Chapter 80 Demon Lord
The statue of Li Mogugen, the father of the deep sea, is mainly a huge animal skin.
The hide was cut into the shape of a ray and stretched with ropes to fix it on two pillars.
An unfolded ray carcass was nailed in the middle of the hide. The heads of two octopus carcasses were tied together. Their tentacles were stretched into special shapes and were nailed like a headdress. The head was painted with red and blue dye.
The entire statue exudes a rotten stench, and the cornerstone of the altar has been stained black with blood.
"Ixi Ray? Two octopus heads painted in red and blue?" Brian looked at the terrifying altar and thought to himself.
Immediately afterwards, his eyes lit up, and he seemed to have guessed who the evil god who claimed to be the 'Father of the Deep Sea Li Mogugen' was.
But he couldn't guarantee whether his guess was accurate.
At this moment, the Kuo Tao fish people, led by the young high priest, gathered around the altar, singing prayers in praise of the Father of the Deep Sea, and marching around the altar.
In this crazy hymn, even if some fishmen's route is blocked by the shallows of the dark lake, they still go straight through in order to keep their steps orderly.
After a while, Brian felt a little dizzy.
Because in his opinion, these Kuo Tao fish people all looked exactly the same, and it was impossible to tell whether they were friends or foes.
When all the Kuo-Toa gathered around the altar again, High Priest Blobriper in a dark red robe walked out of the crowd, followed by ten more people. Two kuo-toa priests.
They all half-bowed and gathered around the statue with piety and enthusiasm.
The young high priest jumped into the center of the twelve fishman priests. She shouted the name of 'Li Mogugen' and raised her hands. Each hand was flashing with crackling blue and white. lightning.
Hundreds of kuo-toa gathered around the altar of the Father of the Deep, waiting respectfully according to the instructions of High Priest Blobriper.
They whispered, pushed and pushed, trying to find a position closest to the altar, but their movements were kept to the minimum limit.
Because the high priest Blobriper warned them that if anyone disrupted the sacrificial ceremony, he would be the first to catch him as a sacrifice and offer it to the father of the deep sea, Li Mogugen.
And in order to strengthen the credibility of this warning, the heads of five Kuo Tao fishmen have been smashed with pincers in the hands of the surrounding Kuo Tao supervisors.
“My Lord, the great father of the deep sea, Li Mogugen, your most devout people long for the greatest blessings, please accept your most humble followers and sacrifice your blood and death. !” The young high priest shouted and began to spin slowly on the altar.
The twelve kuo-toa priests surrounding her in the center also began to rotate. As they rotated themselves, they also rotated around the altar.
Gradually, the high priest began to speed up, and the Kuo Tao fishman priest also speeded up.
Every step they took seemed to be given life, and every step seemed to be dancing. Their hands also rotated and blue lightning began to jump out.
The lightning of the high priest and the lightning of the twelve Kuo-Toa priests all converged together, condensing a barrel-thick electric light, which exploded on the ceiling of the huge cave with thunderous force.
“Boom!”
A low roar came, and the cave walls vibrated like a minstrel's drum.
The loud explosion echoed in the wide cave for a long time, as if announcing the arrival of the climax of the ceremony.
Brian saw the fishman High Priest Prupulupin leading his most trustworthy subordinates, twelve Kuo-Tao Whips and twenty Kuo-Tao Supervisors, through the parade of Kuo-Tao. People walked straight towards the altar.
At the same time.
The young high priest Blobriper gave an order, and the tied slaves, as well as the underground races from other areas, were each led forward by a Kuo-Toa warrior.
The escorting fishmen lowered them with spears and brought them to a depression not far from the altar.
There is a large grille in the center of the elongated depression.
The carvings on the stone platform in the depression have been stained black by the blood of countless sacrifices, and the sound of waves from the dark lake lapping against the rocks can still be heard from the large grille.
As preparations for the sacrifice unfolded, the chants grew louder and louder.
"How did you get caught?" Brian noticed a gray dwarf next to him who was covered in wounds and mud. His expression changed and he asked using telepathy.
In fact, he had noticed this gray dwarf for a long time, so while he was being escorted, he quietly approached him.
The dying gray dwarf heard the voice echoing in his mind, and his earth-grey eyes lit up.
He was shocked, looked at Brian in disbelief, moved his lips covered by his beard, and also used telepathy to convey his weak whisper.
"My name is Weitz Firehand. I am from the Smelting Clan in the Royal City of Aldus. I am an arms dealer in the Underdark. I am an arms dealer." The gray dwarf cursed and said:
< br>"I heard that the Kuo Tao fish people were fighting among themselves, so I brought a boatload of weapons to do business with them. Damn it! The deal was not completed, and all the weapons and equipment were taken away, including my men. They have all been killed, and now I am the only one left.”
As Brian expected, the other party also knew the telepathy technique in psychic ability. He pondered for a moment and said to him, "Then you want to escape? I can help you."
"Just you? Don't. You're kidding, take care of yourself first, you are really funny." The gray dwarf curled his lips and said to Brian in a mocking tone. If he hadn't thought of his situation, he would have even laughed on the spot.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? I just asked you if you want to run away." Brian said pretending to be impatient.
"Aren't you talking nonsense? Who doesn't want to run away."
The gray dwarf was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his shiny bald head and looked at Brian, testing. Sexually speaking, "Can you really save me?"
"Nonsense!" Brian looked at him with disdain and said, "When the blood sacrifice begins later, you will definitely be the first to be killed. If you want to survive, just follow my instructions."
"Who told me that I would be the first to be killed?" The gray dwarf turned his head and looked left and right at the dozen sacrifices that faced the same fate as himself, full of doubts about Brian's words.
"If you want to survive, just shut up and do as I say." Brian didn't bother to explain to him and said in a stern tone.
"Although you said that, I still wonder how you knew that I would be killed first." Before the gray dwarf finished speaking, he suddenly heard a sentence coming from the altar.
His butt was also kicked by the Kuo Tao fishman behind him, and he was escorted towards the altar.
Seeing this, Brian quickly told the cursing gray dwarf a few words.
"Bring up the sacrifices!" the young high priest shouted to the Kuo Tao supervisors.
"Blobriper! You son of a bitch, you are not trustworthy, and you are playing tricks on me! You dare to rob the goods of Aldus King City, you just wait for us to get into trouble." Your Majesty the Earth King's stone guards, black-handled agents, Cavora cavalry and Saron spear army will destroy your ruined town." The gray dwarf Weitz struggled and was escorted over, cursing at the top of his lungs.
“Kill this bald dwarf and dedicate him to the Father of the Deep Sea!” The Kuo Tao fish people under the altar raised their fists and shouted angrily.
“I’m so sorry, my friend.”
The young high priest stretched out his hand to suppress the noise of the fish school. She was not angry because of the gray dwarf's curse. She just bowed slightly, saluted him, and then said coldly:
"To express my gratitude, I'm sorry, I can let you choose a way to die. Do you want to be hanged or harpooned?"
"The harpoon is too painful, I choose the gallows!" Gray Dwarf Weitz was scared! De's eyes narrowed and he spoke in a trembling tone.
"Very good, hang him." The high priest nodded slightly and ordered the Kuo Tao supervisor beside him.
Immediately afterwards, a fish intestine rope was wrapped around the gray dwarf's neck, and he was dragged from the ground to the gallows like an animal.
"Wait a minute!"
The gray dwarf grabbed the fish intestine rope around his neck with both hands and shouted again: "I heard that hanging can even squeeze out feces for you. Forget it, I still choose Harpoon."
"Don't be like this, brother fish, you can at least let me pee before you die," the gray dwarf said with another apologetic smile.
"Fuck you, sir! Do you have to force me to kneel down and beg you!?" Seeing that his smile was useless, the gray dwarf, who was being dragged around the neck by a rope, roared with a red face.
However, his clamor did not buy him a moment of time. The two Kuo Tao supervisors still carried out the orders of the high priest in an orderly manner.
There was even a fishman warrior who was kneeling on the ground with a clay pot and a dagger, ready to bleed directly after he died.
At this moment, another sacrifice was also carried onto the altar.
Brian, who was watching from the sidelines, discovered that it was actually a Kuo-Toa fishman monk.
This guy was not forced to go up, but walked up on his own initiative.
This made him vaguely feel that this warrior monk who liked to preach pacifism was about to start his performance again.
When the fishman monk was escorted to the altar, his body shook violently, and the powerful force exploded, knocking away the Kuo Tao supervisor who was escorting him without warning.
"My people, in this world, the era of peace is rare, and it always comes very short." He stood on the altar, ignoring the angry eyes of the high priest behind him, facing the crowd, Shout loudly:
"Our life is also the same. It is short and unpredictable. It is the same for anyone and any race in the world. We cannot continue to degenerate like this. Believe me, we can only Only by mutual understanding, mutual recognition, and giving up killing and violence can we ensure that our Kuo-Toa family can achieve lasting peace, benefit every living thing in the world, and let..."
"Give your mother a head! "
The gray dwarf who had been hung up frantically kicked his two short legs in the air, roared at the fishman monk with a hoarse voice, blowing his beard and staring: "They are almost executed. , Why are you talking so much nonsense? Shut up!”
"Shut up, you didn't see me giving a speech." The fish-man monk looked cold and replied.
"You should shut the fuck up. I'm almost losing my head. I have to worry about every word I say." The gray dwarf was swinging back and forth on the gallows like a pendulum clock, struggling I squeezed out a few words from my throat and spoke back again.
Brian looked at the scene in front of him with interest.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that while the gray dwarves were delaying, the fishman high priest Pulu Puluping had gradually transferred all his cronies over, and faintly formed a threat to the high priest on the altar. The power of encirclement.
For the Kuo-Toa people, such a solemn ceremony suddenly turned into a fight between the gray dwarves and the monks, and the young high priest Blobriper finally broke out.
"Kill them, kill them both!" A crackling lightning ball gathered in her hand and hit it directly on the body of the fish-man monk.
“Boom!”
The monk looked at the high priest with a solemn expression, broke away from the entangled fish gut, crossed his hands to protect his head, and the blue and white lightning exploded directly on him. .
After the smoke cleared, it could be discovered that although the lightning left large black marks on his tangled arms, it did not cause any substantial damage.
At this moment. The old priest of the 'Mother of the Sea', Plu Pulu Ping, gave an order, picked up the pincer staff that erupted with the brilliance of divine magic in his hand, and stabbed Blobriper who was performing the magic without any warning.
Seeing this situation, the old priest's cronies swarmed up, raised their weapons, and attacked the Kuo Tao whippers and Kuo Tao supervisors who believed in the Father of the Deep Sea.
For a moment, the bloodiest melee broke out around the altar of the Father of the Deep Sea.
"Bronze, you and Jeep quickly go and rescue the hanging gray dwarf, and then act according to our original plan and escape directly towards the dock." Brian quickly broke off his hand. fish gut, and ordered the goblin not far away.
After learning the truth of the matter at this time, he no longer placed his hope on the old priest, so if he wanted to safely go to the gray dwarf's King Aldus City, he could only choose other methods.
"No problem, I'm the best at escaping." Copper Nugget said with a smile, then grabbed Jipu's hand, and the two of them turned into shadows and disappeared.
Seeing the goblins disappear, Brian said to Hesiah next to him, "Follow me and kill the two high priests."
Hisaya looked stunned and didn't understand. Why would the other party choose to kill both of them.
Fortunately, she knew Brian's character well and knew that he must have his own arrangements for doing this. Without asking too much, she broke the rope and took out her rune sword from the dimensional bag.
——"Psychic blast!"
With a thought, Brian used the fastest attack method before the surrounding Kuo-Tao guards could react.
The psychic energy that had been prepared in advance was released almost in the blink of an eye.
A nearly invisible wave of energy, centered on his body, erupted, splashing ripples in the air, instantly shocking the four surrounding Kuo-Tao warriors with dull expressions. Not moving.
“Zheng!”
Hisaya’s delicate face was cold, and she pulled out the rune sword that shone with silver luster, wrapped it around her delicate body, and swept in a circle like a dance.
Streams of blood spattered, and the four Kuo-Toa fell to the ground and died before they could recover from the shock.
After taking care of the opponent in front of him, Brian was about to take Hesiah away from the chaotic school of fish towards the altar, when he suddenly discovered that the Kuo Tao fishmen in the direction of the dock were screaming and running towards this direction. passed.
From the frightened facial expressions of these fishmen, it can be seen that they are not attracted here by the chaos here.
Immediately afterwards, under the cover of Hesiah, Brian discovered the shallows of the dark lake not far away. Many Kuo-toa people were forcibly pulled into the water, or were attacked by invisible enemies in the water. .
In an instant, accompanied by shrill wails, the lake water glowed with a rich scarlet luster.
After Xisaiya swung his sword to kill a Kuo-Toa who ran in front of the two people in a panic, he suddenly smelled a strong and pungent fishy smell that was different from the Kuo-Toa.
She glanced up subconsciously, and her face immediately became ugly.
"Brian, look up there!" She quickly reminded Brian beside her.
"I've seen it." Brian replied calmly as he threw an arcane missile and killed the murloc who tried to throw a harpoon at him.
Because the two of them discovered at the same time that the source of the confusion in the direction of the pier was a large group of Ishi rays rushing out of the water and gliding in the air.
This is a group of aquatic creatures that look like manta rays.
Their wings end with tiny claws, and their bright black eyes sparkle with intelligence and insidiousness.
Many creatures mistake the Ixi manta ray for an ordinary manta ray, and there are many facts that prove that making this mistake can be fatal.
Because the Ixi ray is cunning and evil, it also has another more terrifying nickname: 'Devil's ray'.
Whether it is fresh water or salt water, it can become their habitat.
It's just because of their brutal nature that the races in the Underdark know very little about this species.
“Ah!!!”
A shrill scream made Brian look over subconsciously.
He saw the Ixi ray opening its big mouth full of sharp teeth, and above its mouth were two blood-red glass bead-like eyes.
It flapped its flesh wings and jumped out of the water, landing just on the back of a Kuo Tao whipper, wrapping him up while he was still standing, covering his ears and screaming.
It was like a living blanket, as black as jet, tightly wrapping the screaming fishman, biting at his shoulders and head.
Amidst the bursts of blood-curdling bites, the Kuo-Tao fish man fell to the ground with a face full of horror, twitching like a dying fish for a while, and then died.
——"Ice Storm!"
Strong magical hail fell from the sky, wrapped in biting cold rain and snow and howling wind, and fell mercilessly into the melee of Kuo-Tao fishmen. .
Suddenly, a large number of screams came one after another, one after another.
Brian took Hesiah and escaped from the storm. His face looked gloomily at the huge thing on the top of the cave that seemed to block out the sky and the sun.
That is an Ixi manta ray priest, most likely the leader of this group of manta rays.
Ishi Rays worship various demons and serve them. Among them, Demogorgon is considered to be their creator and master, thus giving a small number of Ishi Rays the ability to cast magical spells.
Brian did not think that the appearance of the Ixi Ray was an accident, or that it was attracted by the blood of the blood sacrifice ceremony.
A Kuo-Toa priest who reacted immediately waved the shell weapon in his hand, screamed loudly, and finished the spell quickly.
——"Thunder Summoning Technique!"
A thick thundercloud condensed on the head of the Ixi ray, and crackling blue electric rings jumped out, shooting down the charred Ixi rays one after another. He fell to the ground and was beaten or trampled to death by the Kuo-Toa.
——"Psychic Any Door!"
Brian's eyes were locked in the direction of the altar. With a thought, he took Hesiah's hand and together they stepped out of the teleportation that appeared out of thin air. Door.
The moment he appeared, he immediately saw the old priest Pulu Puluping and the young high priest Blobriper surrounded by their respective guards, engaging in a melee with magical magic. Ignore the invading Ishi rays.
——"Ice Sword Explosion!"
Hisaya's long brown-red hair was flying, her cold silver-gray eyes locked on the melee of fish, and she suddenly released a bone-piercing freezing mist.
In the blink of an eye, those Kuo-toa fishmen on both sides of the melee who could not escape were frozen in place.
Brother, the high priest of the 'Father of the Deep Sea', looked startled and was about to prepare a magical spell when Brian disappeared in a burst of cloud-like halo and appeared in front of her.
Blobriper put up a magical shield in a panic, only to find that the other party took out a strange weapon and pointed the black pure gold pipe at his head.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Three gunshots rang out. At the same time that the magical shield of Blobriper was broken, the last shot hit her in the head, and a fist-sized bolide hit her body. It exploded, leaving her lying on the ground bleeding, dying.
Hesiah rushed to Brian, with a cold gaze, and swung the rune sword engulfed in flames.
The two Kuo Tao whippers who were trying to take revenge dropped their pincer staffs, clutched their burnt throats, and fell to the ground dead.
"Great, I finally killed her." Seeing the death of his opponent, the old priest looked happy and hurriedly came to Brian's side.
"Indeed, in this case, you can get the power given by the Father of the Deep Sea alone. I am right, the high priest of the Father of the Deep Sea, Li Mogugan." Brian pointed the gun in his hand at the high priest beside him. , said coldly.
The old priest Prupu Luping finally realized that his identity had been revealed. He was shocked and was about to raise his scepter to fight back.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The moment Brian finished speaking, he had already shot out the remaining five fireballs, causing the old priest's body to be blown to pieces.
"Let's go! Let's go to the dock first." Brian and Hesiah confessed, preparing to stay away from the melee between the believers and the Ixi Ray.
“Don’t even think about leaving!”
Just when the two were about to leave, Brian found in disbelief that Blooper, who was already dead and had received reminders from his experience, got up from the ground strangely.
"Hahaha the blood sacrifice has been completed! My Lord is very satisfied with this sacrifice of blood and death. Come, the great father of the deep sea Li Mogugen, your humble believers welcome your arrival!"
I saw her raising her bloody hands, shouting loudly the name of Li Mogugen, the father of the deep sea, and then fell to the ground again, lifeless.
Then, in the huge cave, another sound that horrified even Brian drowned out the screams of the Kuo-toa fish and the Ixi manta ray.
Bubbles appeared on the dark water in the distance, and large amounts of white foam appeared.
A thick and smooth tentacle suddenly stretched out of the water, followed by a second one.
“Bang! Bang!”
The lake water rose up like a stormy wave. The dark lake, which had long been dyed red with blood, emerged from the splashing water with two weird heads.
The two terrifying heads have the look of a terrifying angry baboon, and have scary curly fangs.
They are connected to the same torso, and their two pairs of red eyes are burning with bloodlust and madness.
This creature rising from the dark lake is at least 10 meters tall. The monster rising from the edge of the lake has waterfalls flowing down its back and shoulders.
When the entire body of this monster rose to the surface of the water, the big devil puffed up his chest, jerked his two heads back, and let out a huge roar along with the undulating and rolling water of the dark lake!
"It is indeed the Demon Prince Demogorgon." After seeing the big demon's face clearly, Brian's expression became ugly.
Obviously, the internal fighting of the Kuo-Toa people is just a sacrifice of blood and death.
The real summoning ceremony is held by the Ixi Ray Priest hidden at the bottom of the dark lake.
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(End of this chapter)