Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 457 Crazy Journey
A loud bang suddenly spread throughout the army's temporary gathering place, followed by a violent shaking. Many torches erected around were knocked down, and scattered debris continued to fall from the stone wall above.

This sudden strange phenomenon instantly attracted the attention of all the soldiers, and the officers who were originally discussing strategies also rushed out of the tents.

"What happened?! Karak! Where did that noise come from?"

A tall knight came out of the tent and immediately found Karak and Mizora, asking her what had happened.
The place where their army is stationed is underground in Baldur's Gate, not far from the Temple of the God of Murder. If an earthquake or landslide occurs in this place, their army will be finished, and the collapsed rocks and soil will soon wipe out their entire army!

"I don't know what happened, Scar! But I just heard that the place where the sound came from must be in the canyon not far away! Those cultists must have done something bad again!"

"They are crazy! Creating an explosion of this magnitude underground? If it causes a chain of collapses, they will be the first to die!"

A dwarf officer nearby continued Karak's words. The dwarves have always called themselves the sons of the earth. Rocks are their castles and caves are their passages. In the long process of mining and developing underground minerals, the dwarves have accumulated abundant knowledge of the underground environment. No one knows better than the dwarves how dangerous it is to randomly set off an explosion of this magnitude underground!
"Who knows what those cult lunatics are thinking? Maybe they feel that they are surrounded by us and have no hope, so they want to make a big move at the last minute and die with us."

A human officer at the side continued the dwarf's words, and their conversation made the faces of the people around them turn ugly, because this possibility really existed, but no one wanted to be buried with these damn lunatics.

"Enough! No more guessing! The vibration caused by the explosion has stopped, but no one knows what consequences the previous explosion outside will bring. Maybe in the next moment, this place will collapse completely. We have to consider this worst possibility."

"Send out scouts right now to check what's going on over there. Captains must also notify their respective companies immediately to gather their troops and then immediately retreat to the positions that have been reinforced by the mages in the rear to prevent our soldiers from dying in the enemy's crazy counterattack."

"Yes! Commander!"

Out of concern for their own lives, the officers and captains present immediately accepted the commander-in-chief's order and led their respective teams quickly towards a safe place prepared in advance.

Fighting underground in the city requires taking this possibility into consideration. Fortunately, with the early preparations, everyone knew that there was a place that could protect their safety, so there was no loss of order due to this sudden accident.

"Don't just stand here. Abandon this camp for now and retreat to a safe place to wait for the scouts' intelligence."

Scar and Karak looked at each other, then nodded to the commander-in-chief. At the same time, they grabbed the expressionless Mizora and led her and everyone else to evacuate in an orderly manner. During the retreat, officers kept speaking beside everyone.

"Alas, although I feel very honored to be able to participate in the battle against the murder cult, the environment of this damn place is not suitable for ordinary soldiers to participate in the battle. This incident has fully proved this point. If anything goes wrong, the soldiers will basically be unable to fight." "I really don't want to admit what you said, but I have to admit that you are right. If we hadn't brought enough military mages with us this time, reinforced the surrounding walls, and set up a developing barrier covering the entire camp, ordinary soldiers would probably not even be able to find those elite assassins. Alas, it would have been a massacre."

"Okay, shut up! Don't say such depressing words at a time like this!"

The commander-in-chief spoke again to stop the soldiers' discussion, and then everyone remained silent. It took less than ten minutes for them to retreat in an orderly manner to a relatively safe assembly point, and then wait for the scouts to pass on the information.

During this process, Mizora neither spoke nor resisted. He just closed his eyes and continuously reported everything that happened to Noshir, who was far away in the Shadow Curse Land...

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"...Master, the scouts have sent back news that the cultists have collapsed the canyon with a large amount of smoke powder. Now the road leading to the Temple of Baal has been completely blocked by rubble. It will take a long time to clear these stones, even with the power of magic. During this time, we cannot launch a large-scale cleanup of the murderers."

Mizora faithfully reported all the situations over there to Noshir. After learning what happened over there, Noshir also suspended his actions and began to think carefully about what those cult lunatics were trying to do by doing such a thing.
"...Blocking the way to the Murder Temple, this behavior, how should I put it, feels like they are willing to bury the Temple of Baal with stones in order to forcibly protect it."

Noshier's guess was actually very reasonable. These murderous believers should know that they could not defend the temple with their current strength alone. They probably didn't want the temple to suffer the same fate as the Iron Throne... and be completely destroyed after being discovered. Even the temple itself was thrown into the sea of ​​swords by powerful magic.

Well, the latter possibility is unlikely now. There should be no wizards in Baldur's Gate who can achieve this level. But the temple was completely destroyed, which is absolutely certain after the temple was breached.

In order to prevent the temple from being destroyed, these lunatics took such action. Noshil estimated that it was Shavlock who instructed them to do so. It was not that Noshil looked down on these ordinary believers, but those ordinary murderous believers were indeed brainless idiots. They were all completely paralyzed by the blessing bestowed by Baal, that is, the pleasure of killing. They were all crazy and it was impossible for them not to think of such a method.

Although the act of blowing up the canyon was reckless, it did preserve the Temple of Murder, the largest existing ritual site of Baal in the world. As long as the temple did not fall, they would not have to worry about Baal punishing them for the time being. I believe this is also an important basis for supporting their actions.

"If these speculations are true, then I believe that the Temple of Murder will be deserted in a short time. Even if the actual leader of the Temple of Murder has not returned yet, Shavlock still has the power to command the Baal Assassins. He is not a fool and will definitely leave this deadly place with the remaining living forces."

(End of this chapter)