Chapter 63: The Next Step
This trip to the Fragmented World brought Duanmu Huai a lot of benefits, but it also made him discover his biggest flaw.
Right now, there are MT (self), output (Ogis), and Lorena (healing + output) in Duanmu Huai's team, so ...... What's missing?
Enchanter.
If at the beginning, Duanmu Huai didn't particularly want a magician, then now his need for a magician is really urgent.
After all, although Duanmu Huai is a psionic person, he is the kind that specializes in summoning, and it can be said that Duanmu Huai is completely ignorant of supernatural abilities such as magic except for soul cards. As a result, he was in dire need of a magical assistant who could dabble in and understand psionic magic.
In this regard, O'Kis and Lorena are the same, both of them specialize in physical attacks and are completely unfamiliar with magic. Originally, Duanmu Huai also hoped to find a magician in the Holy City, but according to Lorena, there were basically no magicians in the Holy City.........
Although in the main material world, there is also a profession like a mage, but Duanmu Huai does not dare to use it——— he doesn't want his companions to suddenly become heretics corrupted by demons.
Therefore, it is safest to find the mage in the soul fragment, on the one hand, the mage in the soul fragment also has powerful magic, and under the protection of the soul fragment, they will not be corrupted by demons.
Then the next question is......... Where to look.
At this time, Lorena provided a clue to Duanmu Huai, she had heard that there was a magical country called Manalia in the north, and she heard that the country's magical civilization was highly developed, and there was also a Manalia Magic School that specialized in learning magic. If there's one place to find a reliable magician, this is the place to be.
Unfortunately, there is no record of Manalia in the Holy City, so Duanmu Huai has only one choice......... That is to return to the Empire again......... Look for clues.
By the way, the Crown of Sorcery was dismantled after it was secretly taken from the treasure vault by Duanmu Huai, and it was used to increase the resolution speed of the [Inquisition Library] by +10%.
By the way, the treasure room in the ruins in front of me, which was regarded as a treasure by the Chaos Warriors, was a large bathhouse during the Holy City era——— but fortunately it was not a women's bathroom.
So basically, Duanmu Huai walked to the bathhouse, and then returned to the main world, and then saw a pile of treasures placed under the statue of the goddess in the center of the bathhouse, which originally put a hot spring, and a crown of witchcraft mixed in it. So Duanmu Huai directly took the crown of witchcraft, and then opened the door and went back to the holy city to take a bath before leaving.
It's just that the current empire is also not a good place.
According to the refugees found by Duanmuhuai, perhaps because they could no longer tolerate the followers of the rat people and the god of the plague running around in their land, the three emperors with their human brains and dog brains finally decided to temporarily put aside their old and new grudges and unite to deal with the army of rat people and the cultists of the evil gods.
Under their maintenance, the empire itself is somewhat stable at present.
By the way, there is also an incident related to the Silver City——— when Duanmu Huai took Alyssa and her mother and ran away, and the territory fell into the hands of the cultists. The remaining two princes seem to use this as an excuse to accuse the eldest prince of not being qualified to become emperor, after all, even the territory has been lost, shouldn't you take the blame and resign?
If you change to the Japanese, this is estimated to be a ninety-degree bow and "I'm very sorry to lick the mushrooms" and it's over, but this big prince seems to be really a tendon, and now he is also personally leading the army, intending to recapture the silver city......... This has nothing to do with Duanmu Huai.
At Lorena's suggestion, he found two places that could be related to Manalia.
Aldolphe, the capital of the Empire, as well as ......... The Cursed City of Mordheim.
About Mordheim, Duanmuhuai also heard an interesting story from the refugees who fled.
During the War of the Three Emperors, Mordheim remained neutral and protected from the flames of war, and it became a popular city for many nobles and wealthy merchants. They gathered here to have fun with their wealth, indulge in sensuality, and stay away from the war.
At this time, a twin-tailed comet emerged from the sky (Duanmu Huai didn't see this thing, and it was estimated that he was asleep at the time), but I don't know who was brain-dead first, and actually thought that this comet was a tribute to the glory of the God Emperor, representing that Mordheim was the chosen city. So those aristocratic lords in the city were even more drunk and dreamed of death, immersed in enjoyment and degradation every day.
Of course, it is not without a pastor that all this will only lead to disaster. They see the comet as the warhammer of Sigmar, the patron god of the Empire, who will completely destroy this fallen city of pleasures!
Well, I don't know if the pastors of Sigma were angry at that time, after all, it is also the basic operation of the church to promote the wrath of God with the help of various natural disasters, but it is a coincidence that it is ......... The comet did fall on Mordheim, and justice was done directly from heaven at the celebration of the people's carnival.
Destroyed by the comet, Mordheim naturally turned into a ruined city, a place where rat men, thieves, cultists, and other messy things wreaked havoc.
But not long ago, the Grand Prince Ludwig suddenly said that he wanted to reclaim this fallen and cursed city. However, most of his forces are now advancing towards the Silver City, so what about Mordheim's side?
The Grand Prince has a solution, he plans to recruit a group of mercenaries and cooperate with the Imperial army to carry out a full-scale sweep of Mordheim, clearing it of cultists, nezumi and other strange things.
This call attracted the attention of many mercenaries, after all, although Mordheim now looks worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was planted with mushrooms, it was once one of the richest cities in the empire. The wealth buried beneath the ruins and the legend of powerful, mystical artifacts and relics have a fatal appeal to mercenaries.
However, it is also dangerous there.
The fragments of that comet possess some terrifying and powerful eerie power, capable of distorting the minds and bodies of human beings, transforming them into unimaginably terrifying monsters. Not only that, but the Grand Prince is not the only one who wants to compete for Mordheim——— various forces have also gathered here, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to either fish in troubled waters, sow discord, or weaken the enemy.
Therefore, the first action of the Great Prince soon ended in failure.
And now, he is raising his pay again, calling up brave warriors to Mordheim. It's just that perhaps because the first zealots have set an example with their own lives, few people now dare to run to Mordheim to die in idleness.
And after summarizing this information, Duanmu Huai immediately had a plan.
That is, as a mercenary, to join the army of the Grand Prince to recover Mordheim. And he did it for two reasons.
First of all, Mordheim is in ruins, and it is almost impossible to find what you are looking for here. Duanmu had already circled the sky over Mordheim several times in the gunboat, but still did not find the entrance to the fragments of Manalia. In this case, he has only the option of advancing from the ground and looking for clues.
And since the eldest prince wants to recover Mordheim, he must have detailed information about the city, which is what Duanmu Huai needs.
Secondly, if Mordheim can't find the information he wants, then Duanmu Huai can also rely on this qualification to enter the royal city of Aldolf——— because of the Three Emperors War, almost all large cities are now under full martial law, and it is impossible for Duanmu Huai to learn from any spies and thieves to get in. Therefore, it was only through formal channels that he was able to gain the trust of the Empire and obtain permission to enter Aldolf.
Of course, there is another reason that Duanmu Huai is still thinking about the holy relics in the hands of the great prince, after all, the gift of the water god has been proven to be a holy relic, so the Vulcan war hammer in the hands of the great prince is estimated to be the same, if you can find the great prince, it would be great if you can take the opportunity to get the war hammer in your hands.
So soon, after making a decision, Duanmu Huai immediately set off.
Head to your next target location——— Mordheim.