Chapter 267 - A Traitor Among Us (1/2)
Chapter 267 A Traitor Among Us
It was exceptionally difficult for Astral to make the decision to abandon the city!
A fortress like Dendera Fortress, which could accommodate more than a hundred thousand troops, was enormous. It covered an area of nearly ten square kilometers, and it took almost two years of investing manpower and materials to build it. Once they abandoned the fortress, it would be equivalent to losing all of the investment. It would also put the alliance army in an extremely dangerous position.
However… they had no choice but to do this because the plague had already contaminated the water source, and it was meaningless to continue staying here. There would only be more and more infected. And every day that the troops stayed in the fortress, it meant losing hundreds of soldiers. Under the anxiety, morale was low, and the troops had no combat strength. If the enemy really appeared, it was unknown if the alliance army would even be able to fight. In this case, it was better to completely abandon this fortress and place themselves in death in order to survive!
Although the heroes were unwilling to accept Astral’s decision, they were all the best of their respective races. In terms of intelligence, they were naturally outstanding, and they could certainly figure out the pros and cons. Therefore, after a moment of silence, everyone unconditionally supported his decision.
After making the decision, the heroes heaved sighs of relief. Gelu laughed bitterly. “In the end, we still have to be like Arantir…”
Solmyr said angrily, “Even if we have to leave the city, I still say that Arantir must be the vanguard against the demon. Our troops have low morale now, and only the bone dregs under his command are unaffected. At this moment, he should fulfill his duty!”
“Yes, that’s right!” Hearing this, the other wizard heroes nodded. “The alliance army can station at the back!”
The enmity between the mages of Bracada and the necromancers of Heresh had not formed in a day or two. Therefore, after hearing the suggestion of the wizard heroes, Gelu could only remain silent and not comment. As for Alaric, he was even more eager…
Since they decided to abandon the fortress, the alliance army quickly moved into action. The troops in good condition began to withdraw orderly while guarding against zombie attacks.
However, after confirming that the priests’ holy spells were ineffective on the infected, the alliance army could only give up on the infected people who were only scratched during their fights with the zombies but had not completely changed!
This decision was cruel, so to prevent the injured from losing control of their emotions and rebelling, the heroes discussed for a while before deciding to hide the truth from them.
They gathered these infected but unmutated people and placed them in the same camp. They erected a large number of canvases around the camp to block their sight and prevent them from seeing the scene of the fortress troops evacuating.
Originally, as long as they took proper measures, these infected people would not have known this decision until their deaths. But unfortunately, for some reason, these infected people found out that they had been abandoned!
There were hundreds of similarly wounded people. When they heard that they had to stay in the fortress and could not withdraw with the troops, these injured people were in an uproar. Although they knew that they could not be saved, out of the instinct to survive, they had fantasies and felt that they could still be saved. Now that the alliance army had made such a cruel decision, they felt desperate and found it utterly acceptable at the same time. In particular, many of the wounded were once noble mages, and this intensified the conflict. When these infected people were clamoring to find Astral for an explanation, they fought with the soldiers guarding them. The infected people were disheartened to begin with, and under such circumstances, they could not care less about their comrades anymore. During the fight, many infected people even bit the soldiers!
This caused nearly another hundred infected soldiers to appear…
The scene was out of control for a while. When Astral and the others received the news and hurried over with the army to suppress them, they saw complete disorder and corpses on the ground.
It could not be helped. The people bitten were also red-eyed now. Everyone knew what the outcome would be after being infected. For these infected people who harmed them, they simply adopted a ruthless attitude and aimed their weapons at their former comrades…
This was actually the most terrifying part of the T-Virus. Human relationships, friendships, family affection, and even love would collapse at the first blow…
All the infected people died, including the bitten guards. It was a massacre. In order to prevent future trouble, they had to deal with the bitten guards in cold blood. As Astral watched this scene, his face kept twitching, but in the end, he could only sigh.
“Burn their corpses!” he ordered. After all, if left alone, these corpses would rise again after a while.
Then he began to investigate how the news that led this tragedy had leaked.
If no one had informed these infected people, they would not have realized that they had been abandoned until after the army withdrew from the fortress. But now that the news had leaked in advance, they had to find out who did it.