A shrill alarm circled over the imperial capital. The sudden chaos around the surrounding people made the carriage unable to drive normally. Before Joshua could think too much, he opened the door and got out of the carriage. He helped up several imperial capital people who fell next to 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 couldn't help but mutter to himself: "This is amazing."

On the east side of the city, there was a fire swaying, and the red light illuminated several blocks. Black smoke and dust were rising into the air, covering a large area. Brandon and Nostradamus also got out of the carriage, and they also watched this scene.

"That place is a residential area...what is the situation?"

The rich experience allowed the blonde swordsman to quickly determine that the fire in the city was not big. After the city guards reacted and rushed to put out the fire, they would not cause much damage. But he still looked solemn: "Is there any mage who had an accident while doing a taboo experiment at his home?"

The mage experiment accidents were unexpected. This kind of thing happened decades ago and caused considerable damage every time. However, now, there is a special mage experimental area in the Imperial Capital Royal Mage Association. If it is not a taboo technique but a general magic, then going to a more professional experimental area is definitely better than at home.

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

The old mage saw it very clearly. The light of magic was flashing in his eyes: "There is no magic fluctuation, no large number of elements gathering, and if it is an accident, then the mage who experimented should have come out to clean up the situation long ago... This is a simple alchemy explosion, not an accident in the mage's experiment..."

After a while of silence, he paused word by word and said clearly: "Maybe this is a deliberate attack."

The sudden explosion only happened once, and the panicked crowd gradually recovered from their calmness, especially when they realized that the explosion was far away from them and could not threaten their lives, the courage returned to their hearts.

It has to be said that as residents of the imperial capital, most of them have a good education level. Under the command of the city guards who arrived, the calmed crowd passed through the streets in an orderly manner and returned to their respective homes. No accident happened in the middle.

The guards also came to the black carriage. They saw Joshua and three others. They originally wanted to go forward and check it, but at the reminder of a guard, others also discovered that the inconspicuous emblem on the carriage represented the Imperial Royal Mage Association, and the robe on the white-haired wizard with his back to them was a crystal-patterned white robe that only the ** master could wear.

In the imperial capital, those who dare to pretend to be the master of the Mage Association may not have been born yet.

Those who could ride in the same carriage with the ** Division were not nobles, but also powerful professionals. The city guards simply bypassed these three people and went to other places to preside over the order.

Only fools go to provoke these people.

Brandon was still thinking about the cause of the explosion. At this time, the fire on the east side of the city had become weak. The city guards seemed to have controlled the fire. Nostradamus was also thinking, but not long after, he spoke: "Let's go to the scene to see the situation?"

The old wizard's eyes were full of doubts. Although he had speculated before that this was a deliberate attack, the truth was completely unreasonable. The place where the explosion occurred was on the east side of the outer city, where ordinary residents lived. At most, one or two residents were killed and one or two houses were destroyed. Not to mention other places with the same power, even in the commercial streets of the same outer city, it could kill dozens of people, and the money loss was even more frequent.

So he wanted to go and see the situation.

Of course, Joshua and Brandon would not have any objections, and they were also very curious. Especially Joshua, he had a vague guess in his mind, but he didn't know if the guess was right, so he had to go to the scene to understand the situation.

The three returned to the carriage. Under the driving of the coachman, the carriage turned around and drove towards the other side of the street. There was no dense crowd of pedestrians on the street, and their speed was even faster.

Not long after, they passed through the central main road of the imperial capital, passed countless shops and houses, and arrived at the east side of the city, where the explosion site was launched.

The explosion site had been blocked, and countless city guards were patrolling and cleaning up around. Some guards wanted to stop the carriage from moving forward, but just like their previous colleagues, after seeing the emblem of the Royal Mage Society on the carriage, they respectfully made way. Joshua and others arrived at the scene smoothly.

Near the ruins of a residential house, several guards were sorting out the scene. Among the ruins, the fire had been completely extinguished, and only scattered black smoke emerged from the burned charred wooden beams.

The fire was very fierce at the time.

Just a glance, Joshua could make a general judgment because in the ruins, except for the stone and the almost melted steel creatures burned by high temperatures, other wood furniture and decorations were turned into ashes or coke, and even a little complete debris could not be found. Natural fires and explosions could not cause such damage, and only spells and alchemy materials could do it.

On the side, Nostradamus also confirmed his opinion. He frowned and stroked his white beard: "It was indeed an explosion and fire that was deliberately caused. Fortunately, because the celebration was approaching, the people around him were wandering on the streets, so the casualties should not be large."

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

“Cultists.”

He whispered to himself: "It must be their good thing."

The so-called cultists, in broad terms, are members of the sects that are not the Seven Gods. Among them are the original Druid ancestors and the shaman sacrifices of orcs. However, these cannot be regarded as evil, and are at most pagans. Therefore, in a narrow sense, cultists are those demon believers who play bloody rituals.

The origin of cultists cannot be explored, but it can be concluded that their history is at least comparable to that of the Seven Gods Church. Their energy is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. In the wilderness of the continent, there are many tribes who believe in various demon cults. They kill living people, draw magic circles with blood to sacrifice, and even conduct extremely terrifying sacrificial rituals such as "eating each other", "eating themselves", and "collective suicide" to obtain the evil power of the abyss.

Most of the people who believe in demons are very serious and cannot extricate themselves as long as they fall into it. They pursue chaos, death and riots in the entire social group, making everything return to order. The original form of the strong prey on the weak. When the far south encountered a dragon disaster in the previous life, many cultists deliberately incited refugee riots, and even captured several small cities to seize one side, causing great chaos and causing an extremely heavy blow to the order of the entire kingdom.

The bloody murder case that occurred in various parts of the Northern Empire was also what the cultists did in the eyes of Joshua. They should have planned to conduct a secret summoning ceremony through the blood sacrifice. However, the abyss was sealed by sages in the last era. As long as the seal was not unsealed, it would be difficult to succeed except for the magic book of Ebonn, which is directly connected to the abyss.

In the eyes of the warriors, this explosion in the imperial capital was a summoning ceremony that was close to success but failed in the end. Nostradamus believed that the explosion was caused by alchemy creations such as gunpowder, but Joshua knew that the devil's summoning ceremony originally required materials such as sulfur saltpeter, and the two did not conflict.

"However, he actually dared to summon the demons in the imperial capital, and he almost succeeded... You know, in a few days it will be a celebration banquet to wipe out the orcs."

Turning his head and looking at the huge obsidian palace in the center of the imperial capital, Joshua touched his chin and chuckled, "I really don't know what action that Majesty will do when he takes action at this time."

At this time, the news of the explosion had also reached the royal study in the center of the imperial capital, the most important part of the imperial capital.

With a cold snorkeling, a terrifying storm was brewing in it. (To be continued.)

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