Chapter 73 Hell on Earth Do you like this gift?
"Your Highness, I apologize for Mara's recklessness."
A blonde girl walked out from behind Mara. She looked older and put her hand in front of Mara.
She bowed respectfully, and only stood up after getting permission and said, "Since you are my mother's friend, please let us take her back. If she comes to see you next time, please notify us immediately."
"What friend... My mother is innocent, maybe she was deceived..."
Mara muttered in dissatisfaction, and Cecilia's words were heard accurately.
"Blake is your mother, she should make the decision, right?"
Cecia raised her lips and revealed a malicious smile. She took two steps forward and half-knelt in front of Blake: "Do you want to go back or stay?"
"I want to stay!"
Blake suddenly opened his cloak and grabbed the corner of Cecia's clothes. She faced her tribesmen with an unprecedented firmness.
"The world out there is dangerous, you can't—"
"I want to stay!"
Blake swallowed Mara's persuasion. They had always controlled Blake's life, but she was their "mother" after all.
No one could stop Blake from doing what he was determined to do.
"Well, you can stay here."
Seeing that both sides were in a stalemate, the blonde girl compromised.
"Tetra!"
Mara shouted in dissatisfaction, but was stopped by the girl again.
"Your Highness, in order to ensure the safety of our mother, Mara and I will stay. You don't need to provide us with anything, just allow us to stay around our mother."
The blonde girl said gently, looking at Cecia sincerely.
"Blake, what do you think?"
Cecia followed suit and threw the question to Blake.
"No problem! I'll take them to play together."
Blake nodded and threw away his heavy black robe.
"Mother! You can't do this! Put on your cloak!"
Mara hurriedly took the black robe and chased after Blake, trying to put the cloak back on her.
Looking at this scene, the blonde girl still maintained a decent smile. She thanked Cecia steadily:
"Let me introduce myself to you, Your Highness. I am Terra, and the one next to me is Mara. We will be responsible for your mother's daily life. Thank you for your understanding."
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After seeing off the Perseran clan, Cecia turned around and tried to leave, but was met with Catherine who looked serious.
"Your Highness, I have not only asked you to come here for this."
Catherine frowned, and her face seemed to have a few more wrinkles. She took out a three-dimensional map that could show the status of pollution in real time.
At this moment, the demon clan's territory has shrunk.
"As you can see, the speed at which the pollution spread has suddenly accelerated since last night. Even if humans try their best to purify it, they can't stop it."
She looked heavy-hearted, and her hands holding the map were shaking slightly. "If this continues, the demon's territory will be engulfed by the pollution."
"Let the residents at the border evacuate first."
Cecia paused and said seriously, "I will find a way to bring back more humans. You should always pay attention--"
Bang!
A huge noise suddenly exploded in the southeast, like thunder before a violent storm, instantly depriving Cecia of her hearing. Only a dull echo remained in her ears, as if the whole world had stopped at this moment.
At the same time, the ground suddenly began to shake violently, like a small boat in a tsunami. She could only hold on to the reception table beside her to barely maintain her balance.
what happened?
Catherine looked anxious, her mouth opening and closing, as if she was saying something, but her hearing had not fully recovered yet, so she could only hear intermittent sounds.
"The palace... is polluted... quickly..."
pollute!
The southeast is the boundary of pollution, there must be something wrong with the pollution!
"I'm coming over now!"
Cecia shouted back, but she couldn't even hear her own voice.
The magic power in her body surged, supporting her to float in the air, unaffected by the shaking ground. She spread her hands, and the magic power gathered into wings, breaking through the window with an unstoppable force, and flew towards the border.
Demon border.
The gray-black particles jumped and easily crossed the red line, swarming around the demons. They were like a thorn in the flesh, once infected, they could not get rid of it, and the magic power in the demons' bodies would feed them, making the polluted army stronger.
The violently shaking ground made it difficult for people to escape. They could only be covered, swallowed, and assimilated by the pollution while wailing. Even half of the sky was dyed black. Deep despair shrouded everyone's heart.
When Cecia arrived, the pollution had already calmed down. They eroded a quarter of the demons' territory in a few seconds, and even the boundary monuments infused with magic were included in the scope of the pollution.
"Run! Child! Run over here!"
An old man fell to the ground, his body hunched, and he failed to stand up several times because of the shaking of the ground. Despite this, he still eagerly crawled towards the contaminated land, and did not stop even though his ten fingers were bleeding.
Cecia stepped forward to help the old man up, wanting to send him to a safe place, but when the old man saw the face of the devil, his legs went weak and he knelt down.
"Your Highness! Please save her! Save my child!"
He kept begging, crawling humbly at Cecia's feet, pointing her in the direction of the pollution.
In the black half of the sky, there were many houses and residents of the demon clan. As their magic power was polluted and eroded, they struggled in pain, moving their bodies with difficulty, trying to run to an unpolluted area.
And the one the old man was talking about was the girl who was closest to him.
Perhaps because she was still young, she didn't have much magic power in her body and the pain she suffered was less. She could still move her steps, little by little, towards the old man.
But the girl had very little strength left.
Her breathing gradually became rapid, and her chest felt like it was being pressed by a huge rock. Every time she inhaled, she felt severe pain. Gray-black particles entangled her body, eroding her already weak vitality.
The girl's eyelids drooped uncontrollably and her steps became slower and slower, as if she would fall down at any moment.
"Save her! Please save her!"
The old man shouted at the top of his lungs, and tried to support himself again, trying to rush towards the girl, but he saw a faster figure flashing past him and heading straight for the dangerous contaminated area.
The surroundings were like a scene of hell on earth, with wailing and screaming everywhere. Cecia rushed straight into the pollution and grabbed the girl who was only one step away from the safe zone.
Even though she only stayed in the pollution for less than a second, the gray-black particles still found ways to attach themselves to her magic power and tried to drill into her body.
Her face turned pale instantly, and she could clearly feel the pollution raging in the magic power, like thousands of sharp blades, cutting every corner of her body.
Cecia made a prompt decision, gave up all her magic power, and severed her connection with magic power, thus preventing the pollution from continuing to erode.
But the girl she rescued fell to the ground without a sound and seemed to have lost consciousness.
"Child! My child!"
The old man staggered and fell on the child. He wanted to use magic to heal the child and relieve the child's pain, but the pollution climbed up along his magic and entered his body.
"Stop! Give up all your magic!"
Cecia tried to stop her in a stern voice, but the old man seemed to hear nothing and continued to inject magic power regardless.
Damn it!
She watched as the pollution eroded the old man's body, turning his skin gray and black and his expression increasingly painful and distorted, but she could do nothing.
She no longer has any magic power, and if she comes into contact with pollution again, she will die.
"Sister! Sister, are you okay?"
A long-lost voice came from behind. Hearing that something had happened at the border, Chen Ye hurried over and saw Cecilia standing beside him.
"I'm fine."
Cecia shook her head and lowered her eyes to look at the old man and the girl who had lost their voice.
"What happened to them, what happened here?"
Chen Ye asked repeatedly. She had heard a lot of rumors along the way, and now the entire demon clan was in panic.
"The pollution suddenly spread and they were all eroded."
Cecia said, grabbing the demon who wanted to get close to the pollution. She ordered the patrol team to prevent anyone from getting close to the pollution, appearing a little indifferent.
"Your Highness! Please let me go! My wife is still inside!"
The demon that was grabbed kept struggling, but she remained silent, but her hands did not stop moving at all, and she forcibly tied the demon to the safe area.
"Sister! Let me in!"
Chen Ye patted his chest and volunteered, "I am immune to pollution, I will definitely be able to rescue them all!"
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and complex emotions flashed in Cecia's eyes.
"…Then I'll leave it to you."
Unfortunately, Chen Ye's search and rescue work did not go smoothly.
The speed of pollution erosion is so fast that there are almost no living people in the areas covered by pollution. The originally vibrant lives have turned into black corpses.
They went from being full of hope, to gradually becoming disappointed, and then to complete despair.
"Sister! There's a baby here!"
An excited voice came from the pollution, and Chen Ye was seen holding a demon who was less than one year old in his hands and rushing towards Cecia quickly.
"She seems to be alive!"
Arriving at the safe area, Chen Ye hurriedly unwrapped the cloth that wrapped the baby and slowly cleaned the pollution on its body.
The moment the wrapping was untied, a piece of paper fell to the ground. Cecilia picked it up and saw the words written on it were bold and powerful:
"Hill, do you like this gift?"
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