Chapter 92, Marienburg Shock

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Wirth was only halfway there when the golden staff in the great alchemist's hand pointed at Wirth's face, and no one could see the expression on Gelt's face hidden behind the golden mask: "Mercenary, you There are two options."

"The deal between us is over, you can just rush up like this, and then taste the end of attacking a great alchemist of the empire."

"Or, you can follow me into the deep mining area. After the event is completed, I will pay you a new commission. This commission is real gold, and I can guarantee it with my reputation."

"I'll give you two minutes to think about it."

The Blood Ax mercenary group had no choice but to choose to offend the great alchemist or gamble on his reputation again. Blood Ax could only choose the latter. There was only one optional option for this question from beginning to end.

"Okay, we accept." Wilt thought to himself that fortunately Emilia had packed up her things and left, otherwise she would have been dragged into this vortex. Wizards are all proud, especially the great alchemist in front of him. Only responsible to the Emperor of the Empire and the Chief Wizard of the Imperial Royal Family.

The mercenaries packed up their things and followed Gelt into the deep mining area.

an hour later.

The damp and dark tunnel made the mercenaries feel very uncomfortable. They always tried to get as close as possible to Gelt who stood in the center of everyone. The golden light on the tip of the great alchemist's staff seemed to protect everyone's life.

Gelt held a large map in his hand, and he carefully identified where the complicated tunnels led.

The deep underground mining area of ​​Marienburg contains two of the most precious metals in the world: Vibranium and Mithril, which are buried in some deep places in the deep mining area. Gelt got it from a dwarf by chance. A pair of maps, although the age is long, the great alchemist still wants to see if those treasures are still buried deep in the mining area.

As for why he didn't inform the Imperial Army or other powerful people to come together, it was because Gelt didn't want his collaborators to share the precious Vibration Gold and Mithril, and he didn't want these treasures to be taxed.

The way alchemists act is different from normal spellcasters. Alchemists never like to find a partner. They like to act alone, because these wizards are all good at using firearms and various mechanisms, and their bodies are even more powerful. Equipped with countless terrifying potions, you won't suffer a bit if you fight alone.

Gelt is even stronger, this great alchemist also has a very good swordsmanship.

Unexpectedly, not long after entering the deep mining area, the group saw the corpse of a demon hunter. This demon hunter looked like he had broken out of the encirclement. His body had been shot into a sieve by firecrackers and crossbow arrows, and he was already dead. For a long time.

"Great alchemist! He's a demon hunter!" Wirth signaled the mercenaries to stop and asked Gelt for his opinion.

"Witcher? How long have you been dead?" Gelt's voice did not fluctuate, but his figure stopped.

"Dead...maybe a day or two, Great Alchemist, what should we do?" The mercenaries were terrified of this place.

"Let me see." Gelt stopped and checked the dead witcher's injuries.

After a while, the great alchemist said slowly, "It's the Chaos Sect! This demon hunter was attacked by the Chaos Sect and died."

The mercenaries looked at each other, and a young mercenary came out and tentatively asked, "Then... what should we do now?"

"...The task is temporarily suspended, let's look for the traces of the Chaos Sect first." The great alchemist never gets dizzy when it comes to principles, and he is very clear about what comes first and what comes later.

The destruction of the Cult of Chaos has always been more important than his own personal self-interest.

So in the afternoon, the House of Lords of Marienburg announced an emergency meeting.

In the luxuriously decorated council hall, representatives of the Ocean Church, the Fortune Church, several nobles from Marienburg, and the high elves were all present.

A piece of cloth painted with a blood-red chaotic mark was thrown in the middle of the satin-covered conference table, and the angry shout of Grand Duke Schulz of Marienburg could be heard throughout the conference room: "Tobias! I need Give me an explanation! Why did the Chaos sect appear under the deep mining area of ​​Fort Marien?! Why did the Great Alchemist of the Empire know about this?! Why did Jacob, the vice president of the Demon Hunters Guild, be in Marin The underground of the fort has become a headless corpse! I need answers!"

The person the Grand Duke yelled at was Tobias Schwaben, a nobleman in his fifties who was the owner of the Earl of Ghent and the general of the Marienburg Iris Guard.

Marienburg's defense is divided into two parts. The imperial army is stationed outside the city and is responsible for the security outside the city. The Marienburg Iris Guard is stationed inside the city and is mainly responsible for security and patrolling. It will also fight as an army when necessary. This is rarely the case.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency the Duke, I've already sent someone to thoroughly investigate this matter." Earl Ghent said quickly with sweat on his forehead.

"This is not the answer I want, tell me, my general, how can I give an explanation to the empire?" Schultz said angrily and angrily.

Everyone knows that the emperor of the empire has always wanted to take back the sovereignty of Marienburg. For a long time, the empire has been looking for ways to intervene in the internal affairs of Marienburg, only because Ludwig incorporated the independence of Marienburg into the founding ceremony Therefore, the empire returned without success several times.

But if news of Chaos Sect's open activities in Marienburg gets out, then the empire will have another excuse to interfere in Marienburg's internal affairs.

This Chaos Sect incident was discovered by the Great Alchemist of the Empire, and he has no reason not to report this incident to the Emperor.

Tobias wanted to refute that no one knew what was in the deep mining area. The dwarves' tunnels could be dug thousands of meters underground, so the devil would know what was hidden in the tunnels thousands of meters underground. I wouldn't send troops to die. .

But looking at the unkind eyes of the members of the House of Lords, Tobias could only admit his mistake: "It was my mistake, please forgive me, I am willing to take responsibility for this matter."

After the Earl of Ghent said so, the people in the House of Lords could not make him responsible, because in fact, all the members of the House of Lords knew that no one knew what was going on in the deep mining area. To be responsible for everything is to set a very bad precedent. Let Tobias be responsible today, and the person who will be responsible for the deep mining area tomorrow may be himself.

After a brief discussion, Schultz, Aldridge and others made a decision: "Martial law throughout the city! Immediately form an expeditionary force! Carefully clean the deep mining area and give His Majesty an explanation."

"By the way, Your Excellency the Duke, if... I mean, if we can't find the evidence and the culprit, will you be responsible for this matter?" The plan was agreed upon, and a nobleman at the table suddenly spoke.

Schultz narrowed his eyes.

Adalbert Casanova, Member of the Lords of Marienburg, Viscount, the second richest businessman in Marienburg. This romantic businessman is also the chairman of the "League of Gentlemen" Chamber of Commerce.

"Adelbert, I know what you want to do, but what I want to say is that all of us are responsible for this." Schultz emphasized lightly, and the Duke's tone contained a touch of contempt: " If you want to do something, think about it, if you lose the autonomy of Marienburg, what responsibility will you have to bear."

Adalbert fell silent.

At this moment, a yawning voice sounded faintly, and his accent was quite strange: "I said, gentlemen? Have you discussed it? Can I go back?"

Everyone turned their attention to the speaker.

This is a high elf, he is wearing the most luxurious elven satin clothes, his long golden hair hangs from both sides of his pointed ears, he looks very handsome, but the arrogance full of handsome face has overflowed: "monkey The monkeys will solve the problems they caused by themselves, and this matter has nothing to do with us elves, well, I have to go, or my afternoon tea time will be delayed."

After finishing speaking, the high elf yawned, and then signaled his servants to follow, without caring about other people's feelings, he just walked out of the council hall, and only nodded with Schultz when he went out to indicate that he had left.

Anger flashed in the eyes of the humans present, but they soon became helpless.

This elf is the high elves' ambassador to the human empire, Temag-den-Carbon, the governor of the elf enclave of Iftaol, and the spokesperson of the high elves' Phoenix King in the old world.

Extreme arrogance is his hallmark, and for this reason, the high elf did not know how many unhappiness he had with the city council, but deterred by the powerful fleet of the high elves and the close alliance between the high elves and Marienburg trade, the nobles did not Dare to do anything to him, swallow his anger most of the time, only Schultz can get some respect.

The council hall fell silent until Aldrich, Archbishop of the Church of the Sea, asked, "Where's the great alchemist?"

"Great Alchemist? It should be on the way back to Brunswick now." Schultz sighed slightly, and the Duke said, "Implement the decree as soon as possible!"

Marienburg's administrative organization is extremely efficient. Under the Duke's order, cartloads of gold from major chambers of commerce and churches were pulled out to recruit underground expeditionary troops from all over the city. Many mercenaries and adventurers were tempted by wealth. Joining it, it took only half a day for Marienburg to immediately pull up an underground expeditionary force of more than 2,000 people, ready to go to the ground to sweep the deep mining area.

Marienburg's movements had evidently troubled some dark creature hiding in the subterranean tunnels.

Just when the expeditionary army was still replenishing supplies and hadn't set off yet, the Weimeihui Manor located outside the city welcomed an unexpected visitor.

Anida was sitting on a luxurious sofa chair, talking to her servant—a tall, thin man in a low voice.

"What is that barbarian from the north doing these days?"

"He took his little girlfriend to visit the entire Dongbi District and bought clothes everywhere."

"Does he know we exist?"

"He came to visit the Aesthetic Society, but he wasn't very interested. He didn't come after he appeared once."

"Hiss~ Could it be that he hasn't found out yet?"

A waiter walked in, his skin was dark purple: "Master, Belt is here."

"Belt!!! He dares to come here!" Anida gritted her teeth, this beautiful woman no longer had the usual elegance and calmness: "It's really stupid! Even if you wiped out the demon hunter, you don't know how to solve the scene! Believe in the blood god They are all stupid idiots!"

"Forget it, call him in!"

The tall figure walked in from the outside. Compared with the Bert that Jacob saw, the rage and filth on Bert's body at this time were more obvious. On the one hand, it shows that killing the mentor with his own hands has a more serious mental impact on the fallen hunter. On the other hand, it also shows that the blood god is more and more fond of his followers.

It's just that Belter's footsteps faltered a little. Jacob's attack before his death severely injured the fallen hunter. After discovering that Marienburg was organizing an underground expeditionary force, Belter could only return to the ground.

Anida knew that she had to protect this fallen hunter now, otherwise she would be in danger of being implicated, so she arranged for Belt to hide elsewhere: "You go to that place to hide with my servant, the wind is very tight now, you go first Completely digest the new power, and wait for the rest of the limelight to pass.”

"Anieda, I want to remind you that Jacob and that guy named Ryan are in the same group, and Jacob has a record of this mission." Belt, who was a little weak, said.

After Belt left under the guidance of the servant, Anida felt more and more wrong.

Ryan and that master witch hunter are in the same group?

She decided to act.

The president of the Aesthetic Society boarded a carriage and headed to a hidden village outside the city.

The roads of this village are like a winding maze, and the houses of every family are all connected together. The villagers in the village are shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere. This village is famous for producing various politicians and scholars. enjoys a high reputation for its talents.

After showing her ID card with the Weimeihui mark, Anida successfully met the person she wanted to meet.

This is a crooked man wrapped in a black robe, with only a pair of eyes exposed. Seeing Anida appear, the man said, "What is the purpose of the president of the Aesthetic Society coming here?"

"Stop talking nonsense! I need you to help me use the big prophecy to predict a person, and help me understand his details!"

"The stronger the prophecy is, the greater the price you have to pay. Are you ready for the price?"

"You won't lose money."

"Then who is the object of the prophecy?"

"That human hero from Nord, 'Sledgehammer' Ryan!" Anida didn't say much, she took out a bag full of gold coins and put it in front of the crooked man: "Is it enough?"

"not enough."

The president of the Aesthetic Society took out three more godly gold coins: "Is it enough?"

"Not enough~!"

Anida took a deep breath, and she took out another twenty god gold coins from the interspatial ring: "Is this enough?"

The 20,000 gold coins have already caught up with the annual income of a few dukes of small territories.

"Almost." The rickety man finally nodded: "I'm not trying to embarrass you, President Aneda, but the prophecy requires an equal price. If my mana is not enough, my vitality will be overdrawn. If my vitality Not enough, it will even affect the altar of the village and my lord."

"These money is enough for you to detect all the ordinary knights in the entire White Wolf Knights!" Anida smiled softly, her delicate expression was indescribably fierce: "Do it!"

The rickety man's eyes flickered non-stop. To perform a big prophecy on that famous human hero, it meant that he would lose at least ten years or more of his lifespan. But for the sake of money, the rickety man decided to gamble. Bundle.

So, under his spell, Ryan's face gradually appeared in the crystal ball on the table.