“They were shocked by Ragnora’s power and began to believe that this was the final form of the world. The Blasphemers believed that their survival was a terrible misfortune. They decided to guide Ragnora to other worlds and recreate the process of world destruction in the hope that they would also be transformed into Ragnora’s creations in the process.

“In the words of this mind flayer: your life forms are but the false cries of the gods, and her whispers will teach you the true form of flesh and blood.

“You, and all life forms, are her greatest works of art. All we can do is pray to be her last, most glorious, and most terrifying creation.”

Elizabeth frowned. “It feels different from what the cult says. The cult talks about equality and so on.”

Wang: “No, the part of this log I’ve seen so far doesn’t mention equality anywhere. But everyone has become Ragnola’s ‘great artwork’, so that’s indeed equality. For example, after you and Xiaobai were turned into monsters covered in pustules by Ragnola, there is no difference in height or secondary sexual characteristics.”

Xiao Bai’s eyes widened: “If you think about it from this perspective, it feels pretty good?”

Wang: “Are you serious? Think about those pus-filled monsters we encountered.”

Xiaobai narrowed his eyes and said, “Ah, forget it. If I ever become that kind of thing, remember to chop off my head first.”

Marika rushed in again to save the topic from going off topic: “So this Blasphemer is the real mastermind? And they… are a group of guys from the outer dimension?”

Wang: “From the world destroyed by Ragnora. There are people of all races.”

Marika: “What is the size of the Blasphemer organization?”

Wang spread his hands and said, “I don’t know.”

Marika: “Organizational structure?”

Wang continued to spread his hands: “I don’t know.”

Elizabeth interrupted: “Just tell me what you know.”

Wang: “First of all, not all mind flayers are blasphemers. No, that’s not accurate. There are almost no blasphemers among mind flayers. In fact, blasphemers are a minority among those interdimensional races.

“As for the races that only exist in certain planes, since their entire races have been wiped out and only a few survivors remain, these races are now almost all Defiled.”

Marika: “That’s good news. What’s next?”

Wang: “Secondly, I roughly know how the Blasphemers attract Ragnora to our plane. They will use the power borrowed from Ragnora to build a navigation beacon for it. If the beacon is destroyed in time, Ragnora will go to another plane.”

Marika: “So those in the incubator are part of the beacon?”

“Yes!” Wang snapped his fingers when he said “yes”.

Flint was shocked: “Then we have to hurry. God knows how many beacons the cult has already made.”

Wang: “The good news is that even if Ragnora succeeds in landing, we still have a chance. After Ragnora lands, it will be very fragile due to the impact, and it needs to recover its strength. This recovery period can last for several months.”

Marika: “I understand. That’s why the Blasphemers want to build an army here to protect Ragnora who has landed.”

Wang: “No, no, no, Marika, you overlooked an important thing. Now we have the floating city.”

Marika frowned slightly: “And?”

Wang: “We can rush to Ragnora’s head and sit on it to death. No, as an Outer God expelled by the gods in ancient times, it is almost indestructible, but we can force it to leave the main material plane. It will take about 500 years for it to appear on the main material plane again.”

Elizabeth also became excited: “You mean, we have a killer weapon in our hands now?”

Wang nodded excitedly: “Yes! In addition, there is another good news!”

He flipped through a few more pages, pointed to a paragraph and said, “Here, this mind flayer specifically returned to the ground to look at the stars, and then complained that he hadn’t seen any sign of my lord yet. Combined with the fact that Ragnora came from outside the Crystal Wall system, I judged that it would first appear in the starry sky and become a ‘omen star’ that everyone could see.”

Xiaobai clapped his hands and said, “We haven’t seen this star yet, which means it’s still early?”

Wang rubbed her head vigorously: “You are right!”

Chapter 297 Bad Omen

Wang: “We have more time to prepare. On the one hand, we need to find a way to crush the conspiracy of the Blasphemers and destroy all the beacons. On the other hand, we need to improve the floating island as soon as possible and prepare for the worst.”

Franka interrupted, “Wait a minute, you have a floating island? Isn’t that the work of the long-extinct Cyclops Empire? Do you have a lost technology?”

Wang: “No, we found a newly built floating island of the Cyclops Empire. Before it could take off, the empire collapsed. Then, in the long river of time, it was just treated as an ordinary relic. We just activated it recently.”

Elizabeth corrected sternly, “It was activated by you.”

Wang curled his lips and said, “Yes, I activated it. Anyway, our next goal is to do both, both hands must be strong, on the one hand, burn the beacon, and on the other hand, prepare for the worst.”

As soon as the words fell, everyone felt the ground shake.

Elizabeth looked up at the ceiling, staring at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling: “The chandelier is shaking. It wasn’t my illusion just now. The whole room is shaking.”

Nini added: “But the shaking has stopped now. What happened, teacher?”

Flint: “It’s probably because the fire glue we left in the cultivation room exploded. Kailin’s horn, this thing is really powerful.”

Wang added, “This is what happens when the mixture explodes instantly. While the enemy is attracted there, we should continue to search this study room for more information or the treasures that the master has collected. We can find them quickly and then we can retreat.”

Elizabeth’s eyes widened in surprise. “Retreat? Aren’t we going to fight this mind flayer?”

King: “We must fight, otherwise he will soon accumulate enough strength through indiscriminate slaughter to restore this ‘beacon’. But we have to find a way to launch a sneak attack, so we have to retreat first, leaving clues behind, so that this mind flayer can track us. Once he leaves this castle, we will have a better chance of launching a sneak attack on him.”

Xiaobai: “Can the Mind Flayer be attacked by surprise? Can’t he sense us?”

Marika and Flint, both underground creatures, spoke at the same time:

“Don’t worry……”

“Relax!”

They both stopped at the same time and looked at each other. Then the dwarf made a “please come” gesture and said, “I have lived most of my life on the ground. I only know a little about the underground situation as knowledge.”

Marika nodded and continued, “A single Mind Flayer doesn’t have such a strong ability to guard, so it can be attacked by surprise. But fighting a Mind Flayer is very dangerous, because it will constantly bewitch all the combatants, and someone may turn against it and join the Mind Flayer’s side at any time.”

Xiaobai: “At the same time?”

“Yes,” Marika nodded, “and there is no casting action. Of course, the effect of this enchantment is not as immediate as the enchantment spell. The mind flayer will slowly but surely gain your trust. So when fighting a mind flayer, you must not talk to him, and treat every word he says as fart.”

Xiaobai: “What if you can’t do this? What will happen?”

Marika: “You will start to feel that the mind flayer is right. You will gradually sympathize with it, identify with it, and even love it, until you finally become enemies with your former teammates.”

Xiaobai shrank his neck: “How scary.”

Wang: “Okay, search the room quickly, leave clues behind and run away.”

**

Almost at the same time, Shallow Water City was rebuilt.

Cardinal Pietro is now the de facto controller of Shallow Water City and has to deal with a large amount of government affairs every day.

That morning, several low-ranking priests came to see Pietro with great concern, saying that there was an extremely abnormal situation to report.

Pietro thought about it and decided to take some time to meet these priests.

Then the priests were led into Pietro’s office by a paladin.

Pietro: “Tell me, what did you find? Try to be brief.”

Several priests looked at each other, and the one who seemed to be the leader stepped forward and said, “Your Excellency the Bishop, please allow us to use the scroll to summon a first-level undead creature.”

Pietro frowned slightly, but nodded to allow the request.

The leader of the low-level priests hurriedly took out the scroll and died, and a skeleton soldier appeared out of thin air.

This is a spell from the conjuration department that summons undead creatures, so the skeleton soldiers appeared out of thin air without consuming any corpses.

Pietro waited for the low-level priests to continue their performance, but the leader said, “Please wait patiently for five minutes before observing this skeleton soldier.”

Pietro frowned even more tightly: “I am very busy. There are countless things waiting for me to deal with in the entire Shallow Water City!”

The leader insisted: “Trust us, this is very important! It is related to the Savior Team and their mission!”

Pietro pursed his lips and looked at the skeleton soldier patiently.

At this time, the experienced man noticed something unusual: “Wait a minute, did anyone of you use Dispel Undead on this skeleton soldier?”

Several low-level priests shook their heads. Pietro looked at his high-level priests and paladins who were already in the deacon’s office, and they also shook their heads.

Pietro: “What’s going on? This skeleton soldier has obviously been illuminated by the Holy Light. Although it has not been destroyed, I can see it!”

The leader of the low-level priests said respectfully, “This is what we want to report to you. The undead creatures are continuously under attack from positive energy of unknown origin. Although this attack cannot even destroy the weakest skeleton soldiers, it has greatly reduced the activity of the skeleton soldiers.”

Pietro walked forward and examined the skeleton carefully.

“There are tiny powders on his bones,” Pietro stroked the skeleton soldier’s ribs with his hand. “This is a phenomenon that will inevitably appear when a skeleton is illuminated by the Holy Light. But the amount of powder is very small, which means that the Holy Light was only irradiated briefly. But no one in this room has summoned the Holy Light.”

The head of the low-level priests: “That’s right, sir. I tore the scroll to summon this skeleton on the spot, so there is no possibility of shining the holy light in advance to deceive you.”

Pietro stroked his chin and muttered to himself, “I remember the several stages of the world’s destruction mentioned by the Savior Team. There was a stage where high-level undead creatures began to stand up and help the living to fight the crisis. Could it be that… the survival of the undead creatures is also threatened?”

Although the combination of “undead” and “survival” is very strange, no one pointed this out at this time.

Everyone looked solemn.

Pietro: “We need to inform the rescue team of this news. Where are they now?”

An inquisitor from the court immediately responded: “According to the information witnessed by the merchant ship, they were heading towards the border between the Grand Duchy and Isonzo a few days ago.”

Pietro: “Immediately send a boat upstream to find the floating island where the rescue team is and report the situation to them.”

305. Happy National Day

happy National Day

It’s a new month, and I have a new leave request! Let me take a day off first. Happy National Day everyone.

At 10 am on October 2, the story in the Underdark will continue.

Chapter 298 On the Floating Island

At the same time, on the floating island.

Rosalie looked at the talking stone in her hand and sighed.

During the routine communication this morning, Wang told her that she had to take a risk today and asked her not to contact him, as it would be terrible if she was sneaking in the enemy’s stronghold.

As a result, Rosalie has been feeling uneasy so far today.

——I’m so worried. What if something happens?

Oscar, her younger sister, watched her sister pace back and forth, and said, “They are so strong, with a herald, a rogue with unfathomable strength, a werewolf druid who is obviously out of the ordinary, and an elf with superb archery skills. There will definitely be no problem.”

Rosalie: “You know you left out the remaining three people! And their envoys are also fake envoys who can only turn water into wine.”