Blood tax

Chapter 157 Corpse Tide
Griffith unfolded the streamer shield, drew out his saber, and drove the carriage towards the living corpse.

Amidst the sound of crackling and crushing, the carriage smashed past the living corpses and rushed to the gate of the port area.

"Get out of the car!" Griffith observed the terrain here.Ruiwen Port is one of the customs offices of the Eastern Province. There are only a few channels for people and goods entering the port to leave the port.The tall wall surrounded the entire port in a ring shape, and as long as the few entrances and exits were blocked, the spread of infection like a tide could be controlled.

The soldiers stationed in the port area and the fleeing passengers are continuously fleeing here.

"The captain and the others are coming, and it will take a quarter of an hour at most!" Amber shook the Echo Crystal in her hand, "She ordered the local garrison to block the other exits, which are relatively remote, so it shouldn't be difficult."

Raven Harbor is surrounded by hills, so the only road that can lead to the city is the passage in front of Griffith.As long as the situation here is under control, the situation can be stabilized.

"Amber, you lead everyone to build barricades, using furniture from nearby buildings to build barricades, the higher the better. Those who want to run must also stay here to test the degree of infection and quarantine," Griffith took off the shield, " I'm here to stop the living corpse."

Amber looked at the quasi-knights in sharp clothes, nodded and turned around to stop the port guards who were still in shock, and drove them to pull up the line of defense.

Thousands of passengers and staff in the port area are resisting and escaping.Behind them, the running corpses were like a gray-black wave, engulfing all the poor people who were a step behind.

Some of the continuously produced living corpses seem to have accepted some kind of order, instead of biting and chasing the survivors, they gathered together and prepared to attack the exit of the passage here.

This is an organized attack... Griffith immediately understood the situation and went retrograde towards the tide of corpses.

Although there are many of these monsters, they are transformed by human beings after all, and they are unarmed.Although their sharp claws and fangs are comparable to sharp swords, it is not easy to break through armor.When facing the same unarmed civilians, the living corpse is very threatening, but it is not the case when facing the regular army.

Thinking of this, Griffith believed that his actions were not wrong. He could and should stop these monsters in the port to buy time for everyone.

He held a solid vanguard shield in his left hand, drew his sword in his right hand, and rushed towards the oncoming living corpse.Many passengers who passed by him may have been infected, but there is no time to screen them now, and Amber will control them.

He cut off the neck of one living corpse with a single blow of his sword, and then smashed the head of another with his shield.

Followed by more than a dozen living corpses, with wet blood still stuck to their bodies, swarming towards Griffith with dead gray eyes.

"Come on, let you experience the power of the streamer shield!"

Griffith swung his sword to kill, and hardly looked at the living corpse that attacked him.These crazy monsters clawed and bitten, desperately trying to tear the icy shield.

The tide of gray corpses rolled over, with blood-colored bubbles surging, first splashed with scattered waves, and then smashed down on Griffith with his head covered and his face covered.

A large group of living corpses piled together, rolled and buried Griffith, making rustling and biting sounds like an ant colony on a caterpillar.

The air was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly there was a loud bang of ice bursting.

"Bah!"

The dense shattered ice exploded, knocking down the densely packed living corpses in a radial pattern.There was nothing around Griffith.

The sharp shards crushed the heads of some of the living corpses, killing them.Other living corpses were also wounded and fell to the ground.

Useful, this shield is very effective against living corpses!
Griffith fought while moving, and the living corpses surrounded him like mad dogs chasing and biting him.

A group of living corpses had just been killed, and immediately four different living corpses rushed up from everywhere.Their overdeveloped bodies are hideous and distorted, their swollen brains squeeze their skulls, but their bodies are like cheetahs, walking on all fours on the walls and roofs, appearing and disappearing like ghosts.

Ghoul!
There is a green light on their sharp claws, showing a special effect similar to enchanted weapons. It is more mutated than the same kind that appeared on Neopolis Island before, and it is obviously more dangerous.

It is very dangerous to deal with agile mutant creatures like four ghouls on the open ground at the same time, not to mention there are living corpses that appear from time to time nearby.Griffith shielded himself with a shield and hurriedly retreated towards a solid wall.

The four ghouls were very fast, and two of them rushed towards him, but the other two passed him and rushed backwards in a blink of an eye.

"Amber! Two ghouls are coming to you!" Griffith subconsciously reminded loudly through the echo crystal.But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he saw the passing ghouls stop and turn around, blocking his retreat to the wall.

Are they outflanking me? !
Griffith was taken aback, and fell under the siege of four ghouls in an instant.The shimmering claws tore at his breastplate, flashes of fire flashed, and the mail armor on his legs even heard the sound of metal shattering.

Can their attacks break armor?

Griffith's ice shield was deployed as soon as it finished cooling down, and the shield of the medal was reserved for use as a key backhand, and he hadn't activated it yet. He thought he could withstand it.While defending, he swung his sword and slashed at a ghoul.

The sword's edge split open the mutated creature's exposed brain, and half of that distorted face was blown away.The severely injured ghoul was chopped down on the spot and convulsed.

At this moment, Griffith suddenly heard a crackling sound, and the ice shield that had just been unfolded unexpectedly shattered.The shards of ice pierced the ghoul's body, knocking both ends back, but the other only wobbled.

Such a powerful attack?Griffith was taken aback.Before he activated the shield of the medal, he felt a sharp pain in his thigh.In the part where the armor defense was insufficient, a ghoul had bitten through the mail armor, and its sharp claws dug deep into his flesh and blood.

hell!He immediately thought of whether he would be infected, and immediately activated the shield of the medal, and then stabbed the ghoul's skull with a backhand sword, nailing it to the ground.

Severe pain and numbness flooded into his brain one after another, and Griffith immediately fell to his knees unbearably.His injured right leg quickly lost control as if pierced by a spear, and then his right hand began to lose his grip on the saber, so he could barely use his shield to resist the fierce bites of the remaining two ghouls.

"Amber, support me!" The feeling of paralysis became more and more violent, and Griffith, unable to hold on, hurriedly called for help.

A golden light appeared behind him.Amber wrapped in golden light is like a thunderbolt.She split the tide of corpses, and the ferocious shock wave knocked Griffith and the ghoul to the ground.

Before Griffith could get up, Amber crushed the head of one ghoul with his foot, and punched the jaw of the other.The ghoul that was hit was like being hit head-on by a siege hammer, and its head exploded with a snap.

The ghoul had just been knocked down, and a dozen travelers who had been transformed into living corpses had already roared and rushed forward.Amber glanced at the pale Griffith, but without speaking, he punched the ground directly.

"Boom!" The golden light was poured into the ground like an air wave, tearing open a fan-shaped crack.The living corpses within this range flew out together with the shattered ground, hitting the living corpses used behind and turned into a rain of blood.

Amber's attack is amazing!Griffith fully supported himself who had just recovered a little and stood up.Amber grabbed his arm and whirled back to the port exit.

"Hang on, I'll give you some inhibitor!" Amber took out a bottle of light blue potion, opened the apprentice knight's mouth and poured it in without any explanation.

Half of Griffith's body was still in a state of paralysis, so he half-kneeled on the ground, with a hard medicine bottle stuck in his mouth, and an unknown liquid was poured into his mouth.

"Okay, Extraordinary people are highly resistant to this kind of pollution." Amber patted the apprentice knight's face with an expression of "you don't have to thank me", then turned and said to a group of people armed with various weapons, "Close the back door , Seal the exit! No one is allowed to leave, gather all the carriages and block them as obstacles!"

A middle-aged man dressed as a civil servant ran over, followed by a small group of armed port guard guards.He looked at the two Extraordinary people, shifted his eyes from Amber to Griffith, and said hastily: "I am the port chief of Revan Port, are you Extraordinary? Ah, Your Excellency, Quasi-Knights! When will we Can you get the support of the garrison mage?"

"In less than 10 minutes, a team of demon hunters will arrive. Before that, we need to establish a blockade," Amber replied quickly, her blue eyes did not look at the commander, but swept around and was panicking The crowd screamed, "According to the "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Domestic Black Magic Disasters", I will take over the command here until the arrival of a higher-level Extraordinary. Mr. Chief, do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand," the chief's face was pale, but he still nodded. "When I escaped from the office, I found that the situation was out of control. The infected people might be mixed in the crowd and fled to the city."

In the event of an outbreak of black magic or a highly contagious disease, the administrator must follow the command of the Extraordinary on the scene, and block or purify the area.Even if the Extraordinary present is a young girl like Amber, she is also an expert and possesses unquestionable command authority. This is the rule engraved in the system and human brain by countless case experiences.

For those potential infected persons who do not obey the instructions and want to escape from the blockade area and administrative officials who do not cooperate, Extraordinary has the discretionary power of punishment, such as temporary dismissal and detention.If the situation is serious or extremely bad, the Extraordinary can take all necessary offensive actions without sanction.

At least for the time being, Amber has the power to kill everyone present.

……

What happened just now~ I was almost killed by ghouls with all four minds rotten?Griffith recovered from his paralysis, feeling a little incomprehensible about the situation just now.

As a Sequence 8 Extraordinary, wearing heavy armor and possessing enchanted weapons and armors, Griffith was knocked down by the shield penetration in a few seconds. If you don't die, you have to suffer a lot.

Amber was directing the assembled survivors to build a barricade.The astonishing fighting power she erupted just now was seen by the terrified crowd, and finally some officials who escaped from the port area tried to cheer up.The few defenders boarded the nearby walls and arrow towers to snipe the monsters.

The exit of the port area was originally blocked by two iron fence gates separated by dozens of meters. The defenders then moved out desks and wardrobes from nearby houses, piled them randomly behind the inner iron gate, and hastily formed a line facing the port area. Barricades up to four meters high.

At this time, another wave of astonishing corpses surged over.Compared with the number of dozens of heads just now, the number of this wave has directly increased several times.But they didn't rush up directly, but gathered from all directions towards the end of the road leading to the exit, letting out terrifying roars and roars.

Someone was commanding them, gathering them, a seasoned commander... Griffith sensed that the situation was getting worse.

These rotten and twisted monsters are multiplying on the other side of the road.

Suddenly, a ferocious and terrifying roar came from the depths of the port, and the dilapidated and chilling horror continued.Griffith had never heard of any monster that could make a similar sound, and he couldn't help but imagine what a terrifying creature it was.

The guards at the barricade immediately wavered.

"Take up your weapon and block them!" Amber picked up the collar of the chief of the port area, and shouted sternly, "We will block these things in the port, and go to the barricades with me, you and your people together!"

(End of this chapter)