Thirteenth Sula Past and Present

Simon tried to dodge, but he found that his body was completely unresponsive. Not only that, but his right hand was raised uncontrollably, squeezing into his mouth brutally, clenching his tongue tightly, as if to tear it off alive.

Even if the smuggler captain wanted to ask for help at this time, he couldn't help it. The adventurer had taken control of his body with psionic powers, and the most he could do now was roll an eyeball.

Even at this time, he did not give up the idea of struggling. Constantly glancing at the adventurer female mage with his eyes, he could already see that the psychic warlock in front of him did not look like a good talker, and the woman still had some hope. Moreover, the Psychic Warlock seemed to value her offer.

The hand that was controlled by the psionic energy seemed to suddenly become infinitely powerful, clenching Simon's tongue tightly and pulling hard. The latter only felt the smell of rust in his mouth, and the base of his tongue was already bleeding.

"Enough, our good captain should have learned his lesson. As if genuinely moved by the plea for mercy in Simon's eyes, Coral Witch advised the Psychomancer to stop. "The dumb man can take the helm, but he can't command the sailors. ”

"You heard how he dragged us into the water earlier," Muhati said. "I understand that you don't support the abuse of violence, but sometimes only strong tactics can work for some people. ”

"Is Muhadi speaking, or is the Primordial Warlock speaking?" said Satili to the Psychic Warlock. "It seems to me that your statement is very close to Rajat's style. Think about it, and remember how you handled this situation before you infected the Mind Demon Seed of the Primordial Warlock. If you had made your own decisions, the real you, would you still be like this?"

"Just because Rajat is a great enemy does not mean that everything he does is wrong or that all his ways must be circumvented. The psychic sorcerer hesitated, but still didn't stop his psionic power. "But I have to talk. ”

"Let me point out...... "Coral Witch has no intention of giving up persuasion. "We're on Captain Simon's smuggling boat. ”

"What do you mean?"

"This is his boat, we have eaten the food and water he provided before. Sadiri continued. "It's unexpectedly that we're his guests, aren't we? We shouldn't hurt him, it's not the guest's doing. ”

Muhadi looked at the smuggler captain in front of him, who was clutching his tongue in a ridiculous gesture and pulling it out. "Even if you get a suspended sentence this time. The Psychic said to Simon, and unlocked his psychic abilities.

The smuggler captain slammed to the ground, "You won't regret it!" he swore to the Psychic Warlock as he rubbed his chest before he could breathe.

Muhati ignored him and walked straight to the fainted Templar leader. As he walked, the sailors ducked, as if hiding from some kind of walking plague. One of them was probably panicked, and he stumbled and fell on the deck, and his face turned white at once, as if he thought the psychic was going to eat him.

Muhadi walked over to the Templar leader who had fallen on the deck, and used his foot to distract the unconscious body of the other man, so that the melted metal would not flow onto him. On closer inspection, he did look a little like his mother, but it was almost impossible to tell that he had elven blood.

"You know this Templar. The Coral Witch's voice came from behind him. She walked lightly, but the Psychic Warlock felt her approach, and an indescribable fragrance hit her.

"You have the gift of being a psychic warlock, I do know, through his bloodline. Muhadi frowned, and then said, "Dildri's son, as you may remember, was the daughter of Abel Rakli, the witch king of Laamu, who later followed Fahd. ”

"Your in-laws?, but he doesn't seem to have elven blood. Satili also felt a little strange. "What do you think is going on?"

"That's exactly what I was trying to figure out. I'll use psionic reading to read minds, but it's inconvenient to force my way into his mind just now, so as not to leave any permanent wounds. Mohathir said. "Take advantage of the coma...... Now is the time. ”

Then, he concentrated.

It is not easy to review a person's memories, and the large number of trivial memories is often only meaningful to the owner himself, and there are some parts that are offensive or disgusting. Muhadi was quick to ignore the inconsequential parts and look for what he needed.

The name of the Templar was Mu'awiyyah, Mu'awiyyah ibn Fahd ibn Abhiad, and he was indeed the son of the elf Fahd and the Witch King's daughter, Dildri. But in him, the Witch King's bloodline seems to have the upper hand, and it is almost impossible to see that he has elven blood.

In the Psychman's memory, the Witch King Abellachili was the most hateful of the Primordial Warlock's apprentices, and Ram's attitude towards the non-human race was somewhere between total extermination and temporary tolerance. Maybe the Witch King's alteration of himself has kept her descendants in purely human form, or is it a side effect of the dragonization spell?

Muhati is a little strange, since he is the son of Fahd, why did he run to work for the witch king Malik?

The psychic warlock continued to dig deeper, slowly figuring out the reason behind this, and also figured out a lot of what had happened to Atas during his absence.

Even in the years when Muhadi was still active among the believers, the union of the believers was not strong. The first is a young faith, and most of its followers are converted as adults. Among them were tribal warriors from the Scorpion tribe, as well as other nomadic tribes, who were the first to convert, and who therefore held themselves in high esteem. In addition to this, there were civilians from Tyre, exiles from Ram, merchants who walked the desert, and mysterious psionics from Atki...... These people prefer to be sedentary and do not get along well with nomadic herders.

In addition, there is the Witch King Malik. The real reason why he was willing to take refuge in the first place was unknown to even the Psychic Warlock himself.

When Muhathir disappeared, a split ensued. His de facto wife, the self-proclaimed chief of the faithful and the khan of the Khans, Fatuma, led most of the nomadic warriors to continue the invasion of Mistara. They swept from the valley of the Mistara River with blood and fire, burned and plundered along the holy river of the natives, conquered and destroyed all the cities along the way, and reduced their people to slavery.

Since the Revolution in Tyre, slavery has been eradicated from the region by the Coral Witch and her associates. The Buraku people around Tyre did not agree, but reluctantly accepted the approach. To Muhadi's surprise, the holy army of the tribes had entered Mistara and so quickly revived the ancient traditions. The only difference is that this time they no longer enslave each other, but instead target the infidels.

Fatoumah sent emissaries to the states of Mistara, claiming to "convert to the One True God immediately and recognize Muhadi as His spokesman, otherwise he will be completely destroyed". The vast majority of the earth kings refused this outrageous request, and the army of Atas continued south after conquering and slaughtering the city of Derry.

The army marched all the way, burning fields, farms, and towns, and restoring the grasslands to their pristine wilderness. The Starch Spencers sent the druids and the psychic sorcerers to fight alongside, and the Mistara forces and the Kshatriya warriors were crushed and retreated.

When Jaisar, the capital of Orissa, the "City of Waterfalls", was captured, all the men in the city were beheaded and their bodies thrown into the holy river that the Mistara people considered sacred. This vast river, which claims to be self-cleaning and cleanses the soul, has been emitting the stench of corpses for three months. Women and children were taken into slavery. On their way to the slave market on the edge of the northern desert, three-quarters of the captives died. The ruler of Odisha, Royampa, was the only man whose body was not thrown into the holy river, and his head was preserved, deboned and fleshed to make a wine cup for human use.

Fatoumah then led a surprise attack on the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh, where the ruler was cowardly and cowardly, and when thick black smoke rose from the north, he dared to close the gates of the city and not send a single soldier to help. But even so, they were caught off guard by the incredible mobility displayed by the Atas nomadic army. The city of Andra was burned to the ground, and Fatoumah himself renamed the ruins as Gali Kamayi, "The City of Weeping Children".

She never lived in one placeβ€”like the lowly kneelers, her tent was the palace, and the saddle was the throne. In the face of the military genius of Fatoumah, the cruelty and bravery of the nomadic warriors of Atas, and the combined power of the Starch Spencer druids, psychic magicians, and blasphemer mages, the cities of the Mistara were toppled and destroyed, leaving nothing but ashes and ruins in the place where the proud towers stood. During the assault on Chinna, the defenders launched a desperate charge after running out of ammunition, but did not hurt the elven archers who came and went. Taking advantage of the vast forests of the area, the blasphemer mages squandered their spells, and it is said that the place still has the shadows left on the stones when the defenders were vaporized.

Finally, Mistara became the first world to be conquered, and its natives either succumbed or were destroyed, as Fatoumah had warned. Some of the natives welcomed the new rulers, most of whom belonged to the lowest strata of the Mistara caste system, as coolies in the Shudras and as lifelong mothers in the Dalit states. But more people hated the conqueror, especially after she ordered the extermination of all Brahmins on the planet. Since then, there have also been people who call Fatuma the Great Khan of Iron, or Iron ****, depending on what position you hold.

Larger-scale conquests were used as a starting point, taking advantage of Mistara's abundant resources hundreds of times that of Attas, more magic ships were built, and missionaries served as psychic magicians spared no effort to transform the people of the conquered regions, and even the psychic demon seeds were used on a large scale as common psionic energy.

Even Mistara's colorful and diverse native species have been weaponized, and the Starch Spencers have used them to create terrifying new monsters. The graceful and mysterious hydra lizard has been twisted into a cruel and bloodthirsty hydra, and the giant white winged Dapeng Garuda has metamorphosed into a dangerous and swift deathwing.

Even the Gis-Yankees came to a boost, and after the destruction of their astral capital, the vast Gis-Yankee empire crumbled and split into many small, non-subordinate states. There were also a number of Giss Yankees who were described as lawless pirates or mercenaries for mercenary, some of whom were hired by the Atas. Their knowledge of multiverse shipping routes and navigator skills are considered extremely valuable.

Driven by both interests and beliefs, a thousand magical ships set sail and fly to all the neighboring habitable worlds. More and more tribes are leaving the harsh desert of Atasna for the green lands. They were tougher than the other, and soon built up a series of smaller colonial worlds.

Merchants and scholars from Tyre, as well as the Starch Spencer Druids, also left for the New World. However, the Buraku tend to target backward and weak worlds, and these people tend to prefer developed and prosperous planets, where they trade and preach in a more peaceful way.

In the beginning, the two groups of people cooperated with each other to expand new frontiers together. But gradually, the dispute grew bigger and bigger until it became difficult to reconcile.

Fahd, the chief Qadi and the highest religious judge of the First Cause, did not approve of the restoration of slavery, but his ideas were not supported by the majority of the chiefs and warriors. His half-sister Fatuma was particularly unhappy with the judges' tendency to meddle in everything, and suggested that she would play the knife dance with him.

The Atas warriors would not back down in the face of challenges, otherwise they would be looked down upon for the rest of their lives, so Fahd did not refuse. The two threw scimitars at each other, caught each other's and threw them back, and in the end it was Fahd who was the first to lose, his sister's scimitar cutting off one of his fingers.

And this was only the fuse, and in Mistara, Fahd married his second wife, the widow of a small local nobleman. And since then, he has been more tolerant of the indigenous people of the conquered lands. Fahd encouraged the Atas to learn their language, appreciate their culture, and try to intermarry with them. He believes that this will help to dispel the revolt and will make Atas stronger in the long run.

But this made Fatoumah even more disgusted, and she resented Fahd's daily life as a kneeling man, and began to learn to appreciate the sound of glamour and abstract paintings, rather than the way of the sword. "Thousands of years ago, the elves before the War of Evolution were like this, and as a result, they paid the price of their own depravity. Fatoumah commented. "Do you want our people to repeat the mistakes of the past?!"

Finally, one day, Fatoumah plucked out the tongue of Fahd's second wife, "because her slander had poisoned the chief judge" and that it must be so that "she would not spread lies and blasphemy again". She also gouged out the poor woman's eyes and nose so that "everyone could see what a monster she was." She also ordered that the bronze and iron idols worshipped by the Mistara be melted down and made into arrowheads and swords.

This eventually led to a break between the two, and Fahd left Mistara in a fit of rage to live in a newly conquered remote world. It was there that his son Mu'awiyah, attracted by the promise made by the witch king Malik, joined the latter's side.

Muhathir terminated his memory browsing, and the information revealed made him a little distraught. The division among the believers was deeper than he had previously known, and the change in Fatoumah worried him a little.

The Psychic Mancer thought about it, it was just a memory extracted from an opponent of Fatoumah, inevitably subjective and biased. And psychic magicians know that human memory is not a reliable medium, and that it can be easily tampered with, distorted, erased, or created out of nothing. Sometimes, a few simple hints can make you remember something that doesn't exist and believe it. The false memory experiments of the ancient great psychic wizard Loftus have strongly demonstrated this.

I had to go and meet with Fatumah in person to see what was going on. Muhadi thought, and then he came into contact with his abilities. The unconscious Templar leader Muawiyah groaned unconsciously, and continued to fall unconscious.

Seeing the Psychic Warlock stand up, Satili stepped forward and asked, "Did you find any useful information?"

Muhadi nodded and began to explain to the female mage, "Things are trickier than I expected......

The Coral Witch listened attentively, nodding her head from time to time or asking her own questions appropriately. Muhadi patiently explained, suddenly feeling danger approaching, and instinctively showed his ability to summon a protective shield.

The sudden arrow effortlessly tore through the shield summoned by Muhadi, and quickly approached. At the same time, another arrow flew straight for Sadiri.

The Coral Witch momentarily stopped time, and although everything around her suddenly fell into a state of stillness, the two arrows remained unmoved. This is undoubtedly a very powerful artifact of magic to be immune to the effects of the Time Stop spell. In the past, the blasphemer mages of Atas would not have made such an item, because the amount of life force it would consume was too great. But now it is clearly different, there are countless new worlds of life energy waiting to be squandered.

Muhadi's eyes were quick, and he reached out and grabbed the arrow that flew towards him. A powerful electric current immediately erupted from the arrow, causing him to feel a wave of vertigo. The Psychic Warlock immediately showed another ability, altering his body's metabolism so that he was not alerted to the poison smeared on the Arrow.

The second arrow struck the Coral Witch's white forehead, instantly triggering the protective spell she had prepared. The Arrow loses all kinetic energy and falls weakly to the ground.

At the same time, the shooters of the two arrows, a Templar who had just fainted to the ground, had already leapt to his feet. He leaped backwards, closing the distance between him and the Psychic Warlock, and a portal appeared just right where he had landed.

"I'm sorry. The Assassin, disguised as a Templar, said in a loud voice, but everyone present heard it clearly.

The Assassin vanished into the portal, which then rapidly shrank until it closed. Before it could close completely, a third bolt flew out of the rapidly shrinking portal.

A shocking explosion ensued, and the target was not the Psychic Warlock or the Coral Witch, but the lightsail and rudder of the magic ship. (To be continued.) )