"Miners... It's those miners bewitched by the devils that have stormed in!"
Terrified shouts erupted throughout the capital. Ever since half a month ago, when Duke Rickman led his army to a crushing defeat in Earl Joyce's territory, various rumors had been wildly spreading throughout the capital.
There were rumors that these miners had been controlled by witchcraft, turned into crazed, mindless walking corpses, and that tens of thousands of civilians within Earl's territory had already been used as sacrificial tokens to summon the Evil God.
Many minor nobles and wealthy merchants gathered their guards, frantically packing their belongings to flee. Those civilians without the means to resist hid in their homes, hoping that the royal guards would drive these intruding miners out of the capital.
The capital still had the Church, with the exceedingly powerful Cardinal, the great Lord of the Stars, the Moon Goddess—they would surely not abandon their devout believers!
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