Chapter 52: The Sewers
Lancaster City was one of the most developed 'four cities' in the original Tiera Empire, and it was also the only commercial city that did not decline and was still thriving after the fall of Tiera.
Thanks to a wide variety of trade markets for goods, Lancaster has the entire Warla empire as a well-established and vast system of underground waterways.
With the influx of merchants and other migrants, and the large profits of the city lords from the commercial taxes, the two-hundred-year-old city was expanded five times.
The earliest drawings for the construction of underground waterways have long since been lost, and after five more expansions, the entire system of underground sewers in Lancaster City has become an intricate labyrinth in which you can get lost if you are not careful.
This situation also makes the underground waterways a shelter for some objects who cannot see the light.
In a dark underground waterway, a light blue oval light curtain suddenly appeared, illuminating half of the underground waterway and scaring swill rats and scavenging cockroaches that were still foraging in the sewers.
"Is this the place to go...... It's a great atmosphere! ”
"It feels like a dungeon mentioned in a knight's novel! I'm on fire! ”
"Is it the only one I think it stinks a little bit here? And it seems to have a strange sour taste. ”
"I think it's because the guy next to you fainted and threw up."
"Look, I've never seen a mage's acid arrow! Vomiting ————! ”
“……”
Seeing the noisy players gathering around her, Liya, who was still full of confidence, suddenly felt that her desire to recover the lost stronghold from the Cult of Rotten Bones seemed to be less secure.
The reason is simple, because until now no player has discovered that this is just a sewer.
"Fellow believers, I'm sure you've got an idea of what is going on...... "Leah cleared her throat and interrupted the frantic chat between the players, just as she was about to add a few caveats.
As a result, the players only quieted down for a moment and started arguing again.
"Oh no, what if I never read the plot description when I do tasks?"
"It's okay, I'll tell you, the general situation is to find the enemy and hammer their heads......"
"Understand, understand, more than enough!"
"Vomit ——!"
"Haven't you finished throwing up?"
Looking at the chaotic players with some headaches, Leah simply opened her list of active skills, chose to activate a skill called 'Boiled Egg Talk', turned on the story mode, and forcibly restricted the players' movements, which made the players quiet.
"This is Lancaster's underground waterways, and our target, the Church of the Rotten Bones, is hidden deep in the underground waterways. Find the cultists' stronghold as soon as possible without leaving the underground waterways and uproot them! ”
Although the Cult of Evil Bones is entrenched in the original stronghold of Leah, because the underground sewer system of Lancaster City is too long and complicated, once they do not enter the underground sewer from the familiar entrance, even Leah and them will lose their sense of direction, get lost in the underground waterway, and find no way back to the stronghold - this is why the city lord of Lancaster knows that there are many bad things entrenched in the underground waterway, but he has never completely eliminated it.
After all, if you count the parts that were abandoned a hundred years ago, Lancaster's underground waterways are probably more complex and spectacular than the buildings on the ground. Allowing members of any church to go in and purge would result in a large number of non-combat casualties, even for the sake of their own political achievements, and no bishop of a regional church could afford such a loss.
If he died in battle to exterminate cultists, then he could still say that he died for his faith, and maybe he could go to the kingdom of God after his death; What if you die in the sewers because of miasma or something like that without even touching the battle? We fight to clean the sewers? I'm afraid that it wasn't the first god to jump out and slap this shameful thing to death......
As for the city lord who was already trying to preserve his strength so that he could retain his voice in the face of several powerful big churches, it was even more unlikely that he would make such an act of cutting off his arms.
As a result, this strange underground water system has been left to the present day, and has become an incurable disease in Lancaster.
"When you start exploring, you'll be able to get a 'blank map' that will automatically record the places you've walked and upload them to the game god's record, and you'll also earn revenge points for this exploration. You can also share the latest maps from me for a certain amount of Vengeance Points. ”
Leah told the players about the rudimentary map system that Sivi had made overnight, and then lifted the story mode: "That's the basics, now you can start your strategy!" ”
The players, who had been a little impatient, cheered, and most of them immediately left the area in a group and began to explore the underground waterways of Lancaster.
Only a small number of players are still looking for buffs that can be activated from Princess Leah.
Seeing that there were sixty percent fewer players all of a sudden, Princess Leah relaxed a little.
She hasn't been in contact with most of the veteran players, so she can only be regarded as strangers who don't know each other, and because of the belief in the same god, she may bow her head when she meets her on the street, but that's all.
In contrast, she prefers to entrust her trust to trusted acquaintances.
"Although many people don't seem reliable, at least Uncle Mane is here, and there should be nothing wrong with his words......
Mani's maturity in Victor and his successful efforts to bring hundreds of outcasts to the nameless town convinced the girl to trust her unsightly uncle.
If it were him, he might be the first to find the stronghold of the Cult of Evil Bones!
[Magne-Wilf dies swimming in a dung pit and is resurrected a minute later.] 】
Princess Leah: "......"
"Wow, Mane is dead again!"
"It's so inhuman!"
"Didn't anyone complain about his death?"
"Why complain, isn't this way of dying quite creative!"
"Hahaha, I'm laughing to death, this sand sculpture!"
The players who remained here laughed and complained.
For a moment, the makeshift teleportation point was filled with cheerful air.
While there are many players like Mane who have died in the, there are still many players who are carefully exploring the underground waterways. After all, 2% of experience is also experience, in case you die too much and fall to level 4 and are expelled from the event task, who should you find to cry......
As a result, the underground water system, which was full of mystery for the entire residents of Lancaster City, gradually revealed its true face on the map system created by Sivi.