The new activity was naturally a strategy thought up by Fang Fan.
To speed up energy collection, let adventurers collect breath.
While recovering energy faster, it also speeds up the progress of the dungeon.
To some extent, Magadha's driving is also to familiarize them with the basic war equipment that they may use in the future...
Of course, just treasure hunting is not interesting at all...
After all, Celia didn’t understand the essence of dungeon activities, so Fang Fan added a second stage of treasure hunting.
I hope the adventurers will have fun when the time comes....
...
【Morgan's diary】
【1】
I came here to find out the truth about the Noipela incident.
The Senate has always believed that this incident was a human conspiracy to exterminate us dark elves.
Alice, a fortune teller from the demon world, also told me that this matter has something to do with humans.
However, there are too many doubts about this matter, and the stakes are so important that I have to come here in person, even if...
Facing the fact that my loved ones turned into monsters, I also want to find out the answer!
We dark elves are now divided into two major forces.
On one side is the reformist faction headed by Queen Meia, who rules the dark elves. Under their advocacy, the dark elves gradually begin to communicate with other races and make progress in innovation.
On the other side are the conservatives headed by the Senate. For thousands of years, they have controlled the fate of the dark elves and have absolute power.
However, since Queen Meia came to the throne, their position is no longer as consolidated as before, and I think they should be very aware of this.
That's why the plague incident in Neupera made Shapron and other senators so angry. This was an excellent opportunity for them to maintain their power.
Because most dark elves don't have a good impression of humans, as long as they can achieve (even a little) success in the war with humans.
There is no doubt that the power in the hands of the senators will become more stable.
No matter how this happened, it is foreseeable that if I cannot find clues to reveal the truth here, a meaningless tragedy may happen...
That would be a disaster for the dark elves, and I must do my best to prevent such a thing from happening.
Of course, if this matter is really a conspiracy planned by humans as the fortune teller Alice said... I will fight at all costs - until humans disappear.
However, before investigating, let me sort out the entire incident. Maybe I can find some details that I haven't noticed before.
The first question is, if humans are really involved in this matter, what are their motives for doing so?
In fact, the relationship between dark elves and humans has been pretty good in recent years. The queen not only sent magic envoys to human settlements to teach magic, but also opened up trade between the two sides. Our spaceship "Magadha" often shuttles between the two countries, and there are more and more exchanges between races. It can be said that the previous innovation of the Queen's faction has been progressing very smoothly.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the conservative Senate hopes to use this incident to hold humans responsible.
We dark elves live in the dark underground city, while humans live on the sunny surface. What reason do we have to seize land that is far inferior to us or even unnecessary?
What's more, there is no fundamental conflict between the dark elves and humans. As for threats, the Bantu tribe who recently invaded the border are more dangerous...
According to this reasoning...
Could it be that Alice, a fortune teller, was lying?
But what good would this do to her?
【2】
At dusk, I finally arrived in my hometown of Neupera.
There is a faint and damp mist, and the smell of decay is wafting in the wind. The once noisy town is so quiet that only the distant wind at the entrance can be heard. This place is no longer what I remember.
What are these... strange life forms that can be seen everywhere?
Judging from their clothes, many of them are dark elves—my kindred spirits. Even if they become corpse thieves, they don’t want to leave their hometown and wander around here quietly.
Perhaps, there are my family members among them...
【3】
Today I successfully sneaked into the city.
Fortunately, my three-legged cat invisibility skill came in handy at critical moments.
But the strange thing is, it seems that there are more than just corpse snatchers and ghosts wandering here?
That is……
Turns out to be...a human being! !
Do humans really have something to do with this? !
All day today, I followed people around the city invisibly, trying to figure out what they were doing here.
Judging from the intelligence collected so far, these people seem to belong to an organization, similar to a certain religion.
You know, for humans who are naturally timid, religion is an indispensable spiritual support, so they have always had a lot of religious organizations.
Listening to their discussion, this organization should be called the "Violent Hunting Team", and they are here to wait for a guy named Di Ruigi.
"This is the holy land where Lord Dirich bestows grace. Not only does he give us strength, but he also judges them for us. Please be prepared to welcome Lord Dirich, the Absolute God!"
I seemed to hear them say this. Who does "they" refer to? Di Ruigi? ...I seem to have heard of it somewhere. What is his relationship with the Noipela incident?
【4】
Today I continue to use my invisibility to track those humans.
The Violent Pursuit Group is an extremely hierarchical organization, and it is very difficult to get any useful information.
But my intuition tells me that what they are planning here is definitely not a trivial matter.
I followed a human who seemed to have a high status in this organization and came to a heavily guarded place.
I didn't expect that I would find that here
——A rift in another dimension? !
If you are a dark elf, I think you should know what an interdimensional rift means.
Anyway, here is some information about the "interdimensional rift".
"Extradimensional space" is a type of parallel world that coexists with the current world, and the "extradimensional rift" refers to the passage between Arad and the "extradimensional space".
Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the dark elves accidentally discovered it and learned that they could travel through different time and space by using the cracks in different dimensions.
Despite hundreds of years of research, we still cannot fully grasp the function of interdimensional cracks, and we have never been able to solve the strange side effects caused by the experiments.
Gu Sun
This information can be said to be top secret among the dark elves, and I only know it because of my special status as a court alchemist.
But why do humans know about interdimensional cracks? Have they also begun to study it?
Could this plague also be related to the rift in another dimension?
【5】
While investigating the deaths of my kindred due to the plague, I discovered some strange connections.
For example, the symptoms of this plague, which we dark elves have always called "Purple Mushroom Syndrome," are exactly the same as the "Blood Curse" that raged in the human world hundreds of years ago!
The "Blood Curse" recorded in ancient documents refers to the phenomenon of large-scale mutation of humans into monsters called "Pretenders" who feed on the blood of their own race.
Because humans who become "pretenders" are no different from ordinary people during the day, they only drink blood at night. So the unknown fear overwhelmed the fragile human beings, causing the meager trust between human beings to completely collapse, and they began to kill each other irrationally——
This is the most terrifying thing about Blood Curse.
The physique of us dark elves is different from that of humans. Once we are infected by this plague, something like purple mushrooms will grow on our bodies, so we call it "Purple Mushroom Syndrome".
The symptoms are easy to identify, and it is precisely because of this that we avoid the tragedy caused by the spread of the plague.
However, what is strange to me is that the Pretender is said to have disappeared for decades.
Now that the purple mushroom syndrome has reappeared, could it be that the blood curse has come to the continent of Arad again?
Why does the Blood Curse reappear? Is this just a coincidence or are these being manipulated by someone?
It seems that the rift in another dimension is the crux of everything.
It is said that the priests who once curbed the blood curse are now conducting secret training somewhere in order to completely eradicate this evil curse.
If we could meet them, would we be able to solve this mystery?
【6】
Purple mushrooms started growing on my body.
At the same time as it smells fishy, it also has a strange fragrance. From my experience, this smell is more toxic.
Alas, I am still infected after all...
【7】
I don’t know if it’s because of the flashback.
My thinking has become clearer and clearer recently.
I finally remembered where I had heard of the Derich mentioned by those humans - it was from the mouth of the fortune teller Alice. I remember she said that Derich was one of the nine apostles and seemed to be the incarnation of the plague.
So... everything seems to have a preliminary answer.
Judging from our previous research, it is impossible for the interdimensional rift to be activated automatically. Someone must be manipulating it.
In other words, someone used the rift in another dimension to transfer the apostles from the demon world to the continent where we live.
Could Di Ruigi have arrived in Neupera?
should not.
Because I remember Alice said that wherever Di Ruigi passes, the surrounding area will become a hell on earth full of plague, with no grass growing.
Judging from the current situation, some animals and plants did not show any obvious reaction, and the humans in the violent hunting team were also alive and well.
Therefore, Di Ruigi should not have come to Noipela, at least for now.
Of course, there is another possibility - that Di Ruiji has been here before through a rift in another dimension, but was later transferred to another place.
If this is the case, then who transferred the evil apostle to this inconspicuous dark elf town? And why do they do this?
We dark elves have been living an isolated life underground, although we do have some unique abilities such as invisibility. But if other races think that these abilities pose a threat to themselves and want to eliminate the Dark Elf clan, Dirigi should be transferred to a big city like Dark City instead of a small village like Noipela.
Because if that were the case, I'm afraid we dark elves would have perished long ago.
So, let’s continue with the hypothesis.
Someone wanted to use the rift in another dimension to transfer Di Ruigi to a certain place, but during the transfer process, an extra-dimensional rift leading to Noipela was accidentally opened. You must know that using a different-dimensional rift will distort time and space. Sometimes, another rift will be opened because of this. This has also happened in the previous experiments of the dark elves.
In short, because of this, part of Di Ruigi's aura happened to flow along the crack to Noipela, and this tragedy happened.
It seems very reasonable to think so.
Maybe I was talking too much, but suddenly a word flashed through my mind.
Mutation!
It is said that the human world is currently in a state of extreme chaos due to the phenomenon of "mutation".
I remember that the life form that was mutated in the first place was also one of the apostles mentioned by Alice... I think it was called Sirocco.
Could it be that...are these series of things related? …
Blood curse, purple mushroom disease, Noipela incident, and "mutation"...
Is all this part of a huge conspiracy controlled by "someone"?
If it is true, this conspiracy may have been secretly planned for hundreds of years!
This is really a big game of chess!
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel horrified.
Thinking of the words left by the ancestors who studied the cracks in different dimensions a hundred years ago, it was a dangerous secret that even the gods wanted to hide, and it must not be used casually.
But now some people are using this energy wantonly, and the punishment they deserve is being borne by my relatives, Noipela and this group of innocent dark elves.
It’s so abominable!
Thinking of this, I thought of those humans known as the "violent hunting team".
Did they organize and plan this conspiracy?
My gut tells me it shouldn't be.
Because after several days of observation, I found that although they knew the basic functions of the interdimensional rift, they did not know how to use it.
It is said that humans have discovered interdimensional cracks not long ago and have also conducted small-scale research.
But think about how many sacrifices our dark elf ancestors have made in order to explore the secrets of the cracks in different dimensions...
Human beings are naturally timid and fearful, and even if we want to reach the level we have mastered, it may take several times longer.
Using interdimensional cracks to move through space requires energy that ordinary people cannot imagine. Among all known materials, only the Terra Stone from the Demon World can withstand such a huge energy impact.
How could mere humans have such energy? Even if they wanted to collect Terra Stones, it would be unrealistic to collect so many.
If it's not a human being, who is the murderer behind this conspiracy? How did they surpass the dark elves' hundreds of years of research and master the technology of using interdimensional rifts?
Here... no, on the continent of Arad, what happened?
