Chapter 647 Split

The entire drow city fell into complete chaos. The secret war had turned into an almost blatant mutual struggle.

The reason was very simple, that is... the rules had changed.

Firri stood on the high platform, looking at the city covered in flames below, his eyes sparkling. After killing all the matriarchs of the Council, Firri could not wait to launch a declaration. She wanted to tell all the drow the hidden facts and let them know the truth—she believed in the Spider Goddess, and the one who ruled the city before was just a heretic god disguised as the Spider Goddess!

At the beginning, facing Firri's declaration, almost all the drow families thought she was crazy, and the matriarchs and priests of those families also received the angry will of the Spider Queen—completely destroy this blasphemer!

However, they all failed.

Whether it was the wax melting demon or the great power bestowed by the Spider Queen, they were not the opponent of the strange construct. Firri manipulated the construct and destroyed one family after another that dared to attack her. So gradually, some people in the drow elf family began to doubt... Could it be that what Firri 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 disrespectful and blasphemous remarks. You know, what Firri said was that even the Spider Queen's maid, the wax melt, betrayed their master. This is too absurd, but just because it is too absurd, could it be... really true?

So, some small families began to quietly change their direction. They contacted Firri privately, wanting to know how Firri knew all this. Then, Firri led them to feel the power and joy from the real Spider Queen. After that, many small families also gained new power, so they decisively changed their camps and joined Firri.

At present, the drow elves in this city are divided into two factions. One faction is led by the tenth family and is still loyal to the original Spider Queen, including several middle-level families. The other faction is led by Firri, which is composed of most small families and is loyal to what Firri said is the "real Spider Queen".

And now, according to Firri's imagination, the story has become like this.

When the drow elves were betrayed by their evil, despicable, and shameless elf compatriots and driven to the dark hell, it was the great Spider Queen who accepted these drow elves and gave them the power and space to survive underground. But the great Spider Queen's power declined because of this, and then she suffered a shameful betrayal.

A betrayer who longed for the power of the Queen attacked the Spider Queen and imprisoned her in the bottomless abyss shamelessly. She absorbed the power of the real Spider Queen to manipulate these ignorant drow elves, deceive them, and lure them to be loyal to herself.

However, the real Spider Queen never gave up resistance, and Firri was the successor chosen by the real Spider Queen!

As for the fact that the framework body is immune to the power of the Spider Queen, it is because it is the holy object created by the real Spider Queen. The hypocritical power of the betrayer is naturally not comparable to the real Spider Queen!

Well, it makes sense and nothing wrong.

Of course, if they just said that, it was hard to say whether other drow elves would believe it, but soon, they got real evidence.

Divine arts.

That's right, in the continent of Faerun, believing in gods will gain divine arts, and abandoning gods will lose divine arts. This is why women have a high status in the drow world, because only women can become priests of the Spider Queen and use the power of divine arts.

Regardless of whether what Firri said is true or false, one thing is clear, that is, believing in that fake can gain divine arts, but can believing in the "real Spider Goddess" that Firri said gain divine arts?

Hey, it really can!

As an "old god", Duanmu Huai also has divine arts!

In fact, the gods in the world of Cthulhu also have divine arts, which is why those cultists dare to make a big news. For example, transforming into bats, restraining the enemy's actions, creating zombies, deforming the body, etc. ... In other words, as long as those priests are willing to change their beliefs, they can obtain the gifts of the old gods and obtain new divine arts.

This kind of divine arts is much more vicious than the divine arts of the Spider Goddess to a certain extent.

There are two points.

First, as long as this magic is used, no matter the caster, the target, or even the witness, the SAN value will drop.

However, there is no such concept as SAN value on the continent of Faerun...

Second, once the SAN value drops to a certain level, the opponent's sanity will inevitably begin to collapse, and thus succumb to the spiritual pollution of the old gods.

After realizing this, Duanmu Huai was almost crazy with joy.

Now the battle between the two sides is basically like this.

The two factions of believers meet and start fighting, and then the believers on the side of Firri will release a large number of spells to reduce the SAN value. Regardless of whether these spells are effective or not, they will reduce the SAN value of both the enemy and us.

Then when the SAN value drops to a certain level, the priests, pastors and warriors on the opposite side will completely collapse, succumb to the spiritual pollution of the old gods, recognize the so-called "real spider goddess", and become Firri's subordinates.

After all, the reduction of SAN value is almost irreversible, and the continent of Faerun has no concept of SAN value at all, and has no idea how to prevent this terrible power that starts from the spirit.

Of course, with the reduction of SAN value and the spiritual pollution of the old gods, even the fanatics on the side of Firri will gradually change their appearance. Their forms will mutate and twist, turning into indescribable and terrifying old followers. Their bodies will gradually lengthen and become snake-like shapes, and a pair of bat-like wings will grow on their bodies, and their heads will turn into spider-like shapes.

Well, a pure race of superior servants of the old gods.

If this were placed in a normal society, I'm afraid everyone would guess that there was something wrong.

But the problem is that the drow is not a normal society.

Everyone has long been accustomed to turning drow elves into spider elves, and Firri even claimed that those drow elves who have been transformed into the followers of the old gods are the real heroes who have received the gift of the spider goddess! !

Of course, if it were just like this, then Duanmu Huai would just take it as a joke, but the problem is that this is not just a joke, it even brought him real benefits!

That is————his experience of the will of the old gods has skyrocketed, and he has upgraded!!

If it is the power of faith, then Duanmu Huai cannot upgrade. Faerun is a world of faith. Duanmu Huai's behavior of using the name of the Spider God Queen cannot increase his power of faith. This is why each god will be separated from each other, and it is rare for gods to act in the name of other gods.

However, Duanmu Huai's experience of the will of the old gods comes from mental pollution, that is, the more biological SAN values ​​are reduced, the higher the degree of mental pollution, and the more experience he gains.

So 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 soar.

In addition, Duanmu Huai also taught some spells of the Pink Book as divine spells, and also circled a wave of experience of the [God of Joy].

Now the experience of these two priests is soaring!

At present, the war between the two sides is almost one-sided. Although the faction headed by the Tenth Family still has the divine power bestowed by the Spider Goddess, it can't stand the old gods and the power of joy here. It's too terrifying. The first thing he did was to lower his will with the power of joy. After the defense was broken, he threw a bunch of old god magic. His SAN value instantly dropped to a low level, his sanity collapsed, and his mind was polluted.

Then it was over.

No matter how powerful the Spider Goddess was, she couldn'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 or a woman or an armed helicopter. You could use magic. In contrast, only women in the drow could use magic, and the number was different. In addition, the ability to reduce the SAN value had almost no countermeasures on the continent of Faerun, so it was almost defeated and finally collapsed completely.

However... this is not over yet.

Originally, Duanmu Huai just wanted to train the mental manipulation skills he got from the mind sucker, but he didn't expect to accidentally come up with such an interesting thing, so he immediately changed his mind and arranged a new goal for Firri.

That is - liberate all the dark elf cities in the entire Underdark and save them from false beliefs!

And Firri had no doubts, and he summoned all the drow elves to form an army, and rushed directly to another nearby drow city.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect it to be so smooth."

Standing on the city wall, looking at the drow army below, Duanmu Huai also shook his head and sighed. At the beginning, he just wanted to verify his own ideas. The technology of closed memory brainwashing similar to the mind sucking monster was too dangerous and low-level, so Duanmu Huai wanted to see what would happen if he could distort the minds and beliefs of these drow elves.

Although the drow priests are all loyal believers of the Spider Goddess, their loyalty is naturally needless to say, but the problem is————Do they believe in the same Spider Goddess?

Yes, this is the source of Duanmu Huai's distortion of Firri'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, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts. I'm afraid that a thousand drow elves have a thousand different ways of interpreting the oracle of the Spider Goddess.

The best way to disintegrate this belief from the inside is to strengthen individual thinking and weaken collective thinking.

Firri was eager to survive, so she killed her sister and mother. In Firri's view, all this was the will of the Spider Queen, so at this time, she had already believed in the Spider Queen who gave her the construct and supreme status. When the mistresses headed by the Council reprimanded her, the Spider Queen in their hearts and the Spider Queen in Firri's heart naturally differed.

Then, one of them must be fake!

So Duanmu Huai directed Firri's thinking to the other party and came to such a result. This is much smarter than manipulating the other party's memory or something. Because these are almost all the conclusions that Firri came to by thinking, what Duanmu Huai did was just to induce her to make a choice-everyone will doubt 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 for 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 stay away forever.

After all, the universe is very big.