Presumably there must be factional struggles in any human polity, and the same is true of the Serpent Cult.

Snake worship can actually be divided into two factions, 'cobra and 'viper', which is also due to the struggle between the priestesses of the snake worship.

Over the past hundred years, priestesses have been sent to the Pander Continent - the Temple priestesses consider this a kind of distribution, and most of the priestesses sent to the Pander Continent are the losers in the political struggle.

Some of these losers are also sympathetic, and they have formed an alliance in the Pander continent and formed a 'Cobra, faction.

From the followers of the Snake Cult to the Snake Cult warriors, to the Cobra Warriors, they have established a different hierarchy of cultists in the Pander Continent.

This is in keeping with the culture of the native lords of Pande, where the priestess is like a lord, the cobra warriors are like knights who follow them, and the snake warriors are like servants.

However, these priestesses who were assigned to the Pander Continent are still loyal to the Snake Worship Cult, and will also cooperate with some orders from the Snake Worship Temple on the Amara Continent - after all, the priestesses have been brainwashed since childhood, and even infighting will not affect their loyalty to the Snake Worship Cult itself.

But after all, it is divided between two continents, and the temple cannot control the Cobra faction, and the priestesses of the Pander continent will only obey some orders.

And the 'Viper Sect, which is basically the snake worshippers native to the Amara Continent, these disciples are from the Gubax Empire, so the system is not as hierarchical as the Pande Continent - the Gubax Empire has no lord culture, the warriors of the Viper Sect have the same status as ordinary believers, and the leaders are also called generals like Bacchus.

Due to the chaos of the military and political system of the Snake Worship Sect in the Amara Continent for more than a hundred years, it is difficult for the priestesses of the Temple to really control the military power, and the Snake Worship Sect is gradually getting out of control.

In many cases, the orders of the temple were disobeyed - and this was normal, and few of the orders issued by the priestesses of the temple were reliable, and the generals of the Viper faction ostensibly respected the orders of the priestesses, and had great respect for the priestesses who accompanied the army, but they would never listen to the priestesses in everything.

In this case, the authority of the temple is naturally not as good as before, if it weren't for the fact that the Dread Legion has the mission of eliminating rebellion, I'm afraid that the Snake Worship Sect would have been torn apart long ago.

The problem is that the Dreadcorps is not loyal to the High Priest either.

In fact, even the council of priestesses of the temple could not give any orders to the Dreadcorps.

The Dreadlegion has a special position in the Serpent Cult, and Maltis is not interested in anything other than rebellion and warfare, so he naturally cannot be bought.

Moreover, this terrible legion would not have had any dependence on the Serpent Worship Temple—all of them were resurrected undead, needless to supply or enjoy.

In fact, until the death of the original talented High Priestess, any legionary foot soldier in Maltis's Dreaded Legion had a much higher status than the Temple Priestess.

Because the Dread Legion used to be a rebellious army of the Serpent Cult, they only did two kinds of work, one was to crusade against the Serpent Cult troops who betrayed the Great Serpent God Azi Dahaka; And the other is to conquer those enemies that are difficult to deal with. ….

Beyond that, Maltis would not have paid any attention to it......

This also means that in the current Snake Worship Sect, the high priests in the temple basically do not control any military power outside, and only the temple guards are under the control of the high priests.

And the current high priest actually still has some ideas, after all, once he takes power, he naturally hopes to break the situation of elections every four years......

She wanted to take control of the military from the outside into her own hands.

To this end, she used Alyssa as a blade and designed a series of intrigues.

First, the High Priest stated that Alyssa had absconded after poisoning all the Temple priestesses, and that a large investigation was needed.

But in reality, Alyssa has always been in the hands of the high priest's close confidant samurai.

Subsequently, the High Priest summoned the leaders of the Viper faction at the temple, expressing suspicion that Elisa's rebellion had something to do with the army, and announced that he would find out about the rebellion.

And at the same time,

The High Priest quietly sent Alyssa into the camp of one of the Viper's strongest generals, in order to frame the general for plotting a rebellion with Elisa.

After all, Alyssa did intend to poison all the priestesses in the temple, including the high priestess—a crime of treason of the highest order.

Since there were indeed traitors who were temple priests in the barracks, it was only natural that Maltis's Dread Legion would step in to quell the rebellion.

So the general, along with a small group of disobedient Serpent warriors, were killed by Maltis's Dreadcorps, but Alyssa fled again—the High Priest thought Elisa, a really poisoned sinner, was useful, and hid Alyssa again.

The reason for this is to use Elisa, a real rebel sinner, to drive Maltis's Dread Legion again in the future - this kind of high-end rebel who can cause the Dread Army to be dispatched is not easy to find, of course, it should be cherished.

I don't know how Maltis judged the truth and lies, maybe Maltis can get an oracle from Azi Dahaka to judge the truth and falsehood, anyway, false accusations and forged orders have never stopped the Dread Legion, and the rebel Maltis who is too low will not care.

But Alyssa, a temple priestess, is obviously very influential, and as long as the situation is true, the Dread Legion will definitely be dispatched.

After the Dreadlegion killed the general, the High Priestess successfully installed his cronies in the position of the general, and completed the control of the army under the deterrent power of the Dreaded Legion.

- She stated that if the army did not obey her command, all the soldiers would be killed by the Dreadcorps as a rebel, and would not be able to live even after death.

If you are killed by the Dreadcorps as a traitor to the Serpent Cult, the end is indeed very miserable, and it is not just death......

The Dread Legion represents the greatest fear, even within the Serpent Cult.

Because traitors or Serpent sinners will be devoured by the Dreadlegion in the Serpent Cult's altar - literally, they will be devoured by the Dreadcorps' python knights.

After being eaten alive, the betrayer would also annihilate the sinful soul into the abyss in the altar of Azdahaka, and eventually become the devoured. ….

This kind of 'devoured' is roughly equivalent to the soul being devoured and the flesh being eaten, leaving only a skeleton-like body, but this body will still be driven by those python knights until it is completely turned into powder.

In the eyes of the Snake Worshippers, this is equivalent to never being able to turn over, and will sink into a hell of pain forever.

In fact, the Devoured of the Serpent Cult is similar to the Fallen of the Cult of the Dark Goddess.

They had all been stripped of their flesh and skin, and their souls had been devoured by some kind of being.

It's just that in the Dark Goddess Sect, the Fallen belong to the initiative to sacrifice their flesh and soul to the Dark Goddess in exchange for great power, which is more like an active transaction.

In the Serpent Cult, the devoured are sinners of the sect, but they also gain strength from it......

The logic on both sides is very different, but the result is indeed the same - the devoured and the depraved are fleshless and powerful walking corpses.

Obviously, the powerful power they have obtained is probably only an inevitable phenomenon after becoming undead - the unconscious undead will no longer be affected by the body's own protective mechanism, and they can exert all the power that the human body can theoretically exert.

The followers of the Serpent Cult are extremely afraid of being devoured, and in their teachings, this punishment for the rebels means that they will endure endless torment in the abyss of hell, from which they will never be liberated.

They are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of going to hell - most cult believers are like this, death is nothing more than waiting in advance on the road to heaven, but being annihilated by the gods they believe in is unacceptable.

The High Priestess successfully obtained the first army to be subordinate to her alone.

It was the first time in many years that the High Priest had actually succeeded in seizing a large amount of military power—an achievement that gave the current High Priest a boost of confidence and naturally led to even greater ideas.

But this kind of framing can obviously only be used once in the continent of Amara, after all, Alyssa has been "fled", and it would be too fake if it could appear in another general's barracks......

And the other generals are already on guard.

Besides, if Maltis found out that this was a lie, he might have the Dreadtrons kill the High Priest and re-elect him......

Therefore, the high priest set his sights on the continent of Pande.

This kind of framing may not be able to continue to be used in the Amara continent, but it is logical to use it in the Pander continent - the priestesses of the Cobra faction often disobey the orders of the temple, although this is more due to the inconvenience of information transmission between the two continents, but it is indeed not wronged to say that they are rebellious.

In this way, the Dreadcorps can still be used as a sword, and Alyssa, the great traitor, can still come in handy.

On the one hand, the High Priest intends to get hold of the armies of the Cobra faction of the priestesses, who have been the losers in the political struggle, and in the eyes of the High Priestess, she must be able to kill or control the losers, and take the army of the Cobra faction into her own hands.

Moreover, the Cobra faction basically uses the logic of the lord, those priestesses lead the army personally, and there is no 'general, this middleman, and the followers of the Cobra faction will also be more comfortable with being controlled by a dictatorial priestess than the Viper faction. ….

On the other hand, the High Priest intends to personally conquer the Bacchus Empire on the Pander Continent - with such an achievement, she will inevitably become the true ruler of the entire Serpent Worshipping Sect, just like the first generation of High Priests in control.

So she banished Elisa to the Pander Continent, asked her cronies to take Elisa to become a member of the Cobra Sect, and at the same time sent an order to the priestesses of the Cobra Sect on the Pander Continent to besiege the Emperor Landing Harbor - in the name of the Temple Priest Council, the snake worshippers of the Pan Continent must join their expeditionary force in the Emperor Landing Harbor.

This is actually so that all the priestesses of the Cobra faction can gather in the port of Emperor's Ringing, and then the high priest can use the name of 'Alyssa united with the Cobra faction to rebel, and once again urge the Dreadcorps to rebel, so that she can capture the army of those priestesses in Pande Continent - the same method can indeed be used again in Pande Continent.

And this time she wants to achieve multiple goals in one step, not only to conquer the port of Dilin, to create good conditions for the conquest of the Bacchus Empire, but also to control a large number of troops, so that she can become a real dictator.

The High Priest then launched a mobilization for an expedition to Pande at the Temple of Amara.

The order to go on an expedition to Pander was indeed widely responded to by the Amara Continent, because the Amara Continent had been facing a long-term famine, and it was in line with the wishes of most believers to go to the Pander Continent to get some food to eat.

So the High Priestess began to assemble a large expeditionary force with the army she had just controlled, gathering the Serpent Cult forces to several ports near the temple, and then began to mobilize supplies.

However, what the High Priest didn't expect was that before the supplies of the army were ready, a fleet of the Bacchus Empire suddenly came to the Pander Continent, causing a lot of chaos in various ports.

The High Priestess himself was completely incapable of commanding naval battles, and the trusted general she had just promoted was probably not very willing, and she was too slow to react to the fleet of the Bacchus Empire, resulting in the destruction of a large number of warships and docks, and the military rations that had been gathered with great difficulty were also burned.

Now the expeditionary force may be difficult to set off......

As a result, the cronies and warriors who took Elisa to the Pander continent lost contact with the High Priest - the port was destroyed, but the expeditionary force led by the High Priest failed to go on the expedition as scheduled.

Instead, the DreadLegion, an independent legion, had set off before the accident at the port - the Dreads didn't need supplies, they weren't waiting in the harbor.

Naturally, the High Priest's plan was very deviant.

After bringing Elisa to Pande, the warriors landed in the coastal village of Serindil, west of the port of Dilin, and have been lurking there ever since, since the expeditionary force has not arrived, and the port has not been captured, they have to find another landing site.

But that leads them to one

He was unable to receive follow-up instructions, and he was unable to carry out the plan of the high priest.

The High Priest asked them to take Elisa to Dilin Harbor and join the Cobra faction as a priestess assigned to Pande.

However, the expeditionary force has not arrived for a long time, and the port of Emperor Lingang has been in the hands of the Bacchus Empire, although it has been crumbling by Pande's snake worship, but it just does not fall..........

There was no way to go to the Imperial Harbor, and these close warriors knew that Alyssa was a traitor who poisoned the High Priest, but they could neither dispose of it at will, nor did they dare to let Alyssa come into contact with the snake worshippers in Pande's homeland.

Therefore, they did not dare to act rashly, but hid in Serindil and waited.

As a result, Alyssa naturally failed to join the Cobra faction, and she didn't even meet the alliance of priestesses who were assigned to the Pander Continent.

As a result, the Dreadcorps did not attack the Cobra faction in Pander - because there was no rebellion.

Maltis was indeed able to tell the truth of an oracle in some way.

Therefore, the Dreadcorps did not attack the Imperial Harbor at all, nor did it stay near the Imperial Harbor.

This legion seems to have spontaneously had a new target, Siyuan City.

After all, the Dreads didn't need supplies, so Maltis sailed along the coastline for a few more days before landing at the village of Ziza.

Ordinary armies could not land in Qiza, there was no dock for large warships to dock, and large ships could easily run aground in shallow harbors.

Only the undead warriors of the Dreaded Legion, who did not know the fatigue and strength, could force themselves directly ashore from the gentle shoals of the sea - they did not need supplies, nor did they need to breathe, and even those war horses were not living creatures, as long as there was a gentle slope, they could even ride their horses directly ashore from the bottom of the sea......

The Dreaded Legion went in the direction of Siyuan City, but the High Priest's fleet never came, and the Emperor's Harbor never fell......

The high priest and these cronies and samurai were even more unable to carry out their tasks at this time.

If you stay in one place for a long time, it is naturally easy to give the prisoner a chance, and Alyssa will be beautiful and beautiful with poison......

As a result, two nights ago, Alyssa had given a kiss to a snake worshipper warrior who had looked at her face with straight eyes.

It was a close samurai of the High Priest, and this guy had convulsed all over his body and fell into a coma just a few minutes after being kissed, presumably hopelessly - a priestess who had been trained with poison since childhood, and the poison on her red lips was basically the same as that of a viper.

Then Alyssa got the black iron spear and ran away.

In order to escape, she also put on a leather armor that didn't fit well, and disguised herself as a follower of Pande's native Serpent Cult.

In fact, she had already managed to run away.

Knowing that there were Cobra priestesses gathered near Dilingang, Alisa originally ran to Dilingang, and she originally planned to join the Cobra faction and explain the High Priestess to these priestesses, which would definitely enable her to be protected and even supported by the local priestesses of Pande.

However, since it was the first time to come to the Pande Continent and she had seen little in the world, she didn't expect the Pande Continent to be so hierarchical, and as a result, she met a Cobra Warrior near the Emperor's Harbor - the Cobra Warrior had obviously never seen such a beautiful 'Snake Worship Sect follower', and planned to take it back to enjoy it.

The result is obvious, there is another victim under Alyssa's red lips.

So Alyssa was chased all the way to the village of Buyulin by the Snake Worship warriors under the Cobra Warriors, and then luckily met Risa Dilan.

Of course, even if she hadn't met Risadilan, she would probably be able to run away, and the priestess with the black iron spear in her hand was actually still capable of fighting power......

However, when encountering an army dealing with the Snake Worshippers, of course Alyssa will try to see if she can get shelter, after all, she is not sure whether the killing of the Cobra Warrior will be retaliated by Pande's Snake Worshippers......

"Commander, I understand the hissing of cultists...... way of thinking, I know how to deal with them...... Perhaps this is important for you to develop strategies and tactics...... It's going to help, hiss."

Alyssa began to introduce herself to the lord

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"I now understand why those Serpent Cultists would abandon Imperial Harbor and attack my forces instead...... Since this is the case, then the pressure on Dilingang is not much...... Ladies and gentlemen, we have to find a way to get the troops guarding the Imperial Harbor to come out and flank the Snake Cult!"

The lord really understood that the snake worshippers of the Pande Native who attacked the Emperor Landing Harbor had been attacking the Emperor Landing Harbor for three months, but they had never seen the high priest's expeditionary force arrive.

However, due to the orders of the temple, the snake worshippers did not dare to withdraw their troops......

Now that their own reinforcements are here, of course they will give up on Dilingang and turn their heads to attack themselves - whether they can defeat themselves or not, they can take the opportunity to get out of the rotten battle of attacking Dilingang!

The moon is shining on the twelfth floor