Chapter 252: Innsmouth
Along the way, Osvid began to tell Ciri about the whole incident.
The Praia Plane is a place that has only developed rapidly in recent years after the alliance with the Colin Plane. There will be a strong sense of isolation in this kind of place, some places will be so developed that they are not much different from the Colin plane, and some places will be completely as ignorant as the ancient society.
There are far fewer such places on the Indose Continent than on other lands in the Praia Plane, but they are not completely absent. Much of this resemblance to the ancient period is located in undeveloped areas on the edge of the land, and the town of Innsmouth, where the main site of the special event took place, is one such place.
Many places in the Indian continent will add the name of the continent before their place name to show their glory and glory. That's the case with the small town of Innsmouth, which has been glorious before.
Of course, this has now made things old, and now the town has become a fringe area.
This town seemed very strange a long time ago. The town is relatively wealthy in terms of trading volume compared to the surrounding towns, but the buildings in the town are dilapidated and largely unrestored.
Most of the money they spend is for daily consumption, and no one wants to plan for the future.
In fact, the townspeople really don't need to think about the future, because the people in the surrounding towns have never seen how many elders are in the town of Innsmouth for a long time.
Whether it was a long time ago when people went to the town to communicate, or now the town sends people to trade outside the town, everyone sees young people. The slightly older people in the small town of Innsmouth, I don't know if it's because of blood or whatever, all have hateful faces, and they can even be said to be terrifying.
Older Innsmouth townspeople have certain hardened folds on their bodies, their hair falling out, their eyes bulging out, and their mouths opening and enlarged, making them look horrible. If only there were just a few people, in fact the situation became more and more serious a long time ago. So much so that now there are only a few young people from the small town of Innsmouth who trade with the outside world, and no one dares to enter the town anymore.
News of the town of Innsmouth has gone viral, with some saying that the townspeople have made deals with evil gods, while others say that some devils live in the town. There are all sorts of anecdotes, and most of them are not credible.
Because it is the so-called gods who are now fighting against the Divine Grace Realm, but they have only recently communicated with the Wizarding Realm, and the changes in the town of Innsmouth have occurred much earlier. The devil is even more nonsense. There are no devils who like to live outside the hell plane for a long time, they like to do some soul trading with some weak people across the plane, but they don't like to stay with weak and ignorant people for a long time.
There are many places like this that are deserted and seem strange, and there are many reasons for this. It could be due to the influence of some kind of excavated ancient ruins, it could be due to changes in bloodline, or even some special magic items can cause this to happen.
Generally speaking, as long as it does not cause large-scale harm, the special incident handling team will rarely deal with this kind of thing alone, after all, there are too many places, and there is no need to waste manpower and material resources if there is no harm.
In fact, some of the surrounding towns did not report this place to the authorities, because in addition to being weird and unnatural, the town of Innsmouth has not caused any harm for so many years, even if everyone talks about it. On the contrary, because the town constantly trades some jewelry and possessions with the surrounding area, it has become an important trading object in the surrounding area, although this trading object is not very popular.
The Praia Plane's Special Events Handling Team has decided to investigate the town of Innsmouth, which is linked to an executor named Howard.
Howard was born in a town not far from the town of Innsmouth, and his childhood was miserable. Howard's father was a fisherman, but he died when he was very young, and his mother disappeared at an early age.
Little Howard was actually raised by a crazy grandmother. The way my grandmother looked at little Howard was also very strange, sometimes it didn't look like she was looking at a loved one, but like she was looking at some kind of monster.
My grandmother was insane half the time, and the other half of the time she didn't communicate with Howard very much. Little Howard's childhood was indeed not good, and he was also lucky, because of his excellent water elemental talent, he was discovered by a wandering mage at a young age and took him to study.
The mage who found little Howard and taught him was an executor. The executors are all outlaws, and they don't know when they will die. After completing some of his teachings to Little Howard, the Wandering Mage accidentally dies during a mission.
Since then, Howard Jr. has inherited the identity of the old wandering mage executor and continues to mingle among the executors.
As little Howard grew older, he gradually became famous thanks to his excellent elemental magical talent and the legacy left by the old mage. As he grew up, Howard joined a small team of Executors and solved quite a few junior and intermediate special incidents.
The incident occurred in a large, high-level special event, and since it had nothing to do with it, Osvid did not elaborate. In that incident, all of Howard's team except him were killed, and only Howard himself miraculously survived.
After that, Howard became a lonely wandering executor, and it didn't take long for Howard to disappear, supposedly returning to his birthplace.
The Playa Plane Special Event Processing Team is still very concerned about each executor who records the file. Howard never returned, and the official department of the Special Events Response Team decided to send someone to inform the promising young man when his file was about to be cancelled a few years later.
Strange things happened, and the official who had been sent to inform Howard didn't even come back. The official debriefed daily with the Head of Processing, and he had indeed arrived at Howard's birthplace and found his former home. Howard's maternal grandmother had died a long time ago, and Howard himself did come back to pack up and live there for a while after he left the Special Events Unit. 、
But then, for some unknown reason, he abruptly left here and walked into the mysterious and eerie town of Innsmouth, never to be seen again. The official also entered the town of Innsmouth, of course, and before entering, he vaguely mentioned that Howard had undergone certain changes, but since he had not yet seen Howard himself to confirm it, he did not report it carefully.
The official suffered the same fate as Howard, and since entering the town of Innsmouth, no news has been heard back to Special Events Team headquarters.