Crown of Silence

Chapter 566: Making Use of the Remaining Heat

Amid the sharp bell sounds, the sound of steel rubbing against each other rang out from all parts of the fortress.

The pillar of flame was burning vigorously, casting light from the top of the fortress downwards, illuminating the lightless ocean and the black tide that was sweeping along the ocean current.

"Are they all demons?"

"Yes, the third wave, which was expected, arrived an hour earlier. It was also much smaller than the previous two waves."

Shi Dong sighed softly: "After all, it was to celebrate the resurrection of Leviathan, the son of the sea born by the Dark Mother Earth. If the total amount is exhausted, it is probably far beyond the original expectations of mankind..."

On the high wall of the fortress, Ye Qingxuan frowned.

The demons in the sea followed the current, and now each current has become a transportation line for the demons, continuously carrying countless demons forward.

Finally... gathered in Avalon.

Damn 'Avalon phenomenon'!

According to human observation, almost all ocean currents converge around Avalon, bringing a large number of fish tides every year and forming a natural route.

For a long time, the unique conditions have brought immeasurable benefits to Anglu.

This is the "Avalon phenomenon" that ocean and water conservancy scholars around the world have pondered over. As a result, no one has ever thought that the unique geographical advantage is not the favor of fate, but the harbinger of doom.

This is the huge trap created by the King of Destiny laid by Leviathan many years ago in order to completely engulf Anglu.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan rubbed his forehead with a headache: "How many people are there in the Ministry of Faith now?"

"A little over 300."

Shi Dong's answer surprised Ye Qingxuan.

"Isn't the Hammer of Witches still there?"

"Originally, it was there, but after the Doctrine of the Faith was split, it was dispersed and assigned to the Knights Templar, leaving only a name.

Mr. Maxwell later sent 400 young people here, but unfortunately, they were too short to be used.

When we left the Holy City, we only took 300 people with us. Among the more than 100 of them, half were old people like us, and the other half were too young.

There are only about 140 people who can fight."

"Too few."

"Enough."

Shi Dong said: "Now there is at least one fortress to defend.

The Purifiers of the Inquisition are born to fight against demons that are a hundred times more than themselves. If we go east again, I am afraid we will face more troubles.

I believe you will soon get used to this disparity in the ratio of enemies to us, Your Excellency the Grand Inquisitor."

Ye Qingxuan glanced at him and retracted his gaze, Continue to focus on the black tide surging in the sea: "Have you counted the number of enemies?"

"This scale is about 20,000."

Shi Dong took a look and gave the answer: "Most of the evil children in the sea are two meters long, half the height of an adult when walking upright. Because of their similar limbs, they are called water ghosts or fishmen.

There are more detailed classifications, such as elite bone eaters, tide callers, deep divers, whale shark riders, and storm priests whose wisdom can rival that of humans, etc., and so on... This should be a small tribe that has just hatched.

The strength of marine species is often polarized. Some species are like nomadic mountains, and just one is terrifying. There are more such demons that need to rely on numbers to pose a threat. For natural disasters, this kind of thing is a consumable with no value. Only a scale of 100,000 or 1 million can be used. When necessary, it can also be used as food. After all, the appetite of giant sea monsters is difficult to satisfy."

Ye Qingxuan listened silently, but couldn't help but take a breath in his heart.

In this world, two-thirds of all the areas that humans have explored are oceans. Less than one-tenth of the land is enough for cultivation, but it has already supported nearly 300 million humans.

This is just a rough statistic from the Holy City. Adding the tax evaders who hide their household registration and the slaves who are treated as private property, as well as the number of people who conceal or fail to report in various countries, according to scholars' estimates, the world has about 400 million people.

This is the limit of what human land can support at present.

So what about the ocean...

Fishmen are not as picky as humans. They can eat seaweed, kelp, fish and shrimp, and even the corpses of their own kind. Once the dark mother spreads the seeds, fruits can be produced all over the mountains and plains from the deep sea.

In the Holy City barrier, Ye Qingxuan had seen the vesicle forest that bred demons. The terrifying conversion efficiency and scale were simply suffocating.

As long as there is a supply of ether in the earth veins, living things can be decomposed and reconstructed in just a few hours, and the embryo of the demon can be formed.

Because of this, every awakening of Leviathan is a terrible event that threatens the security of all countries.

It often takes Anglu to prepare for war ten years in advance, and the Holy City must send saints to reseal Leviathan before the sea child is hatched.

Now Ye Qingxuan can only be thankful that only the sea area of ​​Anglu is affected, and the threat is limited to this lightless sea.

This disaster must be resolved as soon as possible.

Humans cannot afford a war of attrition with the sea child.

Once the deformed system of the fishmen is truly formed, humans will face more than a hundred times the number of demons. Not to mention the giant sea monsters raised by the fishmen as food, and Leviathan itself.

And now, Ye Qingxuan wanted to see how the more than 100 people from the Faith and Reasoning Department repelled 20,000 demons.

"It's just a bunch of little things."

Shi Dong laughed twice: "Even the memory inheritance has not awakened, and there is no ability. If it relies on numbers, it is just a beast tide with a larger number.

To be honest, I'm afraid there is nothing to see."

As the two talked, the roar gradually increased.

In the boiling and turbid waves, the first water ghost climbed onto the shore, stepping on rough gravel and gravel, crawling towards the fortress.

Followed by the second, third, fourth... and finally, only a thick dark green shadow could be distinguished, like moss in the sea spreading and growing on the ground.

"Not fully developed yet? What a pity."

Shi Dong narrowed his eyes: "It was born not long ago, calcium is insufficient, and the exposed bones have not hardened yet."

Ye Qingxuan followed his gaze and fell on the fishman in the front. Seeing the demon that looked like a humanoid, he felt that it looked like some kind of enlarged deformed baby. The exposed bones were still slightly white, covered with scales, and the head had a lot of fish characteristics.

Aware of the sight from the city wall, the fishmen raised their heads and screamed.

The sound of a sharp knife scraping against an iron plate sounded one after another, which made people feel creepy. Even if they spoke different languages, they could understand the meaning of the scream.

——Hungry.

From birth to this moment, the hunger that cannot be satisfied.

The insatiable greed and greed for human flesh and blood.

Just smelling the human scent, the glands in the body secreted a large amount of rapid, causing the muscles to swell and the bones to proliferate. The feeling of hunger occupied all consciousness like a fire.

In a flash, the body of the water ghost expanded a lot, and the huge eyes on both sides of the head were full of bloodshot. In the large amount of white, the strange pupils unique to fish shrank and trembled, and they had fallen into madness.

"The fishman's sense of smell is very sensitive. In fact, the upper body skin under the scales grows a large number of olfactory cells. Like all the species of demons that are famous for their number, once they smell the smell of humans, they will enter a certain stress response, the glands secrete abnormally, the hunger is multiplied, and they don't know how to be full, and often die of too much food.

It is also worth noting that, whether it is evolutionary mutation or something intentional, they rarely feel happy and satisfied. Only when the digestive organs take in human hemoglobin, the pituitary gland can synthesize hormones similar to dopamine..."

Shi Dong paused here.

Ye Qingxuan understood what he meant.

In other words, they only feel happy when they eat people... No, they even enter a state of madness like taking banned drugs.

They will instinctively crave human bodies, and even once they have tasted blood, they will be ten times crazier when they see humans the second time!

"A predator made for humans?"

Ye Qingxuan whispered softly, and in his heart he couldn't help but want to sprinkle two buckets of black dog blood on the grave of the Hundred Eyes.

Look at what you have done!

At this moment, he heard the sound of hinges rubbing, and the door of the fortress under his feet burst open.

A hoarse singing voice sounded.

"The Day of Judgment is coming!

That day is coming!

I don't know when that day will come!"

In the low singing, several burly priests walked out from behind the door.

They were wearing chain hoods and heavy iron armor, looking like a mixture of heavy infantry and priests, but they did not hold scriptures or swords in their hands.

Instead, they held a flaming banner that was more than two meters high.

The heavy and huge banner was burning, emitting a terrifying temperature and light.

The holy emblem on the banner was bathed in flames, as if dancing in the song.

Behind the priests holding the flaming banners, tiny footsteps sounded, followed by hundreds of noisy and hoarse voices.

It sounded like a song, but also like some kind of wild roar from instinct.

"The Day of Judgment is coming! Saints and sinners must be divided on the left and right! This day is coming, are you ready? This day is coming, are you ready?!"

It was like a group of lunatics and drunkards responding frantically, the singing was disorganized and sharp.

Ye Qingxuan couldn't help frowning after hearing it.

"Go out of the city to fight now?"

"Because we don't have any equipment to defend the city." Shi Dong said, "If we are pushed onto the city wall, it will become troublesome. It is better to solve it outside the fortress."

Amid the hoarse singing, the priest holding the flame banner moved forward, and Ye Qingxuan finally saw the figures in the chaotic queue following the priest.

Then he couldn't help but take a breath.

Under the illumination of the flame banner, those things that staggered and followed behind, singing fanatically with the priest... were all demons!

Those demons with huge cracks and scars on their bodies were following the priest like dogs at this moment, and the hemp thread on the back of their heads that sutured the wounds showed rough stitches in the firelight.

They sang the hymn noisily and intermittently, and followed the flame banner fanatically...

"You raise demons?"

Ye Qingxuan looked back at Shi Dong with a look of astonishment.

"It's embarrassing to say."

Shi Dong smiled awkwardly, "There are so many demons, we can never kill them all. The remaining ones cannot be slaughtered for food, so we can only let them play some residual heat...

Boom!

Before he finished speaking, a terrifying flame shot up from the water ghosts.

The flames jumped and reflected on Shi Dong's face, making the smile weird and hideous.