Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 561 Disaster
"What happened here?"

Not long after Rhodes entered the territory of the Roman Empire, he came to a field covered with human corpses.

Looking at their clothes, Rhodes felt that they should have been ordinary civilians of the Roman Empire.

However, they were all skinny, as if they had endured hunger for a long time, and some of them still had signs of being eaten.

"Famine?" Rhodes shook his head, and continued to move forward with light work.

Although he also wanted to burn all these corpses so as not to cause a plague, it was not a task he could accomplish alone to pile up so many corpses and burn them.

And setting fire to this wilderness may result in the death of many innocent people.

If he came across a town or a lord's castle, he could stop to remind them of the state of the field.

Running along the main road, Rhodes didn't even see a person passing by. The farmland on both sides had been harvested, but they hadn't been replanted, and they were just left there.

Not long after, Rhodes saw a village by the road.

There was no one inside, and the houses were empty. In one of the rooms, there were several emaciated corpses, with a cooking pot and a few piles of bones next to them.

"There should have been a famine near here, and everyone who could escape escaped."

He recalled that when he was in Fish Kingdom, he seemed to see some skinny refugees.

Rhodes left the village and continued on his way.

I don't know what happened on the mainland during my absence.

Rhodes was thinking while hurrying.

This situation did not occur in the other world, and in the next few years with a different history, there was no famine in any part of the Roman Empire.

It may be that the Roman Empire has been defeated for several years, and many young and middle-aged laborers have died, and the trade between the Fish Kingdom and them has also decreased.

But the nobles of the Roman Empire continued to exploit the common people harshly as always, and these things combined to lead to the famine.

Rhode passed another castle, which was also empty, with traces of battle on the walls, and the square of the castle was full of gnawed bones.

After seeing the granary that had been burned to ashes, Rhodes sighed.

The granary was definitely not burned by angry hungry people. It should be that the lord of the castle saw that the castle was about to be breached and felt that the hungry civilians outside would definitely not let him go. After all, he made them unable to survive.

So he ordered him to burn the granary...

Rhodes shook his head and continued on his way.

It wasn't just this area that was affected by the famine, the villages and castles in front of it were also empty, and the inside was a mess, like hell.

……

Michel rode a stag to a small town.

How can I make people here believe what I say?

She suddenly had an idea.

A golden light suddenly lit up around her, enveloping her figure. Even in this dark night, the surroundings were like daytime...

Vernal is a well-known adventurer. Since he was a child, he heard that there are countless treasures hidden in the holy mountain of Nord. When he grew up, he left home to wander around and came to the town closest to the holy mountain called Holy Mountain Town. in the town.

This stay lasted for 20 years, and he is now in his 30s. He plans to find some people when the weather is right, to take the last adventure, and return home after earning a sum of pension money.

On this day, as usual, he left the tavern drunk and prepared to go home to sleep.

After staying in this small town for so long, he had owned a property of his own ten years ago.

"The Holy Spirit is on!" Vernal exclaimed, and opened his eyes wide to look at a girl at the end of the street, shrouded in a holy golden light, who was walking slowly on a stag.

The town was very quiet at night, and Vernal's voice woke up most of the sleeping residents in the town.

"Fernal, what are you yelling outside?" Several people pushed open the door and came out of the tavern, wanting to see what was going on.

After seeing Misaier, they all froze in place like Vernal.

In the legends of the Nord Kingdom, this kind of stag with huge horns has a very important position, and many famous heroes' mounts are such stags.

"I came from the Hall of Valor to convey the order of the Holy Spirit." Michelle said slowly.

She had cast a spell on herself, so her voice now sounded very ethereal, ethereal, and constantly echoing around.

Those residents who were awakened and stuck their heads out of the windows knelt down on the ground, chanting words such as the Holy Spirit is above and the Holy Spirit is blessed.

"A disaster broke out on the Holy Mountain, you should leave here as soon as possible and go to the south of Winterfell Fortress.

Remember, take this message to everyone you meet. After Misaier finished speaking, he walked slowly towards the end of the street, his figure disappeared out of thin air, but his voice was still echoing.

The residents of Shengshan Town stood up and discussed among themselves.

Some residents immediately began to pack their luggage, ready to leave this place and head to the south of Winterfell Keep.

"Fernal, what do you think?" the fat tavern owner asked.

The adventurers next to him gathered around one after another, wanting to hear what Vernal would say.

In this small town, Vernal knew the holy mountain best.

After experiencing what happened just now, Vernal instantly became sober.

"Hurry up and pack your things first, I'll go to Lord Norton to ask for a carrier pigeon, and I'll check it out myself later.

If a disaster really breaks out, I will put the carrier pigeon back, and you guys run away.If it's all right, I'll bring it back with me. "Vernal said.

Lord Norton in his mouth is the lord of this small town.

"Then you pay attention to safety." The tavern owner patted Vernal on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, even if there is danger, I can come back." Vernal grinned.

……

I shouldn't have shown any flaws just now, right?
After leaving the town, Michelle felt a little relieved. She was still a little nervous just now, and she was afraid that someone would expose her on the spot.

She immediately let the stag take her to another human gathering place nearby.

After arriving in another village, Misaier did the same old trick again, and she was much more proficient than last time.

……

Vernal took a pigeon coop and a young man who volunteered and walked towards the depths of the holy mountain.

On the way, he kept thinking about what the disaster referred to?
Even if there was an earthquake or an avalanche, they wouldn't be able to run to the south of Winterfell Fortress, and what the emissary said seemed to mean that a disaster had already happened.

"Are you scared?" Vernal asked, looking at the young man next to him.

"Not afraid." The young man replied without thinking.

Vernal smiled and continued to walk forward.

After walking for a while, he saw a large herd of deer running towards him, looking very panicked.

Besides them, there are some small animals like squirrels and rabbits.

Vernal was startled, what really happened to the Holy Mountain.

Normally, the animals in the holy mountain would definitely stay away from humans when they saw them. Even if there were wolves chasing after them, they would not run away in the direction of humans.

They look like this, which shows that they are really frightened.

"Hurry up and go back." Vernal said to the young man beside him while releasing the pigeons in the cage.

"If you're going to go on, I'll be with you," said the young man.

Vernal didn't speak to dissuade him, but shook his head helplessly, and continued walking towards the depths of the holy mountain.

Along the way, all the animals Vernal encountered ran out in panic like those just now, including even a frost troll.

"You should go back quickly." Vernal turned his head and said to the young man.

The young man shook his head.

After Vernal came near a mountain he named Lonely Peak, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

Countless ghoul-like monsters piled up into hills under the solitary peak, and ghouls continued to fall from the solitary peak like rain.

No, it's not like a ghoul.

Vernal recalled a previous experience, he once encountered a group of ghoul-like monsters in a tomb, but they were almost impossible to kill.

Several of his companions died in that tomb, and only he escaped by luck.

The feeling of despair is still fresh in his memory.

"Did my wine not wake up?" Vernal turned his head and asked.

"No, no..." The young man was obviously also petrified by this scene.

"Run quickly." After seeing a group of living corpses rushing towards them, Vernal patted the young man's shoulder, then quickly turned around and ran away from the mountains.

(End of this chapter)