nodded, remembering something and asked: "Did you notice anything unusual?"
"Abnormal...there is one, Lord Lord!" Kerian betrayed his friend without hesitation: "Loxi actually washed his feet today!"
"...The tavern is not open, you go to the warehouse to get it Solitaire."
"Yes! Lord!"
Kerrian said loudly, immersed in excitement and did not notice Annan rubbing his ears. After taking a deck of cards from the warehouse, Christian couldn't wait to tell Losi and the others about his experience:
"I met the lord, and he actually knew me..."
...
Annan knocked on a house with lights on.
Lindy opened the door and returned to the living room to continue flipping through the book. Mr. Victor sat in front of the campfire, taking a nap covered with a blanket like all the old people. He woke up due to the cold wind and movement brought in by Annan and the others: "Our lord can't wait to exercise his lordship and do ridiculous things?"
Annan was indifferent and even a little surprised that the stubborn old man could be so gentle sometimes.
"Because what will happen today..."
Blom, who followed Annan to inspect the territory, asked: "Everything is normal in Xingyue Bay. There are no rat people underground and no sea people on the sea. The north and There are no foreign and Gema soldiers in the south. What are you worried about?"
"I don't know, it's just a... hunch."
In order to save people, Annan broke the contract and exposed the existence of the blue dragon. He didn't want to reveal that it possessed the artifact.
"You can rest."
Annan is ready to continue his inspection.
When he turned around, he saw dawn outside the window.
Incomparably bright and dazzling light suddenly bloomed from the sea level in the west. It was so dazzling that it instantly turned from early morning to noon. White light with only light and no heat filled the field of vision.
The ground was shaking, not an earthquake, but a roar caused by some kind of shock.
Annan thought that some kind of forbidden spell had fallen around Xingyue Bay, but as the sudden change suddenly disappeared, the white light faded, and he and everyone rushed out of the house. With the light that had not dissipated, they saw White mist rises from the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
This disaster is not aimed at Xingyue Bay, but at the entire Northern Territory and the entire Allen Continent.
The panicked townspeople ran into the streets, but Annan's advance preparation kept them relatively calm.
"The magic...is wailing."
Mr. Victor murmured, and Annan also noticed that the magic vortex had become chaotic, but he could still release spells.
Annan returned to the big house alone, first contacted the ogre to let him find Olmedo, and then opened the portal to the blue dragon's lair.
The blue dragon doesn’t know what happened. It is still a young dragon and does not have unlimited experience brought by the long years.
But after Annan touched the apocalypse forecast, the countdown changed to five months later, indicating that the third apocalypse forecast had already occurred: what happened this time had nothing to do with Annan, but Annan was related to it.
Morning finally arrived. Annan vaguely observed that the white fog on the snow-capped mountains had descended a little.
The summoning spell was released for the last time, and Olmedo appeared on the other side of the portal.
“Did you see it?”
“The gods have lost contact.”
Annan and Olmedo said at the same time.
“They are dead!?” Annan
"...It's just that the connection between the gods and the continent of Allen has been blocked." Olmedo said meaningfully: "Is this what you said about the premonition of what will happen today?"
"The loss of connection between the gods represents What?"
"The gods and the church are important lines of defense to prevent the rat people from infiltrating into humans. Priests can no longer pray to obtain magic, and they can no longer find the rat people who sneak into us."
Annan wanted to say that Lorna Gilman could smell the Skaven, but it wasn't that simple. Asking her to distinguish a hundred Skaven might only detect ten.
“This is not what we need to worry about.” Olmedo looked out the window at the white mist covering the snow-capped mountains. “The gods will solve the affairs of the gods. We have other troubles now...”
A wave of snow is brewing in the silent snow-capped mountains, and the forests and towns below are the first to bear the brunt.
(End of this chapter)