Chapter 617 Northland
"Dear adventurer, I take the liberty to bother you during my busy schedule, but now, a crisis is raging in the Northland. The Howling Death - this terrible plague has swept across the entire Northland, even the Unknown Winterfell, the crown jewel of the North, also fell into dust.
So here, I hope that you... an outstanding warrior and adventurer, can lend your power to Neverwinter and save this city and the innocent suffering people in the North. If you are willing to accept the invitation, then please bring this letter to the Lord's Mansion in Neverwinter, where we will welcome you..."
Duanmuhuai put down the letter in his hand and looked forward.
"That's what I said, but... didn't this mission fail?"
Standing on the street covered with white snow, Duanmu Huai muttered in confusion. After that, he and Ojis came to this world through teleportation, and then Duanmu Huai got this letter - originally according to the Logically speaking, this letter is the system's preset identity for Duanmu Huai in this world. Next, he only needs to find someone according to the task.
As a result, after Duanmu Huai finished reading the letter with his front foot, the system on his back foot made a "dong" sound, prompting [mission failed].
Good guy, I just came and finished it? What the hell is this?
Duanmu Huai was speechless about this, but it was not incomprehensible. In fact, players often saw this kind of thing. After all, Xinghai OL mainly focuses on a dynamic mode. The so-called dynamic means that the actions of your players do not affect the world. So it won't be like many games. Even though the world is about to be destroyed, players still have time to play cards with the tavern owner and then go to the BOSS, and the latter will just wait for him to come.
If you don't hurry up and indulge in playing cards with the tavern owner, the world will really be ruined.
Novice Village is the best example.
The mission sign was obviously urgent, but the players didn't take it to heart. The final result was that the Novice Village exploded on the spot, and all the players were smashed.
The same goes for the missions in the mercenary system. When the mission is issued, that world must have already encountered problems. Next, whether the player goes to that world or not, it will advance the plot on its own. Therefore, players who entered early can figure out the ins and outs of the matter, while players who entered late were left confused.
However, this also allowed players to come up with a new routine, that is, when a certain commissioned task begins, they immediately enter it, and then look for opportunities to investigate the ins and outs of the story background. Then when players come, they can tell these things to the newcomers. Many players like to do this very much. They feel like they have become the sage NPC in the game who specially explains the background to the protagonist. It is quite interesting. of…………
Anyway, let's go to the lord's mansion first. Anyway, the purpose of Duanmu Huai's visit was not to complete the task, but to find a way to combat the corruption. If the task fails, it means it fails. This also means that the other party has not solved the problem, so Duanmu Huai can solve the problem.
Duanmuhuai glanced at Ojis who was sitting on his shoulder, staring at the surroundings with a calm expression, and strode forward.
It has to be said that the situation in this city looks worse than the plague-ridden city I saw in Novice Village before. The streets are full of corpses. In some open areas, the corpses are piled up in mountains, and they are burning in the flames. There was thick black smoke rising into the sky.
There was no one on the streets, not even the patrolling guards could be seen. There were only a few houses that looked like they were burning and collapsing, and seemed to still have some vitality.
Fortunately, when Duanmu Huai came to the central square, guards finally stopped them.
"Wait, who are you?! This place has been completely blocked and no one is allowed to enter or exit!"
Seeing Duanmuhuai in front of them, the guards were quite nervous, but they still shouted loudly, and Duanmuhuai stretched out his hand and handed over the letter. The latter carefully took the letter and read it, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"It turns out it was Ms. Aribes who invited me... Come on, you are the last one to arrive."
One of the guards turned around and walked inside with Duanmu Huai. At the same time, he also explained the city's affairs to Duanmu Huai.
As written in the previous letter, a plague called the Howling Death broke out in Neverwinter City. True to its destiny, all those infected with the plague would die painfully while wailing and crying. Lord Nasher tried to find out the cause of the problem, but eventually even he became infected with the plague and had to be quarantined in the castle.
In this case, Lord Nasher's right-hand man, the Paladin of Tyr, Irebes, stood up and gathered everyone to maintain order, try to save Neverwinter City, and find a cure for the plague. And the efforts of Paladin Aribes did bear fruit. She found four creatures used to treat the plague. Next, as long as she performs rituals and synthesizes drugs, she can save the city and even the Northland.
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai knew that there was a turning point. After all, his mission had failed.
Sure enough, next comes the “but” part.
Just the night before the ceremony, a group of mysterious people suddenly attacked the lord's mansion, killing many adventurers summoned by Aribes, and the creatures used to treat the plague also escaped.
So the atmosphere in this city can be described as very solemn now... As for Ms. Aribes, she moved to the Temple of Tyr after the attack.
Later, under the leadership of the guards, Duanmuhuai met Ms. Aribes in the Temple of Tire.
"Hello, brave adventurer, although you are a little late, I still want to welcome you."
What appeared in front of Duanmu Huai was a slender, beautiful woman with pointed ears and shoulder-length hair.
Well, it's really rare for an elf to be a paladin.
Could it be a half-elf?
But at this moment, Aribes's beautiful face looked a little tired, and the reason was obvious at a glance. In the hall of the Temple of Tyr, there were straw mats placed everywhere, and on the straw mats, ragged people The patients kept coughing, and the nurses around them were also quite busy.
It seems that those people should be patients of the Howling Death.
"As you can see, our situation is not very good at the moment..."
"Understandable."
Duanmuhuai nodded, then looked at the patient next to him.
“Can’t priests and priests also cure it?”
"Yes, fortunately we found a way, but... there is still a problem. I am very happy that you have come."
"Do you want me to find the lost pets in Neverwinter?"
"No, I have already sent someone to do that."
Aribes shook her head.
"I hope you can investigate this plague - in fact, as early as the plague occurred, there were rumors claiming that it was deliberately launched by the enemies of Neverwinter in order to destroy the city. Of course, at that time, we Just treat it as a rumor, but this attack has made us suspect that there may be something wrong, so I hope you will go and investigate.”
"Wait, Aribes."
At this moment, a frowning old man next to her stared at Duanmuhuai dissatisfiedly and interrupted her.
"You shouldn't do this, we know nothing about this warrior! How can you blindly trust him?"
"Deszel, what you said is wrong." At this time, a man who also looked like a half-elf standing next to Irebeth spoke to dissuade her.
"Now we need manpower. In order to completely understand the situation of the plague, we need more people like him to serve Neverwinter."
"Hmph."
The man named Deszel snorted coldly.
"I still want to say that we should have faith in our fellow Helm believers, not an unproven outsider."
"Disciples of Helm?"
Looking at the warning eye symbol on Deszell's chest, Duanmuhuai snorted coldly.
He is not the kind of good boy who just stands around and listens to instructions.
"Ah, I've heard about you. You and the gods you believe in are paranoid people who succeed only in failure. As a joke, you really have the nerve to talk about the word trust here."
Players are also very familiar with this world. This is a world with many gods, and it is also one of the players' favorite worlds. In the history of this world, there once was such an interesting story.
A long time ago, in order to gain greater power than other gods, the three gods of death stole the tablet of destiny held by the god AO, trying to find out its secrets. AO was furious after discovering that the Tablet of Destiny had been stolen. He ordered the gods to descend to earth in the form of saints and not allow them to come back until the tablet was found.
So the Year of Turmoil began, and the gods were forced to descend to earth one after another. Although the gods in the form of saints were still more powerful than ordinary mortals, they were not immortal, so many gods were killed in the Year of Turmoil.
And then there’s this joke about Haim.
After the gods descended to earth, AO ordered Heim to guard the passage from the main material plane back to the outer plane. At that time, the goddess of magic Mystra was imprisoned by Bane, one of the three gods of death, and was later rescued. So she hurried back to the outer plane, wanting to tell AO that it was the Three Gods of Death who had stolen the Stone of Destiny.
As a result, Heim who was guarding the passage was unwilling to let Mystra pass, and a conflict broke out. Although Mystra was the goddess of magic, she was only a saint at the time, while Heim was a complete god. In the end, Heim killed her. Mystra caused the turbulent years that could have ended quickly to last for a long time. It wasn't until a mortal named Cyric found the Tablet of Destiny that the Year of Turmoil came to an end and the gods returned to their places.
It is precisely because of this story that players have taken Heim for fun, and ridicules such as "Look what you have protected" are endless. What's more, Heim and his followers have never done anything good. They can be called a typical example of failure in success and failure in success. Because of this, when players are operating in this world, they will basically hide away when they see Heim believers.
After all, this is the officially certified god of pig teammates, so those who believe in it must also be pig teammates.
"What did you say?"
Upon hearing Duanmuhuai's taunt, Deszel was immediately furious.
"How dare you disrespect Heim?"
"What respect is there for a bunch of trash? If you have the ability, let the Saint of Heim come, and I will rip off his head right here in front of you!"
"You————!"
"Okay, now is not the time to argue."
Seeing that Deszel was about to draw his sword in anger, the man stood up again.
"What we need to do now is to suppress chaos, maintain order, and investigate the truth! Instead of starting internal strife here!"
"But the attack on the Academy has made it all worse! Vanswijk!"
Deszell stared at the latter angrily.
"Once everyone discovers that Aribeth lacks faith, they will know that she has no way to cure the plague!"
"Deszell!"
Hearing this, Vanswijk's voice suddenly became louder.
"I will not let you question my confidence in true love! Ms. Aribes is in charge of this matter. This was personally appointed by Lord Nasher. We are not qualified to discuss this."
"…………Hmph."
Deszell snorted coldly, turned and left. At this time, Vanswijk sighed and looked at Duanmuhuai.
"I'm sorry, please forgive Deszell. The plague has cost us a huge price, even more than the cost of treatment."
"I advise you to keep an eye on him. According to my experience, followers of Heim usually mess up things."
Duanmuhuai also glanced at the turtle grandson and looked at Aribes again.
"So, can we get started?"
"Of course, but before leaving, I hope you can meet with the others. We have organized an investigation team, so we hope you can join it."
"Well, no problem."
"That's good."
Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, Aribes breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then, I'll leave it to you."
After saying this, Aribes turned and left, and then Vanswijk came up to him.
"Follow me, adventurer, and I'll take you to meet the others, and then you can get started."
(End of chapter)