Warhammer Seal

Chapter 146 Returning to Altdorf
Let's see what's wrong.

This is a very old scroll, and even the human language on it is a bit retro.

Wende's language skills are not bad, and he still understood what was written on it while reading and guessing.

It has to be said that the history of this thing is very long.

Even dating back to the Age of Sigmar.

Back then, Emperor Sigmar was the son of a chieftain of a human tribe whose capital was located in today's Altdorf.

Altdorf was also a colony of elves in ancient times. When the elves colonized and built the city, of course they planned a sewer and hid an ancient sacred artifact in it.

Because the artifact had a terrible ability, it was buried under Altdorf by the elves.

Sigma originally wanted to obtain such an artifact when he was an adult, but everyone knows the story afterwards.

After he saved the Dwarf High Queen, he obtained the artifact named Gal Malaz, and no other weapons were needed.

This ancient parchment clearly marked the specific location of the ancient holy artifact, 300 meters underground in Altdorf.

"Ruixi, have you brought everything? Once we go out, we won't be back until next year at least."

What Wende said was right, such a trip would take a year at the fastest.

As for the latter, the dark elves don't like a peaceful life by nature. As soon as they heard that there was a new way forward, they immediately packed up everything.

The traffic environment was good, and the Beastmen in the entire Rickland were almost cleared up. The journey was calm, and Wende finally returned to the place where he first lived when he arrived in this world.

Imperial capital, Altdorf.

There are many obvious differences between Altdorf at this time and before.

The Mage Academy was re-established, with paved roads, pottery factories, and even armories and artillery workshops.

This is in line with the definition of the human capital, and it is currently waiting for the resources to be in place, so that it can rebuild the glory of the Magnus era.

However, this trip Wende did not intend to return to the city to live a stable life. After sitting in the previous tavern and drinking a small cup, he began to miss Jack and Alice. Unfortunately, the first two partners are already dead. .

With a silent sigh, it gave Wende the direction to move on.

I still remember the days when the rat extermination team went to the sewer together, and Wende still hasn't forgotten that road.

But the scroll says that the ancient sacred artifact is 300 meters underground, which is not a good sign.

The Altdorf sewer is very safe, and it can even be said to be the safest sewer in the entire empire.

But once he left the sewer and went deeper, Wende didn't even dare to imagine what kind of terrible number the underground Ratmen would breed as Altdorf grew.

Fortunately, these guys only steal and pick up human garbage and waste, and hardly have any direct conflict with the empire.

But it doesn't mean that Wende can find what he wants safely by raising his hands after going underground.

The Ratman would not refuse to eat the humans who strayed into the lower than the sewers. Wende knew this well, so he had to make the most detailed plan.

A cartographer, which is a good thing, can be marked on each step.

To be honest, almost all Skaven would get lost in their own underground kingdom, let alone Wend, an outsider.

So it is very useful to clear a safe and fast path.

At the same time, Wende also has a piece of equipment, the Aurora compass that Lord Shu gave him back then.

Cathay's scholars can use the compass to tell fortunes and feng shui, or to strengthen their own magical power while weakening the magical power of others.

This thing is also a necessary special equipment for Zhendan Jinyiwei. One of its powerful characteristics is the ability to perceive magic power, especially for the magic power that is closely related to chaos.

So the compass has another use, which is to detect nearby magic winds and dimension stones.

If the content of the Dimensional Stone exceeds the standard, it means that there must be ratmen in the vicinity, which is also a good underground radar.

The compass given to Wende by Master Shu is the same as Jin Yiwei's compass, both of which are portable and can be worn on the wrist for easy viewing at any time.

Traveling through Altdorf's Central Park, Wind once again came to the sewer entrance he encountered at the beginning.

But this time, he was well prepared, and his strength was no longer what it used to be.

Gently pulled open the sewer fence, and then walked in slowly.

In the darkness, there was only the sound of water gently sliding across the wall.

Since the political situation of the entire city has stabilized, the empire has enough money and time to clean up the environment of the sewers.

There were only a few sporadic rats inside, and they immediately hid in other small pipes when they saw someone coming in.

Wende still remembered all the layout here, and tapped on the wall on the left, thump, thump, and the back was indeed empty.

Those imperial workers must also be afraid of trouble, simply closing the hole is considered to have completed their task.

Hit it directly with the butt of the gun, and such a wall shattered into tofu.

This is a bit strange, the imperial craftsmen would not make such crude walls, could it be that the Ratmen blocked this place?
Wende shook his head, and quickly denied the latter idea, just lamenting that the world is getting worse, and the craftsmen are actually embezzling even the money for repairing the wall.

The wide square appeared in front of him again, with the bones of the Ratmen still piled up in the corner.

The last time I came here to kill the Ratman and snatch the Dimension Stone seemed to happen yesterday, but it's a pity that things are different.

It seems that this place has been abandoned by the Ratmen. It was originally a pretty good recycle bin, where things stolen from humans can be stored here for the first time, and then transported to deeper places for trading.

If it is like the beer cellar and material warehouse of the dwarves, it must have all-round traffic and clearly posted house numbers.

But the Ratmen dig holes, so there is no rule at all, they will make all kinds of strange roads, and even the Ratmen themselves will get lost in the cave they just dug.

Wende counted the surroundings, and there were thirteen caves that could lead to deeper ones, and he also suffered from difficulty in choosing for a while.

I can only use the compass on my wrist to test slowly. When I walked to the ninth pothole, the pointer in the compass turned faster than the propeller of the dwarf helicopter.

But there are no dimension stones or magic treasures around, so that can only explain one situation.

There is a very powerful Ratman Gray Prophet who just went down from this cave.

　There were [-] ratmen in Altdorf, the capital of the empire. Thanks to the high population density of Altdorf, the Skaven ratmen were able to provide human merchants and smugglers with drugs, warp stones, and ratman technology products to subsidize the economy. .

　　The dirty politics and corruption of the Imperial capital make it easy for the Skaven clans to hire, blackmail and manipulate human politicians.

　　There are Ratman strongholds underground in almost every major city in the empire, but the official propaganda of the empire does not want to let the public know so as to cause panic. Every emperor of the empire who tried to eliminate the Ratman would be dismissed by future generations because of the official propaganda problem. Sarcasm "How could there be ratmen in the empire?"

　　Since Emperor Karl, Ludenhof (the first rebel leader of the three southern cities) and Wende cleaned up a wave of nobles in Altdorf at the beginning, although the emperor could no longer recruit Rick's guards, it was completed Centralized power, making it impossible for the Ratmen underground in Altdorf to continue to trade with the corrupt human nobles.

　　At present, the number of Ratmen under the city must not be as many as the peak [-] Ratmen, and their strength is not as strong as before.

　　Karl Franz has already discovered that there is a huge rat man's lair under Altdorf, but he is only worried that it will cause Altdorf to collapse when cleaning the rat man's lair, so he can only stand still, and at the same time consider whether to move the capital of the empire to Hill Vanya goes.

　　There were no ratmen there at all, and the vampires were almost cleaned up, and they were able to establish the closest relationship with the dwarves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)