Assassin's Creed: Conquest

Memory Sequence 05

Ayoddha, 1529:

Khifur Miia drops by to tell Hari that the leader of the secret organization might be Amir Khusrau, who is in Ayoddha for collecting jizya tax. Hari tracks Khusrau down and witnesses the brutality meted out to the Hindus. He does his best to minimize casualties, by incapacitating rogue soldiers. In due time he realizes that Khusrau is going door to door, not collecting the tax, but looking for someone called Sasaram Pathak. He discovers Pathak's house and intercepts a messenger pigeon sent out by them, leading him to Sasaram, who is hiding by the Ram Janmabhoomi temple. Hari realizes that Sasaram has gone paranoid and will kill anyone who tries to get through. Before he can think of something however, Khusrau sets fire to the whole slum adjacent to the temple. Hari abducts and pushes Pathak out of his room(who was bent on dying). Once out however, Pathak scrambles like a chicken and it falls to Hari to eliminate Khusrau's men trying to catch him. It is then that Pathak decides to trust him. Turns out, Pathak is a learned Scholar of Vedic texts, whom Khusrau needs to activate some obscure device. The next morning, Khusrau finds one of his soldiers dragging Pathak in. Pathak refuses to help Khusrau and asks how he even got the device in the first place. It becomes apparent that the device was the one unearthed from Ashoka's own investigations from Bhangarh fort by Jamal Khan. Pathak is forced to solve the puzzles that open the device. It starts giving off the same green light. Pathak is thrown into the prison. By the next morning, all of Khusrau's soldiers are vomiting blood and some claim that its apocalypse come for them. Hari, so long disguised as one of Khusrau's men finally realizes what the device actually is. He braves the spell of illness to take Pathak and escape. But Khusrau sends more men to kill Pathak in case he had survived the illness. And so ensues a mad chase through Ayoddha, off and on buildings, through stables and temple roofs, in and out of tree branches and not without the slight disturbance to the monkeys dwelling in there. At the end of it, Hari retrieves the goblet and drives a bullock cart right into the Ram Janmabhoomi temple. Khusrau marvels at the madness before leaving the city. Hari leads Khusrau's men into the deep well in the heart of the temple's sanctum and dumps the cart along with the goblet into it. A surge of green light breaks the skyline as Hari barely escapes, blood and vomit frothing at his mouth.