Our family is in decline

“The Ascension Sect held a ceremony in Hamlet, and for this purpose they wanted to sacrifice millions of lives in Hamlet to summon their so-called god.

However, their conspiracy was noticed by the ancestors of our family. They led countless warriors to fight with the cultists and disrupted the ceremony. Unfortunately, the city was still destroyed in the end, but fortunately the ceremony was also suspended.

But now they have not given up and still want to summon their god. If no one stops them, when the ritual is completed, it will not be Hamlet that will be destroyed, but the world. "

When Geralt heard the news, he was immediately overwhelmed by the huge amount of information.

You must know that the destruction of Hamlet caused a big fuss across the entire continent, and there were all kinds of conspiracy legends.

But I didn't expect the truth to be like this.

Junia didn't know what happened back then, but she learned about what happened back then and the dangers of the Ascension Sect in a few words in Lance.

“We must look to the Empire and the Church for help.”

"No, we can't use war to solve Hamlet's problem, because the ceremony from back then is still there, and every life that dies here will further promote the ceremony, so I want to exile the corpse just to delay the ceremony.

If the army of the empire or the army of the church comes to start a war, then their purpose will be achieved. I need you to keep this secret for Hamlet. This is the grudge between our Hamlet and the Ascension Sect, and we will solve it ourselves. "

Lance spoke so righteously that both Junia and Geralt were frightened by him.

To be honest, Lance didn't mind breaking the news to the two of them because they were both worth fighting for.

Observations along the way also revealed that the two of them have lingering consciences and humanity, and their abilities will be a very important force for Hamlet, who has scarce talents.

"But you have also seen that the Ascension Church is huge, and Hamlet's current power is not enough. I need your help."

Lance raised the torch and carefully observed their reactions. It was normal for Geralt to be too old-fashioned and not express his opinion.

But Junia's silence gave him a bad feeling.

Logically speaking, when church members hear this, shouldn’t they be filled with righteous indignation and then say slogans vowing to eradicate the cult?

correct! Lance suddenly realized that Junia was a ruthless person who was imprisoned in a dungeon, tortured and could break out of the church dungeon on her own. She should not be treated like an ordinary nun.

The atmosphere became awkward for a moment, and even Lance felt a little unable to speak.

"Boss, do we want to go in?" Boudica didn't care about the invisible confrontation between them at all, and his attention was always on the entrance.

Her words also broke the increasingly weird atmosphere, and to a certain extent, it was a rescue for Lance.

"No, we don't understand the situation here yet. Let's go back first. We can't escape the place anyway."

Lance explained, as if he had never said those words, calling Geralt and taking the path they had taken, instead walking towards the wilderness.

On the way back, Lance went through all the experiences of this period in his mind, extracted the key information from it, and slowly seemed to piece together a little bit of the context of this matter.

The first is that the witch infects all the creatures in the wilderness in order to create an army of infected people.

After the death of the witch, the development of the wilderness and the removal of corruption were interrupted by the disappearance of the serfs.

And he took action to find the murderer of the serfs, who was a ghoul. He discovered a strange ritual and the maggots cultivated in the flesh and blood nest, but it was a pity that it was destroyed due to an accident.

However, the incident with the ghoul prompted me to further search the wilderness and discover the cult youth training camp. I mobilized troops to capture it, and from this I learned that there were other camps nearby.

The out-of-control wizard of Night Slash got to know Geralt and the three of them, and sent Geralt to investigate, and then discovered a new camp and town.

Amanda's prophecy was not to be feared, but after enduring attacks from witches, fake noble lords, and wizards with the power of flesh and blood, he instinctively identified the camp found in the wilderness and the rituals of the underground tomb. It's the ancestor's conspiracy.

And these are aimed at him, that's why there is so much pressure. This is what he is really worried about, because he has no idea about his ancestor's conspiracy.

He didn't react until he conquered the town, further saw through the trap and captured the camp.

Is it possible that the rituals in these camps and tombs are not directed at oneself?

Because after interrogating those slaves, Lance remembered a very key clue, that is - time.

What connects the two events of the camp and the mausoleum with other events is the "time" he has experienced.

But it may not be the real time. In fact, the camp was established long before he came to Hamlet. It cannot be predicted by the ancestors. It can only mean that the establishment of the camp has nothing to do with him.

Similarly, things about the mausoleum are also a bit strange, because the rituals inside are not like a short-term setting, but more like a long-term cultivation method. Otherwise, how could even the Ascension Sect itself seem to have forgotten that there is such a thing? Otherwise, the ghoul would be I found it by accident when I was forced out to look for food.

These are just guesses, but Lance probably understood everything when he saw the sewer exit.

Neither the things in the camp nor the mausoleum were aimed at themselves, but against the camp guards. It was no wonder that a camp was built in a low-lying area.

The matter about the sewer is still the ancestor’s fault.

In the game plot, when the ancestor was collecting and studying those rituals, he discovered a very interesting summoning ritual - flesh and blood sacrifice.

The methods and rituals of flesh and blood sacrifice are very difficult to master. If you want to summon those creatures from other worlds, you need to enter the real world through a physical container.

To put it simply, it was a sacrifice of flesh and blood, and the ancestor extended his devil's claws to his people.

The timing of chanting at the same time is very important - if the sound is not pronounced correctly at the precise time, the ritual process will suddenly fail.

The ancestor is undoubtedly a genius, but his first attempt at summoning was very immature and the results were disappointing.

However, the ancestor was still the lord of Hamlet at that time. He had enough money for him to squander, and he also had enough sacrifices...

The research on the ritual continued to deepen, and the ancestor soon discovered that the state and type of the host meat in the summoning ritual were the key factors.

But the materials used in the ceremony still affected him a little, because the frequent disappearances attracted some unnecessary attention.

He was still hiding his purpose at that time, so naturally he did not dare to continue creating disappearances, so he could only look for alternative materials. Among previous experiments, the best results came from pigs, whose flesh and blood are most similar to human flesh and blood.

However, the flesh sacrifice and summoning ritual were not as simple as success. On the contrary, his enthusiasm for the matter gradually faded amidst the constant failures and disappointments in his repeated attempts.

Not only that, the progress of the ceremony was very difficult, and the accumulation of excess waste meat during the process also became... very troublesome.

Those corpses that were constantly twitching, squirming, screaming, and snorting were piled on top of each other. The existing place could not store such a huge amount of waste.

The ancestor who was afraid of being discovered naturally couldn't easily throw away these things that were occupied by indescribable things from outside the space.

So when excavations under the old house revealed an ancient network of waterways, the ancestors had already figured out how to deal with the waste.

A giant city like Hamlet, no less impressive than Totnes, was certainly not built overnight, but after much expansion and renovation.

In the process, these relics had been abandoned, and the ancient sewers that even he, the lord, didn't know about, became the best containers.

The ancestor will soon dispose of them, and all the flesh and blood waste will be thrown into the abandoned sewer.

In this way, the ancient sewer was once again used by Hamlet's lords, and began to become an abandoned place filled with mouthparts, limbs, tissues and bones.

But just where the ancestor couldn't see, a large pile of convulsing and deformed bodies, like a mountain, merged together in the terrifying darkness...

After solving the problem of materials and the placement of waste materials, the ancestor was finally able to completely relax and conduct research. Finally, one day he successfully summoned the so-called "great thing".

It's just that I don't know if it's a ritual issue or a material issue. The thing he summoned is crude and stupid. In addition, it requires a lot of meat to maintain its shape.

But at this time, the ancestor had obviously completely lost interest in this thing. After casually throwing the summoned things into the sewer, he forgot about it and turned to study the next technology.

The deformed monster was not killed so easily. On the contrary, it really showed extraordinary power just like its name "Great Thing", dragging its mutilated body to survive in the sewer, and Create more and more crazy creations...

After discovering the abandoned ancient sewer, the ancestor has been using it as a waste disposal station, throwing everything down. Instead, these experimental materials provide survival conditions for the things below.

Even because of the underground shelter, the disaster that destroyed Hamlet was not killed until it finally thrived and became a notorious mainline copy in the game.

Both the disgustingness of the monsters inside and the disgustingness of the images are worthy of this rating.

Compared to the name of the ancient sewer, players prefer to call it - the beast cave!

Lance had entered it countless times back then, and now he still feels a little nostalgic when he thinks about it.

At that time, the ancestor probably would not have thought that he would just stuff two bombs into the ancient sewer.

But does the ancestor really care?

I'm afraid he doesn't care at all. He arranged the camp to guard the exit of the beast cave. I'm afraid he is just worried that the things inside will affect his plan.

But what impact does the discovery of the den now have on Lance?

The beast's cave is different from the witch. From the fact that the camp is set up here, it can be seen that this thing is not controlled by the ancestor.

Lance knew that his current target was the old house on the old site, so he gave up exploring the cave in depth.

Whoever wants to wipe the ancestor's butt, he doesn't care anyway.

Because Hamlet is some distance away from here, but he is under the ancestor’s butt.

The beast cave is like a bomb. When it explodes, the ancestor will be the first to suffer.

However, the discovery of sewers here means that the old site is not far from here.

As long as he completes the cleaning of the wilderness and repairs the damaged old roads and sentries, he will completely block the ancestor's access to the outside.

Originally, because the cultists in the game showed too much strength, he always had a filter on the Ascension Sect.

But until now, I have come into contact with many high-level cultists, but they are not very strong. Most of them are just rotten fish and shrimps.

As for those who have undergone many flesh and blood rituals and obtained extraordinary powers, they are not so good either.

The strongest method of the Ascension Sect is the qualitative change brought about by [seed] parasitism.

It's just that for Lance.

He even felt that he was being too cautious by taking every step, which would give the ancestor more time.

Should I be more aggressive and lead my troops to charge directly?

And just when he was slightly distracted, there was a strange movement around him.

"Kill them!"

"For Ascension!"

"Don't take away my ascension!"

Almost at the same time as the sky changed, several enemies rushed out of the surrounding dense forest.

You don't even need to look at them, just by listening to their shouts, you can tell that these guys are believers of the Ascension Sect.

It wasn't until I got within ten steps that I realized that these were not ordinary guys, but well-equipped, naked-chested and exaggerated muscles, ascension cultists with strong characteristics.

That is to say, these are elites, specially designed to intercept and kill them.

But Lance and his team were not ordinary people and did not panic because of this. On the contrary, they reacted instantly and prepared to engage the enemy.

But at this moment, when I looked up, I could see a crack in the space, as if it was torn open by something forcefully, and the entire gray night sky was dyed with a brilliant purple.

At this moment, everyone seemed to notice something strange.

Geralt and Junia seemed to recall the night they encountered the wizard, holding a twisted statue to summon otherworldly powers.

And now...

Of course Lance noticed it because his inspiration was so high. He subconsciously thought it was a collector who came to his door.

The negative attribute of wearing [Collector's Showroom] on your own is to attract the attention of collectors.

But it only took him a moment to realize that something was wrong, because the appearance of the Collector caused ripples in the real space like ripples.

Instead of tearing it apart so roughly, not to mention that the void cracks are eroding the real space more and more, and have no intention of stopping at all.

The spiritual vision unfolded, and Lance instantly locked onto the ascended priest hiding in the darkness.

"It's the evil magic of the Ascension Sect!"

While shouting, he also had an extra musket in his hand.

But before he could shoot, a huge inhuman tentacle stretched out from the rift in the void, and the target turned out not to be Lance, but Junia.

For some reason, Lance instantly understood in his mind how the priest in the tunnel died, as well as the mutilated corpses around him.

There was no hesitation, Lance didn't even think. When he reacted, he rushed over and pushed Junia away.

There was no doubt that the tentacle hit Lance hard, and the powerful force from the void directly knocked him away.

All this happened in an instant. Even though all of them had extraordinary reactions, they didn't react immediately. All they could see was Lance lying on the ground...