Chapter 438 Foot of the Mountain

The normal gods have returned to their places. If the chaotic wild gods are recognized again, the empire will become a "country of thousands of gods." Fortunately, the human rulers are still far-sighted.

However, faith is always forbidden.

The Archmage often says that there is something special about humans.

Maybe he is right. Hot-blooded species, especially humans, have outstanding abilities in causing trouble. Even dark elves cannot create necromancy magic, but humans can.

Lynch could only persuade himself that the existence of wild mages was a good thing, because mages would also seek out dimension stones for experiments, which would make the ratmen's hope of obtaining the dimension stones even slimmer - beasts and mutants would also seek out the dimension stones in pursuit of mutation. Warpstones, undead and demons are even better at using warpstones, and now uncontrolled wizards are also included.

It is not easy to hollow out the underground of Middenheim. This will cause the structure of the mountain to collapse. On the mountain stands the holy fire of the White Wolf God, and under the holy fire is a relic of the ancient saint.

The worst case scenario is that Lynch won't try to destroy it, that would be devastating, because under the Holy Fire, the remains left by the Old Ones appear to be some kind of Star Destroyer device.

The ancient sages knew what those facilities were originally used for. Today, eight thousand years later, even the focusing equipment used to adjust the light has become a cannon, and the engines used to modify the environment have become strategic weapons.

It was not a last resort. Lynch didn't want to take another look at the ruins. God knew if it would run autonomously because it retrieved the relevant line of sight.

After losing the principle of its operation, any attempt is dangerous.

The rats underground in Middenheim should still give the locals a headache.

When Lynch saw groups of dwarves, halflings, and ogres, he was not surprised either.

As mentioned before, Middenheim is an enlightened area, and there are a lot of messy pedestrians on the road. It seems that there can be more types?

The empire is already "diversified" enough, and Midenland may be the most diverse among them.

If it weren't for the fact that there was nothing available locally, Lynch would have planned to use the Archmage as a transit point to establish one more trading point.

When he was almost there, he pulled out the Ancient Sage's star map. As expected, the star-filled progress bar was already half lit.

The next node was further south. No matter how much he disliked the forest, he had to go to Athel Loren Forest for a tour, and probably go deep into the area around the Age Oak.

Elf settlements are not as interesting as human settlements, especially wood elves.

The lizard-man doubted the visit would turn into sabotage.

Perhaps the Skinks share a common language with Islay, who share a penchant for hunting two-legged intruders.

The difference is that there will be no stray farmers in the Lustria rainforest. There are probably many terrifying fairy tales circulating among the Bretonnian villagers, and the wood elves still retain their belief in the gods of the underworld.

The dark side of the elven gods requires blood sacrifices, and the proliferation of beastmen in the forest alone is not enough to satisfy the needs of some gods.

Kane, the "bloody-hand god" who was explicitly prohibited from being publicly praised by Asur, was also the god of war of Islay. They did not lose much of the civilization of the high elves in the golden age, but they completely inherited the worship of the gods.

What is better than Druzi, who advocates the gods of the underworld and rejects the gods of heaven, is that the rather neutral gods of heaven, "Father of Elves" Kunos and "Mother of Elves" Isa, are the main gods of the wood elves.

No one expects the elves’ gods to be neutral, so it’s best to give up too much expectation on them. Lynch would rather take a high look at the goddess Lilith.

Only the afterimages of the elven gods are left in the supreme sky. As cowards who avoid war, or in other words, losers in the divine war and broken gods in exile in the world, it is really difficult for them to gain the respect of the lizard people.

After several days of trekking, the pedestrians became more and more relaxed. However, when passing through a winding road, the knights who wanted to leave several times but were persuaded by Sigmar Priest suddenly felt uneasy.

Lynch keenly heard him telling the priest about a not-so-splendid past, where the unlucky man was ambushed by beastmen and experienced a betrayal.

A day before, Lynch had passed by an army. According to passers-by at the time, the army was preparing to investigate the chaos in the forest that he had experienced before, and they might have returned empty-handed.

When the knight deliberately avoided the soldier's gaze, Lynch knew that there was a lot of story in it. The lizard man diverted his energy slightly and prepared to pay attention to what the two of them planned to do when they arrived in Middenheim.

It was dawn again, getting closer and closer to Middenheim, and the forest was no longer wild.

Lynch could discover new villages every few steps, and until evening, there were not even many people speeding on the road, because as far as he could see, the hills and plains were crowded with taverns and villages.

As the sunset gradually faded away, countless lights streamed into his eyes.

This is the territory of the empire, a land ruled by humans.

There are dense light spots flowing on the spacious road. If you look carefully, you can see that they are carriages. The light spots will eventually merge into a certain hotel.

Thick forests occasionally separate villages from each other. On the vast plains, streams crisscross the fields.

The aura of the power of destruction has not yet receded, and Lynch could sense that this place had suffered a catastrophe before, and the soil was filled with ashes.

But life is tenacious, and new shoots have already poked out of the soil.

When night falls and the white moon is in the sky, the clear moonlight washes over every stream, reflecting the isolated forests and scattering a dreamlike scene.

The City of White Wolf jumped into Lin Qi's eyes with incomparable clarity. It stood in the middle of the plain, in the raised mountains, on the highest peak, like a living Lord of Winter.

The holy city of Ulric is full of holiness, but it is somewhat overshadowed by the filthy and diverse crowds.

A narrow, winding road winds along the steep hillside, struggling to communicate with the fortress city on the mountain.

Many sections of the mountain road show signs of collapse, and obvious renovations can be seen along many sections.

It is not easy to embark on this pilgrimage. The foot of the mountain range where Middenheim stops is almost vertical. You must first pass through a lonely arch bridge before you can get close to the central mountain. After that, travelers have no choice but to follow a single path. of roads.

If you want to capture this fortress, you can only try to capture it from the sky or underground.

Of course, there are many evil methods. There are powerful mages who can directly teleport legions into the city, and some special races can even climb straight up the hillside.

In any case, the city has never fallen so far.

Lynch originally thought that there would be more alien races in Middenheim, but the aliens who came here to visit came and went in a hurry, and in the end only the dwarves stayed.

He even saw dwarves in human villages. On average, there were one or two dwarves in each village, which was not a small number.