A strange world

Chapter 176 Section 30. Forecast of the Third Apocalypse

This is an ordinary day in Allen Continent.

Oh, the "New Year" that the young and kind lord said made today no longer ordinary, but the way to celebrate it was a little strange. “Stay home and prepare to run away”? It looks like something nobles would do.

Many residents became anxious because they were unable to work. In their simple understanding, whether they had work or not was related to whether they had food to eat, and they had not watched "The Fall of the Mage Tower" for ten hours.

Kerian and his companions spent time playing cards that were said to have been invented by the lord.

"If you can reveal all these cards, I will eat them all!" Kerrian shouted at Losey, throwing out a card.

"It seems that Master Kerrian is going to have an extra meal today." Losey sarcastically threw out the cards.

True to his word, Kerian grabbed the leather and stuffed it into his mouth to bite. When Losi and his companions tried to stop him, he had already swallowed them whole.

"Krian never lies!"

"Krian, who never lies, we have no cards now, what do you want to play next?" Another person pointed to the table.

"Miss Ruth's has it," Losey said.

"Buy something sturdy!"

Kerrian was kicked out early in the morning to buy playing cards.

In the distance, in the new town, there was what the lord called a street lamp. Kerian heard from a neighbor's servant who was a knight's retinue that it was called a magic lamp. Even the noble lord couldn't afford it, and the lord actually used it as a lantern. ...Public...public facilities, that's what the baron said anyway.

However, the people here are almost used to their lord's luxury and eccentricities. It doesn't matter if the magic lamp shines on the street. The people who flush the toilets are all elite water elements. According to the father of Losey's brother's playmate, the lord also Prepare to build a mage tower! In other words, Xingyue Bay is not open to navigation yet, otherwise the people outside will be scared to wet their pants.

So those quirks make the citizens feel uncomfortable at most, and they are not allowed to defecate and throw garbage everywhere... Of course, the town is so beautiful, and if you really do this, old Zoron will be like a cat smelling mice, and you don't know which corner it is. He came out of the nook, dragged his lame leg and ran faster than the young man while waving his crutch to beat you——

There is also a holiday for everyone to celebrate the "New Year" but the citizens are not allowed to go out casually...

Kerrian sighed and wrapped himself in warm cotton clothes. Everything that happened when he came to Xingyue Bay was like a dream that he didn't want to wake up from... Then he took a deep breath, and the coldness that poured into his lungs made him truly live in this world.

The nights are getting longer and the days are getting shorter. It's almost seven o'clock, and it's still dark...

Kerrian shivered and suddenly saw a group of people passing by in the distance. He puffed up his chest excitedly: "Lord!"

Annan was startled by him and said hesitantly: "I remember you...Krian, right?"

Because Losi was the one with the best chance of becoming a professional among the people in the territory, Annan paid a little attention to him, so he knew about Kerrian who was hanging out with him.

"Yes! My lord!"

Crean almost offered his loyalty.

"Where are you going?"

"Uh... Losi lost at cards and ate the cards. I'm going to buy them from Miss Ruth!"

Annan nodded, remembered something and asked, "Did you notice anything unusual?"

"Abnormal... there is one, Lord Lord!" Kerrian betrayed his friend without hesitation: "Loxi actually washed her feet today!"

"...The tavern is not open. You can go to the warehouse to get the cards."

"Yes! Lord Lord!"

Kerrian said loudly, immersed in excitement and did not notice Annan rubbing his ears. After taking a deck of cards from the warehouse, Christian couldn't wait to tell Losey and the others what they had just experienced:

"I met the lord, and he actually knew about me..."

…

Annan knocked on a lighted house.

Lindy opened the door and returned to the living room to continue flipping through the book. Mr. Victor sat in front of the campfire, taking a nap covered with a blanket like all the old people.

He woke up due to the cold wind and movement brought in by Annan and the others: "Our lord can't wait to exercise his lordship's rights and do ridiculous things?"

Annan was indifferent and even a little surprised that the stubborn old man could be so gentle sometimes.

"Because of what's going to happen today..."

Blom, who followed Annan to inspect the territory, asked: "Everything is normal in Xingyue Bay. There are no rat people underground, no sea people on the sea, and there are no foreign and Gema soldiers in the north and south. What are you worried about?"

"I don't know, just a...hunch."

In order to save people, Annan broke the contract and exposed the existence of the blue dragon. He didn't want to reveal that it possessed the artifact.

"You can rest."

Annan was ready to continue his inspection.

When he turned around, he saw dawn outside the window.

An extremely bright and dazzling light suddenly bloomed from the sea level in the west. It was so dazzling that it instantly turned from early morning to noon, and the white light with only light and no heat filled the field of vision.

The ground was shaking, not an earthquake, but a roar caused by some kind of shock.

Annan thought that some kind of forbidden spell had fallen around Xingyue Bay, but as the sudden change suddenly disappeared, the white light faded, and he and everyone else rushed out of the house. With the light that had not dissipated, he saw the snow-capped mountains in the distance rising in white. fog.

This disaster is not aimed at Xingyue Bay, but at the entire Northern Territory and the entire Allen Continent.

Panicked townspeople ran into the streets, but Annan's advance preparation kept them relatively calm.

"The magic...is mourning."

Mr. Victor murmured, and Annan also noticed that the magic vortex had become chaotic, but he could still release spells.

Annan returned to the big house alone, first contacted the ogre to let him find Olmedo, and then opened the portal to the blue dragon's lair.

The blue dragon didn't know what was going on. It was still a young dragon, and it didn't have unlimited experience brought by the long years.

But after Annan touched the apocalypse forecast, the countdown changed to five months later, indicating that the third apocalypse forecast had already occurred: what happened this time had nothing to do with Annan, but Annan was related to it.

Morning finally arrived. Annan vaguely observed that the white fog on the snow-capped mountains had descended a little.

The summoning spell was released for the last time, and Olmedo appeared on the other side of the portal.

"Did you see that?"

"The gods have lost touch."

Annan and Olmedo said at the same time.

"They are dead!?" Annan

"...It's just that the connection between the gods and the continent of Allen has been blocked." Olmedo said meaningfully: "Is this what you said about your premonition of what will happen today?"

"What does the loss of contact with the gods mean?"

"The gods and the church are important lines of defense that prevent ratmen from infiltrating humans. Priests can no longer pray to obtain divine spells, and they can no longer discover ratmen who have sneaked into us."

Annan wanted to say that Lorna Gilman could smell the Skaven, but it wasn't that simple. Asking her to distinguish a hundred Skaven might only detect ten.

"That's not what we need to worry about." Olmedo looked out the window at the white mist covering the snow-capped mountains. "The gods will solve the affairs of the gods. We have other troubles now..."

A wave of snow is brewing in the silent snow-capped mountains, and the forests and towns below are the first to bear the brunt.