“Woo——”

In the sky, a desolate horn sounded through the rain and rang across the earth. The zombie professionals who were originally going to continue attacking left unwillingly.

"Phew~, it looks like we're saved temporarily!"

Wiping the sweat off his face, Sheril expressed his feelings of surviving a disaster with lingering fear.

If there were more zombies, they might have died here.

"Thank you again, brother. I am a wizard from the Twelve Academies. I'm sure you are very confused about the current situation. Come, let's eat and talk at the same time."

Leading Carl to sit on the relatively intact steps in the hall, Sheril began to introduce the existence of the Death Dragon Mark and the process of the family's demise, just like Nia's father.

The first half was not much different from what Nia's father knew, but when it came to what happened on the island, Sherrill revealed a piece of news that surprised Carl.

"What? The reason why the defense force in Stormwind is so weak is because the Stormwind Dragonmark Family went to attack Karrnath?"

Before coming here, Carl and everyone else thought it was a little unbelievable that Storm was suddenly turned into this state by the Lich Queen. They thought there was a traitor within the family, who joined forces with outsiders to kill those backbone forces.

But according to Fisher, the Dragonmark Family had already learned about the relationship between the Blood of Vol and the Emerald Claws from Queen Andel.

Karnas sold out all the information about the Blood of Wall Church in the territory in exchange for the Twelve Dragon Mark Families' siege of the Blood of Wall.

The Lich Queen hated the twelve dragonmark families, and the twelve dragonmark families naturally feared her power.

Before, everyone just knew that Emerald Claw had some relationship with her.

But when everyone learned that she had connected the Emerald Claw with the Blood of Vol in Karrnath and was able to carry out targeted espionage operations against Andel, the revenge of the Dragonmark Family came.

As the Lich Queen rained down alchemical undead in the storm, the Blood of Vol Cathedrals on the land of Karrnath were turned into scorched earth under the saturation attack.

This was a complete replacement of the Lich Queen and the Storm Dragonmark Family's reserve forces suffered heavy losses.

"What about us? Even for the sake of the Twelve Dragon Mark Families' reputation, the Storm Dragon Mark Families can't just leave us here to fend for ourselves, right?"

After listening to Sherrill's analysis of the attack, Carl's eyes widened, finding it hard to accept.

“There will definitely be help. No one expected her to attack here before. Logically, she should have attacked the base camp of the Medical Dragon Mark Family.

The most important thing is that because of the Andel vs. Ninefold Path competition, all the real dignitaries went to Fairhaven to discuss cooperation. The number of dignitaries in Storm and their guards was reduced to the minimum, so the Storm Dragon Mark Family..."

At this point, Sheril's face became distorted, and he seemed to not want to continue talking.

"So, some of the family members who were fighting outside took away the high-level combat and communication personnel that were originally reserved in order to expand the results of the war, but they ended up being robbed?"

Seeing that the other party was reluctant to continue speaking, Karl helped him finish the rest of his words.

Sherrill nodded with difficulty, showing a somewhat embarrassed expression.

"The relationship between family members is not harmonious, especially the Storm Dragon Mark family. Because they started out as pirates a long time ago, they are a bit brutal. In order to perform in front of the family's top leaders, the young family members..."

Before Sherrill could finish, Carl waved his hand to show that he understood.

"So, this incident is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster?"

Carl clenched his fists, feeling that his perception of the Dragon Mark Family was shattered by reality.

Although he couldn't see Carl's appearance, thanks to his psychic power, Sheril could realize that the young man in front of him was angry.

Patting Carl's power armor shoulder, Sheril tried to comfort Carl.

Carl stared at the other person blankly under the helmet, sighed, turned around and ran into the rain.

Sherrill didn't even have a chance to stop him before Carl disappeared in the rain.

…

"How is it? Have you figured out anything?"

In the guesthouse area, Carl returned and took off his power armor, watching Nia conducting experiments on the captured female zombie in swimsuit.

“Just like what my dad said, this infection is combined with alchemy. Although it seems that their minds are only controlled by some kind of alchemical potion, they are already undead creatures. Those physiological reactions are more likely to exist to keep the zombies highly mobile and preserve them.

More importantly, this green rain can continuously infect the human body. Unless one is a god with a physical fitness of 20 points or a monk who has been granted a physical fitness of being immune to all diseases, he will definitely be infected if he is exposed to the rain for a long time."

As Nia talked about her research on zombies, her face was tense and she seemed to be very confused about the existence of such things.

On the one hand, this thing can be controlled as long as there is a disease-curing spell, but on the other hand, this thing has absolute restraint on most professions except monks and paladins.

Even a wizard will immediately turn into a zombie if he is exposed to enough rain.

Of course there are people like Carl who rely on their equipment to protect themselves from the rain, but rain has another advantage: it will continue to pollute water sources, soil, and most things within the range of rainfall.

Give it enough time and anything that comes into contact with its surroundings will have problems.

“Is it possible to cure it?”

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Nia's decisive answer made Carl even more uncertain about his current situation.

But now it is impossible to break through the blockade of the Lich Queen either by sea or air. If a potion that can restrain the green rain can be developed, Carl will be more confident.

Glancing at Carl, Nia said regretfully, "This is exactly the dangerous part of this thing. If you want to cure it, besides the healing spell, the only way is to reverse time."

Spells that make time change also fall into the category of the School of Change. The time mage is actually an alternative mage of the School of Change.

Hearing Nia's evaluation of this thing, Carl couldn't help but ask one more question.

"What is the principle behind this?"

A long string of professional terms related to biology and disease came out of Nia's mouth like a menu. Despite the enhancement of the intelligence headband, Carl only remembered the language first and then began to understand it.

According to Nia, Green Rain is an alchemical potion that carries a special biochemical virus.

Because it is a "virus", it can be controlled by disease-curing techniques.

But once a certain amount accumulates in a person's body, the virus will rapidly multiply in the host's body at an exponential growth rate, thus "activating" a kind of undead magic from a genetic perspective with the information carried by the virus, turning the infected person into a zombie.

A single cell might be able to resist this extremely weak undead spell, but when the effects of this spell spread throughout the body at a frequency of hundreds of millions of times, it would be difficult for the infected person to resist.

(End of this chapter)