Chapter 258

The shrill alarm whirled over the imperial capital, and the sudden chaos of the crowd around made the carriage unable to run normally. Joshua had no time to think too much, so he directly opened the door and got off. He picked up several people who fell beside the carriage because of panic, and then looked up to the east side of the city.

"Good guy..."

With a light breath, Joshua frowned and murmured to himself, "this is amazing."

On the east side of the city, there was a flickering fire. The red light lit up several blocks. Black smoke was rising, covering a large area. Brandon and Nostradamus got out of the carriage. They also watched the scene.

"That place is residential... What's the situation?"

With his rich experience, the golden haired swordsman quickly judged that the fire in the city was not big. When the city guards responded and rushed to put out the fire, it would not cause much damage, but he still looked solemn: "is there any wizard who had an accident when doing taboo experiments in his home?"

The accident of MAGE experiment often happened several decades ago, and it would cause a lot of damage every time. However, nowadays, there is a special mage experiment area in the Royal mage Association of the imperial capital. If it is not to experiment some taboo techniques but ordinary magic, it is better to go to a more professional experiment area than at home.

"No, it's not an experimental accident."

What the old mage saw was very clear. His eyes twinkled with magic: "there is no magic wave, there is no collection of a large number of elements, and if it is an accident, then the experimental mage should have come out to clean up the situation... This is a pure alchemy explosion, not an accident of the mage's experiment..."

After a moment's silence, he wrote every word, Clearly said: "perhaps, this is a deliberate attack."

The sudden explosion occurred only once, and the panic crowd gradually regained their composure. Especially when they realized that the explosion was far away from them and could not threaten their lives, their courage returned to their hearts.

It has to be said that as the residents of the imperial capital, most of them have a good level of education. Under the command of the city guards, the calm crowd orderly crossed the streets and returned to their respective homes. There was no accident on the way.

The guards also came to the black carriage. They saw Joshua and the other three people. They wanted to go forward to check them. However, with the reminder of a guard, others found that the insignificance on the carriage represented the imperial Royal mage Association, while the white haired mage's robe with his back to them, It's a white robe with crystal pattern that only the great mage can wear.

In the imperial capital, I'm afraid the person who dares to pretend to be the Grand Master of the mage association has not been born.

Those who can ride in the same carriage with the mage are not aristocrats, but also powerful professionals. The city guards simply bypassed the three men and went to other places to preside over the order.

——It's a fool who's going to mess with these people.

Brandon is still pondering over the cause of the explosion. At this time, the fire on the east side of the city has become weak. The city guards seem to have controlled the fire. Nostradamus is also thinking about it. However, before long, he said, "let's go to the scene and have a look at the situation?"

The old mage's eyes were full of doubts. Although he had guessed that it was a deliberate attack, the reason was totally unreasonable. The explosion took place in the east side of the outer city, in the residential area where ordinary residents live. The explosion would kill one or two residents and destroy one or two houses at most, not to mention other places, Even in the commercial streets of the same outer city, dozens of people can be killed, and the loss of money is not known how many times.

So he wanted to go and see.

And Joshua and Brandon naturally have no objection, they are also very curious. Especially Joshua, he had a guess in his heart, but he didn't know whether it was right or not, so he had to go to the scene to understand the situation.

The three returned to the carriage. Driven by the coachman, the carriage turned around and drove towards the other side of the street. There was no traffic jam on the street, and their speed was even faster.

Before long, they passed through the main road in the center of the imperial capital, passed countless shops and houses, and came to the east side of the city, the scene of the explosion.

The scene of the explosion has been blocked, and countless city guards are patrolling around to clean up. Some of the guards wanted to stop the carriage from moving forward, but just like their colleagues before, they respectfully gave way after seeing the emblem of the Royal mage Association on the carriage, and Joshua and others came to the scene smoothly.

Near the ruins of a residential building, several guards were sorting out the scene. In the ruins, the fire had been completely extinguished, and only scattered black smoke came out from the burnt wood beams.

The fire was very fierce.

At a glance, Joshua could make a general judgment - because in the ruins, except for the stone and the nearly melted steel structures burned by high temperature, other wood furniture and decorations were reduced to ashes or coke. Even a little complete debris could not be found, and natural fire and explosion could not cause such damage, Only magic and alchemy materials can do it.On the other side, Nostradamus also confirmed his view. He frowned and stroked his white beard: "it was really a deliberate explosion and fire. Fortunately, because the celebration is approaching, the people around are wandering in the upper reaches of the street, so the casualties should be small."

After more careful observation, Joshua also roughly determined his previous judgment.

"Heretics."

"They must have done it," he whispered to himself

The so-called heretics, in a broad sense, are members of the non seven God sect. Among them, there are primitive Druid ancestral belief and orc shaman sacrifice, but these are not evil words. At most, they are heretics. So in a narrow sense, heretics are those demon believers who play with bloody rituals.

The origin of heretics can not be explored, but it can be concluded that their history is at least equal to that of the seven gods church, and their energy is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. In the wild west of the mainland, there are many tribes who believe in all kinds of demons and heresies. They kill the living people, draw a Dharma array with blood and offer sacrifices, In order to gain the evil power of the abyss, some extremely horrible sacrificial ceremonies such as "mutual food", "self food" and "collective suicide" will be held.

Most of the people who believe in demons have a deep desire and can't extricate themselves as long as they fall into it. They pursue chaos, death and riots in the whole social group, so that everything returns to the original form of no order and the law of the jungle. When the Dragon disaster happened in Yuannan, many heretics deliberately incited refugees to riot and even captured several small cities, It caused great chaos and dealt a heavy blow to the order of the whole kingdom.

According to Joshua, the bloody murders that happened in all parts of the northern Empire were also the deeds of the heretics. They should have planned to perform the secret summoning ceremony through blood sacrifice, but the abyss was sealed by the sages in the last era. As long as the seal was not lifted, the summoning ceremony would be very difficult to succeed except the book of iborn, which is a magic book directly connected to the abyss.

The explosion of the imperial capital, in the eyes of the soldiers, was a calling ceremony that was close to success but failed in the end. Nostradamus thought that the explosion was caused by Alchemy such as gunpowder, but Joshua knew that the devil's calling ceremony originally needed sulfur, saltpeter and other materials, and there was no conflict between the two.

"However, I dare to summon demons in the imperial capital, and I almost succeeded... You know, in a few days, it will be a celebration banquet for the extermination of orcs."

Turning his head and looking at the huge Obsidian palace in the center of the imperial capital, Joshua touched his chin and said with a smile, "I don't know what kind of action that emperor will make at this time."

At this time, the news of the explosion has also been introduced into the imperial study of Morley palace, the most central part of the imperial capital.

With a cold hum, a terrible storm is brewing