Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 368 - 166: Grand Chorus

Several dozen minutes earlier, atop the Stuttgart signal tower.

"Do you know?" The robed person stood at the edge of the lookout, staring down at the city covered in forests and vines, "The Swabian Duchy used to be known as the Germania Province within the Ancient Solomon Empire."

"At that time, the Empire wanted to extend wireless networks here, but the local Germanic tribes believed that building base stations near their homes, the electromagnetic signals could adversely affect human health."

"So they besieged the Empire’s construction teams, destroyed the base stations they built, and slaughtered their engineers."

"In the end, with no other recourse, the Empire could only turn to build these giant mobile communication towers on mountains in the suburbs, typically rising to 200-300 meters, enough to cover the entire city within the signal range."

"Ignorant," said the young man standing behind the robed person.

"No, it’s not ignorance," the robed person’s voice grew deeper, "it’s fear."

"Fear of authority."

"They didn’t know what the base stations were, they could only sense that the Empire was changing their lives. Whether this change was good or bad was still unknown. But even if it was bad, they, as individuals, could hardly resist the will of the Empire, so they had to intimidate and incite more people to build strength. Rumors started like this, and whether the base stations were actually harmful to human health didn’t matter anymore, nobody cared."

"What are you trying to say?" the young man behind him asked impatiently.

"I’m leaving," the robed person said, "Goodbye. If you live to see it, that is."

"You’re leaving?" said the young man in disbelief, "But our cause has just begun..."

"That’s your cause, not mine," the robed person spoke indifferently, "And it’s hardly a cause at all. You’re just fighting for your own life, barely surviving under the crushing pressure of two major factions."

"Be careful. If you’re not clear about your own situation, you might not even know why you’re dying in the near future."

He stepped half a step forward, and his body rapidly plummeted from the edge of the signal tower, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The young man stood in place, his face pale and greenish.

Turning around to re-enter the signal tower, the giant plant vines had already covered the entire room, the leaves and buds trembled as if alive.

He approached one of the buds and lay down behind it. The petals then slowly closed, enveloping and devouring him.

Inside the city, among the patrolling soldiers, one suddenly felt a discomfort in his stomach.

He leaned against a lamppost on the side of the street, unable to help but retch. As he retched, something slimy quickly crawled up his throat.

A green vine with branches and leaves.

"AAAAHHH!" he screamed in terror and agony, but more wild grass and vines burst from his flesh, crazily growing from his body.

"Cut down these monsters!" shouted a panicked comrade.

"Kerosene! Use kerosene!" the Squad Leader urgently instructed everyone.

A soldier frantically pulled out kerosene from his waist but his wrist was entangled by vines that suddenly stretched out, a numbing sensation struck instantly, and his entire arm shriveled up at a visible speed.

Moments later, these patrolling soldiers were devoured alive by rampantly uncontrolled plants, leaving behind a vibrant green expanse that nestled in the human city and spread in all directions.

Nearly all the Stuttgart guards who had consumed special medicine were afflicted at the same time, turning into nutrients for the parasitic plants inside them, nourishing the plants to spread rapidly outward.

In a matter of minutes, the majority of the city’s humans and animals were devoured by these bizarrely growing plants.

Gradually, massive fruits began to form on the vines that spread everywhere. Each fruit enveloped a human corpse, and once-still hearts started beating powerfully again.

After dozens of minutes, the members of The Azure Longsword Mercenary Corps had arrived at the outskirts of Stuttgart.

"Is everyone ready?" Aske, wearing a gas mask, asked.

"We’re ready." The girls were also fully armed, their bodies tightly wrapped in clothes, wearing somewhat fierce-looking gas masks.

The gas masks, originally part of the medical supplies shipped over from Solomon City by the Lysine Group after a plague outbreak in Bavaria, now proved useful.

Before even entering the urban area, the air was already filled with plant spores, emitting a brownish lustre like fish scales under the sunlight. If these spores were inhaled, who knew what mutations might occur inside the body.

Then, Miel took out a large number of special firearms and carefully distributed them to everyone.

Flamethrowers, originating from a secret technological research institute beneath a town that had suffered from mutants. These firearms were embedded with the Extraordinary Traits of Flame I, capable of shooting continuous streams of fiery heat as long as the user provided Spirituality.

After the mutant incident ended, they returned to the research institute in the Real Plane, cleared out these firearms, and stored them on Fire Island... Now, they were proving useful.

Huh? Smart and quick-witted as Thira and Medea were, they suddenly felt that all these coincidences were a bit too much.

Had the Squad Leader foreseen this day when he had taken those firearms and gas masks, anticipating they would be useful?

Thira was baffled, while Medea went straight to Mind Reading.

She didn’t get any results; Aske’s mind was preoccupied with other matters. However, knowing him as she did, Medea was sure he had planned ahead.

In the city ahead, the plants had stopped their rampant growth. Leaves clung to every possible surface, whether it was roads or buildings, all covered by these green plants.

It was like a primordial rainforest from ancient times.

However, the girls were all wearing gas masks and carrying flamethrowers, meaning their offense and defense against the plants in this mission instance had reached the max.

With Spirituality infused into the firearms, they pulled the trigger toward what was ahead and spewed out Flames. This way, not to mention the spores in the air, even the flower buds producing the spores were scorched clean.

As they continued forward, they saw young shoots burrowing out of the earth ahead, while vines were stretching along the adjacent street.

"Again," Aske said.

They pulled the triggers of their firearms once more, flames sweeping across the area, burning these plants to ashes.

"These plants seem to be extracting the Life Force from the nearby soil," Nora suddenly said, "I can feel the Life Force from the ground under my feet slowly draining away."

"Soil has Life Force too?" Eleanor asked curiously.

"Life Force is stored in the soil in the form of humus, which agronomy often calls soil fertility," Nora explained. "Plants synthesize organic matter through photosynthesis and store it within. When plants die, the organic matter in their remains returns to the earth. Over time, this results in fertile soil with rich humus." ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com

"And the rapid growth and metabolism of these plants are built upon the cost of extracting Life Force from the soil. Once this mutant outbreak is thoroughly resolved..." Nora hesitated before continuing, "This land will likely become a desert unable to support any plant life."

Everyone fell silent.

But they didn’t have time for sorrow, as numerous fruits on the vines ahead burst open, and a horde of Green Skin monsters emerged from them.

"WAAAGH!!"

This was their loudest war cry, uttered with all their might as they descended upon this world.

It was like a piercing chorus.

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