dedicated to violets

Willie was not of an inquisitive nature, and in the end Mason's secret had nothing to do with him.He said this suddenly, but it was just a fever in his head.

Probably the smell of bad wine wafting on the street also affected him.

In a blink of an eye, a scream suddenly sounded from the corner of the street.

The night sky illuminated by lights seemed to freeze for a moment because of this fearful cry.

Willie and Sean looked at the source of the call at the same time, an unremarkable tavern.

Not long after the screams sounded, all the guests who had been drinking in the tavern rushed out, looking terrified and running fast, and several of them were still wearing bartender clothes.Pedestrians on the street were unaware of the situation and looked inside curiously.

The tavern is not big, dozens of people came out in a file, running wildly, as if there was something terrifying in the tavern.After a while, the tavern was scattered.

Viri sniffed and smelled a familiar stench, just in Norman's memory.

Soon, the smell of the rotting corpse slowly came out from the tavern, and the stench went straight to the sky, making people want to vomit.Even the troublemakers who came closer to watch the excitement in the tavern also ran out with horror on their faces, and the soaring stench made people run far away.

The guards at the city gate heard the movement and rushed over quickly.Some people wanted to take advantage of the chaos to fish and steal something, but they were all caught and tied up by the guards.The mercenary who was crying and howling before was also caught, squatting on the side of the road with drooping eyebrows.

Some timid people were so frightened that they cried out. The guards had already surrounded the tavern and did not allow others to approach.

The crowd of onlookers had already discussed, and the crowded long street of taverns became a mess.

The discussions among the mercenaries around him were in full swing, and Xiao En grabbed one of them casually and shouted, "Don't move, what happened?"

"Yes, there are skeletons!" The mercenary's face was flushed, and his limbs trembled slightly with excitement.

Sean froze for a moment, then turned to look at Willy.

Willie and him looked at each other: "Let's go."

Sean let go and patted the man's shoulder: "Be honest, don't think about skeletons, that's not something you guys can provoke."

Seven or eight meters around the tavern was empty, and the guards quickly cordoned off the area, while the onlookers stood on tiptoe looking in from a long distance away.Formed a circle, the crowd was blocked.It was an extraordinary period, and the spirit of the guards was tense. The high-level guild issued an order that no riots were allowed.

Ordinary mercenaries don't recognize Xiao En's face, but the guards do.

Sean looked elegant, but he was very strong. He easily pushed through the crowd and walked to the innermost part.When the captain of the guard saw Xiao En, he quickly stood at attention and saluted: "President, you came so fast."

"It just happened to be nearby," Sean said, "What happened inside?" He glanced at the eager crowd behind him, and simply took Willy to the door of the tavern.

The captain of the guard said: "There are living people who have turned into skeletons."

The stench in the tavern was so strong that it almost turned into substance, and one meter away from the gate, the rancid stench hit people's faces, even Louis couldn't help frowning.

He had been on the battlefield, and he was used to the smell of rotting corpses. Sometimes the corpses piled up high were like a hill, and no one would claim them. Most of them were burnt to ashes and buried on the spot.Before the burning, the stench lingered on the battlefield, and as time passed, it gradually disappeared.

Willie whispered to Sean: "Don't act rashly, I'll go in and have a look."

"Okay," Sean readily agreed, "Can you protect yourself? You don't have a weapon."

He hesitated again, looking up and down: "Otherwise, you'd better not go in and wait for the mage to come over."

"There's no fog now, and it's useless to have a mage around," Viri smiled, and he raised the piano case in his hand. "What's more, who told you that I didn't have a weapon?"

The gloomy sound of the violin came from the violin case, like a small cry.

Willie strode into the tavern.

The suffocating stench was congested in the small space, and the tavern was extremely poorly decorated.The drinks on the bar were poured, the tables and chairs were thrown together in a mess, and the wine glasses and dishes should be broken.

The open space was full of solidified bloodstains, and the tamped concrete floor originally had small cracks, and blood flowed along the gaps. The indescribable smell of blood and carrion mixed together, making people dizzy and dizzy.

Willie looked up, looking at the clearing against the wall.

Just looking at it can make people shudder.Viri finally understood why the mercenaries ran away in a hurry.

A humanoid was kneeling on the ground, its formerly burly physique still visible.

It is the source of the blood and the stench.

"Ho ho—" the creature's throat sounded like a bellows.

Its body has a strange beauty, half is a skeleton, and the other is flesh and blood.Like the undead in the misty forest, its bones showed a strange paleness, and if you look closely, it seems to be shining brightly.The flesh and blood on the other half is constantly "melting".

Viri swallowed the nausea in his throat and studied it carefully.

It is indeed melting, like ice melting into water, the flesh and blood attached to its bones slowly fall off, turning into something similar to blood, flowing to the ground.

Its eyeballs were still in their sockets, and Viri's heart skipped a beat when he saw its mutilated face.

"When you robbed other people and invited John to join the mercenary group, how high-spirited you were. In less than two months, you turned into such a terrifying appearance. I'm afraid you would never have guessed that you would end up like this. "Viri said softly, he has recognized the identity of this humanoid creature.

The desperado who was about to spit on him on the train.

Viri remembered very clearly that he had clearly cut the man's neck.

Is it possible that this man is not dead, but John saved him?

No, at that time John used the alchemy puppet to escape from him, there was absolutely no way he could come back to save people.

Not to mention, he stayed for a while to read the memories of these mercenaries.

That is how the matter?

He heard light footsteps behind him.

Viri turned his head suddenly, but it was Sean who caught his eyes.He stood outside the door, leaning on the door frame of the tavern, and stepped in with one foot: "Is there any danger?"

Viri heaved a sigh of relief and shook his head: "There is no danger, only a dead person." He took a step to the side, moved away slightly, and the humanoid creature by the wall was exposed to Xiao En's eyes.

Its originally strong body had shrunk completely, and its muscles and internal organs had turned into bloody water, like a punctured balloon, leaving only an empty human skin. In a blink of an eye, even the skin disappeared into the bloody water.

Sean looked terrified: "What is this?"

"A living person becomes a skeleton," Willie said, and then he denied, "It doesn't have to be a living person." This person should have been killed by me, he added in his mind.

While speaking, the mages of the guild hurried over.

"President Lucas!" The mage who was called urgently blushed, supported his waist, and panted, "I heard that there was an accident in the tavern, what happened?"

Sean was very happy, and grabbed her forearm: "Andrea, it's just in time."

Miss Mage Andrea has fiery red hair, which is as eye-catching as her magical attributes.As Fast's most gifted fire mage, she was placed with high hopes, and even the mage guild came here to poach people, promising that she could become a fire mage.

Andrea wondered: "What's going on here? Why are there so many people?" She looked around, and the interest of the crowd was still undiminished. The guards held spears to block the troublemakers who were eager to try outside.

A row of mercenaries squatted in the corner outside, and now they are all listless, like eggplants beaten by frost.

"Skeleton," Sean said in a low voice, "go in and have a look."

In order to prevent the skeletons from jumping up and hurting people, Viri set up the simplest alchemy array with a few chairs around the corner of the wall, which is better than nothing and can delay the reaction time by a second or two.

Hearing an unfamiliar woman's voice, Viri didn't turn his head and said, "Who did you call again?"

"A fire mage," Sean brought Andrea into the tavern, pointing to the creature with half human skin and half bone, "try it and see if you can burn it."

It is a hidden danger after all that the skeleton stays here.

The two didn't exchange much greetings, and Viri retreated to the door, leaving room for Andrea to cast her magic.

The beautiful girl didn't need a wand, she just chanted the spell with her hands in the air.The ancient and obscure mantra came out of her mouth, and it was as sweet as a nightingale's chirping. In her palm, the purple flame was faintly visible.

The color of the flames was beautiful, like the violet sky of Fort Airlet.

Andrea was still chanting a spell, and Viri watched intently, and said casually, "Do you think she can destroy this skeleton?"

Sean was instructing the guards to evacuate the onlookers, and just as he returned to the door of the tavern, he heard Veri's question.He was stunned for a moment, then looked into the door with his head, his eyes widened: "Quasi-forbidden spell, this child's growth rate is too terrifying."

Willie was silent for a while, then said, "How old is she?"

"20 years old, born the year the war ended," Xiao En marveled. "I thought it would take at least two or three years for her to learn this trick, but I didn't expect to learn it in less than three months."

A quasi-forbidden spell, bound.

All the destructive power of the spell is concentrated in a small area, and the temperature is so high that anything will melt quickly in the flames.

Andrea pushed forward with both hands, and the light suddenly became brighter, and the purple flame jumped up, and instantly swallowed the terrifying skeleton in the corner.The flame burned along the bloody water, and the rancid smell was also burned by the flame.The outline of the skeleton in the flames gradually changed.

Sean's eyes lit up: "This is—"

Viri was also very surprised: "Could it be that if you want to kill the undead, you must use top-notch spells?"

Binding is a chanting type of magic, and its attack range limits its upper limit, but its destructive power is comparable to that of a forbidden spell—it is dead when touched, and it cannot be resisted.Its shortcomings are also obvious. It can only be used for sneak attacks, and its practical value is not high. In life and death fights, mages don't have time to chant lengthy spells.

Heat waves came in waves, and Willie quickly pulled Sean back.He raised the piano case with one hand and blocked it in front of him.The heat wave hit the violin case, and the sleeping violin hummed again.

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