Chapter 346 : Evil God Vessel
Chapter 346: Evil God Vessel
It was clearly still early morning, yet the skies above Turin City were completely shrouded in thick darkness, rendering everything invisible.
“Damn it, it’s Dimsun!”
Staring at the vanished sun in the sky, Harry’s eyes were instantly filled with terror.
“Captain, Nina is about to collapse!”
Hearing Flais’s words from the side, Harry forced himself to calm down.
“What happened to Nina?”
“She was bitten by a bat just now and has been running a high fever ever since.”
“Let me take a look.”
As he spoke, Harry pulled open the clothing on Nina’s shoulder and looked at the festering, pus-filled wound.
“She must’ve been poisoned by the blood of a Vampire Bat, which then infected her with a plague—”
“Captain, look at her neck!”
Even though she had spent many years out doing missions, Nina, who had a trace of elven blood, still had extremely fair skin.
At this moment, on the back of Nina’s pale neck, a layer of grey-black fuzz resembling bat fur rapidly sprouted. In no time, the fuzz had already extended from the back of her neck to her chest.
“That’s Darksun Contamination! Get the Purification Potion out, quick!”
Upon hearing this, Flais immediately took out two test tubes filled with platinum-colored liquid from his coat and handed them to Harry.
Receiving the Purification Potion, Harry swiftly poured one tube of the potion onto the wound on Nina’s shoulder,
and carefully poured the other down her throat.
“Phew, she’s saved.”
Seeing the grey-black fuzz gradually recede from Nina’s body, Flais couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, looking at the flush on Nina’s face from the high fever, Flais still frowned slightly with concern.
“The Purification Potion only works on contamination. To actually cure the plague, we’ll need a wizard to treat her.”
Hearing Harry’s words, Flais nodded solemnly, then took the unconscious Nina from Harry’s hands and retrieved a medical kit they had found in the tavern room, carefully dressing the wound of his half-sister.
Meanwhile, above Turin City—
Aside from the injured Anthony-Rook and Professor Uta who stayed behind at White Coral Academy, almost all the academy's wizards, including Grace Eva, Mary Margaret, and Lilith Mage, had already rushed to Turin City, hovering mid-air.
And not just from White Coral Academy—from Blackbone Grove, Lucia Heigel, and the Bone Sage Gushan-Rav,
along with the twin wizards Elder White Crow and Elder Black Crow from Mist Tower, seven official wizards in total were currently gathered in Turin City, working together to cast a sealing spell, aiming to halt the spread of the contamination.
“Those damn pests from the Darksun Church, they really went to such lengths just to destroy Turin!”
Though cursing viciously, Lucia Heigel never stopped her hand movements, constantly casting the Law of Gravity to condense heavy water chains that sealed off the continually fracturing Shadow Rifts.
“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Unlike the nagging Lucia Heigel beside her, Grace Eva was like a phantom weaving through the city, using her natural advantage from the Blood Law, which had innate resistance against Vampire Bats, to detonate blood and harvest the lives of the bat swarms en masse.
“Elder Black Crow, have you two still not found that pregnant human woman?”
After finally sealing one Shadow Rift, Lucia Heigel asked loudly, a hint of impatience in her tone, as she turned toward Elder Black Crow, who wore a black cloak and a raven-shaped mask.
“The Swarm tells me—she is not here.”
Elder Black Crow, who was directing his swarm of insects in a carpet-search for Elena, still had no trace of her even after searching for a long time.
“What about underground?”
“There’s nothing underground either.”
This time, the response came from Elder Hundred Crows, who stood beside Elder Black Crow.
“This Ritual of Divine Descension orchestrated by the Darksun Church had been planned and laid out since a year ago. That human pregnant woman’s presence has long been hidden by the sun—they would never let us find her so easily.”
The one speaking was the Bone Sage Gushan-Rav, who was jointly casting the sealing barrier with the other official wizards. And this sentiment was the most immediate perception shared by every wizard present.
“For a Ritual of Divine Descension to succeed, it not only requires a suitable vessel but also a large number of living souls for sacrifice. Now that we’ve evacuated everyone to the academy, the ritual can’t possibly succeed———”
“But what if what descends is just a Darksun Apostle? Apostles don’t need that many to die.”
Even after Gushan-Rav’s words, Lucia Heigel still instinctively retorted.
Indeed, the descent of an Evil God requires countless living souls as ritual fuel to succeed, but if it was merely the descent of a Darksun Apostle, only a suitable vessel and a small amount of blood and souls would suffice.
Just like a year ago—when a Darksun Apostle first descended upon the wizard gathering in Turin, they only needed to blood-sacrifice a few unlucky wizard apprentices from Blackbone Grove, using one of them as the vessel to complete the ritual.
However, because the ritual was discovered midway by the Bone Sage Gushan-Rav, it was forcibly interrupted.
Though the Darksun Apostle still managed to descend, its power was only a fraction of what it should have been.
Because of this, Anthony-Rook and Lucia Heigel were able to eliminate the Darksun Apostle relatively easily in the end.
Having considered this possibility, the wizards all exchanged glances before locking their eyes onto the few remaining outsider mercenary groups in Turin City.
“Roar——” With a thunderous howl that tore through the skies, a massive surge of contamination burst forth like magma from a volcano, erupting from within a tavern.
“There it is!”
Grace Eva, being closest to the target location, rushed to the tavern the moment she heard the roar.
However, when she saw the deer emblem on the tavern door, Grace Eva’s eyes revealed a trace of suspicion.
“It’s the same tavern from last night—could it be that the pregnant human woman Janna mentioned had been hiding in this tavern all along?”
The Antler Alley Tavern was the very place Janna had brought Grace Eva to investigate yesterday.
Yet, from yesterday’s investigation, aside from a corpse that had already had its soul drained, there wasn’t a single living being inside.
“Help me! Please, Honored Wizard!”
Before Grace Eva could think further, a heart-wrenching cry for help came from within the tavern.
Seeing this, Grace Eva instantly activated the Blood Law’s blood explosion ability to wipe out all the surrounding bats.
Then, along with the other already-arrived wizards, she flew straight into the tavern.
“Grace, is that the pregnant human woman you were talking about?”