Arcane Journey

Chapter 80 Demon Lord
The statue of Li Mogugen, the father of the deep sea, is mainly a huge animal skin.

The hide was cut into the shape of a ray and stretched with ropes to secure it to two pillars.

An unfolded ray carcass is nailed in the middle of the hide, the heads of two octopus carcasses are tied together, their tentacles are stretched into special shapes, nailed to the head of the ray carcass like a headdress, and above Painted with red and blue colored dye.

The entire idol stinks, and the foundation stone at the bottom of the altar has been stained black with blood.

"Ishi Ray? Two octopus heads painted in red and blue?" Brian looked at the terrifying altar and said to himself.

Immediately afterwards, his eyes lit up, and he seemed to have guessed who this evil god who called himself "Father of the Deep Sea, Li Mo Gugen" was.

But he still can't guarantee whether his guess is accurate or not.

At this moment, the Kou Tao Yu people, led by the young high priest, formed a group around the altar, singing prayers praising the father of the deep sea, while parading around the altar.

In this crazy chant, even though some murlocs were blocked by the shallows of the dark lake, they still walked straight through in order to keep their steps neat.

After a while, Brian felt a little dizzy.

Because in his opinion, these Kou Tao Yuren all looked exactly the same, and it was impossible to tell whether they were friends or foes.

When all the kuo-toa gathered around the altar again, the high priest Bulobriper in a dark red robe came out from the crowd, followed by twelve kuo-toa Priest.

They all bowed their bodies piously and fanatically, and gathered around the statue.

The young high priest jumped to the center of the twelve murloc priests. She shouted the divine name of 'Lee Mo Gugan' and raised her hands, each of which flashed with blue and white lightning.

Hundreds of kuo-toa gathered around the altar of the father of the deep sea, waiting respectfully according to the instructions of the high priest Blobripper.

They whispered, pushed and shoved, all trying to find the closest position to the altar, but these movements were kept to a minimum.

Because the high priest Bulobripper had warned them that if anyone disrupted the sacrificial ceremony, they would be the first to be caught as sacrifices and offered to Li Mogugen, the father of the deep sea.

And in order to strengthen the credibility of this warning, the surrounding Kou Tao supervisors had smashed the heads of five Kou Tao fishmen with their sticks in their hands.

"My lord, Li Mogugen, the great father of the deep sea, your most devout people yearn for the greatest blessing, please accept your most humble believer, and sacrifice it to your blood and death!" The young high priest With a loud cry, it began to slowly rotate on the altar.

The twelve kuo-tao fishmen priests surrounding her also began to rotate. When they rotated themselves, they also rotated around the altar.

Gradually, the high priest began to speed up, and the Kou Tao fishman priest also speeded up.

Every step they took seemed to be given life, every step seemed to be dancing, and their hands also spun, and blue lightning began to continuously jump out.

The lightning of the high priest and the lightning of the twelve Kou Tao murloc priests all converged together, condensing a bucket-thick lightning, which exploded on the ceiling of the huge cave with a thunderous force.

"boom!"

A low roar came, and the rock walls of the cave vibrated like a bard's drum.

The loud explosion echoed in the wide cave for a long time, as if announcing the arrival of the climax of the ceremony.

Brian saw that the high priest of the murlocs, Propulupin, led his most trustworthy subordinates, twelve Kuo Tao spurrs and twenty Kuu Tao supervisors, passing through the parading Kuu Tao murlocs, heading straight for the altar go.

at the same time.

The young high priest Bulobripper gave an order, and the bound slaves, as well as the underground races from other regions, were escorted forward by a Kuo-toa warrior.

The escorting murlocs lowered them with spears and led them to a depression not far from the altar.

A large grille sits in the center of the elongated depression.

The carvings on the stone platform in the depression have been blackened by the blood of countless sacrifices, and the sound of waves from the dark lake patting on the rocks can be heard from the large grille.

As preparations for the sacrifice unfold, the chant grows louder.

"How did you get caught?" Brian noticed a gray dwarf with wounds and mud all over his body beside him. He changed his expression and asked through telepathic voice transmission.

In fact, he had noticed this gray dwarf for a long time, so he quietly approached him while he was being escorted.

The dying gray dwarf's gray eyes lit up when he heard the voice echoing in his mind.

His expression was startled, and he looked at Brian in disbelief, his lips covered by his beard squirmed, and he also used telepathy to convey his weak whispers.

"My name is Weitz Fireman. I am from the Smelting Clan of Aldus King City. I am an arms dealer in the Underdark. I am an arms dealer." The gray dwarf said cursingly:

"I heard that the Kou Tao Yu people were fighting among themselves, so I took a boatload of weapons and wanted to do business with them. Damn it! The deal didn't go through, not to mention all the weapons and equipment, and even my subordinates They were all killed, and now I am alone."

Just as Brian expected, the other party also knew the telepathy technique in psionics. He pondered for a moment and said to him, "Then do you want to escape? I can help you."

"It's just you? Stop joking, take care of yourself first, you are really funny." The gray dwarf curled his lips and said to Brian in a mocking tone, if he hadn't thought about his situation, he would even have laughed on the spot come out.

"Why so much bullshit, I just asked you if you want to run away." Brian said impatiently.

"Aren't you talking nonsense, who doesn't want to escape."

The gray dwarf was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his shiny bald head, looked at Brian, and said tentatively, "Can you really save me?"

"Nonsense!" Brian gave him a disdainful look, and said, "When the blood sacrifice starts, you will definitely be the first to be slaughtered. If you want to survive, follow my orders."

"Who told me that I would be the first to be slaughtered." The gray dwarf turned his head and looked around at the dozen or so sacrifices facing the same fate as himself, full of doubts about Brian's words.

"If you want to live, just shut up and do what I tell you." Brian said in a stern tone without bothering to explain to him.

"That's what you said, but I still wonder how you knew that I would be the first to be killed." Before the gray dwarf finished speaking, he suddenly heard a sentence from the altar.

His butt was also kicked by the Kou Tao Yuren behind him, escorting him towards the altar.

Seeing this, Brian quickly explained a few words to the cursing gray dwarf.

"Bring up the sacrifice!" The young high priest shouted at the Kou Tao supervisors.

"Blobripper! You bitch-raised bastard, you don't keep your word, and you dare to play tricks on me! You dare to rob the goods of Odus King City, and you are waiting for the stone guards of our deep king" , Black Handled Agents, Kavola Cavalry and Saron’s spear army, let’s flatten your ruined town.” Weitz the gray dwarf struggled to be escorted over, cursing at the top of his voice.

"Kill this bald dwarf and dedicate him to the father of the deep sea!" the Kou Tao murlocs under the altar raised their fists and shouted angrily.

"I'm very sorry, my friend."

The young high priest stretched out her hand to suppress the noise of the fish school. She was not angry because of the gray dwarf's curse. She just bowed slightly, saluted him, and then said coldly:

"To express my apologies, I can give you a choice of death, do you want to be hanged or harpooned?"

"The harpoon hurts too much, I choose the gallows!" the gray dwarf Weitz said in a trembling tone, his eyes shrinking in fright.

"Very well, hang him." The high priest nodded slightly, ordering the supervisor Kou Tao beside him.

Immediately afterwards, a fish gut rope was wrapped around the gray dwarf's neck, dragging him from the ground to the gallows like an animal.

"Wait a moment!"

The gray dwarf grabbed the fish gut rope around his neck with both hands, and quickly shouted again: "I heard that hanging can even squeeze out feces for you, forget it, I'll choose the harpoon."

"Come on, brother murloc, before you die, at least let me take a pee." The gray dwarf said with an apologetic smile.

"Fuck you! Do you have to force me to kneel down and beg you!?" Seeing that the smile was useless, the gray dwarf who was dragged by the rope around his neck roared with a flushed face.

However, his shouting did not buy him a moment of time, and the two Kou Tao supervisors were still carrying out the orders of the high priest in an orderly manner.

There was even a murloc warrior who was already kneeling on the ground with a clay pot and a dagger, ready to bleed directly after he died.

At this moment, another sacrifice was placed on the altar.

Brian, who was watching from the sidelines, discovered that it was the Kou Tao fishman monk.

This guy was not forced to go up, but walked up on his own initiative.

This made him faintly feel that this monk who likes to preach pacifism is about to start his performance again.

The moment the murloc monk was escorted to the altar, his body shook violently, and the powerful force that erupted knocked away the supervisor Kou Tao who was escorting him without warning.

"My people, in this world, the era of peace is rare, and it always comes very short." He stood on the altar, ignoring the angry eyes of the high priest behind him, facing the crowd, and shouted:

"The same is true of our lives, short and unpredictable, for anyone and any race in the world. We can't go down like this anymore. Believe me, we can only understand each other, agree with each other, and give up killing and Violence is the only way to ensure the lasting peace of our Kou Tao Yuren clan, benefiting every creature in the world, let..."

"Give your mother a head!"

The gray dwarf who had been hoisted frantically kicked his two short legs in the air, and with a hoarse voice, blew his beard and stared at the murloc monk and roared: "I'm about to be executed, why are there so many nonsense, hurry up!" Shut up for me!"

"Shut up, you didn't see that I was giving a speech." The murloc monk looked cold and turned back.

"You should fucking shut up, I'm about to lose my head, so I have to worry about two words." The gray dwarf was swinging on the gallows like a pendulum clock, struggling to squeeze out a few words from his throat. Silk words, and then went back again.

Brian watched the scene in front of him with interest.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that during the delay of the gray dwarf, the high priest of the murloc, Pru Prupin, had gradually transferred all his cronies over, faintly forming a siege to the high priest on the altar.

For the Kou Tao murlocs, such a solemn ceremony suddenly turned into a confrontation between the gray dwarves and the monks, and the young high priest Blobripper finally broke out.

"Kill them, kill them both!" A crackling lightning ball gathered in her hand, and it directly hit the body of the murloc monk.

"boom!"

The monk looked at the high priest with awe-inspiring expression. He broke free from the entangled fish gut, crossed his hands to protect his head, and the blue and white lightning blasted directly on him.

After the smoke dissipated, it was found that although the lightning had left large scorched black marks on his tangled arms, it did not cause substantial damage.

at this time.

The old priest of the 'Mother of the Sea', Pru Prupin, gave an order, picked up the pincer staff that erupted with the brilliance of divine magic, and stabbed Blobripper who was performing divine magic without warning.

Seeing this situation, the cronies of the old priest swarmed up, raised their weapons, and attacked Kou Tao's spurr and Kou Tao's supervisors beside him who believed in the father of the deep sea.

All of a sudden, the bloodiest melee broke out around the altar of the Father of the Deep Sea.

"Copper Nugget, you and Jeep, go and rescue the hanging gray dwarf, and then follow our original plan and run straight to the pier." Brian quickly broke the gut thread in his hand, and ordered Goblins not far away.

At this time, after he learned the truth of the matter, he no longer pinned his hopes on the old priest, so he could only choose other methods if he wanted to safely go to the city of Odus, the gray dwarf.

"No problem, I'm the best at escaping." Copper Nugget said with a smile, then grabbed Jip's hand forcibly, and the two of them turned into shadows and disappeared together.

Seeing the goblin disappear, Brian said to Sisaiah next to him, "Follow me and kill those two high priests."

Hisaiah was taken aback, not understanding why the opponent chose to kill both of them.

Fortunately, knowing Brian's character well, she knew that he must have his own arrangements for doing so. She broke the rope without asking too much, and took out her rune sword from the dimension bag.

——"Psychic explosion!"

With a thought, Brian unleashed the fastest attack method before the surrounding Kou Tao murloc guards could react.

The spiritual energy that had been prepared for a long time was released almost in the blink of an eye.

An almost invisible energy wave, centered on his body, erupted, splashing waves of ripples in the air, and instantly stunned the four Kou Tao murloc fighters around them, their faces sluggish and motionless.

"Zheng!"

With a cold and delicate face, Hesaiah pulled out a rune sword that shone with silver luster, and swept around her delicate body like a dance.

A stream of blood spattered, and the four Kou Tao fishmen fell to the ground and died before recovering from the shock.

After finishing off the opponent in front of him, Brian was about to take Sisaiah to walk towards the altar from the chaotic school of fish, when he suddenly found the Kou Tao murloc from the direction of the pier screaming and running towards this side.

From the terrified facial expressions of these murlocs, it can be seen that they were not attracted here by the chaos here.

Immediately afterwards, under the cover of Hisaiah, Brian discovered that in the shallows of the dark lake not far away, many kuo-toa fishmen were forcibly pulled into the water, or attacked by invisible enemies in the water.

In an instant, accompanied by mournful howls, the water in the lake glowed with a rich scarlet color.

After Sisaiah swung his sword to kill a Kou Tao murloc who was running in front of the two in a panic, he suddenly smelled a strong and pungent fishy smell that was different from the Kuu Tao murloc.

She looked up subconsciously, and her face immediately became ugly.

"Brian, look up!" She quickly reminded Brian beside her.

"I've seen it." Brian threw an arcane missile to finish off the murloc who was trying to throw a harpoon at him, and replied calmly.

Because the two discovered at the same time that the source of the confusion at the pier was a large group of Ishi rays rushing out of the water and gliding in the air.

This is a group of aquatic creatures shaped like manta rays.

Their wings end in tiny claws, and their bright black eyes are bright and sinister.

Many creatures mistake Ishi rays for ordinary manta rays, and many have proven that making this mistake can be fatal.

Because of its cunning and viciousness, the Ishie ray has another, even more terrifying nickname: the 'Devil Ray'.

Both freshwater and saltwater can be their habitat.

Just because of their brutal nature, the races of the Underdark know very little about this species.

"what!!!"

A shrill scream made Brian look over subconsciously.

He saw the Ishi ray open its mouth full of sharp teeth, and above the mouth were two eyes like blood red glass beads.

It flapped its wings and leaped out of the water, just landing on the back of one of Kou Tao's pushers, wrapping him while he was still standing, covering his ears and screaming.

It was like a living blanket, as black as jet jade, tightly wrapped around the screaming murloc, biting his shoulders and head.

Amid the horrific bites, the Kou Tao murloc fell to the ground in horror, twitched for a while like a dying fish, and then died.

——"Ice Storm!"

Intense magic hail fell from the sky, wrapped in bitingly cold sleet and howling wind, and fell mercilessly among the kuo-toa murlocs fighting in the melee.

Immediately, there were a lot of screams, one after another, one after another.

Brian took Hesaiah out of the range of the storm, and looked at a huge monster on the top of the cave with a slightly gloomy expression, which seemed to block the sky and the sun.

It was a Priest Ishray, most likely the leader of the group of Manrays.

Ishrays worship and serve various demons, among whom Demogorgon is considered their creator and master, thus giving a few Ishirays the ability to cast divine spells.

Brian didn't think that the appearance of Ishi Ray was an accident, or that it was attracted by the blood of the blood sacrifice ceremony.

A Kou Tao fishman priest who reacted immediately waved the shell magic weapon in his hand, screamed loudly and quickly finished the spell.

- "Summoning Thunder!"

A thick thundercloud condensed on the top of the Yixi ray, jumped out of a crackling blue electric ring, shot down the scorched Ixi ray one by one, fell to the ground, and was beaten or beaten by the Kou Tao murlocs. trampled to death.

——"Psionic arbitrary door!"

Brian's eyes locked on the direction of the altar, and with a thought, he took Hesaiah's hand and stepped out of the portal that appeared out of thin air.

The moment he appeared, he immediately saw the old priest Pruprupin and the young high priest Blobripper surrounded by their respective guards, engaged in this magical scuffle, completely ignoring the invading Yixi. Skate.

——"Ice Sword Explosion!"

Hisaiah's long brown-red hair fluttered, and his silver-gray cold eyes locked on the school of fish fighting in the melee, suddenly venting a bone-piercing freezing mist.

In the blink of an eye, those Kou Tao Yuren who were unable to escape were frozen in place on both sides of the melee.

The High Priest of the 'Father of the Deep Sea', Bulobripper, was startled. Just as he was about to prepare a magic spell, Brian disappeared in a cloud-like halo and appeared in front of her.

In a panic, Blobbripper propped up a magical shield, only to find that the other party took out a strange weapon and pointed the black, pure gold tube at his forehead.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Three shots were fired, and at the same time as the shield of Bulobripper's magic was broken, the last shot hit her head, and a fist-sized bolide exploded on her body, leaving her lying on the ground bleeding, dying.

Sisaiah rushed in front of Brian, staring coldly, and swung the rune sword wrapped in flames violently.

The two spurners of Kou Tao, who were trying to take revenge, dropped the pincers in their hands, clutched their burnt throats, and fell to the ground dead.

"Great, I finally killed her." Seeing his opponent's death, the old priest was overjoyed and hurried to Brian's side.

"Indeed, in this way, you can get the power bestowed by the father of the deep sea alone. I'm right, the high priest of the father of the deep sea, Li Mo Gugan." Brian pointed the gun in his hand at the high priest beside him , said coldly.

The old priest Pru Prupin finally realized that his identity had been found out, his expression was startled, and he was about to raise his scepter to fight back.

It's a pity that it was too late, Brian shot out the remaining five bolides at the moment the words fell, causing the old priest's body to be blown to pieces.

"Let's go! Let's go to the pier first." Brian and Hesaiah confessed, preparing to stay away from the melee between the believers of both sides and Ishi Ray.

"Don't even think about leaving!"

Just when the two were about to leave, Brian found in disbelief that Blobripper, who was already dead and had received a reminder from his experience, got up from the ground strangely.

"Hahaha the blood sacrifice has been completed! My lord is very satisfied with this sacrifice of blood and death. Come, the great father of the deep sea, Li Mogugen, your humble believer welcomes you!"

She raised her bloody hands and shouted the name of Li Mogugen, the father of the deep sea, and fell to the ground again, lifeless.

Immediately afterwards, in the huge cave, another sound that even terrified Brian overwhelmed the screams of the Kuu Tao murlocs and Ishi rays.

In the distance, bubbles and white foam appeared on the dark water.

A thick and smooth tentacle suddenly sticks out of the water, followed by a second one.

"Bang! Bang!"

The water of the lake rose like a stormy sea, and the dark lake, which had already been stained red with blood, appeared two strange heads amidst the splashing water.

These two terrifying heads are a terrifying baboon look, with scary curly fangs.

They are connected to the same torso, and bloodthirsty and madness are burning in the two pairs of red eyes.

The creature rising from the dark lake has a total height of at least 10 meters, and the lake water flows down the back and shoulders of the rising monster like a waterfall.

When the whole body of this monster rose to the surface of the water, the great demon puffed out his chest, and his two heads were thrown back violently. Along with the rolling and tumbling water of the dark lake, he let out a huge roar!

"It really is the demon prince Demogorgon." After seeing the face of the great demon, Brian's expression became ugly.

Apparently, the Kou Tao murloc's infighting was nothing more than a sacrificial sacrifice of blood and death.

The real summoning ceremony was held by Priest Ishi Ray hidden at the bottom of the dark lake.

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(End of this chapter)