"Squeak", Ciri suddenly pushed open the door of the tavern, and found that there was a hole inside. Ｘ

The inside of the tavern is not as shabby as it looks from the outside, but it is full of people. There should be some kind of spell to isolate the sound here, no, it should be a magic spell in the Divine Grace Realm, otherwise it would be so noisy inside, it would be impossible for the outside to not hear it at all.

There were all kinds of people in the tavern, ordinary merchants from the north and south, low-ranking nobles with a little wealth, and some ordinary people, the number was very small, of course, the largest number was the warrior like him. Ciri didn't get anyone to notice when he came in, and there were quite a few strange adventurers like him here, especially in recent times.

The most popular topic in the tavern was the invasion of the "dark Ones" two months ago. The Church of the Dawn initially forbade everyone to talk about it, but the more things were stopped, the more violent they became. Now even the church can't shut everyone's mouth, and that incident has become an open secret.

Two months ago, the only official church of the Nien plane, --- Church of Dawn, was invaded by a large number of dark forces in the holy city of Pauillac in this plane. There have always been legends of demons, devils, mages, shadow monsters, elemental monsters, etc., but apart from mages, no one has ever seen several other types of terrifying beings that are defined by all churches as evil enemies.

Moreover, the mage has always been in an extremely weak position in the charismatic realm, and can only barely survive, completely unable to compete with any ecclesiastical forces. Some time before the invasion of the dark forces, a large number of mages who usually only exist in legends suddenly appeared, and each of them was stronger than people thought. The Dawn Church hunted down these mages all over the world, and the two sides actually hurt each other. In people's expectation, it should be that the Dawn Church is in a state of collapse, and those mages have no power to fight back.

According to rumors through the grapevine, these mages have devastated the Dawn Church guards on the Nien plane, and they have had to turn to the headquarters of the main plane of St. Moss for help. This gossip was soon confirmed, and the family of the family who had been arrogant and bullying the market because their family members had become clergy reported the bad news of their relatives dying in battle with the evil mage. A large number of new-faced clergy appeared in large cities.

At that time, these mages caused a great sensation among the people, and no organization dared to provoke the Church of the Gods except for the hostile church, let alone the plane branch of a large church like the Lord of Dawn. However, at that time, the Dawn Church tried its best to suppress folk speech, and there was no trace of those mages for a while, and people finally believed that this was the last death counterattack of the dark forces, and the dark forces of the entire Divine Grace Realm were severely damaged by the Dawn Lord's Church.

However, just when everyone thought this was the end of the matter, the real dark invasion began two months ago. Hordes of demons, demons, mountain-tall elemental monsters, and a large number of mages, mixed with some goblins, elves, dwarves, and the most terrifying shadow monsters and necromancers of folklore, all gathered in the holy city of Pauillac.

The invaders clashed violently with the defenders of the Church of Dawn, and Cardinal Monis, in order to avoid a devastating blow to the Holy City, led the leader of the opposing party, an old mage, to the Antian Forest outside the Holy City to fight.

However, in the end, the Church of Dawn was unable to keep the Holy City, because the other party was far more powerful than the Church of Dawn with the support of the headquarters.

The entire battlefield was one-sided, and the clergy guarding the holy city did not fight back in the slightest. The entire city of Pauillac was razed to the ground, and the Church of Dawn was looted and destroyed. Most of the clergy were killed in battle, and a small number of nobles and church-affiliated merchants fled. As for the civilians, there were the fewest casualties, because in the city of Pauillac, except for a few minions, there was no place for civilians at all.

Cardinal Monis and the old mage will win and lose, and everyone does not know. Finally, an archangel summoned by Cardinal Monis appeared over the Antian Forest. However, I don't know what spell the old mage used, and the archangel was finally defeated into a little bit of holy light and scattered to the ground. And because of this attack, the entire Antian Forest was completely destroyed, and now only a giant pit of Antia remains. Any ordinary person who enters it will die an ugly death, so it becomes a forbidden area for life.

Antia Forest is a very famous adventure site in the Nien Plane, and after its destruction, a large number of nearby adventurers had to find another way, so it is not uncommon for strange adventurers to appear in this place called Nickbin Town at this time.

Of course, the impact of the invasion two months ago was more than that. The Holy City of Pauillac has not yet been fully restored, and the failure of the Dawn Church has shaken the faith of many believers, and many members of the Church who are hostile to the Shrine have begun to preach in secret.

The headquarters of the Church of the Lord of Dawn in St. Moss, the main plane, later sent two cardinals and a large number of clergy to investigate and deal with the aftermath, but after more than two months, the number of adherents to the hostile gods has not decreased, but has increased. The prestige of the Church of Dawn has been greatly reduced, and people from the lower levels who used to dare to talk about such things in private are now speaking freely in public places such as taverns.

Ciri spends his evenings in the tavern to hear news, and during the day he goes to the forest to hunt some monsters and trade with the tavern merchants. It wasn't until a week later that he understood the context of the whole affair and the current state of the Ninn plane.

The members of the other mission had a great track record and had clearly helped them as the Sleepers. Now that the Church of Dawn is busy restoring order and dealing with the hostile Church of the Gods, it may be difficult to spare the energy to deal with the many hidden wizards of the wizarding world for a while. The City of the End should have collected a lot of news from the Nien plane, and now if he wants to earn more city points, he needs to take advantage of the chaos to transfer to the main plane of the Divine Grace Realm, St. Moss.

After a period of observation and exploration in the small town of Nickbin, Ciri eventually zeroed in on a merchant named Oulu as a key figure in his infiltration of the main plane of St. Moss.

Oulu seemed out of place in a crude place like the town of Nikbin, and in fact he had lived in the holy city of Pauillac two months before. Oulu was undoubtedly lucky compared to the merchants who died in the war with the Holy City, but the destruction of his family mansion and the great loss of spirit and property should not be considered lucky.

After escaping the catastrophe, Oulu returned directly to his hometown, --- the town of Nikbin, which he had not been back to for many years. Oulu was the most astute of all the church-affiliated merchants. At the beginning, he was born from a small place like Nikibin, relying on his personal ability, step by step to become one of the big businessmen living in the Holy City, without extraordinary vision and intelligence, it is impossible to succeed.

It is precisely because of Oulu's extraordinary vision and intelligence that after a period of relaxation, he made a major decision ---to transfer his career and family out of the Nien plane after a period of relaxation.