Chapter 455: Strange News
Tonight was not much to say after that. After the ordinary dawn came the equally ordinary morning. Before setting off, the rumors that Lin Qi heard from others were quite interesting.
House after house, people were getting rid of the warmth of last night, and breakfast vendors and businessmen on the road appeared on the streets again.
A caravan coming from the west entered the city early in the morning, and they seemed to be still in a state of shock.
The dishevelled visitor brought news that made every merchant feel uneasy.
".It swallowed two horses, and poor Hawke. May his bravery in his death comfort Sigmar."
"How many times has this happened? How many times has it died?"
"It's as much of a mystery as asking who its mother is."
"As the Sylvanians say, evil endures and all else dies."
"What happened? Did you encounter a troll?"
"No, it's worse than that! It's the Kronborg Smasher!"
The conversation in the distance suddenly became quiet. Some of the merchants who had planned to leave the city to the west stayed behind, and those who still insisted on leaving the city probably did not hear the conversation here.
They soon stopped, and there were always people who were eager to remind others.
Human communication became more and more heated, and a boiling wave swept through the secluded ancient forest town. Now everyone knows that the "Kalundborg Smasher" has returned again after being killed twenty years ago.
Panic spread simultaneously. The mayor and nobles of the town appeared one after another and gave speeches to the crowd. Lynch suspected that the city would be closed soon. At his urging, Eugen gritted his teeth and shouted in public:
"Whatever it is, it doesn't scare me!"
For a moment, thousands of gazes fell on Eugen one after another.
At this time, Eugen, who drove the carriage out of the city, looked like a hero, or "Where did he come from?"
"Who knows? Every year, students at Imperial University go on all kinds of adventures. Maybe he's the one who's already graduated. I'd say that's lucky~"
The wizard with keen senses had already closed the car windows and drawn the curtains.
A fool who was not afraid of death was certainly worth talking about, but there were fresher and more pressing topics, so Eugen was quickly forgotten.
"I heard it once ate an entire tribe of ogres!"
"Even the Demi-Griffin Knights were unable to destroy it."
"The last time it showed up, it nearly swallowed a steam tank. It's even worse than that. Twenty years ago, there wasn't a single living person near its lair! The worst part is that it changes lair so often."
"That's great news, it means we don't have to keep avoiding a certain area."
"What an inappropriate joke, kid! It settled in Middenland a long time ago, and the people who died in its mouth could almost fill up a small town!"
"Legend has it that hidden in the folds of its torso is a huge mouth full of fangs!"
"It's not an exaggeration. I almost encountered it twenty years ago. The soldiers who saw it at the time all went insane. The color of it can drive us crazy because it is not the color that should exist in the world."
Eugen didn't look well. He began to tremble secretly since he approached the city gate. The city guards tried to dissuade him as a routine, but the oracle left the city with his eyes closed and gritted teeth, as if he was going to the execution ground.
It's no big deal.
Lynch was only surprised by the weakness of the locals. Perhaps race did bring a hidden influence - the Teutonic blood accounted for a larger proportion in the Middenheim territory, while in the west, in the "Midenland" that was more in line with the standards of the Empire, the Thuringian blood had a more far-reaching influence.
This is also the reason why Middenheim became independent from Middenland several times and ruled Middenland, but eventually Middenland became independent from Middenheim.
This is a messy debt within humanity, the kind that can never be untangled.
The road to the west was much more desolate, and there was not a single carriage within three miles of Wismond.
The quiet road reminds the creatures passing by of the past of this land. Before humans established the kingdom, there were no trails in the forest. The Beastman tribes and the northern raider warbands shared the Duncanwald Forest with the greenskins.
Even now, greenskins are one of the main species in Duncanwald, and they may still plague the Laurentlauren Forest further north.
It is said that the greenskins of the Laurent Laurent Forest are the largest race in the area, and the elves, humans and beastmen divide the remaining half of the fan-shaped map.
The journey was smooth sailing, and Lynch thought that some monster would jump out, such as the "Karonburg Corpse Crusher" mentioned by the mortals.
In fact, he only saw a few inns that were violently razed along the way.
The wooden walls of the hotel looked like they had been crushed by some giant object, leaving smooth marks on the ground and a large dent in the soil due to compression.
Only a few supporting frames were left on the solid wall. It looked like a big creature had rushed into the house, had a full meal, and then left.
The bloodstains on the ground were no longer clear, and the deformed claw marks made it difficult to identify its owner.
In just ten miles, Lynch saw four such inns.
Without exception, not even a piece of residue was left of the corpse, and the other party seemed to have a good appetite.
He thought it was a dragon at first, but the fallen trees in the forest told Lynch that it was not a dragon. Dragons are often reluctant to keep moving crookedly on the ground like reptiles.
It seemed very light, because there were not many claw marks left on the ground, but the knocked down giant tree made Lynch realize that it had terrible power.
Perhaps it moves silently.
Maybe it wasn't until these mortals were about to die that they noticed a monster approaching the inn. This is no joke, Lynch can guarantee it now.
I don't know when the birds stopped singing, but the wind was still blowing, and there was an inaudible hissing sound hidden in the swaying of leaves, and it was getting closer and closer.
It was at this moment that the horse let out its first scream. It neighed in fear, shook wildly, and almost overturned the carriage.
Eugen's poor driving skills were fully demonstrated at this time. If it weren't for Tigris' help, the two of them would have been lying in the mud ditch on the side of the road.
It was like boiling water, the sound was now obvious.
A foul smell had already approached Lynch, and the fishy wind following the smell carried a winding, twisted giant with various shapes.
It doesn't look very smart.
The scales on the multi-headed giant snake were arranged in a disorderly manner like arrows, and the bright, constantly changing fluorescence had colorful and disgusting colors. Lynch was not quite sure how it distorted its scales into such a disgusting color for normal creatures, but he knew why mortals were afraid of it.
Its mere existence is a large source of light pollution.
When it lurks in the shadows, its scales are dark, but when it reaches the light it seems to use the brightness to defeat Lynch.
(End of this chapter)
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