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Chapter 793 - 445 Prelude

Chapter 793: Chapter 445 Prelude

Luofeng Great Domain, Ming Stone Town.

Due to the town’s production of a kind of crystal stone used for lighting, widely sold throughout the Shayu Federation, it thus earned its name.

At this moment, deep into the night, Ming Stone Town was still brightly lit—not because the small town was prosperous, but because it sat atop a vein of crystal stone that constantly radiated light.

Ming Stone Town was merely a poor and weak oasis, but with the backing of the Great Oasis known as Phosphorescent City and located within Shayu Federation territory, it was impoverished yet secure.

Even though the dark Milky Way had hung high in the sky for over a month, the residents of Ming Stone Town were not too panicked. As people of the Ghastly Realm, they had to be adaptable to survive in this disaster-ridden world.

Thunderous roars—

A small Evil Tide, numbering in the hundreds, was repelled outside the town, leaving behind many fearsome and colossal corpses.

The townsfolk only glanced at them briefly before dismissing the sight. They also lacked the extra time or energy to care about these things.

They had work to do.

Their work was mostly mining, but in recent times, shrouded by disasters, they needed to assist the defense team in continuously constructing fortifications, stockpiling food, transporting materials... Especially in preparing lodging and meals for those demanding military officers from Phosphorescent City.

Life in Ming Stone Town, already busy, became even harder.

But nobody complained.

These were dire times, and they heard that the calamity had wiped out countless villages and towns elsewhere.

Two townspeople muttered to each other, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, took a palm-sized wooden cup, scooped up water from the stream in front of them, and guzzled it down.

This was the oasis’s own living water, safe, non-toxic, and unpolluted, and also the only water source for Ming Stone Town.

One of the townsfolk propped up his drooping eyelids, wiped the splashes from his face, and said, "Strange, I’ve been feeling increasingly tired lately."

"It’s probably because we’re too exhausted. There’s been so much to do these past months. But our town chief said to hold on; as long as we endure until the Dark River disaster is over, we’ll be fine."

"Yeah, I’ve found a connection and am preparing to send my son to be an apprentice at a blacksmith’s shop in Phosphorescent City after the disaster’s over..."

"Haha, my brat is training with a guardian swordsman. Both our families have a bright future."

As they entertained hopes for the future, two men in their thirties or forties, whose backs were already hunched, showed genuine smiles on their wrinkled faces.

While smiling, their eyes gradually glazed over, and suddenly they collapsed with a thud.

Seeing this from a distance, a worker hurried over to check on them. He saw the two who had just fallen getting up shakily, but their eyes were like black lakes, filled with an ineffable stillness.

"You..."

The figures that rose attacked with a bite, like bloodthirsty beasts.

Soon, a middle-aged man with dismembered limbs shakily got up. His movements gradually became nimble, and his incomplete body did not seem to hinder him much.

Following some instinct, he lunged towards somewhere else.

Eerie roars began to sound in many areas of Ming Stone Town, followed by uninterrupted screams and the sound of fighting. The town’s peaceful night was shattered in an instant.

By the time the disaster of Ming Stone Town reached Fang You’s ears, a day had already passed.

The entire Ming Stone Town had reportedly fallen.

There was nothing to be done about it. Even though Torchlight Academy now had a not insignificant reputation, even with such renown, the reality that they had no foundations in this region and were short-staffed could not be contested.

The news was obtained because there happened to be students from Torchlight Academy in Phosphorescent City who keenly detected something amiss and reported the situation.

Within the Academy, Fang You summoned Liu Feng and Zhou Bao.

"What do you think?" he asked.

The disaster in Ming Stone Town was named the ’Living Dead Calamity.’ If it were just ordinary townspeople having problems and mutating, suppressing this disaster wouldn’t be difficult.

Fang You flipped through freshly compiled intelligence.

"After the living dead transformation, they, like the Mysterious Evil, follow their instincts to attack all living beings. Not only that, but the strength and speed of these living dead are considerably greater than they were in life."

"Moreover, the concern isn’t just with ordinary townsfolk suddenly becoming living dead, but Awakeners as well... Awakeners do not seem to have more resistance than ordinary townsfolk."

Currently, students from Torchlight Academy had already arrived at Ming Stone Town, and a much stronger team was rapidly making its way there.

However, when asking Liu Feng and Zhou Bao for their opinion, what he was really inquiring about was... whether the Candela Empire had ever experienced a similar situation in the past.

"Similar disasters, similar disasters... there truly were some!"

Liu Feng spoke as he recalled records he had read in the past.

"In the thirty-first year after you, Teacher, went into your slumber, outside the Empire, there was a fairly strong country known as Laty Kingdom that suddenly experienced a Living Dead Calamity. It seems that a few years later, this country called Laty Kingdom was eradicated."

"In addition to that, the Blood Moon Disaster, the Hedonism Calamity, the Illusionary Dream Disaster..."

The Hedonism Calamity affected everyone in the towns it struck, from ordinary people to High-Tier Awakeners, leaving them unable to control their own desires. The afflicted areas instantly became a place of [beep beep beep beep].

The Illusionary Dream Disaster saw whole towns fall into endless dreams, endlessly reincarnating within the dreamscape until their bodies withered and souls dissipated.

And so on.

As it turns out, the types of calamities brought by the Evil God are quite diverse.