Chapter 647 Split
The entire drow city fell into complete chaos, and what was once a secret war turned into an almost blatant fight with each other.
The reason is also very simple, that is...the rules have changed.
Feierui stood on the high platform, looking at the city shrouded in flames below, his eyes sparkling. After killing all the matrons of the Council, Fairy immediately announced that she would inform all the drow of the hidden facts and let them understand the truth - she believed in the Spider Goddess. , and what ruled this city before was just a heretical evil god disguised as the Spider Goddess!
At the beginning, when faced with Fairy's announcement, almost all the drow families thought she was crazy, and the matrons and priests of those families also received the angry decree of the Spider Queen - to completely eliminate this blasphemer. !
However, they all failed.
Neither the Wax Melt Demon nor the great divine power bestowed upon her by the Spider Goddess were any match for that weird construct. Feirry manipulated that construct and eliminated one family after another that dared to attack her. So gradually, some people in the drow family began to doubt... Could it be that what Feierri said was true?
After all, if you calm down and think carefully, you will know that no priest of the Spider Queen would say such a disrespectful and blasphemous statement. You know what Feieri said, even the Spider Queen's maid, the wax demon, betrayed their master. , this is really too absurd, but just because it is too absurd, could it be... that it is really true?
As a result, some small families began to quietly change their direction. They contacted Feierui privately and wanted to know how Feierui learned all this. Then, Fairy led them to feel the power and joy from the real Spider God Queen. After that, many small families also gained new powers, so they decisively changed camps and joined Fairy's ranks one after another. .
At present, the drow elves in this city are divided into two factions. One faction is led by the Tenth Family, still loyal to the original Spider God Queen, and includes several middle-level families. The other faction is led by Fairy and consists of most small families, loyal to what Fairy calls "the real Spider God Queen".
And now, according to Feierui's imagination, the story has become like this.
After the drow were betrayed by their evil, despicable, and shameless fellow elves and driven into the dark hell, it was the great Spider Queen who accepted these drow and gave them the strength and space to survive underground. But the power of the great Spider Queen weakened, and then she suffered a shameful betrayal.
A traitor who desired the Queen's power attacked the Spider Queen and shamelessly imprisoned her in the Abyss. She absorbed the power of the true Spider Queen and used it to manipulate these ignorant drow, deceiving them and seducing them into serving her.
However, the real Spider Queen never gave up resistance, and Fairray was the successor chosen by the real Spider Queen!
As for that costume being immune to the power of the Spider God Queen, it is because it is a sacred object created by the real Spider God Queen. Naturally, the betrayer's hypocritical power cannot be compared with the real Spider God Queen!
Well, that makes sense and there's nothing wrong with it.
Of course, if you just said that, it was hard to say whether other drow would believe it, but soon, they got real evidence.
Divine magic.
Yes, on the continent of Faerûn, those who believe in the gods will gain magical powers, and those who abandon the gods will lose their magical powers. This is also the reason why women have a high status in the drow world, because only women can become priests of the Spider Queen and perform magical powers. The power of magic.
Regardless of whether what Fairy said is true or false, one thing is clear, that is, believing in the counterfeit can obtain divine magic. But can believing in the "real spider goddess" that Fairy said can obtain divine magic?
Hey, it’s really ok!
As an "old god", Duanmu Huai also has magical powers!
In fact, the gods in the world of Cthulhu also possess magical powers, which is why the cultists dare to make big news. For example, transforming into a bat, restraining the enemy's movements, creating zombies, deforming the body, etc. In other words, as long as those priests are willing to change their faith, they can obtain the gifts of the old gods and obtain new divine spells.
To a certain extent, this kind of magic is much more vicious than the Spider Goddess' magic.
There are two points.
First, as long as this magical spell is used, no matter whether it is the caster, the target, or even the witness, the SAN value will be lost.
However, there is no concept of SAN value in Faerûn at all...
Second, once the SAN value drops to a certain level, the opponent's sanity will inevitably begin to collapse and succumb to the mental pollution of the old god.
After realizing this, Duanmu Huai was going crazy with joy.
The current battle between the two sides is basically like this.
The two groups of believers will meet and start fighting, and then the believers on Fairy's side will release a large number of spells that reduce the SAN value. Regardless of whether these spells are effective or not, they will reduce the SAN value of both the enemy and ourselves.
Then when the SAN value drops to a certain level, the priests, priests and warriors on the opposite side will completely collapse, succumb to the mental pollution of the old gods, recognize the so-called "real spider goddess", and become Feierui's subordinates.
After all, the reduction of SAN value is almost irreversible, and Faerûn has no concept of SAN value at all, and has no idea how to prevent this terrifying power from the spirit.
Of course, with the decrease in SAN value and the mental pollution of the old gods, even the fanatical believers on Fairy's side will gradually change their appearance. Their forms will mutate, twist, and turn into indescribable and terrifying creatures. The family members of the old days. Their bodies will gradually elongate into a snake-like shape, a pair of bat-like wings will grow on their bodies, and their heads will transform into a spider-like shape.
Well, a pure race of superior servants of the old gods.
If this were placed in a normal society, everyone would probably be able to guess that there is a ghost.
But the problem is that Drow is not a normal society.
Everyone has long been accustomed to turning drow elves into spider elves, and Feierri even claimed that those drow elves transformed into the followers of the old gods are the brave ones who have truly received gifts from the Spider Goddess! !
Of course, if that was the case, then Duanmu Huai would just take it as fun, but the problem is that it was not just fun, it even brought him real benefits!
That is - his experience of the will of the old god has increased dramatically and he has been upgraded! !
If it is the power of faith, then Duanmu Huai cannot be upgraded. Faerun is a world of faith. Duanmu Huai's move under the guise of the Spider God Queen cannot increase the power of faith for himself. This is why each god is separated from the other, and few gods act in the name of other gods.
But Duanmu Huai's experience of the will of the old gods comes from mental pollution. That is to say, the more creatures whose SAN values are reduced, the higher the degree of mental pollution, and the more experience he gains. Therefore, Duanmu Huai does not need to rely on the power of faith to gain experience. No matter what he disguises himself as, as long as the mental pollution can spread, his experience value will skyrocket.
In addition, Duanmu Huai also taught some spells from the Pink Book as divine spells, and he also gained a wave of [God of Joy] experience.
Now the experience of these two priests has skyrocketed!
The war between the two sides is now almost one-sided. Although the faction headed by the Tenth Family still has the power granted by the Spider Goddess, it is too terrifying to be able to withstand the power of the old gods and joy here. The first step is to use the power of joy to reduce the will. After breaking through the defense, a bunch of old god magic is thrown over, the SAN value is instantly reduced to a low level, the mind is broken, and the mind is polluted.
And then it's over.
No matter how awesome the Spider Goddess is, she can't control a madman, right?
Soon, the former's power shrank rapidly. After all, Duanmu Huai was not the Spider Queen. She didn't care whether you were a man, a woman, or an armed helicopter, she could use magic. In contrast, only women on the drow side can use divine magic, and the numbers are different. In addition, the ability to reduce SAN value has almost no countermeasures in Faerûn, so that they are almost defeated step by step, and in the end they are completely defeated. collapse.
However... this is not over yet.
Originally, Duanmuhuai just planned to train the mental manipulation skills he had obtained from the illithids, but he did not expect that such an interesting thing happened unexpectedly, so he immediately changed his mind and assigned a new goal to Fairy. .
That is - liberating all the dark elf cities in the entire underdark region and rescuing them from false beliefs!
And Fairy had no doubts, and directly summoned all the drow elves to form a large army, and rushed directly to another nearby drow city.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly."
Standing on the city wall, looking at the drow army below, Duanmu Huai shook his head and sighed. At the beginning, he just wanted to test his idea. The technology of closed memory brainwashing similar to that of illithids was too dangerous and low-level, so Duanmu Huai wanted to see if he could distort the minds of these drow elves. and faith, what will become.
Although the drow priests are all loyal believers of the spider goddess, and their loyalty goes without saying, the question is - are the spider goddesses they believe in the same one?
Yes, this is the source of Duanmuhuai twisting Feierui's heart.
It is true that every drow believes in the Spider Goddess, but who can guarantee that the Spider Goddess you believe in must be the Spider Goddess I believe in?
As the saying goes, a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts. Regarding the oracle of the Spider Goddess, a thousand drows may have a thousand different interpretations.
The best way to dismantle this belief from within is to strengthen individual thinking and weaken collective thinking.
Fairy wanted to live, so she killed her sister and mother. In Fairy's view, all this was the Spider Queen's will, so at this time, she had no idea about the construct and supreme status that had been given to her. The Spider Queen was convinced. And when the matrons headed by the council reprimanded her, there was a natural difference between the Spider Queen in their hearts and the Spider Queen in Fairy's heart.
Then, one of them must be fake!
So Duanmuhuai directed Feierui's thinking to the other party and came to such a result. This is much smarter than manipulating the other party's memory. Because this was almost all Feierui's own conclusion, all Duanmuhuai did was induce her to make a choice - everyone doubts others, but they rarely doubt themselves.
This is like justice, everyone is fighting for their own justice, but when both sides confront each other with justice, then one party's justice must be evil to the others.
This kind of collision of ideas is the most unsolvable, unless one of the parties suddenly wakes up and gives up - giving up is impossible. He has sacrificed so much for his own ideas. Once he gives up, it is equivalent to denying his own life.
So in the end there was only one way to go: fight with each other.
Now, Duanmuhuai has achieved the initial victory.
He knew it was not over yet. The anger of the Spider Goddess was echoing in the Underdark. However, there was nothing she could do. This was the real world. It was as if the evil god needed a large number of sacrifices to blur the barrier between reality and subspace. , unless an entire city of Dark Elf believers are sacrificed to connect to the subspace, the Spider Goddess can only stare in her lair of the bottomless abyss.
And even if she comes to the real world, Duanmu Huai is confident in killing her.
At present, the dark elves in this city have been completely contaminated.
Duanmuhuai smiled as he looked at the drow who left the city without hesitation and set it on fire. Fairy told them that this was an expedition, and that under the glory of the true Spider Queen, they would travel throughout the Underdark to liberate all their compatriots who had been deceived by the traitors. Until then, they won't come back, and they won't stop!
A normal drow would never agree to Fairy's almost crazy order. But now, the spirits of these drow elves have been completely distorted. Their hearts are filled with joy and pollution, and they have become the followers of the old gods who obey orders and only long to feel happiness and the liberation of the true Spider Queen. Under the mental pollution, the drow lost the last trace of reason and wisdom, and turned into evil, ferocious, and unspeakable monsters.
This trick is good for dealing with the followers of the Four Gods.
Duanmu Huai nodded. The indescribable spiritual pollution of the old gods was not much weaker than the whispers of the evil gods. After all, the four gods were the mountain kings in the galaxy, and they were incomparable to the outer gods that dominated the entire universe. If the level of the old god's will is high enough, then he will be more confident against the four gods.
As for the Outer Gods—well, let’s discuss these troubles when they enter the galaxy.
Of course, Duanmuhuai hoped that they would never come here again.
After all, the universe is very big.
(End of chapter)