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The Gray Desert is the largest desert in the eastern part of the Arad continent. It has always been inaccessible, even for adventurers. Unless it is necessary, under normal circumstances, it is only explored on the periphery, and few people are willing to go deep into it.

Normally, this place is basically deserted, but the situation has changed significantly recently. A large number of teams came to the nearest town in the Gray Desert, Gray Town.

This town is named after Gray because it is closest to the Gray Desert.

The reason why the gray desert has this name is because the sky and the earth here are mostly gray.

According to legend, hundreds of years ago, the area where the Gray Desert is located was not a desert, but a beautiful scene with beautiful scenery and fertile soil.

It is said that humans built several beautiful cities in this area.

However, following a disaster that affected the entire continent of Arad, a protracted war began here. After the war ended, this place became the gray desert it is now.

That war was the famous First Dark Holy War.

However, as hundreds of years passed, the Dark Holy War slowly faded from people's sight, and many people did not even know that such a war had ever occurred.

The pretender who was so perverted in the continent of Arad back then is now remembered by few people.

"It's strange, there are so many clergymen. Don't these guys usually pray in the church? What are they doing here?" On both sides of the road in the gray town, many adventurers who often hang out in the town looked in shock as they kept coming from the town.

Adopted clerical body.

"That's the army of the empire." Behind the priests, there are imperial soldiers with bright armor and flags flying as far as the eye can see.

"Imperial Royal Swordsmen, are you kidding? Why are they here?" A middle-aged man with a beard holding a wine bottle in his hand looked at the armor on the Imperial soldiers walking at the back and said,

The wine bottle in his hand immediately fell from his hand and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

But at this time, he no longer cared about such things, because behind this group of troops was a group of magicians wearing the same cloaks and holding various colored staffs.

"The Mage Legion of the Principality of Belmare."

"Is the end of the world coming? The people of the Empire are actually getting together with the people of the Principality."

"The Bantu people also showed up."

"Who are those people? How come I've never seen them before?"

"It's from Xuzu. It seems like something big has happened."

Such a situation has of course attracted the attention of many adventurers. Some are timid and have decided to leave here immediately, while others are bold and are speculating whether something good has appeared in the gray desert, which is why these countries have joined forces to appear.

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There have always been legends that there are huge treasures in the gray desert, which is why so many adventurers gather in this gray town.

When these adventurers saw this situation, their eyes immediately flashed. If so many forces can unite, the treasure must be very amazing.

As the saying goes, the brave will be starved to death by starvation. Many adventurers have decided to go to the Gray Desert first. Maybe they can get some treasures before these forces.

"Your Excellency, people from all over the world have arrived." At the border of the gray desert, in the large tent of the clergy's temporary camp, a young man wearing gold and white armor and carrying a huge scythe behind his back bowed and said.

"Thank you for your hard work, Neilbas." The old man who looked very old but very ordinary slowly turned around and stared at the young man in front of him for a long time. After sighing softly, he spoke again,

"I never thought that your generation would encounter Ozma's return in my lifetime. Fortunately, it was discovered early this time and no major harm was caused."

"It's all thanks to Alice this time." The old man said and bowed slightly to a young woman next to him who was wearing purple, had long purple hair, and was holding a strange musical instrument in her arms.

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"Your Majesty, you are so polite. Marillette told you all this. Everything is a predetermined fate." The young woman said and slightly plucked the strings of the instrument in her hand, and a refreshing music sounded.

There was a sound in the big tent.

Fortune teller Alice is a mysterious fortune teller who has appeared on the continent of Arad in recent years. It is said that all the things she divines are true.

It is very sought after by some princes, nobles, rich people and adventurers.

But to the clergy, these are nothing at all. The pursuit of the clergy is not the power and interests in the world.

Originally, the clergy and Alice were two parallel lines that did not interfere with each other, but one day, Alice came to Remedia Cathedral in Hutton Mar, the capital of the Principality of Belmare, and said that she had predicted the appearance of the pretender.

The clergy did not pay too much attention to this, because the pretenders have always existed and have never been completely eliminated. This is also the reason why the clergy church was established.

The original Dark Crusade only sealed the source of the Pretenders in the rift of another dimension.

The entire Arad continent can be so peaceful thanks to the countless lives sacrificed by the priests over the past hundreds of years. As time goes by, after the original Dark Holy War, there are fewer and fewer pretenders remaining in the Arad continent.

That's why ordinary people didn't discover the pretenders.

Even if someone occasionally discovered it, they would just treat it as a monster or a disaster caused by ghost hands.

The Pretender is a monster caused by the curse of blood. People who are affected by this curse usually look like ordinary people, but in fact they are no longer human, but a kind of demon. The most terrifying thing is that once they are attacked by the Pretender, they are injured.

, that person will also become a pretender.

Just like the zombies in Resident Evil, they are highly contagious. What's more terrifying than zombies is that the pretender can pretend to be just like ordinary people. When you don't do anything, you can't tell who the pretender is.

Only people with strong minds can avoid becoming pretenders.

When the blood curse was raging in the continent of Arad, everyone was in danger, and the distrust between people reached its peak. The slightest fluctuation would cause an uproar.

Why did the Peros Empire collapse in the first place? It was precisely because of this, because no one knew who to trust, and no one knew who was a normal person and who was a pretender.

Pretenders will not form their formation to fight you openly.

Until the first cleric appeared, this situation guessed to have changed, because the clergy had the ability to distinguish pretenders, and then as more and more clergy appeared, the pretenders could no longer disguise themselves.

Then there was the Dark Holy War. Both sides gathered their armies and fought a war. However, at the time of this war, the blood curse had been raging for nearly a hundred years.

After the Dark Holy War, the continent of Arad was also devastated. Only today has it regained some of its vitality.

The Church of the Priest was established to completely eliminate the blood curse from the continent of Arad and prevent Ozma from coming back.

Under such circumstances, if Alice said there was a pretender, the clergy would certainly not care.

But then Alice said a name, the bishop had to pay attention, and that was Ozma.

Then the clergy began to go out in full force and investigate everywhere. Sure enough, as Alice said, the number of pretenders in Arad continent was increasing. With the clergy's full-scale attack, so many pretenders increased in a short period of time, then...

There is only one possibility, and that is that Ozma appears again.

But this time, the pretender did not cause much damage at all, and was forced to retreat to the gray desert. The teachings of the priests now are different from those during the first Dark Holy War. At that time, the church of priests had just been established, and everything

It's all just beginning, and there are very few priests who can tell the difference between pretenders.

But after hundreds of years of development, the Priests have become a huge force. They are also the only force in Arad continent that spans all countries.

The Delos Empire, Xuzu, the Principality of Belmare, and even the Bantu Tribe and the Church of the Priests all have sufficient influence.

This time, the coalition forces from various countries were able to unite smoothly, thanks to the mediation of the Holy Church. (To be continued)