The wilderness.
This place was close to the southern countries, and it was also a gathering place for refugees. Because there was relief from the Tower City nearby, many refugees stayed here.
However, at this moment, this area had become hell on earth. Tens of thousands of corpses were exposed in the wilderness. After the outbreak of the plague, many towns and cities set up fortresses near the road checkpoints to prevent large numbers of refugees from approaching. Those cities that had been ravaged by the plague had a large number of people fleeing, which led to the emergence of more refugees. At present, the southern countries had sealed their borders, and many cities had entered a state of alert to prevent outsiders from entering. However, the spread of the plague was not only limited to the floating population. A large number of corpses led to the emergence of a terrible disease, and the plague was one of the most terrible of them.
Although there was no Black Death in this world, similar diseases still existed.
If the gods were still gods, they would definitely not let this plague spread. However, now that the gods had fallen into the mortal world and become saints, their means of organizing the plague had weakened a lot.
The priests could not stop the spread of the plague at all.
In a large town, there were only a dozen or so priests in total. Even if they used all their divine spells in a day, they wouldn't be able to save many people. Compared to the millions of people infected with the plague in the material plane, the power of the priests was negligible, and the gods did not have enough divine power to support the priests.
As the plague spread, an even worse situation appeared.
Humans were the race with the most population in the material plane, and as the plague spread, especially when famine still existed.
Many human corpses became food for other species. The first to be infected were the goblins. Goblins were active in the wilderness, and they were like cockroaches that could not be killed. Every year, a large number of them would be born, and these creatures could survive as long as there was grass.
The infection of the goblins sped up the spread of the plague.
The gnolls and ogres, who used the goblins as food, were also quickly affected by the plague. Then the plague in the south began to spread in all directions, and soon the elves on the periphery began to be infected.
The second race that was seriously affected was the orcs. With the war in the western wilderness, the plague spread to the orcs. The barbaric civilization was not enough for the orcs to resist the spread of the plague on such a large scale. Soon, the shaman priests could not stop the spread of the plague. The first to die were large numbers of livestock. The strong Beastmen had strong resistance, so they did not fall quickly under the plague. However, after the orcs, who were half farmers and half livestock, were infected by the plague, tens of thousands of livestock died in a single night. In the short span of half a month, the survival of the orcs had been brutally challenged!
Because the cattle and sheep that had died from the plague could no longer be eaten, the Beastmen's food reserves could not support the consumption of the entire tribe.
What was even more serious was that due to the large number of livestock deaths, the orcs would not be able to recover in the next few years. This meant that they would have to plunder from other races in order to satisfy the consumption of their race.
The spread of the plague showed no signs of slowing down, and the halflings in the Xiaer region soon became the targets of the plague. Even with the protection of the halfling gods, this fertile land was not immune. In just a few days, thousands of halflings were infected and died. The Northern Witches had sealed off the entire region. They were monitoring the many towns and rivers, searching for the source of the plague.
The only place in the entire material plane that was less affected was Arendelle.
Perhaps because of the cold climate of the Frost Kingdom, the scale of the outbreak of the plague in Arendelle was the smallest, and the casualties were even less than in the territory of Mordor.
But something worse happened.
The plague began to spread in Søren's army. When the navy of Raging Sand Island was infected, the power of the plague spread so quickly that Søren had to isolate these people and put them on Snake Island.
The gods finally could not sit still.
Both the gods of the good and evil factions temporarily stopped fighting and began to search for the source of the plague.
The battle between the surface elves and the drows also temporarily stopped because the plague had spread to the Underdark, and the Queen of Spiders, Lolth, had to start dealing with these terrible plague.
Søren also made a change.
He penetrated his divine power into the [Disease] and [Poison] domains. The power of these two domains came from the plundering of the Goddess of Disease. Søren gave the divine spell of 'Cure the Plague' as the core, which greatly strengthened the priest's ability to treat diseases. At the same time, the city of Mordor began to increase the number of doctors and treat these infected people with medicine.
The population on the road began to decrease rapidly, and more and more towns became desolate, even faster than the previous war.
With the large decrease in population, the power of death also became stronger. Even Søren's divine power began to show obvious improvement because he was also in charge of the power of slaughter. The aura of death made the undead begin to increase gradually, and the number of ghouls was somewhat out of control. At the same time, with the surge of ghouls, a demon lord of the Abyss also became more and more powerful.
His followers began to appear in the material plane and expanded at an amazing speed.
These dark followers were the 'Church of Ghouls'. They could not give others too much power and wealth, but they had a special ability. As long as they joined their church, they would not be injured by ghouls.
This change also began to affect the Abyss.
On the third floor of the bottomless abyss, the attack plan of Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, was unexpectedly affected. Because the King of Ghouls, whose strength had skyrocketed, seemed to have the help of some external forces and was gradually breaking free from the control of the King of Gnolls.
It seemed that the Undead Kings were trying to win over this terrible abyss demon.
The Gnoll King's backyard was on fire, and he had to temporarily give up the expansion of the Abyss and try to regain control of the King of Ghouls.
And on this day!
A terrible evil force returned to the Abyss.
Orcus had returned!
The undead king of the Abyss! The demon lord who was in charge of the undead! One of the three giants of the Abyss!
The terrible Orcus had returned.
Orcus was one of the three giants of the Abyss. He fell into a deep sleep during the Arcane Empire. His deep sleep was an important reason for the rise of the Queen of Succubus. Because the older generation of demons gradually fell into silence, the Queen of Succubus rose rapidly. The King of Ghouls was his most important servant and the commander of his huge undead army. He once waged a war with Six-fingered that involved many layers of the Abyss, but was eventually forced to stop because of the rise of the Arcane Empire.
At this time.
On the 421st floor of the Abyss, the territory of the King of Ghouls, the [White Kingdom].
Countless Nether Transformation Ghouls were gathered together, and at the center of this kingdom was an enormous hall made of bones. The King of Ghouls, Dorrison, commanded all the ghouls. Unlike other ghouls, his body was straight, not hunched like his kind all day long. His eyes shone with pale green light. He wore a luxurious robe and leather armor, wore a white bone crown, and held a spine-shaped staff called the Hungry Tooth Staff. There was a skull on the top of the staff to show respect to Orcus.
In the past, for a very long time.
There were a large number of Gnolls in this kingdom. They were responsible for supervising the ghouls and driving them to work and fight.
Now all the Gnolls had become food for the ghouls driven by endless hunger. This place was out of the control of the King of Gnolls, Yeenoghu.
A black bone portal appeared.
With a terrible pressure, all the ghouls could not help but kneel on the ground. This time, the aura from the King of Undead spread with the evil and filthy power, and a terrible demon appeared.
This demon-like creature was fat and fat, about three times the height of an ordinary person. Huge, spiral goat horns grew out of his goat head. His legs were covered in thick brown hair, and his hooves resembled those of a goat. Its huge and strong arms brandished an evil skull wand. Two huge black bat-like wings extended from his back, and a long snake-like tail with a sharp barbed hook trailed behind him.
He was Orcus!
One of the most powerful demons in the Abyss! He was also the King of all the undead in the Abyss!
Orcus had a huge undead army, and the enemies he killed would directly transform into soldiers and generals in his army!
"Great Undead King!"
The King of Ghouls welcomed the arrival of the Abyss King. He humbly lowered his head and said, "Your servant has been waiting for your return."
A mighty army of undead appeared.
Ghouls, Skeleton Soldiers, Corpse Demons, Bound Spirits, Shadows, Corpse Witches, Hags, Liches, Mummies, Boda Corpses …
Orcus's enormous undead army appeared behind the teleportation gate. They had already gathered in a magnificent hall made of bones. Obviously, his resurrection and awakening were related to the other undead kings in the underworld, and this undead disaster seemed to have been planned for a long time.
"Roar!"
The awakened Orcus seemed to be a little crazy. His pupils were full of chaos and killing intent, and his mind was not as clear as other demon lords. He was more like a demon controlled by the chaotic power of the Abyss.
He let out a terrible roar towards the sky!
Along with this furious bellow, a force spread across the entire multiverse in an instant.
The next moment.
Material Plane, Modor City.
Søren, who was far away in the sea, instantly appeared on the high platform of the Arcane Tower. He looked at the dark night sky and murmured, "Orcus is resurrected! … "
The former King of the Abyss was announcing his arrival.
Not only Søren who was far away in the sea, but all the gods in the material plane and even the Senior Demons of the Baator Inferno were also aware of the resurrection of a powerful demon!
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