Chapter 52: Underground Sewers (1/2)

Lancaster City was originally one of the four most well-developed cities in Tierra, and was the only city under Tierra’s rule that didn’t fall after Tierra did, managing to continue thriving purely on commerce and trade.

Thanks to the vast variety of trade markets and commodities, Lancaster had the most well developed and large underground sewage system in the Valla Empire.

Along with the large scale migration of merchants and citizens into the city, the lord of the city also received great profits from commercial tax, allowing five expansions to be done on the city in its 200-year history, along with its sewage system.

The earliest copies of the sewage blueprints were long gone, and along with the five expansions, the entire underground sewage system of Lancaster became a sprawling maze spanning the entire city.

And so, the underground sewers became the shelter of some creatures that couldn’t see the light of day.

In the pitch-black underground sewer, a pale blue oval-shaped screen of light suddenly appeared, lighting up the darkness and scaring away the Hogwash Rats and the Rotten Cockroaches.

“So this is the event location… This mysterious and eerie atmosphere is great!”

“This looks like the underground cities mentioned in knight novels! I’m pumped up!”

“Is something smelly or is it just me? There seems to be a sour smell…”

“That’s because the person next to you threw up from dizziness…”

“Whatcha looking at? Never seen a mage’s Acid Arrow?! Blergh—!”

“…”

Seeing the noisy players gather up around her, Leah who had been confident about this quest started feeling like reclaiming the lost hideout from the Rotten Bones Church wasn’t such an easy task.

The reason was simple: The players hadn’t even realized that this was only an underground sewer.

“Everyone, I’m sure you have understood the details of this quest…” Leah cleared her throat and cut the conversation between the players short, wanting to continue on to fill them in on some more things.

The players only quieted down for a moment before starting to become noisy again.

“F*ck, I never read the flavor text when I do quests!”

“It’s alright let me fill you in, basically you just have to find enemies and bash their brains out…”

“Understood, easy peasy!”

“Blergh—!”

“You’re not done puking yet?!”

Feeling a headache coming on, Leah immediately opened her event skill page and activated a skill called Speaking Egg to trigger story mode and restrict the players from moving and speaking.

“These are the underground sewers of Lancaster, and our goal is to siege the Rotten Bones Church hidden in the depths of this sewer. Please find their hideout and destroy them without leaving the sewer!”

Even though the place that the Rotten Bones Church took over was Leah’s original hideout, but since the old and new sewers crossed together if a person were to enter from an entrance from they were not familiar with they would quickly get lost in the sewers, losing their sense of direction. This was why the lord of Lancaster did not do anything despite knowing that there were terrible creatures hiding in the sewers.

After all, including the abandoned parts from almost a hundred years ago, the underground sewers were even wider spread farther than the buildings from above. No matter which church decided to go in there, there would always be large amounts of casualties, so after some time no church wanted to let their believers go in.