Alien Knights

Todd, who was hiding in the corner of the hall, waited for all the gray-robed men to leave, and then carefully poked his head out to look at the situation outside.

Before the chaos started, Tristan, who was hidden by him behind the screen, asked in a low voice, "What's going on outside?"

Todd shook his head at him: "You don't want to see this scene... The hall is full of dead people, there are a hundred people... No, maybe more, maybe less than half of the people who survived."

Tristan, who was lying on the ground, let out a long breath: "Thank you for saving my life."

Todd patted his arm and gave him a smile.

Standing up, carefully avoiding the sight of the survivors from the corner of the wall, Todd came to the other side of the hall and found Dion hiding in the recess of the window sill.

Looking at the blood on the opponent's calf, Todd frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Dieng said depressedly: "When the enemy first attacked, I was stabbed in the smoke by a panicked nobleman who swung his sword indiscriminately."

Todd looked around and asked again, "Where's Mary?"

Mentioning her, Dion was even more annoyed: "I was with her, but when his father was taken away, she was worried and followed him secretly."

Todd scratched the back of his head with a headache, and said to Dion, "Hide here and don't move, I will find someone to pick you up."

Dion grabbed Todd's sleeve: "Your Majesty, you can't take risks alone!"

Todd smiled and pointed to the sky: "I'm not fighting alone, the reinforcements are on top of you and me."

An abandoned underground waterway in the Holy Acropolis.

The five men in gray robes carried Leoric and his son through the labyrinth-like corridors underground, and finally stepped into a room deep in the underground waterway.

Three wooden beds that still had bloodstains were quietly placed in the center of the room, and all kinds of experimental equipment, organ specimens, and medicinal herb bottles were neatly stacked on shelves close to the wall.

A gray-robed man first lit the oil lamps around the room, and the others divided their work. Some were busy putting the three of Leoric and his son on the wooden bed, and some began to set up pots to boil water and prepare medicinal herbs.

After the busy work came to an end, four of the five gray-robed men looked at their leader, waiting for his order.

"Seventeen, you go and take out the "resurrected worms." The leader, wearing a gray robe of an astrologer and holding an oak staff, looked at the three unconscious father and son of the Holy Acropolis, and then said: "Twenty-one, you go and prepare the surgical equipment; Twenty-seven, cut off the hair of these three people with scissors; Thirty-three, go to the ferry of the underground river and prepare the boats."

After issuing these orders, the gray-robed leader found a chair, sat on it, folded his arms in front of his chest, and quietly watched his subordinates rushing about.

With the sound of scissors, the three father and son who were originally unconscious gradually woke up.

Mathilde and Sinclair found themselves strapped to a wooden bed, and the smell of blood and rot was thick in their noses. Matide immediately screamed for help in fright. He twisted his body desperately while begging for mercy.

But Sinclair calmed down after struggling and finding that he couldn't break free. He looked at the surrounding environment with a pale face, his eyes kept rolling, and he kept thinking about how to get out.

The gray-robed leader saw the performance of these two people, suddenly laughed, and said, "It's really interesting."

Leoric's faint voice came over: "Hyatt, how long will it take to complete the ceremony?"

The gray-robed leader called Hyatt looked at Leoric: "Soon."

"My lord, the hair and surgical equipment are all ready."

Hearing the report from his subordinates, Hyatt, who was the fifth in the Discord Legion, stood up, walked to Leoric's bed, looked at Leoric and said, "I believe I don't need to remind you of your agreement with Mistress, right?"

Leoric nodded: "I swear on my soul to obey the will of the Mother God."

Hyatt said coldly: "From today onwards, you will be given a new life by the mother goddess. Always remember that she can give you eternal life, and naturally she can also deprive you of your life at any time."

"My lord, here comes the 'Resurrection Worm'."

Hyatt looked at the iron box in No. 17's hand, and said softly, "Open it, and be careful not to move too much, or the contents inside will be disturbed, and all our efforts will be in vain."

No. 17 swallowed, gently placed the iron box on the small table next to the wooden bed, carefully removed several copper locks on the top of the iron box, and then slowly opened the lid of the iron box.

Biting white cold air overflowed from the iron box. Surrounded by the ice cubes, a transparent, crystal-clear nematode was entrenched in the center of the ice cubes, motionless as if asleep.

Under the terrified gaze of the father and son, Hyatt picked up a sharp drill and explained to them: "Wait a while, I will use the drill to drill two small holes on the top of the heads of the two subjects participating in the ceremony. Then, I will bring the sleeping "Resurrection Insect" close to the drilled wound. Feeling the warmth of flesh and blood, the "Resurrection Insect" will slowly wake up, and drill the front and rear heads into the holes on the top of the human heads and enter your brains..."

"I don't want it! I don't want it!" Matide, who was frightened out of his wits by these words, began to struggle frantically on the bed. The veins on his head were exposed, the corners of his mouth were drooling non-stop because of extreme fear, and the urine stains on his crotch were slowly expanding due to incontinence.

After a while, Matide's movements suddenly stopped, his whole body froze, and he fell completely limp on the bed.

No. 17 walked up to Matide, opened the other's eyelids, felt for the pulse, and then shook his head at Hyatt: "I'm dead, I should have been scared to death."

Hyatt sighed dumbfoundedly, and said to Leoric, "Continue what I just said. After the "Resurrection Worm" enters the brains of two people, we will kill one of them. The "Resurrection Worm" will extract the soul of the living person and inject it into the dead body. When you get here, the ceremony will be successfully concluded, do you understand?"

Leoric turned his head and glanced at Mathilde's body.

Hyatt saw his eyes and explained: "In fact, as long as a person dies within 12 hours, the corpse can be used as a carrier of the soul..."

Having said that, he looked at the terrified Sinclair again: "Of course, a living person is better than a dead carrier."

Leoric turned his head and stared at Sinclair's face, with resentment in his eyes, his voice was inaudible: "Let's get started."

Hyatt made a gesture, and Number Seventeen first poured a pre-prepared potion into the mouths of Sinclair and Leoric.

Hyatt took the drill and walked to the position above the heads of the two of them. After waiting for the paralyzing ingredients in the potion to take effect, he began to plan to drill holes.

At this moment, No. 33, who was going to prepare the boat at the ferry of the underground river, was suddenly thrown into the room by a huge force, knocking over the bottles and cans on the wooden frame, attracting everyone's amazed gaze.

Todd pushed open the door, patted the dust off his body, and said with a smile to everyone in the room: "Everyone, good day. Do you mind adding more people to your carnival party?"