Chapter 1215 - 99: Mutual Slaughter! Velen’s Madness_2

Chapter 1215: Chapter 99: Mutual Slaughter! Velen’s Madness_2

So in the end he only dared to sneak around and ’steal’ a bit of what others had left behind.

"The Divine Queen just flew into a towering rage."

"She attacked Zerata’s Silver Palace."

"That did help me out a little."

The Demon Incarnation’s smile carried a hint of viciousness as he said slowly, "I need the Divine Queen to cooperate with me for an assault on Zerata."

"Best if Zerata looks like it’s taken catastrophic losses."

"Only then."

"Can I fully win Velen’s trust."

Hearing Duncan’s words, Spider Queen Rose smiled with an unreadable meaning. She fixed her gaze on the Demon Lord before her and said in a faintly mocking tone, "Then I’ll be watching your performance next."

The rage of Spider Queen Rose would not dissipate easily.

It would only be temporarily endured for the sake of profit.

Once she finished dealing with Velen, Spider Queen Rose would turn right around and deal with this scheming Demon Lord as well.

A grand play’s curtain was drawn open.

Very soon.

Under Spider Queen Rose’s arrangements, the massive armies of Spider Nest Mountain, the countless spider-formed demon Prayers, under the command of Ikelifda, launched an assault on Zerata’s triple realm, even at one point nearly fighting their way to the very front of the Silver Palace.

This even fooled the Undying King Ocus, because as one of the few "honest types" among the Three Giants of the Abyss, Ocus actually sent some troops to assist his ally.

Because Ocus had clawed his way up from the very bottom, he understood the principle that when the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold.

If the Silver Palace fell.

His own territory would not be able to withstand the Spider Queen’s grand army either.

With two Abyss Giants joining forces, Spider Queen Rose finally gave up the attack on Zerata. After leaving behind a field of ruins, the newly ascended Spider Queen recalled her army and at the same time began seizing control of everything in the Material Plane.

Meanwhile.

In a certain Divine Country within the Shadow Plane, the Zor god of theft—Velen—was sitting in a grand palace, his face ashen and bleak.

He also had a small Divine Country in the Deep Pit Weave, but he didn’t dare go back at all.

His mother had already left a shadow in his heart.

Velen had furtively set up a home in the Shadow Plane; if not for this Divine Country here, he probably wouldn’t even have a place to stay.

"Rose really is heartless!"

Right now Velen didn’t dare close his eyes at all; the moment he did, he would hear the shrill wails of countless believers. His heart twisted like a knife; Rose’s Church was massacring his believers, the endless pleas, prayers, and cries were almost driving Velen insane.

Those believers struggling on the brink of death were calling upon their Divine Spirit for salvation, yet Velen could only hide in the Shadow Plane, not daring to step outside.

He even took the initiative to cut off the connection to his Divine Format.

Because only then would he no longer hear the dying screams of his believers, no longer hear their agonized cries under the bites of the spiders.

Velen was furious!

Furious in his own impotence!

He wanted revenge, but he simply couldn’t win.

So he had to find someone else to take revenge on!

Right.

His good sister, the Gloomy Maiden—Eilistraee.

It was all her fault.

If she hadn’t torn the Zor society apart, he clearly could have seized more Divine Positions and believers; maybe before his mother awoke, he would already have ascended to a medium Divine Power, and then he would have had the ability to protect himself.

If she hadn’t interfered, how could his Church have been wiped out!

The more Velen thought about it, the angrier he became, his hatred growing ever thicker.

And at a deeper level, his base of support in the Dark Realm was already close to collapsing.

He had to obtain a new source of faith.

If he himself didn’t have it, what then?

Snatch his sister’s!

Right.

He would snatch the Gloomy Maiden Eilistraee’s; kill Eilistraee, and he could recover his strength, even gain a certain foothold in the surface world. While he was still stronger than she was, he had to move quickly.

Because the longer he delayed, the stronger Eilistraee would become, while he would grow ever weaker.

He did most of the work, yet Eilistraee took all the benefits.

But.

How should he deal with Eilistraee?

You know, almost all his believers and Church in the Dark Realm had been wiped out, and he had little advantage in the surface world.

And just then, Velen suddenly sensed something.

Demon.

A powerful demon projection appeared.

Velen immediately activated the sensing ability of his Divine Format; he quickly learned what was happening in the Bottomless Abyss. After his mother, the Spider Queen Rose, awakened, the Lord of the Silver Palace—Julian—and the Undying King—Ocus—both suffered her cruel retaliation.

Yet the two Abyss Giants joined forces and finally repelled the Spider Queen’s assault.

"Right!"

"I still have allies; my mother has many enemies!" Velen sprang to his feet in excitement, as if he had glimpsed a sliver of hope.

But in the next second, his face turned pale again.

Because he had just carelessly linked to his Divine Format, heard his believers’ prayers, and seen their images. More than a dozen of Velen’s believers were being cruelly tossed into a spider pit by grinning Zor Priests; countless spiders swarmed over their bodies, and all they could do before death was pray and plead to their Divine Spirit amid endless agony.

Ah!

He couldn’t bear to watch!

Tens of thousands of Velen’s believers were being purged and slaughtered. Whenever he used the Divine Format’s power to take a glimpse, his heart was instantly torn as if by knives, and he even felt an indescribable sense of defeat.

One of his incarnations emerged.

Soon, in a certain place on the Shadow Plane, Velen was pleasantly surprised to receive aid from the Bottomless Abyss.

It wasn’t just the Lord of the Silver Palace; even Ocus, who had just been retaliated against, was ready to give Velen a hand. Ocus provided a batch of Undying Undead to help Velen establish a foothold in the Shadow Plane, while the Lord of the Silver Palace brought the intel on Eilistraee that Velen most desired.

This allowed him to keenly seize a sliver of opportunity—one chance to take Eilistraee down in a single strike and seize her power.

Material Plane, Sergant, Bow Forest.

Though the goddess alliance of the Bright Water Realm had not gained the upper hand in its conflict with the Shirek Church, some Zor Elves who believed in Eilistraee had still come to this land.

Because not all Zor Elves were willing to live under someone else’s roof.

Compared to attaching themselves to the surface elves, many Zor Elves still preferred to come here. At the very least, Duncan had truly given them a forest of their own and did not interfere at all in their establishment of a new order and new social system. In fact, aside from a few limited material supplies, few Zor Elves had ever seen that generous lord.

Duncan currently had no mind to bother about these Zor Elves.

Unless their numbers grew to over ten thousand and could support a certain foundation of faith, Duncan simply didn’t care.

The Gloomy Maiden—Eilistraee—standing as the symbol of redemption, hope, and salvation.

In this operation, she gradually condensed the Domain Laws of "Redemption and Hope." At the same time, she actively walked the world through her incarnations, rescuing large numbers of fleeing Zor Elves from demonic clutches and helping them survive on the surface as much as possible.

Eilistraee’s Church was rapidly expanding, and with the support of the Harpist alliance, she even had some human believers on the surface.

But soon, new troubles appeared.

"What?"

"Velen’s believers are attacking us?!" A Sword Singer’s expression was one of disbelief.

Were they insane?

The Spider Queen is carrying out a grand purge on you; go find the Spider Queen’s priests for revenge!

Why are you hunting us Exiles?

"Inform the High Priest immediately."

This Sword Singer quickly rose to rush to the aid, but when she arrived near the battlefield, the bloody scene she saw made her eyes go scarlet. Velen’s believers—those Assassins and Rogues—were slaughtering the fleeing Zor Elves. Compared to Eilistraee’s Church, Velen’s Church was stronger; if it were not, he could never have usurped and seized control.

It was almost a one-sided suppression.

Just as Velen believed: if he couldn’t beat the Spider Queen Rose, could he not at least beat Eilistraee?

Velen achieved a complete victory!

Even without any Divine Spirit intervening, the Assassins and Rogues under his command enjoyed absolute advantage. Eilistraee’s Church was very loose; its core combat power lay only with those naked maidens under the moonlight, and they were now quite dispersed as well—some had even gone to Sergant.

It was a fundamentally loose "sisterhood"-style Church system, and they had further scattered their strength to rescue refugees. Now, facing professional Assassins and Rogues, backed by the stolen Divine Position of Theft, Eilistraee’s believers suffered heavy casualties almost instantly.

So, unsurprisingly, a beam of holy moonlight fell; Eilistraee directly intervened with Divine Grace to save these believers.

Velen’s Church had been slaughtered by Rose, and Velen had fled to the Shadow Plane.

Eilistraee’s believers were hunted, and she directly descended her Divine Grace—going so far as to, in moments of dire crisis, unhesitatingly send down a Divine Incarnation.

This instantly fell into Velen’s calculations.

Taking advantage of the fact that his Divine Format had not yet weakened and his Church still retained some power, Velen easily lured Eilistraee out and was already prepared to strike at his sister.

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