Soul of Burning Steel

The stern alarm whirled over the imperial capital, and the sudden chaotic crowd around made the carriage unable to drive normally. Qiao Xiuya opened the door and got out of the carriage before he could think too much. He helped several citizens of the imperial capital who had fallen down beside the carriage due to panic. Then he looked up to the east side of the city.

"Good guy..."

With a light breath, Joshua frowned, and couldn't help muttering to herself: "This is incredible."

On the east side of the city, there is a sway of fire, red light illuminates several blocks, black smoke is flying up, covering a large area, Brandon and Nostradamus have also got out of the carriage, they Also watch this scene.

"That place is a residential area...what's the situation?"

The rich experience allowed the blond swordsman to quickly judge that the fire in the city was not big. After the city guards reacted and rushed to put out the fire, it would not cause much damage, but he still looked solemnly: "Is there any mage in the city? Had an accident while doing a taboo experiment in my own home?"

Mage experimentation accidents. This kind of thing often happened decades ago, and every time it caused a lot of damage, but nowadays, there is a special mage experiment area in the Royal Mage Association of the Imperial Capital. If it is not for experimenting with taboo techniques, it is general. Magic, then it’s definitely better to go to a more professional experimental area than at home.

"No, it's not an experiment accident."

The old mage saw it very clearly, his eyes were shining with magical brilliance: "There is no magical fluctuations, there is no gathering of a large number of elements, and if it is an accident, then the experimental mage should have come out to clean up the situation... this is pure The alchemy explosion was not an accident of the mage’s experiment..."

After being silent for a while, he paused and said clearly: "Maybe, this is a deliberate attack."

The sudden explosion occurred only once, and the flustered crowd gradually recovered their calm, especially when they noticed that the explosion was far away from them and did not threaten their lives, the courage returned to their hearts.

I have to say that as residents of the imperial capital, most of them have a good level of education. Under the command of the city guards who came to calm down, the calmed crowd crossed the streets in an orderly manner and returned to their homes. Nothing happened in the middle. accident.

The guards also came to the black carriage. They saw Joshua and the other three. They originally wanted to go forward and check it again, but at the reminder of a certain guard, everyone else also found the humble emblem on the carriage. It represents the Royal Mage Association of the Empire, and the white-haired mage's robe with his back facing them is a crystal-patterned white robe that only the archmage can wear.

In the imperial capital, those who dare to pretend to be the masters of the Mage Association may not have been born yet.

And those who can ride in the same carriage with the archmage are not nobles, but also powerful professionals. These city guards simply bypassed these three people and went to other places to preside over the order.

——The fool went to provoke this group of people.

Brandon was still thinking about the cause of the explosion. At this time, the fire on the east side of the city had become weak. The city guards seemed to have controlled the fire. Nostradamus was also thinking about it, but it didn't take long before he spoke. Said: "Shall we go to the scene to see the situation?"

The old mage’s eyes were full of doubts. Although he had previously speculated that this was a deliberate attack, the truth was completely unreasonable-the place where the explosion occurred was on the east side of the outer city, where ordinary residents lived. Area, where the explosion will kill at most one or two residents and destroy one or two residential buildings. Not to mention other places, the same powerful attack can kill dozens of people even in the commercial street, which is also the outer city, and the money loss is even greater. I don't know how many times.

So he wanted to go and see the situation.

And Joshua and Brandon will naturally have no objection, and they are also very curious. Especially for Joshua, he had a faint guess in his heart, but he didn't know if the guess was correct, so he had to go to the scene to see the situation to understand the situation.

The three returned to the carriage. Driven by the coachman, the carriage turned around and drove towards the other side of the street. Without the crowded pedestrians on the street, their speed was even faster.

It didn't take long for them to pass through the main road in the center of the imperial capital, passing through countless shops and houses, to the east side of the city, where the explosion occurred.

The explosion site has been sealed off. Numerous city guards are patrolling around and cleaning up. Some guards originally wanted to prevent the carriage from moving forward, but just like their previous counterparts, they respectfully let it go after seeing the emblem of the Royal Mage Association on the carriage. After opening the road, Joshua and others came to the scene smoothly.

Near the ruins of a residential building, several guards were sorting out the scene. In the ruins, the fire had been completely extinguished, and only scattered black smoke emerged from the burnt wooden beams.

The fire was very violent at the time.

Just by looking at it, Joshua can make a rough judgment-because in the ruins, except for stone and nearly melted steel objects that were burned by high temperature, other wood furniture and decorations are turned into ashes or coke. , Even a bit of complete wreckage can’t be found. Natural fires and explosions cannot cause this level of damage. Only spells and alchemy materials can do it.

On the side, Nostradamus also confirmed his opinion. He frowned and stroked his white beard: "It really was a deliberate explosion and fire. Fortunately, because the celebration is approaching, the surrounding people are all wandering the streets. , So the casualties should not be large."

After more detailed observation, Joshua also roughly confirmed his previous judgment.

"Cultists."

He whispered to himself: "It must be a good thing they did."

The so-called cultists, in a broad sense, are members of sects that do not believe in the seven gods. Among them, there are primitive druid ancestral beliefs and orc shaman sacrifices, but these are not regarded as evil words, at most they can be regarded as cults. Pagans, so in a narrow sense, cultists are those devils who play **** rituals.

The origin of the cultists cannot be explored, but it can be concluded that their history is at least equivalent to that of the Church of the Seven Gods. Their energy is beyond ordinary people’s imagination. In the wild west of the mainland, many tribes believe in various demonic cults. They kill living people. Use blood to draw magic circles to sacrifice, and even perform extremely terrifying rituals such as "mutual food, self-eating, and collective suicide" to gain the evil power of the abyss.

Most people who believe in demons have deep desires, and they cannot extricate themselves as long as they fall into it. They pursue chaos, death and riots in the entire social group, so that everything returns to the primitive form of disorder and predation of the weak. In the previous life, Yuannan suffered from the dragon disaster. As a result, many cultists deliberately instigated refugee riots, and even captured several small cities to separate one side. This caused great chaos and caused an unusually heavy blow to the order of the entire kingdom.

The **** murders that took place in various parts of the Northern Empire ~www.novelmtl.com~, in the eyes of Joshua, were also the actions of cultists. They should have planned to use blood sacrifices to carry out secret calling rituals, but the abyss was established in the last era. Being sealed by a sage, as long as the seal is not unblocked, the summoning ceremony will be difficult to succeed except for the book of Ibonne, which is a magic book that directly connects to the abyss.

In the eyes of the warriors, the explosion in the imperial capital was a summoning ceremony that was close to success but failed in the end. Nostradamus believed that the explosion was caused by alchemy artifacts such as gunpowder, but Joshua knew that the demon In his summoning ceremony, materials such as sulphur and saltpetre are originally required, and the two do not conflict.

"However, even if I dared to summon the devil in the imperial capital, I almost succeeded... You know, a few days later, it will be a celebration for annihilating the orcs."

Turning his head and looking at the huge obsidian palace in the center of the imperial capital, Joshua touched his chin and said with a chuckle: "I don't know what his Majesty will do at this time. "

At this time, the news of the explosion had already spread to the center of the imperial capital, the royal study of Morlai Palace.

With a cold snort, a terrible storm is brewing in it.