Chapter 157 7 Attack From the Undead

Chapter 157 -7- Attack from the Undead

After leaving the Moon Protector Principality, Charlotte speeded up her journey.

Castel's convoy did not stop in the two counties, but went all the way north. After traveling for about ten days, it finally entered the north of the Crescent Kingdom and came to the territory of the Earl of Castel. The neighboring Principality of Violet.

As they entered the Violet Principality, the surrounding landscape changed obviously. Large areas of plains disappeared and were replaced by rolling hills and continuous forests.

Under the clear blue sky, the river like a silver ribbon flows quietly through the hills and low mountains, sparkling in the sun and reflecting the white clouds.

From time to time, you can see free deer and hares jumping out of the forest, drinking water and playing by the stream. Large groups of wild flowers are dotted among the bushes, attracting colorful butterflies to fly.

It was hard for Charlotte not to be attracted by this oil painting-like scenery, and similar beautiful scenery could be seen everywhere in the Violet Principality.

However, compared with this paradise-like beauty, the number of villages and towns here has obviously become sparse, even enough to be called sparsely populated.

Sometimes, while walking, you can still see some traces of the battlefield that have been around for many years.

A dilapidated and damaged chariot covered with mushrooms and moss, vaguely identifiable corpses, as well as rusty armor or fragments of weapons...

"The Violet Principality was once one of the main battlefields of the Star-Moon War. These battle traces are all left behind by the Second Star-Moon War more than ten years ago."

Seeing Charlotte's curious eyes, Sebastian introduced.

Charlotte nodded slightly.

She also read records about the Star-Moon War when she was in Boulder. The war that lasted for decades almost reduced the population of the entire northern Crescent Kingdom by half, especially the Violet Principality, which was the main battlefield.

Only the Earl of Castells escaped under the heavy protection of the kingdom.

At this time, the importance of mithril mine becomes apparent. In order to prevent such an extremely important battle, mithril mine,

The strategic supplies fell into the hands of the Fallen Star Kingdom. The Crescent Royal Family spent a lot of money at the beginning and stationed a legion directly on the border of the Fallen Star Kingdom's enclave on the mainland, the Roman Principality and Castel.

After decades of war, the entire north was almost destroyed, but the Earldom of Castells further north became more prosperous, more or less for this reason.

There is no war, and it has accepted a large number of refugees from the north of the kingdom. At the same time, it is located on the transportation artery and main trade route of many forces, and it has its own mines. Under this natural selection model, Castel will be in trouble if it cannot develop.

In contrast, the Violet Principality, which is the main battlefield, is much more bleak and unlucky.

The rare and beautiful scenery is charming, but it also represents poverty and backwardness.

War is never grand and bloody, but cruel and full of tragedy.

Along the way, Charlotte could even see the ruins of some villages, including many withered bones, which were obviously lost during the war.

What surprised Charlotte was that although the wilderness of the Violet Principality was full of dead bones, she could hardly feel the breath of the undead.

You know, battlefield ruins are often also the birthplace of the undead.

It is difficult for the priests to make holy prayers for so many dead in time to help their wandering souls return to the Kingdom of God, so there will always be remnant souls wandering on the battlefield.

But along the way, Charlotte didn't see even one undead soul.

Even at night, the most you can hear is the roar of monsters.

"Undead? Maybe they were all hunted down by mercenaries? The Violet Principality has a vast forest area, which can be called a paradise for warcraft. There are many mercenaries active here, and of course there are also many robbers."

Sebastian guessed.

Warcraft is feared by ordinary people, but in the eyes of extraordinary people, it is walking wealth.

The vast violet forest is not only a paradise for warcraft, but also a paradise for mercenaries.

The Principality of Violet, the Black Land of Eastern Unite, the Snake Ridge Mountains...

These three places are where Miria's free mercenaries are most active.

However, Charlotte was not too satisfied with Sebastian's answer.

As a vampire who has mastered necromancy magic, Charlotte is quite familiar with the undead.

The undead are special spirits that are good at hiding and retain more or less wisdom from their lifetimes. Not everyone can defeat this kind of existence, and even mercenaries cannot handle it so cleanly.

Not only that, after entering the Violet Principality, Charlotte clearly felt that the concentration of magic in the air here was higher than in other places.

Violet has many magical beasts, which is probably closely related to this high-magic environment.

In this environment, the undead are indeed more likely to be born.

In particular, Violet's magic power is obviously a bit chaotic, and this environment is more conducive to the undead.

Charlotte didn't think mercenaries could easily hunt down the wandering undead so cleanly.

Unless... a church force like the Holy Royal Court takes action and will regularly "purify" the entire Violet from beginning to end.

But Charlotte didn't think that the Holy Royal Court would be so idle.

However, despite her doubts, Charlotte just buried it in her heart.

She was just passing through Violet.

Although it was strange, although she was a little curious, she didn't want to stay specifically to study and investigate.

Due to the terrain of many low mountains and hills, the roads in the Violet Principality are not particularly easy to travel, but Castel's convoy is not slow.

It's not that the speed has been accelerated, but there are too few gathering points in Violet, and there are also few noble castles and cities.

There are few places to stay, and Charlotte ordered to hurry up, so the convoy naturally moved faster.

Obviously different from the Moon Guardian Principality and the Polder Principality, the settlements in Violet, even those small villages, often have tall wooden walls.

As for the towns built around the castle, they have solid stone walls and look like fortresses.

Charlotte knows that this is another result of the decades-long Star-Moon War.

For the people of Violet, only the tall walls can give them enough sense of security.

Charlotte can clearly feel the scars left by the Star-Moon War on this principality.

Many of the towns and villages she passed by along the way were deeply wary of Castel's convoy, and they kept their gates or city gates closed tightly. Only when the convoy revealed its identity and gained enough trust would they be allowed to rest carefully.

Of course, after knowing the identity of the convoy, the villagers became extremely enthusiastic. For the desolate Violet, Castel in the north was a rich place that people yearned for.

The Violet Principality was indeed much poorer.

This could be felt from the banquets invited by the nobles here. The overall feeling was even worse than that of the nobles of the same level in Bolde. Whether it was the decoration of the castle or the food at the banquet, it seemed a bit poor.

But in contrast, Charlotte noticed that the military strength of the Violet people was much stronger than that of Bolde or even the Moon Guard Principality.

In the nobles' castles, the proportion of extraordinary people was very high, and even a baron had followers of the entry level.

In the village, the militia guarding the village were almost all extraordinary people.

Charlotte guessed that this was inseparable from the magic power of the Violet Principality, which was obviously higher than that of other places.

However, unlike the enthusiastic villagers, although the Violet nobles were extremely enthusiastic when they invited Charlotte, the sensitive Charlotte could sense the alienation under the courtesy when she attended the banquet.

Although she acted very decently on the surface, Charlotte could feel that the nobles of Violet did not welcome her.

However, she did not care. It was just a way. If she was not welcome, she could avoid the tedious communication.

After saying goodbye to another lord, Castel's caravan continued to move forward and entered the north of the Violet Principality.

There are fewer people here and more trees.

To the north of Violet is the Violet Forest that runs across the north of the Crescent Kingdom. After passing through the forest, you will reach Castel Territory.

As for Lint City, the capital of Violet... It is located a little further west of the Principality. Charlotte, who is heading northeast, will not pass by, and naturally will not visit the Duke of Violet there.

The Violet Forest is vast, and it takes several days to cross the entire jungle.

Fortunately, the caravans that had traveled with Castel all along the way arrived at their destinations one after another and parted ways.

Now, there are only a few caravans whose destination is Castel, and the number of people in the entire caravan is less than 700.

With fewer people and caravans, the team can move faster.

But even so, it takes at least three days to cross the Violet Forest. During these three days, the entire caravan needs to spend the night in the forest.

That night, the watery moonlight shines through the dense woods and shines under the forest.

The caravan, which has been traveling for a day, also settled down and set up tents and bonfires around the carriage.

A circle of spices called Avila was scattered around the camp. This spice has the effect of driving away monsters and mosquitoes, which can ensure the safety of the camp.

Of course, just having spices is not safe. There are many monsters in the forest, and there are always some immune guys, so the extraordinary knights have stationed at the edge of the camp, always keeping vigilant.

Ordinary people naturally stayed in the camp, as did the merchants who accompanied them. The forest was very cold at night, so they gathered around the crackling campfire, rubbing their hands to keep warm while listening to the bards playing and singing ancient songs.

From time to time, the howling of unknown monsters could be heard from the depths of the forest, startling bats and flying birds, making the jungle under the night even more mysterious and dangerous, making ordinary people in the camp shiver, and only felt at ease after getting closer to each other.

Charlotte liked the environment here very much.

Night is the home of the vampires, and as a natural magical creature, Charlotte also likes the high-magic environment of the Violet Forest.

She stayed alone in the tent, closed her eyes and meditated, while reviewing the various vampire magic she had learned.

Her body suddenly turned into a ball of black mist, and then turned into countless black bats...

She really understood the mist shadow of the shadow system under the resonance of darkness and the dark night bat of the shapeshifting system under the resonance of wildness.

The next moment, the bat turned into a girl in human form, but there was a pair of huge bat wings behind the girl.

Blood flashed in Charlotte's pupils, and a shadow appeared on her body, quickly covering her in the night.

Charlotte jumped up and flew out of the tent.

No one noticed her action.

Only Sebastian could not help but glance up at the sky. After sensing a familiar breath, he quickly retracted his gaze and continued to lazily hold up the goblet and drink the wine.

Charlotte flapped her bat wings and flew into the sky. She was a little unskilled at first, but soon she flew steadily and released the power of the blood clan to her heart's content.

On weekdays, she had to conceal her identity and be careful wherever she went. She could not expose her power. Only in a deep forest like Violet could she feel the power of the extraordinary without any scruples.

Charlotte, who had mastered more than ten kinds of blood clan magic, was no longer the same as before, even if she did not use the power released by the True Ancestor!

However, just when Charlotte was about to fly to the nearby forest for a stroll, a shrill scream suddenly broke through the night sky.

Charlotte's heart jumped, and she immediately put away her thoughts of playing and landed back on the ground.

Recovering to her normal appearance, Charlotte came to the edge of the camp.

Here, several extraordinary knights were picking up their weapons and preparing to walk into the forest.

"What happened?"

Charlotte asked.

Seeing the girl, several knights bowed respectfully, and then said:

"Lord Earl, it's Darren. He just went to the forest... to relieve himself. I'm afraid he encountered a monster..."

"Monster? Didn't he bring the Avila spice?"

Charlotte frowned and asked.

The knights looked at each other, but no one could answer this question.

The strong smell of blood gradually drifted from the forest, and Charlotte's heart jumped.

"Let's go and see together."

She said solemnly.

As she said, she took the lead in walking into the forest, and the knights hurriedly followed.

When Charlotte entered the dense forest, she soon saw the extraordinary knight Darren lying on the ground.

However, at this moment, this extraordinary knight was already dead.

His death was extremely tragic and horrible. All his armor was torn off, and his body was full of traces of beast-like claws. His chest and abdomen were directly cut open...

And a shadow shrouded in darkness was lying on him, greedily biting his flesh and blood.

"Blood...blood demon?!"

The two extraordinary knights guarding Charlotte widened their eyes and couldn't help but exclaimed.

Charlotte's eyes were slightly fixed.

"No...not the blood demon..."

Looking at the shadow in the dark, she squinted:

"It's the undead."

The clouds that blocked the moonlight dispersed, and the silver moonlight penetrated the branches, illuminating the figure in the dark.

The knights also saw the attacker clearly.

It was indeed not a monster-like blood demon, but a zombie wearing tattered armor and rotting all over.

In its eye sockets, there was a cold green fire.

And at this moment, bursts of roars came from the depths of the woods.

One by one, green "lanterns" lit up in the dense jungle, densely packed, countless...

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