The Path to Lordship Begins in the North

The Dorian family's breakout was not smooth. If Coent had also participated in the battle of the Golden Harvest Plain, he would have clearly felt that these mud monsters were significantly different from the monsters on the Golden Harvest Plain.

That's their vitality. These monsters are much more active and stronger than the blood packs on the Golden Harvest Plains that can only be used as offspring of demons to restore their power.

Until the very end, old Coente covered Harold and the other people's escape. However, Harold was not as lucky as his elder brother. On the way, he encountered the demon army. When a small demon squad saw that Harold and his group had not turned into monsters, they began to chase Harold in the fog without saying a word.

The people who escaped with Harold volunteered to stay behind so that Harold could successfully deliver the message.

When Lars's Knights found Harold, he was already lying on his horse, barely alive.

"Kid! What exactly happened in the fog?"

Upon seeing this nobleman from the Dorian family, the captain of the Lars Knights squad immediately took out a bunch of potions from his tactical backpack, had Harold lifted off his horse, and anxiously inquired about Harold's symptoms while examining the potions in his hand.

With barely a breath left, Harold mustered all his strength to open his eyes. Seeing the North Wind Bear insignia on the armor of the squad leader before him, he asked, "The North? Have I arrived in the North?"

To reassure Harold, the squad leader said, "That's right, this is the North. Kid, what exactly happened in the fog? Never mind, don't say anything yet, the doctor will be here soon!"

But Harold seemed not to hear him, grabbed the squad leader's armor, and said, "Great! Tell my father I'm not a coward either!"

Then, Harold used his last bit of strength to pull a letter from his pocket, stuff it into the squad leader's clothes, and then collapsed.

"Damn it! I'll heal you right away. Don't underestimate the alchemy of the North!"

The squad leader had just chosen the potion and was about to pour it down Harold's throat when the knight beside him shouted, "Captain, be careful!"

The squad leader's hand, which was pulling out the potion, froze in mid-air. He suddenly sensed a familiar presence and immediately tore open Harold's clothes.

Sure enough, the corruption had begun, and it had already progressed quite far. Apart from his head and limbs, the rest of Harold's body had turned into a puddle of mud. He managed to escape from the thick fog almost entirely by sheer willpower, maintaining his form.

It seemed that his wish had been fulfilled, and the last breath that had sustained Harold dissipated, and Harold's body began to rot at a visible rate.

The squad leader understood that if it were only in the early stages, the governor's ancestral medicine could save him, but Harold's transformation was clearly in its late stages and beyond saving.

"Kid, you're definitely not a coward."

The squad leader carefully put away the letter Harold had handed him, took out holy water from his tactical backpack, and sprinkled it on Harold's decaying body.

"May you receive the goddess's favor in the kingdom of God."

Following Lind's instructions, the Lars Knights did not conduct any further investigation but returned to the North, immediately reporting back to Lind via communicator.

Harold's letter was relayed via a message machine, and the letter itself was delivered to the Gray Collar as quickly as possible.

After hearing the knights' report, White raised the alert level in the East to the highest level, which left the East Guards on the other side somewhat puzzled.

What exactly happened in the East? Why do those people in the North look like the end of the world has come?

Upon receiving the report, Linde immediately forced access to 550C.

"550C, could you provide me with current imagery of the Eastern Territory?"

"I'm sorry, I'm currently unable to obtain ground imagery."

Sure enough, the full map cheat can't be used anymore. Why can't the 550C be like other systems, where whatever you say comes true, or even possess someone to boost your account?

Lind had no choice but to turn his attention back to the message that Harold had risked his life to send out.

The letter contained two parts. The first part was written by Old Cohen of the Dorian family, who was Lilith's father in this life.

Old Coente described in detail how the disaster happened, the scene at the time, and even included a piece of imagery recorded in a magical scroll.

Finally, in my personal capacity, I implore the North to communicate with the capital as soon as possible, hoping that the North can help Her Majesty the Queen overcome this crisis.

In the letter, old Coent suspected that someone had used weather-manipulating magic in the Basil region, covering a wide area and with great power. After that, black rain poured down in the Basil region.

According to Old Coente's description, it is clear that someone in the East used super-level magic that could manipulate the weather, and the initial description of the disaster also fits the description of super-level magic. But what exactly was that black rain? And why did those monsters from the Golden Harvest Plains battlefield appear?

Well, anyone with a brain knows it's the demons causing trouble. You can't blame Lind for always blaming the demons; sometimes stereotypes are formed for a reason.

The latter half of the letter is clearly not written in the tone of old Coenter, but rather from Harold's own perspective.

Although Harold was more cowardly than his older brother, he was very perceptive in certain ways.

After Harold led the remaining people out of Oregon, he encountered some very strange things on his way to the North.

For example, some regions are clearly far from the Basil region, at least farther than the Oregon region, and the concentration of black fog is not high, yet almost all of their inhabitants have been corrupted into monsters.

Harold's people, who had spent a long time in the black fog of Oregon and even broke through with him, still did not turn into monsters, or rather, their transformation was very slow.

Harold discovered a common characteristic among the territories that had all turned into monsters: they were all extremely dilapidated. This dilapidation was not caused by the black mist, but rather by poor governance.

Therefore, Harold suspects that the speed at which people turn into monsters is related to their mental state. The Dorian family's subjects, after Lilith became queen, considered themselves her subjects and went to great lengths to spread the news.

In other parts of the Eastern Territory, most people live in a daze, and some even collect taxes for decades, which is a standard example of sustainable exploitation, causing the local people to become corrupt even faster.

After carefully reading the report, Lind covered his face and sighed. He guessed that Harold had encountered an unexpected situation in the black fog, otherwise he should have been able to make it to the North, and perhaps even be purified by the holy water.

Lilith does indeed have a good older brother in this world.