"Alyssa, you're an unusual tongue...... The accent doesn't look like it's from Pande's continent either. You're from the continent of Amara?"

Of course, the lord saw the forked tip of her tongue and heard her distinctive accent, it seems that Alyssa belongs to the special category even within the Serpent Cult.

So even though time was running out now, he still wanted to ask.

Alyssa looks like she's from the Serpent Cult headquarters, maybe she'll bring some information or revelations.

"You guessed my accent accurately, hiss...... I used to be a serpentine priestess...... Note that it was 'Once,'! They told me I was born in the Bacchus Empire, but all my memories are ...... In the Cult of God. Hiss...... I have apostated, and I will never join again. I saw that your men were fighting the Cult, and now the Cult is hunting me down, so I have to find a strong commander to follow, and there are many people who are always hissing...... A little more powerful.!"

Alyssa was indeed very awkward when she spoke, and from time to time she would make a 'hiss, hiss, sound, which was very uncomfortable to hear.

It was clear that she had been taught to speak like that since she was a child, and she herself didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with talking like that......

And the tip of her tongue will be more difficult to speak after being split in half, and it seems that it will be difficult for her to change this style of speech in her life.

"Cult...... Scold...... Apostasy? Are you the priestess of the Serpent Worship Temple on the continent of Amara? Why do you want to break away from the Snake Worship?"

The lord noticed Elisa's wording—the Cult of God.

"I really shouldn't have poisoned my rivals, hiss if I knew in advance that I would be tragically exiled to the Pander continent...... But the Merciful Goddess will know that I am only doing this to make life a little better for those who follow the true God...... Hiss!"

Alyssa was a little jumpy, but still intelligible, and it seemed that she had used some disgraceful means in the competition among the priestesses within the Serpent Cult.

"The goddess of mercy? Wait a minute...... What are you competing with the so-called competitors you are talking about?"

The lord was a little surprised, he realized that this former priestess probably had a very high status in the base camp of the Serpent Worship Sect in Amara!

Moreover, Elisa's alleged apostasy may only be a rebellion against the current ruler of the Serpent Cult - she still believes in Azi Dahaka and calls him the goddess of mercy......

"All priestesses want to be messengers of the goddess, and only the high priest can convey the will of the goddess...... Hiss...... But the current Cult of God is completely deceived by the incompetent people who weave lies! Hiss...... The Cult of God is no longer a happy land, and the kingdom of God is full of wailing!"

Alyssa was completely unabashed, and it seemed that her long life in the temple had made her very self-conscious in communicating with people—she didn't care if others could understand it or not.

This is the expression of the gods.

But Alyssa was apparently completely unaware that her way of speaking was difficult for ordinary people to understand.

The influence of the environment in which you live as a child is deep-rooted.

No wonder Risadilan wants the lord himself to communicate with her, it is estimated that Risadilan has a hard time understanding Elisa's way of speaking that is both jumping and containing..........

But the lord understood something.

"The Snake Worship Cult of the Amara Continent...... What's going on?"

Li Ang listened to the meaning of Elisa's words, and estimated that the huge power built up by the Snake Worship Sect on the Amara Continent might have something seriously wrong.

"Hiss...... Famine!"

Alyssa sighed a little sadly.

"So...... This time, the Snake Worship Sect suddenly attacked Pande, and it was actually because of the famine on the Amara Continent?"

Leon's comprehension was indeed stronger than most, and although Alyssa could not speak clearly, he still understood.

"Hiss...... The current temple will not do the will of the goddess at all...... Hiss, the Cult of God is no longer the Cult of the Goddess!"

Alyssa nodded, and continued to speak briefly and jumpingly about what she had done

I know the inside story of the snake worship.

After a few minutes, the lord took a deep look at Alyssa, and then looked back in the direction of Emperor Lingang, and he understood what was going on.

Alyssa is a priestess who has been trained since she was a child in the Snake Cult, and she has been living in the Snake Worship Temple on the continent of Amara.

This is the headquarters of the Serpent Cult and a place to convey the will of the gods to the Serpent worshippers everywhere.

It is no secret that the Snake Worship Church takes baby girls from all over the world, especially young noble girls, and sends them to the temple to be trained as priestesses.

Many nobles also joined the snake worship religion because their children were abducted.

Although it is a cult, the identity between nobles and commoners among the cultists is still deeply rooted, and it has become a standard process for the snake worship to abduct and sell aristocratic girls and train them to become priestesses.

The Serpent Cult believes that only pure maidens can be carriers of Azi Dahaka - in line with the dark goddess Ereda.

In order to ensure the priestess's purity, all priestesses were constantly exposed to special poisons from an early age.

This poison will make them unusually bewitching, and will prevent them from contracting most diseases, including the Red Death, but it will also make them poisoned all over their bodies, and their kisses will be fatal to the average person.

It is precisely because of the poisoning taken since childhood that their life expectancy is very short, and they often die of illness in their thirties.

As for the forked tongue – this is a ritual when becoming a priestess, cutting the tip of the tongue in half, which represents their status within the Serpent Worship.

The sign of the tongue is a trivial matter, it only causes an accent to speak, but the whole body is poisonous, which means that they will never want to be loved by men and women in their lives, so these priestesses can only focus on the struggle for power when they grow up.

In the special environment of the temple, many priestesses learned to pour and fight in their teens, and lies and deception were their daily routine.

Like Alyssa, there are many priestesses who grew up in the temple, and due to the basic transportation of this era, most of them have never left the temple perimeter, and they can learn power struggle in the temple full of lies, but they simply don't know how to govern a large religious state.

The power of the Serpent Cult was originally concentrated in the original High Priest, whose identity was mysterious, wearing a mask all the time, and no one knew what he really looked like or who he was. ….

This high priest ruled the Serpent Cult for only a few decades.

However, in the past few decades, the Snake Worship Cult has developed from nothing to a huge force, and then gradually completely destroyed the powerful old Bacchus Empire on the Amara Continent, established a religious state that encompassed the entire Amara Continent, and forced the Maritin Empire, which was split from the First Bacchus Empire, to submit, which was brilliant for a while.

Clearly, the High Priest was a fairly capable ruler, even if his methods were a bit peculiar.

During the time of the High Priest's reign over the Serpent Cult, the priestesses were merely messengers to spread messages and servants to serve the High Priest, largely similar to the eunuchs of some feudal dynasties.

But after the death of this high priest, everything changed.

The high priest died suddenly, leaving no will and no time to prepare for his death.

So, after a clumsy struggle without a teacher, a priestess came to power.

After that, the temple of the Serpent Cult became a gathering place of intrigue, and the priestesses suddenly had a new purpose, and generations of priestesses began to take in rights that were not originally theirs.

From noble baby girls to temple priestesses to high priestesses, this seems to have become a conventional path to the top, and under the influence of the Senate parliamentary system of the Cubax Empire, another parliamentary system was formed, a council of priestesses.

Given their short lifespan, they even came up with a four-year general election system......

But the question is, what can girls who have been trafficked since childhood, and then grew up in the temple of the Serpent Cult, and who have almost never seen the outside world, understand?

They don't even have control over the army—they have roots

I don't know that.

It's just that most snake worshippers do honor the orders of the temple, and the council formed by the priests is indeed the supreme authority.

But the constituents of this nondescript power structure have not only been unable to contact the opposite sex, but also unable to even gain friends, and have never seen the world...... Most priestesses are a bit of a pervert.

As a result, under the rule of generations of priests, the Snake Worship Sect, which had ruled almost the entire Amara continent one hundred and fifty years ago, barely made an inch of progress in the following hundred years or so.

Not only that, but it also allowed the descendants of the old Bacchus Empire, which had already been conquered, to re-establish the Grey Empire on the ruins, and now, the Grey Empire can even fight with the Serpent Cult......

On the contrary, the snake worshippers who were previously sent to the Pander continent gradually formed a climate in the New Bucks Empire.

But the priestesses still see going to the Pander continent as a kind of exile, and they still only see the temple......

For hundreds of years, the rulers did not know how to govern, and in this case, the snake worship religion has not yet been destroyed, and it can only be said that this is the innate advantage of religious forces...... At least the brainwashing ability is really strong, and the pyramid scheme-style disciple acquisition is still continuing, although it has been continuing to rot.

And in the land ruled by the Serpent Cult, the life of the believers is getting worse and worse.

The Snake Cult decrees that meat is not eaten and alcohol is not allowed.

Originally, this was the standard set by the first high priest - he said it was an oracle. ….

But according to the lord's understanding, this is probably what the high priest specially requested when he first subverted the Amara continent in order to make up for the aftermath of the war caused by joining the Serpent Cult and destroying the ancient empire.

By not eating meat or drinking alcohol, more land and resources can be used to grow food and vegetables.

After a period of constant chaos and war, the continent of Amara was probably completely destroyed by the war, and this standard requirement for food can actually feed more people.

But the priestesses, who later seized the power, apparently did not understand the reasoning, and simply blindly demanded that it not be allowed, because they had been taught from an old age that meat and wine were harmful and inedible......

If it's just not allowed to eat meat, it's not a big problem, after all, the origin of the original artifacts of potatoes and corn in the Amara continent, potatoes can supply most of the nutrients to the human body.

But the problem was that the priestesses didn't know how to encourage farming...... They don't even have that concept.

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Often obsessed, even the warriors at the grassroots level of the Snake Worship Sect wear valuable viper equipment, and the intricate patterns on the armor alone cost a huge amount.

But the patterns were purely ornamental, just to resemble the viper—the aesthetic of the priestesses.

The original propagation of 'rebuilding a beautiful heavenly kingdom was only superficial, but the temple of the Serpent Cult was decorated with a huge castle of golden splendor, but the followers could not even eat.

But this lack of food has only made the cultists more belligerent - they are quite willing to invade other places, such as the continent of Pande.

This kind of cult state will always impoverish its followers, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

After all, the destitute are more willing to die for the gods.

And Alyssa, probably a bit of a brainstorm among the priestesses.

She had traveled to some ports to spread the will of the goddess, and had seen the beleaguered cultists, and she wanted to take the power to change the situation.

It's just that she doesn't have much experience in power schemes, and she naively thinks that poisoning other priestesses will be able to ascend to the throne herself......

After a failed poisoning attempt, she was banished to the continent of Pander - not because the ruling High Priest was magnanimous in not killing her, but because he wanted to strengthen his control.

The logic of the current High Priest is actually not complicated - Alyssa murdered the other priestesses as a fact, so she claims that Alyssa fled Amara with a large army and went to the Pander continent after the failure of the rebellion.

This was because the priestesses had never really been able to control the army, and the high priestess wanted to use this way to keep the expeditionary forces under her own control, rather than subordinate to the council of priests.

Of course, whether she succeeds or fails, Alyssa will never return to the temple alive, and a team of Serpent Cult warriors have been watching her all the time.

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