Chapter 617 Northland

"Dear adventurer, I take the liberty of interrupting you during my busy schedule, but now, a crisis is raging in the Northland. The Howling Death - this terrible plague has swept across the entire Northland, even without any trace of it. Winterfell, the crown jewel of the North, also fell into dust.

So here, I hope that you... an outstanding warrior and adventurer, can lend your power to Neverwinter and save this city and the innocent suffering people in the North. If you are willing to accept the invitation, then please bring this letter to the Lord's Mansion in Neverwinter City, where we will welcome you..."

Duanmuhuai put down the letter in his hand and looked forward.

"That's what I said, but... didn't this mission fail?"

Standing on the street covered with white snow, Duanmu Huai muttered in confusion. After that, he and Ojis came to this world through teleportation, and then Duanmu Huai got this letter——originally according to the Logically speaking, this letter is the system's preset identity for Duanmu Huai in this world. Then he only needs to find someone according to the task.

As a result, after Duanmu Huai finished reading the letter with his front legs, his back leg system made a "dong" sound, prompting [Mission Failed].

Good guy, I just came and finished it? What the hell is this?

Duanmuhuai was speechless about this, but he didn't understand it. In fact, players often see this kind of thing. After all, Xinghai OL mainly focuses on a dynamic mode. The so-called dynamic means that the player's actions do not affect the world. So it won't be like many games. Even though the world is about to be destroyed, players still have time to play cards with the tavern owner and then go to the BOSS, and the latter will just wait for him to come.

If you don't hurry up and indulge in playing cards with the tavern owner, the world will really be ruined.

Novice Village is the best example.

The mission sign was obviously urgent, but the players didn't take it to heart. The final result was that the Novice Village exploded on the spot, and all the players were smashed.

The same goes for the missions in the mercenary system. When the mission is sent out, that world must have already encountered problems. The next time that world will continue to advance the plot regardless of whether the player goes there or not. Therefore, players who entered early can figure out the ins and outs of the matter, while players who entered late were left confused.

However, this also allowed players to come up with a new routine, that is, when a certain commissioned task begins, they immediately enter it, and then look for opportunities to investigate the ins and outs of the story background. Then when players come, they can tell these things to the newcomers. Many players like to do this very much. They feel like they have become the sage NPC in the game who specially explains the background to the protagonist. It is quite interesting. of………

Anyway, let’s go to the lord’s mansion first. Anyway, the purpose of Duanmu Huai's visit was not to complete the task, but to find a way to combat the corruption. If the task fails, it means it fails. This also means that the other party has not solved the problem, so Duanmu Huai can solve the problem.

Duanmuhuai glanced at Ojis who was sitting on his shoulder, staring at the surroundings with a calm expression, and strode forward.

It has to be said that the situation in this city looks worse than the plague-ridden city I saw in Novice Village before. The streets are full of corpses. In some open areas, the corpses are piled up like mountains, and they are burning in the flames. There was thick black smoke rising into the sky.

There was no one on the streets, not even the patrolling guards could be seen. There were only a few houses that looked like they were burning and collapsing, and seemed to still have some vitality.

Fortunately, when Duanmu Huai came to the central square, guards finally stopped them.

"Wait, who are you?! This place has been completely sealed off and no one is allowed to enter or exit!"

Seeing Duanmuhuai in front of them, the guards were quite nervous, but they still shouted loudly, and Duanmuhuai stretched out his hand and handed over the letter. The latter carefully took the letter and read it, then breathed a sigh of relief.

"It turns out that Ms. Aribes invited me... Come on, you are the last one to arrive."

One of the guards turned around and walked inside with Duanmu Huai. At the same time, he also explained the city's affairs to Duanmu Huai.

As written in the previous letter, a plague called the Howling Death broke out in Neverwinter City. True to its destiny, all those infected with the plague would die painfully while wailing and crying. Lord Nasher tried to find out the cause of the problem, but eventually even he became infected with the plague and had to be quarantined in the castle.

In this case, Lord Nasher's right-hand man, the Paladin of Tyr, Irebes, stood up and gathered everyone to maintain order, try to save Neverwinter City, and find a cure for the plague. And the efforts of Paladin Aribes did bear fruit. She found four creatures used to treat the plague. Next, she only needs to perform rituals and synthesize drugs to save the city and even the Northland.

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai knew that there was a turning point. After all, his mission had failed.

Sure enough, next comes the “but” part.

Just the night before the ceremony, a group of mysterious people suddenly attacked the lord's mansion, killing many adventurers summoned by Aribes, and the creatures used to treat the plague also ran away.

So the atmosphere in this city can be described as very solemn now... As for Ms. Aribes, she moved to the Temple of Tyr after the attack.

Then, under the guidance of the guards, Duanmu Huai met Ms. Eribes in the Temple of Tyr.

"Hello, brave adventurer, although you are a little late, I still want to welcome you."

The one who appeared in front of Duanmu Huai was a beautiful woman with a slender figure, pointed ears and shoulder-length hair.

Well, it is rare for an elf to be a paladin.

Could it be a half-elf?

However, Eribes' beautiful face at this moment was a little tired, and the reason was obvious. In the hall of the Temple of Tyr, straw mats were placed everywhere. On the straw mats, ragged patients kept coughing, and the nurses around them were also quite busy.

It seems that those people should be patients with the Howling Death.

"As you can see, our current situation is not very good..."

"Understandable."

Duanmu Huai nodded, and then he looked at the patient next to him.

"Can't the priests and pastors cure it?"

"Yes, fortunately we found a way, but... there are still problems at present. I am very happy that you came."

"Do you want me to find the pets lost in Neverwinter?"

"No, I have sent people to do that."

Eribes shook his head.

"I hope you can investigate this plague. In fact, as early as when the plague occurred, there were rumors claiming that it was deliberately released by the enemies of Neverwinter in order to destroy the city. Of course, we just regarded it as a rumor at that time, but this attack made us begin to doubt that there might be something wrong. Therefore, I hope you can go and investigate it."

"Wait, Eribes."

At this time, a frowning old man next to her stared at Duanmu Huai with dissatisfaction and interrupted her.

"You shouldn't do this. We know nothing about this warrior! How can you blindly believe him?"

"Deszel, you are wrong to say that."

At this time, the man who stood next to Eribes and looked like a half-elf also spoke to dissuade her.

"We need manpower now. In order to thoroughly understand the situation of the plague, we need more people like him to serve Neverwinter."

"Humph."

The man named Deszel snorted coldly.

"I still want to say that we should have confidence in our fellow Heim believers, not an outsider who has not been confirmed."

"Heim's believers?"

Looking at the sign of the eye of alert on Deszel's chest, Duanmu Huai snorted coldly.

He is not the kind of good boy who stands obediently and listens to people's lectures.

"Ah, I have heard of you. You and the gods you believe in are paranoids who are more likely to cause trouble than to achieve success. As a joke, you really have the nerve to talk about the word trust here."

Players are also familiar with this world. This is a world with many gods and one of the players' favorite worlds. In the history of this world, there was such an interesting story.

A long time ago, in order to obtain powerful power beyond other gods, the three gods of death stole the fate stone held by AO, the god of gods, and tried to find out its secret. After discovering that the Stone of Destiny had been stolen, AO was furious and ordered the gods to descend to the earth in the form of saints. They were not allowed to return until the stone was found.

So the Year of Turbulence began, and the gods were forced to descend to the earth. Although the gods in the form of saints were still stronger than ordinary mortals, they were not immortal, so many gods were killed in the turbulent years.

Then there was this joke about Helm.

After the gods descended to the earth, AO ordered Helm to guard the passage from the main material plane back to the outer plane. At that time, the goddess of magic Mystra was imprisoned by Bane, one of the three gods of death, and was later rescued. So she hurried back to the outer plane and wanted to tell AO that it was the three gods of death who stole the Stone of Destiny.

As a result, Helm, who was guarding the passage, was unwilling to let Mystra pass, and a conflict broke out between the two sides. Although Mystra was a goddess of magic, she was only a saint at the time, while Helm was a complete god. In the end, Helm killed Mystra, causing the Year of Turbulence, which could have ended quickly, to last for a long time. It was not until a mortal named Xirik found the stone tablet of fate that the turbulent years came to an end and the gods returned to their positions.

It is precisely because of this story that players have been treating Heim as a joke, and taunts such as "Look at what you have protected". What's more, Heim and his followers have never done anything good, and they are typical of failing more than they succeed. It is also because of this that when players act in this world, they basically hide away when they see Heim's followers.

After all, this is an officially certified pig teammate god, so those who believe in it must also be pig teammates.

"What did you say?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's ridicule, Deszel was furious.

"How dare you disrespect Heim?"

"What is there to respect for a group of trash? If you have the guts, let the Saint of Heim come down, and I will twist his head off in front of you!"

"You————!"

"Okay, now is not the time to argue."

Seeing that Deszel was so angry that he was about to draw his sword, the man stood up again.

"What we need to do now is to suppress the chaos, maintain order, and investigate the truth! Instead of starting an internal conflict here!"

"But the attack on the academy has made everything worse! Van Swick!"

Deszel stared at the latter angrily.

"Once everyone finds out that Eribes lacks confidence, they will know that she can't cure the plague at all!"

"Deszel!"

Hearing this, Vanswick also raised his voice a lot.

"I won't let you question my confidence in true love! Ms. Eribes is in charge of this matter. This is appointed by Lord Nasher himself. We are not qualified to discuss this."

"……………… Hum."

Deszel snorted coldly and turned away. At this time, Vanswick sighed and looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Sorry, please forgive Deszel. The plague has cost us a huge price, even more than the loss of treatment."

"I advise you to keep an eye on him. According to my experience, Heim's believers usually mess things up."

Duanmu Huai also glanced at the bastard and looked at Eribes again.

"So, can we start?"

"Of course, but before you leave, I want you to meet the others first. We have organized an investigation team, so we hope you can join it."

"Well, no problem."

"That's good."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Eribes breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then, I'll leave it to you."

After saying this, Eribes also turned and left, and then Vanswick came up.

"Come with me, adventurer, I will take you to meet the others, and then you can start the action."