our family is gone

"At the beginning, the Ascension Sect held a ceremony in Hamlet, so they did not hesitate to sacrifice millions of lives in Hamlet to summon their so-called gods.

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

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

When Geralt heard the news, he was also dazzled by the huge amount of information in it.

You must know that the destruction of Hamlet caused a lot of trouble on the whole continent, and there are 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 a few words about what happened back then and the dangers of the Ascension Sect in Lance.

"We have to ask the empire and the church for help."

"No, we can't solve Hamlet's problem by means of war, because the ceremony of the year is still there, and every life that dies here will further promote the ceremony, so I want to exile the corpse to delay the ceremony.

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

When Lance said this, he was very righteous, and both Junia and Geralt were bluffed by him.

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

The observation along the way also found that the conscience of the two of them is not lost, and they still have humanity, and the abilities of the two will be a very important force for Hamlet, who has scarce talents.

"However, you have also seen that the Ascension Church is very powerful, and Hamlet's current strength is not enough. I need your help."

Lance held up the torch and watched their reactions carefully. It was normal for Geralt to not express his opinion after being an old man.

But Junia's silence gave him a bad feeling.

Shouldn't people in the church be filled with righteous indignation when they heard this, and then swear slogans to eliminate the cult?
correct!Lance suddenly realized that Junia was a ruthless person who was imprisoned in a dungeon and was able to break out of the church dungeon by herself after being tortured. She couldn't be treated like an ordinary nun.

The atmosphere became awkward for a while, and even Lance was a little bit speechless.

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

Similarly, her words also broke the increasingly weird atmosphere, and to some extent it was a relief for Lance.

"No, we don't understand the situation here yet. Let's talk about it when we go back. Anyway, we can't escape from the place."

Lance explained a sentence, as if he hadn't said those words, told Geralt to walk the way the two of them didn't come, but to trek in the wilderness.

On the way back, Lance put all the experience of this period of time in his mind, extracted key information from it, and slowly pieced together the context of this incident.

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

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

And he took the initiative to find the murderer who murdered the serf, it was the ghoul, and found a weird ritual in it, as well as the maggots cultivated in the flesh and blood nest, but unfortunately it was destroyed by accident.

However, the matter of the ghoul made him search the wilderness further and found the cult youth training camp, and dispatched troops to take it down. From this, he knew that there were other camps nearby.

Night Zan's out-of-control wizard got acquainted with the three of Geralt, and sent Geralt to investigate, and then discovered a new camp and town.

Amanda's prophecy was not to be feared, but after being attacked by witches, fake noble lords, and wizards who possessed the power of flesh and blood, he instinctively recognized the camp found in the wilderness and the ceremony of the underground tomb. It is the conspiracy of the ancestors.

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 of ​​the old ancestor's conspiracy.

And he didn't react until he broke through the town and further saw through the traps and took down the camp.

Is it possible that the ceremonies of these camps and tombs are not directed at oneself?
Because after interrogating those slaves, Lance remembered a very crucial clue, and that was time.

What he connects these two events, the camp and the mausoleum, among other things, is the "time" he experiences.

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

The same thing about the mausoleum is also a bit strange, because the ceremony inside is not like a short-term setting, but more like a means of long-term cultivation, otherwise, how could even the Ascension Sect seem to have forgotten this, otherwise the ghouls would be killed. I was forced to come out to look for food and found it by mistake.

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

Both the camp and the mausoleum are not aimed at oneself, but against the camp guards, so it is no wonder that a camp is built in a low-lying place.

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

In the game plot, when the ancestors were collecting and researching those rituals, they discovered some very interesting summoning rituals - flesh and blood sacrifices.

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

Simply put, it is a sacrifice of flesh and blood, and the ancestor extended his claws to his people.

At the same time, the timing of the chanting is very important-if the voice cannot be pronounced at the precise time point, the progress of the ceremony will suddenly fail.

Patriarch was undoubtedly a genius, but his first attempt at summoning was very immature and the result was disappointing.

But 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's flesh that summoned the ritual was the key factor.

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 didn't dare to continue to make disappearance cases, so he could only look for alternative materials, and the best results in previous experiments came from pigs, whose flesh and blood are most similar to human flesh and blood.

However, the flesh and blood sacrifice and the summoning ceremony did not succeed so easily. On the contrary, his enthusiasm for this matter gradually faded in the constant failure and disappointment of trying again and again.

Not only that, but the progress of the ceremony was full of difficulties, and the excess waste meat accumulated in the process became...very tricky.

Those wriggling, hissing, and snorting corpses were piled on top of each other, and the existing place could not store such a huge amount of waste.

The ancestors, who were afraid of being discovered by others, naturally couldn't easily discard these things that were occupied by indescribable things from outside the space.

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

Hamlet, a giant city not inferior to Totnes, was certainly not created overnight, but after a lot of expansion and renovation.

In this process, these remnants have been abandoned, and the ancient sewers that even he, the lord, does not know have become the best containers.

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

In this way, the ancient sewer was used again by the lord of Hamlet, and it 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 distorted bodies that were constantly convulsing like a mountain merged together in the terrifying darkness...

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

It's just that I don't know if it's a ritual problem or a material problem. The thing he summoned is rough and stupid. Besides, it needs a lot of meat to maintain its shape.

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

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

After discovering the abandoned ancient sewer, the ancestors have been using it as a waste disposal station, throwing everything down, and these experimental materials have provided the living conditions for the things below.

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

Whether it is the disgusting degree of the monster inside or the disgusting degree of the picture, it is worthy of this evaluation.

Compared with the name of the ancient sewer, players prefer to call it - Beast Den!
Lance had entered it countless times back then, and now that he thinks about it, he still feels a little nostalgic.

At that time, the ancestor probably wouldn't have thought that he had stuffed two bombs into the ancient sewer at random.

But does the ancestor really care?
I'm afraid he didn't care at all. He arranged the camp to guard the exit of the beast den, and he was probably just worried that the things inside would affect his plan.

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

The beast den is different from the witch. From the establishment of the camp here, it can be seen that this thing is not controlled by the ancestors.

Lance knew that his current goal was the old house on the old site, so he gave up exploring the beast den.

Whoever rubs the ancestor's butt likes, he doesn't care anyway.

Because Hamlet is some distance away from here, but it is under the ancestor's ass.

The beast den is like a bomb, and when it explodes, the ancestor is the first to suffer.

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

As long as the cleaning of the wilderness is completed and the damaged old roads and guard posts are repaired, then he will completely lock the ancestor's passage to the outside.

Originally, because the strength of the cultists in the game was too strong, he always had a filter for the Ascension Sect.

But so far, I have come into contact with many high-level cultists, but they are not very strong, and most of them are rotten fish and rotten shrimp.

As for those who have undergone many flesh and blood rituals to obtain extraordinary power, they are not so good.

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

It's just the same for Lance.

He even felt that he was being too cautious at every step, which instead gave the ancestor more time.

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

But at the moment when he was slightly distracted, strange movements came from around him.

"Kill them!"

"For ascension!"

"Don't take away my ascension!"

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

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

It wasn't until they got within ten steps that they discovered that these were not ordinary guys, but well-equipped, bare-chested and exaggerated muscles, with strong characteristics of Ascension Cultists.

That is to say, these are the elite, and they are specially designed to intercept and kill them.

But Lance and his team were not ordinary people and they didn't panic because of this. On the contrary, they just reacted in an instant and prepared to meet the enemy.

But at this moment, when I looked up, I could see a crack in the space, as if being torn apart by something forcefully, and the entire gray night sky was stained with a dazzling purple.

At this moment, everyone seemed to be aware of the strangeness.

Geralt and Junia seemed to recall the night when they encountered the wizard who held the otherworldly power summoned by the twisted statue.

And now...

Lance's inspiration is so high, of course he also found out, he subconsciously thought it was a collector who came to him.

The negative characteristic brought about by wearing [Collector's Showroom] is to attract the attention of collectors.

But it was only in an instant that he realized that something was wrong, because the appearance of the collector caused ripples in the real space like ripples.

Rather than tearing it apart so roughly, not to mention that the erosion of the void fissure to the real space is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no intention of stopping at all.

The spiritual vision unfolded, and Lance instantly locked on the ascended priest hiding in the dark.

"It's the sorcery of the Ascension Sect!"

While shouting, there was an extra musket in his hand.

But before he could shoot, a gigantic inhuman tentacle stretched out from the rift in the void, and the target was not Lance, but Junia.

I don't know why Lance instantly understood how the priest in the tunnel died, as well as the mutilated corpses around him.

Without hesitation, Lance didn't even think about it. When he realized it, he rushed over and pushed Junia away.

There is no doubt that the tentacle hit Lance fiercely, and the powerful force from the void directly sent him flying.

All this happened in an instant, even if all of them reacted beyond ordinary people, they didn't react immediately, and all they could see was Lance who was lying on the ground...