The Extraordinary Earl

The sky was dark, and the sky was full of dark clouds, which seemed like they would fall at any time.

Plague Town.

Plague Town was formerly called Rogge Town. The town has a population of five to six thousand. There are a large number of villages and large tracts of farmland nearby. Because of its developed agriculture, it is located in a remote location, but it is also a very happy country town.

But now this town is called Plague Town, and there are basically no living people in the surrounding villages. An evil wizard attacked major villages with plague, turning them into ghosts.

Some villagers survived, but they also brought the virus to Plague Town. Therefore, normal townspeople in Plague Town have also been infected, but this plague is not fatal. It will only plunge the people in the town into despair. Because of despair, they are afraid. The intertwining of fear and despair forms a kind of power.

This kind of power is often favored by evil wizards.

In the town, desperate and fearful people are waiting for death.

"It's going to rain. If it was last year, I should have gone to the fields to take a look and dig ditches to prevent the rain from falling too much and the ditches not being able to drain properly."

A middle-aged man was lying on the street, staring blankly at the sky.

The middle-aged man is very capable, with muscles all over his body and calluses on his hands. From his tone, you can tell that he is a strong farmer who has been working all year round.

Now he is still strong, but his eyes have lost the energy. His body is covered with dots of day shift, and the markings look scary.

This plague has made him a little weak, but it will not destroy his body, but his spirit will be very tired, just like a person who stays up late, even if he sleeps well during the day, he is still mentally weak.

He doesn't want to move now.

"Don't think about farmland, we are going to die soon." One of the farmers said as there were many people lying on the street like the middle-aged man.

His symptoms were exactly the same as the previous one.

Death is not terrible, what is terrible is waiting for death.

Just like a condemned prisoner, he will feel free and happy at the moment his head is chopped off.

The rest of the time, I just wandered between despair and fear.

All the brave people in the town died, in various ways. Some people hit walls and pillars and died, some jumped from the city with their heads down, and some used the simplest method, hanging themselves.

The remaining people are those who do not have the courage to commit suicide, but have to wait for death to come.

"I heard that the evil wizard will send his ghouls to attack us when we are at our most desperate and frightened. They will eat our flesh and blood, gnaw on our souls, and make his ghouls even more powerful. ”

said the first farmer.

"It's really scary to think about it. My body, which can no longer move much, can't help but want to get up and run away. But before that moment comes, I still don't want to die. Suicide is really terrible."

said the second farmer.

"Yeah, I don't want to die before death actually comes."

said the first farmer.

"Actually, we may not die. Aren't there still Cheetah Knights in the town? They promise to protect us when the evil wizards attack."

said the third farmer.

"Although knights are very powerful, wizards are often more powerful than knights. Especially evil wizards, plagues, ghouls, and even undead. They have too many methods. And there are really too few knights in the town now. ”

said the first farmer.

"But it is undeniable that the presence of the knights gives us hope. If they were not here, we would only be more desperate."

said the third farmer.

….

Elsie's house.

Mr. Elsie is one of the few nobles in the town. He has a villa next to his home, and there are several male and female servants in the villa.

There is also a beautiful wife and a son who was born more than a year ago.

Totally a happy family.

but now.

In the restaurant on the first floor of the villa, the maids prepared lunch, which was steak and bread. The hands of the strictly trained maids were trembling when they served the plates.

Mr. Elsie was sitting at the dining table. He looked at the panicked maids, especially the white spots on their faces, and felt disgust and fear in his heart.

But he did not rebuke the maids, for Mr. Elsie was a gentle nobleman.

He knew that the maids hadn't gone crazy or become mentally ill, which was pretty good.

"Where's Madam? Why haven't you come yet?" Mr. Elsie asked with a frown.

The maids were obviously a little distracted. After a while, one of the maids answered: "Madam said she has a bad appetite and doesn't want to eat."

"I know the fear and despair of facing death, but if you don't eat, you will starve to death. If you die now, you may miss hope."

said Mr. Elsey.

"Sir, do we still have hope?" a maid couldn't help crying.

"I don't know, but I have hope." Mr. Elsey paused before answering.

He pushed away the chair and stood up, then came outside the bedroom on the second floor. The door was closed. Mr. Elsey knocked on the door, but there was no response.

Mr. Elsie's expression changed drastically and he kicked open the door.

In the bedroom, there was a beautiful lady, but she was extremely disgusting because of the white spots on her face. At this moment, the lady was holding a pillow, intending to cover her child.

"What are you doing?" Mr. Elsie hurriedly ran over and snatched the pillow from his wife's hand, and the son below was able to cry.

Mr. Elsie's wife covered her face with her hands and cried: "I really can't bear him being eaten by ghouls, so I want to kill him first and then commit suicide. Then you burn our bodies to ashes ”

Mr. Elsie looked at his crying wife and suddenly calmed down. He sighed, hugged his wife and said, "Please believe me, we will get through it."

After a pause, Mr. Elsie said: "If we can't survive, then I will kill my son and you first, and then commit suicide. We will not let the ghouls eat us while we are alive, nor will Let you see the ghouls eating our son."

Mr. Elsey's wife calmed down slightly, but still burst into tears and shrugged her shoulders.

Mr. Elsie comforted his wife a few more words, and then took her downstairs to have lunch.

After watching his wife eat lunch, Mr. Elsie sent her upstairs to sleep and sent a maid to keep an eye on her to prevent her from doing stupid things.

"Evil wizard, I will never give up hope."

Mr. Elsie returned to the restaurant, sat down, and held his hands, but there was immense fear in his eyes.

In fact, he was just holding on in front of his family.

Death, fear, despair, and hope. The town is full of people like this.