Chapter 470: City-wide Brawl
The Skeleton Fleet entered the port and took over the Creek City Hall, officially declaring that the era of the Geketan family's rule over the Tachia Territory was over.
Of course, this doesn't mean that all the troubles on this land have been solved...
"Have other sects gone into hiding?"
In the inner city of Creek City at night, in the brightly lit lord's mansion, a group of agents and operators were busy searching for physical evidence and securing evidence.
Illusionist Waver looked around the mansion that Gekattan had run for hundreds of years, and said with a complicated expression, "This is also normal... The Whisperers sect moved in full force, and with the trump cards they had arranged in the early years, not only did they not cause any trouble, but they were completely annihilated... If it were me, I would also choose to avoid the limelight for the time being."
Fire Mage Lamantha stared at the servants of the Lord's Mansion standing trembling in the courtyard outside the window for a while, frowned and said, "Does the Geketan family have no normal family members?"
"I guess not."
Agent Stanford, who was ordered to lead the search, looked up from his busy schedule and said in a serious tone, "In the courtyard where Mr. Yang destroyed the center of the sacrificial array, our people dug out seven human skeletons from under the soil in the garden two hours ago. Although it is difficult to identify the identities of these skeletons, after checking the family tree of the Geketan family... it is certain that the main branch members of the Geketan family within three generations, excluding the Earl Geketan himself, who is suspected to be the head of the previous generation, Master Gladstone, and two people who can be confirmed to be still alive, the other members who died for various reasons, disappeared, or claimed to have moved elsewhere, are exactly seven people."
Weber & Lamantha looked over in shock.
"Among them is the eldest son of this generation of the Gockettan family, Master Gladstone's eldest brother, Ace Marko Gockettan." Agent Stanford pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose. He did not wear these things normally. He would only take them out of the inner pocket of his shirt when he needed to read a lot of documents.
"The Geketan family announced that Ace Marko was obsessed with archaeology and went to teach at a famous academy in the Sokri Empire thirty years ago, even at the cost of turning against his family. However, no letters written by Ace Marko to his 'father' or brother were found in the rooms and study of Earl Geketan and Gladstone."
"It's unreasonable to have been away from home for thirty years without sending a letter home, nor telling your family whether you are married and have children." Agent Stanford said seriously, "Our agents searched the room where Ace Marko once lived. In that room, we can indeed find photos of Ace Marko when he was young, old clothes, and letters to his schoolmates in the Sokri Empire... All the evidence about Ace Marko's life stopped at thirty years ago. And this time point is theoretically the time period when the current earl legally succeeded to the throne."
"Okay, no need to explain in detail." Weber pressed his forehead with one hand and raised his other hand to press down, signaling Agent Stanford to stop. "You just need to simply say that Count Geketian's seizure of his son's identity caused opposition from other family members, which led to the disappearance or loss of contact of Ace Marko and six other family members."
"Okay, sir." Agent Stanford accepted the suggestion modestly and continued in a serious tone, "There are two members of the main branch of the Goketan family who are still alive and whose identities can be verified. One is Traston's aunt, who currently lives in the Odysseus territory. When she returned home to visit her relatives 24 years ago, she seemed to have encountered an accident that was not recorded in the local city hall. She was mentally traumatized and is now recuperating in Moses Port. The other is Gladstone's sister, who married into the Rose Kingdom. In Gladstone's study, we can find a letter she wrote to her brother two years ago. Judging from the shaky handwriting and the illogical wording, this lady seems to have unfortunately suffered a stroke at a young age, and she doesn't seem to be mentally healthy. In the letter, she repeatedly asked about her mother who had passed away many years ago, and asked if her father's dog was still alive..."
After carefully introducing the two existing main branch members of the Geket An family, Agent Stanford looked at the fire mage Lamantha with an extremely serious attitude and a very upright posture: "Based on the above currently known information, I think that the Geket An family should have no more relatively normal main branch members who can bear and be held accountable."
Lamantha: "..."
Weber: “…”
The two court mages left the lord's mansion silently, feeling embarrassed to stay here and delay the search.
Although the siege in the day ended quickly, it had obviously affected the residents in the city... At this time, the streets of Creek City were deserted, and only occasionally could one see militiamen and operators from Adler hurriedly passing by with lanterns.
Well... …and the undead are everywhere.
The dark and deserted streets cannot stop the undead from having fun. On several wide streets in the central city, you can often see varying numbers of undead chasing each other and rushing past, or fighting in groups.
On the short journey from the lord's mansion to the local Night Watch headquarters, the two court mages encountered five or six groups of undead who were chasing, fighting, cursing and making noise.
Weber and Lamantha had no reaction to this outrageous scene. They just walked past it with expressionless faces.
Yang went into the city alone and attacked the cultists' lair. The three court mages who stayed outside the city were not idle either... In order to temporarily detain the large number of captives captured by the undead, the three of them scattered a lot of spellcasting materials, took potions to restore a round of magic power, and then they barely used earth elemental magic to create a super-large prisoner camp outside the city - the kind with only a wall.
Because it took a lot of time to deal with the prisoner camp, Weber and Lamantha waited until dark before entering the city to check the situation... As for Sadir, he was so tired that he lay down in the tent to rest.
It was during the period when the earth wall was being built to surround the prisoner camp that the three court mages witnessed with their own eyes the entire process of the infighting among the Undead army that had just defeated the enemy.
First, more than 20,000 undead gathered in the square under the city gate, discussing something in a lively manner - actually, it was an auction.
Not long after, some of the undead suddenly started to make noise, and the scale of the noise was getting louder and louder, attracting the attention of three people who were working hard to repair the prisoner camp - in fact, some people questioned the unfair distribution, and believed that the leisure group who were slacking off should not get the same salary as the elite group who were working hard to attack, which triggered a war of words.
Before the three of them could figure out what the undead were arguing about, the emotional undead had already gone from pushing and shouting at each other to rolling up their arms, drawing their weapons, and using their skills to officially start a fight - in fact, it was just the accumulated hatred from the friction, monster snatching, equipment snatching, etc. during the city war that exploded, settling all the new and old grudges together.
So... under the astonished gaze of the three court mages, an army of more than 20,000 undead (some players were offline) launched a vigorous civil war...
The scope of the battle gradually shifted from the square outside the city to the streets and alleys inside the city - the player groups that could not win retreated into the city, and after the battlefield ended, the teleportation point (resurrection point) was moved from outside the city to the city hall, and players used various means to call those who were offline to come online for PK, so it was natural for the battle line to shift into the city.
The citizens, who had been frightened by the noise of the siege for a whole day, were already terrified. Now that more than 20,000 undead had staged a "city-wide brawl", no one dared to go out - even the thugs who tried to take advantage of the chaos in the city to rob and make some extra money by breaking into houses and picking locks, stayed at home with their doors closed.
The court mages couldn't figure out what was going on in the empty minds of the undead, nor did they want to understand; anyway, when Weber and Lamantha entered the city after dark and saw the undead fighting in the streets, they had no mood to pay attention to them.
After arriving at the Night Watch headquarters in Creek City and entering the towering courtyard walls, the two were very satisfied with the good sound insulation facilities here. Finally, they didn't have to listen to the noisy "KABAKABA" sounds and the "click, click" sounds that made their scalps tingle.
Of course, the Night Watch headquarters in Creek City was not very quiet at this time.
As soon as Weber and Lamantha entered the door, they could feel an extremely depressing, tense and heavy atmosphere.
Mace, the captain of the night watch of Dutata City, who only brought a few people with him, was now confronting more than 20 night watchmen of Creek City.
Well... or rather, it was Captain Metz who put pressure on them unilaterally...
"Good night, Mr. Weber, Ms. Lamantha." After a while, Captain Mace saw two court mages coming in. He stood up hastily, adjusted his facial muscles as much as possible, and greeted them with a friendly and stiff expression, "I'm sorry, we didn't notice you two coming..."
"It's okay, we're just here to take a look." Weber quickly raised his hand to stop Captain Mace from saluting, "What do you all seem to be struggling with?"
"Haha." Captain Mays smiled with a fake smile. For this man with a cheerful personality and who was very willing to trust others, this kind of expression of uncontrollable anger was very rare. Obviously, he was very angry, but he was obviously not the kind of person who would expose his internal scandals to outsiders. He replied politely, "There are indeed some troubles. You know, no one can tell how many shocking... secrets are hidden under the peaceful surface of this city."
Weber could understand the mood of the captain of the Night's Watch in Dutata City. Since the other party did not want outsiders to know about the disagreements and conflicts within the Night's Watch, he naturally would not satisfy his curiosity. He politely prepared to say goodbye: "This is really bad. I hope things can stabilize here as soon as possible. Since everyone is busy, then we will-"
"Of course, these are not difficult to solve." Captain Mace interrupted Weber's farewell words, glanced at the captain of the Creek City Night Watch who had a gloomy look, and said meaningfully, "When the day breaks, we will ask for help from our undead friends. I think our undead friends will also help Creek City solve its difficulties as enthusiastically as they helped the brother departments of Innadri City and Moses Port."
The captain of the night watch in Creek City raised his head, looked at Captain Mace with a complicated look, and then turned away silently.
The other night watchmen in Creek City had different expressions, but no one spoke out in objection.
Weber immediately realized that Captain Mace was using the testimony of two court wizards - himself and Lamantha - to confirm that the Night Watchmen of the Gold Coin Church would use the power of the Tarantan Undead to wipe out the remaining cult members in Creek City (including other towns in Tachia Territory).
Being used a little bit didn't make Weber feel disgusted. If he wasn't important enough, he wouldn't be qualified to be "used" like this... Besides, this was also what Weber was happy to see, so he stopped turning around and helped Mace a little: "That's really great. I heard that the Tarantan Undead are still very reliable in this regard... Although they occasionally cause some minor troubles to people."
Weber lightly brushed aside the fact that the Tarantan Undead continued to fight and disturb the people in the city after the siege as a "little trouble", and continued to help add fuel to the fire: "I believe the bishop of the diocese of Tachia would agree with this."
Captain Mace looked at Weber with surprise and gratitude. He was also angry for a moment, and knowing that these court mages were helping Yang to guard the prisoners, he dared to do something as rude as using other people's names to put pressure on him. But he didn't expect Weber to be willing to go along with it.
"Of course, Mr. Weber." Captain Mays smiled from the bottom of his heart and said in a firm tone.
He entered the city at dusk and has not seen the local bishop yet... Obviously, the bishop was deliberately avoiding him.
Within the Orthodox Church, the right to speak often rests with the cardinals, who are members of the council composed of senior priests under the Pope.
Apart from the Church of the Fiery Sun, which is dominated by the Inquisition, other orthodox religious sects, the Inquisition, the Night's Watch, the Guardians (Knights), and the bishops assigned to each diocese must all obey the orders of the parliamentary priests.
The local captain of the Night's Watch is theoretically at the same level as the diocesan bishop who is directly under the parliament... but usually, the Night's Watch still has to obey the diocesan bishop, and the two sides have a superior-subordinate relationship - Captain Mace is determined to deepen cooperation with the undead, but the diocesan bishop of Adler County is opposed to it, so this matter has never been accomplished.
The captain of the Night Watch forced the bishop of the diocese to accept "suggestions". This kind of thing was rarely heard of in the whole continent, but in this evil land of Tachia, Captain Mace was determined to make it happen.
