At night, Dendera Fortress was brightly lit and heavily guarded.
Ever since Gelu confirmed that the three patrol teams had disappeared, everyone knew that the demon they were waiting for and intercepting had already arrived. Considering that the night was the best time for creatures like demons to move around, the entire fortress had begun to rotate. Half of the fortress's troops entered a defensive state and prepared to patrol through the night. Although the other half was resting, they did not remove their equipment. Once a battle occurred, they could wake up and join the battle at any time.
Under the sweep of the magic searchlights, the entire canyon entrance was under full surveillance, and there were gargoyles hovering above the canyon, monitoring the movement.
This was a fortress in the midst of war mobilization. The powerful forces of the alliance army made everyone believe that once the demon appeared, they could beat it back to its hometown, Sheogh …
Unfortunately, because Arantir had mentioned that the demon had a group of undead troops under his command, under the preconceived notion, all the surveillance in the fortress was aimed at visible targets, and no one had ever thought of casting invisible detection spells.
In fact, even if they thought of it, they might not necessarily be able to detect such a small Demon Eye …
… …
Due to the all-night vigilance, the people in the fortress had to move around. Since they had to move, they would consume energy.
When it was almost midnight, the stomachs of the mages stationed in the mage towers on the city wall began to rumble. This kind of life of vigilance was simply torture for the mages. But because the leader of the Mage Guild, Astral, was in the fortress, the mages did not dare to disobey orders. But this did not prevent them from showing off their mage tempers.
Therefore, they called the mage apprentices who served them and asked them to immediately make supper. Although the mage apprentices agreed submissively, they turned around and arrogantly handed this task to the gremlins!
In the kingdom of Bracada, mages were the largest noble class. Although mage apprentices could not be called true mages, their status was much higher than these gremlins. In fact, in the kingdom of Bracada, gremlins were not only a type of soldier but also a type of slave, the most numerous. Not only did they have to be responsible for being workers in factories and workshops, but they could also become chefs, waiters, cleaners, coolies, and so on at any time …
It was not the first or second time that the gremlins had encountered mages wanting to eat supper in the middle of the night, so they did not panic after receiving the task. They shouted in their sharp voices and quickly took action.
If the mages wanted to eat supper, they definitely had to provide some to their ally, the elven army. There were at least tens of thousands of them in total, and this was a very heavy task. A large number of gremlins began to get busy in the kitchen. They took out flour and prepared to make bread and pancakes.
If they wanted to knead the flour, they had to have water, so nearly a hundred gremlins were separated to fetch water from various water sources.
A sprite was huffing and puffing as it carried a bucket of water and ran towards the well in the west of the city. It was unlucky because the other wells that were closer to it were all lined up, so it could only run to a place further away to fetch water.
However, when it was about to reach the well, it suddenly heard a soft sound, as though a jar had been broken.
When it came to the well, it found that there were some shiny fragments by the well. These shiny things looked like crystals. It picked up a piece out of curiosity and looked at it. However, the light at night was not too good, and it could not see clearly. It only roughly found that it seemed to be a crystal, so it sneakily looked around. After seeing that there was no one around, it immediately put the shattered crystal into its pocket.
After all, crystals were relatively valuable in this world. The gremlins also had a need for money in the kingdom of Bracada …
The rest of the crystals were shattered too badly, so the little fairy didn't take any more. But at this time, it was a little curious as to what had broken on the side of the well. So, it poked its head into the well to take a look.
It did not know if it was an illusion, but it felt that something emitting fluorescence on the wall of the well had flowed into the water. The fluorescence flashed for a moment, but it quickly disappeared.
The little fairy thought it was strange, but it didn't think too much about it. Then, there was a splash. A fish in the well made a splash and sank back into the water.
Raising fish in a well was generally used to check if the water source was polluted. After finding that the fish in the well was fine, the gremlins did not care so much. They quickly took out a bucket of water from the well and carried it back crookedly because if they were late, they might be whipped …
The water that the fairies brought was poured into the large water tank on the side of the kitchen. The water that this little fairy brought was no exception. It was poured into the tank. After the water was poured, this little fairy continued to fetch water while huffing and puffing.
The water in the large water tank was quickly used in the kitchen, and some of the gremlins, who were sweating profusely, scooped water from the large water tank to drink for convenience …
The Demon Eye, which was invisible and hovering in the night sky, saw all of this, and this scene was transmitted to Roy's eyes in real time.
Seeing that his plan was going smoothly, Roy was relieved. The next step was to wait for the virus in his demon blood to erupt …
Just as the gremlins were sending steaming hot bread and pancakes to various parts of the fortress, a gremlin felt a little uncomfortable in its stomach. More than half an hour ago, it had scooped up water from the water tank to drink because it was thirsty. At that time, it felt that the water was very cold, so it suspected that it had eaten something bad. Hence, it wanted to avoid the supervisor's sight and find a place to settle it.
However, before it could find the location of the toilet, it found that its entire body began to heat up. The burning sensation made its consciousness gradually begin to blur. It had already forgotten where it was going, and its legs were just moving unconsciously.
Not long after, a mage apprentice supervisor discovered this gremlin with strange movements. When he saw that this guy was not going to work, the mage apprentice was furious. He walked forward with a whip and whipped it without saying a word.
However, the pitiful cries of the little fairies did not appear this time. Although there was a bloody whip mark on the face of this little fairy, it only swayed its body and did not fall. Instead, it turned around and staggered towards the mage apprentice.
The apprentice mage felt insulted that he was not using his whip to carry out his duty as a supervisor. This was an insult to his work, and he stepped forward, swearing, and raised his whip to continue his lashing.
However, when he stood in front of the gremlin, the gremlin suddenly raised its head. There were no longer any pupils in its white eyes. Long saliva flowed from its mouth, and an unprecedented ferocious expression appeared on its face. It suddenly pounced on the mage apprentice and bit his neck!
The mage apprentice cried out in panic. The intense pain from his neck and the feeling of blood gushing out terrified him. As he screamed, he desperately tried to push away the gremlin on top of him. He thought that the gremlin might have gone crazy.
Unfortunately, he could not do this. The gremlin was much stronger than him. These gremlins that usually did heavy manual labor had great strength that did not match their short bodies. They could even throw a few kilograms of iron chain balls hundreds of meters away. How could the weak mage apprentices resist them?
So soon, the mage apprentice stopped breathing, and this gremlin lay on the mage apprentice's corpse and gnawed on it …
Such a scene didn't only happen in this corner. As time passed, similar scenes appeared in other parts of the fortress. In some places, mage apprentices were being bitten, and in some places, fairies were biting each other.
When the people in the fortress heard more and more screams, they realized that something was wrong, so the alarm bells of the entire fortress rang urgently.
The heroes who were still chatting in the city hall and studying how the demons would attack the fortress immediately rushed out when they heard the alarm bells. Astral, Solmyr, Gelu, and the heroes of the kingdom of Bracada were all there. Only Arantir remained in the camp where the undead army was stationed because of his identity as a necromancer.
"What happened? Is the demon attacking?! "As soon as Astral walked out of the city hall, he immediately summoned someone to ask about the situation.
A mage hurriedly ran over and reported in a panic, "Your Excellency, it's … it's the gremlins. They seem … seem …"
"Seem what?" Astral was furious when he heard him stammering. He stomped his feet and scolded, "Hurry up and say it!"
The mage secretly glanced at Gelu beside him and gritted his teeth. "The gremlins seem to be rioting!!"
Hearing this answer, Astral was stunned. This answer clearly exceeded his psychological expectations. He did not expect that the alarm bells were not ringing because of the demon attack but because something was wrong with the gremlins under him.
"What's going on?" Astral frowned and asked. "Speak clearly!"
Because the first to come into contact with the water source were the gremlins, when the virus in Roy's demon blood broke out, it was the gremlins who had problems, and then it was the mage apprentices who acted as supervisors. Therefore, when the virus broke out, the first impression the people of Bracada had was that the gremlins were rioting … The mage who came to report was the same, so it was a little difficult for him to answer.
Sure enough, when Gelu heard of this situation, even as an ally, he was a little annoyed and could not help but mock. "Your kingdom of Bracada seems to always have such problems …"
The mages of Bracada had long been famous in the world of Ashan for squeezing slaves. It really made people speechless that they still did this at this critical moment.
Astral was also embarrassed. After hearing the riot of the gremlins, he roughly understood what was going on, so he said resentfully, "Damn it. I've already reminded you to treat those inferior races better, but you just didn't listen!"
The mage blinked. Although he looked aggrieved, he did not dare to refute. "Your Excellency Astral, what should we do now?"
"What should we do? Is there a need to ask?! " Astral said angrily. "Immediately send troops to suppress those rioting fellows!"
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