Chapter 396 The Truth
As Nohir expected, Olin did not come alone. This guy also brought a team of 12 assassins, including four. Shapeshifters, six Nightblades, two Reapers.
This can be considered a quite luxurious teammate configuration, but at this time, Eltoril had just returned from hell. After experiencing such a horrific disaster, people were not defeated by it. Becoming more united, everyone remained 120% vigilant. When the riot broke out, it took less than 15 minutes for everyone to wake up.
Then less than half an hour later, the news of Nohir's assassination had spread throughout the city, but who was Nohir? He is the hero who saved all of Eltor! He is the biggest contributor! All Eltoril owes him their lives! And this group of daring assassins actually dared to assassinate him!
There is no doubt that such behavior is enough to cause public outrage! Whether they are men or women, old people or children, everyone who hears the news can still walk around. As long as they can still carry swords and hold torches, these angry people can spread their footprints all over the place. To every street and alley!
Suddenly, the whole city was brightly lit, and through the extreme search methods of the citizens, coupled with the Hell Knights who had been actively acting, in less than half an hour, the group including the deformed All 12 assassins, including the blame, have fallen into people's hands!
Even Nohill himself couldn't help but lament the efficiency of such an efficient operation. It was precisely because of such an efficient arrest operation that his interrogation could be concluded as quickly as possible.
Although nine of the 12 assassins died during the resistance, these dead corpses were still able to speak. Through the dead man's conversation technique of Luxiut's sacrifice, although these dead corpses did not know anything special A key question, but it still helped him piece together most of the basic information.
The very skilled interrogator in the city guard also used his unique punishment to pry open the mouths of the three assassins. Although the interrogator used torture to interrogate Orin, the guy was completely He acted like a dead pig and was not afraid of boiling water, and even tried to threaten Nohir with all kinds of crazy words, but as you had expected, you chose to ignore Orin's mouth full of shit.
After piecing together the basic intelligence information from those ordinary assassins, Nohill understood that the living Orin was useless. After that, he did not give Orin any dignity he deserved as a legend. Guy doesn't deserve it.
So Nohir just cut it into two sections with a sharp axe, and then watched in silence as the hoisted Olin spewed blood. It was only then that a certain trace of emotion finally appeared in Olin's eyes. With eyes of disbelief, I have not yet committed enough massacres in the mortal world to make Baal proud, and I have not yet wrested control of the Baal cult from evil thoughts. How could I... how could I die here like this!
However, the facts do not depend on human will. From the moment he was defeated at the hands of Nohir, his fate has been doomed. No matter how unwilling he is, death has become a foregone conclusion. This is the case for Olin. They all breathed out uneasily.
Then Nohir used Priest Luxiut's technique of talking to the dead to bring back its just-dispersed soul, and learned some very crucial information from Orin, who was completely dead.
The conversation with the dead technique allows the deceased to answer five questions. This number of times is enough to ask for quite critical information. Combined with the previous basic information, this is enough for Nohir to piece together the causes and consequences of the attack.
“So it’s like this, it’s actually because of this.”
Nohir, who had pieced together the whole cause and effect, showed a helpless expression. To put it bluntly, the cause of this incident was the return of Eltoril, which forced the Death Triad to speed up the progress of its plan.
As early as half a year ago, the Murder Order has been continuously committing murders in Baldur's Gate, and the purpose of doing so is to cause chaos and find opportunities to subvert Baldur's Gate in the chaos.
Originally, Eltoril's disappearance out of thin air some time ago has already accomplished most of their goals. In addition, the recent warning of Flame Fist is too high, which makes their movements inconvenient and has even gradually slowed down. frequency of murders.
But now, Eltoril has returned, and chaos and fear have been swept away along with the legend of the hero. This is very unfavorable to their next plan. They must find a way to bring chaos and panic again As before, it swept through the entire Northland, leaving everyone with no time to take care of it, so that they could secretly plot their own conspiracy.
Nohir originally thought that during this time period, whether it was Baal, Bane or the followers of Melkor, they would all focus on the plan of the Supreme God. However, in fact, in his mind The Supreme God plan that will appear in the future, in fact, until now, Gotash has not completely proposed it, because they have not discovered that the crown has the ability to transform the master brain and give it the ability to produce alienated mind flayer tadpoles. So so far, the current tasks of the Death Triad are actually quite scattered. They have not yet been completely unified by the mastermind like they will be in the future.
Gortash is currently in Baldur's Gate, dealing with the search of the Flame Fist, and at the same time, through violent coercion, money, bribery, etc., he has obtained control of a large number of factories in Blackport. These factories The purpose should be to create Iron Guards.
Catheric Thom quietly recruited an army of undead in the Shadow Curse Land, accumulating strength bit by bit.
As for evil thoughts...
Well, in fact, Gortash has already come up with a crazy plan to control the mastermind through the crown, and then use it to control the entire illithid community, but Gortash Tash's plan has only just been implemented, and Xie Nian just took over this task seven days ago.
The same is true for Orin. She received the task of assassinating Nohir seven days ago. As long as she, the recently popular hero, can die in the city she saved, chaos and fear will inevitably spread like a hurricane throughout the North. Crazy communication outbreak!
“Olin underestimated me, so they overturned. Their plan has failed, but I actually caught up with it at such a time?”
It seems that my arrival has already affected it. In the future development of the plot, in the original time period, the moment when the evil thoughts put the crown on the mastermind, Orin was stabbed in the back, and the legendary dagger he captured pierced the brain, resulting in direct death or amnesia.
But now Orin is dead, and seven days have passed for Evil Mind to deal with the Master Brain. This makes Nohir start to worry, has Evil Mind successfully put the crown on the Master Brain's head?
“Every complete illithid community has at least hundreds of main members whose professional level and challenge level are at least tenth level or above. Each of these members is a master of psychic powers. It’s not that easy for a master who controls other people’s minds and disrupts other people’s brains to break into the lowest level of their brains from their protection.”
"But evil thoughts are not something to be trifled with. Without Olin as a young boy, he might be able to break into the brain more easily, and then he might put the crown on the master brain. This is all possible."
But if this thing really happens, then the thing in the original plot that caused a slight flaw in the control of the mastermind due to Orin's backstab will never happen again, and this This means that the chosen ones of the three gods of death will retain complete control over the mastermind...
No! He must speed up his pace. It is best to leave now and go directly to the Moonrise Tower to check the specific situation there. He must take advantage of the fact that the master brain has not been completely transformed by the ancient Netheril magic in the crown. A serious blow! Even eliminate this biggest threat!
(End of this chapter)