Chapter 641 Godhead Fragments

"What are the next plans, Madam?" Gavin asked.

Catherine stayed in the Conqueror Army mainly to assist in planning the Goddess of Strategy's ascension. For this, not only the Red Falcon Knights, but also the entire Crimson Fellowship have sent out their best men. Now that this matter has been successfully completed, it is naturally time for them to withdraw from here on a large scale.

Madam Strategy, who is proficient in strategy, knows that a bunch of eggs cannot be put in one basket. Even if the Conqueror Army is powerful, it cannot concentrate all its believers here.

"I will leave you a hundred holy strategists. They will leave the Crimson Fellowship under the leadership of Veronica and officially join the Conqueror Army. Whether to use them as low-level officers or to form your own Lady's Church is entirely up to you." Madam Catherine was obviously prepared.

Although Gavin had half of the Lady of Strategy electorate hanging on him before, it was not announced to the public, so the two sides were in a cooperative relationship.

Whether it is Veronica or the exclusive priests of Ms. Strategy, they are temporarily seconded to Gavin. When they leave depends entirely on the needs of Ms. Strategy. Maybe they will never leave, or maybe they will pack up and leave in the next second to carry out Ms. Strategy's more important plan.

After Ms. Strategy publicly announced that Gavin became her third voter, the situation immediately changed. They now belong to the same big system and their relationship has become closer. When it comes to Ms. Strategy, they will work together and do their best to ensure that the victory will belong to them and Ms. Strategy, such as this ascension.

But when this task is completed, they will separate again and become independent individuals. This is determined by the identities of Catherine, Zalanda and Gavin. In theory, they are equal, even Catherine, as the first voter, only has the right to advise them, but not the right to command.

If they fight, they will unite, if they don't fight, they will separate.

This will be the future development model of the church of the believers of Lady Strategy. In fact, this is not unique to her. Most of the other gods are in this model, and they are more scattered. Churches that develop in a regional model are considered large, often in the form of cities or even churches. There are few churches that cross countries or even continents.

This is determined by the relatively loose organizational model of the church and the isolated island-like distribution of cities in Faerun.

"Thank you for your help, Madam. I will try to worship Your Highness in my own way and walk our own path." Gavin already has his own ideas about this matter. He will definitely not build a special church for the goddess of strategy, or even a special church for Lady Strategy. As a god of war, isn't the military academy her best church? Isn't the war fortress her best church?

As for preaching, just like the conqueror army, the national plan, the national military drills, the national planned production, the national planned education, etc., when the plan, strategy and tactics are integrated into all aspects of business, production, learning, etc., is it necessary to carry out additional preaching?

At that time, everything is preaching, everyone is a believer, that is the highest realm of faith.

"My assistance is not free. I need to borrow soldiers from you." Catherine did not hide it, but spoke directly.

"Borrow soldiers?" Gavin asked in surprise, "Is there a war on your side? How many soldiers do you need to borrow?"

The Death Land where the Strategic War Fortress is located is not too peaceful, but it is close to Baldur's Gate, one of the largest cities in Faerun, and there is no force around that can pose a big threat to them.

"Not the war soldiers, but your road construction soldiers." Catherine stopped playing dumb and said, "I plan to follow your Conqueror Army and go all the way back to the Strategic War Fortress. I plan to open a road from Scrobel to Iliabar, completely connect the Trade Road with the Trader Avenue, and then widen the road from Eltoril to Baldur's Gate by double to the level of the main trade road."

The first voter of this strategic lady was stimulated by Gavin and Zalanda. The two of them were latecomers and had tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, while she was still trapped in a castle that was less than half repaired.

There is no way to emulate the model of Zalanda, which owns a city, but Gavin's way of expanding his influence by quickly building roads is worth learning from, because only with roads can they influence more people with the troops in their hands and spread the lady's faith better.

However, her way of building roads is different from Gavin's migration route. She will use the Strategic War Fortress as the center and spread the network outward crazily to make full use of the existing roads.

Limited by its own area, the Strategic War Fortress cannot expand in the north in a short time, but there is huge room for development in the east and south. Let alone a complete regime, there are not many large cities here. Most areas belong to the world of monsters, but it is because of this that the lady of strategy has a place to use her skills. After all, she now belongs to the war god system, and the state of war is more conducive to the spread of her faith.

And it also has geographical advantages. If it is well developed, it can echo Gavin's layout in the Goblin Border and the Dragon Coast and become one.

Gavin didn't even need to take out the military map. He understood Catherine's true plan as soon as he heard it. After pondering for a few seconds, he said: "I can second the Pioneer Army and the Road Construction Team to Madam, but it will take about half a month. , I need them to help me widen the high road from the Bridge of Faith to the Rock, and they can be seconded to the lady for up to two months. Before the end of the year, I will have a major military operation that requires them."

The conqueror's army's current method of quickly building roads is limited to plains. It is not only difficult to use in swamps, but also in rugged and difficult rocky areas. The roads here are left to the kobolds from the Dragon Oak Territory to repair them.

"Two months is enough." Catherine had seen with her own eyes the ability of the conqueror's army road construction team. Two months would be enough time for her to repair a round trip in the green wilderness, let alone the short circuits she mentioned.

"His Highness warned me when he was leaving that there was something strange in the swamp of the distant sea. He told me not to act rashly. Counting the time, Veranika and the others should have led the troops to drive the defeated troops nearby. Madam, would you like to go over there and take a look?" Gavin issued an invitation, but Ms. Strategy was restricted by her priesthood and could not give a clear answer, but Catherine had no such restrictions.

"Oh? Is there such a thing? Let's go and see it together." Catherine became very interested. What the lady hinted about in person must be extraordinary.

Catherine directly dragged Gavin and activated the teleportation technique, and appeared not far from Veranika. However, she did not join her, but directly took off to observe the entire battlefield situation.

Gavin measured the time very accurately. The monster's defeated army was less than three kilometers away from the distant sea swamp.

Normally, a swamp has no clear boundaries. After all, it expands or shrinks with the water, and there is also a huge mixed zone.

But there are offshore swamps, because they are shrouded in thick fog.

That situation is very similar to the mist barrier with the mist wall ability. It is like there is an invisible wall in the air, shaping the mist, only limiting it to one's own side, and there is an extra trace of mist on the other side. No.

Although the fog in the distant sea swamp is not as clear as the fog wall, it is still very obvious when viewed from the outside. However, it is very large and cannot be seen to the side at a glance. It is impossible to see the situation inside. It is like being in two different worlds. .

This kind of fog had no effect on Gavin at all. He could easily see what was going on inside, but he would rather not see it, because the scene inside was extremely filthy, twisted, and weird.

All the trees there were gnarled, twisted, and half-dead. Their branches were covered with bloody flesh and internal organs, and their trunks were covered with all kinds of disturbing and twisted runes.

All swamp water is dark. You don’t need to smell it. Just by looking at it, you can be sure that this thing must exude a stink that is difficult for ordinary people to tolerate. The water plants growing in it are twisted and entangled, as if they are active, with countless huge bubbles. Emerging from the black water, there are occasional ripples, all hinting at the unimaginable dangers lurking below.

The swamp itself is a place full of murderous intent, and the offshore swamp has directly evolved this place to an extreme.

The reason why this phenomenon occurs is due to the three powerful hags.

All legendary creatures have a strong ability to harmonize with the natural environment. They will subtly transform their long-term survival nests into the ones that best suit their abilities and temperaments, thus deriving their unique nest environment and nest abilities.

This is most vividly demonstrated in those dark creatures, because their environment will become darker and easier to be compared.

Normally, the area that a legendary creature can affect will not exceed ten kilometers. At least an adult dragon can only affect so much.

Even if the three hags are all legends and their combined strength is relatively strong, they will not turn the entire distant sea swamp into their lair.

Could it be that the fog shrouding here is their lair ability?

"Haha...haha...we are finally getting rid of those damn cavalry. Hurry, hurry up and enter the fog. As long as we enter the fog or the swamp, they will not be able to find us."

"Run quickly, run quickly. Only in the fog or swamp can we be truly safe."

"You can't enter, you can't enter casually. This is a fog that eats people. Many people enter the fog and never come out."

"We are not going deep into the fog. We are just taking shelter inside. After the enemy leaves, we will exit immediately."

"Whether you want to enter the fog or wait for the enemy to chop off your heads, you can choose for yourself."

"It goes without saying that of course you enter the fog. At least there is a possibility of survival in the fog. If you stay outside, you will just wait to die."

"Introducing these outsiders into the fog, they don't know the power of this fog and swamp."

"Yes, the swamp will eat them! The swamp will avenge us."

When the monsters retreated and saw the fog in the distant sea swamp, not only did they not show the fear of the past, but they were filled with unconcealable ecstasy and ran madly towards the fog.

For them, this fog and swamp is their only chance to get rid of the murderous gods behind them.

The Nott Guards heavy cavalry and the hobgoblin wolf cavalry clung to them like tarsal maggots.

They will not move at all against the main body of the monster's rout, but those who try to break away from this main body or fall behind will be eaten without hesitation.

Blood was sprinkled all over their route to escape. Not to mention the monsters who were defeated, the pursuers did not know how many monsters were killed along the way, because it was meaningless to calculate this.

Seeing the distant sea swamp close at hand, the Nott Guards heavy cavalry floating behind immediately pressed forward in an all-round way. They did not give these monsters a chance to think too much about the retreat, but drove them into the fog and the distant sea swamp. They helped the conqueror's army explore its path.

The defeated soldiers who were still hesitant at first were involuntarily led by the defeated soldiers who came up from behind and ran towards the swamp and mist of the distant sea.

"Huh?" Gavin, who could see through the fog, couldn't help but be startled and stared at the defeated soldiers who got into the fog.

The behavior of these monsters who were swallowed up by the mist of the distant sea swamp was very strange. They clearly had a wide ground and ran towards the black pool. Before they could get close, huge black tentacles stretched out from the pool. They were swept into the black water and disappeared after just a few bubbles.

This is not surprising, swamps are famous for harboring dirt and evil. In those inaccessible swamps, there are often monsters that are difficult to see in normal areas, just like existences in ordinary people's nightmares.

In the dark swamp twisted by three powerful hags, the monsters are only scarier and weirder.

What makes Gavin feel strange is that the companions around the engulfed monsters seem to have disappeared, still spinning around like headless flies.

Some dived deeper into the swamp by mistake, while others turned a blind eye to the danger that was so close at hand.

Some even fell down while walking and never got up again. Their life or death was uncertain.

I wonder if he was attacked by a special poisonous gas from the swamp? Or is it some kind of invisible attack that goes directly deep into the soul? Or was he poisoned to death by those poisonous insects?

No, there are no mosquitoes in the offshore swamps.

No wonder the first time I saw the distant sea swamp, I always felt that something was missing here. There was not even a single ubiquitous mosquito here, it was like a lifeless dead swamp.

"Do you feel it?" Gavin and Catherine looked at each other and asked in unison.

"Divine power!" The two of them replied in unison.

Gavin raised the War Predator in his hand and said: "This has the divine power poured into it by His Highness. It can absorb souls within ten kilometers and send them directly to His Highness's Kingdom of God. The monsters in the swamp are breaking out. A weird amount of death, but it didn't absorb a single soul."

Catherine looked seriously and said: "Normally, the fog that covers the distant sea swamp is not an ordinary fog, but a divine fog, and it is the kind of divine fog supported by the godhead. The souls of creatures who die in it will be swallowed by this fog. It It is the biggest man-eating monster in this swamp, and there is only one god with such ability..."

"Ms. Mist!" Gavin couldn't help but lower his voice, and the excitement on his face could not be concealed in any way. "There are rumors that when Ms. Mist was killed by the God of Conspiracy, part of her godhead escaped and flew to the rocky ground. Sakon, this can be seen from the ability displayed by the Prince of Lies. He has not used the illusion priesthood to do a few famous things. This fully shows that he has not fully mastered the illusion priesthood. It is said that he has been looking around the rock area. The fragment of Godhead turned out to be here, but it is so close to the Dark Castle. As a follower of the Prince of Lies, how could Ximanmen not notice that the fragment of Lady Mist's Godhead was here?"

At the end, Gavin couldn't hide his doubts in his words. There was a lot of movement in the swamps of the distant sea, and there was no way to hide it from those who wanted to. However, it seems that the God of Conspiracy has never been able to get what he wanted from the Goddess of Illusion and Lies. Priesthood.

Ms. Catherine answered Gavin's doubts with a question, "Do you think believers in the God of Conspiracy and Lies will cooperate as sincerely as we do? Will they do anything to slander their God?"

"How is it possible? In the eyes of this group of selfish villains, nothing is more important than their own interests, not even their own gods." Gavin suddenly had an idea, "The location of Ms. Misty's divine fragment is not He was not found, but was suppressed by someone who was interested. After all, for many people, this is a shortcut to ascending to the gods. Ximanmeng does not have this ability. There should be someone behind him, who is the supreme ruler of the Zhentarim. Zhe Mansong, only he has the energy to do this. If these believers of the God of Conspiracy keep it secret, those believers of Ben will not tell this matter to the God of Conspiracy and make him stronger. "

Don’t think that God is omniscient and omnipotent. If that were true, the world would have been peaceful and dancing long ago. How could there be so many disputes and so many misfortunes?

Even for the gods, this world is too big, and they cannot take care of every aspect of this world, so they need electors and high-level priests to help them deal with mortal affairs.

This leads to the situation of deceiving the superiors and concealing the inferiors.

The people below thought that the information had been reported and that their gods already knew about it. The reason why they did not take action was because gods had their own arrangements.

The gods above thought that there was no progress in this matter, and the people below were trying their best to find it.

The result is that as God's agent and mouthpiece, something went wrong. He suppressed some news that was beneficial to him and tried to eat, take and occupy more from it.

But how could the power of God be so easily conspired? Even a fragment of the godhead left by a god who had been assassinated had a powerful force beyond the imagination of ordinary people.