MTL - Start a Core Pod

  Chapter 666 Shock

   Entering the gate, a group of people followed the silent Iron Warrior and walked inside. They looked around and found that there was only a barren land—yes, there was no grassland, no woods, and no trace of life. Everything seemed to be wiped out, not even a single worm living in the soil could be found.

   Looking around, only those huge steel warriors are the only moving things here - not even a single bird in the sky.

   "The stone is on the top, what the **** is going on in this ghost place."

  The dwarf clenched his battle ax tightly, looking around anxiously. The elves are even more ugly. As a race that has always lived in the forest, they are used to high mountains and rivers, green and lush, and the darkness in front of them is simply the biggest nightmare in the heart of every elf.

   "There is no breath of life here, it is simply a dead place."

  The elf ranger whispered.

   "In the name of Corellon, the Lost Lands were not like this before! What the **** did the Inquisition do here?"

   "I think I can only ask Miss Amelia this question."

  The soldiers headed by stared at Emilia with dissatisfaction.

   "Miss Amelia, you seem to know all this already?"

   "I can guarantee that I don't know much more than you, I just know a little bit about the trial court."

   Facing the suspicion from her companions, Emilia could only respond helplessly.

"When Neverwinter was in disaster, it was the Grand Inquisitor of the Inquisition who rescued the city... We were nothing more than his pawns. To put it bluntly, we were more like flag bearers, just to give him Raising the flag, but in fact, we did not do much. Of course, if Mr. Kasim and Ms. Roxia hadn’t recovered the lost antidote, Neverwinter would also have no way to be saved.”

While speaking, Emilia smiled slightly at Kasim and Roxia, and the latter was a little embarrassed—to be honest, after being baptized in the Underdark, they are no longer fledgling adventurers, they have already become I have matured a lot, and I am somewhat embarrassed to hear that I am being praised.

   "I don't object to that."

   Luo Qixi also said with a bitter face at the moment.

   "As Miss Amelia said, that guy is the hero who saved Neverwinter..."

   "This really surprised me..."

   "Everyone shouldn't be surprised, I think you have also heard the chanting of bards..."

"ah………"

   At this moment, a bard walking behind seemed to think of something, and began to chant softly.

  "In the dark night of Neverwinter, on the day when the cold wind hit, five heroes stood up and prevented the nightmare from spreading.

  One of them was a paladin who served Tyre, and the radiance from her blade of faith illuminated the darkness.

  The other person is a mage who has read a lot of books. She uses magic to avoid the invasion of evil.

  The twins from the wilderness went hand in hand and bravely embarked on a journey to find the antidote.

   And the tall warrior in black armor swung his hammer and destroyed all obstacles in front of everyone...uh..."

After singing here, the bard also realized it, or at this moment, everyone realized it. After all, the plague in Neverwinter was the biggest news in the Northland during this period, and everything about it had long been covered by the bard. Sung by poets, popular in every tavern, enough to top the Northland's hottest pop charts...

  Indeed, according to this content, if you think about it again, the news from Silvermoon City is a tall warrior wearing black armor...

Um………

   "That's why you are here?"

   "We don't know for sure either, but now, at least we can."

   Emilia nodded, and everyone finally understood why these people appeared here.

   "Then, I think you can at least introduce to us what kind of existence this force called the Judgment Chamber is."

  At this moment, the leader of the soldiers also became serious. He is the official representative of Silvermoon City sent by Alastriol himself. He came here not only with the mission of investigation, but also with a political mission. As for the other adventurers, they are more here to fight. At least for now, the two sides should not be able to fight each other, so he hopes to get some information before he does his duty.

Of course Amelia would not refuse. Fortunately, when they were traveling with Duanmuhuai, Duanmuhuai had already been "science popularized" by Duanmuhuai. What kind of organization is the trial court? answered.

  After listening to the introductions of Emilia, Kasim and others, the expressions of the group looked very...weird.

   "Protect humans at all costs, and destroy all alien, heretical and demonic organizations that dare to threaten humans?"

   The bard frowned.

   "This... well, I can understand their thoughts, but... isn't this too radical?"

  The Harper Alliance is also a similar organization, except that they protect goodness instead of human beings, and the Harper Alliance more often acts in secret, playing a role similar to "Mechanical Desperation". For example, when some heroes are surrounded by evil enemies or monsters and there is no way to escape, "suddenly" a harper will fall from the sky and point out a way for them to escape.

  The Harpers are almost never seen in plain sight. To be honest, they are almost like spies a lot of the time. It is no wonder that the leaders of various cities hate these all-pervasive rats.

  But a naked human supremacist organization like the Inquisition... Well, it is really rare in Faerun.

   "Huh, so we have to thank them for classifying us as demihumans?"

The dwarves snorted unhappily. The dwarves are a race with high self-esteem. They always think that humans are humans, and dwarves are dwarves. Dwarves have never hoped to become humans. For example, dwarves think that humans are stupid and timid, and humans think that dwarves are stubborn and inflexible.

   But treating them as demihumans outright like this...that's another story.

   Doesn't that mean that dwarves are a lower race than humans?

  The short-tempered dwarf can't take it anymore.

   "I advise you to be careful when you speak."

   At this moment, the elf ranger also interrupted.

   "Don't forget, just now, they blew the head of that stupid Priest of Heim because of what he said, because... 'The Tribunal does not allow any questioning and hostility'."

   "This is simply like a tyrant, isn't this really Bane's stronghold?"

   "I think this might be a little different..."

   Emilia felt that she had to stand up and explain at this time.

"As far as I know, that Grand Inquisitor hates the Church of Heim...he doesn't have any good feelings for him. When he just arrived in Neverwinter, he once claimed that Deszel, who is a paladin of Heim, and The gods he believes in are all a joke... At that time, the two sides almost fought..."

   "Oh, I like this."

  The mage whistled involuntarily. Generally speaking, the rulers would like the church of Heim, because the belief of Heim is simply the most obedient and easy-to-use dog in the eyes of the ruler.

   After all, Heim is lawful "neutral", not lawful "good".

  The paladins of Tyr would not tolerate such things as assisting the evil, but the disciples of Heim couldn't say for certain.

   "So the Tribunal and the Church of Heim have enmity? Could it be that their creator is a powerful mage?"

  Ham believers and mages fighting each other has long been a daily routine in Faerun, and everyone has long been used to it.

   "That's not sure."

  The elf ranger moved his ears and looked around. The iron warrior leading the way seemed to not care about their little communication at all.

   "But I can be sure that these... fighters are not living beings, because I don't feel the fresh breath of life from them."

   "Ah, I found out too."

  The mage nodded.

   "Transplanting the soul into the armor to create a perfect mechanical servant is very similar to the necromancer's method."

   "So we're meeting a necromancer next?"

  The warrior frowned with a serious expression, and most of the spellcasters had weird tempers, but that's all, but the necromancers... To be honest, they are really the most dangerous group of spellcasters.

   "Mr. Duanmu is not a necromancer."

  Emilia shook her head, but soon she added another sentence.

   "But he is indeed a mage, please remember that."

   "Do you need to say that?"

   Facing Amelia's reminder, everyone was a little confused, is it a mage, we can tell it at a glance?

  Only Luo Qixi was giggling behind and didn't speak. Of course, she understood why Amelia would say that, but it had nothing to do with her. Luo Qixi just watched the show.

   While speaking, a huge building appeared in front of everyone, and they were shocked just by seeing the building in front of them.

   "Oh, this is really..."

Looking at the group of metal churches shining brightly in the sun, the soldiers were stunned. Silvermoon City is known as the most prosperous cultural city in the Northland. There are all kinds of buildings there, and any artist or architect can do it. They wantonly displayed their talents, but he had never seen such a majestic and majestic building full of holiness and majesty.

  The observation angle of the dwarves is even more peculiar.

   "The stone is on the top, are you humans brain sick? You actually use metal to make such a huge building?"

"What?"

  Hearing this, the others were stunned for a moment, then looked carefully, and soon they discovered that, as the dwarf said, these buildings are completely made of metal from top to bottom!

   Not even a rock in sight!

  This is appalling!

  Even if it is a dwarf, it is impossible to do this kind of behavior! Even if all the metal they made was used to build buildings, it would be impossible to cause this!

   Well, considering that dwarves live underground, they don't need to either.

   "I didn't expect that the Tribunal is so powerful."

   "Perhaps we should re-evaluate the strength of this organization."

The warrior looked dignified and serious. It was unimaginable to be able to collect so much metal and use it to create such a huge church group. It is also difficult for mages to achieve this level.

   "Perhaps we should think more about where this strange thing came from."

  The elf ranger complained uncomfortably.

   "My sister and I visited the Lost Lands a few years ago, and it was still empty and there was nothing there!"

  Well, as the elf ranger said, it is impossible for Duanmuhuai to turn a city out of thin air.

   But it's not necessary.

   As we all know, isn’t the imperial warship just installed an engine under the church?

  So what Duanmu Huai did was to blow up a huge hole, then summoned a battleship to put it on the ground, and then buried the lower part.

   Well, perfect!

  Look, didn't such a church appear?

  Praise the Old Sages, fortunately their webways ignore all obstacles, and fortunately Chaos God cannot use these webways, this gives Duanmuhuai a small advantage.

The closer they got to this huge metal church group, the more depressed and silent the crowd was. In the distance, they had no idea of ​​the size of these buildings, but when they came to the foot of the church in front of them, the overwhelming feeling The magnificence and size of everything still completely shocked these Faerun natives—they were not even as big as a nail on this panel!

   "I can't believe what I saw."

  The dwarf's body was staggering, almost collapsing, while the others were silent. Indeed, there are similar magnificent buildings in this world. But that is more dependent on the nearby natural environment, such as a high mountain or a cliff, which is artificially transformed by using the natural environment.

  But in these churches, every piece of glass, every nail, and every wall in these churches declares to everyone without dispute that this is the product of complete human hands.

   "I can't believe what kind of organization and what kind of power it has to be able to build such a huge and respectable building."

   "Perhaps it was not humans who built them, but a group of demons."

   The dwarf muttered in a low voice, but his tone was obviously mixed with the emotion called "jealousy". For a long time, dwarves have always been superior in metal smelting and forging, but the metal building in front of him has completely shattered his self-esteem as a dwarf, leaving nothing left.

   "This is not like a blasphemous creation of the devil... because it is so magnificent and sacred..."

  While the bard was immersed in emotion, a door inlaid with a huge skull directly slapped him in the face.

   "Well... I admit that some of this is not easy to accept..."

  Although Emilia has already introduced to everyone the reasons why the Tribunal uses skulls as symbols, for most people in Faerun, using skulls as symbols is still an evil and barbaric symbol.

   Well, or in most places in this galaxy.

   "Maybe they're from another world."

  Mage said lightly.

   "So it's not surprising that our thinking is biased."

No one objected to this. In fact, this kind of thing happened before. During the second return, an island suddenly appeared out of thin air in the sea of ​​Faerun. Later investigations found that the island was suddenly teleported to Faerun from other worlds. , and maybe this city too.

   "But I can't imagine how terrifying the power of the Tribunal is."

  Walking up the steps, the soldier trembled as he looked at the huge macro cannon muzzles on both sides of the steps.

   "Each of these cannons looks as if they are as big as a fortress. I can't imagine what kind of existence can withstand such an attack."

   I'm afraid even Silvermoon City can't.

  Finally, the soldier silently added a sentence in his heart.

  Fortunately, this terrifying metal city is located in the Lost Lands, quite a distance from Waterdeep City, High Forest and Silvermoon City, so they shouldn't have to worry about this thing hitting their city.

   Well, at least they thought so.

   How the truth is is another matter.

   Even the most relaxed bard tensed as they entered the gate, walked through richly decorated corridors, and were led by the Night Guard to a gate. They could feel the terrifying coercion slowly radiating from the door.

   "This reminds me of a dragon I once met."

  The mage wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a low voice.

   "To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if we actually saw a dragon in here."

   "I just want to get out of here quickly."

The elf ranger also trembled slightly. On the one hand, it was because she sensed the terrifying coercion. On the other hand, this place made of metal made her very uncomfortable. There was no breath of life here. ... definitely not a good place.

   At this moment, the door slowly opened.

   Then, a roar came from it.

   "Ann, if you cheat again, I won't play!"

   Soon, another girl's voice came.

   "I didn't cheat! Mister Knight!"

   "How is it possible? I obviously have Tutu by my side, but every time I draw a card, I lose. Is this normal?"

   "Ah, now you admit you cheated!"

   "Can luck be called cheating?"

   "You cheated on purpose!"

Walking into the hall, everyone saw that on the high platform full of sacred patterns, a tall warrior in black armor was playing some kind of card game with several girls at the table... Well, this discovery made them somewhat At a loss, they had expected to see a cruel monarch or a terrible king.

   Maybe a dragon.

   And the black-armored soldier who was arguing with a girl right now was indeed beyond their expectations, so that everyone didn't know where to put their hands for a while.

   "Yo, you are here."

Fortunately, Duanmu Huai also saw their arrival at this time, and threw the cards aside and left the game decently, while An Zai made a face at him, and was very disdainful of Duanmu Huai's behavior of running away. .

   "Long time no see, Emilia, Luo Qixi, Kasim and Luo Xia, it's good to see that you are all fine."

   Duan Muhuai walked down the steps and greeted everyone, and Emilia hurriedly saluted back.

   "You too, Mr. Duanmu, to be honest, when we were in the Underdark, we were really worried about your safety..."

"Oh, I'm really sorry, but places like the Underdark are not a big deal to me, otherwise I wouldn't let you go first... Okay, so what about these followers who came with you ?”

   Duan Muhuai glanced at the people behind Emilia, and asked.

   "Uh, because there was a big explosion in the Lost Land a few days ago, Waterdeep City, High Forest and Silvermoon City were all affected, so the lords sent representatives to investigate together..."

   Speaking of this, Emilia carefully looked at Duanmuhuai.

   "Is this matter related to you, Mr. Duanmu?"

   "Yes, I did it."

  Duanmuhuai nodded cheerfully.

   "I thought you all knew."

   "I guessed a little bit, but... why did you do this?"

   "Oh, it's really nothing."

   Duanmu Huai spread his hands.

   "I'm just doing a little purification of this place in the name of the Tribunal."

"…………Why?"

  (end of this chapter)