Lord God Investigator

"We must not reveal our identities!"

"If the Amn officials know that we are Harpers, the situation will be even worse, and there are so many armed citizens surrounding us. Even if we clarify our identity as Harpers in public, they may not believe it."

"What is the result of the prophecy spell?"

"It was resisted. It must be the evil mage of the Zhentarim who used magic to defend against detection to cover up the fact!"

"It's more likely that the Zhentarim will take action. To be able to resist Master Harper's prophecy spells, you must at least reach the legendary level. There are no legendary mages in the Bredlow Troupe."

"The damn Zhentarim, how could they be so enlightened as to be able to plan such a sinister plot!"

"Perhaps Amn officials already know our identities and deliberately staged such a scene to persecute and expel us! They have been very unfriendly to the Harpers hiding in the country a long time ago."

…

The besieged Harpers were discussing countermeasures when suddenly there was a loud noise outside, the whole building shook slightly, and dust fell from the ceiling.

Gallows quickly went to the window to check, and took a deep breath when he saw it.

The regular army of Amn has brought in a trebuchet and is loading stone bullets. The loud noise just now should be the trebuchet test firing.

Looking from a distance, the soldier operating the trebuchet was holding an iron ball painted red and covered with spikes. Gallows recognized it at a glance. It was an extremely powerful alchemical bomb!

"Mystra on top!"

A Harper mage exclaimed: "They are going to blow us up to the sky. We are obviously in a downtown area. Are we really not afraid of accidental damage when using trebuchets to throw bombs? Can the people allow them to do this?"

"Blow them up!"

"Good shot! Blow me up hard. Just as they blew up the theater, blow up these gangsters the same way!"

"Hahaha, you deserve it!"

…

The cheers of the more than 10,000 Ammu armed citizens who surrounded Gallows' mansion answered the Harper's question.

The door-sealing spell cast by the Harper Wizard at the gate is extremely effective. The Gallows mansion was secretly decorated into the Temple of Mystra. How could the defensive spell cast in the goddess of magic's human kingdom be less effective?

Under the dual effects of the extremely effective spell and the blessing of divine power, the gate of the mansion was impregnable, and the Amn soldiers' rams still remained motionless after nearly half an hour of impact.

The city hall urgently recruited masked mages. After the masked mages arrived, they used dispersion magic but found that the door-sealing spell was ineffective. A door actually blocked the steps of the regular Amn army. This made the army commander feel very ashamed.

The door could not be broken open, so the commander ordered the soldiers to tear down the wall. However, the Mystra Temple gave the Garros mansion the magical blessing of "divine domain", and the surrounding walls were as strong as fine gold. The Amn soldiers broke the iron The hammer didn't even break half of the wall.

The tens of thousands of people watching behind began to sneer at the regular army, which had been unable to attack for a long time. The angry commander brought trebuchets and alchemy bombs from the engineer battalion, vowing to destroy this building that looked like a wealthy mansion but had defenses comparable to a fortress. .

"If you are bombarded continuously by alchemy bombs, even with the blessing of divine power, you won't be able to last long!"

The Harper mage looking out anxiously shouted: "We can't waste any more time. If we delay, we will all die here."

"retreat!"

Gallows made a decisive decision: "Evacuate Ascaltra City for the time being. We cannot expose the identity of the Harper and let Amn officials know that there is a secret camp of the Harper in the city!"

He ordered the seven Harper mages: "The mages immediately summon the space and time ducts. We have a teleportation array at the Harper headquarters in Waterdeep City to open the space ducts leading directly to Waterdeep City!"

The mages immediately stood up in the five-pointed star position, chanted incantations, and guided the magic power of space. In their centers, the spiral vortex of light slowly rolled, and the space-time vasculature slowly took shape.

"The other Harpers began to pack up the documents, taking away what they could and destroying what they couldn't take away! By the way, seize the time to tear down the temple on the first floor and don't let Amn officials see that any Harper Alliance is stationed there. Signs of passing!”

As Gallows' retreat order was issued, there was a busy scene in the Harper secret camp. Harper scouts were running around, packing the documents and archives they collected in Amn and stuffing them into dimensional bags.

The Harper masters rushed to the first floor. The decoration on the first floor was too obvious and it was very troublesome to demolish. In order to save time, they only used fireball skills to smash them. Ma Youfu shot acid arrows fiercely, destroying all the decorations that might reveal the identity of the Harpers. go.

But the statue of the goddess Mystra in the center of the hall on the first floor gave them a problem. This statue was more than three meters high and was carved from fine granite. It had already established a beacon of faith (which could be understood as a blessing).

It is precisely because of this statue that the entire building has the blessing of a temple-like divine realm.

What to do with this statue?

Using magic to destroy the idol, not to mention the issue of being disrespectful to the goddess, is impossible even if you are determined to destroy it. The idol of the magic goddess Mystra is immune to magic, and even the legendary spell cannot break away any stone debris.

It would be inappropriate to leave the statue here. Amn officials could guess at a glance that the Harper Alliance had once stationed here. Otherwise, why would they quietly build a Mystra Temple?

After receiving the report, Gallows reacted quickly and ordered: Since it cannot be destroyed, it should be dismantled and taken away.

The harpists raced against time to smash the base of the statue. Many harpist masters blessed themselves with divine power and worked together to lift the several-ton stone sculpture. They shouted "Hey, hey, hey," and carried it up. On the second floor.

The time and space channel has been opened, and because the statue of the god was removed, the effect of the divine domain spell disappeared. The alchemical bombs thrown by the Amn soldiers blew open the door of the mansion, and groups of Amn soldiers lined up to charge and entered the mansion.

At the moment they rushed to the second floor, the last Harper mage also flashed into the time and space channel. The channel lost the magical power to maintain it and was annihilated in the void.

…

The bombing of the Bredlow Theater was revealed to be the work of a group of mysterious gangsters hiding in the mansion of the great businessman Gallows. After being surrounded by Amn troops and armed citizens, they resisted and used unknown evil spells, which were very powerful. , withstood the onslaught of the army for three hours.

When the Amn soldiers finally broke through the extremely defensive door and rushed into the mansion, the mysterious gangsters had already escaped without a trace through the space-time door.

The bombing task force conducted a detailed inspection of the gangster's hideout, but because the scene was so badly damaged, no clues were found. Even the identity of the mysterious gangster became a mystery.

In order to give an explanation to the citizens and avoid being accused of being incompetent again, the Amn official could only accuse this group of mysterious gangsters of being a "Zhentarim evil party", claiming that they were the gangsters who planned the bombing and the gangsters responsible for the skinning case in the Bridge District. They were all committed by the evil Zhentarim party who intended to overthrow Amn and create terrorist attacks in Amn.

At this point, the truth about the Bledlow Theater bombing, Amn's biggest case of the year, has finally come to light.

Under the wise leadership of the six-member Council and the proper command of the City Hall, the task force worked day and night to pursue clues. The Amn soldiers responsible for arresting the gangsters were brave and fearless, and finally the gangsters who planned and carried out the bombings were pulled out of their hiding places and driven away. Leave Amn, hand over a satisfactory answer to the citizens of Ascatla, and serve justice for the Bredero Troupe.

It's really gratifying, gratifying...