Great time travel

Chapter 38. Deliberately misleading and raising thieves’ self-respect

Because of the fortress city.The natural disaster of the undead in Lantil first broke out from the cemetery near the outermost city wall, and then spread to the interior of the urban area, imperceptibly blocking the escape route of most citizens.And the tall and majestic triple wall of the fortress city can certainly prevent the enemy from entering at ordinary times, but at this time of trouble, it also makes the people in the city so anxious that they can't get out.

Therefore, although there is a certain time buffer, there are not many citizens who can really find a safe city gate and escape from this dead city.

Although the dragon steward Sebastian and the adventurers he hired have been doing their best to organize the search and rescue according to Ainz's orders, but in the end they only gathered more than 500 people, less than the original population of the city. one-twentieth.However, if you add the more than 200 adventurers and handymen who were originally taken out of the city by him to go to Kahn Village for construction, there will be more than [-] people in total, which is already equivalent to the size of a small town. .

So, when the kingdom's warrior commander Gazef.Storonov led his men around the fallen fortress city Ye.After Lantil turned around, he found that on the barren grassland about five kilometers north of the city, a large-scale temporary refugee camp had formed.The adventurers who went out of the city first took local materials, set up dozens of bonfires, cooked boiling water and wheat porridge, and distributed them to the refugees who were still in shock to keep out the cold and satisfy their hunger.

——Although it is already spring, the wind on the grassland still makes people feel a little cold.

Here, he once again saw Ainz in a pitch-black robe and a strange mask.When the other party saw him, he greeted him:

"...Your Excellency, Captain Stronov, are you safe?"

"...It's not very good, Your Excellency Ainz. Especially after seeing the current tragedy of this city..."

Gazef jumped off his horse and told the truth very frankly, while looking at the piles of refugees all around him, and was distributing hot water and wheat porridge to them, "...When did Your Excellency Ainz come back? And what's going on here?" He inquired seemingly casually.

"...Oh, I just came here after receiving the notice. I have been surveying the environment in Karn Village before! Your Excellency, Warrior Commander, you should know it. I stayed in Karn Village for two days before, and I feel that The scenery in the place seems to be good, and I plan to build a mage tower there as a villa. So I ordered my housekeeper Sebastian to recruit craftsmen, coolies, and adventurers in the city, and then take them to Karn Village for construction.”

Ainz replied calmly, "...Who would have thought that Sebastian had just recruited people, bought food, tools, and building materials, and before he had traveled far from the city, the fortress city E-Rantel happened. Such a tragic thing... So, they temporarily camped here to see the situation, and try to save some people by the way. And after I got the news, I rushed over from Kahn Village as quickly as possible... That's right , Your Excellency, Warrior Commander, you are a member of the government, do you know anything about the cause of the tragedy in front of you?"

"...This...To be honest, I know very little, but a disaster of undead on such a scale will never erupt naturally."

Captain Gazef pondered for a moment, and then replied, "...There must be some very powerful guys behind the scenes!"

——In the civilized society of this fantasy world, undead creatures are not rare, even more common than many beasts.Especially in places like cemeteries where negative energy gathers.Even in the absence of necromancers, various naturally formed undead will appear from time to time.But when facing the living.Out of disgust for life, these undead monsters will instinctively attack these lives.Therefore, in any large cemetery, there will be night watch soldiers.They are responsible for these undead creatures-letting these undead creatures crawl out of the coffin back to the earth.

Of course, no matter in what era and where, there is always corruption, deception and dereliction of duty.Due to the absenteeism and dereliction of duty of the night watchman, undead creatures slipped out of the cemetery and flooded into the urban area, causing panic, which happened from time to time in various places.

But if it is an ordinary corpse, the rate of natural undeath is very low, even if it is a fortress city.In a large-scale public cemetery like Lantil, the skeletons and zombies that pop up every night generally do not exceed single digits.Even if this number is multiplied by ten times, it is not enough to pose a threat to a big city-generally speaking, skeletons and zombies in fantasy worlds are not like the end-time zombie viruses in film and television works, which have almost unsolvable contagion sex.Moreover, undead creatures are generally slow in movement, unresponsive, and their bodies are not strong.A healthy ordinary human being, if the psychological quality is strong, can take down such a monster with just a wooden stick.Therefore, a super-scale undead disaster that can engulf a city in just a few hours, and first broke out in the urban area, must be someone hiding behind it and secretly manipulating it.

"...Is that so... If this is the case, I may have some clues here... Just this morning, when I brought people here, I ran into some sneaky guys by chance, and handed in to them and repelled them after a fierce battle..."

Ainz put on a pretentious posture pretending to be calm, and ordered the maid beside him to present some scorched and tattered helmets, armor and damaged magic props, "...these are the trophies captured in the battle, Your Excellency the Warrior Captain Can you see something from it?"

"...It looks...it seems to be the equipment of the Slan Theocracy? And it is only affordable for elite troops like [Six Colors Holy Code]! What? Haven't you learned enough lessons in Karn Village last time? ? These lingering fellows! Your Excellency Ainz, have you captured any living prisoners?"

"...Uh, I'm sorry, there are no survivors left, only a few charred corpses, would you like to take a look, Your Excellency the Warrior Commander?"

Then, he reached out and fumbled for the incomplete badge on the corpse's clothes, and contacted the agent of the Slan Theocracy who disguised himself as a knight of the Bahas Empire and came to the border of the kingdom to burn, kill and loot, and he was killed by the Slan Theocracy in Karn Village not long ago. The personal experience of the ambush by the "Sunshine Code" special forces, coupled with Ainz's subtle spiritual hints, Warrior Commander Gazef was immediately limped without any surprises.

"...Could it be that this natural disaster of the undead was the work of the Silian Theocracy? Gods! They have always claimed to be the most pious believers in the gods! They will also collude with the undead? This is too shocking... But...they always say one thing and do another thing. Isn't it shocking enough to secretly send people to sneak into our country's borders to massacre the villagers? Sigh, it's hard to judge for a while..."

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——Although the Slan Theocracy advocates human supremacy, humans in other countries generally don't have a good impression of it.

Because, although the Slan Theocracy upholds "human supremacy" on the surface, it advocates the elimination and expulsion of other "inferior races" by force (whether it can be done is another matter), and expands the living space of human beings.But the problem is that when the Silian Theocracy deals with other human countries, they have never seen them be too soft. All kinds of massacres are common methods, as if the human beings in other countries do not belong to their compatriots.

Not to mention, recently they sneaked into the border of the kingdom, burned and massacred dozens of villages in one go, and killed at least a thousand innocent people. The goal was only to set up a trap to kill Captain Gazef, further It’s just provoking civil turmoil in the kingdom——As for whether this incident will affect the positive image of the Slan Theocracy after being exposed, the priests who rule this country seem to have never considered it: probably in their view, such indiscriminate killing A lot of innocent things have been done a long time ago, and everything is just a "necessary sacrifice".

What's more, in addition to human supremacy, the Silian Theocracy has a higher public goal, which is to unify all mankind, and this country really has such strength-under the influence of previous generations of traversers, The Silian Theocracy has established a modern state management and military mobilization system, with national cohesion and military combat effectiveness beyond the times, and its military and national power are almost unmatched in the human world.

The reason why the Slan Theocracy has not been able to unify the human world so far is mainly due to the containment of foreign enemies-as mentioned earlier, the human beings in this world are not the dominant force, and the orc kingdom in the east rules the essence of the mainland. The fighting power is far superior to human beings, and they want to submerge the fragile human world like a flood at any time.The Slan Theocracy is the outpost and dam against the orcs from the east.

Just like the Eastern Roman Empire in Europe in the Middle Ages, it had a strong comprehensive national strength and advanced political and military systems, but because of its geographical location, it had to guard the east gate of the Christian world and fight against Eastern pagans like Japan. It is the same as the large-scale use of troops in China and Europe.The Silian Theocracy also guards the borders of the human sphere of influence on this continent, and is under tremendous pressure from the orc nations in the east and south to invade the human world year after year.

Therefore, before the terrorist offensive of these fierce orcs and southern elf tribes is completely disintegrated, and the main battlefield against alien races is freed, the Silian Theocracy has no way to turn around and send troops to the west or north to attack the other human countries behind it. massive offensive.

But on the other hand, for the Slane Theocracy, which has already clearly stated the strategic goal of "unifying all mankind", other human countries will eventually be conquered next. Small moves such as placement are also one after another, and there is no lower limit to the means. How to deal with orcs on the Eastern Front battlefield, the same method is used to deal with humans on the Western Front Battlefield.Such a posture of "those who follow me will prosper and those who oppose me will perish" naturally disgusts the upper-class ruling classes of all human countries, and regards it as "a group of lunatics full of truth and murderers".

In view of the above-mentioned bad impression, Gazef was not sure for a moment, whether the Slen Theocracy had broken through a new lower limit and started to play undead massacre!
"...Well, this matter is of great importance. I must report it to the king for His Majesty to make a decision. Does Your Excellency Ainz have any other discoveries?"

After thinking about it for a while, Captain Gazef, who realized that this matter had gone far beyond his authority, could only say this with a sigh.

"...Other discoveries... are gone for the time being. But I would like to ask Your Excellency, Warrior Captain, what are your plans for the future?"

Ainz pointed at the fortress city in the distance.Rantil, "...Under such circumstances, do you still want to go deep into the city and hunt down the undead?"