Kuzhen Village, rather than calling it a village, was more like a collection of mud houses.
The village was surrounded by walls, but the thickest part was no more than two bricks and made of simple mud bricks. It was a joke that the walls were less than one and a half meters tall.
The tallest buildings in the village were probably the two arrow towers near the walls, which were no more than three meters tall.
Standing outside the walls, Rorschach could clearly see that the original residents were all lying on the ground.
The height of buildings was usually determined by the size of the residents, and the average height of the residents in this village was less than a meter.
The Dwarves were a short subhuman species. They got their name from their light green wavy heads … … These weak little fellows looked like a group of moving mushrooms when they ran.
Rorschach had read some information on the way here.
Ansorenne couldn't possibly have every race that was powerful. The dwarves weren't a race that excelled at fighting, and were instead adept at growing mushrooms and farming. That was why they had long been enslaved and oppressed by other races, becoming slaves and granaries.
The three hundred dwarves in Kuzhen Village were spoils of war obtained by the God of Games' Descenders in one of their expeditions.
At first, Lori had intended to set them free, but the demi-humans who were used to relying on champions had no chance of surviving on their own. Therefore, out of consideration for the fact that they belonged to the Nature class, Lori drew a plot of land on the outskirts of the divine domain and built this village for them.
That was also why Su Nanna and the others believed that this was a quest to collect corpses.
The dwarves themselves had no combat ability to speak of, and with the death of the Seventh Descender who acted as their protector and manager, the village would definitely have fallen.
By the time reinforcements arrived, the invaders would have completed their objective and returned to the fog.
If attacking the dwarves' settlement wasn't a challenge to the God of Games, then it could only be for one reason — food.
If it was for food, the invaders probably wouldn't have spared their lives.
"… How tragic. Everyone's dead …"
There were short, headless corpses everywhere. It wasn't that the invaders had some special fetish — Rorschach had expected that from the start.
According to the records, the mushroom-like heads of the dwarves were really a type of edible mushroom, and it was extremely nutritious and delicious.
If the invaders had attacked the village for food, they would have been ruthless enough to leave behind headless corpses.
Standing in the middle of this empty short wall, Roxia had a deeper feeling that this world was real, and that death could descend upon him at any moment.
And in the ruins, Rorschach found the corpse of Descender Number Seven.
It was a red-haired young man who looked only a few years older than her. He deliberately kept a stubble at the corner of his mouth. His face was neat and handsome, and he should have been very popular with the opposite sex. However, at this moment, he was lying in a pool of blood, and his once bright eyes had been extinguished.
Most of the equipment on his body had been stripped away, leaving only the seemingly simple flintlock gun in its original place. However, there were also traces of it being smashed by stones.
"Dert F. Su, a botanist, an engineer, and our logistics manager. It seems that the next descender quota will be given to the logistics department. Our reclamation plan will be delayed once again. "
Probably because she had seen too much death, Su Nanna's voice was indifferent and cold.
Rorschach picked up the flintlock gun and inspected it. There didn't seem to be any problems.
The moment he touched it, the G god emblem faintly seeped out a silver light.
"Protector of Peace, the divine weapon that our Lord bestowed upon Dert. Only our Lord's believers can use it. It seems that the bandits still have some common sense and know that if they steal the divine weapon, they will be locked onto by our Lord, which is equivalent to suicide. "
From the traces at the scene, Su Nanna had already determined that it was a bandit attack.
"Dert's chest, knee, and lower limbs were hit by four arrows before he died. The fatal injury was from the stab in the back. From the traces at the scene, the two sides fought for at least five minutes. There were thieves and archers in the group of three to five, but they shouldn't be higher than grade 3."
"To need so much time to deal with a logistics manager like Dert, their fighting strength is very ordinary. From the traces outside the village, there was only an old-fashioned infantry magic armor. The possibility of them being bandits isn't high. The possibility of them being deserters is higher. Rorschach, your mission is complete. Prepare to return. "
[Battlefield investigation mission completed. No battle occurred. Descender No. 19 Rorschach received 100 basic God Tribute.]
Rorschach fell silent. He silently dragged the corpse and prepared to bury it in the ground for peace.
"… Key?"
Rorschach discovered a red key under the corpse.
"… Open the bedding on the bed."
Rorschach followed the instructions and opened the bedding. To his surprise, he discovered a keyhole under the bed.
He inserted the key and twisted it. It was correct.
Ka-cha. The hidden box under the bed opened.
"Ugh."
"Don't kill, don't kill Nini."
A commotion could be heard from the box below.
"So this is what the dwarves look like."
This was the first time Rorschach had seen a Dwarf's appearance. He had a strange head and hair, furry ears, a black nose like a puppy's, and large watery eyes. His pupils were triangular crystals.
The demi-humans' cute appearance would be sought after by millions of people on Earth. But here, they were food for bandits.
And these little fellows were shorter than the corpses outside. It seemed that they were still young.
They curled up and shivered under Rorschach's gaze. But when they saw Dert's corpse, they immediately hugged each other and cried.
"Don't be afraid. I'm a Descender from the Church of Games, just like him. Can you understand me? "
They didn't stop crying, but judging from how they stopped trembling and tried their best to squeeze out a teary smile at Roxia, they were able to understand what I was saying.
One of them suddenly ran out, and then … cried even louder. It seemed that he had seen the situation of his tribesmen.
That was when Rorschach's faith panel refreshed.
A quest to pursue the bandits who attacked Cool Purity Village refreshed, and Rorschach noticed that someone had accepted it. It was Natasha Su.
"It's my job to avenge my comrades. Rorschach, you should return to the divine realm. Leave the rest to us.
Rorschach smiled and tapped on the quest panel in the void. One more person had accepted the quest.
"You would have come a long time ago if you could. Who knows how long it would take you to find them. Since they aren't that strong, I can do something. They shouldn't have gone far, so I should be able to track them down. "
"… You're such a reckless person. It doesn't matter if you were born this way or if your innate talent made you this way. You'll get yourself killed if you don't know your own limits."
Su Nanna's expression was complicated. She was a little annoyed, but also a little happy.
"That's not necessarily true. Reckless behavior is reckless for the weak, but it's a chance for the strong to challenge themselves. Rorschach, you just have to become strong if you don't want to die early. "
Grandmaster, who had been silent all this while, finally spoke.
"Don't encourage him. Are you sure he won't chase us down and just fight us? Reckless behavior? That damned innate talent is basically suicidal. "
Meanwhile, the annoyed Su Nanna had seen through everything.
Even so, Grandmaster kept smiling.
"He would definitely be suicidal if he's alone, but that might not be the case with the two of us guiding him."
Grandmaster never lied, and now that he was so certain, Su Nanna seriously considered the possibility. Finally, she gritted her teeth and made up her mind.
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