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Chapter 372: Battle at Changquan Town

"Jenny, why did you follow us if you are not infected?" Bagpipe sat in the back of the pack animal cart with the supplies, with her upper body lying on the haystack that the pack animals were eating, and asked her friend of the same tribe. The latter was Waifan, whom she had rescued when she came to the Hill County area to search for survivors and supplies.

"...I can't remain indifferent after hearing what the colonel said...I live in Hill County, I'm a Victorian, and I've never felt that other people there are any different from us." Jane Willow thought of everyone in the Rhodes Island office and the neighbors she lived with on weekdays. She could never understand why the colonel described the people of Tara as "enemies" and "scum."

"We eat together, work together, look at the same sky, speak the same language...how come—"

"Miss, I think I need to say something." A Tara soldier beside him couldn't help but interrupt. His leg was injured, but he could still fight. "When you say 'the same language', it's already a result of the persecution of us by the masters in Victoria. Do you know how many people in Xiaoqiu County can still speak Tara? How many of them are young people?"

"There's not even a single Tara language textbook in the whole of the Hill Country. Victoria doesn't even respect our language."

"...But we are all Victorians..." The blonde Vaifan was stunned. She had never realized these problems.

"Victoria? In your eyes, we are, and in her eyes, we are too. But in the eyes of Victoria's nobles, we have never been. Not in the past, not now, and not in the future!" The Tara soldier withdrew his gaze. He did not blame Vayvan. "We have never felt happy after becoming 'Victorians'."

Bagpipe looked at Jane, scratched the back of his head and tried clumsily to comfort her, but the latter was already stuck in a maze of thoughts and her face was a little pale.

"...I'm...too self-righteous..."

Xiaoqiu County, Changquan Town.

Shredder carried Oliver as quickly as possible through the dangerous area through the underground passage, followed by Fred, Will and the Caprini youth from Letania.

Today's bloody monsters are particularly dangerous. They have fled to several hiding places in succession, but not every hiding place is perfect when surrounded by monsters. It can be said that after the first hiding place is exposed, they are destined to continue to escape until the bloody monsters give up the hunt or succeed.

A terrible roar erupted from behind them again, and the obstacles that blocked the enemy were broken through. They didn't know whether those things bought them a few seconds or more than ten seconds, but they only knew that they would not survive if they didn't continue to run desperately.

Due to the lack of ideal medical conditions, the injured Oliver has not been able to recover. Just now, he was planning to stay behind to cover everyone's retreat, but he was knocked unconscious by the Shredder and carried on his shoulders to escape.

Generally speaking, lone monsters are large in size and find it difficult to enter this underground passage - actually, it is the local sewer pipe here - but the blood-colored monster behind him is different from ordinary special individuals. It does not have a huge body, but only a terrifying speed. It seems to be no different from an ordinary blood-colored monster, but its extremely strong physical fitness and sharp blood-colored bone blade make it impossible for several people to resist its attack head-on, and they can only flee in embarrassment.

"We... can't outrun it!" The young Caprini looked back quickly and made his decision without hesitation.

"Then aren't we going to run away? We can't win again!" Will kicked down the scaffolding to try to delay the pursuit. They seemed to have run to the area under construction, but this area was more fragile than other passages, and no one knew when construction would resume.

"...I'll cover your retreat." The young war correspondent made a firm decision at this critical juncture without hesitation. Leitania's advanced magical education gave him more courage than ordinary people.

He threw the notebook in his arms to Will. It was the result of his hard work over the past few days. He then drew the staff from his waist and immediately began to chant.

There is a strong correlation between Leithanian magic and music, which is why magicians from Leithania have an extra stage of chanting to connect magic rituals compared to magicians from other regions.

Correspondingly, their spells will be more dangerous.

The spell, which had materialized into a magic sphere, was briefly chanted and then shot out as a stream of light. However, the blood-colored monster was still a long way away. As if due to a misjudgment, the sorcerer's magic sphere had completely vanished before it reached the monster.

"Kallen! Stop it!" Will yelled.

"Don't stop! Go! I may not be able to hold it off for long!" The young Caprini waved his staff, and when the blood-colored monster crashed into the area where the magic ball disappeared, the light and musical notes reappeared. The monster felt a sting and immediately changed its action and jumped to the top of the passage.

"You will die!" Fred also slowed down. They couldn't let an international friend stay like this.

"After all, I am a magician who graduated from Ludwig University in Leithnia!" As Kalen resolutely said "Go", light and musical notes flew out and refracted back and forth in the passage, trapping Blood Shadow in a "cage". The latter roared, and they were sure that the roar could be heard on the ground. The other party was completely enraged by them. The blood claws violently tore apart the network structure woven by light and sound. Kalen had to go all out.

"The noise will interfere with my performance. Now, immediately, get out of here!" Kalen made up an excuse and this time skipped the chanting stage and cast several spells in succession. After coming into contact with the last spell creation, the broken network structure was replenished. The flexible spell enveloped the monster's limbs, burning and restraining it at the same time, forcibly slowing its steps.

"Taking my notebook out with you is a big help to me!"

"Don't be so pretentious. Didn't you say you've helped others too? Why are you being so pretentious now that it's your turn?"

The calmest Shredder pulled his companion aside and said with difficulty, "Let's go..."

"...Let's go." Will took a last look at the young man from Leithnia, carefully put away Callen's notebook, and ran again with Fred unwillingly.

Kallen smiled bitterly. He had no worries. His father died on the battlefield and his mother was supported by Leithania's pension. As long as the information he collected could let the outside world know the specific damage caused by the Victorian disaster... then he had nothing to fear.

Even all his life's knowledge could not keep him going for more than ten minutes. The blood-colored monster was not in a hurry to hunt down other people. Compared to the flesh and blood mixed with Originium, Caprini in front of him was more attractive to it.

The fierce battle shook the walls of the passage. Originium skills and ferocious bodies blasted numerous cracks into the already unstable passage. When death loomed over the seriously injured Caprini, he leaned against the corner and breathed out in pain:

"The staff... can no longer connect to any spells... It's reached its limit..."

"Death...so this is what it is..."

The blood-red monster tore through his last line of defense with Originium skills. At the final step, it was no longer anxious, but approached step by step, even leaning down with a look of contempt. Under Kalen's fear of the unknown, its terrifying jaw opened and closed:

"Le...Tanya..."

"Wizard sheep cluck cluck... Can your meat sing?"

In the midst of the goosebump-riddled shock, Kallen didn't notice that they were not fighting anymore, but the passage was still shaking, until the shaking caused both sides to react at the same time.

The next moment, blazing flames gushed out around a gun tip and shattered the top of the passage. With high temperature and vitality, Draco suddenly attacked and smashed the bloody monster into the ground.

Yes, it smashed into the ground. The bloody monster fought back at the moment of the attack. The tip of the gun did not hit its torso directly, but the huge force and high temperature still put it at a disadvantage.

"Roar!" It jumped out angrily, but when it moved its body, it found that its leg was injured, and its mobility, which was the core of its killing move, was greatly reduced.

"We found... 'Accountant', bring him up, he's injured, remember to isolate him for observation.

"Here, leave this guy to me. It's very dangerous."

"Deep Pool" said this, and flames spurted out from the tip of the spear again, illuminating the underground like daylight.