Chapter 617 Northland


    "Dear adventurer, you are very willing to disturb you in your busy schedule, but now, a crisis is raging in the North. Howling Death - This terrible plague has swept the entire North, and even Wu Winter City, the pearl in the crown of this Northland is covered with dust.


    So here, I hope you... an outstanding warrior and adventurer can borrow your power from Wu Winter City to save this city and the innocent suffering people in the North. If you are willing to accept the invitation, please also take this letter to the Lord’s residence of Wu Winter City, where we will welcome you…”


    Duanmu Huai put down the letter in his hand and looked forward.


    "That''s right, but... hasn''t this mission failed?"


    Standing on the street covered with snow, Duanmu Huai muttered in confusion. After that, he and Aojisi came to this world through teleportation, and then Duanmu Huai got the letter - as it was originally logical, even if the system set the identity of Duanmu Huai in this world, he just had to find someone according to the task.


    As a result, Duanmu Huai finished reading the letter, and the back foot system called "bang" and prompted [Task failed].


    Good guy, I finished it just now? What the **** is this?


    Duanmu Huai is speechless about this, but it is not incomprehensible. In fact, players often see this kind of thing. After all, Xinghai OL focuses on a dynamic mode. The so-called dynamic means whether your player acts or not, which does not affect the world''s movements. So it won''t be like many games. The world is almost destroyed, and players still have time to play cards with the tavern owner and then drive the boss, and the latter will wait for him to come.


    If you don’t hurry up and indulge in playing cards with the tavern owner, then the world will be truly destroyed.


    The novice village is the best example.


    The mission sign was obviously very urgent, but the players didn’t care about it. In the end, the novice village exploded on the spot and all the players were ruined.


    The same is true for the tasks on the mercenary system. When the tasks are issued, there must be problems in that world. In the next world, no matter whether the players go or not, they will advance the plot on their own. Therefore, players who enter early can figure out the whole story, while players who go late will be confused.


    However, this also made players come up with a new routine, that is, when a certain commissioned task begins, they will immediately enter it and then find an opportunity to investigate the background of the story inside. Then when players come, they can tell these to latecomers. Many players like to do this very much, and they feel like they have become a sage NPC who specifically explains the background of the protagonist in the game. It''s quite interesting...


    No matter what, let’s go to the lord’s residence first. Anyway, Duanmu Huai’s purpose is not to complete the task, but to find ways to fight the corruption. If the task fails, it fails, which also means that the other party has not solved the problem. So Duanmu Huai can solve the problem.


    Duanmu Huai looked at her shoulder, staring at Aojisi around her with a calm expression, and walked forward with big strides.


    I have to say that the situation in this city looks worse than the plague-torn cities I saw before in the Novice Village. The streets are full of corpses. In some open places, the corpses are piled up like mountains, and black smoke soars into the sky are emitted as the flames are burning.


    There was no one on the street, and even the patrol guards could not see it. There were only a few houses that looked burning and collapsed, which seemed to be a little energetic.


    But fortunately, when Duanmuhuai came to the central square, guards finally stopped them.


    "Wait, who are you?! This place has been completely blocked and anyone is prohibited from entering and leaving!"


    When they saw Duanmu Huai in front of them, the guards were also quite nervous, but they still shouted loudly, while Duanmu Huai reached out and handed over the letter. The latter carefully took the letter and finished reading it, and then breathed a sigh of relief.


    "It turned out to be invited by Ms. Eribes... Come on, I arrived the latest."


    One of the guards turned around and walked into the city with Duanmuhuai. At the same time, he also explained the affairs of the city to Duanmuhuai.


    As written in the previous letter, a plague called "Howling Death" broke out in Wudong City. Just like his life, all those infected with the plague will die in pain in the midst of howling and crying. Lord Nashel tried to find out the cause of the problem, but in the end even himself was infected with the plague and had to isolate in the castle.


    In this case, Lord Nashel''s left and right hand, Eribeth, the Paladin of Tyre, stood up and summoned everyone to maintain order, trying to save Wudong City and find a way to cure the plague. And Paladin Eribes'' efforts have indeed achieved results. She found four creatures used to treat plague. Next, just perform rituals and synthesize drugs to save the city and even the North.


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


    Sure enough, the next part is the "but" part.


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


    So the atmosphere in this city is very solemn... As for Ms. Eribes, she moved to the Temple of Tel after the attack.


    Later, under the leadership of the guards, Duanmuhuai met Ms. Eribes in the Temple of Tel.


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


    The one who appeared in front of Duanmuhuai was a beautiful woman with a slender figure and pointed ears and shawls.


    Well, it is rare for elves to be paladins.


    Is it a half-elf?


    But at this moment, Arribes'' beautiful face was a little tired, and the reason was obvious. He saw straw mats everywhere in the hall of the Temple of Tel. On the straw mats, the ragged patients kept coughing, and the nurses around them were also quite busy.


    It seems that those people should be patients who died of howling.


    “As you can see, we are not in a good situation at the moment…”


    “It’s understandable.”


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


    “Can’t the priests and priests cure them?”


    "Yes, fortunately we found a solution, but... there are still problems at the moment, and I''m very happy with your arrival."


    "Do you want me to find the lost pet in Wushen City?"


    "No, I''ve sent someone to do that."


    Eribes shook his head.


    "I hope you can investigate this plague - in fact, as early as the plague occurred, there were rumors that it was specially launched by the enemy of Wudong City in order to destroy the city. Of course, at that time we just treated it as a rumor, but this attack made us start to doubt, maybe there was something wrong with it. Therefore, I hope you can go and investigate it."


    “Wait, Arribes.”


    At this moment, an old man frowned next to him stared at Duanmuhuai with dissatisfaction and interrupted her.


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


    "Deszel, it''s wrong for you to say that." At this time, the man standing next to Arribes and who also looked half-elf-like, spoke to dissuade him.


    "Now we need manpower. In order to fully understand the situation of the plague, we need more people like him to serve Wu Winter City."


    "snort."


    The man named Deszel snorted coldly.


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


    “Heim’s believers?”


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


    He is not the kind of good boy who stands obediently and listens to others'' praise.


    "Ah, I''ve heard of you, and the gods you believe in are paranoids who are not good at succeeding and failing. As a joke, you really have the face 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 gain powerful power beyond other gods, the Three Gods of Death stole the stone of fate held by the **** AO, the **** AO, and tried to find its secret. After discovering that the stone slab of fate was stolen, AO was furious and ordered the gods to descend to earth in the form of a saint. He was not allowed to return unless he found the stone slab.


    So the turbulent years 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. Therefore, many gods were killed in the turbulent times.


    Then there is this joke about Heim.


    After the gods came to earth, AO ordered Heim to guard the main material plane to return to the outer plane. At that time, the magic goddess Mistera was imprisoned by Bain, one of the three gods of death, and was later rescued. So she hurried back to the outer plane, trying to tell AO that the three gods of death stole the stone slab of fate.


    As a result, Heim, who was guarding the passage, was unwilling to let Mistera pass by. The two sides clashed. Although Mistera was a magic goddess, she was just a saint at that time, while Heim was a complete god. In the end, Heim killed Mistera, which led to a turbulent year that could have ended soon for a long time. It was not until a mortal named Cialek found the stone of fate that the turbulent year came to an end and the gods returned to their posts.


    It is precisely because of this story that players have regarded Heim as fun, and ridicule such as "What are you protecting?" is endless. What''s more, Heim and his believers have never done anything good, and they are a typical example of not being able to do anything better. It is also because of this that when players are operating in this world, they basically see that Heim believers hide far away.


    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 Duanmuhuai''s ridicule, Deszel was immediately furious.


    "Do you dare to disrespect Heim?"


    "What is there to respect for a group of waste? If you have the ability, you will let the Saint Heim come. I will twist his head off in front of you here!"


    "you---!"


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


    Seeing Deszel angrily trying to draw his sword, the man stood up again.


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


    "But the attack on the academy has made it all worse! Vanswick!"


    Deszel stared at the latter angrily.


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


    “Deszel!”


    Hearing this, Vanswick''s voice suddenly increased a lot.


    "I won''t let you question my confidence in true love! Ms. Eribes is responsible for this matter, which was assigned by Lord Nashel himself, and we are not qualified to discuss this."


    "………snort."


    Deszel snorted coldly and turned to leave. Then, Van Swick sighed and looked at Duanmu Huai.


    "Sorry, please forgive Deszell. 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 up things."


    Duanmu Huai also glanced at the Turtle Sun and looked at Erbiebeth again.


    "So, can we start to act?"


    "Of course, but before leaving, I hope you can meet others first. We have organized a survey team, so I hope you can join in."


    "Well, there''s no problem."


    "That''s good."


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


    "Then, please give it to you."


    After saying this, Arribes turned around and left, and then Vanswick came up to greet him.


    "Come with me, adventurer, I''ll take you to meet other people, and you can start acting."


    (This chapter ends)