When the cold power armor boots hit the handle of the Berserker Axe, the long-damaged weapon broke apart with a "crack".

The adventure leader, who was holding up his weapon and raising his hand to block, didn't react in time and was kicked directly in the chest by Carl, rolling backwards.

Floating in mid-air, Carl gave an order to V through the mental link: Let the Moon Spirit maids come out to practice.

Accompanied by a sound of falling from the sky, twenty-four Moon Spirit constructs poured out from the base.

“Kill them!”

After pointing in all directions, Carl fell rapidly down, ready to put an end to the mysteriously confident adventure leader.

He is a kind-hearted man and doesn't want to fight again with these idiots who don't know their own weight.

"Wait! I surrender! Let's just leave now and not bother you any more!"

At this moment, the leader of the adventure team rolled on the ground and begged for mercy from Carl.

This unexpected turn of events caught Carl off guard.

After being stunned for a moment, Karl was actually so angry that he laughed.

"You come and go as you please, and you use an illusory promise as a punishment for yourself? There is a saying in my hometown, I am not afraid of thieves stealing, I am afraid of thieves thinking about it. I don't have the time to talk to you about this. Since you have fallen into my hands, if I don't kill the chicken to scare the monkey, others will think I am made of clay!"

With a loud shout, the cold air from Carl's limbs spewed out even more rapidly.

He used a hook kick and kicked straight at the adventure leader.

Knowing that he was in the wrong, the adventure leader had no words to refute, but he was afraid of death, so he started to make trouble.

"I already know I'm wrong, why are you still insisting on it? You damn nobles are really black-hearted guys. Even if I risk my life today, I will protect my brothers!"

He secretly glanced at the remaining members of the adventure team. It was obvious that the adventure leader had not forgotten to win the hearts of the people even at this time.

It was as if Karl and the others were deliberately making trouble and didn't want them to survive.

"Humph! You don't seem to know you're wrong. Why are you still pretending to be tough in front of me at this time? Mecha fusion!"

Unable to bear the sight of this disgusting guy continuing to show off, Carl directly summoned out his highest-specification mecha.

“Buzz——”

The blade of the ship-slashing sword quickly turned red in temperature, and the tip of the blade fell towards the adventure leader at lightning speed.

But at this moment, the adventure leader and the remaining members of the adventure team suddenly turned into a ball of mist.

"Ride the wind?"

The sixth-level druid spell, Wind Ride, can turn the caster and 10 willing creatures within sight into clouds.

Whether it is for hurrying on the road or escaping, it is a very good spell.

However, this move is not without weaknesses. While under the effect of the spell, the individual cannot launch any offensive means and can only passively take the beating.

So Carl continued to stab the ship-cutting sword in his hand at the enemy in the cloud without any hesitation.

"stop!"

There was a shout in the distance, but Carl had no intention of stopping.

The ship-slashing sword, which was at least equivalent to a rare-grade magic weapon, directly hit the adventure leader who had transformed into a cloud. Under the severe damage of magic, this guy directly exited the cloud state and fell to the ground from the posture when he was about to fly off the ground.

The blade got stuck in his thigh bone, and the severe pain made him wail.

"What's up?"

The mecha raised its empty left hand, pointed at the clouds suspended in the air, and raised the barrel of the electromagnetic cannon on the mecha's left hand.

A blinding arc of lightning lit up from the barrel of the gun, and the druid who was being pointed at instantly felt threatened.

The druid who came to rescue the situation after landing from the air took a deep breath and said to Carl: "These are my favorite subordinates. Can you let them go?"

Looking the other person up and down, Carl sneered.

"You are so proud of yourself that you want me to let go of these guys who want to rob me just by talking to me? If someone comes to your house to rob and you kill them, will you let the robber go just because someone comes forward to plead for you?"

After saying that, Carl twisted the blade to continue raising the temperature of the ship-cutting sword.

"I'm not begging for mercy!"

Seeing that Carl was about to take action, the druid who came from nowhere immediately chanted a spell. After a casting gesture, a cold air burst out from his hand and spread towards the cone-shaped area 60 feet ahead.

This attack almost made Carl laugh.

The nitrogen injection device on the mecha's leg started working again, and the cold air that was no less cold than the opponent turned into white mist and sprayed out.

With the help of this thrust, Carl kicked the ship-cutting sword in his hand, pulling it out from the adventure leader's body, and slashed at the druid.

Unexpectedly, Carl was completely unaffected. The druid transformed hastily, but was knocked down by the blade of the ship-cutting sword, which was wider than the door panel.

The sound of bones breaking was extremely clear, and he also broke away from the transformation and collapsed to the ground.

"You, how can you be so unreasonable!"

But just by looking at his expression, Carl could get a general idea.

"You come here with all your crooked ideas and act wildly. I wonder who gave you the courage? Are you a druid of the Sons of Winter? Do you recruit them as your subordinates to support them to become members of the Council of Storms in the future?

These guys just called me a black-hearted noble. It seems that they are very hostile to the noble class. Are you, the Sons of Winter, planning to transform Storm Bay into an area under your control?"

After hearing Carl's analysis, the druid sneered and actually nodded.

"Under Lord Oelian's rule, the Eludon Plain is thriving. He has shown us that a social system can function smoothly without the aristocracy. People like you who rely on your family's property and equipment to show off your power will disappear from this land in the future!"

It can be seen that the druid in front of him seems to be a person who hates the nobles.

But what Karl didn't understand was - who said he was a noble?

"Ha! I was the one who handed over the raw materials for your artificial Eberron Dragon Crystal, but you don't even know who I am?

And you keep saying that I am a second-generation rich kid who relies on my family to have the fighting power I have today? You are really blind!"

"You! You are Carl Iris! The, the artificer from the city of Erudenvana!"

Hearing Carl's words, the druid's eyes widened and he immediately understood Carl's true identity.

"Now that you know, let's get going. It looks like you are a druid who switched to the Sons of Winter. Your fighting power is far inferior to that guy back then!"

Raising the ship-slashing knife, Carl started at 0 frame and slashed directly at the druid.

The druid, who looked to be about thirty years old, wanted to say something, but it was drowned out by the sound of the ship-slashing blade colliding with his body.

The remaining members of the adventure team shuddered all over, as if they had suddenly woken up from a beautiful dream.

"My lord! My lord! It was that fellow who came up with the idea. I was deceived by him and came to attack your base. I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong! Please let me go! I promise..."

The moment he saw the druid die under the ship-slashing sword, the adventure leader, who was originally quite dissatisfied with Carl, immediately put aside all his dignity and tried to buy a way out.

His attitude this time was undoubtedly much better than before.

But Carl said, "I've read a novel before, which has a similar plot to the one now. To borrow a line from a character in the novel, 'You don't know you're wrong, you just know you're going to die.'"

After saying that, the ship-slashing sword swooped down, killing the adventure team leader who had a problem with his brain circuit.

Hope and Ying also made efforts one after another and killed all the remaining members of the adventure team.

Of course, some of them were begging for mercy and some were determined to fight to the death, but since they were instigated by others to come and seize Carl's base, Carl would naturally not let them go.

Whether you are really deceived or not, as long as you die, the problem will be solved.

…

In a tree house somewhere in the forest of Xen'drik, the middle-aged druid who had previously used artificial dragon crystal to spread the Green Rain Virus was mixing the original liquid, but suddenly he was stunned.

"Oh, that new guy is really ambitious but incompetent. He said he would take advantage of this opportunity to win over a group of people who are frustrated because of the suppression of the nobles to support my plan, but he died in the end. He is really more of a hindrance than a success.

I have already discussed with those dragon-marked families. As long as they stand aside and watch, the Son of Winter will not touch their interests here after he comes to power.

When most of the ordinary people are dead, the next step of the plan will be carried out soon."

After mumbling to himself for a while, the middle-aged druid poured the liquid into a pool nearby.

As if it had reached a critical point, as the druid poured the raw liquid into the pool, the original liquid actually began to precipitate artificial dragon crystals at a rapid rate.

The green rain virus mixed in it also condensed into the artificial dragon crystal, waiting to infect people who use these dragon crystals at any time.

…

Storm Bay, the residence of the Dragonmark Family.

With the appearance of zombies, the twelve Dragon Mark families suspended their stores and closed down at the same time.

Naturally, those problematic dragon crystals no longer flowed into the Dragonmark Family, but were instead digested within Storm Bay.

This caused the value of dragon crystal to drop slightly, but almost all magical activities require the participation of dragon crystal, and the price soon returned to its original level.

But there are too many ordinary people infected. Not only the slums in the underground ruins, but also the civilian areas where adventurers' families live have recently begun to show signs of infection.

Although people with secondary recovery skills began to treat a large number of people, the disease seemed to refresh regularly, and those who were originally cured would soon be infected again.

In the beginning, we dared to charge some money, but now, we have started to provide free medical services.

There is no way. There are too many infected people. If you collect money, some people might turn into zombies for fear of spending money.

The condition of people infected by zombies is more serious than that of those simply suffering from illness. If one of them has a strange bone structure and then mutates, the losses for everyone will be even greater.

At this moment, in a blacksmith shop near the port, Baine, Scorpion and the dwarf Thorin were sitting in the closed blacksmith shop, looking worried.

"The Dragon Mark Family is intentionally suppressing the news. I have mobilized all the connections I can to spread the news that the virus came from Dragon Crystal, but they are now keeping silent about it, and the news has not caused any waves."

Seeing that his companions were silent, Thorin was the first to speak and break the bad news.

(End of this chapter)