In the darkness, there was a flash of fluorescent light. Suddenly, a group of small creatures rushed out of the darkness. This was a plaza in the middle of the street. The group of dwarves had rushed out of a few damaged buildings. Just as they reached the middle of the street, red, green, and blue lights suddenly lit up in the darkness. The red light was a fist-sized fireball with average power. However, there were many of them, and they were densely packed together like a torrential downpour. The green ones were a few spears of light, aimed at the chests of the strongest dwarves. The blue lights were two electric whips, one on the left and one on the right, not letting a single dwarf go.
The fireballs fell first, exploding the dwarves and causing them to scream. The fire also illuminated these creatures that lived deep underground. Their eyes had degenerated, and they were as small as mung beans. They were more decorative than practical. Their limbs were short, their skin wrinkled like newborn babies, and they used primitive weapons. Short knives, wooden shields, catapults, and blow darts didn't seem very threatening, but in the hands of these agile creatures, they could often cause a lot of damage to adventurers. But now, before the dwarves could show off their advantages, they were blown out of formation by the rain of fire. A few of the strongest dwarf warriors had their chests pierced by spears of light, and the rest were whipped by two electric whips to the left and right, their bodies as black as charcoal.
When these dwarves were all dead, the fire lit up, and then a group of people arrived. At the front was a middle-aged swordsman, and behind him were seven or eight warriors armed with swords and spears. Their clothes all had the symbol of Gray Storm. The middle-aged swordsman made a gesture, and two men went to the dwarves' corpses and cut off their ears as trophies.
"Captain Luo Wei, we've cleaned up this street this time. When we get back, we'll definitely get a good reward from Sir Aligo," a warrior carrying a spear said with a smile.
The unsmiling middle-aged swordsman nodded and said, "If there are no accidents, the reward this time is enough for our Gray Storm Mercenary Group to expand."
"Maybe we can annex one or two small mercenary groups. That would be more beneficial to our development," a bearded man with two axes suggested.
"We'll talk about it when we get back."
Two hours later they returned from the darkness of the dungeon to the light of the camp. This was the eleventh floor of the Blood King's Cemetery. More than a year ago, the empire opened the right to explore the eleventh floor to all adventurers and established a frontline camp as a resting place for adventurers. The Fiery Lion General Aligo, who was stationed in the graveyard, marked the price of the creatures in the graveyard on the eleventh floor. As long as the adventurers brought back proof of their achievements, they would be rewarded accordingly. Over the past year, Alig had been very trustworthy in this regard. Hence, more mercenary groups and adventurers entered the graveyard. Under the exploration of a large number of people, this level of the graveyard was almost completely swept clean. A mercenary group like Gray Storm was only a mid-to-low-level group in this layer of the graveyard. However, being able to sweep through an entire street was enough for them to exchange for the expenses needed to expand their mercenary group.
After returning to Gray Storm's tent, Luo Wei had just finished organizing his proof of contribution when he heard the sound of a horn calling for everyone to assemble. He frowned. It wasn't often that the various mercenary groups and adventurers were asked to gather like this. The last time they found a powerful monster in the graveyard, they needed to gather a large number of people to fight together. That was half a year ago. In this year, there had been no more than three times when everyone had gathered like this.
"What's going on?" The vice-captain's face was full of worry. "Did another scary guy appear?"
Luo Wei's heart was also heavy. The last time a large number of mercenaries and adventurers had gathered to fight against that monster, each group had suffered varying degrees of losses. At that time, Gray Storm had also sacrificed a small portion of its members. After half a year of recruitment, it had barely recovered its strength. He hadn't expected to receive such a call again after only half a year.
"Let's go take a look."
Luo Wei took his longsword and left the tent with the vice-captain. In the square of the camp, a row of Fiery Lion soldiers separated the square. Only the captain and the vice-captain had the right to enter the square. After Luo Wei showed his identification, he walked into the square with the vice-captain. A high platform was set up in the square. After all the captains had arrived, the horn changed again. After the passionate horn sounded three times, someone walked up to the platform.
"Lord Aligo?" Luo Wei said softly, "It seems there's something important to announce."
Last time, the assembly call was only made by the Fiery Lion's vice-captain, Andy. Now that Aligo had walked up to the platform himself, it was obvious that something was wrong. As a result, the atmosphere in the square became even more solemn.
Aligo glanced at the crowd below the platform and said in a deep voice, "It's been more than a year since this level of the graveyard opened. During this time, due to everyone's outstanding performance, the eleventh level of the square is about to be swept clean. Originally, at this time, I should have waited for the graveyard to be completely swept clean before I took out more things to reward everyone. But now, I can't do that. Everyone, the empire is in danger, and we need everyone's strength. "
Luo Wei and the vice-captain looked at each other. In fact, before this, he had already heard about the reason for the invaders in the empire. Many mercenary groups had withdrawn from the Blood King's Graveyard in the past month or two and turned to other battlefields. However, Aligo hadn't mentioned the invaders, so the mercenaries and adventurers didn't pay much attention to it. But now, Aligo needed to gather the leaders of all the groups to announce this matter. It seemed that the empire was in a desperate situation.
Aligo coughed dryly and said, "Everyone, don't misunderstand. The empire's crisis this time is not from the eastern invaders. Although the invaders from the Coiling Dragon Empire are powerful, they are not enough to make the empire helpless. This crisis is caused by something else. Until now, we have not found a solution. However, in view of the current situation and the possibility of an even greater disaster, we have gathered everyone here. "
"Just a week ago, a rain of blood suddenly fell from the sky within the empire. The terrifying thing was that the people who were drenched by the rain of blood fell ill with a fever the next day. This was completely different from ordinary high temperature fever. All the doctors in the country were unable to solve this disease. However, on the third day, all the sick people mutated. They became monsters. Gentlemen, the number of people who suffered from fever reached about 40% of the empire's population. In other words, we suddenly lost nearly 40% of our population, and millions of monsters appeared! "
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