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The peaceful journey lasted for several days, but the crisis did not come as promised.

Nothing strange happened until the convoy reached the intersection of Middenstanger and Weismund.

Maybe the changes are beyond Lynch's sight, or maybe Tzeentch has set his sights tens of millions of years in the future.

Anyway, He did not take action against this humble world.

The large forests in the south are unexpectedly lively, with traces of human activities scattered throughout every forest.

You can often see excrement or the remnants of campfires on both sides of the road. Beastmen seem to have become a legend here, and only experienced businessmen often mention them in conversations.

The vehicles traveling on this avenue are dispersed, and people no longer huddle together for warmth. Probably because they feel more secure than in the north.

Lynch could understand their relaxation. To the east was the Hawk Territory, to the southeast, beyond Midensteiner, and across the Reik River that crossed the north and south of the empire, was Talabheim.

Every fork in the road was filled with people, as if only humans were left in the world. Occasionally, a few dwarves passed by, telling Lynch that humans were not the only owners of this land.

Following the direction Lynch was heading, across Weismond and through Kronborg, the capital of the Midden Territory, Altdorf was built on both sides of the Reik River.

The dark abyss on the northwest side did not disturb the peace here, because if the greenskins want to cross the dense forests and mountains to reach this road, they must pass through Middenheim.

Middenheim is like a giant standing on the top of the mountains, guarding the central mountains in the east and the dark abyss in the west.

It is indeed a dark age, with demons and magic lurking behind everything. The legend of the end of the "Butcher of Kings" spreads everywhere, and the greenskins and the ready-to-move Skaven are always provoking war.

But this is the center of the old world, an empire that has stood firm for two thousand three hundred years.

Engineers, mages, and the army ensured the tranquility of the hinterland. At least there were no large-scale Chaos war gangs setting up Chaos shrines in the countryside, and the villages they passed along the way were not war-torn.

After a brief decision at the fork in the road, Eugen's carriage drove away from Middenheim.

There is a forgotten history buried on the road, and the blood and tears of years ago are written on the inscriptions covered by vines and weeds.

According to the above records, a long time ago, when Middenheim was independent of Middenland, a famine and plague swept through the empire.

The corruption of the then emperor exacerbated the spread of disasters. At that time, there were often numerous bones lying on the roads, and even the bones were covered with tooth marks.

Selling wives and children was not uncommon at that time, but no living person could exchange for the same weight of bread. Hunger cursed the entire empire, and the plague that took away the lives of living people all the time was like Moore's natural punishment.

Struggles in the provinces nearly tore the empire apart, as armies fought against each other, further pushing famine and plague to a fever pitch.

I don’t know when it started. Maybe it was because of the wanton killing of hungry people, or maybe it was some mysterious force at work.

There are fewer wild animals in the forest, and even the most outstanding hunter cannot find a hare even though he has traveled hundreds of miles.

The completely desperate people prayed to the gods, but the only answer was silence. The crops were grown with stinking ichor, and the water was no longer clear. All the humans who couldn't help being hungry and thirsty and drank the water died on the spot.

The people driven mad began to fight each other for food, and this was only the prelude to a greater crisis.

Some fragments on the stele were violently defaced, making it impossible to see the creatures they might refer to.

Some kind of creatures whose records were wiped appeared in every corner of the ground after the plague. They gnawed on corpses that had not yet rotted, and ate the dying people who were fleeing on the road.

The army was unable to resist, because the richest nobles could barely maintain food and clothing, let alone the grassroots soldiers.

That kind of creature occupied half of the empire in just a few months. Most of the Midden realm fell. The remaining Midden people fled to Middenheim. According to the records on the stone tablet, everyone at the time believed that only Midden could Heim is still safe and untouched by the plague.

A large number of refugees ended up where Lynch is now because countless mysterious creatures attacked them.

The luckier guy arrived at Middenheim first, but Middenheim refused to accept refugees.

The Middenheimers raised the drawbridge, and no one could go up the cliff.

The angry Middenians launched a siege to Middenheim, and the stele states that the dwarves turned their backs on the Empire because they helped the Middenheimers put down the rebellion.

The specific circumstances remain to be investigated. Lynch believes that this stone monument was built by a survivor among the refugees after the disaster passed.

Based on the position when it was recorded, it can be inferred that if it was done by people from Middenheim, there is a high probability that it would be full of justification and praise for Middenheim's relevant actions, and such rumors that are not beneficial to Middenheim should not be recorded. .

Later records showed large areas of graffiti. Based on the intermittent words, Lynch barely guessed:

The plague and those mysterious creatures later struck while the iron was hot and wanted to take over the empire in one fell swoop.

The corrupt emperor was pulled off the throne by angry soldiers, and the riot took away the emperor's life.

There is also some contradictory information indicating that the emperor nicknamed "The Incompetent" did not die in the mutiny of the soldiers, but died of being eaten when mysterious creatures swarmed into his palace one deep night.

In Middenheim, an emperor named Graf von Zelt, nicknamed "The Massacre", ascended the throne.

He summoned the remaining effective forces of the empire, established a new health system, and revived the empire's momentum after defeating several attacks by mysterious creatures on Middenheim.

After consuming a large amount of the vitality of the mysterious creatures, the emperor took Middenheim as the starting point and spent nine years to gradually counterattack, gathering the forces that were still resisting, and finally expelled the mysterious creatures from the entire empire.

It was also from that time that the province of Duncanwald was no longer among the provinces of the empire because it gave birth to an emperor who almost led to the demise of the empire.

The specific truth was no longer known. Lynch briefly inquired about it for a few times and then left, continuing to rush towards Altdorf.

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Facts have proved that the moral outlook of most villages in the empire is not much better. The farther north you go, the braver the people are, and the farther south you go, the weaker the people are.

In economic development it is exactly the opposite.

This place is still within the scope of Midden Territory. After several days of traveling, Weismond is already in sight.

It was a little better than the coastal town that Lynch saw in Oster before. In a sense, the seemingly bustling town in front of him was actually not as good as the small town by the sea.