Crown of Chaos

In the hotel room, while Eleanor was cleaning up the room Aaron had reserved, she heard the noise outside.

There were many Harpers gathered in the hotel today. Eleanor guessed that it might be because the Harpers had some activities recently, or they had something to discuss, so they didn't pay too much attention.

Although Suellen is the patron saint of the Harpers, Suellen, who has a good nature, does not force his followers to join the Harpers. As a priest of Suellen, Eleanor can only be said to be in alliance with the Harpers. There is a certain connection. Her attention is not on the so-called good cause of the Harper Alliance. Eleanor, like Aaron, always has her own understanding of kindness.

The noise outside still affected Eleanor. Miss Priest herself was a quiet person who did not like movement. After making the big bed for Aaron and herself to sleep on, and placing the small bed for Charlotte next to the toilet, Eleanor finally decided to go out and see what was going on.

On the surface, darkness is falling. The setting sun stubbornly leaves a small semicircle in the mountain col. There is a thick smoke in the sky above the hotel. Dinner is being prepared. Coal for heating is burning. There is a smell of humanity and warmth mixed in the hotel. The musty smell was masked by the aroma of beer and food. Eleanor, who was a bit obsessed with germs, couldn't help but frown. Miss Pastor thought that after Aaron was done with it, she would still have to release a three-ring magic - Li Omon's hut.

As soon as she came out of the room, Eleanor heard the conversation between the two harpists.

They were chatting about a depressing incident. Something happened to two of the Harper members responsible for the investigation. One Harper had been missing for a long time, and another Harper was found dead in a nearby underground tunnel.

One of the Harpers believed that things were going beyond control and that they should report it to their superiors immediately. The other Harper believed that it was no big deal. It was normal for someone to die unexpectedly on the Avenue of Kindness. As for the disappearance—— According to the habits of the Harpers, under normal circumstances, those guys who have been missing for a few days will return to the queue with a shy face and smell of alcohol.

"No, the missing Drake is not just a mob, he is an experienced elite ranger. He has successfully survived so many previous explorations!" One of the Harpers firmly denied: "As for Patrick, there is What could attack a half-elf with darkvision in the sewers and drain him of all his blood with one blow?"

The Harper's body was found in a tunnel near the Tower of Moonrise - no need to be surprised, the area near Baldur's Gate is full of these tunnels, either used to protect oneself in danger, or used for smuggling. , or hiding some ulterior secrets.

"What's going on?" Eleanor couldn't help but ask.

Although the Reverend Miss is not from the Harper Alliance, the Harpers basically know her. As one of the most well-known Suellen Priests in the country, Eleanor's appearance and features are already well known to everyone. Seeing the Reverend Miss, she spoke. , the two Harpers couldn't explain for a while, and they asked Eleanor to find Brosnan, the leader of the Harpers gathering this time.

Brosnan is on the third floor of the Final Light Hotel. He and several Harpers are studying a strange device together.

The shape of the device looks like a nut shell - two semicircles made of dark yellow metal protect a green ore power system in the middle, surrounded by tangled wires and interfaces. There is a drill bit on the front end of the device. Make it look like a drill again.

The leader of the Harpers, Brosnan, studied this metal device for a long time, but could not find any clue: "So, can anyone tell me what this thing is?"

"I don't know, boss." The black-skinned harpist next to him shook his head: "We may need a dwarf mechanic or a gray dwarf mechanic."

"We asked the dwarves on the surface, and they didn't know where this thing came from. According to their mechanical experience, this thing should not be able to operate in any sense." Another harpist spread his hands to express his helplessness: "Head Son, is this thing really important?"

"I don't know, it's just that my intuition tells me that the thing is definitely not just ordinary industrial garbage." Brosnan, the leader of the Harpers, had a greasy slicked back. He tried to study the strange device: "Remember before? Report?"

"The mines in Naxikai have recently been contaminated by this strange green ore. All the ores mined are unqualified because the ores are getting worse and worse. As a result, Baldur's Gate and even the Sword Coast region cannot get qualified ores. Supply, coupled with Amn's trade pressure... If we Harpers don't join the action soon, Amn may start a war with Baldur's Gate."

"Didn't Sister Jaheira and her husband Khalid already rush over?"

"Then we can't relax!" Brosnan continued to focus all his attention on this strange device: "Damn it, it would be great if there were artificers from Imasca among us."

The Imasca Empire, one of the most powerful empires in human history, was once a regional hegemonic force in the east of the country. It obtained some of the Nese Scrolls, but eventually became disorderly because the country was too big. It went to other planes to capture slaves and ended up causing trouble. Mulhorand's entire pantheon came from other parts of the multiverse to overthrow the Imaskar Empire with slaves led by avatars.

Some of the remaining old wizards of the Imasca Empire formed an order, and it is generally believed that they are the predecessors of the red-robed wizards.

A very famous profession in the Imaskar Empire is the artificer. Unlike Netheril, the Imaskar Empire did not lose the scrolls of Netheril. They kept all their knowledge in a library called "Imaskar". "The Seven Secret Weapons" - and then the country was destroyed under the attack of the incarnations of the gods of Mulhorand, and the Seven Secret Weapons disappeared without a trace.

The artificer profession, which uses magic-making tools to power items through magic, has remained.

The well-informed Harpers have seen the artificer's creations before, but they have never seen anything like the device in front of them. In their view, part of this device can be described as a truly high-precision instrument, with its complex internal structure. , the multiple wires and links work beautifully like works of art.

The other part is as rough as a child's toy, especially the power system. It always feels like when cooking, no matter how exquisite the ingredients are, the process is as simple as boiling water and putting things in.

At this time, Eleanor's appearance attracted the attention of several Harpers. The leader of the Harpers immediately expressed his concerns to Eleanor. They found this device in the underground stronghold near the Moonrise Tower.

When the Harpers discovered this device, they saw two rat-shaped lycanthropes debugging it. When they saw someone coming, the rat people were startled. They immediately activated the device and pointed the end with the drill towards them. emission.

At first, the drill looked like a roaring tiger, and the green lightning flashes startled the Harpers.

Fortunately, the drill bit looked very powerful and majestic. It flew less than two meters in the air before shaking. It just kept bouncing up and down on the stone floor, and continued to shoot out green lightning sparks. Until a large plume of dark green smoke rose from the device, and it jumped on the ground a few times using inertia and stopped moving.

The Rat Man himself was stunned and ran away, while the Harpers recovered the device.

"Let me take a look." Eleanor was also puzzled by this device, but Miss Pastor realized more. She discovered that the green ore in the center of the entire device was spreading polluted energy to all directions.

"I don't know what this is." Eleanor was very cautious: "I asked Aaron to come and have a look."

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Ten minutes later, Aaron, Barrel, and Anoming arrived on the third floor.

As soon as he saw this familiar device, familiar dimensional stone, and familiar malfunction, black lines immediately appeared on Aaron's forehead.

"Skavin, yesyes! Humans, no hairy things, diedie!" Aaron pointed at the dimensional stone drill rocket and said to everyone.

Everyone present: "?"

"Dimensional stone flames, breakbreak, nono! The big, big horned rat didn't bless us this time!" Aaron continued.

"???"

Aaron said nothing more. After making a joke with Warhammer characteristics, Aaron frowned.

The horned rat is indeed here!

What does the Four Gods of Chaos mean?

"The situation is not good, everyone." Aaron pointed to the dimensional stone drill device: "When you find a cockroach in your home, guess whether it is the only cockroach in the home or there are already swarms of cockroaches in the home. , has this one been seen by you?"

"What do you mean???" The Harpers all looked ugly.

"I mean, we're going to be in big trouble." Aaron's face was as dark as water.

While everyone was studying the dimensional stone drill rocket on the third floor, there was an unusual commotion in the sewers of the hotel.

There were strange echoes everywhere in the hotel. The first thing that started was the sewer in the back kitchen of the hotel. Several small mice with dark green eyes emerged from the smelly sewage sewer. They were running around in the food residue and disgusting swill. Gradually, the gutters, holes in the ground, and cracks in the walls were filled with rats.

The originally sporadic rat tide began to gather and turned into a strong wave. At first, there was nothing strange about the appearance of the little rats. They were the black and gray pests known to people who live in the city. They have overly long The hair and the wagging tail like a worm are extremely disgusting.

At this time, the helpers who were busy in the kitchen of the hotel and some drunkards who came out to vomit discovered the rats, but no one thought that rats would become a big problem. There are many rats in environments such as kitchens and warehouses. Everyone has become accustomed to them, but rats More and more gathered together, forming a gray tide of rats, which attracted the attention of the drunkards. They pointed at the rats moving in groups, laughed, and pointed at the trajectories of the rats, which completely aroused their interest.

The drunkards started a competition. They competed to see who could trample the most rats to death. Every time a foot fell, the pink debris of the trampled rats would cause everyone to howl in unison. People showed their thumbs up to the rat exterminator. Looking forward to the performance of the next player.

But this could not stop the rats from gathering. When the tide of dozens of rats was replaced by hundreds of rats, the rats began to run up the trouser legs, and then began to bite the exposed skin. They will choose soft parts of the human body, such as eyes, open mouths, fingers, etc.

The massacre began. The drunkards who stepped on rats in the street were bitten to the ground one by one by rats, and then were eaten alive by hundreds of rats.

"Zhizhizhi~zhizhizhizhizhi~"

"yesyes~yesyes~hairless thing, diedie!"

The messy rat noise finally aroused the vigilance in the hotel. The sound of the swarm of rats overwhelmed the chatter of the people in the hotel. The panicked chef began to flee for his life. He slammed the kitchen door and locked it tightly hysterically. , the upper-level adventurers opened the shutters and watched the rat tide sweep across the hotel grounds. The cobblestones on the ground could no longer be seen, because a boiling carpet of rat tide had completely covered the original green grass.

In the distance, several bulls in the cowshed were quickly engulfed by the tide of rats. The bulls screamed, and within a few seconds, only the large cow skeletons were left rolling over the heads of the rats!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The shrill roar alarmed the Harpers, as well as Aaron and others who were studying the dimension stone device. When he poked his head out of the blinds and saw the tide of Skaven rats coming, Aaron took a deep breath. Take a breath.

"Ready to fight! Prepare to fight!"

His roar finally woke up the frightened adventurers. The adventurers of the kingdom would not sit still in front of the rat tide. They quickly took out their weapons to deal with the black tide composed of thousands of rats. The hotel owner was even more experienced in each. , he quickly pulled out two bottles of spirits from the wine cabinet behind him, and the ignited crossbow bolt smashed the bottles in the air. The flames covered the door of the tavern, forcing the rat tide to retreat.

But there were still too many Skaven.

From the hotel to the backyard, and then to the nearby area, the battle broke out everywhere. The ratmen chased anything that moved. Some even stopped and started to eat the corpses on the ground. As long as they could catch up, the ratmen would do anything. They ate them all, they devoured humans, horses, even cats and dogs.

To put it simply, anything that falls into the hands of a rat man will only lead to death.

But this was just the beginning. What followed the rat tide were the real Skaven, armed with simple daggers and shields and wearing tattered clothes, advancing quickly from the sewers and the pool below the hotel.

"Harpist!"

"Where's the Harper?!"

The Harpers gathered together, and Brosnan led them quickly downstairs, preparing to fight the rat tide.

Only Aaron stood still: "Eleanor, Barrel, Anoming, you go down to protect the civilians."

"What about you?" Eleanor said worriedly.

"I'm right here." Aaron waved his hand and pointed to the device on the table: "If I guess correctly... they are here to recover this."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of tearing the air in the afterglow of the setting sun. As soon as a black shadow rose, it was pointed in the sky by Aaron!

Human body-fixing technique!

Detect invisibility!

A ratman, covered entirely in black robes and holding a warpstone dagger in his hands and tail, was forced to appear in the air.

Skaven Assassin!

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