Chapter 440 Disaster is coming!

Bejaia, a small town located on the western edge of Hedley, in the mayor's palace.

As expected, the lord of Bejaia was also a corrupt nobleman who made a living by exploiting the common people. At this moment, he was reading a letter sent by Hu Lun, the acting lord of the border city.

The content of the letter roughly stated that several cities on the western fringe were likely to experience disasters related to the demons, and asked them to gather the people and evacuate the cities as soon as possible.

"Tsk, do you really think you are Grand Duke Olcott?"

The noble sneered disdainfully and threw the letter aside.

Gather the people to evacuate? How much manpower and material resources would it take? He was too lazy to do it.

Most of the city lords in the Western Territory had the same reaction as this city lord.

A disaster related to the demons? If it was really related to the demons, would he need to send a letter to him? The imperial capital would have already sent a notice.

However, there were also some city lords who were more cautious... or timid. They still gathered the people and rushed to the evacuation route of the people in the border city, wanting to meet up with Hu Lun.

While Ryan was still underground, Hullen had already sent letters to the surrounding cities while gathering the people, because he was not sure whether those tentacle-like monsters had already involved other cities.

As it turned out, Hu Lun's choice was extremely correct.

Because, just when Octavia was taking the seriously injured and unconscious Ryan out of the border city to reunite with Hullen and the people of the border city who had been evacuated for some time, a terrible disaster had already befallen the west of Hedley.

Just as the lord of Bejaia ignored Huren's letter and was drunk in his mansion, several children were playing on the roadside in the city of Bejaia.

Suddenly, groups of black liquid emerged from the ground and spread quietly on the ground, as if covering the entire city with a layer of sick spots.

Several children curiously came to the side of the black liquid. At this moment, the black liquid began to wriggle, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a two or three meter tall twisted humanoid monster.

Several children were so frightened by this scene that they froze in place. The twisted monster looked down at the ignorant children and slowly raised its claws.

"Pfft-"

Blood splattered several meters away.

The people around were frightened by this scene for a moment, and then all kinds of exclamations mixed together, and the whole city was in chaos!

A few brave people picked up the tools at hand and hit the twisted monster, but they only made the monster stagger a little and did not cause any real harm.

The monster waved its claws and tore the civilians apart easily like cutting tofu. In a blink of an eye, there were several more corpses on the ground.

At the same time, countless groups of black liquid on the road began to wriggle violently, and countless twisted monsters appeared among the chaotic people, waving their claws and reaping the lives around them.

A massacre has begun!

In the chaos, countless tentacles emerged from the ground, wrapped up the corpses that were still alive and brought them back underground, and then summoned several twisted monsters.

"What are those people outside doing?!"

In the city lord's mansion, a noble who was about to go to sleep heard a commotion outside. He ordered several servants to go out and find out what was going on, but they never came back.

The uneasy noble came to the door of the city lord's mansion cursing, and was about to push the door open to see what was happening outside.

"puff--"

Before the noble could push the door open, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He lowered his head and saw a black claw piercing through the door of the City Lord's Mansion and easily piercing his abdomen...

And this scene was happening at the same time in dozens of cities large and small in the West!

At this time, on the road leading to At City, seeing that the people who were hastily evacuating had more or less fatigue on their faces, and the sky was gradually getting dark, Hu Lun ordered everyone to rest on the spot.

A moment later, there was a sound of hurried horse hooves. Octavia, steering the horse with one hand and holding the unconscious Ryan in the other, rushed towards where the people gathered.

Even though no one was riding Ryan's skinny horse, it still followed closely behind Octavia's white horse, or rather, behind the seriously injured Ryan.

"Vail!"

Yazhi's face lit up with joy and she immediately went to meet him, but when she saw Ryan in Octavia's arms, her smile froze on her face.

Hu Lun also came forward and looked at Ryan in Octavia's arms with a serious expression.

They also knew about Octavier's arrival because Octavier met Hullen, who was leading the people to evacuate, on his way to the border city.

Octaviel asked Hu Lun about Ryan's situation and location. Considering Octaviel's identity as a demon, Hu Lun was a little hesitant at first.

But Yazhi said that Octavia was trustworthy, and Hullen then told Octavia the exact location of the pit dug by Ryan.

"My lord, what happened?"

Yazhi hurriedly met Octavia, with tears in her eyes, as if she was about to cry at any time.

Octavia handed Ryan to Yazhi and asked her to hold him tightly before saying, "He was ambushed by two demon generals and is now seriously injured and unconscious. Fortunately, he is not dead."

Feeling the warmth from Ryan in her arms, Yazhi felt relieved: "Weir, thank you..."

"..."

Octavia did not speak, but looked at Hu Lun beside him: "Don't rest, the demons may take further action soon, it's not safe here."

Looking at Octavia who was serious, Hullen opened his mouth and wanted to say, "Aren't you a demon?"

But looking at Ryan who was rescued by Octavia, Hullen swallowed his words, nodded vigorously, turned around and called the people to continue their journey.

At this rate, they would arrive at the next city at noon tomorrow, and it would not be too late to rest then.

The large group marched until the late night, when a scout sent by Hu Lun hurried over on horseback and reported to Hu Lun:

"My Lord City Lord, the city of Ke'e, which is adjacent to the Border City, has been massacred!"

"What?!!"

Hu Lun's eyes widened, and he felt as if his neck was tightly strangled by a hand, and he couldn't breathe: "Is it... is it a soldier from the demon tribe?"

"They are not demon soldiers, they are a group of twisted black monsters!"

Recalling what he had just seen, the scout cavalry felt a little scared.

At that time, he only heard the miserable screams coming from the city of Kege, so he moved a little closer.

Immediately afterwards, he saw several civilians running out of the city gate crying, and then several huge twisted black monsters rushed out of the city, waving their claws to kill the civilians who tried to escape, and dragged their bodies back into the city.

Seeing this scene, the scout cavalry ran back without looking back to report the situation.