Chapter 176: Messenger
On this day, Heath was busy in the laboratory.
“Why is the acidity of Mugwort leaves so high?”
“Try adding a bit of Starlight Grass…”
“Strange, is there a problem with Bagdad’s rune arrangement and replaced it with Kassa’s rune arrangement?”
In front of the long wooden table, Heath was busy among the bottles and jars, shaking the test tube from time to time, and sometimes putting some strange materials into the beaker.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! At that moment, a hiss suddenly came from outside the window.
At the same time, an elemental fluctuation came from outside. The fluctuation was so weak that it could not even reach the energy needed to trigger the alarm switch.
What was that?
Heath put down the test tube in his hand and looked out of the window.
Then, he saw a big python appear outside the window, crawling up the mottled outer wall.
When it came to the windowsill, the snake coiled its tail and raised its head. While spitting out its tongue, it spoke in human language, “May I ask if Heath Noen lives here?”
Heath said, “That’s me.”
The snake looked very happy. “Aiya, I’ve finally found you. It wasn’t easy on the way here!”
Heath raised his eyebrows. “And you are?”
The snake introduced itself simply. “My name is Kara, and I’m a messenger. Here is a letter for you.”
After saying that, its big mouth opened up from top to bottom, and then its stomach bulged up and quickly rolled out toward its throat. Soon, an egg was spat on the wooden table.
With a click, the eggshell was opened. There was no egg yolk inside, but a letter.
The snake swung its tail and pushed the letter in front of Heath. “This is your letter, Sir Heath Noen.”
Heath took the letter and asked casually, “Who sent it to me?”
The snake said, “Shadow Tower.”
Heath was stunned. He looked down and indeed saw the emblem of Shadow Tower in the lower right corner of the letter.
He opened the letter and read it.
Soon, he finished reading the letter. Heath could not help but frown.
This was a recruitment order from Shadow Tower.
The content of the letter was roughly the same as the two Wizards from the Tower of Order yesterday. It was also to recruit him to a place called the ‘Bloody Battlefield’.
Putting down the letter, Heath asked, “What is this Bloody Battlefield?”
The snake shook its head. “I’m just a messenger. You can’t expect a messenger to know what’s written on the letter, but I can suggest you ask the Wizard who sent the letter to you.”
‘You don’t need to say that…’
Heath nodded and took out two Magic Stones. “Thank you.”
The snake’s eyes lit up when it saw the Magic Stones. It opened its mouth and swallowed the two Magic Stones.
“Thank you, you are the most generous Wizard I have ever met.”
It thanked the other party sincerely, then it twisted the snake’s body and quickly retreated along the path it came from.
Returning to his chair, Heath fell into deep thought as he looked at the letter in his hand.
‘This Bloody Battlefield…’
‘What exactly is it?’
…
In the afternoon, Paul came to report to Heath about the plague that had happened at Cavalim. Heath had unintentionally raised the issue of the Bloody Battlefield with him, but he did not expect to find the answer here.
“The Bloody Battlefield?” Paul’s expression obviously changed.
Heath raised his eyebrows. “You know about it?”
Paul nodded. “I heard my mentor mention it before. It seems that because of something, the Wizards of the West Coast will have a war with the Forest Tribe every once in a while, and the location of the war is the Bloody Battlefield.”
Heath was a little surprised. “The Forest Tribe?”
The Forest Tribe and the Sea Tribe were the same. They were also one of the nine great races. They were also the races that the Wizards had a lot of contact with. For example, the raven and the snake that brought the message before were all intelligent species of the Forest Tribe.
However, according to what Heath knew, the relationship between the Forest Tribe and the Wizards should be quite good… This war was…
Paul said with some difficulty, “I’m not too sure about the specifics… it seems like there’s some agreement between the two races, or something…”
Heath did not continue asking. “Okay, I got it.”
Among the Wizards, he was considered to be knowledgeable. Even he did not know about this, so it was even more impossible for Paul to know.
Paul continued to ask, “Then what did you decide, Heath? Are you going?”
Heath hesitated for a moment.
If he were to go, he definitely wouldn’t want to go. This battlefield was obviously not something fun.
But this was not a matter of whether he wanted to go or not…
Heath looked at the letter in his hand.
In the lower right corner of the letter, there was a strange pattern. It was like the pattern of the roots of a tree entangled together. Behind the roots, there was a pair of overlapping magic wands.
The emblem of the ruler…
There was no new ruler in the Underdark Treesea. From a legal point of view, Shadow Tower still had the status of a ruler, so it was understandable for them to exercise their authority.
The ruler had issued a recruitment order. All Wizards in the Underdark Treesea, regardless of whether they were organized or not, as long as they lived in this land, they had to accept the recruitment unconditionally.
Those who did not accept it were treated as Dark Wizards.
Paul said, “Shadow Tower is already in such a state. Why bother with them? If you want me to say it, don’t bother. Just burn the letter and finish it.”
Heath shook his head. “It’s not that simple.”
Previously, he had always thought that Shadow Tower would not be able to do it. However, after the incident at the Tower of Order yesterday, Heath felt that it might not be as he had thought.
It was not up to the Wizards in the Underdark Treesea to decide who was the ruler of the Underdark Treesea. It was up to the Tower of Order to decide.
As for the relationship between Shadow Tower, the Tower of Order, and the war, Heath did not know. Anyway, from the beginning of the war, he had felt that there was something strange about it, it was definitely not as simple as pushing it to Shadow Tower…
In short…
Shadow Tower was still the legitimate ruler. If Heath still wanted to survive here, he had to accept their recruitment order.
Heath said, “I’ll go and take a look first.”
Paul said, “Then… be careful. I heard from my teacher that this Bloody Battlefield seems to be very dangerous…”
Heath nodded. “I understand.”
Pausing for a moment, Heath continued, “In addition, leave the plague over at Cavalim to me. I’ll go and see what the situation is like.”
The plague happened to be near the Land of Darkness.
Paul said, “Yes.”
…
Heath did not have the habit of delaying. The next day after he made his decision, he simply packed his luggage and set off for Cavalim.
This was a town in the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Navi. It was located at the edge of the Underdark Treesea and was two days away from the Land of Darkness. In the past, there were even Wizards from Shadow Tower who came here to buy supplies.
Two days later, Cavalim, the Kingdom of Navi.
Dong! Dong! The solemn bell of the auditorium rang and the carriage of the Holy Church slowly drove into the city gate.
Sitting in the carriage, Heath lifted the curtains of the carriage and looked out.
His brows were tightly knitted together.
On both ends of the road, there were many figures lying in disorder. The clergy of the Holy Church shuttled back and forth, diagnosing and treating the patients. Whenever someone died, there would be a Knight who would put up the corpses and carry them away at a unit price.
Although he had heard Paul and the others describe the scene here before coming here, this kind of miserable state still underestimated Heath’s expectations.
In the past ten years, after Paul and the others’ careful management, the few towns in Heath’s territory had been doing quite well. It had been a long time since he had seen such a scene.
He turned his head to look at the bishop who was accompanying him. “When did this plague start? Tell me in detail.”
Bishop Beagle was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was the brother of Lord Cavalim. Heath had come here to become a bishop after he had introduced this set of order.
There were many people in the Holy Church. Heath could not bring out so many Wizards. Most of the clergy only used mortals to take up the post. Moreover, it was better to leave the mortal’s territory to the mortals to manage.
Beagle said, “Yes, Sir, the thing is…”
Then, Beagle told Heath in detail about the whole story of the plague…