Chapter 158 Warlock Family
pig.

In the culture of this land, pigs symbolize laziness, dirtiness, greed, etc., and due to the limited productivity of this era, pigs are generally fed with mixed excrement. In Xiao En's spiritual vision, at least one-third of the people reflected a hideous pig head, no matter whether they were ordinary people or extraordinary people, or which sequence of extraordinary paths they were promoted to, even if they were wanderers in the shadow sequence, there was a hideous and twisted pig head human body projection behind them.

The wanderer had grown so fat that he weighed nearly three hundred kilograms, and it was doubtful whether he could still hide in the shadows with his current size.

"It's not the Old Ones."

"If it was the Old Ones coming, millions of people in the Ring City would have died long ago."

Xiao En's brows were furrowed. He had no doubt that the Old One had the ability to kill all the living people in the entire city overnight. Even if the Old One only descended in an incarnation, it would contaminate all living things within a radius of hundreds of kilometers and twist many people into deformed clans.

"But the descendants of the old days are not that strong. If they were just descendants of the old days, it would be impossible for them to pollute the entire city and distort everyone's consciousness and cognition."

The descendants of the Old Ones are at least divine creatures, and at most demigods. They have incomplete laws, but among the known descendants of the Old Ones, it seems that few have the ability to distort human cognition on a large scale. Moreover, the characteristics of the descendants of the Old Ones are a bit like the evil gods. They are extremely uncontrollable. If the descendants of the Old Ones really descended, they would probably have already started a massacre.

The knowledge in Sean's brain began to run wildly. All related memory data were recalled. The mysterious knowledge in his brain was like a search engine.

——"The old days."

When Xiao En input this term into his brain, all the knowledge he had mastered or not, as long as it was stored in his brain through reading magic, was read over. The mysterious knowledge was automatically connected, and all the relevant information was actively searched.

The wizard's erudition took effect at this moment. When Sean saw the scene in front of him, he had already guessed what had happened here.

"The Chosen Ones of the Old Ones!..."

If it is not the coming of the Old Ones or the heirs of the Old Ones, then there is only one possibility. Someone here has fallen and become the chosen one of the Old Ones, which is why this chronic corruption has occurred and eventually distorted the cognition of everyone in the entire city.

Strictly speaking, more than 100,000 people have died in this city!

The reason they are still alive is that the old laws have distorted everything here. Once the old laws are stripped away and dispersed, at least 100,000 people will die from disease and plague. Being contaminated by the breath of the old days will give mortals a strong vitality, and even promote them to become twisted extraordinary people.

“Why did things develop to this point?”

Xiao En's figure shuttled through the streets and alleys. From time to time, he would hear violent coughs coming from residential buildings. The buildings around the city had a very obvious Gothic style, because one of the pioneers here was a soul from another world. He started the inheritance of the demon hunters and built the headquarters of the Crow's Nest here. Although the demon hunters and the night watchers did not belong to the same system, the headquarters of the Death Path was in the neighboring Kingdom of Dorne. Normally, the infiltration of the old family was so deep that the demigods of the Death Path could not have been unaware of it.

"Unless, it is said that the guardian family of Dagon has been corrupted!"

"even."

"A certain demigod of the Path of Death has also been corrupted."

Based on Sean's understanding of the Night Watch system, the Death Patrolmen would travel to the surrounding areas regularly. Unless there was a big problem at the top, it would be impossible to keep it secret.

The best case scenario now is that only the Guardian family has been corrupted by the Old Ones.

The worst case scenario is that there is a demigod behind all this.

Everything that happened in the Ring City has completely disrupted Sean's plan to steal Dagon. Now he can only improvise and take advantage of the situation. He needs to investigate whether there is a problem with the Guardian family or a problem with a demigod on the Path of Death.

In front of a towering Gothic church building, Sean's figure gently landed on the top of the spire.

He stared at the dark buildings in the distance, where the Demon Hunters' headquarters, 'Crow's Nest', were located. They were a legacy from an alien world, said to be a world with two moons. The Demon Hunters' legacy would turn the extraordinary relics of monsters into a magical potion, and complete the promotion ceremony by taking the potion. However, this potion transformation is difficult to apply to other extraordinary ways, because the Demon Hunters themselves are also polluted, and they will lose their ability to reproduce.

Almost all known demon hunters have no offspring. In comparison, other extraordinary people can still give birth to some offspring.

"Are all demon hunters extinct?"

Xiao En's brows were furrowed. He had not found any trace of demon hunters since he came to the Dagon area. The demon hunters were practicing dual cultivation with demons. Compared with other alien worlds, they were equivalent to their magic swordsmen. They would first directly use one of the extraordinary relics to gain the enhanced ability of the flesh and blood side, and then mix another extraordinary relic into a magic potion to take, so as to obtain the most primitive magic power and master the low-level spellcasting ability. However, they must rely on runes, sigils, and emblems to complete the spellcasting.

Xiao En's figure floated to the ground, and when he walked out of the alley, he had turned into a young man dressed in black and wearing a cloak and hood.

——Detective Magic Eye!
Tiny constructed magic eyes flew out one after another. The strength of the Crow's Nest was far inferior to that of the Night's Watch headquarters. The Dagon region was mainly based on the inheritance of warlocks. Most of the Guardian families were of warlock bloodline. In order to maintain the power of their bloodline, they had been marrying close relatives, which eventually led to the extinction of the bloodlines of several Guardian families.

There is basically no need to investigate the dirty laundry of those warlock families; you can find it by just flipping through some historical data. There is a reason why mages look down on warlocks.

The guardian family of the Ring City was inherited from Imogen Waghorn, and later changed its name to the Horn family. They had declined hundreds of years ago, but because of the emergence of a genius among their many descendants, they rose again. Most of the guardian families of Dagon have blood curses on them. As a result of inbreeding, they have desecrated and polluted the source of their own blood. There is also an advantage to the extraordinary people born in this way, that is, they digest the extraordinary essence from birth, and have very powerful strength before adulthood, and because the digestion time span is very long, they can suppress the pollution from the source.

The current leader of the Horn family is almost a hundred years old, and there seems to be something wrong with their bloodline again, with very few surviving offspring.

This is an endless loop.

Every one or two hundred years, the Guardian family would have difficulty passing on their offspring, but if they intermarried with outsiders, they would not be able to maintain the power of the warlock bloodline. If the bloodline became further diluted, the chance of a powerful warlock being born would be even smaller, and the family would eventually slowly decline.

Unless one of their descendants can prove himself as a sorcerer of destiny through his own strength.

Among the known guardian families, there seem to be some unique laws of destiny that can be passed down to future generations, and their family magic items will recognize their owners, so if you are not of their bloodline, you cannot use the magic items.

The reconnaissance magic eye monitored the surrounding three kilometers. The entire crow's nest was dead silent, as if it were an enormous tomb, emitting a faint smell of decay.

dead!
And many people died!
——Spell sequencing.

——Accidental Technique (Trigger Technique).

Rays of inspiration flashed across Sean's body, and he loaded several spells into the spell sequencer. After activating the rune sequencer, he could cast all the spells in it at once.

The situation in the Crow's Nest was worse than Sean had expected. It was almost turning into a corrupted demon's nest.

"Activate the mental force field!"

"Activate the telepathic network! Detect all magical fluctuations within the range!"

——Advanced invisibility.

Xiao En's figure seemed like a phantom, sneaking into the headquarters of Crow's Nest quietly. The trigger alarm devices on the periphery had all failed. There were dried black bloodstains on the ground. There was a black shadow wandering in the corner. It was not a living person, but a swollen, stitched-up corpse.

Through its half-rotten face, Sean could vaguely see the shadow of a demon hunter.

"Necromancer!"

The entire lobby area of ​​the Crow's Nest had been transformed into a filthy, decaying cesspool, filled with wriggling maggots and flying flies laying eggs that had grown to a size of nearly five centimeters under some evil aura.

"Cuck!"

A strange and hoarse voice sounded, and Sean saw a dead raven with only half of its head left. This was the demon hunter's messenger, a strange and extraordinary creature. They gathered on the lush trees in the courtyard, and under the trees there was a pile of rotten flesh several meters high, among which there was a tumor like a meat cocoon that was slowly beating.

"Which old power is this?"

"Lord of Corruption?" "Pot of Greed?"

"Or is it some other old time hidden in other dimensions that I don't know about?"

obviously.

The Old One that corrupted the entire city did not come from the material plane. It was most likely from other planes, such as the shadow plane, the spirit plane, or even the legendary negative energy plane.

The city is shrouded in negative emotions such as death, corruption, gluttony, sloth, greed, etc. It does not look like there is only one Old One power.

It's impossible for someone to be chosen by the three gods, right?

There are no living people in the entire Crow's Nest. Someone has seized the Demon Hunter's inheritance. This seems almost impossible to Xiao En. After all, it is the headquarters of an extraordinary inheritance. There will be at least one or two legendary masters in charge. But they all died silently.

"Who?!"

Just as Sean was sneaking into the underground area, suddenly a reconnaissance magic eye broke the mental link. It was difficult for those transformed undead creatures to find the reconnaissance magic eye. In the last scene, a hidden arrow directly shot through the reconnaissance magic eye.

There are still people alive! ?
Xiao En's figure flew out, and the moment he came out, he saw an agile black shadow. The other party jumped down from a height of three floors and flew to the side roof of the Gothic church with incredible agility. The height of more than ten meters only took him a breath. When he caught up, the other party had already glided across the roof and disappeared into the building complex hundreds of meters away.

He is a master!

It is almost certain that they are extraordinary people from the demon hunter path, and there should be survivors here.

"Lock the target."

Xiao En locked onto the target's mental fluctuations, and as his figure floated into the air, he quickly chased after the other party's escape location.

The target fled the city without looking back, shot out a grappling hook when approaching the city wall, and in a flash climbed over the more than ten-meter-high wall, and then escaped into a dark jungle.

More than ten minutes later.

A tall and slender figure walked out from the shadows. He took off his hood, looked at his companions and said, "Infiltration failed."

"The headquarters didn't know when the evil eye appeared."

"I've been discovered."

"There is no time to go underground and retrieve the seal. The Horn family may have found help again. Everyone, evacuate immediately."

This seems to be a misunderstanding.

After hearing the words of the demon hunter instructor, the three men and two women present all looked nervous and instantly extinguished the bonfire. Their strength was not very strong, between level one and level two, and they were most likely new recruits in training for demon hunters. Demon hunters were different from night watchmen. They had their own training camps, which inherited the training methods of the souls of the other world. Graduates were basically above the extraordinary level five. A qualified demon hunter needed to be proficient in all military weapons and master at least five rune spells.

Just as they were about to evacuate, a deep male voice suddenly sounded, "What on earth happened here?"

Who?
The demon hunters present turned around in extreme alert, and some even raised their hidden arrows, which were coated with poison.

——Human immobilization technique!

Sean's figure slowly appeared, he gently raised a finger, and a young demon hunter was instantly frozen in place.

The demon hunter instructor looked extremely solemn. He put his palm on the hilt of the sword. There were two pistols on his side, but he obviously believed more in his swordsmanship. He said in a deep voice, "Who are you, sir?"

Xiao En glanced at him and said calmly, "Death Patrolman."

When you go out, your identity is given by yourself.

Death patroller?
Hearing Xiao En's words, the demon hunter instructor's expression became more alert. He asked in a deep voice: "What's the evidence?"

Xiao En frowned when he heard this, thought for a moment, and said calmly, "Do you know this?"

An emblem engraved with stars and wheat ears emerged.

The demon hunter instructor's pupils shrank instantly. He seemed to recognize this emblem. He lowered his head in shock and asked, "Are you the chief's disciple?"

Xiao En did not comment.

He said in a deep voice: "What happened here? Why didn't you ask for help from other nearby Taoist traditions?"

People are almost dying, and they don’t even know how to ask for help?
The demon hunter smiled miserably when he heard this, and whispered, "All the messengers seeking help have disappeared."

Ok?
Hearing the other party's words, Xiao En's expression was extremely solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "All disappeared?"

"Yes." The demon hunter instructor bowed his head and said, "Including my mentor."

"There is no news at all."

Only a few small fry remained in the entire Demon Hunter inheritance, and the middle and high-level leaders were almost wiped out.

Xiao En was silent for a moment and said, "The Horne family has been corrupted?"

The demon hunter instructor nodded and said, "Yes. By the time we found out, it was already too late. They launched an attack on the Crow's Nest."

Xiao En took a deep breath and said slowly: "The demigod with the path of death has also been corrupted?"

"Or will you just sit back and do nothing?"

After spending so much time with Amon, Sean has developed very low moral standards towards other demigods of death, because many of them have lost their humanity.

Without the Demigod of Death manipulating the situation behind the scenes, he would never believe that the news would be blocked so strictly.

A large city with a population of nearly one million.

If we assume the utmost malice to be the mastermind behind this, what can these millions of people do?
The entire ring city is shrouded in a strange ritual power.

For the existence of the Path of Death, this city is already a rich resource, and Xiao En also feels a hint of "plague". The whole city is shrouded in a fetid cesspool. If there is a little plague of the Undead, it would be like a powder keg exploding!

The water here is too deep.

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(End of this chapter)