Open DNF in Pirate

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At dusk, I finally arrived in my hometown of Neupera.

There is a faint mist and a rotten smell in the wind. The noisy town in the past is so quiet that only the distant sound of the wind at the entrance can be heard.This place is no longer what I remember.

What are these... strange life forms that can be seen everywhere?

Judging from their clothes, many of them are dark elves—my fellow clansmen, even if they become ghouls, they don't want to leave their hometown, wandering here quietly.

Perhaps, among them is my family...

<2>

I'm here to find out the truth about the Neupera incident.

The Senate has always believed that this incident is a human conspiracy to exterminate our dark elves.

Alice, a fortuneteller from the Demon Realm, also told me that this matter is related to human beings.

But there are too many doubts about this matter, and the matter is of great importance. I have to come here myself. Even... I have to face the fact that my relatives have turned into monsters, and I have to find out the answer.

We dark elves are now divided into two major forces.

On one side is the reformist faction headed by Queen Maya who rules the dark elves. Under their advocacy, the dark elves gradually began to communicate with other races and make innovations.

The other side is the conservative faction headed by the Senate. For thousands of years, they have controlled the fate of the dark elves and held absolute power.But since Queen Maya came to the throne, their status has not been as consolidated as before, and I think they should be very clear about this.

Therefore, the plague incident in Neupera made Shaprun and other elders so angry. This is an excellent time for them to maintain power.

Because most of the dark elves don't have a good impression of humans, as long as they can achieve (even a little) achievements in the war with humans, there is no doubt that the power in the hands of the elders will become more stable.

Regardless of the cause of this matter, it is foreseeable that if I cannot find clues to reveal the truth here, a meaningless tragedy may happen... It will be a disaster for the dark elves, and I must do my best to stop it Such things happen.

Of course, if this matter is really a conspiracy planned by human beings as the fortune teller Alice said... I will fight desperately—until human beings disappear.

However, let me sort out the whole incident before investigating, maybe I can find some details that I didn't notice before.

The first question is, if humans are really involved in this matter, what motives do they have for doing so?

In fact, the relationship between dark elves and humans has been pretty good in recent years.The queen not only sent magic envoys to the human settlements to teach magic, but also opened up trade between the two sides.Our spaceship "Magato" often shuttles between the two countries, and there are more and more exchanges between races. It can be said that the innovation of the queen's faction has progressed very smoothly.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the conservative Senate hopes to use this incident to hold humans accountable.

Furthermore, from another angle, from the perspective of human beings...

In fact, human beings are an ignorant race.

From human history, it is not difficult to find that their favorite thing is to plunder land.In order to win the other party's territory, they even did the stupid act of massacring their own race. It would not be surprising if they attacked the dark elves because of this.

But we dark elves live in the dark underground city, and humans live on the sunny ground. What reason do we have to seize land that is far inferior to us or even unnecessary?

What's more, there is no fundamental conflict between the dark elves and humans. In terms of threats, the Bantu tribe who recently invaded the border is more dangerous...

If you reason like this...

Could it be that Alice, who is a fortune teller, is lying?

But, what good would it do her? ...

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It had been days since I arrived in Neupera, but I still hadn't had the guts to go anywhere near the center of town.

Looking at these people who lost their sanity and looked like walking corpses, I felt an uncontrollable sadness and anger—this damned mastermind behind the scenes!

No... You can't act recklessly, death here will be meaningless, I must reveal the truth of the matter, this is my mission - the mission that the lives of thousands of people of the same race have imposed on me.

I can't delay any longer, I still have to sneak into the city tomorrow to have a look.

Sigh... I should have learned invisibility before I knew it.

<4>

Today I successfully sneaked into the city.

Fortunately, my three-legged cat invisibility technique came in handy at a critical moment.

But the strange thing is, it seems that there are not only ghouls and ghosts wandering here?

That is……

It turned out to be...human! !

Do humans really have anything to do with this? !

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All day today, I've been stealthily following people up and down the city, trying to figure out what they're doing here.

Judging from the information collected so far, these people seem to belong to a certain organization, similar to a certain religion.

You must know that religion is an indispensable spiritual support for cowardly human beings, so they have always had a lot of religious organizations.

Listening to their discussion, this organization should be called the "Violent Hunting Group", and they are here to wait for a certain guy named Di Ruiji.

"This is the holy place where Lord Di Ruiji bestows favors. He not only bestows power on us, but also judges them for us. Please prepare to meet the absolute god, Lord Di Ruiji!"

I seem to have heard them say something like that. Who is "they" referring to?Di Ruiji? ... I seem to have heard of it somewhere. What kind of relationship does he have with the Neupera incident?

<6>

Today I was attacked by my kindred.

It's all because I didn't learn the invisibility technique well... I should have thought that even if I become a ghoul, as long as I still have a trace of dark elf blood, they will still be aware of my existence.

Will I be infected?

I'm really not reconciled... I can't just die so easily... I haven't found the culprit of the whole incident yet...

<7>

Today I continue to use invisibility to track those humans.

The violent search and arrest group is an extremely strict organization, and it is very difficult to obtain some useful information.

But my intuition tells me that what they are planning here is by no means a trivial matter.

I followed a seemingly high-ranking human in this organization to a heavily guarded place.

I didn't expect to be here, but I found that

——Dimensional rift? !

If you are a dark elf, I think you should know what the interdimensional rift means.

Anyway, let's attach some information about "Dimensional Rift" here.

"Alternative Dimensional Space" is a kind of parallel world that coexists with the present world, and "Dimensional Crack" refers to the passage connecting Arad and "Dimensional Space".

Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the dark elves discovered it by accident, and learned that they can travel in different time and space by using the cracks in different dimensions.

Although hundreds of years of research have been carried out, we still cannot fully grasp the function of the interdimensional rift, and we still cannot solve the strange side effects caused by the experiment.

This information can be said to be the top secret among the dark elves, and I only know it because of my special status as a court alchemist.

But why do human beings know about the cracks in different dimensions? Have they also started to study it? ...

Could this plague be related to the rift in another dimension? ...

<8>

While investigating my kindred who died of the plague, I found some strange connections.

For example, the plague that our dark elves have always called "purple mushroom disease" is exactly the same as the "curse of blood" that ravaged the human world hundreds of years ago!

The "curse of blood" recorded in ancient documents refers to the large-scale mutation of human beings into monsters called "pretenders" who live by sucking the blood of their own race.

Because human beings who have become "pretenders" are no different from ordinary people during the day, they only drink blood at night.As a result, the unknowable fear crushed the fragile human beings, causing the meager trust among the human race to completely collapse, and began to kill each other irrationally—this is the most terrifying part of the blood curse.

The constitution of our dark elves is different from that of humans. Once we get this plague, things like purple mushrooms will grow on our bodies, so we call it "purple mushroom disease".This symptom is easy to recognize, and it is precisely because of this that we have avoided the tragedy caused by the spread of the plague.

However, what makes me strange is that it is said that the pretender has disappeared for decades, and now the purple mushroom disease has reappeared. Could it be that the curse of blood descended on the continent of Arad again?Why is the blood curse reappearing?Is this just a coincidence or is this all manipulated by someone?

It seems that the interdimensional rift is the crux of everything.

It is said that the clerics who once curbed the curse of blood are currently conducting secret training somewhere in order to completely eradicate this evil curse.

If we can meet them, will we be able to solve the mystery?

<9>

My body started to grow purple mushrooms.

At the same time as the stench, there is a strange fragrance. From my experience, this smell is more toxic.

Alas, I'm still infected after all...

<10>

I don't know if it's because of the backlight,

My thinking has become clearer recently.

I finally remembered where I heard about Di Ruiji mentioned by those humans—it was from the fortune teller Alice.I remember her saying that Di Regis was one of the nine apostles and seemed to be the embodiment of the plague.

So... everything seems to have a preliminary answer.

According to our previous research, the interdimensional rift cannot be activated automatically, and someone must be manipulating it.

In other words, someone used the rift in another dimension to transfer the apostle who was far away in the demon world to the continent where we live.

Did Di Rij already arrive at Neupera?

should not.

Because I remember Alice said that as long as Di Ruiji passed by, the surroundings would become a human purgatory full of plagues, and no grass would grow.

Judging from the current situation, some animals and plants did not show any obvious reactions, and the humans of those violent search and arrest groups are also alive and well.

Therefore, Di Ruiji should not have come to Neupera, at least for now.

Of course, there is another possibility—that is, Di Ruiji had been here before through a rift in another dimension, but was later transferred to another place.

If so, who exactly transferred that evil apostle to this humble dark elf town?And why would they do it?

We dark elves have been living an isolated life underground, although we do have some unique abilities like invisibility.But if other races think that these abilities pose a threat to themselves and want to eliminate the dark elves, they should transfer Di Ruiji to a big city like Dark City instead of a small village like Neupera.

Because if that's the case, I'm afraid we dark elves will perish long ago.

So, go ahead and assume.

Someone wanted to use the interdimensional rift to transfer Di Ruiji to a certain place, but in the process of transferring, he accidentally opened the interdimensional rift leading to Neupera.You must know that using a different-dimensional rift will distort time and space, and sometimes another rift will be opened because of this, which also happened in the previous experiment of the dark elves.

In short, because of this, part of Di Ruiji's aura just flowed to Neupera along the crack, so there was this tragedy.

It seems very reasonable to think so.

Maybe it was because I was talking too much, suddenly a word flashed through my mind.

Mutation!

It is said that because of the phenomenon of "mutation", the human world is currently in a state of extreme chaos.

I remember that the life form that was mutated at the beginning was also one of the apostles mentioned by Alice... It seems to be called Sherlock.

Could it be... Are these series of things related? ...

Curse of blood, purple mushroom disease, Neupera incident, and "mutation"...

Is all this part of a huge conspiracy manipulated by "someone"?

If it is true, this conspiracy may have been secretly planned for hundreds of years!

This is really a big game of chess!

Thinking of this, I can't help but shudder.

Thinking of the words left by the ancestors who studied the cracks in different dimensions a hundred years ago, it is a dangerous secret that even the gods want to hide, and it must not be used at will.

But now some people are using this energy recklessly, and the punishment they deserve is being borne by my relatives, the innocent dark elves like Neupera.

It's really hateful!

Thinking of this, I think of those humans who are called "violent hunting parties".

Did they organize and plan this conspiracy?

My gut tells me it shouldn't be.

Because after several days of observation, I found that although they know the basic functions of the interdimensional rift, they don't know how to use it.

It is said that human beings also discovered the interdimensional rift not long ago, and also conducted small-scale research.

But think about how many sacrifices our dark elves ancestors made to explore the secrets of the cracks in different dimensions...

Human beings are naturally timid and fearful. Even if we want to achieve the level we have mastered, it may take several times the time.

The use of interdimensional cracks to move in space requires energy that ordinary people can't imagine. Among all known materials, only Terra Stone from the Demon Realm can withstand such a huge energy impact.

How could mere human beings have such energy? Even if they wanted to collect Terra Stones, so many would be unrealistic.