Chapter 517
Chapter 517 The Plague Breaks Out
Because Vanessa understood very well the strength of the adepts, she could never forgive the wicked enemy that had brought them to their plane!
If not for the fact that the forces she had at hand were insufficient to eradicate the enemy faction, Vanessa had a mind to thrust a sword into that crook’s heart personally. He was simply too wicked. He would drag the entire plane into such a terrifying and destructive storm just to fulfill his own desires.
A person like this should be sliced into tens of thousands of pieces.
Vanessa cursed as she pushed aside the wooden door. She arrived at a small balcony outside her room.
This place was a metallic castle in the style of the goblins.
The layout of the building was no different from a human castle, but the construction materials were utterly different. Human castles mostly used wood, earth, and stone in their construction. Goblin castles, on the other hand, used large numbers of metal components, occasionally supported by wood. Even wooden walls would have to be reinforced with a layer of hardened metal plates to increase their sturdiness.
That was why the Royal Castle of the Anderme Royalty looked like an iron castle forged from pure metal from a distance. It reflected a light unique to alloy metals.
However, this plague was clearly unlike any before. Not only was the scale unprecedentedly broad, one specific symptom of the disease was so odd that it struck fear into the hearts of the goblins.
That was the fact that the mortality rate of the plague was so miraculously low!
It was almost as if a demon god was playing a wicked prank on the goblins. Even though the number of infected goblins increased at an exponential rate, not many of those goblins died.
Among the infected goblins, only those who were exceptionally frail died from the plague virus. The other goblins suffered and agonized, but they remained at the edge of life and death. The last remnants of their life force weren’t stolen away by the virus.
That indirectly proved the source of the plague to be the evil adepts!
When the goblin doctors sent out by the royal family finally discovered the source of the plague to be the polluted water sources of the goblins, it was already too late. The large-scale disease was quickly spreading from goblin to goblin. It spread from cities to towns to villages, before spreading from the towns and villages to even smaller settlements across the Empire.
The weakening of the goblins caused rioting all over the place. The slaves that had been oppressed by the goblins for so long immediately initiated a wave of revolution all over the country. As the main combatants–the goblin mechanics–had all been infected with the plague, the various goblin cities and towns lacked the protection of magical machines. Many of these places fell to the slaves of other races.
Those goblin cities that had yet to fall had no choice but to start massacring the slaves inside their walls to protect themselves. That naturally led to intense resistance from the slaves.
For a moment, goblin garrisons, militia, and local armed forces engaged in massive wars with the other races. Casualties piled up on both sides.
The fearsome plague that swept through the Goblin Plane forced the Goblin Empire into a precarious position!