Chapter 535: The Divergence of Faith and Kingship
"It seems that this matter is not as simple as I expected." Hogg sighed in a depressed voice, this fog in the sky seriously suppressed Hogg's soul tentacles, and he was repelled by a mortal like the Great Empress Shakehir for a while.
Although Shacohir's psychic explosion did not cause any damage to Hogg, it did disconnect the soul tentacles, so that Hogg's pre-prepared words of persuasion were meaningless, and the result hurt the brazen Hogg (psychic trauma), and he felt a little unbearable on his face.
Before Hogg could decide whether to wait patiently or do something further to seduce the Empress Shakohir, who was in the hollow of the tree and did not leave the gate, he suddenly noticed the captain of the Empress's immediate guard who was hurrying out of the hollow.
Hogg then sneaked aside to watch the Empress's direct guard captain communicate with its subordinates, although Hogg couldn't understand the language of the mantis demon, but from the behavior of the captain of the guard, Hogg could still guess the identity of the mantis demon, seeing that the captain of the guard did not return to the tree hole after assigning the task, but hurriedly flew in another direction, Hogg moved in his heart and quietly followed behind the captain of the guard.
The Captain of the Guard flew fast, crossing half of Seravis Island with great speed and landing in front of the training ground, while Hogg, who was sneaking behind, was slower, carefully approaching the training ground from the woods on the side.
At this time, the captain of the guard had already found the blade lord Tayak who was training the mantis demon warriors, and as soon as he heard that the Great Empress Shakehir had been summoned, Tayak also quickly put down his work, and ordered his instructors to decide how to train on their own, and then followed the captain of the guard to fly in the direction of the giant tree of Thralvis, and the direction of their flight happened to pass through the woods where Hogg was lurking at this time.
Seeing the two mantis demons flying over his head, Hogg knew that he shouldn't wait any longer, the opportunity was fleeting, so after making up his mind, Hogg relied on the technique of flesh and blood recombination, which transformed one of his arms into tentacles, followed by a lightning-fast grasp.
The Blade Lord Tagiac used his athletic skills to evade Hogg's tentacles between the lightning and flint, but the captain of the guard was not so lucky, and he only had time to let out a scream, and then was dragged by Hogg into the woods.
"What the hell is this?" Even the battle-hardened Tayak was shocked into a cold sweat by Hogg's sudden attack, and it looked at the suddenly eerie woods under its feet, which obviously contained a dangerous enemy, and it was reasonable to encounter such an unknown enemy, the safest choice should be to return to the training ground, call the mantis demon soldiers under him, and then come and search.
However, Tayak was a little hesitant, although going back to move the rescue soldiers is the most rational way to deal with it, but it is not necessarily the most appropriate response, at this time it is the empress's personal guard captain who was captured by the strange tentacles, as the empress's messenger, it also represents the empress Shakohir to a certain extent at this time, so Tayak's behavior of moving the rescue troops is easy to be regarded as a retreat by other mantis demons.
But Hogg would not let it go because of Tayak's hesitation, Hogg put the mantis demon in the tentacle into another unfleshed claw, and then the empty tentacle cut through the air again, winding towards Tayak who stayed in mid-air, Hogg noticed that Tayak's movements were fast, so he was very scheming to attach a layer of obscure shadow energy to the tentacle.
So when the prepared Tayak rolled again in mid-air, and after dodging Hogg's tentacles, the shadow energy hidden in the tentacles suddenly exploded, and an evil shadow burst out from the tentacles, and instantly possessed Tayak's body, Tayak's body stiffened, and then fell straight down from mid-air, but before it could fall to the ground, it was swept away by Hogg's tentacles at will.
"Face the fear in your hearts!" Hogg looked at the two mantis demons in front of him and laughed in a low voice, its low laughter and the mantis demon's terrified whisper, echoing through the woods that were already completely shrouded in shadows, but did not reach the outside of the woods at all.
"I see!" After a long time, Hogg suddenly realized that he finally figured out what his problem was, although the praying mantis demon worshiped Ashaji, but after more than 100,000 years, this worship has only a little formal thing left.
In fact, whether the Ashaji who appeared in front of the Great Empress Shakehir was true or not, it did not affect the final result, because Shakeshir would never allow anyone to take away the power in its hands.
"Looks like I've been in the wrong direction from the start!" Hogg secretly said in his heart, since these mantis demons have no faith in their hearts for a long time, then Hogg can only use violent brainwashing to "help" these mantis demons find a new faith.
"Let's start with you!" Hogg looked at Tayak, who had been completely defeated by fear, this mantis demon warrior was strong and extremely loyal to the Great Empress Shakohir, so Shakshir also trusted Tayak very much, and Hogg planned to use Shakshir's trust to lead the Empress into a trap.
The Great Empress Shakehir was waiting for Tayak to arrive in her makeshift bedchamber, but apparently Tayak was a little too slow this time, but before Shakohir's patience was completely exhausted, a court attendant ran in: "Your Majesty, the Blade Lord Taryak is outside asking for an audience. ”
"Let it in!" Grand Empress Shakohir said, turning to look at Tagyak coming in from outside, a smile on her face, "My dear Lord of Blades, you're a little slow this time!" Did something happen on the way? ”
"Well, back to Your Majesty! …… There was a bit of an accident on the way. Tayak quickly lowered his head, looking apologetic, and said, "On the way here, I came across a demon lurking in the woods, and it took me a little time to deal with it. ”
"You said you met a demon on the way? It's a coincidence, not long ago, there was a guy in my palace who didn't know what it was, and he was driven away by me. The Empress Shakohir let out a burst of high-pitched laughter, and it was a little amused to think of the fool who pretended to be Ahra, and before he could finish his sentence, he was driven away by a psychic explosion, and now that he thought that the fool did look a little similar to the demon.