Chapter 366 [0364] Seeded Players

The appearance of Taric is not good news for Kalja.

As a "seed player" watched by the Guardian Titan, Taric's ascent is completely carried out under the attention of the Guardian Titan - during the ascent, the Guardian Star Spirit will always watch Taric's every move and control him in advance when necessary.

Most of the Titans who are high in the sky will never really come to Runeland.

As noble celestial creatures, the laws of the Titans' existence are incompatible with the laws of Runeland. If they want to enter Runeland in person, it means that they need to abandon their immortal celestial bodies and turn themselves into flesh and blood.

If the ascension ceremony is to infuse the ascension growth with celestial power and reshape the body, if the celestial creature wants to enter Runeland, it must reversely create a flesh and blood body and accept the rune law - since the birth of Runeland, only one respectable Son of the Stars has done this.

As for the other Titans, they have only one way to influence Runeland, which is to create the Titan Star Spirit.

They will attach their will to a powerful mortal host, and control the Protoss host by force or temptation.

In many Rakkor cults, there is a legend that "becoming a Protoss will gain powerful power", but in fact, Kalya knows very well that gaining powerful power is not absolutely related to becoming a Protoss - even if there are no believers, they can gain extremely powerful power by climbing to the top of Mount Targon step by step.

For those devout Rakkor people, the challenge of climbing Mount Targon is actually a "body selection meeting" for the Titans. When the Titans need a Protoss walking in the mortal world, they will pay special attention to the climbers and give their seed players certain conveniences. This is the essence of the Rakkor people climbing Mount Targon.

Although Tariq is not a Rakkor and does not believe in the Titans himself, his personality is undoubtedly very compatible with the Guardian Titans, so when he set out barefoot, accepted the punishment of the stone crown and began to climb, and reached above the snow line, the Guardian Titans cast a concerned look at him.

Being able to go all the way south from Kalamanda to the main peak of the Titan, Taric's will is certainly strong, but if it weren't for the great help from the Guardian Titan, who protected him from the wind and snow with the Glory of Shelter, Taric would have died on a hillside somewhere.

Compared to many Titans who have their own clear goals, the Guardian Titan is actually a "easy to talk to" Titan. He will not ask the Protoss to exterminate heretics, nor will he start a war. On the contrary, he will take the initiative to eliminate conflicts and stop wars.

Of course, this is not to say that the Guardian Titan is so kind or merciful. He simply does not want the beauty to be destroyed. Considering the beauty in the Titan's concept, perhaps the end of the war may not really benefit mortals.

Moreover, no matter how easy it is to talk, there is no room for easing between the Titan and the Darkin. Although Kalya did not reveal his identity, the breath of the void on the hilt was enough to make the Titan throw away his reserve and take action himself.

Fortunately, Taric had not yet succeeded in climbing, and his body strength was insufficient. Even if he was safe and sound under the protection of the starlight, Lux and Ino could still handle it.

But this was obviously bad news for Kalya.

According to Kalya's original plan, Lux and Ino should have quietly started climbing and strived to reach the top as quickly as possible. For this reason, he prepared a lot of targeted training, and even took the initiative to ask the two to extremely compress their sleep time and start climbing from the steepest eastern foot of the Giant God Peak, in order to quickly reach the Giant God Peak before the Giant God reacted.

Moreover, since Lux had accepted the trial of Nagakabouros first, she was also stained with a lot of Nagakabouros's breath - this was another layer of disguise, disguising Lux as a believer of the Snake Mother to reduce her presence as much as possible.

In Kalya's plan, the entire climb would be completed within ten days, and Lux ​​and Ino would contact and adapt to the celestial light as quickly as possible. The biggest difficulty of the trial was the will contest after being favored by a certain Giant God.

However, the encounter with Taric made many of Kalya's plans fall through.

Although Kalya tried to restrain her breath when she realized Taric's state and Taric hesitated about what he saw, causing the Guardian Titan to descend forcibly, the Guardian Titan may not realize that Lux was holding a Darkin creature instead of a Darkin, but she and Ino still registered with the Titan without a doubt.

For the climb of an Old God believer, the Titan can completely ignore it; but for a climber holding a Darkin creature and possibly involved with all Darkins, how can the Titan take it lightly?

This is difficult.

Although the Titan cannot descend to the earth in person, the loyal dog of the Titan, the Rakkor people, is not easy to mess with, and once Kalya's existence is exposed, I am afraid that the Protoss will hear the news and move.

The next section of the journey is difficult!

"So, girls, you need to be faster." After talking about the impact brought by Taric, Kalya finally raised her voice, "Get to the Targon Peak before those annoying troubles come!"

"What are you afraid of?" After listening to Kalya's explanation of the cause and effect, Lux showed a confident smile on her face, "Those who are protected by the Targon will fall off the cliff, and others are no problem!"

"That's right!" Ino also looked confident, "This is a snowy mountain, my home ground!"

The high self-confidence of the two made Kalja quite satisfied. Seeing that the two had no fear at all, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Let's go, who's afraid of who!

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Lacus and Ino continued to climb.

At the same time, at the northern foot of the Giant God, in the headquarters of the Sun Cult located above the cloud line, a priest meeting was suddenly convened.

The person who presided over the meeting this time was Leona, who had always been only concerned with fighting and killing, and rarely interfered in the internal affairs of the sect.

This Sun Star Spirit walking in the mortal world has never been involved in management. Even when she led the Lahorak warriors to fight the enemy, she often led the way.

Although she is not as unkind as the legend, in the eyes of the priests and believers, Leona is still more majestic than friendly.

Of course, this is a good thing for the Sun Cult. Now the Sun Cult is in urgent need of a strong hawkish leader.

Although many mortals think that the missionary work of the Western Solari in Northern Shurima is vigorous, the reality is that among ten Solari believers, only two truly believe in the Solari Giant God and the way of the Solari.

Among the other eight "believers", seven believe in an unknown sun god, and one is simply a non-believer who just talks nonsense.

The Solari faith, which seems to be spread all over the western part of Northern Shurima, is actually only in the vicinity of the Targon Mountains. The others are heretics!

Even in recent years, many of the originally devout believers have begun to waver. From time to time, there are people in the sect who speak well of these heretics, and even say things like "It's better than believing in the Moon"!

If Leona hadn't successfully climbed the Targon and became a genuine Solari, the situation of the Solari would probably be even more difficult!

What, you said that the Lunari Sect also has a Star Spirit, and the Solari Sect may face huge troubles?

Please, look at the "Sun Cult" that is blooming everywhere.

Heresy is much more terrible than paganism!

What's the problem with the Moon Cult that can only hide in the dark and survive?

The Sun Cult that has been competing with the Fiery Solari is the problem!

Compared with the Fiery Solari, who are suffering and need to fight for the gods, those who are exempt from military service, have internal benefits, and keep warm in groups, and have awe of the sun, should join the Sun Cult.

Who would be stupid enough to come to Mount Targon and join the Fiery Solari?

What do you want? Do you need to fight for the gods? Do you want your living standards to be backward? Or do you want the fresh air in Mount Targon?

Thousands of years ago, the members of the Fiery Solari who accepted the legacy of the Shurima Empire would never have thought that those who left the Noxian Empire would turn a transitional organization into what it is today after joining the sect!

But thank God.

Now the Fiery Solari finally has the Protoss again.

Although Leona is very young, her appearance has indeed solved the current predicament of the Sun Cult to a certain extent. Although the Sun Cult is completely inferior to the heretical Sun Cult in economic competition, the Sun Cult with the guardian Lahorak army can solve the problem through the most direct violent means.

For example, when facing the looting of sand bandits, the Sun Cult can only gather together and hire helpers, but the Sun Cult can directly lead Leona to lead the Lahorak warriors to attack Huanglong.

Therefore, even if the Sun Cult can quickly gain a foothold in different cities, without soldiers, their living environment is not as stable as the area controlled by the Sun Cult.

In a sense, Leona's differentiation is very successful!

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This time Leona personally presided over the meeting. Before she spoke, many priests thought of the problem of Uzeris at the first time.

The siege of Uzeris has been going on for three months.

Uzeris, known as the "Unfallen City", has tall walls and sufficient defense equipment. Although the offensive of the Nashramians can barely be regarded as a surprise attack, Uzeris still has sufficient supplies when the sea supply line has not been cut off.

But sufficient supplies are not enough. In order to defend a big city like Uzeris, in addition to supplies, sufficient manpower is also quite necessary.

There are many people in Uzeris, but there is a shortage of people to defend the city.

On the Noxian side, even though Uzeris has surrendered to Noxus for many years, there are actually not many Noxians living here, and the Uzeris War Group composed entirely of Noxians is only about 2,000 people.

In addition, the soldiers stationed in Uzeris are mostly the city guards of Uzeris before, and the current vassal army-although there are many of these people, considering that they are also responsible for maintaining order in Uzeris, the manpower is still very tight.

In this case, once Nashramians attack across the board, Uzeris must mobilize the residents in the city.

But unlike Nashramei, there are a large number of Rakkor and Sun Cult believers in Uzeris, and they will not stand on the city wall!

The Rakkor who believe in the Sun Cult fight only for the gods.

The believers of the Sun Cult have paid the exemption money.

The previous mistake of Uzeris in recruiting soldiers has caused a lot of trouble. Forcing the Rakkor to join the army directly led to an internal conflict, which took a lot of effort to suppress. Now that the city is besieged, rashly recruiting is simply a dead end!

Therefore, Uzeris initially recruited only some non-believers to help defend the city.

However, Saga saw through the weak link. When the Noxians arranged their defenses, they launched a fierce attack at all costs. Most of the people who participated in the siege were cannon fodder troops composed of desert survivors. Under the cover of the temporarily recruited mage group, they climbed the city in a way that was almost like ants, and attacked the areas that assisted in defending the city.

This siege was ineffective and caused heavy casualties, but for Uzeris, which was full of internal conflicts, it was an extremely insidious psychological strategy.

The Noxians suffered few casualties, but the unbelievers who assisted in defending the city suffered heavy casualties. After several waves of attacks, the unbelievers also became believers.

Considering that it was difficult to become a Lakor and believe in the Sun God Cult, most of the unbelievers chose to join the Sun God Cult, and even paid three to five years of exemption money in one fell swoop to avoid being recruited to the city wall as cannon fodder.

So, the Noxians who were guarding the city turned around and found that the whole Uzeris was full of devout believers overnight.

But the city still needs to be defended!

After realizing that someone was taking advantage of the situation, in order to prevent Uzeris from being breached, the Noxians and the local vassal army discussed that since the Rakkor people were too martial to be offended, they would strike hard at the followers of the Sun God Cult!

So, without the non-believers as cannon fodder, the identity of the Sun God Cult followers could not be preserved.

With new cannon fodder on the city wall, Nashrameh's offensive was repelled again.

However, this act of forcibly conscripting believers who had paid the exemption money directly broke through the bottom line - in an emergency, the Uzeris defenders did not have the mood to distinguish who was a new member who had paid the exemption money and who was a true long-term believer. They treated the believers of the Sun God Cult equally, which directly led to the elders of the Sun God Cult contacting the Rakkor people.

You see, you opposed conscription before, and we responded to your support everywhere. Now the Noxians have begun to persecute us. For the sake of believing in the sun, let's help our brothers!

The local priests of the Sun Cult in Uzeris wanted to rebuke these heretics, but the elders of the Sun Cult gave too much - they were willing to include these Rakor people in their welfare system.

Of course, this is only the most basic part.

More importantly, from now on, we will not give our exemption money to the Noxians, but give it directly to you. You Rakor people will form the Lahorak Army to protect the law, and we will run the business with peace of mind. We simply don’t need a lord, what do you think?

Although they are Rakor people, the Rakor people in Uzeris are obviously not as pious as their fellows who live under the "glory of the gods" in the Giant God Peak according to tradition. After some thought, the local priests finally gritted their teeth and nodded.

Let's do it!

There are enemy troops outside the city and rebels inside the city. Even if the Noxians have sufficient supplies, they can't defend the city walls without manpower.

Then, just when Saga thought he had won, an armed riot broke out in the city of Uzeris.

After the followers of the Sun God Cult and the Rakkor of the Sun Cult united, some people with guns directly mutinied and quickly captured all the Noxians and vassal troops on standby on the city wall.

When the Nashramians outside the city realized that something was wrong, the service officer of Uzeris and the chief of the local regiment had been hanged on the city wall, and the king's flag on the top of Uzeris changed!

In this situation, Saga was almost angry to vomit blood. She never expected that she had finally caused the civil strife in Uzeris, but the result was to make wedding clothes for others. Uzeris became a paradise on earth that believed in the sun overnight!

Because the port had not been blocked, the news of the Uzeris mutiny spread quickly, and not long ago, the Sun Cult finally received the news.

Then, the priests soon quarreled and argued about whether to support, how to support, and what to do after support.

Whether to go or not, everyone thought they should go.

But there are many suggestions on how to do this.

When it comes to the question of what to do after the support, everyone has their own thoughts and calculations.

Some people want to take this opportunity to expand their territory and influence, while others think that it is most important to keep the sect pure and eliminate heresy after the rescue; some people think that Uzeris should be occupied to build a heaven on earth, while others think that it is necessary to retreat in time to maintain tradition...

Many priests argued fiercely!

During the quarrel, Leona watched coldly from beginning to end and never expressed her own opinions. She seemed to have no interest in this mundane world. At first, everyone felt a little awkward, but after arguing for a while, they got used to it.

And now, His Excellency the Star Spirit has finally taken the initiative to preside over the meeting...

That means that the sect should finally have a clear policy on the issue of Uzeris, right?

Calculating the time, it is time to take action. It will be too late if it is too late!

With this in mind, the priests gathered together, and everyone looked at Leona.

However, what everyone did not expect was that Leona did not say anything about Uzeris.

"There are blasphemers climbing Mount Targon." Although Leona looked as dazzling as the sun, her tone was extremely cold, "All the Lahorak warriors at the headquarters of the cult must gather together and go with me to eliminate the blasphemers! The majesty of Mount Targon cannot be blasphemed!"

Kalya's Little Classroom: Uzeris's Stratagem of Attacking the Heart:

Saga originally wanted to use psychological warfare to cause internal strife in Uzeris, and then announce that she would allow Uzeris believers to maintain their faith and respect the exemption money to win their hearts, so as to take Uzeris in one fell swoop. However, she never expected that the internal strife between the believers and the Noxians would lead to the merger of the Sun Cult and the Sun God Cult.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Rakkor people is not as good as that of the regular army of Noxus, at most it is stronger than the vassal army, but the walls of Uzeris are tall and strong, and there are sufficient equipment and supplies. The Nashira US army, which had consumed too much manpower in the psychological warfare, had to give up the strong attack and was forced to switch to siege - at least Uzeris can no longer get supplies from Noxus.

PS. There is another chapter in the evening, in the second half of the night.