Our family is in decline

Hamlet, ruins, old house.

One night passed, and Lance didn't know what happened in the ruins just now. He spent the whole night studying the information obtained in the leader's room, trying to find the whereabouts of the cult leader and the dungeon.

Then he discovered a lot of interesting situations among those things, involving Hamlet's number one traitor - the butler.

Although there have been predictions about the role of the housekeeper before, it was just a conjecture based on the actual situation, and now it is "certified by the ancestors."

If the leader is the ancestor's spokesperson in the Ascension Sect, then the steward is the ancestor's agent on the surface.

One face and one lizi belong to yes.

He finally understood that if he was deceived by the steward like those previous lords, then the ancestor would be able to control the behavior of the heir through the steward issuing tasks.

This is why the steward can offer generous bounties and extraordinary equipment as benefits of reviving Hamlet, and at the same time arrange for cultists to spread these extraordinary equipment and gold coins throughout the territory.

Continuous stimulation through these things allows the lord to recruit more people and then launch a larger war.

This has been the case for more than ten years. The stimulation of simple violence drove those people into madness. They "revived" the territory step by step according to the steward's requirements, but in the end they died.

As for the money and equipment, anyway, those adventurers or lords will eventually become the ancestor's food and the ladder he steps on to ascend to the gods.

Then the gold coins and equipment will naturally be recovered, and you can move on to the next unlucky guy.

Then he bumped into the freak Lance, killed the butler at the beginning, and was directly out of their control.

Maybe those guys didn't care much about Lance at that time and were not willing to lift the table to fight Lance, but instead used bandits, witches and the like to deal with him.

Lance even remembered that an "heir" suddenly appeared out of nowhere and shouted that he was Lord Hamlet just after the witch was beaten, and was sent to a sanatorium.

In the early days of the wilderness development, the Ascension Sect stopped pretending, and a large number of cultists gathered in the wilderness, planning to kill Lance.

However, they still have the inherent mindset and want to bleed Lance through a tug-of-war. Anyway, the cultists are not afraid of consumption, and when they die, they just return to become a part of their ancestors.

But it's a pity that they failed. Lance shouldered the pressure and even completed the initial accumulation by sacrificing the corpses of cultists. Otherwise, how could there be so many spiritual healers and strengthened soldiers?

Then a group of veterans were brought out, and the equipment began to be replaced with muskets, artillery, and various new things.

The subsequent series of operations made the Ascension Sect leaders understand that Lance was completely out of their control.

If Lance dares to give away equipment and gold coins, if Lance really dares to put them in his pocket, they will become bullets fired at them.

So it was natural that the senior officials of the Ascension Sect decided to seal up those things, which were the things in the warehouse on the fourth floor of the old house.

Obviously, if Lance doesn't let his ancestor eat good fruits, then the ancestor can't let Lance eat good fruits either.

No wonder the butler in the game can take out so many equipment and gold coins casually, and the enemy explosion rate increases as the difficulty becomes higher, and the mobs can drop jewelry, jade, or gold coin equipment.

But Lance had already fought in his old house, and the equipment he saw were all scattered, and most of them were gifts from his own sacrifice.

We've been making trouble for a long time, you kid must have taken all the benefits my ancestor gave me as a kickback!

After reading through the information, Lance had to be more clear that these inheritances could fall into his hands now, thanks to this sneak attack plan.

If you really slowly push down the ruins and then come back up, there will probably be nothing left but empty shells.

Because Hamlet's strength expanded too fast, the Ascension Sect's final counterattack at the end of the Battle of the Beast Cave failed completely. The top leaders of the sect also felt the pressure and planned to move their positions.

Now Lance understands why he took over the old house so easily. It turned out that the leader took away a group of believers.

But the place they chose made Lance a little curious, that is, the territory around Hamlet, such as Ovendo and Bastia.

This is the plan to break it into pieces and disperse it, and then use the senior officials accumulated and controlled over the years to jointly launch a grand war to completely destroy Hamlet.

At the same time, the deaths caused by the war will also accelerate the progress of the ritual and promote their ultimate goal-ascension.

But Ovendo has been secretly controlled by Lance, and the so-called high-level officials have long been blamed. As for Bastia, the count is not a fool.

One is the closest, and the other is the strongest nearby. There is no problem with these two places. Whether the other rotten fish and shrimps can gather three hundred knights is unknown.

Lance's comment on this can only be that it's a good idea. I've even called you at your door, and you're still thinking about growth, right?

It was Lance who asked for time to develop, but now it's the ancestor's turn?

All I can say is that starting from today, we will start attacking and defending aliens!

Lance really laughed. If there weren't people around, he would laugh out loud.

If Lao Zu didn't live hard, he might as well bite the lighter.

However, he laughed, and Lance also knew that he had to penetrate the dungeon and kill the ancestor before the Ascension Sect controlled those guys to start a war.

But we can't give the ancestor the possibility of making a comeback.

Lance couldn't help but cast his eyes on Audrey, who had woken up.

"You go find the underground entrance."

"I?"

Audrey felt that she had overslept and missed something, but she still didn't wake up.

Lance nodded in confirmation and briefly explained the new mission details.

"There is a magnificent palace underground here, with real treasures buried there. That is our real goal. Those yesterday were just guards responsible for guarding it."

Although Audrey didn't feel right about this, she couldn't resist the conditions given by Lance and stared at the bottle of potion that Lance took out.

"You only have seven days...no, it should be six days."

Lance waved the potion but then turned around and took it back, which made Audrey feel a heavy feeling in her chest and her face looked a little ugly.

Lance didn't care about this. This wasn't a threat, it was a kind reminder.

Audrey had no choice. The anger at being manipulated dispersed her last sleepiness, and she could only turn her attention to the old house.

Soon the sun rose, and the first ray of sunlight first fell on the old house in the northeast corner of the ruins, and then gradually moved towards the entire ruins.

Lance didn't need to worry about what happened to the garrison. He took the adjusted team and entered the old house again.

The difference is that before, you climbed in through the window and the wall, but now you just walked in through the dilapidated front door.

Yesterday's mission was to clear out the cultists, but today's goal is to find the dungeon entrance.

But the problem is that it was checked yesterday. If it could have been discovered, it would have been discovered long ago. There is nothing abnormal about the dilapidated first floor.

After going around in circles, I wasted a lot of time, but finally returned to the lobby.

"Are you okay?" Amanda was already unhappy with this tomb robber, so she immediately complained.

"You you on the line!"

It's just that Audrey didn't tolerate Amanda at all and directly said something back.

Speaking of which, besides Lance, she was the one who was most anxious to find the entrance to the dungeon. After all, she didn't want to die yet.

Both of them had suffered from each other during the initial arrest operation, and more importantly, neither of them were broad-minded people.

One is obsessed with Tamara's resentment, while the other poisoned her ex-husband, which can even be said to be narrow-minded.

If the lord hadn't been there to mediate, they could even have fought.

"Okay, it's impossible for such a big place to disappear. Let's search carefully." Lance stopped the dispute between them and was so calm that he didn't seem to be affected by the slight setback at all.

In fact, Lance still has many ways, such as summoning Wangcai to peek into the void.

However, Wangcai's spiritually constructed body was not very resistant to these things. Like Amanda's method, he was worried about contaminating the spirituality and never called out.

If that doesn't work, you can also use a black-armored helmet. He's protected and shouldn't be afraid.

But Lance was not sure whether he was facing the power of the ancestor or the power of the ancient god, and he did not dare to bet on whether Shelter could withstand it.

So it's best to avoid this kind of contact, because now he is on the dominant side and he doesn't want to take unnecessary risks.

"I wonder if everything has been eliminated, there is only one place left..."

Boudica's voice came slowly, and she didn't understand why the two of them were quarreling, holding their axes and guns with disgust on their faces.

These words attracted everyone's attention, and Lance couldn't help but ask a question.

"What did you find?"

"There is a room over here, and there should be one over there." Boudica raised her hand and pointed to the stairs of the hall.

Lang suddenly understood something. The structure of the old house was symmetrical. There was a room that had been cleaned long ago under the stairs on the left, so there should be one on the right as well.

However, the staircase on the right collapsed and covered it, so everyone subconsciously ignored it.

Everyone also reacted and approached one after another.

"Do you think the stairs were deliberately collapsed by the cultists at that time?"

"Whatever, just move away and take a look."

Lance got started immediately. It was definitely the best material to use in building an old house, but it was so fragile in the face of brute force. The heavy wood was easily dragged in his hands.

The wooden frame that could have been roughly shaped like a staircase seemed to have lost its support and completely fell down, along with some masonry, which instantly caused thick dust.

"Ahem!"

Lance and the others couldn't help but take a few steps back. When the dust subsided, they saw the faint outline of a door hidden by the bricks and wood.

"Boudica, you are so smart!"

Lance smiled and praised, and Boudica couldn't help but feel a little proud when she heard it, and she seemed to wave the shovel harder.

After everyone's efforts, they were quickly cleared out. Lance pushed the door open without much nonsense, took out a torch and walked into the door first.

The firelight illuminated the hidden room, an ordinary-looking room with some sundries piled up.

Audrey started looking for possible traces as soon as she came in. She didn't work just now, and now she wasn't sure whether Lance would give her the antidote, so she could only try her best to show off.

Soon she seemed to have discovered something, and a delighted smile appeared on her face. She pushed away the debris and kept tapping the masonry wall with the pickaxe in her hand.

Amanda was about to say something when she saw her like this, but she saw a tremor and the brick wall was pushed open, revealing a spiraling downward passage inside.

"found it!"

Audrey looked at the lord excitedly, but Lance didn't bother to pay attention to her at all. He stared straight at the dark and deep portal, with an indescribable weirdness in his eyes.

Lance roughly understood why the old house was breached, but the ancestor did not organize a counterattack.

Probably knowing that there is no way back, they want to use the destruction of the cultists in the old house to make Hamlet mistakenly think that the Ascension Cult has been eliminated, so as to buy time for others.

But...do you think I don't know about the existence of the dungeon?

"Let me start. Maybe there is a trap below." Audrey was very good at observing people's emotions. When she found that the lord didn't pay much attention to her, she took the initiative to speak.

"You did a good job, but it's too dangerous, so I'll do it." Lance nodded to acknowledge Audrey's contribution, but did not agree to her suggestion and entered with a torch.

Going down the spiral stairs, a reinforced passage like a mine tunnel soon appeared.

There are wooden boards on top, supported by wooden stakes at regular intervals, and brick walls stacked on both sides fill the excavated space.

From time to time, you can see some gravel, excavation tools that have been decayed for an unknown period of time, and broken wooden boxes that have been discarded on the ground.

"No, why is water leaking?"

"Have you ever felt that the air is getting more humid and a bit salty..."

"Isn't the salt precipitated on these bricks and stones?"

Lance also noticed this. There was something like hoarfrost on the masonry. Now this situation reminded him of an interesting place, that is, the salty bay.

The old house is on the sea cliff, and deep in the sea cliff is the complex Deep Diver Bay. Is there any connection between this?

"Let's go, everyone, be careful." Lance didn't say much, just reminded him and continued to move forward holding the torch.

The mine tunnel was too long, and in the dead silence, even the water dripping from the head could make clear echoes.

The humid and thin air made it feel strange to breathe. Coupled with the depression caused by the surrounding environment, Audrey, who was used to being in tombs, felt something was wrong.

That is to say, their team is full of experts, otherwise anyone with less mental endurance would suffer from claustrophobia.

There was silence all the way until the team walked out of the passage and came to a huge hollow cave.

How big is that space?

Not to mention the people who entered it, the light of the torch even seemed as weak as a firefly. The few people standing at the entrance felt inexplicably insignificant.

The sunlight leaking in from the cracks in the sea cliff rock formations is like covering the entire space with a thin veil.

With the supplementary light, they could probably see the contents inside, and they were all stunned, including Lance.

Because he saw...

In fact, I originally planned to write about the plot of Bastia, but I'd better finish the main plot first and then write slowly. I feel that I have lost a lot of readers recently, and I am not in the right state. The writing is too watery.