Lord God Investigator

Only more than 6,000 people are willing to go to the Underdark, and most of them are extremely poor citizens.

The city of Askatra originally had a population of 110,000. After the Knights occupied Amn, commercial activities stopped and the floating population was lost.

After the Knights occupied Amn, some citizens fled the city. After the uprising, the merchants and some citizens who did not participate in the uprising also left, leaving only more than 40,000 people in the city.

There are a lot of idle merchant ships in the port, and most citizens of Ascatra have stayed on the ships. After the organization of the six-member council, one merchant ship after another converted its cargo holds into simple cabins. Citizens who were willing to leave took the ships and went to sea. An unknown journey.

Thirty-four thousand people remained in the city of Ascaltra, and this number was still decreasing, with people leaving every day.

The people who left wanted to escape to other cities in Faerûn and start their lives again anonymously. After the impulse, those who calmed down regretted it and were afraid.

Some people even began to doubt the truths preached by Bredlow, and doubted whether mortals could control their own destiny, rely on their own efforts to transform the world and create a happy life.

To prove his point, Bredreau must lead the Amn people to live a better life, but the intervention armies from surrounding countries will not give the Amn people time. The armies of Tyrell and Baldur's Gate have already crossed the border. At the national border, they entered the Amn border and established forward barracks, waiting for the subsequent assembly of armies from other countries.

The time left for the people of Amn can only be calculated in days. Maybe ten days, maybe twenty days, the enemy will drive to the city of Ascatla, set up trebuchets and siege engines, and attack this demon-dominated city. Polluted evil city.

This is a paradox. Any theory that cannot be proven by facts is not worthy of trust for ordinary people.

The citizens of Askatra are not followers of Bredro, they just became suspicious under the influence of Bredro and their faith in the gods was shaken.

In essence, this uprising was still based on the system of the gods of Faerûn. It was the rebellion of Woking believers against the believers of the gods who tried to get their hands on their wealth.

However, the goddess Wo'jin left her divine kingdom and was unable to provide any protection to her believers. The Amn Uprising became the first confrontation between the common people and the gods in the history of Faerûn.

Among the revolting citizens, there were only a few people who could truly understand what Bradero preached.

Even Dame Hathaway, the leader of the uprising and elected Prime Minister, is not a believer.

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The new six-member Council was in a quarrel. The grim situation and bleak prospects were severe. News that the enemy had entered Amn kept coming back from the front. The uprising people who lacked unified thinking had great differences in opinions.

The stand-up leaders were at a loss, and they themselves had no idea how to achieve the outcome they wanted—a return to their old lives.

"Perhaps, surrender is our only choice." A representative of wealthy citizens finally said these words.

"Then what, will we be forgiven?"

Handak said coldly: "Do you still have illusions about the gods? In the past, a gladiatorial arena was established in the Bronze Crown Hotel. Evil men forced slaves and beasts to fight. Many children were imprisoned in the slave ship's prison, and nobles and temple priests were imprisoned. But they turned a blind eye! They don’t care at all about our life or death, or how we live. Now, how many paladins have we killed? In the eyes of the priests and lords, we are more evil than the devil, will they forgive the devil? "

"We shouldn't have revolted, we just paid some gold coins... It's too late now, it's all Bladello's fault!"

The wealthy citizen covered his face and sobbed: "If he had never come to Amn, we would not be in this situation..."

Handak was silent for a moment, and he was also a little shaken. However, his career as a gladiator made him understand the cruel nature of this world better than the average person.

"No!" Handak shook his head and said: "Weak and obedient people will only suffer more! As long as fate is in the hands of others, the weaker you are, the more miserable your fate will be. If I didn't know how to resist, I would still be in Bronze Crown now. Suffering in the dungeons of the hotel, or dying in a desperate fight with a wild beast."

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Among the more than 30,000 citizens, less than half decided to build barricades, scale the city walls, and pick up the Minie rifles provided by Bredreau to participate in the battle to defend the city.

The remaining people hoped to pray to the gods' servants for forgiveness after the city was destroyed, and shifted the responsibility to others, claiming that they had only been coerced and deceived.

Excluding the old, weak, women and children, there are actually less than 5,000 people in this city who can and are willing to fight.

Bredlow provided 600 rifles, which was already the limit of the production capacity of the Underdark Region. There were only 600 rebels who were actually equipped with rifles.

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The gray dwarf guerrillas took advantage of the darkness to launch a sniper war against the interventionist barracks. The cold shots from 800 meters away did cause chaos at first. The snipers' highest result was a Tethyr general. When the paladin inspected the barracks, Shot in the head.

The high-level paladin was not wearing armor when he was shot. In his understanding, he was in a military camp. The scouts had already explored the surrounding environment and confirmed that there was no army organized in Ascaltra City. He thought it was just a safe trip. However, during the normal march and stationing, they did not expect that the enemy had weapons that exceeded the farthest casting distance.

Bullets fired from nowhere in the night caused panic among the soldiers and officers. The vigil cavalry rushed towards the direction where the gunshots came from, but stepped on a landmine midway, and the men and horses were blown up into the sky.

The march during the day also encountered minefields. Among the mercenaries at Baldur's Gate were high-level thieves, but the mine clearance progress was not ideal.

The thieves can only rely on experience and skill to disarm the traps inch by inch. The detection spells cast by the mages are somehow ineffective against mine traps.

Before follow-up support arrived, the intervention forces from Tethyr and Baldur's Gate did not dare to advance easily. Guerrilla tactics did have the effect of delaying the enemy, but after the reinforcements from the Knights of the Mystic Fire arrived, this tactic was replaced by high-level The mages cracked it easily.

Mages blessed with flight skills flew over the minefield and used summoning spells to summon boulders to drop them. The triggering mines exploded under the crushing force of the rolling boulders.

The high-level druid used the earthquake technique. After the earthquake trembled, the entire minefield that the guerrillas had spent the night deployed exploded in the surging earth and rocks, and the tunnel they dug collapsed.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the sniper battle also suffered its first setback. The archmages who activated the advanced invisibility technique quietly flew to the sky above the sniper position, and struck down the sniper team with the order of shock. The sniper team that had no time to move suffered heavy losses, and several team members were captured.

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In a tent in the Intervention Army camp, Ditra, the chief mage of the Knights of Mysterious Fire, stood in front of the map table.

On the map table, there are several weapons that look like magic wands, which are imitation Mosinagan sniper rifles seized from the guerrillas.

Next to Ditra, stood a general wearing heavy armor. He was the right-hand man of the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, the Flame Fist, and the deputy leader of the Knights of the Flame Fist, General Mortes.

"It's hard to imagine that this devil's weapon can shoot more than two thousand yards!"

General Flame Fist's face was terrifyingly gloomy: "Insidious, despicable, and can only hide in the dark for sneak attacks. The guy who invented this kind of weapon has no sense of honor!"