Soul echo

Chapter 260 The Moment of Demon Slaying

"Don't mess! Everyone don't run around, we will protect you!"

Lilian stood on top of a carriage, holding a light crossbow in her hand, trying to maintain order in the street.

Sudden changes have thrown the whole of Paris into chaos. Whether it is the upper city or the lower city, there are people who have taken hallucinogens everywhere. They seem to be influenced by the "false god" Adrian and become a group of happy people of faith. Heretics of the Lord of Pleasure.

Lilian recognized them because she had fought against the group of cultists.

They are neither 'demons' nor 'deformants', but an intermediate state between the two - they have lost their self-awareness and sanity, and they have no powerful abilities. They are just a group of poor people.

But no matter how 'poor' they are, they are also believers of the abyss, and their souls have been bound to evil gods.

Their existence itself is a disaster for life, they appear in this world to create disasters for other beings, as long as they are still alive, they will definitely cause the death or pollution of other people.

Players and clergy are fighting those cultists, albeit for different purposes, but the number of cultists is indeed decreasing.

But I don't know why, as the number of cultists decreases, their individual combat effectiveness is also increasing.

At first, Lilian was able to kill a few cultists by herself, but now, she had to rely on means other than swordsmanship to defeat a cultist—not necessarily able to kill him.

Fortunately, the cultists in this block have been emptied, and she doesn't need to deal with other enemies.

The city has been divided into several areas by the cultists, which gave her a sense of déjà vu, as if she had returned to Milan...

However, compared with Milan, the situation in this city is much better.

Only people who have used hallucinogens will become cultists, and cultists will not be born all the time, and it will not happen that an enemy suddenly appears in the crowd.

But the strength of the cultists is also increasing, and in order to protect the residents, they must be gathered first.

Otherwise, once the strength of the cultists exceeds a certain limit, people can kill each other just by breathing. At that time, if people are still scattered all over the city without any protection, they will die.

When a large number of deaths occur, the demons or high-level cultists hiding in the city can use these deaths to summon demons and even open the gate of the abyss.

Therefore, the people must be protected!

Looking over the heads of the crowd, Lilian looked worriedly out of the block.

The sound of the battle is coming from there, and it seems to be approaching.

That's why the crowd panicked.

The streets were crowded with people, and people were constantly being pushed and bumped into the carriage, causing the carriage to shake.

Fortunately, the horse that pulled the cart had been taken away by the owner of the carriage long ago. Otherwise, if the horse was frightened and pulled the carriage to run on the street, it might cause many casualties.

In addition to Lilian, there are some priests who are also trying to maintain the order of the crowd. They are walking in the crowd, calling out, and at the same time arresting those who disrupt the order.

But what they can do now is to catch those who disrupt the order, calm them down, and can't do more.

Even if someone hears their call, they will be surrounded by others, surrounded by crowds, and it is difficult to take effective actions.

Something was wrong, but Lilian couldn't feel what was wrong.

She looked at the turbulent crowd in front of her scalp with numbness. People pushed each other, hitting the carriage more and more often, and the carriage under her feet shook more and more.

The mood and atmosphere became more irritable, and the root of all this was the locked door.

"Open the door! Let's go in!"

"Didn't you say Uptown would take us in? Why haven't they opened their doors until now?"

"Are you trying to let us die?"

The crowd is surging, but they can't move an inch.

The waves crashed against the city gate that divided the upper and lower towns, and the clergy who guided them here were sweating and flustered—they didn't know why the city gate was still closed.

Although there are also cultists in the upper city, it is the church behind them that notifies them to take civilians to the upper city for refuge. Will the church still deceive them?

"Stop!"

At this moment, a majestic voice sounded from the top of the city.

He seemed to have used some magic to make his voice overwhelm everyone's noise and hustle and bustle.

After he uttered his voice, the chaos of the crowd suddenly dropped to a new level, and they all raised their heads to look at the top of the city.

They saw a middle-aged man in military uniform standing on the city wall, looking down at them expressionlessly.

Then, the crowd became restless again.

"My lord, please let us in!"

"Please, please..."

"My lord! Please open the city gate as soon as possible. This is not the planned refuge. If there are cultists attacking, we will be hard to stop!"

The middle-aged man glanced at the crowd below the city wall, and snorted softly: "We can open the city gate, but you must line up and maintain order. You must not be crowded, and you are not allowed to rush into our soldiers."

The people gathered outside the city gate were overjoyed and agreed again and again, even the clergy who were trying to maintain order were relieved.

Not long after waiting, the city gate opened.

Two soldiers wearing helmets opened the heavy city gate to both sides. People gathered in front of the slowly opened city gate, but they dared not take a step.

The people who were scolding the clergy just now were looking at the street behind the city gate, and the people behind them were not crowded and shoved.

After the city gate was completely opened, people walked in cautiously, not daring to make a sound.

Looking in the direction of the city gate, Lilian frowned.

The bullying of those people made her feel very disgusted and disgusted.

But for some reason, she felt something was wrong.

If the church had already contacted the soldiers guarding the gate, why hadn't the gate been opened before?

On weekdays, the city gates of the upper city and the lower city are only closed at night, and today is the day when the 'big contest' officially begins. Even the soldiers guarding the city gates will not prevent the residents of the lower city from entering the upper city.

The Royal Arena is in the upper city. She ran out of the upper city just now, but when she came back here, she found that the city gate had been closed.

Who closed it?Why is it closed?

Although the thoughts in her mind were still vague, Lilian already felt that she had caught something.

However, Lilian did not speak.

She has no evidence to convince people to stop, acting recklessly will only overdraw her credit, sometimes she can gamble, but now her hand is full of loose cards, and she can't hope that her opponent's hand is lower than her.

People walked past a dozen or so soldiers lined up on both sides of the street, their clothes still stained with blood, and walked past in silence, taking every step as gently as possible.

There is no doubt that there has just been a battle here, the blood on the ground and walls has not yet dried up, and some of the helmets worn by the soldiers are still dented.

Feeling the strong aura emanating from the soldiers, people couldn't help but swallowed and lowered their heads.

"Do you know how to use magic to identify whether a person is a cultist?" Lilian, who was standing on the roof of the carriage, also squatted down and asked a clergyman next to her in a low voice.

The cleric looked at Lilian suspiciously, then followed the direction of her finger, and saw the middle-aged man at the top of the city.

"Don't you think he's suspicious?" Lilian pointed to the man, then pointed to the soldiers standing on both sides of the street, "And those soldiers, they used muskets, not only were they stained with blood, but their helmets were also dented. It's..."

Hearing this, the priests also frowned.

It's really suspicious...

After thinking for a moment, the clergy followed the crowd and walked towards the city gate.

When he was about to reach the city gate, he suddenly cast a magical spell on the soldiers standing behind the city gate-high-level cultists or demons have the ability to hide their identities, so they should detect their subordinates!
Under the reflection of the divine art, a distorted scene like a whirlpool appeared on those soldiers.

"It's the abyss!"

The clergy let out a loud shout, and the other clergy who were standing outside the city gate and leading the crowd into the upper city immediately turned their heads.

The next moment, both sides drew their weapons, and the battle broke out at the city gate!

(End of this chapter)