Our journey through the Kavenus kingdom with the final destination the city of Misfus where a massacre will happen, by Raven's horrible face and the negative aura around her body I can tell that the plan she has put together is a bloody plan.
Her bad mood is clearly a sign that the mission is far from what she expected and had planned during our long trip as the march speed is really low as Raven needs more time to assemble her plan of attack.
She has been using both magical tools and birds to send various massages and receive them over the last few days, her preparations showing how little time she has to prepare the attack on the cultists' base.
Our objective is to kill the death knight who is located inside a fort disguised as a mansion that has a commercial building where the cultists do their charity work, these two buildings stand out quite a lot in the poorest area of Misfus city where the cultists ' they recruit the materials for research and rituals that are performed in the mansion.
We have a complete plan of the common areas of the mansion and some secret passages, but as our source of information is no more than my idiot and cowardly nephew Felix, we already expect that there are several hidden routes between the floors of the base as well as some secret routes. to escape the base in case Felix orders the plague mages to clear the base.
In my opinion this is the biggest risk of this operation, a base where all those who invade can end up trapped by the structure and runic arrangements, while poison and deadly diseases are pumped through the ventilation ducts at the base to contaminate and kill everyone trapped inside the base.
I wonder if Raven wants to fight poison with fire which would be pretty dangerous to do in a closed environment with little ventilation, maybe it's better to sweat water to swamp the base or earth to bury it completely with the cultists inside. Unfortunately, the innocents trapped inside would also die, but considering that it's basically impossible to get them out alive, it can be considered that they are all already dead, it's sad more and the truth at least they won't be sacrificed to an evil god. or their souls will be corrupted or used by their captors.
When Raven was away from the group releasing their daily messages, these messenger birds are pretty quick for magical animals, I went to her to ask how everything is going, I will not participate in the cultist's base invasion so my attitude to her plan is impartial aside from the fact that if they fail, I too will be labeled a failure, but I doubt that will be used to harm me much.
"Hi, are we going to have reinforcements or are we going to take our chances with the group's current strength?"
"Stupid question, Wolf. Obviously, we're going to need reinforcements who are coming right now riding level four magic beasts that have the wind element, will they get here soon, why do you seem so carefree?"
"Why would I be worried? I will not participate in the operation directly; at most I will stand guard several meters from the cultist mansion holding an alarm in case I see a new group attacking the mansion."
"Who said that? You won't be pretending this time; I have a very special mission for you."
I'm screwed, no, I'm very screwed. What the hell! Why does she want to kill me like that?
"What do you mean by that?"
"Exactly what I said before, you will have your own task in the attack. I hope you haven't been deaf the last few days because I can't have a deaf soldier in the operation."
She is so irritated that even her sense of humor is gone.
"How are you planning to kill me now?"
"Don't be so pessimistic Wolf, you'll be fine I won't put you in too much danger not to such a shortage of soldiers I have to order you to kill cultists stronger than you. Your mission is divided into two parts, the part that takes place at night starts with you leading one of the attack units through the mansion disabling the necessary traps, but your help is restricted to the first floor of the mansion so you must not enter the underground."
"We can't risk you breathing the plague mages' spells, with your weak physique nor the antidote being prepared for the quest can gain a few extra minutes of life if you get hit by the plague mages. As you already know they will not go easy on the choice of poison and disease to be released by the base when they find out."
"After that you will guide two assassins through the second and third floors of the mansion, they are not weak and you should concentrate on disabling complicated alarms and looting the mansion's vaults. I know you're pretty good at cracking safes and it won't be mentioned in the reports in a detailed way so you don't have to worry about it, after looting and killing the mansion cultists you should get out of there as soon as possible. possible."
"This seems a bit dangerous and at the same time not so dangerous, but I believe that the assassins who will stay in the mansion with me are strong enough to kill an orange core warrior or mage, as it is possible to have one of these walking around the mansion or sleeping in some of the rooms?"
"Don't worry, the assassin duo isn't weak, but unfortunately they're not that good at tracking traps in secret compartments, so that's their job."
"Isn't that weird? Knowing how to break into a location while avoiding triggering alarms during the break-in to kill your target, isn't that an essential skill for an assassin?"
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're better than you at doing it, the duo is good enough to be on this mission more when we have a better option put him to work. Your focus is not on riches but on information that is worth far more than jewelry and magic tools, so get all the papers that seem important like the ones you have inside a safe you held or a drawer in someone's office."
"Okay, I understand what I'm going to have to do during the attack, just promise me not to take down the entire building quickly, I'll need some time to loot the entire mansion. Will Felix's room be underground or in the mansion?"
"Underground, probably to a fake room in the mansion to trick any guests, but I doubt if anything useful is done there so focus on the offices they use in the mansion, even if the information gleans about the cult's legal affairs can still help find clues. other groups of cultists."
"Understood, but I'll still have a look at the death knight's room maybe he'll keep something useful in there. Like an emergency bag in case, he needs to escape the mansion."
"If that makes you happy you can rummage through the death knight's underwear drawer, I personally thought you'd rather rummage through the clothes of someone more like your ex-girlfriend than your current target, but if that makes you happy whoever I'm the one to say you're wrong."
"The other task you will have to perform will not be on the day of the attack but before, I know you are great at finding treasure and I want you to use this skill in the blocks around the mansion in search of any hint of a secret exit. I want to have a group of lookouts in each of them to watch and mark in case someone is able to escape through them, unfortunately I doubt I can put someone strong to kill the fugitives I will have to place some smugglers of lookouts if there are too many exits."
"It's a waste to put trash like them in a relatively safe position like this, but if a plague mage or mage shows up, they could end up dead or useful enough to follow him or her to another hideout in town."
"How much time do I have to search the perimeter around the mansion for secret passages, this type of passage can end up far away from the mansion like on the other side of the city or its wall."
"Maybe two or three days, unfortunately we don't have much time. When they realize that the group that left is taking too long, they will start to suspect that something is wrong, I will send a letter with urgent news saying that there was an attack during the exchange of goods and that the group and cultists had to do a longer route to evade any other ambush, the first one may have failed but that doesn't mean the next ones will have the same ending."
"Are you going to ask your new puppet to send the letter?"
"Of course, it is necessary for him to use his mana on the ink and elemental energy on the message paper, otherwise the cultists will realize the message is false. This will take a week, maybe a few more days, but at the end of the day we won't have that much time when we arrive in the city, we'll use a day to confirm our information and see how the mansion is moving to see if the attack is viable in the future. second or third day."
"So, if nothing happens on the fourth day, we'll be fleeing the realm?"
"Exactly! Let's run like the cultists would run from the templars, but don't forget to kill any smugglers you see during our exit. That garbage is better killed quickly by our hands than risking some of it surviving the poison they spit, the last thing we need is one of these idiots serving as a witness to the royal family of Kavenus getting into trouble with our kingdom."
"Would it be too troublesome?"
"Not so much since the temples would be on our side, but it would still be a bad thing. Go warn the others that we are going to speed up, almost everything is ready now, let's try to buy some time so you can have a better chance of finding the cultists' secret passages, I want to use at least one to invade their entire base through the door of back than through the front door."
"Understood."