Chapter 396: God's Clone
The Snake of the Universe...
Hearing this title, Brian ignored the exclamation coming from the golden dragon Paralandax in his mind; He frowned consciously.
Just as he expected, information about the World Snake could indeed be found in this witch spire.
According to some legends and myths passed down by the Saluk Witch, he learned that in the dawn era of the Chaos War, that is, the period after Io, the 'god above', created the world of Toril. Over time, the World Snake led many ancient gods to fight against the Desolate God.
He even killed two evil gods representing frost and darkness respectively.
Ancient legends also record that when the Saluk witches were still a barbaric race that drank hair and drank blood, the Serpent of the World approached them and, like the manipulator behind the scenes, taught them how to quickly enter a civilized society. Secrets, and the art of strength and magic.
In return for these divine gifts, the Serpent of the World requires the Saluk Witch to worship and sacrifice itself, that is, to believe in Him.
During the heyday of the Saluk Empire, the Snake of the World became the main god of faith and spiritual support of Wu Hui.
Even as the Saruk Witch-Hand Empire gradually declined, so that the worship of the Serpent of the World completely disappeared, this god still tried to save them through his own abilities and granted them powers, such as turning into human beings. The good-hearted feathered serpent, the Okos shaman, is very likely to be the masterpiece of the Serpent of the World.
But how the Serpent of the World split into the twin snakes of order, representing evil and good respectively, is not something Brian can know, and there is no detailed record even in Candlekeep's collection of books.
It was only briefly mentioned that as an evil race, the Saluk witches and their faith reached its peak. Among the Saluk witches, dominated by the Okos Empire, some good camps gradually appeared. The shaman.
It seems that due to the influence of this group of kind witches, the World Serpent split up to better adapt to the changes in its worship doctrine.
Although Brian saw many lifelike feathered serpent sculptures on the stone walls of the hall, full of the holy aura representing the good camp, as a legendary spellcaster, his rationality and keen intuition naturally made him unwilling to Will be blinded by this.
After all, from the time he challenged the Felin Demon Kui to the hunt for treasure in the Wuhu Treasure House, he clearly felt the sinister style of the evil camp, so he began to have feelings for the voice of the self-proclaimed 'Snake of the World' Suspect.
"The snake of the universe?" Brian resisted the feeling of heart palpitations caused by staring at him like a cold-blooded reptile, raised his head, met the sculpture's triangular vertical eyes without fear, and denied:
"You're just a clone of the Serpent of the World. You still pretend to be with Toriel. You're putting your own face too much. I feel a little embarrassed for you."
"Besides, you... I'm afraid the clone has long lost contact with the main body." He said in a meaningful and cold tone, "Am I right? The patron saint of the Wuhu clan, Mr. Seth, the evil snake?"
Although the evil snake Seth belongs to the evil side of the Universal Serpent, he has now seen that the other party is just a clone of the evil side, which gives him enough confidence to refute Seth.
“That’s it.” Jin Long, who was almost frightened by Brian’s provocative words in his mind, finally showed a look of realization after hearing his last words, breathed a sigh of relief, and said in appreciation ：
"I didn't expect that your boy's memory is so good, and such inconspicuous details have been noticed by you. No wonder you dare to say these words to this clone. When did you find out?"
"From I was going to the Chultan Peninsula to look for the ruins of this minaret, so I thought about this issue and kept it in my mind." Brian answered the golden dragon's question through his mind.
The so-called details in the other party's mouth were a travel diary that the two had seen in Candlekeep.
It records that Seth, the evil snake of the witch, transformed into countless shadow snakes, and then passed through a portal on the 74th floor of the bottomless abyss, ruled by the demon lord Morshaok.
In the last paragraph, it is recorded that Seth's Shadow Serpent finally swallowed the demon lord Mor'Shaok and fell into a deep sleep.
Therefore, Brian suspected that the speaker in the steeple was probably a clone of Seth who deliberately stayed behind when he entered the Abyss.
After all, the other party is also an ancient god who rose and faded with Wu Hui.
There are many legends about Seth, but in fact, the main reason why this ancient god wanted to dominate the bottomless abyss was because with the demise of the Saluk witch, he also suffered a huge increase in divine power. The passage of time resulted in having to fall into hibernation.
However, during the catastrophe of the saints in the turbulent era, his chosen people unexpectedly rebelled and betrayed him, attracting the evil god Set of Mulhorand to steal part of his divine power and replace him. Belief among the Orkos witches.
Seth, who had his divine power taken away, was in danger and had to seek the help of Dandar, the giant snake of the night. Finally, he picked a weak persimmon in the bottomless abyss and was able to survive.
What makes Brian a little worried is that in the game world, it will be at least several years before the Witch Spire is discovered and explored.
What he is doing now has obviously been activated in advance of the beginning of this big event, and he also knows whether it will affect his future plans for the Kingdom of Halua and the Jungle of Chult.
The long silence in the hall seemed to prove that Brian's conjecture was true.
After a long time, the old voice asked with anger: "Who are you? Why can you find traces of me? What is the purpose of coming here?"
Facing Seth's clone, who lacked confidence, asked three questions in succession, and Brian immediately understood why the other person was so excited.
Obviously, Seth, who once took away his divine power, is still looking for traces of this guy, trying to completely replace him. It's no wonder that the other party would rather be corroded by the will of the abyss than devour the demon lord.
As long as he falls asleep in the bottomless abyss, Set cannot find Him, and His clone left in the material world is like an insurance for His plan.
However, what he did not expect was that the will of the abyss was so powerful that even the gods could not compete with it. As Seth gradually merged with the demon lord, he completely lost contact with his clone.
Without this connection, He can't do anything, and He doesn't even have control over this witch spire.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t be talking to him here with pretentiousness.
Thinking of this, Brian pondered for a moment, and with a thought, the shining blue arcane fire appeared in front of him.
He just summoned the arcane fire and did not answer Seth's question. He just let him use his rich imagination to guess the identity.
"What is this?" Seth's old voice exclaimed, "Are you a chosen one of Mystra? No! This is not Silver Fire, but why do you have her mark?"
“That’s it.” Seemingly thinking of something, Seth’s clone breathed a sigh of relief and said in a slower tone:
“I understand, you came here under the instruction of Mystra. Here, otherwise, with your ability, it would be impossible to find the location where the spire is hidden by divine power.”
"No, no one instructed me." Brian put away the Austrian Fire and said in ambiguous words:
"I just gave full play to my abilities. Now I have got what I want. Goodbye, after all. For me, I don’t want to have any deep interaction with a clone of God who has lost contact with his true body and is about to be completely destroyed..."
At this moment, Brian is already in the Golden Dragon Paralandak. With the help of Si, he cracked the space lock here. As long as he wants, he can leave at any time through the teleportation spell.
This is why he dared to speak so confidently to a clone of an evil god. However, he had no real plans to leave.
After all, if there are traces of the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo, he still needs to hope that the former Saluk God of Witches and Snakes will tell him that this is just a means of playing hard to get.
“Wait!”
Sure enough, the moment Brian pretended to open a portal, Seth’s clone stopped him with an old voice.
I saw the triangular vertical eyes on the sculpture like a cold-blooded reptile, completely dispelling the chill and hostility inside, and it became much gentler.
"I think we should be able to talk, Messenger of Mystra." He said.
"Talk?" Brian's expression changed, pretending not to be interested, and said, "Is it necessary to talk to a clone of a god who is about to die?"
"Is about to die? This is impossible!"
“I am immortal!”
When it comes to death, the old voice suddenly became excited, echoing in the spacious and silent hall for a long time, “I repeat, I am the snake of the universe! The snake of creation in the eyes of the Saruk witch, I am immortal and will be with Toriel!”
If we investigate seriously, Seth who entered the bottomless abyss does not have this clone in front of him! The blood of the World Snake is pure. After all, this clone is the last insurance Seth left for himself before heading to the bottomless abyss.
Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. He misjudged the power of the abyss consciousness.
Brian ignored the excited Seth clone, but looked at him calmly, remaining silent and saying nothing.
He knows that the other person is just venting his emotions because his weakness has been touched. When he recognizes the reality, he will slowly calm down.
After a while.
It seems that he has finished venting, or has recognized the reality, Seth's clone sighed, and said in an old voice:
"It seems that you understand my situation very well, and you are obviously well prepared."
"Indeed, my body has been hibernating in the age of the gods' fall, and in the turbulent years, it has been replaced by my chosen ones and incarnations. Part of the divine power was divided up for the saint Seth, and the other part of the divine power was corrupted by the will of the abyss due to my wrong judgment, and became an independent individual merged with the demon lord."
"Now I am also. He can only rely on the remaining divine power to maintain his life."
Facing the confession of Seth's clone, Brian was silent for a long time, then raised his head and asked:
"It stands to reason that the death of Saluk Wuhu. , your strength should not have declined to this point. Even with the help of the electorate, the evil god Set of Mulhorand cannot be your opponent. Why would you..."
He just stopped talking and didn't say anything further. If he said anything else, he would expose the other person's scars.
As far as he knows, the Snake of the World is also called the Snake of Creation. Its strength is at least a powerful divine power. Even if it turns into the twin snakes of order for some reason, then these snakes represent good and evil respectively. It is really unreasonable for a god to be able to keep his strength at around mid-level power, but to be taken advantage of by an evil god who is two levels below him.
“This starts from the turbulent years.” The desolate voice told Brian a story as if he was resigned to his fate:
“At that time, I turned into a saint for a short time. appeared on the waters of the Rapal Inland Sea, and then fought a battle with the saints of the dinosaur god Utao on the eastern edge of the Chultan Jungle to compete for the faith of the Chultan Peninsula. The Saluk witch got close to the servant of Set, and promised to sneak into this spire while I was fighting Uota as long as the other party agreed to grant spells and help them defeat their ancient enemies, the casta lizards. , bound me into eternal sleep, and took the opportunity to steal my power."
"So that's what happened. As a clone of the snake of creation, it's really impossible to get to this level. That's unfortunate." Brian nodded thoughtfully.
"Then what do you want to talk to me about?" After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, he stopped chatting with the other party and said straight to the point:
"Let me state in advance that if you let me help you deal with the defecting electors and the evil god Sai Special, forget it. In addition to the Okos witches who voluntarily turned into feathered serpents, there are also some evil witches, your former followers, gathered in Mulhorand. I don’t think I have help. Your ability to clean up the door."
"No..." the desolate voice said slowly:
"In fact, in the year of turmoil, I was only taken away from the Okos Wuhu clan. In fact, in the material world, there are two other groups of witches and monsters, Melshauk and Istosefifer. There are still a few believers who are still following me firmly, otherwise they will lose their original power. , this clone of mine can’t survive until now.”
The main event is finally here.
After hearing the words of Seth's clone, Brian knew that this meant that he was looking for traces of the 'Earth Prophet' Arcindo, and finally cleared the clouds and saw the bright moon.
Just like human beings, the huge shaman tribe in the past was not monolithic.
The relationship between these three empires is also full of involution and hatred, and they are not good at each other.
In ancient times, due to the emergence of two camps of good and evil within the Orkos Empire, it was the first to perish in internal battles. The other two empires naturally acted as a crowd-pleaser, fanning the flames.
Then the Istosefif Empire, which is located in the current Enook Desert, committed suicide and launched a full-scale war with the Phayling Demon Queen, causing the Narrow Sea to change its course and flood the Underdark.
Then a familiar scene appeared. Their plan directly led to drastic changes in the climate. In the end, Felin Demon Kui's vitality was severely damaged, but Istosefif's country was destroyed and the people were displaced.
On the contrary, the Mershock Empire that finally perished was more likely to have disappeared in the calm because all the luck of the Wuhu clan had been exhausted.
“Then what?” Brian asked. He had roughly guessed what the other party asked him to help him do, but he was not sure yet and wanted to confirm again.
“You have seen that my body has been corrupted by the will of the abyss, and there is no possibility of saving it. Now there is only this clone left. Even the ruins of the guarded spire are not under my control. If I leave this place, Seth will detect my location through the same divine power and send his followers to destroy my last clone."
The old voice of Seth's clone is full of hatred and helplessness. ：
"I dare not leave this high tower. I can only give you directions to the lost ancient city of Orlem to awaken the sleeping witches of the former Istosefifer Empire."
This The task for this time was finally completed. Hearing this, Brian breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the 'Earth Prophet' Asindo he is looking for belongs to the Saluk witch of the Istosefifer Empire and is hiding in the lost ancient city of Orem.
"I can help you." Brian thought for a moment, but did not refuse Seth's clone's request, and bargained, "But what can you give me?"
The so-called skinny guy Camels are bigger than horses. As a god who was once the witch of Saluk, he must have many coveted treasures.
(End of this chapter)