Chapter 439: The God of the Crypt
Gods, this is a rather familiar concept, but the existence it refers to is often confusing. What kind of beings can be called gods, and who decides the existence of gods? No one knows this, because even the most learned sorcerer, Clarke, the Lord of the Gray Tower, has never left a clear work on gods like the Complete Book of Demons, and even when mentioning these beings in class, he often flashes and obscures them with vague language. For others, the problem is even more confusing, there are so many gods in this world, elves have their gods, dwarves also have gods to worship, as for humans, Clark once said in class, "The reason I can't compile a general collection of human beliefs is that our race basically believes in what it sees, and the same beliefs may change every few decades, except for the same name." "Not to mention that in addition to these three races, elves, dementors, ghouls and even cavemen all have their own beliefs.
The gods have been compared to the stars in the sky, but in their dazzling proportions, they do have something in common. And this raises questions such as, do these shrines really exist? This is a question that exists in the minds of all believers, and only those who have a pure heart of faith can quickly give a positive answer, and even they may wonder if their Lord is really looking at the earth when the times are bad.
Of course, the priests and priests will not admit it, and they will show the believers the divine power of the Divine Mansion, telling them that it is a proof that the Lord is with them. The casters scoffed at this, because the so-called magic did not prove anything to them, and even a wizard once arrogantly said, "If you believe in a god because of power, then demons and demons may be better able to respond to your request." "Unfortunately, this wizard is a gray robe, which indirectly causes the apprentice of the Gray Tower to have a poor image in the eyes of the priests of the gods.
And this may explain why an evil god like Mother Crypt can have a sizable number of loyal followers. Because compared to those real shrines, "miracles" such as the heart of darkness are undoubtedly more tangible. Mu had this feeling now, he opened his arms, even if there was no light source around, the brown-robed priest could clearly see what was standing in front of him. It was a twisted and wriggling mass of metal that filled the entire cavern space! No one had ever seen such a strange sight, it was not the scenery that should exist in this world, and from time to time the bodies and faces of some creatures appeared on the surface of the metal, most of them were radnor and humans, and these faces and limbs struggled to break away from the surface of the metal, but it would only be in vain. The scene in front of him is almost the same as the statue of Mother Earth that the cursed crow saw when he first entered the heart of the ghost, except that the species of creatures that were devoured were relatively monotonous.
"Awake, my great Lord!" shouted the bald priest, the few priests left beside him with the same fanatical expressions on their faces. It should be noted here that the decrease in the number of priests around Mu was not due to the resistance of the Radnos. While the poor men who wanted to break away from the Earth Mother Sect did bravely attack the Brown Robe, the huge disparity in strength quickly turned the battle into a one-sided slaughter. The priests of Mu faithfully carried out the orders of their celebrants, and the entire tribe of Radnor, men, women, and children, whether they participated in the resistance or not, were thrown into the dark heart and turned into the energy of the awakening of Mother Earth. The real reason for the reduction of the priests is that they too have become part of the wriggling mass of metal in front of them, and these martyrs, in the words of the Earth Mother, are calling their evil masters to wake up from centuries of eternal sleep with their own flesh and blood.
"Boom!" a metal tentacle shot out of the main body, piercing the wall not far from the platform where the priests stood, but even as the rubble falling from the top of the cave smashed in front of their feet, the excited smiles on the brown-robed faces did not diminish in the slightest. On the contrary, the volume of the prayers they uttered grew louder and louder as they saw the power of the Heart, and the tattoos on their bodies writhed more frequently as a result.
"Goo... Hungry...", a low, disgusting sound emanated from the inside of the metal mass and then reverberated underground.
When Mu heard this, he immediately knelt down reverently, his hands raised high, sweat and other bodily fluids flowing unconsciously. "Lord, please don't say that! We have prepared rations for you! They are on the ground! As long as your majestic body breaks through the earth, all the creatures on the earth will be a part of you!"
"Hungry... Right now... Obviously, the dark heart did not stop because of the shouting of the main priest, and two thinner metal tentacles quickly popped out, sweeping away the two priests who were praying at once. But the priests who had escaped had a look of envy on their faces when they looked at their companions who had been swallowed into metal. What a privilege it is to be chosen by the Lord, to be one with Him, to give all that you have to Him!
After eating two of his own priests, the avatar of Mother Crypt began to swell again, and her body began to assimilate the surrounding rocks and dirt, transforming it into a part of itself, and everything here was delicious and delicious for this evil god from outside the world. The bloated bodies approached the platform of the priests, who could no longer recite the prayer of awakening in the face of this great glory, and they all knelt down on their knees in the same way as Mu, their hands stretched out to the metal mass not far away, and their faces were filled with distorted expressions of happiness.
"Come, Lord, let me be one with you!" Mu completely unloaded his usual style at this time, and he still had the calmness of being the priest of the Lord at this time? As the edge of the dark heart approached, what layout, allies, transactions, all no longer mattered, as long as he was one with the Lord, one with the Lord, one with the other...
"What's going on?" Mu waited for a long time, but he didn't see the metal devouring him, and he looked up blankly, looking at the dark heart that almost touched the tip of his nose. No, what's wrong! The priest stood up in a hurry, he didn't care about anything else, he put his hand on the metal surface, but nothing happened. "What's going on?" Mu repeated the question, not only was his hand not engulfed by the living metal, in fact, he couldn't see the surrounding metal mass continue to wriggle, and the whole dark heart seemed to suddenly return to its previous silent state. No, the truth is worse than that, if it is just sleeping, then as a priest of Mother Earth, he can feel the connection with Mother Earth, but now, there is nothing but dead silence.
It's like, as if this dark heart is dead.
"No !!"