Especially Layla, the goddess of illusions and lies. Her best abilities are illusions, dreams and lies. Through layers of illusions and layers of lies, she can fool people around her.
Her believers firmly believe that Lady Mist did not die, or was even killed by the God of Conspiracy. She just used a huge illusion and lie to play with the God of Conspiracy in her palm bones.
As for the illusions and lie priesthood mastered by the Prince of Lies, they are just part of the perfect lie of the Goddess of Illusions and Lies, in order to use the God of Conspiracy to promote her illusions and lies priesthood. When the right opportunity comes, she will take back her own power. , reappearing in front of the world, at that time, she will have more believers and have more powerful power.
Especially the believers of the Lady of the Mist on the moon of Selûne firmly believe in this. The belief in illusion and the goddess of lies dominates this satellite. The Prince of Lies has never been able to put his hand in. This is why he obviously On the land of Faerûn, the saint body of Ms. Mist was beheaded, and even the priesthood of lies was stripped away intact. However, the other party was still unable to completely understand the cause of the death of the god. As long as there are still a certain number of devout believers, even if It is possible for the fallen gods to come back to life, just like gods can bring people back to life.
As for the moon of Selune, it is the only natural satellite of the planet Toril. Not only are there people here, there are living things on the moon and other unnatural satellites of the planet Toril, including the sun. These creatures are certainly not ordinary creatures. , but elemental creatures or unique existences that are immune to fire.
Don’t use three-dimensional and four-dimensional thinking to understand the multiverse. Even those powerful gods are just blind people trying to figure out the elephant. They can’t explain the specific appearance of the multiverse at all. Everyone and every god has their own unique understanding, which may even deviate from other people’s understanding. , and there are countless divine wars and conflicts triggered by this.
Compared to the multiverse, even gods are a drop in the ocean.
"It is not an easy thing to plot here. I don't know how many souls have been absorbed here. I don't know how much power the fragment of godhead has restored. But one thing is known. The swamp of the distant sea has become an independent realm. , the operating rules inside are completely different from those outside. At present, it is likely to be related to illusions and illusions. If you want to find the fragments of the godhead, you must first break through these heavy defenses. Even a legendary archmage is not so easy. It can be done, especially when it is not possible to use a large amount of manpower and material resources." Catherine analyzed it carefully.
"I just don't know, what role did the three hags play in this? They are all masters in this area, especially the night hag itself has the ability to enter and exit dreams. Many times, fantasy and dream are inseparable. , Could this fragment of the godhead have fallen into their hands?" Gavin guessed with some worry.
Those hags are cunning and cunning, and they like to use illusions and lies to play with humans. They have a certain degree of compatibility with this fragment of Godhead. If they master this fragment of Godhead, it will be difficult to completely eradicate them and seize this fragment of Godhead. will be greatly improved.
"At most, they have the upper hand. It's hard to say how much they have mastered. But at present, they do not have the ability to bring this power out of the swamps of the distant sea. Otherwise, they will not fail to use this power when faced with the situation of losing troops and losing generals. Next, the difficulty of their control will be greatly increased. The monsters who escaped will have a hard time escaping the fate of death, and their souls will be used to strengthen the ability of the fragments of the godhead. After all, the power of the godhead comes from The soul comes from faith. Do you think the concentration of fog here is higher? Is it expanding outward?"
After hearing what Catherine said, Gavin hurriedly suppressed his true gaze and looked down.
Sure enough, the fog shrouding the swamps in the distant sea no longer stayed there quietly, but began to actively expand outward as if it had a will of its own. I wonder if it was Gavin's illusion. Above the fog, He saw vague humanoid silhouettes, struggling and roaring, like souls trapped in another world, trying to ask for help from their former companions.
But after the humanoid silhouettes made of mist fell on those monsters, they passed directly through their bodies.
No, it's not just as simple as passing through, it even takes their souls out of their bodies, pulling out a long twisted figure. There is a force in those bodies, pulling the souls not to be dragged away.
But there were too many foggy shadows, and soon the second, third, and fourth foggy shadows came up, until their souls were torn out of their bodies, and when the body and soul were separated, When the line between them was forcibly severed, it was also the moment when the body suddenly fell to the ground and died. After those souls left the body, they were immediately swallowed up by the fog coming from all directions, and turned into new foggy shadows, followed by Other mist phantoms rushed towards other living monsters.
At the moment when the connection between the soul and the body was severed, some foggy shadows couldn't wait to get into the body, as if they wanted to occupy a magpie's nest, but unfortunately, they still passed through directly as before. In the past, it was as if the two were not on the same spatial plane.
You don't need to ask to know that these foggy shadows are actually souls swallowed by this fog. But you don't know whether their current behavior of rushing towards other monsters is spontaneous? Or was it forced by the fog?
No one can answer that question, maybe a little bit of both.
As the number of souls swallowed by the mist increases, their aggression becomes stronger and stronger, and their surge speed becomes faster.
Now the situation has completely changed. It is no longer the monsters that rush towards the swamp fog in the distant sea, but the latter sweeps in and rushes towards the entire monster army.
"Veranika, the situation in the Far Sea Swamp has changed. Don't worry about these defeated troops anymore. Prioritize your own safety and retreat to the direction of the main force." Gavin did not show up directly to strike at the Nott Guards heavy cavalry below. The advanced roaring technique was used to convey the order to retreat to them. That was something that stupid rulers without strategic and tactical thinking would do.
The pursuers below had to face not only the changes coming from the swamps of the distant sea, but most importantly, they also faced a huge number of monsters. They were the most direct threat to Nott's Guards heavy cavalry.
Nott's Guards heavy cavalry were able to chase the monsters and run for dozens of kilometers, not because they had an absolute advantage in strength, but because they made full use of the inertia of the monsters' rout.
But once they roll back, Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry and the others can easily become the army's main formation in the rolled-up bead curtain. Even retreat is a science, and it is not as simple as turning around and running away.
In fact, even without Gavin's order, Veranika, Nora, and Thomas had already done this. Not only did they do this, but even the monsters who had defeated many troops couldn't help but stop.
Because of the strange situation in the swamp fog in the distant sea, anyone who is not blind can see it.
The mist mutation has a direct relationship with the devoured souls. As more souls are devoured, its activity becomes stronger and the invasion speed becomes faster. The more mist shadows rush through those monsters, the more those monsters will The faster the soul is pulled out of the body.
Within a few minutes, the fog in the distant sea swamp actually gathered an army of foggy shadows. It was very targeted and launched an attack and erosion against the monster's defeated army.
Because except for the fog in the direction of the monster's rout that was protruding crazily outward, the fog in other directions in the distant sea swamp basically remained motionless, making it look like a huge tentacle that was constantly extending outward.
"Nott warriors, charge with me, form an arrow formation, follow my pace, and don't fall behind." Nora's discriminating roar echoed on the battlefield again.
Gai Wen clearly issued an order to retreat. Not only did Nott's Guards heavy cavalry fail to retreat, but they issued an order to charge.
Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry quickly turned into a huge pointed cone. Under the leadership of Nora, it bombarded the monsters' rout, causing those monsters that were hesitant to move due to the misty changes in the distant sea swamp to rout. They screamed in terror and rushed towards the swamp of the distant sea desperately. After all, compared with the monsters rushing at the front, the monsters at the back were unable to feel the threat from the front. On the contrary, they were driven away and chased to death. Nott's Guards heavy cavalry along the way are even more intimidating.
The monsters in front were retreating, and the monsters behind were rushing forward. The situation turned into a pot of gruel. No matter whether they were advancing or retreating, they couldn't help but restrain their pace of attack. In the middle The position was squeezed into a knot.
The Nott Guards heavy cavalry did not run into the monster's rout. Instead, under the leadership of Nora, they drew a huge arc and scraped past the edge of the monster's rout.
Even if it was scraped, Nott's heavy cavalry brought a lot of damage to the monster soldiers. At least hundreds of monster soldiers were killed and trampled into a puddle of mud.
Viewed from the air, the charging route of Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry was a huge inverted U shape. In theory, they were still charging, but in fact, they were already on the road to retreat.
Retreating is also a science and a tactic, and followers of the strategic lady like Veranika have finally figured it out.
There are many benefits to their charge and retreat, the most important of which are three.
The first is to stabilize one's military morale. Once the word "retreat" is uttered, whether it is a strategic retreat or not, it will shake one's military morale to a certain extent, resulting in some unnecessary commotion. It is far worse than retreating during a charge. .
The second is to shock those monsters who retreated, making them unable to figure out the intentions of Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry. By the time they reacted, Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry had already rumbled away and would not appear. The situation of being followed and bitten by monsters.
Third, Nott's Guards Heavy Cavalry is relatively cumbersome as a heavy cavalry, especially when turning. If one of them fails, his own people will be crowded into a pile first, which will waste more valuable time.
Once Nott's Guards heavy cavalry withdrew, things became much easier for the Hobgoblin Wolf Cavalry. As light cavalry, they were flexible and wandered around the periphery. They were not in close contact with the monster's rout. Being frightened by Nott's Guards heavy cavalry, they took the opportunity to get away. However, they did not rely on their own speed to run in front of Nott's Guards heavy cavalry. Instead, they wandered behind and attacked those who dared to follow Nott's Guards heavy cavalry. The monsters of the cavalry broke out and launched a long-range attack. There was no need to kill them, but they only needed to be suppressed for a period of time to allow the Nott Guards heavy cavalry to completely move away.
The conqueror army took the opportunity to get rid of the monster rout, but this false charge brought devastating disaster to the monster rout. The foggy shadows in the distant sea swamp took the opportunity to surge up on a large scale.
"Get away, get away from me, stay away from me...ah..."
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, get out of my way..."
"It's not that easy if you want me to die. I managed to get here with great difficulty. The fireball technique..."
"Fuck them all to death..."
Seeing the monster's retreat blocked, the monsters were defeated again, and the remaining brave men were once again aroused. They raised their weapons and launched a frantic attack on the foggy shadows. As you can imagine, the foggy shadows were all made of fog. , no matter how sharp the sword falls on them, it is the fate of passing through. No one knows whether it has caused substantial damage. After all, these foggy shadows cannot make a sound, they just surge forward, and the sword cuts them. The wound was completely healed in the next second.
Magic such as fireball has a good effect. I don't know whether it kills the foggy shadow. However, the fog where the fireball landed was cleared away on the spot, including those foggy shadows, forming a large open space. .
But what happened next was still disappointing. The endless fog soon covered the area. The souls of countless monsters who had defeated the soldiers were forcibly pulled out of their bodies, and then were eroded by the fog and transformed into New fog shadow.
This situation was like a snowball. The number of mist shadows was getting bigger and bigger, and the erosion speed was getting faster and faster. It didn't take long, and most of the monster army was submerged. Only the outer ones were screaming hysterically. , while running wildly into the distance, they have been driven crazy by the successive blows, and it seems that the whole world is targeting them with malice.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless mist tentacles shot out from it, directly penetrating the scattered monster soldiers.
These mist tentacles did not have any physical lethality, and the bodies of the monsters that were penetrated were intact, but countless pairs of fog arms stretched out from the tentacles, firmly grabbing the souls of these monsters.
Those monsters collapsed as they ran and turned into a corpse. Its soul had been forcefully pulled out by the tentacles of the mist.
Because they were too close, both Gavin and Catherine were attacked by the mist tentacles in the air. Although Gavin really wanted to give the mist tentacles that shot towards him a coffin hammer to see the killing effect, after all, this attack is at the soul level. Yes, the fog itself is not offensive. What is offensive are the fog shadows. They are very similar to those ghosts and shadows, but they are no longer composed of negative energy, but ether energy.
The War Reaver contains both the spark of immortality and the plan Ms. Strategist just obtained to plunder divinity. Maybe she can directly plunder these foggy phantoms.
For safety reasons, Gavin finally suppressed his desire to attack, and the swamps of the distant sea would not escape. There would be plenty of opportunities for him to experiment in the future. There was no need to do it when the enemy was at its strongest. So far, not a single soul has been absorbed by the opponent. There are eight thousand in ten thousand. If this fog is just acting on instinct, it would be okay. Once it has a common dominant consciousness, it is poking a hornet's nest and attracting the other party's attention to itself.
The attack speed of these mist tentacles is not particularly fast and cannot catch up with the flying speed of Gavin and Catherine. Moreover, its attack distance is obviously limited. After extending more than 200 meters, it will no longer continue to extend outward.
It was just robbing souls unscrupulously and had no specific hatred for an individual target. When it found that there was no way to attack Gavin and Catherine, it turned its target in other directions.
Preliminary estimates indicate that less than one-third of these monsters will be able to escape, and the remaining two-thirds will be completely trapped by the fog of the distant sea swamp. This is a total of 20,000 souls, harvested in the previous battle of Ms. Strategy’s ascension to the gods. The souls were only in this quantity, and in the end it was divided equally between Gavin and Ms. Strategy. Even if the quality was inferior, the quantity was real here. Unexpectedly, Yuanhai Swamp ended up eating a ready-made one.
"In a short period of time, keep your people away from the swamps of the distant sea. After swallowing so many souls at once, this place will not be as simple as a large realm, but will become an out-and-out divine kingdom on earth. It is not ordinary at all. What a person can face, if his ability is restrained, even an incarnation of a god will find it difficult to take advantage here." Catherine warned with a serious expression, "Don't expect to use an army to eat the swamps of the distant sea, this kind of direct The method of attacking souls is too damaging to ordinary soldiers."
"Understood." Gavin nodded, indicating that he knew what was going on.
The current situation in the Distant Sea Swamp is actually the same as that of the Vizeme Manor.
It's just that the negative energy filling the Vizeme Manor turned into ether energy, and the shadow generated by the negative energy infusing the soul turned into the misty shadow formed by the infusion of ether energy.
If an army like a monster breaks out and attacks Vizeme Manor, their fate will be the same as here. Their souls and consciousness will become prisoners of Vizeme Manor, and in the blink of an eye, they will become The troops of Weizemei Manor turned around and attacked their original comrades-in-arms.
It's just that compared to the fledgling Vizeme Manor, the power contained in the mist of the Distant Sea Swamp is more powerful. It no longer knows how many souls and consciousnesses of creatures it has absorbed in the Distant Sea Swamp.
(End of chapter)
