This is not an ugly town or a very normal town, the huge queue outside has no idea that this town is going to fall into chaos. Even if Raven's entire plan is executed perfectly, and that means all the cultists and smugglers will be dead as we leave the city without suffering even a loss among the units, before the city authorities realize they hear a massacre in their city.
It will still throw the entire city into chaos, it will be impossible for the nobles or the army in the city to cover up that hears a huge fire in a place as popular as the mansion and clinic that helps the less fortunate in the entire city, when the two catch fires all day long. focus of merchants and townspeople will focus there.
And when they discover that these places are bases of cultivation, a new wave of chaos and dissatisfaction will be born in the city, this news will obviously be spread by the temple of the city which by the way will be considered a place full of idiots by the entire population.
Having so many cultists in their city sacrificing the city's population to worship an evil god makes the city's temple priests and nuns or any other city figure linked to a good god seen as incompetent for letting evil cultists stay in the city. for so long.
I think it's been a few decades since this cult has infiltrated this city, I wonder how many people have been sacrificed to the evil god Whiro? I doubt it's a small number, this cretin and famous for loving to kill a large number of innocents and combatants maintaining a cult of this type must demand a constant number of daily sacrifices.
What happens if a cult stops making daily sacrifices? Does the god just abandon them or does he screw with the cultists who forgot to shed innocent blood in his name? Having any relationship with a god seems like a drag, good gods also demand countless tasks for their faithful.
I could never live like this and the worst part I can't sever my connection to the goddess Helena, doing that is like throwing shit in her face and then I'll be chased by her faithful, not like the Whiro cultists are, but I wouldn't be surprised to find myself being ambushed in a dark alley by the 'nice' guys.
Our group entered the city through the front door disguised as a group of merchants, the cult mage the only one still with us. The rest of the cultists are being watched in the forest where they will be handed over to the templars of that country after this operation is over, the idiot is quite happy because he thinks he dodged the templars but when he is thrown into the flames for purification he will cry like a kid.
We're a long way from the cultists' base once we've passed through the city gate, it will still take a few hours for the entire group to enter and their leaders to assemble. The reinforcement group that came in the magic beasts that are elite mounts of the army, had to leave them behind as not even a group of normal traders use this type of mount, but that only made them the last group to pass. through the city gate.
It's a shame they won't even have time to rest if the cultists are already on alert, but when I approached the mansion with the two spy experts, I could be sure everything was fine.
By the countless poor people who were being received at the clinic for treatment or were being fed by the charitable cultists, it tells us that the cultists are normal there is not even an interruption in their routine. I hope Felix wasn't too nervous about the letter full of lies Raven sent him, unfortunately I don't know what Raven wrote in the second letter she sent to the service yesterday.
As described before, the mansion was very normal, light colors, a very small and well-kept garden, which fits very well in the location of the mansion. small totem of the goddess Camani, who is a goddess very associated with charities such as those that take place at the clinic.
This is so wrong; Camani is a good goddess in her domain and the element of life and earth she is greatly worshiped by farmers and good Samaritans who give food to the poor in exchange for more abundant and healthier crops in the future. Her faith is greatly appreciated by the poor and wounded, in line at the clinic there are not only the homeless who have no food, even those with housing and food the most facing difficult times can turn to Camani's followers for help.
I think their work is great, but I would hate to do it for the rest of my life. Camani may be a good goddess, but she has a reputation for being very vengeful against those who kill her faithful or defile her faith. This city is in deep shit if one of Camani faithful is working with the Whiro cultists, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know about it the goddess will be furious and it will screw the whole city.
If it was the poor who placed that totem so they could pray to the goddess as thanks for the signatures of Camani that inspired their benefactors, everything will be fine, but if the goddess is being used by the Whiro cultists then the representative of Camani involved here goes die in a very cruel way.
The goddess will take everything she gave him and a little more later just to screw the poor guy's whole life, at the same time the rest of the town will suffer from a lack of food. Food production in and around the city is going to decrease a lot for a while, the city has suffered for a few years and the only way to decrease that is to worship Camani as an apology.
Ask her a lot of forgiveness and the city can face a year or two of punishment, a lot of people can die from lack of food but it's still better than being cursed for five to eight years. And that's a light punishment, I've heard about reports that certain places have been cursed for a few decades a god has to really get angry or offended to do a real punishment like that, a few cursed years and basically a pull on the ear for a goddess like Camani.
When I finished making my way through the streets near the mansion, I had the ability to char three possible secret exits from it. There were a few more tunnels, but they looked more like side entrances to the huge complex that is under that mansion, Raven is going to love that.
The more entry points she gets, the better chance she has of killing the plague-wounds before they unleash their deadly magic across the entire base. When I look at the mansion from the top of a building a few blocks away I see several layers of mana and elemental energy underneath the mansion, unfortunately due to the ridiculous amount of mana that powers the rune arrays and rune matrices of the structure and the shrouds of it that serve both as an alarm to prevent someone from breaking into the base sweating a tunnel and also to hide the mana and elemental energy that the entire structure and cultists can release from below, it is difficult to make a blueprint of the building.
I can easily draw the boundaries of the tunnels that are spread out underground, but the center of the base is a brightly colored ball that I can't see in such precise detail and the sheer amount of people inside the underground base doesn't help much, but even with All this energy and colors I think I can see the core of the death knight Felix and a plague mage.
The emerald color that is born from the fusion of the poison and life element is very striking, I think I located where the laboratory or experiment field of the plague mages, but in it now only a mage or mage. The other one isn't underground or in the mansion, if we're lucky he might have left town too.
There are several black cores down there, several users of the element of death and shadow in this cult, but a dark orange core that stands out for the black aura that surrounds this person's entire body. This is a considerable amount of extremely pure elemental energy in the form of an armor, I believe this must be Felix he really is a tricky enemy to fight, but I don't see anything that can be identified as divine power in the entire building.
I can only really see divine power up close and in unique situations, it would be so nice if it were easy to see that kind of energy. It would be a great way to get away from the gods.
During the first day in the city, I was sketching the tunnels routes while walking the streets away from the mansion, I don't want to be the reason for the operation to go wrong. I think Raven will be quite happy with my work today, tomorrow I should be able to locate the farthest entrances, and it's too dangerous to do that at night.
Since no normal person should be lurking around the city streets or outside at night, I might not even get the attention of the cultists, but the guards and criminals will want to find out the intention of such a strange and suspicious person as I must show up for them.