Crown of Chaos

After getting clues about the Skaven from General Keserik Som, Aaron went non-stop to the address given by General Som to investigate.

For this old general, Aaron really felt the sincerity from him. Not only did he give himself a large amount of money, but he was also really interested in the Skaven. Kesrick said that under any circumstances, As long as clues are found, the army of Moonrise Tower will be dispatched at any time, just to wipe out all the rats.

Aaron has lived in the castle for many years, endured the pain of losing his family, and is passionate about the cause of rodent control. He grows stronger with age. Aaron can relate to Keswick's behavior, and both families respect him. Su Lun Mama's family has been in the family for hundreds of years, and it is difficult for Aaron to understand the old general's thoughts without putting himself in his shoes.

The only thing that stood out to Aaron was that his Slaanesh power told him that Catheric was very empty inside.

Not joy, nor sadness, no rich emotions, only emptiness, complete emptiness.

This is not like a follower of Su Lun Mama. Su Lun Mama's teachings are to dare to love, dare to hate, and treat everyone equally.

Only Su Lun Mama’s old enemy, the goddess Shar, would be lonely, empty and cold. In the end, Shar’s believers would dedicate all their feelings and memories to the Lady of the Night in exchange for her favor. The Lady of the Night would sometimes give believers Powerful power, but most of the time Shar will not react. The priest who once had Shar devoted everything to Shar, her feelings, her memories, her life, everything about her. .

In the end, when the Shar priest came to the end of his life, Shar did not welcome her into his kingdom of God. There was only mocking laughter in the void, mocking the priest for his brain problems.

She ended up being unclaimed and wandering in the netherworld of endless wilderness for eternity.

This is Shar, she's so cool, you don't understand.

But even so, many people are still willing to believe in the Lady of the Night, because Shar is very powerful. Even among powerful gods, she is one of the gods who is best at fighting. Compared to his sisters, Shar She retains most of her priesthood, and her control over the Shadowfell and the void, the primal darkness, means that she can easily grant great power to mortals.

Following the location given by Kesrick, Aaron walked all the way through the neighborhood and headed to the place where the Harper Alliance first discovered traces of Skaven activities. In a tunnel near the slums where they gathered, the Harpers met The Skaven.

Aaron also took the opportunity to observe the living conditions of the civilians near the Moonrise Tower.

This observation made Aaron feel that something was not right.

A group of simple log cabins have mostly collapsed. There are two families crowded into a smoky main house, as well as two livestock sheds, a steam bath, and a stove for roasting bulgur wheat or rye.

As for the furniture, there was only a table, a bench, a few clay plates and wooden cabinets.

Seeing Aaron appear, the eyes of the men and women crowded in the main room immediately lit up. The women wrapped their hair in a headscarf and stepped forward excitedly: "Are they from the general? Are you finally willing to believe us?"

General's people?

Aaron noticed that the man in the family was lying on the bed, and the bed was crowded with several boys and girls with yellow faces and thin muscles, sucking their fingers. It was obvious that the situation of the family was not very good.

strangeness.

Aaron decided to take advantage of the situation: "Yes, the general sent me to investigate the situation. I got the order temporarily. Can you tell me more about the situation?"

"We have said this many times, sir, many times!" the woman complained, but she still described the situation to Aaron again.

What is quite interesting is that from the farmer's perspective, everything is so peaceful. Mr. Mikael, who has lived here for generations, has been farming diligently, and through the annual output of the nearby land, he and his two brothers and two families have maintained their livelihood. Not a bad life.

But this tranquility was broken by the Harpers. One day, a group of people calling themselves the Harpers Alliance came here. They took away a strange device. Since then, the farm has never had peace.

Today the livestock disappeared, tomorrow Mr. Mikael's brother began to contract a strange disease, and the day after tomorrow he saw strange creatures at night, and there was a crunching sound under the ground.

Bizarre footprints often appeared on the ground after the snow and disappeared into the barn. The mailbox at home was turned over, newspapers appeared in the corner of the attic, and several holes were chewed in the cheese. Even Mrs. Mikael heard it. The sound of chewing at home.

In a rage, Mr. Mikael decided to search the entire farmhouse. He called all the nearby farmers and searched the entire farmhouse from beginning to end.

Nothing was found.

The farmers still didn't believe in the evil. They continued to search again and again, but still found nothing.

The Mikael family had no choice but to report the incident, and the lord sent two soldiers to check the situation.

The two soldiers said they were going to look for clues, but they disappeared. A few days later, the villagers discovered that the water flowing out of the water tower emitted an unpleasant stench. They decided to open the water tower to take a look.

The missing soldier was inside. His body was stretched into a strip more than ten meters long, and the whole person was stuffed into the village's water storage tower from above.

In other words, the whole village drank corpse water for several days.

Another soldier is missing to this day.

"Sir, you are finally here!" The peasant woman prayed humbly: "We are all counting on you!"

"Understood, let me check." Aaron did not refuse.

To a certain extent, he was indeed responsible for bringing about the Horned Rat, and it was his responsibility to end the trouble caused by the Skaven.

"You are so kind! Just like that adult!" The peasant woman said excitedly: Only you and that adult really care about us! "

"That lord?"

"Don't you know? The noble Duke Juechang'an of the Northern Territory of Karatu, a hybrid from Baldur's Gate, protected Lord Takshi of the Sword Coast in a series of strange events!"

"Guardian of the Sword Coast, our savior!"

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Following the tips from the peasant woman and the marks left by the harpists, Aaron successfully found a secret entrance hidden behind the windmill. When he opened the partition, a strong smell of blood hit his face.

According to the Harpers, the underground area near Baldur's Gate is full of similar tunnels, smuggling, secret societies, and underground temples. This trading city founded by Baldur has always been both "infamous" and "infamous" "Holy Land of Opportunity" two attributes.

Even the most cautious adventurer will pay attention to his path in Baldur's Gate, because here, even life can be measured in money, and greed is more deadly than dragon's breath.

Baldur's Gate is famous for its chaos and wildness, where crime is always accompanied by opportunity, and any goods can be bought, sold or seized in the cold. If an item can be priced, you're bound to find it in Baldur's Gate.

Aaron carefully cast several protective spells on himself, an acceleration spell and oil on the soles of his feet. Under the magic of the metal wind, his robe became harder than diamond, and a shield of thorns spread all over his armor. A shield of magical sparks enveloped his whole body.

The Dark Moon Sword was raised high, and the bright moonlight lit up the bottomless tunnel. Aaron stepped on the wet ground and watched the surroundings carefully.

The smell of blood reverberated in the air, and judging by Khorne's power, the blood was fresh.

"The footprints of the rat man." Aaron squatted down and identified the footprints on the ground: "The breath of dimension stone energy."

Yes, it's the Skaven.

It is really difficult for the civilians here to see through the disguise of the Skaven.

The Skaven have always been famous for hiding in the medieval Warhammer world. This group of rats from the Skaven City has never done less bad things. They even pushed the empire to destruction during the Black Death War. In the end, the Grand Duke of Middenheim "Ratkiller" Mandred defeated the Skaven head-on in the Battle of Whistling Hills, saved the empire, and was therefore elected as the Emperor of the Empire.

However, in just a few decades, the Skaven assassinated Emperor Mandred, gradually destroyed evidence and records, killed the insiders one by one, and secretly diverted attention, making the Empire think that "the Skaven were not does not exist".

It can be said that he is a master of confidentiality.

Aaron was not surprised by this. What he cared more about was the "His Excellency Takshi, Guardian of the Sword Coast" mentioned by Mrs. Mikael.

Obviously, Be'lakor has created an image for himself as the "Guardian of the Sword Coast". Whether it is fighting against the rat tide, dealing with bandits or resettling refugees, Be'lakor shines brightly and does his best to fight as a Baldur in the first place. line, at least the legend of Takshi is already spreading in the nearby areas.

It seems that this time our original demon prince learned the lesson wisely.

Aaron couldn't help but frown. Perhaps as the Emperor said, Be'lak was actually very smart and cunning. Even the Emperor was not absolutely sure that he could defeat Be'lak.

When Be'lak was in his prime, he was on the verge of becoming a god. When the Emperor was in his heyday, he was already qualified to become a god, but the Lord of Mankind refused. In comparison, it is not difficult for the Lord of Mankind to defeat Be'lak, who is not completely sure. understand.

Fortunately, as the Emperor said, Be'lakor was defeated by his own arrogance every time.

This time, Bilak, who has made a comeback, has understood the nature of the kingdom's faith. It is far more difficult to deal with than Bilak, who simply made trouble on the Road to Moander last time and tried to absorb Buyer's divine essence.

Nurgle, Nurgle, what is Fat Grandpa’s great love?

Aaron continued to move along the deep and narrow passage.

This type of underground tunnel under Baldur's Gate has always been very claustrophobic, because other areas can be dug through accidentally.

After passing through the corridor, the scenery in front of Aaron suddenly opened up. The air was filled with the smell of blood and decay. After two benches, a small gathering place appeared in front of Aaron. A simple stone table was placed above the high platform. Fourteen stone benches were arranged below, and the benches were covered with Skaven corpses.

Slave rats, clan rats, storm rats!

Shushu suffered a major blow here!

Aaron quickly checked what was going on here.

Eclipse attack, shadow energy.

Every dead Skaven carries this energy with them, and they all died from similar injuries.

Shadow? Eclipse? !

Aaron checked for a while and understood something. He quickly rummaged through the assembly hall, looking for clues in the corpses of the rat men. Soon, a broken holy symbol appeared in Aaron's field of vision.

The moment he saw the Holy Emblem, Aaron's face immediately turned ugly.

Shar.

He guessed right, the ones who killed these Skaven were followers of the Lady of the Night!

Although it is very satisfying to see a dog biting a dog, but... isn't it said that the Moonrise Tower is the territory of the Som family?

Why is there a gathering place for Shar followers here? !

Aaron felt that after his investigation was completed, it was necessary to find General Kesrick.

Is it ridiculous that a Shar assembly hall appeared in the territory of a devout family of yours who has worshiped Selun Mama for generations (Catheric believed in the aspect of Selun Moon Maiden)?

Sure enough, following Aaron's investigation, a statue of Shar was revealed in front of Aaron. This statue was about two and a half meters tall. It was dressed in a gorgeous tight-fitting dancer's dress, holding two knives, with bare feet, and a semicircular mask on its face. The crown of the head is covered.

On each of the two swords was the remains of a Skaven assassin, and in front of Shar's statue was a Skaven Gray Seer's ratman bone mask.

Shar!

Aaron looked at the statue of Sister Mama with a complicated expression. The two oldest goddesses have been fighting since the beginning of Chaos until now. Although the Salian family has respected the Silver Virgin since ancient times, they have always told Aaron that Shar is the most evil and the most evil. The pervert is the most cruel and shameless existence, but in fact Aaron knows that compared to Su Lun Mama, who has a somewhat weak personality and weaker strength, many of the articles he has read on Dannidan.com in his previous life clearly praise her more. I prefer Shar.

And even the most extreme Selun believers will not deny Shar's power. Compared with Selun, who has declined over time and once fell to a weak divine power, Shar has always maintained the core priesthood and control of the Shadowfall Underworld. , the younger sister has always beaten her older sister.

Aaron didn't look at Shar's statue much. His eyes stayed for a while on the statue's feet with gold anklets and gold anklets. He felt a little disappointed.

Why don’t these Shar believers pay any other tribute to their goddess?

Otherwise, watch me steal some of Bosha'er's tribute and give Su Lun a bad breath?

win!

Aaron stood mentally in front of the statue of Shar for a while and continued to check for other signs.

It seems that this place was originally an underground secret organization meeting place for the Lady of the Night. Later, the Skaven took over the place and placed warpstone drill missiles here. Later, the Harpers found this place and the Skaven launched the missiles. It was a dud, the Skaven retreated, and the Harpers recovered the warpstone drill missiles.

What is uncertain is what happened after that. It may be that the Shar followers came back and eliminated the rat people, or it may be that the wave of death by the rat people attracted the attention of the Shar followers and sacrificed the rat people to the Lady of the Night. In short, the rats nearby Everyone was killed, and two Skaven Assassins and a Gray Seer became sacrifices to Shar.

I'm late.

Aaron sighed, and he continued to search for a while to see if there were any other clues or valuable items.

There really is!

In the drawer under the statue of Shar, Aaron found a copy of "Return of Netheril".

This seems to be a script written by Shar Church, and the stage play is divided into four acts.

They are "The Alliance of Seven Fishing Villages and the Rise of the Big and Small Nese King".

"Humanity's Kingdom of Miracle Mage, Shar's Decision Omen".

"The Folly of Karthus, the Fall of Netheril".

The story in Act Four caught Aaron's attention.

The name of the fourth act is "The Lady of the Night's Big Plan, the Great Return - The Coming of the City of Ghosts".

"When the year of darkness returns, Shar will dominate the world!"

Ghost City!

Aaron flipped through the script, and the voice and smile of Misty Tanshur, the self-proclaimed princess of Ghost City, automatically appeared in his mind.

It seems that what the sister of the Ghost City said is true, the Lady of the Night does intend to bring the Ghost City back at a suitable time.

He was thinking about the mysterious Misty in his mind, and before he knew it, a pair of slender jade hands hugged Aaron's neck from behind.

The familiar fragrance of night orchid, long purple hair and purple eyes.

Misty, the princess of Shadow City, hugged Aaron's neck from behind without triggering any of his defenses. She smiled slyly and whispered in his ear: "You are in the wrong place, the chosen one of the Moon Girl!"

"Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving~!"

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