Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 562 Catastrophe
After notifying several villages and towns, Michel suddenly realized a problem.

If she was notifying all the way to the south now, wouldn't the people in the north of the holy mountain not get the news?

The stag couldn't understand what was south, east, north and west, and neither could Michelle.

She sighed, praying that fewer people would die.

There is no time to think about these now, and we must hurry up to notify more people.

……

Vernal panted heavily and ran quickly, and the living corpses behind him followed too closely, without giving him any chance to stop and rest.

"What is this? The speed of action is much faster than that of ghouls." The young man on the side said while panting.

"Don't talk, save your energy." Vernal glared at the young man.

He recalled that experience that he would never forget, that time when he ran out of the tomb, a group of monsters like this followed behind him.

In this way, he ran all the way back to Shengshan Town without stopping, and finally solved them with the help of more than a dozen guards of Shengshan Town.

Click click!

The sound of ice shattering came from the ground not far ahead.

This mountain range is covered by thick snow all year round, and under the snow is hard ice, and the entrances of many ancient tombs are hidden under the ice.

Those who are lucky, as long as they scrape away the snow and chip the ice, they can find an iron door leading to the tomb.

Vernal, who was experienced in adventure, knew exactly what this voice represented.

A ghoul crawled out of the tomb...

Click click!

The sound of ice breaking became louder and louder.

Vernal frowned. The ice blocks around him were all shattered. It was impossible to avoid these places. He could only speed up and leave this area before the ghoul crawled out of the ground.

Snapped!
A pale hand stretched out not far from Vernal's feet and pressed it to the ground.

Click click!

The snow on the ground ahead is also sinking, indicating that ghouls are about to crawl out from below.

Vernal had never seen such a sight in all these years.

In the past, even if there were ghouls crawling out of the ground, there were only three or four at most, but this time there are at least a hundred of them...

"Ah!" the young man exclaimed.

Vernal turned his head to look.

A ghoul crawled out beside the young man, wearing a suit of ancient Nord-style armor and holding a greatsword in his hand.

Contrary to Vernal's expectation, the ghoul did not attack the young man, but walked straight towards the living corpse charging behind with a huge sword.

At the same time, ghouls crawled out of the ground one after another. They didn't even look at Vernal and the young man, but rushed towards the living corpse with their weapons.

After running to a safe location far enough away, Vernal stopped, gasping for breath, while watching the battle situation in the distance.

The ghoul surrounded those monsters, no matter how they bit, the ghoul with a hard body and no pain would not take half a step back.

Heavy weapons such as giant swords and giant axes fell towards them. Even though those monsters had tenacious vitality, they were quickly chopped into pieces.

If it is one-on-one, those monsters must have the advantage, and if there are a lot of both sides, the advantage of that monster will be even greater, after all, the ghouls cannot cut them into pieces as quickly as this time.

And that kind of monster can also use weapons, Vernal recalled the scene he saw near the lonely peak.

"Hurry up! There will definitely be more monsters coming later, we have to spread the news quickly." Vernal patted the young man on the shoulder.

……

After rushing day and night, Rhodes finally returned to his territory.

The situation in the Roman Empire was beyond his expectations, and he didn't see many living people along the way.

Years of wars have resulted in a lack of surplus food in the warehouses of the lords of the Roman Empire. In addition, this year's weather conditions are very bad, and there are not many young and middle-aged laborers. Finally, a large-scale famine broke out.

Even if some benevolent lords wanted to rescue them, they were powerless and were killed by them instead.

On the way, Rhodes saw several castles that were difficult to break even for regular troops being slaughtered.

Not surprisingly, the lords of those castles must have opened their gates to take in refugees. As a result, there were too many refugees to accept all of them, so a riot broke out and the lords were also killed.

Even if the noble lords are powerful, as long as they cannot be deterred, they will still be besieged to death.

Of course, this is only the situation in the northern part of the Roman Empire. The situation in the south may be better, where the natural conditions are much better, and three crops of rice can be grown in a year.

Rhodes hesitated for a while whether to return to the castle first.

In the end, he decided to find Michelle first.

His plan has already been written, and Hammer just needs to follow it. In this era, managing the territory is still a very simple matter. As long as you don't mess around and let nature take its course, you will generally develop well.

The lord's arbitrary taxation or random promulgation of laws will lead to problems in the territory.

Rhodes stood still and ate a few breads, drank a saliva and continued to run light kung fu and ran in the direction of Michelle.

His speed is much faster than that of a war horse, and he can ignore the terrain, but he will feel tired after running for a long time.

After a while, Rhodes came to the north of Winterfell Fortress, and he found that many people were walking towards Winterfell Fortress on the main road.

Was there a famine also in the northern part of the Nord Kingdom?

Thinking of this, Rhodes found a place where no one was around and fell to the ground.

Before, he basically used lightness skills to travel in the air. Although it was a bit more expensive, it could avoid a lot of trouble.

He walked out onto the road, toward a man dressed as an adventurer.

"What happened to the north? Why are so many people heading south?" Rhodes asked.

"There are many ghoul-like monsters near the holy mountain, but they are difficult to kill, even if they are cut into two pieces, they can still be alive and kicking." Vernal explained.

Nearly a week had passed since the day he fled the holy mountain.

After leaving the holy mountain, he walked all the way south, and met many people who were planning to go to the south of Winterfell Stronghold like him. These people also got the news from the messengers sent by the Holy Spirit.

Some lords thought it was just nonsense, but when they sent scouts to the vicinity of the holy mountain, they all believed the news.

Seeing many lords running south with their treasures, the lords they met along the way also decided to follow them, but there were still many lords who planned to stick to the castle.

Rhodes felt that the adventurer in front of him should be talking about a living corpse.

"Are there so many? As for everyone running to the south of Winterfell Fortress?" Rhodes asked.

"You may not believe it when you tell it, but when I went to check it, the monsters piled up to be almost as high as a lone peak.

That's a mountain thousands of meters high, and their numbers are still increasing, you'd better tell someone you know to follow us to the south. "A young man dressed as an adventurer next to him explained.

Rhodes was stunned after listening.

Is the world of the dead connected to the real world?
"Why are you still going north?" the young man held Rhodes back.

"I'm going to the north to inform my family and take them with me." After finishing speaking, Rhode walked into the forest beside the road.

After entering the forest, Rhodes used lightness kung fu to quickly run towards Michelle.

The living corpse did not pose any threat to him, but Misaier was different, she could neither float in the air, nor was she rough and fleshy like him.

If the situation on the holy mountain is really what the adventurer said, it will be a catastrophe for all creatures on the entire continent.

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(End of this chapter)