klisemfg Chapter 286 Swearing to Recover the Stolen Goods
Chapter 286 Swearing to Recover the Stolen Goods
Being coerced is already unpleasant, and now someone has stopped me.
Lorraine showed a hint of displeasure. He raised an imaginary eyebrow and asked hesitantly, "Sir, were you calling me?"
The high priest in the pointed hat in the small house nodded, signaling the guards to leave, and waved for Lorraine to enter.
The simple wooden cabin was minimally furnished. Various bottles and jars were placed on a dark wooden table. On the largest iron shelf, a green solution was bubbling in a beaker, which looked quite dangerous.
A pungent smell permeated the wooden house; you couldn't smell it unless you went inside.
Lorraine subconsciously recalled that her nose seemed to be nonexistent, leaving only two empty holes, so how could she smell this pungent rotten egg odor... and how could the other person endure conducting research in such a foul-smelling environment?
Is a plague potion that works even on the dead magic or science...?
......
Then look at the books piled up next to the table; they're even taller than a person.
If the other party hadn't also been an undead, wearing a pointed wizard's hat, Lorraine would have thought it was a scholar's hut.
The pointed-hat archmage had a pair of rather unusual yellow spiritual eyes...
Most of the Forsaken that Lorraine had seen had blue, will-o'-the-wisps-like eyes, while a few elites from Undercity had red-black eyes that emitted an eerie black mist... Lorraine had very few yellow, light bulb-like undead eyes.
Is this a characteristic of the Forgotten who possess greater wisdom?
His colleague before him belonged to the Royal Alchemist's Guild and wore the mark of a Plaguebringer. It seemed he had something to hide and wanted to tell Lorraine, so the guards automatically dispersed.
The cabin was neither well-ventilated nor very clean... It was fully equipped with all kinds of experimental equipment, big and small, bottles and jars... and strange skeletons hung all over the walls.
The skull on the table is of unknown origin, whether it is the remains of some kind of animal or another of its kind.
"Hello, Lorraine. Let me introduce myself. I am the alchemist and commander of the magic forces stationed here in Undercity... You can call me Wardyn & Woodclair..."
"Hello, my benevolent master..."
Archmage Vodian nodded in satisfaction; his fellow Plaguebringer, who was currently enjoying great influence, was quite polite.
What brings you here?
“Just call me Wodian. I really need your help. We’ve all been worried about you not coming in... The executive officer saw you were about to leave and had to send someone to invite you in... We need your help here, Lorraine!”
Alchemist Vodien, also an archmage of Undercity, a researcher in the Plaguebringer forces, and a colleague of Lorraine.
He got straight to the point, telling Lorraine that Tarren Mill needed his help... Lorraine was quite surprised. He didn't understand why his whereabouts had still been noticed when he hadn't said he was coming to Tarren Mill and had deliberately avoided the town.
Could it be that the information was leaked by Lieutenant General Yerik, the quartermaster of the Frostwolf army?
Wasn't he implying that I should find a pledge of loyalty and then pay my respects to General Drek'Thar, the leader of the Frostwolf Clan?
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"Don't overthink it, Lorraine. You're a Forsaken... Tarren Mill is very unsafe right now. The humans in Southshore are restless, we need more manpower! Besides..."
Archmage Vodian lowered his voice, glanced around, and quietly continued, "A rebellion has broken out in Undercity! We need to capture the escaped traitors who stole the Bloodstone that was supposed to be handed over to the Plaguebringer!"
"Therefore, please forgive the guards for having to be on high alert; our enemies are everywhere..."
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"Rebellion!"
Lorraine was startled by this. Ever since the Battle of Dalaran, Lorraine had thought that the crisis in Undercity was over.
Unexpectedly, while the external encirclement crisis was temporarily resolved, an internal rebellion broke out.
The master and apprentice immediately thought of Varimathras, the dreadlord who was the second most powerful figure in Undercity and commanded most of the garrison and the undead spies on the front lines... They were convinced that he was behind it all.
After listening carefully to Archmage Vodian's explanation, I realized that it seemed to be related to some desolate council.
The Barren Council was a democratic council spontaneously formed by Forsaken members to assist the Queen. Due to a plot to rebel, the Queen ordered its purge. Varimathras was responsible for carrying out the purge order, secretly executing many of the Barren Council's original members...
Speaker Vercinda, the four officers, and the seven listeners—a total of twenty-two founders—all physically disappeared...
A new Barren Council has been established, increasing the number of chairpersons to six. The chairpersons are Lady Elwin, Grand Apothecary Faranil, Death Hunter Commander Belmont, and Dark Ranger Leader Veronara. The remaining two seats are temporarily vacant; some say the Queen reserved them for the Withered Ones, whom she values most, and the newly risen Plaguebringer Lorraine...
Some say it was reserved for Varimathras and another high apothecary, Putres...
However, Archmage Voldir knew that the Desolate Council was unnecessary in the first place... The Queen could tolerate, at most, not punishing the ordinary Forsaken who were involved in this conspiracy.
All the other members of the garrison, thousands of Forsaken militiamen who had finally regained their sanity and freedom, were taken away to be used as samples by the Grand Apothecary.
It was precisely this severe punishment that provoked a backlash from some people.
They stole the ancient artifact the Queen used for her experiments, a magical gem retrieved from a secret tomb of the Twilight Cultists... a living stone, a living bloodstone, a groundbreaking experiment.
"The ancient gods roam the abyss, and new forces seek a way to control their blood..."
Four traitors emerged from within Undercity, escaping with the Bloodstone and swimming across Lake Lordamere.
He happened to find refuge in the containment facility in Dalaran...
Undead scouts report that they have been spotted in the human camp in Hillsbrad Foothills. The Kirin Tor mages seem quite interested in the treasures obtained in Undercity.
Archmage Voldir is personally leading the mission to hunt down the traitor, but he currently lacks the manpower and elites to break through the human camp, eliminate the traitor, and reclaim the Bloodstone!
"This task was personally recommended to Her Majesty the Queen by the Grand Apothecary Putres..."
"Ah I?"
Lorraine had been listening to the major events that had happened in Undercity for a long time, but he never expected that it would happen to him again.
Grand Apothecary Putres, the same sorcerer who once made Lorraine perform the feat of eating a soul in three bites, is also the developer of the anti-magic potion... His status has recently risen rapidly because his super plague potion has been proven effective not only on the living but also on the undead...
This pleased the Queen greatly, as if she had found a miraculous cure to avenge the natural disasters.
However, the Super Plague Potion is not only effective against Scourge undead and Alliance humans, but it can also indiscriminately kill orcs or Forsaken themselves... The Queen overlooked this fact.
Varimathras and Putres have been performing very well lately, and the Queen is very pleased.
With the members of the Desolate Council, who were causing her trouble, gone, she could continue her research on how to grant immortality and perpetuate the Forsaken, while also carrying out her revenge against the Lich King Arthas.
Other matters were to be handled entirely by Varimathras, the Dreadlord, with assistance from the Church of the Forgotten Shadows and the Undead Research Society.
The high-ranking officials of Tarren Mill report to Varimathras, and Archmage Vol'dir has also been sent to assist in the operation. He serves as the Plaguebringer of the Royal Apothecaries' Guild, and is also an Archmage of the Undead Research Society...and has his own research achievements...because he was a chemist in his previous life...
Before the plague broke out, Voldir tried his best to stop it using magic or alchemy...
Little did they know that the members of the Cult of the Cursed possessed a far greater understanding and application of plague than the belatedly aware human mages. The Plague Seed in the Cataclysmic Plague was a combination of multiple forces, not a single type of magic.
“Studying the Bloodstone can reveal the mysteries of life. Therefore, this item must not be allowed to be taken by humans or the Kirin Tor. Lorraine, you must find a way to infiltrate the enemy camp and retrieve the Bloodstone! Kill the four traitors, who will break the Bloodstone into pieces. Originally, it was a strange necklace, a relic from the bishop of Twilight's Hammer.”
"Twilight Hammer!"
Lorraine exclaimed...
Fadil frowned, signaling to keep a low profile.
Lorraine nodded, indicating that she understood.
It turned out that the person who stopped me had something urgent to discuss... There was a traitor in Undercity who had taken the treasure and fled to the human containment facility.
That thing is actually related to the Twilight's Hammer!
Lorraine also had a small hammer, a shawl and coat, and a cloak belonging to a Twilight follower in her pocket... Lorraine had kept these, hoping to see the Queen one day as a token of her accomplishment... This thing had been sitting there for far too long.
"Oh no, I'm being sent to infiltrate enemy territory again! Good heavens..."