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Chapter 327 Riots and Despair

The puppet, its body constantly disintegrating, looked at Sophie with a bewildered expression.

Sophie quickly brushed past her, ending the puppet's short but painful life with the ice blade in her hand.

May Tiger rest in peace.

"Thank you."

Whether it was her imagination or not, Sophie vaguely thought she heard the puppets talking.

A bloodstain appeared on the puppet's neck, but her head and body did not separate; instead, they were completely frozen into an ice sculpture.

As the puppet was frozen, the ground beneath its feet and the chair behind it were also frozen into ice.

The entire church was frozen into an ice church, and the ice cover continued to expand until it enveloped the entire town of Sweetwater.

Sophie has frozen the source of the infection, and the puppet will no longer release the virus outwards.

But the problem is not yet completely solved. They must return to the royal capital, Linye Territory, to help those who have been infected out of their predicament before the situation completely spirals out of control.

Just as Li En and Sophie were busy dealing with the source of the infection, another riot broke out in the territory of Lin Ye.

Nobles and wealthy merchants, unwilling to wait for their deaths, tried to break out with their families and soldiers. They gathered at the city gate and clashed fiercely with the guards.

Raven, Isaac, and Fidel were also encountering a noble rebellion for the first time.

“We pledge allegiance to the King in the North because we know he can bring us peace and security, honor and dignity. But if the Moria family wants us to be trapped here to die, we will never agree to that, and we believe the King in the North will not agree either. We will break out, leave this hellish place, and go to White Bear Territory to question the King in the North in person.”

"Yes, we have to leave! We can't be trapped here!"

The nobles shouted loudly, and their call was met with enthusiastic responses.

More and more civilians who wanted to escape followed.

Linye Territory was the most densely populated city in the North, and its civilians were known for their fierceness. At this moment, they didn't want to hear any explanations and just wanted to leave the plague outbreak area.

Among them are many who have already been infected but have not yet had time to be tested.

The number of entry detection devices is limited. The lord's mansion and the church only have three in total. It is already difficult enough to complete the detection of the people in the castle in a short time, let alone detect the population of the entire Lin Ye territory.

More people bring more crises, and stampedes occur from time to time.

The guards were in grave danger and could be overwhelmed by the crowd at any moment.

"Father, let's go and stop them."

The proud and arrogant Raven volunteered.

Leam Moria gave him a deep look and rejected his offer.

"Uncle Leam, then let me go."

Isaac said that the young Moria descendants were all looking anxiously at Leam Moria, and they all wanted to stop it.

"No, none of you can go."

"That's what Leam Moria said."

"why?"

Brown asked, puzzled.

"Because you are Moria's offspring, you cannot have any blood of the people of the North on your bodies, otherwise you will lose your supporters in the future."

Leam Moria said with a serious expression,
"Moreover, I cannot guarantee that there are no infected people among them. The more crowded the area, the easier it is to be infected. You are the hope of the family, and you should not be here."

"Lord Leam, then let me go. I am a witch, I will not be infected, and I can assure you that I will try my best not to harm them."

Aislie stepped out from the crowd, her eyes sparkling like emeralds beneath a dark green hood.

"You're a witch too?"

Leam Moria never expected that so many witches would come to his territory.

Aisley nodded, took off her hood, and revealed her true appearance.

Even Leam Moria had to admit that the witches were far more beautiful than his mistresses.

“I’ll go with you, Aisley.”

Isaac spoke up.

Aisley did not refuse him.

During her time with Isaac, Aisley had come to regard him as a friend.

"it is good."

Leam Moria nodded slightly, watching Aisley and Isaac leave.

As Aisley placed her hands close to the ground, a huge vine grew from the cracks in the ground, dragging her and Isaac as they appeared before the many rebellious nobles and commoners.

Behind Aisly, vines grew like demonic tendrils, forming a dense cage that covered half the sky, creating an extremely terrifying visual effect.

It was this fear that caused the rioters to temporarily halt their advance and instead retreat continuously.

"what is this?"

"It's a monster! The monster is coming!"

"No, it's a witch! It's a witch."

People retreated while screaming for help in fear.

The nobles noticed the blond, blue-eyed Isaac and started shouting at the top of their lungs.

"Do the Moria family collude with the witch to kill us, the people of the North?"

"Stop it all!"

Isaac roared, wielding the power of a knight.

“I am Isaac Moria, the fifteenth grandson of the King in the North. I swear by my faith that you will be safe in Nightfall!”

"The witch Aisley beside me is here to help us through this difficult time, and she will never harm anyone, provided that you do not disobey Lord Leam's orders again, and do not attempt to provoke the guards or start a riot!"

“If you go back now and stay where you are, we can save everyone.”

Upon hearing Isaac's words, everyone calmed down for a moment.

Under the threat of the Aislie vines, they dared not make any further rash moves.

But the nobles are not as easily fooled as the commoners. Even Lady Rose tried to sneak away. How could they possibly believe that Leam could save everyone?

"Isaac, do you think we're fools? If Lord Leam could really save us, why did Lady Rose leave overnight?"

"Yes, if we hadn't stopped Mrs. Rose, she would have already left here with her three children."

The nobles asked questions one by one, but Isaac, unaware of the matter, was speechless for a moment.

Just as the criticism was growing louder, Aisley spoke up.

“Everyone, I know you are all afraid of the plague, afraid of death, and want to escape from here. But many of you have already been infected with the plague. If you leave here, you will only spread the plague to other places and cause the entire North to fall.”

"What right do you, a witch wanted by the Empire, have to point fingers at us Northern nobles?"

"The noble minister spoke loudly."

Aisley realized she couldn't communicate normally with this group, so she nodded and manipulated the vines behind her to form a high wall, blocking everyone's path.

“Yes, I have no right to tell anyone what to do, but I can make everyone stay.” “Witch, are you trying to kill us?”

The crowd immediately erupted in excitement. Realizing that Aisley had no intention of attacking them, they began to charge forward recklessly, trying to use their swords to cut through the high wall of vines.

But if even knights can't do it, it's even harder for ordinary people.

The high wall made of vines is impregnable and will even retaliate when attacked.

Everyone started cursing Aisley, but Aisley ignored them.

Isaac, not wanting to hear their blasphemy, spoke again.
"The witch never intended to harm us; she was helping us."

"Isaac, then tell me, if we stay in the Nightfall Territory, will we definitely be rescued?"

A nobleman questioned him, saying that he and Isaac were childhood friends.

"All I want now is for my mother and sisters to get out of here, Isaac. Can you consider our fifteen years of friendship and let us go?"

Isaac frowned; he didn't know if Lee could save these people.

What Li En and Sophie are about to do is far more dangerous than what they were doing.

Isaac couldn't guarantee that Lee would come back alive, much less that he could save everyone in the territory.

He doesn't know how to answer this former friend.

"Isaac, come back."

"It is Lyam Moriah on the city wall!"

Isaac glanced apologetically at his former friend, turned and left, the vines carrying him back to the city wall.

"I'm sorry, uncle."

Isaac now finally understood why Leam Moria hadn't allowed the Moria family to intervene.

When they encounter nobles, such situations are inevitable.

Aisley had no worries; all she needed to do was keep her promise to Li En, protect the territory, and wait for his return.

She didn't need to answer any questions from nobles, knights, or commoners.

Witches were terrifying beings to them.

The high wall of vines built by Aisley stabilized the situation, preventing the people of Lin Ye Territory from leaving and forcing them to return to their homes.

Of course, some nobles also led their troops to attack Nightfall Fortress and seize power, but they were quickly suppressed by the powerful knights who returned from the rift and imprisoned.

After dealing with this matter, Raven, Isaac, and other young Moria descendants decided to go and check on the situation in the city.

After settling most of the exploration team in, Field, Isaac, Raven, Noah, and the others left the castle together.

They rode their horses to the square.

In the square, the crowd was as dense as ants, their limbs bound by cold iron chains, the heavy chains dragging their steps with a mournful sound.

Each person had a plain white cloth covering their head, like a final prayer before death. The air was filled with the pungent smell of medicine, mixed with an atmosphere of fear and despair.

Field's gaze swept across the crowd, and he saw faces appearing and disappearing under the white cloth, filled with endless sorrow and a longing for life.

Their eyes, peering through the gaps, gleamed with a resentful light, as if they were telling the world of their unfulfilled wishes.

“Why? They’re just sick.” Field’s voice was filled with disbelief and shock.

The guard lowered his eyelids, his voice devoid of any emotion: "This is a necessary sacrifice to prevent the spread of the epidemic."

Sacrifice? A surge of anger welled up in Field's heart, but no one could bear his anger; it could only boil over in his chest like hot blood.

He knew that even knights were powerless in the face of the plague.

The sky gradually darkened, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on these poor people, tinging their pale faces with a touch of blood.

What will happen to them?

"Noah, the leader of the Black Rose Adventurer Group, asked."

“These people will be burned to death at night; only in this way can the plague be stopped from spreading further.”

The guard's words were like a cold key, leaving everyone present with a heavy heart.

Isaac, Raven, and the others lowered their heads, knowing that even as nobles, they were powerless in the face of this plague.

They had neither superior purification abilities nor outstanding medical skills, so they could only pray that Li En could return before nightfall and save the group.

The bells in the square rang out, each strike a reminder of impending death. Low sobs rose from the crowd, like distant waves lapping against a lonely shore.

"Please, please save us, we don't want to die."

"Please let my child go! My child is innocent! Please, let my child leave!"

"Don't burn us! Don't burn us! We're not sick!"

Cries for help came from the crowd, jolting the nerves of every onlooker.

Noah gasped. "This is the cruelest disease I've ever seen."

Isaac, Raven, and the others didn't look too good either.

"Please leave, adults."

The guards tried to persuade them.

"Li En, can you really save the Nightfall Territory?"

Isaac couldn't help but ask.

The guard didn't understand what he meant, but he could see the same despair in the young man's eyes as he himself.

"Adults, get out of here quickly, they're about to make even more desperate cries for help."

The head guard tried to persuade him again.

Nancy suddenly stepped out from the crowd and looked at Field. "Do you have a harp?"

Although he didn't know what Nancy was going to do, Field still instructed Lolita to find a harp for Nancy.

Nancy sat at the edge of the square and began to play the harp and hum a song.

"When the light kisses the oak forest, the dew whispers among the alfalfa, the spinning wheel hums the flax ballad, and the hearth fire illuminates the glaze of the earthenware pot."

May the white dove never lose its wings, may golden ears of wheat carpet the long dike, may the laughter of children be like silver bells, shattering the metallic clang of battle helmets…

A stream flows past a stone mill, girls weave violet crowns, and the nectar sleeping in the wine cellar dreams of a bountiful harvest celebration…

Even though the north wind once tore the banners, the wild roses still climbed the broken walls. We buried the swords with the sound of bells and planted the shadow of olive branches on the altar…

See the smoke curling around the evening stars, the shepherd playing his bone flute in peace, every grain of dust holds light, life, more eternal than a crown…

As Nancy's gentle singing and melodious music filled the air, the crowd in the square gradually calmed down.

Her voice was heavenly, and combined with the power of the mermaid, it captivated everyone.

She is singing about life, and at the same time, she is giving these people strength so that they are no longer afraid of death.

If Li En couldn't get here before nightfall, Nancy hoped she could see them off, so they could die without fear and full of hope.

Even when engulfed in flames, they feel no pain.

(End of this chapter)