Hogg's original plan was to use Natalia to stimulate Marris's sense of rebellion against Cthun, and the corruption and mind control of the Elder God were not completely impossible to break free, but the premise was to have a strong enough will and a clear sense of resistance, and finally break the spiritual connection between the Elder God and the corrupted person. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the Elder Gods are well aware of this, so the first thing they have to do when corrupting a target is to weaken his resistance consciousness to a minimum, but even this does not guarantee the reappearance of the resistance consciousness, but as long as there is a spiritual connection, no matter how much resistance consciousness appears, it will be eliminated by the Elder God.

Hogg's first step was to break the spiritual connection between Marris and Cthun, and he carefully disguised the illusion of Marris's death, which was now presumably aware of Marris's death from the mouth of a giant silverback gorilla.

However, when Cthun sent a new search team to Angolo Crater, he could only find Hogg's carefully forged corpse of Natalia, of course, Marlis's corpse did not need to be faked, after all, Marris was "swallowed whole into the stomach of the orangutan", of course, the real reason was that Hogg could not forge Marlis's corpse, and it was not sure that it could fake the traces of Cthun's corruption.

Then the second step is for Natalia to awaken the latent rebellion in Marlis's consciousness, love and freedom have extremely powerful power in the realm of the mind, Hogg intends to borrow the yearning for love and freedom in Marlis's nature, so that he can actively resist Cthun's mind control.

For this reason, Hogg spent a lot of effort in the dream to build the Ash Valley Cottage that Maris and Natalia are most familiar with, they met and fell in love in the Ash Valley until they got married, and lived in the Ash Valley for a long time after marriage, and Marris also served as the captain of the guards in Astranna, Hogg boldly swapped the identities of the two, let Marris be a priest, let Natalia be the captain of the guard, when Marris looked at the problem from Natalia's point of view, he could truly appreciate Natalia's love for him, Therefore, this is the best way to highlight the love between Maris and Natalia.

Then according to Hogg's script, the relationship between Maris and Natalia, after experiencing the test of tribulation, and then facing the parting of life and death, two consecutive rounds of compression and sublimation, made Marlis's outburst unstoppable, with the help of Hogg, the Cthun Corruption Mark, which was originally strong and powerful because of the severance of contact with the body, was completely vulnerable in front of Marlis, who had already erupted, and was completely destroyed from the spiritual level with just one blow.

At the same time, Hogg also monitored Marlis's body, and found out the corrupted organs buried in Marlis's body by Cthun, these corrupted organs fell into a state of self-collapse after being destroyed by Marlis's will at the spiritual level, and this self-collapse developed to a certain extent and even killed Marlis, but under Hogg's monitoring, these corrupted organs were taken out one by one by Hogg when they just began to collapse, and replaced them with replacement organs made by Hogg with his own strength, Although it may not be as easy to use as the original, it is still no problem to deal with it for a while.

The only thing Hogg didn't expect at all was that after the test in the dream realm, Marris obtained the method of using the Holy Light.

Obviously, Marlis's acquisition of the Holy Light has nothing to do with virtues such as guardian dedication and honesty, it is purely that after Marris was corrupted by Cthun, his body gained some of the energy affinity characteristics, and at the same time, he got Natalia's experience in using the Holy Light for many years in the dream, so he accidentally became a warrior who could use the Holy Light, of course, Maris is only a warrior who can use the Holy Light, and those paladins in the Eastern Kingdom are fundamentally different.

Hogg is putting the finishing touches on this operation, it has already arranged the remains of the fake Natalia, in order to strive for authenticity, the gnolll even uses the real Natalia's body, as for the body used by Natalia now, it is a clone of Hogg's use of the power of the ancient gods, so even Cthun has no way to see anything wrong from the corpse.

In fact, for Hogg, Natalia's value as a priest from the Elune Sisters is no worse than Marris, but Marlia's value lies in his body after being corrupted by Cthun, and Natalia's value is reflected in her understanding of the organization of the Elune Sisters and her research on the teachings of the moon god Elune, and mastering Natalia is equivalent to indirectly mastering Marlis, so in Hogg's opinion, Natalia's value is even higher than Marlis's to a certain extent.

Hogg then returned to his sleeping place in the form of a giant silverback gorilla, and then opened a portal to send Marlis and his wife to Erezaras with the Hippogriff, so that Hogg could complete the final step.

Now Hogg only needs to find a hidden place to change back to its original state, no one can find the "missing" giant silverback orangutan, and naturally there is no way to track it down, so even if Cthun has suspicions, he will not be able to find evidence.

In order to avoid suspicion, Hogg did not leave Angolo Crater in a hurry after the giant silverback orangutan was "missing", but stayed in his own xenomorph insect nest, living in seclusion, looking obsessed with the study of xenomorphs, but in fact, Hogg's soul had already exchanged with the coyote demigods in Eresaras through soul tricks, and began to preside over the research of heritable flesh modification and evolution potions in Erezaras.

However, even if Hogg personally led the research, the progress of such a thing as an evolution potion was obviously still slow, after all, this kind of thing had never appeared in the history of Azeroth, and most potions in Azeroth had an effective time, and once this period passed, the effect of the potion would plummet, and there were very few potions that could take effect permanently.

What's more, compared to the xenomorph insect with a simple structure, the gnoll is far beyond both the level of evolution and the level of intelligence, so if you want to make the highly evolved gnolls evolve again, it will be several times more difficult than the xenomorph, so although Hogg personally participated in this project, he could only come step by step, after all, although Hogg hoped to get the evolution potion as soon as possible, he didn't want to get the kind of thing that would lead to drug addiction with huge hidden dangers.