Chapter 1606: Petrification Curse

Iceland.

At the foot of a majestic iceberg that is more than 7,000 meters high.

The naturally formed cave made this place the first to be favored by local intelligent creatures, who settled here to rest and recuperate.

As time flies, over thousands of years, the residents of the cave have continuously expanded this cave, and eventually made it one of the top ten settlements in the Iceland.

In addition, the residents here discovered a magic stone vein from deep underground a hundred years ago and cultivated ice-type spiritual herbs suitable for the local environment.

With two specialties and a large population, this place has suddenly become one of the core bases for trade in the Iceland.

On weekdays, caravans or travelers who are not afraid of the wind and cold can always be seen coming day and night in the ice and snow outside the cave entrance.

However, after the plague was reported in this settlement.

In just a few days, no outsider dared to come.

Deep in the cave, a circle of lower and lower open space was opened up along the veins.

The milky white buildings of the entire settlement are distributed in circles of open space like terraces, and most of the buildings are lit with fire.

It seems that the occupancy rate is quite good.

Like the main road around the mountain, there are light source buildings like wells every kilometer. These wells continuously release white light, illuminating the area of ​​a kilometer.

If you just look down from a high altitude, you will feel that this city in the cave has a unique flavor and is full of alternative artistic flavor.

The environment of the settlement is quite comfortable. The wizards have laid the magic circle through geothermal heat to keep the temperature of most of the living space at around 18 degrees Celsius.

Just look at the surface.

Most people probably think that there is nothing wrong with this city, but it is very suitable for living.

Only those who know the truth know.

This settlement called Ice Bird City has become a hell full of panic and despair.

The city has long been under martial law.

Except for the official team wearing robes covered with protective magic circles, no one is allowed to leave the house.

Every two hours, the robed guards on the street would knock on doors from house to house to check the condition of the house owner.

Once they found someone who was sick, they would imprison him and take him away as if they were facing a great enemy.

They said they would take them to the wizards sent by the royal family for treatment.

In addition, from time to time, these robed guards would find completely petrified owners in some houses that were completely silent.

In the earliest days, the robed guards would also take these petrified people away.

But as the wizards continued to study, it was proved that these petrified people were no longer saveable, but might be sacrifices to evil gods.

The robed guards tended to smash these petrified people and burn them to ashes.

In the deepest open space of the city.

Piles of petrified fragments were piled up to form a small hill.

Then, more than a dozen wizards specializing in fire stepped forward in unison, stretched out their staffs and silently chanted spells.

After dozens of seconds.

More than a dozen fire snakes flew out and kept wrapping the pile of petrified fragments, making a sizzling burning sound.

Gulza looked at the burning fire, and then looked at the Ice Bird City behind him.

His mood was extremely complicated.

In the past, Gulza envied the upper-class people who could live in this city.

Their lives seemed worth fighting for a lifetime in Gulza!

Unexpectedly.

In the blink of an eye, everything changed.

The great treasure of this frozen continent has also turned into a place that makes them shudder.

As a Morning Star Knight, Gulza had to take responsibility and come to understand the situation of the plague on the spot.

The more he looked, the more palpitations he naturally had!

The petrification curse is 100% caused by a very powerful evil god!

To be honest, the plague brought by such a curse... The royal wizards have already admitted that they can only do their best and leave it to fate.

The patients who have not been completely petrified are taken in.

There is no treatment at all, just waiting to die.

In fact, as the research on the petrification curse is getting more and more dead end.

A legendary wizard from the royal family has proposed to burn all the patients to death.

Even if the plague cannot be controlled.

He plans to destroy all the cities and patients with the plague in one go!

His proposal did not receive much support, but... the high priest rejected it.

However, Gulza, who watched the whole process, knew in his heart.

If this approach can successfully prevent the spread of the plague, the high priest will not mind.

But the high priest directly refuted the legendary wizard's fantasy.

The most important thing about the evil god's plague is to find the source and path of the other party's transmission.

If these two key factors cannot be found, what's the point of killing all the infected?

Is it true that if the entire royal family is infected, all the descendants of the royal family must be slaughtered?

Maybe this approach will instead satisfy the evil god's intention behind the scenes and become the preliminary preparation for some of the other party's evil secrets.

For example, the evil god of despair mentioned in ancient records.

His favorite sacrifice is the despair of ordinary people after they feel powerless.

He would instinctively give back the power to the evil god who provided him with a lot of such emotions.

Gulza sighed softly and left the underground. He jumped lightly and came to a well halfway up the mountain in the city.

As soon as his perception was opened.

Gulza immediately heard in the second apartment building on his left.

A human mother and daughter were squatting in a corner crying in despair.

A half-demon, realizing that he was infected, was mutilating himself and screaming in his room.

In the first apartment on the right, in a relatively beautiful room, a mother with pointed ears was comforting a little boy whose skin was beginning to turn petrified.

This woman must have known something and didn't let the robed guards take away her child.

With Gulzar's understanding.

The little boy is already in the middle and late stages of the illness, and will soon become ill and turn into a stone statue.

And the mother who took care of him was actually not having an easy time, and the aura of the petrified curse appeared on her body.

Thinking about the next test, she will be taken away as a patient, right?

And in the building across the road ahead.

Gulzar was slightly startled, but he sensed that he saw a guard officer in a robe stabbing himself to death with a sword.

The officer was not sick.

But judging by the messiness of the place where he committed suicide.

I'm afraid this is his home, and his family...either turned into stone sculptures, or they were all taken away.

"Did the frustration of being helpless against his family lead him to despair and die?"

Gulzar murmured to himself. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he quickly let out a sigh.

He discovered that after the death of an officer who was not infected, his soul still disappeared!

It didn’t dissipate naturally, but simply disappeared!

"He didn't turn into a stone sculpture. How could his soul be missing?"

Gulzar's body shook, and the power of the Morning Star was fully activated.

His eyes twinkled with starlight.

Suddenly!

Gulzar was surprised to find that he had seen an extremely terrifying scene!