Chapter 15: Soldiers are expensive and fast
"You actually killed them all..."
Looking at the city hall littered with corpses, the elf scout seemed speechless. Her original plan was for Duanmu Huai to come forward to attract the enemy's attention, take the opportunity to rescue the people from the underground waterway, and then find a way to cooperate with Duanmu Huai to allow him to evacuate. Unexpectedly, this black knight was so ruthless and killed all the rat people and evil god believers in the city hall.
"Why keep them when you can kill them all?"
Duanmu Huai seemed very calm. The average level of the Rat Man was less than level 10. To him, he was like an unparalleled mower. Of course, it was fun to fight. The disadvantage was that the experience value was extremely low - after all, the level difference between the two parties was very low. At level ten, Duanmuhuai's Rat Killer only has 1 basic experience point to gain.
Well, look at it this way, if he kills the 300-year-old rat man, maybe he can be promoted to LV99...
"But it's okay, we just got some information."
Speaking of this, the elf scout lowered his voice.
"These ratmen did not come to attack the City of Silver with nothing to do. In fact, they came here to find a certain holy object. They tried to contaminate this holy object to plunge this land into plague and decay. ”
"Oh.........that's not surprising."
Duanmu Huai seemed very calm about the elf scout's report. The followers of the four evil gods also behaved in different ways, but there were still traces to follow.
Followers of the tyrannical god like war, blood, and death as a way to please their god.
Followers of the god of filth spread plagues and viruses wherever they go to show the "love" of their father.
Followers of the God of Deceit like to engage in all kinds of conspiracies, stabbing people in the back and playing all kinds of conspiracies are their favorite.
Followers of the God of Desire are more focused on enjoying all kinds of perverted, twisted desires and fun.
According to the elf scouts, what they are eyeing this time is a sacred object called "Gift of the Water God". Its greatest function is to purify water sources - of course, for a human gathering place, this function itself is Very strong.
The followers of the evil god attacked the Silver City because they wanted to obtain the "gift from the water god" and then use the power of the god of filth to transform it into a biochemical weapon that could pollute water sources. At that time, they only need to throw the holy object into the water source, and then all life up and down the entire river will be able to feel the "father's love like a mountain" of the filthy god.
"Such a sacred object should be tightly guarded."
"That's right."
The elf scout nodded.
"The empire sent high-level mages to put up layers of protection around the holy objects. No one except the royal family members can touch them, but no one knows whether the power of the filthy evil spirits is strong enough to break this layer of protection..."
"So what we have to do is take back the temple and protect the sacred objects?"
"Yes, I have sent someone to inform Mr. Cardo about this."
After hearing the elf scout's answer, Duanmu Huai frowned and thought for a moment.
"I've always wanted to ask, where are the reinforcements? Do we have reinforcements?"
“………………It’s hard to say.”
"What do you mean it's hard to say? The Silver City is the territory of the empire, right? It was invaded by the followers of the evil god and barbarians, and the lord died in battle. Isn't it natural to provide assistance to the empire?"
"That's true, but there are also many kinds of nastiness in human beings."
There was obviously some dissatisfaction in the elf scout's tone, but Duanmuhuai could also guess that it was probably related to the struggle for power... But now is not the time to waste time talking about this.
"Then let's take action and try to regain the temple as soon as possible and keep the sacred objects. As for those troublesome things, we can talk about it later."
However, for Duanmu Huai, the political civil strife of an empire has nothing to do with him. His main purpose of coming to this planet is to find the sacred objects of order lost in this world, and then bring them back to the core cabin. As for other things, he can take care of them, but he won't get too involved.
After all, Duanmu Huai's goal is the stars and the sea, and such a civilization in the medieval period is not worthy of him wasting too much energy on it.
"Just you?"
"And her."
Duanmu Huai pointed at Ojis who was following him. In the previous battle, Ojis had been hiding on the side and did not take action. It is the same now. She is Duanmu Huai's last insurance. Duanmu Huai is the last resort. Will not be enabled.
"You are really resolute..."
Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, the elf scout sighed, and then she made up her mind. "I'm going with you, too. At least I'm familiar with this city, and I can at least lead the way for you two."
"Then I'll trouble you."
In the eyes of the elf scouts, Duanmuhuai's behavior was somewhat reckless and radical, but Duanmuhuai knew that what he did was just to protect himself in the face of the upcoming crisis.
And this starts with the history of Xinghai OL.
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, humans established a great empire that ruled the entire galaxy, expelled all alien barbarians, and people lived under the glory of prosperity, peace, and greatness. This generation is also called the "golden age".
But, after that, things took a turn for the worse.
The artificial intelligence serving the Golden Age launched a rebellion under a mysterious electronic virus, and the entire Golden Age was almost completely destroyed. Although the omnic crisis finally came to an end, humanity was also severely damaged by it. What's even more terrible is that a terrible subspace storm also occurred at this time, hindering human space navigation and communication capabilities.
This is a fatal blow to human society. After all, transportation tracks are indispensable for any civilization. In the golden age, people used subspace channels to travel across countless light-year distances to reach other planets in the galaxy. , and also uses the ability of subspace to communicate with these planets.
To put it simply, this is like a railway network between planets, which simultaneously connects mobility and communications.
However, after the subspace storm broke out, these railway networks were completely destroyed. Humanity lost the ability to communicate with other planets, and could no longer travel through subspace to other planets through warships. Their warships would get lost in subspace storms for various unknown reasons and disappear without a trace. Because of this, human civilization at that time was in danger and even reached the edge of destruction.
At this time, a mysterious being stood up. He led mankind to resist the final crisis and led them to glory again. He was also known as the leader of mankind - the Emperor.
After leading the human civilization in the solar system to consolidate their power, and taking advantage of the subspace storm to subside, the Emperor led a fleet to launch a great expedition. The purpose was to recover those who had been lost to the human home planet in the subspace storm. Contact planetary colonies in other galaxies.
The Great Crusade went smoothly at the beginning, and humans successfully recovered most of the colonies. However... the good times did not last long. Just when the Great Crusade was about to end, a subspace storm suddenly appeared again, and once again, it seemed like history. As if repeating itself, the Great Crusade's fleet was thus divided. In the warp storm, they were unable to contact their home planet, let alone return to the Emperor's side.
However, the Warp Storm was only the beginning. After this, there was a great rebellion - the Warmaster who led the expedition in place of the Emperor launched a rebellion.
Just like the Omnic Crisis in the Golden Age, humanity once again encountered betrayal. Although the Horus Heresy was eventually suppressed, the vitality of the Human Empire was also severely damaged, and the Emperor simply disappeared without a trace.
After that, the human empire experienced divisions, battles and chaos, and even attacks from alien races. Humanity won again and again, and then failed again. And after dozens of thousands of years, someone finally came up with an incredible plan.
Black hole project.
In the eyes of these people, all threats faced by the human empire are caused by the evil gods of subspace.
However, it is almost impossible to destroy the evil god in subspace. As mentioned before, subspace is the place where the souls and emotions of all things in the world are projected. That is to say, unless all living things in the entire world are destroyed, Otherwise, even if the evil gods in the subspace are defeated, they will be resurrected again.
However, subspace is not invincible. All things are interdependent. Subspace will produce existences such as psykers, but similarly, psykers also have natural enemies.
That is the existence called "Untouchable".
It is currently unknown why this existence itself was born, but the only thing that can be known is that the untouchables are the only existences that have no projection in the subspace. They are like black holes in the subspace. Not only that, when they are inaccessible When Contactors are present around a psyker, they can also weaken or even isolate the psyker's connection and power to the Warp.
Of course, the untouchables are also hated by the living. They are like soulless existences, and their mere existence will be disgusted and hated by the living.
However, the Black Hole Project is an idea derived from the Untouchables.
To put it simply, this group of people is trying to create a "void" large enough in the subspace to completely destroy the balance of power in the subspace.
And in this way, even if the Chaos Evil God cannot be killed, it will still be enough to give them a severe blow.
This is like a country on earth deciding to use nuclear bombs on the entire earth when it is facing the fate of destroying its country and its family.
If we die together, we will all die together. If I die, you won’t be able to live well.
Killing eight hundred enemies and losing one thousand to yourself is considered blood gain.
What this group of people did was to cleanse the entire universe, and then... the rest can only be left to the survivors of future humans.
The black hole plan was a great success, the subspace almost collapsed, and the evil gods all fell into a deep sleep after suffering this blow. Without the protection of the gods they believe in, other alien races are also severely weakened. It can be said that the human empire finally used indiscriminate attacks to knock all civilizations in the universe back to the Stone Age, and everything started again.
However, the evil gods are certainly not willing to fall into eternal sleep, so they still use various methods to confuse their believers and make them work harder so that they can wake up earlier - at least earlier than others.
After the players wake up, there will be this "dark age". What they have to do is to destroy the plans of the evil gods as much as possible, delay their awakening, and at the same time strengthen themselves as much as possible to deal with the evil gods' resurgence, or even permanently lift them. this threat. Otherwise, when the evil god recovers, they will have no choice but to wait for death in despair.
What he has to do now is to destroy the plan of the God of Filth!
(End of chapter)