Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 744: Chapter 241: Sacrifice to Bolton Mechanical Town (Seeking Monthly Pass)

Mr. Leonard Churchill returned to his tent, not daring to delay, and immediately prepared to leave with Vera Williams and Pigeon.

Intuition told him that something big might be about to happen.

“There’s been an accident outside; we’d better leave right now.”

“Mr. Leonard Churchill, what happened?”

“I went to check on the commotion just now. It was the three agents from X Bureau that we saw earlier. They’ve been killed.”

“Ah…who killed them?”

“Vampires.”

“…”

Leonard had previously gauged the combat power of those three agents from X Bureau.

Although it seemed that they were ambushed, given the recent fighting.

But, to take down a Third Tier elite agent, wasn’t something ordinary bandits could achieve.

It turned out that…no, perhaps the whole of Bolton Mechanical City had been infiltrated by an unknown number of High Tier card masters.

And they were all contaminated vampires.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Bolton Mechanical Town was just a small mining town, without any nearby High-level Different Dimension Space, and not many monsters either.

There was no reason for High-Order Card Masters to stay here.

Leonard didn’t think this was a coincidence.

For these people to appear in Bolton Town, there could only be two reasons: first, a war objective;

Second, these vampires were also here for the Contamination Source.

Leonard leaned towards the second possibility.

Normal people wouldn’t think of provoking a powerful and mysterious official organization like X Bureau, and they didn’t have the strength to do so.

And those vampires knew that the agents of X Bureau were investigating them, yet they still ambushed and killed them. There had to be some compelling reason, some necessity to stay in this place.

According to the previous speculation, the Treasure Map in Vera’s possession pointed to the Mithril Ore as the source of the “Blood Plague.”

Leonard felt that the purpose of those vampires was very likely that very Mithril Ore mine.

However, the situation was still unclear, and Leonard thought it best to wait and see how things developed before confirming more of his theories.

…

“Okay!”

Vera, upon hearing this, flickered in her crystalline eyes and immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.

The three of them cleared up any traces in the tent, ready to leave.

But the unexpected happened very suddenly.

Suddenly, from outside, “thud,” “thud,” “thud”… a barrage of cannon fire erupted.

The previous noises from the fight weren’t too loud, still in a remote corner of the Slum District, and Leonard had been able to notice solely because of his keen perception.

But at this moment, the whole scenario reeked of full-scale warfare.

Leonard stuck his head out of the tent and saw that Machinery City in the distance was lit up with explosions here and there, the city defense cannons were firing, and shells were even falling into the refugee camp.

“Someone is attacking Machinery City?”

Leonard, frowning and filled with confusion, thought, “What do those vampires want with Machinery City?”

Even if the vampires had exposed themselves by killing the three agents from X Bureau, there was no need to attack the city.

Before he could figure it out, the entire refugee camp erupted in chaos.

“Oh no, the war has come again. Run!”

“Damn it, how did the fighting spread here?”

“…”

Upon hearing the sound of gunfire, the refugees were in a state of panic.

But after all, they had been driven from their homes by war and had experience in dealing with such situations.

As long as they fled the area of conflict, they would be safe.

Normally, neither side of the combatants had any interest in slaughtering commoners.

Thousands scrambled out of their tents, gathered their belongings, and in the midst of the chaos, scattered in every direction.

However, just then, a horrifying scene unfolded.

Among the fleeing crowd, suddenly some individuals let out demonic screeches, their eyes turning red and dark, rapidly transforming into vampires with green faces and sharp fangs.

Before the fleeing crowd could grasp what was happening, those vampires started a ruthless chase and began tearing at the people nearby.

The scene was bloody and terrifying.

Waves of faint crimson mist slowly began to permeate the air.

Leonard and his two companions hadn’t run far before they too witnessed this horrific scene.

The number of vampires was so numerous that they were all around.

“To think they were hiding so many…”

Leonard said, also somewhat surprised.

There weren’t just the vampires running on the ground; in the dark sky, there were winged ones flying as well.

He clearly sensed the aura of those nearby vampires, dark and violent, truly like demons.

Upon closer inspection, he saw that the vampires who had fed on blood were even more ferocious, their strength visibly surging.

And those who had clearly been drained of blood and bitten to death, in the blink of an eye, shakily stood up again, transformed into new vampires and added to the ranks chasing after other refugees.

“So this is how it spreads.”

Leonard carefully observed the condition of the vampires around him and confirmed that the Blood Plague was indeed spread through the blood.

It also meant that as long as one was not bitten, there wouldn’t be much of a problem.

For now, it seemed not much of a threat.

But the number was a problem.

And seeing so many vampires appear at once, he suddenly realized another issue: this might not be a simple siege.

“Why does it feel like some kind of Sacrifice Ceremony for the Ancient God Sect? These creatures… are they planning to sacrifice these refugees?”

Leonard, well-versed in the Silver Moon Secret Book of the Silver Moon Church, also knew of many sinister sacrificial secret skills from the Ancient God Sects.

Normally, sacrificing items of spirituality would elicit a response from a God.

And humans were excellent sacrifices given their numbers and weakness.

It looked like those vampires attacking the city might indeed have had the notion of rounding up the refugees in Bolton Town all along.

Leonard’s expression grew grim, thinking, “No wonder X Bureau got involved; is an Ancient God stirring trouble behind this Blood Plague? But then, which evil deity could this be?”