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"How could she have such skill?"

……

After jumping out of the train, Charlotte stepped on the ground, and after gliding for a certain distance, followed the trend and ran towards the city of Novigrad.

The scenery ahead was receding rapidly. At this moment, just by running and jumping, Charlotte's speed was comparable to that of a high-speed train.

But for him, this was far from enough. The train had left the station for a long time and had already opened up a long distance, which could not be completed even if the horse galloped for a while.

Therefore, Charlotte didn't care about consuming physical strength, and the speed increased again, and the whole person went straight to Novigrad like a ghost.

"Hopefully it's still too late."

With this thought in mind, Charlotte returned to Novigrad city at full speed.

However, as soon as she stepped into the edge of the urban area from the suburbs, Charlotte saw many passers-by collapsed on the ground.However, some carriages and steam vehicles either knocked over to the ground or rushed into the shops on the street when no one was controlling them, causing more casualties.

"Edmond, you..." The scene in front of her made Charlotte grit her teeth angrily, and the griffin pendant hanging around her neck vibrated even more violently after he entered the city.

Stopping, Charlotte came to a pedestrian who fell on the ground.

This is a woman in her 30s and [-]s, holding a child of [-] or [-] years old in her arms.But at this moment, the mother and child were lying unconscious on the cold ground, their eyes closed tightly, their faces pale, and they were only breathing very weakly.

It can be seen that when the unknown disaster came, the mother subconsciously hugged the child in her arms tightly, so that the child did not suffer any scratches when it fell down.

But it was useless, they still had no material disaster to escape.

And how many people like this are there in this city?Charlotte couldn't figure it out. He knew that Novigrad had a population of at least 10, and now he could use his speed to safely send the mother and child away from the city, but...he couldn't save the entire city.

With a feeling of guilt, Charlotte picked up the mother and child and moved them to the side of the alley. let go.

"Sorry." Putting the mother and child down smoothly, Charlotte whispered, "Although I can take you out together, I can't, sorry."

Although they were still breathing, and so were the other pedestrians who collapsed on the ground, as time went on, I am afraid that this last breath would also be deprived, and it would really be irreparable by then.

He can't save everyone, but he can try to end the disaster before it's too late.

Maybe some people can't make it to that moment, and the city will still die.

After standing up again, Charlotte took down the cane hanging from her arm with a calm face, then flipped the handle on the cane, turning the cane into a long sword, then jumped up on the spot without saying a word, and jumped onto the ground. On the top of a three-story house on the side of the street, he raised his hand and slashed at another taller building.

The sword light flickered, and there was a bang. The walls of this house were split by the sword energy, and the bricks and stones splashed. Then Charlotte turned the sword, and a gust of sword wind lifted the broken bricks and stones into the sky.

Leaping forward again, Charlotte stepped on the bricks and stones that flew into the air and continued to increase her height. Finally, she reached a height of tens of meters in one fell swoop, looking at the entire city in sight.

One, two, three, four, five.

Charlotte had a panoramic view of the five blood-red nodes, and firmly recorded them in his mind.

When it fell, Charlotte stared at one of the nodes. If his memory did not make a mistake, then he was very clear about the scope of this node.

That location is probably where he lived these days - the estate of the Count of Monte Cristo.

Just under the nose of these days.

bang.

Falling to the ground, Charlotte bent her knees and half-kneeled, releasing the force of the fall.

"Edmond Dantès!!!!!!"

Charlotte growled hoarsely.

In the past few years, he has killed ghosts, killed werewolves, killed ghouls... But at this moment, for the first time in his life, he wants to kill.

But the rationality in his heart resisted the urge to return to the manor farthest from here.

Then he got up and rushed towards the nearest node of blood-red light.

Chapter 46

The carriage drove slowly through the silent street, its wheels pressed against the concrete floor, ignoring the many passers-by who were unconscious and collapsed on the ground, and ran straight over those who were in the way.

While causing a bit of bumping, it also took away a life. This black carriage was really driven by Kelenvor, the god of death, carrying the souls of the dead to the resting place of the dead.

How many people are still awake in this city right now?

No one knows, for Edmond sitting in this carriage, he doesn't care how many people are still alive.

The carriage was driving towards his manor, and the driver's driving skills were obviously not very good, not as good as the original one.After all, as a killer, Jhin doesn't need to learn how to drive a carriage smoothly, which has already begun to fade away, as long as he can move it.

Although there were constant ups and downs on the way back to the manor, Edmond leaned on the window of the carriage with great interest, watching the current scene of the city all the way.

Dead silence, all pedestrians on the road, whether they are ordinary citizens, the three hands of petty thieves, or vicious gangsters, all fell to the ground without discrimination.

In this unequal city, for the first time, there is equality—the equality of all dying together.

Yes, everyone, in Edmond's eyes, this city should die, and everyone living in the city deserves an equal death.Among them, there is him, as well as those adults and lords who foolishly walked into his trap.

The carriage stopped, and the Manor of the Count of Monte Cristo arrived.

After arriving at the station, Jhin jumped out of the car, but he didn't have the slightest intention to open the door, and he didn't need to act as a temporary servant, because the door had already been pushed open by Edmund himself.

"Employer, there is one thing I want to ask." Jhin looked at Edmond who got off the car and walked directly towards the manor house lit up with a strange bright red light, and asked, "How did you let those idiots come here according to your idea?"

"It's not that I let them follow my ideas, but they choose to follow my ideas." Edmund stopped in his tracks and answered Jhin's question.

"Everything I said to them is true, everything is true, including the life-sustaining panacea at the beginning, and the information about the Philosopher's Stone given to them later, it is indeed from I have never told a lie to them, nor have I ever told them."

"But their ending, I can imagine it without guessing." Jhin smiled lowly, "Immortal? Ah, what a naive and stupid idea."

"Yeah! I promised it would give them immortality, but I didn't say...they could live forever in human form."

With that said, Edmund walked towards the house in the manor. "It's time to get to your back seat, Jhin, don't forget—"

"—you are the one who draws down the red curtain at the end of this play."

"Hehehe, of course, of course." Jhin smiled and bowed to Edmund's back in salute.

……

Although today's alchemy has been classified as a member of the new system of science, even a rigorous classification cannot conceal the strong religious color and mysticism in some alchemy.

Even in terms of relevant knowledge, Charlotte is not a master of mysticism, unable to use and study spells like a mage, and can only drive simple but much faster spells, but it does not prevent him from knowing some basic knowledge of mysticism. Heart.

For example: the pentagram now engraved in the city.

The five places emitting red light correspond to the five corners of the pentagram, and in mysticism, the vocabulary of the pentagram is: [underworld], [earth], [life], [health]... ...And among them, there is no [Death].

Yes, that's right, the pentagram was never death in the occult sense.

Even if there are words of the underworld and the earth, it expresses that people can rest in peace after death, not simply death.

It can even be said that the representative of the pentagram is divine.

This will definitely not be used to deprive them of life. Although they don't know what happened in the city, if they really want to kill a whole city and deprive them of their lives, they should use the blood hexagram seen in the warehouse of the abandoned factory.

From Charlotte's point of view, the people who fell to the ground along the way all fell into a coma after being stripped of a large amount of life, and none of them died directly because of the loss of life, and all the deaths were accidents after coma situation.

The reason why they cannot be awakened is also due to the loss of vitality.

As long as the five points that make up the pentagram can be destroyed, there may be a chance to reverse this situation.

So even though he really wanted to go back to the manor immediately and settle the score with Edmond, his reason held Charlotte and made him immediately rush towards the point closest to him instead of going to the Earl of Monte Cristo who was the farthest away from him. manor.

Even after running all the way back from outside the city, Charlotte didn't have any thought of stopping to rest, and rushed towards the nearest direction with all his strength, and soon he arrived at the destination, a villa whose scale was far larger than the manor of the Count of Monte Cristo. .

But at this moment, there was no trace of any living beings in the villa. Charlotte who rushed over could only see a lot of blood splattered on the grass in the garden outside the villa.

And the iron bars were tightly closed.

Without stopping, Charlotte stepped forward and slashed open the iron gate with a sword. While entering, she glanced at the door plate out of the corner of her eye.

Tanglar.

He rushed in, ran directly to the villa, and also opened the gate with a sword.

To the naked eye, the corridor is full of blood, and there are many mutilated but fresh corpses on the ground, and in the house, the bright red light is even more dazzling.

Following the light source, Charlotte found a staircase leading to the basement, walked down without hesitation to the end and kicked open the basement door.

This is a very wide basement, and in the center of this basement, hundreds of thousands of corpses are piled on top of a bright red circular magic circle. The blood flowing out of the corpses provides the magic circle underground. With endless energy.

Holding the sword, Charlotte walked over step by step, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the basement.

However, the pile of corpses suddenly squirmed.

Charlotte stopped.

dong dong dong.

Unexpected changes began to take place in the pile of corpses, the flesh and bones on it twisted and rolled together, squeezed each other, and then expanded and opened to envelop the underground magic circle.

bang.

The flesh and bones of hundreds of corpses mixed with the bricks and mud of the floor, and a huge body rose from the ground.

Roar.

The monster roared in a low voice. Its size was still increasing, and it kept melting the soil and bricks under it into its body. It became bigger and bigger, and swallowed more corpses into its body.

Charlotte turned and ran towards the stairs.

The moment he left, the newly born monster stretched out two arms made of corpses and rocks and threw it at Charlotte.

Chapter 47

bang.

This newly born monster was already ten meters high when it first appeared, and its several-meter-long arms swept straight over, denting the ground.

The shattered stones flew up, but they missed Charlotte. Before the monster's arm swung down, Charlotte had already rushed to the door of the basement and ran out along the stairs.

Roar.

The monster roared, the stone soil and corpses in its body rolled and squirmed, merging more stones and ground into it, and swallowed all the corpses in this basement into its body.This process was very fast, and the size of the monster was getting bigger and bigger, and soon the height of the monster reached the limit of the basement.

bang.

The ceiling of the basement was lifted, gravel fell, and the entire basement suddenly collapsed, submerging the figure of the monster.

On the other side, when Charlotte ran up the stairs, the ground under her feet shook, and a roar could be heard vaguely.

After he went out, the interior of the entire villa collapsed, the ground broke and sank, and the entire house began to collapse.

When Charlotte rushed out of this room and ran to the garden outside, the villa, which was much larger than the Count of Monte Cristo's estate, had fallen apart and turned into ruins.

Roar.

The ruins exploded, and a huge arm stretched out from under the ruins, followed by a second arm, and then, a huge creature struggled to crawl out of it.

This is the monster that was born in the basement just now. It looks like a bulky giant made of mud and stones. However, on its body, many rotten arms, dead bones, and heads can be clearly seen. , or other parts protruding from its body.These corpses held by the monster on the body came alive one after another, constantly tearing the air.

The monster roared, and stood up straight with its huge body, its vaguely recognizable head lowered, staring at Charlotte who looked like an ant in comparison.

Charlotte looked up at this huge monster that was at least 20 meters high, and quickly found its name from the knowledge he knew. "Corpse Grave Demon."

A very special and very dangerous giant undead creature. They are usually considered to bury a conscious undead creature in an unholy place, and the lingering decay and negative energy of the undead creature somehow seeped into the body. The land was destroyed, causing the whole land - corpses and all - to coalesce into one ravenous undead monster.

The meaning of its existence is to keep devouring more corpses to grow itself. It is a monster that will actively attack humans, kill and devour humans into its body, and then continue to grow and become bigger. A devoured victim's soul is imprisoned in its body, and cannot be freed until the ghoul is slain.

This is just one of the abilities of the Corpse Grave Demon.

As a monster without any ability to cast spells, the Corpse Grave Demon's huge body is enough to crush any obstacles, and it is born with a blasphemous aura that can release a negative energy field with a minimum radius of 30 meters.

This also makes sea tactics meaningless to it at all.

To deal with this kind of monster, ordinary weapons are useless at all. The only way to use heavy firepower weapons such as heavy artillery is to forcefully blast it to pieces.

"Why is there a corpse grave demon born here?"

Charlotte looked in amazement at the monster born before his eyes.

Although the Corpse Grave Demon is only more than 20 meters long because it was just born, it can continue to grow and become bigger.If you give it time, it will grow to a super giant volume of more than 60 meters in a short time.

It's a veritable mobile disaster, a monster of legend in olden days.

"This is a corner of the pentagram, that is to say, the other places are the same?"

"Edmond, you bastard."

In the city of Novigrad, it would be a disaster if four or five corpse grave demons appeared all at once.Especially in the current situation where the whole city is paralyzed and unable to move, once the Corpse Tomb Demon starts to move around the city, how many people will die?

Roar.