Weed was confused. He wanted to kill the necromancers and finish this long chain of quests a lot. As on his return he would receive even greater reward than before.
The greed flared in his eyes. Besides each of the necromancers was holding a bone staff and beads.
‘Those are at least Rare items... If sold the price will start at $1000... And if they have additional effects... The price will go up a lot... And there’s not just one or two of them here...’
Weed swallowed. He tightened his grip on the sword and took a step towards necromancer Barabol. One strike and it will be over, but the feeling of something lacking wasn’t leaving.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
There was a sound of Orcs’ footsteps above them. There wasn’t much time left. Weed sheathed the sword.
“Speak, necromancer. What button was you talking about? And what you meant by divine providence?”
Regular players would hurry to finish the quest of Order of Freya, but suspicion, that something was going wrong, lodged itself too deep inside Weed.
“Weed!”
“Destroy them, that is the will of Goddess Freya!” - exclaimed priests of Freya. But they trusted their leader a lot, so they quickly calmed down
Barabol lifted his head and asked:
“You’re not going to kill me, servant of Freya?”
“I’m not a servant. Answer the questions. Or should I just kill you all?”
“We... You won’t believe us anyway. Go on, Freya’s servant, strike! Even from the flames of hell I will curse you!”
“...”
The desire to cut the head of this cocky necromancer was rising again, but Weed restrained himself and said in calm voice:
“I’m giving you a chance. A chance to win my trust. If you tell the truth, I will try to believe it.”
“Really? You swear?”
“Yes. However this is just the promise to listen to you, not to let you live.”
Barabol looked at his kneeled companions, and started to tell his story.
“Since I got a chance, I’ll tell you. But you promised to believe it! The world has a wrong impression about Barr Khan Demoff. He did study necromancy and was known as a great mage, but...”
Barr Khan was a diligent young mage. A genius, recognized across the continent. And once he started to research the eternal life. He was trying to understand why people die and find a cure for terminally ill patients.
However his disciple, Shire, hated the entire world. He used his teacher’s trust and with lies and dark spells he led Barr Khan into the darkness. Thus from the desire to cure all diseases and prolong lives an army of undead was born! In his madness, Barr Khan led his new army across the world, destroying entire cities. And Shire was supporting him, making deals with all the dark powers of the continent.
Many had to join him in his madness, my teacher, who died in one of the battles, was no exception. However, when Barr Khan was finally defeated and his armies dispersed across the continent, we got a chance to think over our actions.
In one of the temples of Beelzebub we found a manuscript and discovered truth about those events. And now we want to return everything to how it was supposed to be. To free Barr khan from the dark bindings and punish Shire.
Ding!
You completed the quest ‘The Rise of Dark Forces in the Plains of Despair’.
Necromancers, that you considered to be the worst of evils proved to be innocent. They do not try to take revenge on the world, but correct their past mistakes.
Reward: Receive from the High priest of Order of Freya.