Chronicles of Ryan the Wizard

The royal tomb on the outskirts of the imperial capital.

It was only ten hours before the riots ended last night, and Orlando rushed here immediately after calming the people.On the day of the wedding of Fernando XIII and Catherine three years ago, a frost bone dragon suddenly appeared and attacked the entire wedding ceremony. While the people in the Imperial Capital were fighting against this evil monster, a mysterious team attacked. After the royal tomb, all the guards guarding the royal tomb were killed in battle, and the bodies of more than 10,000 holy knights were stolen.

At that time, Orlando rushed over after hearing the news here, but unfortunately he tried his best, but still did not find out the mastermind behind this incident. He has always wondered that the dead holy knights did not have any funerals at all. Most of them are just a shroud. Why would anyone be interested in these cold corpses?

However, what happened last night seemed to remind Orlando of something. He arrived here as soon as possible after calming down the riots in the imperial capital, and stood in front of a filled tomb for 3 hours.

The atmosphere in the air was very solid, which made the holy knights who followed Orlando felt very depressed. Although they were strange to their leader's behavior, no one dared to speak, even to wink in private.This is the holy land of the Royal Knights. Since Fernando I founded this powerful organization, those powerful holy knights will be buried here after death. After 200 years, there are more than 10,000 holy knights sleeping here.

Since the holy knight does not pursue the enjoyment of the world, there is no decoration even after death. It is nothing more than a tomb, a shroud, and a small stone tablet on the tomb.It's just that after the bizarre corpse theft incident 3 years ago, most of the tombs here were dug up, so that the stone tablets were also in a mess. Later, Orlando sent someone to rearrange it, which cost a lot of money. After his strength, the stone tablets and tombs were rebuilt, but the empty tombs could only be filled with mud.

The tomb where Orlando stands is no different from other tombs. If you have to tell a little difference, there is almost no weeds on this tomb. It seems that people often come to this tomb to mourn the dead.After standing for 3 hours, Orlando suddenly squatted down. He stretched out his hands and rubbed a few vigorously on the stone stele covered with a layer of soil, revealing the words carved on the stele: Barcelona-Sandra .

Seeing this familiar name, Orlando once again fell into deep memories.

The 17-year-old Orlando and his companions stood excitedly on the training ground of the barracks. They had just passed the basic training of knights. Then there will be formal holy knights to conduct one-on-one intensive training for them. If they can do it within 3 years Through this training, they can carry on the inheritance of the gods and become a true holy knight.

"What's your name?" An uncle with a big beard walked in front of Orlando, who had a childish face, and asked him loudly.

"Orlando."

"Oh, then why do you want to be a holy knight?" the holy knight with a beard asked again.

"This is my dream! Dreams don't need a reason, I only have the determination to work hard to accomplish this dream without thinking about why!" Orlando replied loudly.

"Haha, okay, from now on, you will be my student, young Orlando trainee knight." Beard smiled and said, "Well, let me introduce myself first. I'm the third squadron of the first squadron of the Royal Knights. A member of Team Seven, my name is Barcelona, ​​Barcelona Sandra."

"Huh, are you a nobleman?" Orlando asked curiously.

"Hmph, are you here for a blind date or to study? Why are you asking so much?" Barca said with an unhappy face.

"Idiot, what are you doing with your feet raised so high, I just swipe it lightly and you fall!"

"Hold hard, have you eaten today? Shield slam is one of the most deadly kills in close combat, and are you doing this to cool me off?"

Barcelona on the training ground is very cold, and will only reprimand Orlando for the wrong things, and the firm Orlando never defends. After being pointed out his shortcomings, he will use more practice to correct and improve.

"Very well, Orlando, you have completed all your training ahead of schedule, and you will return to the San Nebiro Cathedral tomorrow for the ceremony of the inheritance of the gods. I hope you can be blessed by a certain god so that you can become like me. The real holy knight."

Seeing the excitement on Orlando’s face, Barcelona decided to pour some cold water on him. He coughed and said, "Well, don’t get excited. In fact, fewer than 500 trainee knights can pass this training, and those who receive the blessing Fortunately, there are less than 100 people per year. I hope you are lucky, and a certain god is in a good mood and sees you again."

"What! This is impossible. Orlando, you, you actually received the personal blessing of the God of War?" Barcelona's face was full of incredible shock. He is just an extremely ordinary holy knight, and both martial arts and belief belong to the Knights. At the worst level, some people even say that Barcelona was able to enter the Royal Knights purely because a certain god servant suddenly showed kindness and happened to run into this guy.

Seeing Orlando repeating today’s scene with affirmative tone, Barcelona’s face suddenly burst into joy: "Ah, this is true? I actually taught a future Royal Knight Commander? Uh, I I thought you could be favored by a god servant."

"Well, well, Orlando, your strength is far beyond me, I have nothing to point you. But I have a word to remind you. Even as the head of the Royal Knights, you still don’t You can relax your martial arts training, this is the foundation of all your glory."

Barcelona stood in front of Orlando, facing Orlando wearing a gleaming gold armor and said: "Even if you are rich in commanding art, even if your faith in the gods exceeds the piety of everyone, but if you are yourself If martial arts are not good, no one will really convince you. You must know that the Royal Knights have never failed. If you take them to win, others will say that it is the prestige of the Royal Knights. And your piety, who can prove More than others? Only martial arts is your best way to convince others."

"Yes, your strength has improved a lot compared to before. It seems that even if you are the leader, you haven't left the practice of yourself." The holy knight Barcelona, ​​who was teaching in front of Orlando, suddenly became that of last night. A mysterious warrior wearing a black rune armor, and at this moment, several heralds galloped in from a distance, shouting loudly: "Orlando General, something is not good, a large-scale plague has erupted in the imperial capital!"

"What the hell is going on!" Orlando was shocked. Once the plague broke out in a densely populated city like the Imperial Capital, it would be extremely terrifying. If the spread of the plague could not be controlled, it would not be impossible for millions of people to die.

"It was yesterday..." The leading herald jumped off his horse. He didn't care to breathe and said hurriedly: "It's the black soldiers yesterday..."

A few hours ago, when the sun rises and a new day arrives, those grief citizens who have lost their loved ones are dealing with their funerals with the help of the imperial capital army. According to the customs of the imperial capital, the corpses of these dead relatives will be laid. It was put for a few days for their relatives to mourn, and then they were transported to the cemetery for burial.

Because too many innocent citizens died in the killing last night, the place to put the bodies was also stretched, and as a result, they had to occupy a large area of ​​the street.If this is definitely not allowed in normal times, but at this special time, no one will raise objections.

A sad husband is suffering in front of his wife’s body, and their child, a cute little girl who is less than three years old, does not understand what happened to her mother. She shook her mother vigorously, hoping that she would not be there. She sleeps, but gets up to play with herself, but no matter how hard she tries, her mother doesn't move.

Such scenes can be said to be all over the streets. In the killings and riots last night, there were also 20,000 or 30,000 citizens who lost their lives. In a sense, this affected almost 20,000 or 30,000 families. The capital was founded 200 years ago. The people here are multiplying and thriving. These 20, 30,000 households will at least affect more than 400,000 to 500,000 citizens. About one-fifth of the members of a city are in great grief at the same time. Isn’t it the biggest tragedy?

While countless citizens were crying and mourning the loss of their loved ones, the 3-year-old girl found that her mother had moved. She thought it was the result of her own efforts, so she threw herself into the arms of her mother. , Hoping to get her mother's caress, but she soon discovered that her mother was not moving, but her body was slowly swelling.

"Huh?" The innocent little girl looked at her mother with curious eyes, and watched her body slowly bulge up, and there seemed to be something squirming under her skin. She looked very deeply in her heart. Scared, but just as she was about to tell her father, the body of the little girl's mother suddenly exploded.

At least more than 200 corpses were exploded at the same time, and they spread throughout most of the capital city. The explosion produced by such corpses did not directly kill people like fireball, and all humans within its explosion range were contaminated. Full of the flesh and blood of corpses, this scene was even more terrifying than the slaughter of warriors in black rune armor last night. Numerous citizens whose heads, faces and bodies were contaminated with the flesh and blood of the corpses screamed and ran out.

The little girl’s body was even more soaked in blood because it was closest to her mother’s corpse. She looked at her father in horror, and found that the muscles on his face were constantly falling, revealing half of the skull face. , This was corroded by the flesh and blood that splashed up after the corpse erupted. The little girl was frightened and cried, but she didn't know that her own face and body were corroded faster, and under her skin, there were still countless unknowns. The famous thing squirmed quickly, but within a dozen seconds, the little girl's body revealed a large amount of bones, but she still kept crying, still making a naive and simple cry.

Soon, the little girl's body exploded. Not only her, but the citizens who were enveloped by the first wave of body explosions, many of them exploded after most of their bodies were corroded.These two waves of corpse explosions will radiate the flesh and blood that can corrode the human body from the first wave of corpse explosions and spread farther away, thus infecting more citizens.

The flesh and blood of the corpse after the explosion is full of infectious power more powerful than the plague. Any living creatures that are contaminated with these red and white flesh and blood will begin to rot in a very short time, first the skin, then the muscles, until the whole body is only There was a meal of bones left. This scene was far more frightening than the killing last night. Countless people ran away screaming, hoping to continue to live, but among these people were mixed with many citizens who were already contaminated with corrosive flesh and blood. , They took this terrible plague-like thing farther away, so more people fell into the envelope of this plague.