After Miss Laura boarded the carriage, the four of them immediately rushed towards the suburbs.
At this time, the battle of the Chosen Ones had begun to spread to residential areas, and there were even signs of becoming more intense. The city defense troops stationed at important intersections looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.
The carriage didn't go very far when it was stopped by the defenders. Before the officer leading the carriage could yell, the maid driving the carriage waved a small flag with her family's crest, showing that she was the chosen one and was not subject to the curfew.
The surrounding city defense troops quickly dispersed, removed the roadblocks, and let them pass.
"They moved very quickly." Miss Laura leaned against the car window and watched the city defense troops move the barricades in a hurry.
"Anyone who cherishes life will try to avoid encounters with the Chosen One. After all, if they are affected by the battle, it will be too late to regret it," the female knight Heidili said matter-of-factly, "At least there are people in Beyelan City. A dozen chosen ones were hiding in the dark, watching the two battles, and would pounce out and bite the neck of their prey whenever they had the chance.
"We will rest in the safe house after leaving the city. We will resume operations after the second hot spot marking begins at 6 o'clock in the morning."
She pointed to a small town with complicated roads outside the city on the map: "Here, five minutes can only allow the Chosen One to know our location, but it cannot lock our direction. We will decide the direction when we get there. . This will be the case for the next few days. Sifeilike, you and Nora take turns driving."
"Yes." The maid with black hair and twin tails sat obediently opposite Miss Laura and her female knight. She was wearing a black and white maid dress and boots, was very tall, and always looked out the window when not asked. In such a once-in-a-century event, only one of Miss Laura's trusted personal maids could be left with her.
"We can't keep hiding like this!" Miss Laura showed her wand, "With our strength, even an extraordinary person can capture it! If we can sneak attack and seize the next emblem, it will be very advantageous next time."
Heidirich seriously rejected this suggestion: "According to the intelligence obtained by the family, the second phase will be a long-distance and dangerous maneuver. We have to hide until that time and then join up with the other chosen ones.
"The curfew is not enforced during the day. In public, the distinguished Chosen Ones still have to maintain their dignity and will not take action publicly. You can choose to form an alliance with one of them in the second stage to help him win the final victory, or even You can sell your emblems in exchange for rewards.
"According to my estimation, the most powerful chosen ones in the first half of the journey are His Highness Commodus, the Templar Knight of Sequence 6, Aaron, the son of prophecy, the Secret Peeper, Galadia, the dual-path extraordinary person of Canaan, and The mysterious man who killed Lord Avignon. Not only are they powerful in person, but they also have overwhelming manpower and material support behind them. Their advantage is hard to shake.
"However, the resource advantage cannot be maintained until the third stage. The final trial is only open to the selected ones. By that time, every emblem may be decisive.
"Launa, as long as you can persist to the third stage, your value will be unimaginable now. If it works properly, the future leader of the mysterious world will offer you unimaginable conditions, not to mention that you can also take advantage of it. Peering into the origin of the world, the Lockhavet family will reach unprecedented heights."
"Yes, yes," Ms. Laura puffed up her cheeks, "In short, for a chosen one like me, the best way to maximize profits is to just keep silent~"
"Please don't say that, honor depends on the result rather than the means..."
"Okay, okay, Heidirich, you are right, I will listen to you in everything!"
The matters the two men talked about were also earth-shattering events. However, when watching them talk, it always feels like little girls chatting.
The carriage jolted and seemed to have entered an uneven road.
"Are we close to the outskirts of the city? So fast?" Heidirich raised the curtains and looked outside. "We should have just crossed Dumbarser Bridge and haven't left Westminster District yet."
It was pitch black outside the window, with no identifiable landmarks or even many houses.
The carriage was passing through an open space, and was shaken by the bumpy road. The jagged and abrupt shadows under the moonlight are reminiscent of vultures watching for prey on dead branches.
"Is this the road leading to the suburbs?" Heidirich became wary. The scenery along the roadside became increasingly gloomy and dark, and even mausoleums and tombstones appeared.
They unknowingly came to a desolate cemetery.
The city of Bijaland is so large that it can even accommodate a cemetery.
"Stop the car! Laura, Spheric, don't come out."
Heidirich jumped off the carriage and looked around, only to see gloomy dead trees and graves. From time to time, two crows could be heard wailing, making the atmosphere even more unusual.
"Nora, what's going on? Why are you here?" The female knight drew her sword and pointed at the maid driving the car. "Come down, raise your hands above your head, let me see your face."
But no one answered her. The female knight rushed to the driver's seat and found that there was no one there.
Suddenly she heard a sound—a sound entirely different from the crackling or chattering of the remaining candles. They were vague voices, creepy, breathless, cold and vicious murmurs.
A dilapidated small lamp hung on the cold wall, shining with a dim light. Several figures, step by step, slowly walked out of the abandoned stone house in the distance, and then disappeared into the darkness.
Heidirich's heart lifted. She saw words the size of a foot smeared with blood on the ruins of a broken wall, which could not be read under the flickering firelight. A scream that made one's hair stand on end. The sound never came from a human throat, or even from this world.
What followed was a pungent stench and the terrifying screams of a large group of night owls.
Heidirich Himea felt a coldness running down his spine. She had participated in wars and witnessed tragedies that could drive people crazy. However, after studying happily at Homemonworth for several years, she gradually adapted to dignity and elegance, and those scenes that could only appear in nightmares had long been buried deep in her heart.
However, at this moment, those terrible, incomprehensible and terrifying shadows once again dug out the dusty soil from the bottom of her heart, crawling out bit by bit with decayed bones without skin and flesh.
The same goes for Miss Laura in the carriage. Even though she was a well-known bold adventurer, she still couldn't escape the trembling and fear that was gripping her throat by nameless fear. She stared at the darkness that was making strange noises, and realized that something was watching her in the darkness over there.
This unspeakable monster kidnapped his maid and took everyone to a dark and strange cemetery. In the swamp-like thick atmosphere of fear, there is also a bit of doubt
Laura braced herself, held the wand tightly, and muttered to herself to arouse her emotions:
"I'm scared. It's strange. I've never been scared even when I was lost in the ruins that host ancient evil spirits. Could it be that there is some kind of fear-causing quality hidden around here... Well, I want, ah——!"
A cold, snake-like smooth feeling rolled over her wrist, making Laura scream in fright.
"What's the matter, Miss Laura?" the maid Sifeilike with her twin tails tilted her head cutely and asked.
She didn't panic at all, and was so calm that Laura was a little ashamed.
"Something, like a snake, touched my wrist." Laura said while checking the seats and the compartment, but found nothing.
Is it my own illusion...
"Is that so? Miss Laura, it's long and smooth..." The maid raised her hands, pinched her cheeks and pulled them to both sides, making a funny expression.
Tentacles as thick as earthworms and centipedes were entangled and stirred, and they emerged from the beautiful maid's cherry-red mouth and hair, turning into fleshy tentacles covered with mouthparts, which were getting thicker and thicker. The maid's face also melted like wax, turning into a puddle of dark slime with an inexplicable light, rolling towards Laura from all directions.
This scene broke Laura's psychological and cognitive defenses. She waved the wand and struck it like a stick, then her hands were wrapped and her legs and feet were tied. The slippery, disgusting tentacles even grabbed the skirt.
"ah--!"
The screams from the carriage woke up Heidirich, who had fallen into dullness and fear due to the abnormality. Just as she was about to open the car door, the exquisite car was like a mouse's leather bag, jumping up and down amidst Laura's heart-rending screams.
At the same time, dense footsteps appeared in the darkness. A creature with the outline and shape of a deformed wild dog rushed towards the female knight. Some of them are human, with human hands and heads. Their overdeveloped brains crowd out their skulls, their ugly faces are extremely distorted, and they drag pale skeletal tails behind them as they rush toward the ground on all fours.
Heidirich suppressed the disgust and fear rolling in his heart, raised his sword, and chanted with almost crazy persistence and calmness amidst the rustling of terrifying screams and monsters running.
…
"Isn't it a bit too much? They are seniors~"
On top of the ruins of the cemetery overlooking the carriage, Lana was tearing up her maid uniform and replacing it with ferocious black armor. His body also gradually transformed from the body shape and appearance of a girl into a resolute and powerful trainee knight.
"If you feel sorry for yourself, please don't raise the corners of your mouth when you speak." Griffith wrapped himself in a black robe and tapped his fingers on the sentence. "Launa de Lockhaft, fourth grade at Homemonworth." , a Sequence 7 witch, a very active and famous archaeologist and explorer. However, whether it is family or personal strength, she is limited to the level of attention, completely different from the chosen ones such as Galadia and Aaron. Not on the same level. So, for what reason was she selected for the 24-man roster?"
"Perhaps it's the blessing of ancient inheritance," Lana had already finished donning his clothes and grabbed a two-handed battle ax and held it in his hand. "Lockhaft is one of the earliest 500 elder families in Beyeland. Like the Xia Long family, It has a mystery buried by time.”
Griffith pulled up his hood, put on a mask, and covered his face: "We can't be careless when facing such an opponent. We don't know how much background and cards she has. I have cast fear and let Minos and the zombies The ghosts have trapped them, and this won't be delayed for long. To take it down completely, we have to take action."
"Okay!" Lana put on his helmet, and a terrifying phantom of a terrifying black wolf appeared behind him. "Heidirich gave it to me. I like this one."
