The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 295

Faerun's God Realm does not have a clear distinction between good and evil. On the contrary, each god has its own - not geographically, but logically - domain of control. In many cases, you cannot simply judge whether a god belongs to Which side is good or evil.

Gods can be divided into two types: native gods, those who came to the world of Toril when or after it was discovered and worshiped only by its inhabitants; and foreign gods, who were worshiped in other worlds or planes and later His disciples came to Toril through plane passages or other means.

All gods in all pantheons are ruled by Io.Only He can allow the gods of other worlds to enter Toril, and only He can grant a creature Godhood.It was He who decided that in addition to the weak divine power, within a pantheon, there could only be one supreme god (equivalent to the main god) in charge of a priesthood. Only the winners are eligible to occupy all the priesthoods and become stronger, and of course the only fate for the losers is to fall.

This is also the reason why many weak divine powers (such as Karigos and Ulou Tilu) have always refused to expand their sphere of influence to increase their divine power level. The low level of divine power of weak divine power gods does not mean that their priesthood is not strong. It's not that they are unwilling to become a stronger existence, but that once they break through the limitation of weak divine power, wars from other stronger existences will follow one after another. After all, the turmoil before the "Dawn Calamity" has left them with lingering fears.

(The Calamity of Dawn: In order to create a new god system of his own, Losander, the God of Dawn, caused a divine shock beyond his control, which caused the fall of many local gods and foreign gods. After this disaster, the gods The intensity of the war between has almost dropped to the lowest point in history)

Ibrando, the god of caves, holds the weak divine power of underground civilizations, caves, and some shadow priesthoods. Among the gods, he is only at the bottom of the divine power rank, compared to Bane, Karsus, Mystra, etc. For the existence of such powerful divine power, it can be said to be an extremely inconspicuous little character.

As the last survivor of a certain destroyed underground civilization pantheon, Ibrando has no reliable allies among the gods. If it weren't for the restrictions of Io, I am afraid that he would have been killed by those who peeped at his priesthood. Devoured by the great existence.Ibrando desperately hopes to change his down-and-out situation. Even if he can't establish a powerful independent god system, he must at least dominate one side like Ubtao, the god of dinosaurs.

Being expelled by Io this time was a humiliating disaster for most of the gods, but it was a rare opportunity for some beings.Seizing Dasophia was regarded by Ibrando as the first step to change his own destiny.

The coming of the saint requires the body of a mortal. Unlike most gods who choose human beings as the sustenance of the saint, Ibrando chose the underground lizard man as the sustenance. He decided to use the lizard man as the main source of his future faith power and set Guide these reptiles who are evil in nature to establish a preliminary underground civilization, just like Rose did back then.

In order to intimidate and control other underground lizardmen, Ibrando had to choose the face of the god in the lizardman's dream as a model, and began to shape a hideous and terrifying body.Ibrando's size is as large as the strongest underground giant, with ugly and multi-edged horny scales, a ferocious crocodile-shaped head and jagged teeth, as much as possible to show the most ferocious lizardman can imagine appearance.

Ibrando used [Perfect Transformation] to shape his holy body, but under the command of his mind, the power of magic made an irreversible mistake, and many fragility appeared on the surface of his indestructible scales The rift in his body was filled with unclean blood clots, and Ibrando's body was no longer perfect, and even mortal magic weapons could hurt him.

At this time, Ibrando realized that he could no longer perfectly control the power of spells as usual. For some reason, the magic network was disturbed. Only the goddess of magic and the existence related to her could cast spells normally without being affected.

The body of the saint from mortal things brought Ibrando a lot of trouble. He often involuntarily turned his attention to the inside of the body, inspecting the mortal body he was forced to use, the flow of blood, the secretion of body fluids , the intersection of various neural signals.Ibrando was lost in the endless intricacies of the machine that gave him voice and mobility.

What a gift and a miracle what a mystery he discovered within the folds of the cortex!And when he focused his consciousness on a cell in the body's continuously circulating blood flow, allowing the body to decide the path to explore, Ibrando felt a fascination that rivaled divinity itself—desire and impulse.

Gradually Ibrando understood that this is a terrible trap, if he sinks in this way, he will never be able to return to the heaven.Ibrando tried to force himself out of it, he erected barriers in the brain of the body he was forced to inhabit, strengthening his senses and will, training them not to succumb to the danger of being locked in a mortal body, but that didn't easy.

Subterranean lizardfolk are a loathsome lizard-like creature, they are very warlike, and love the flesh and blood of their enemies the most - especially humanoids, so they love nothing more than bloody raids on the sanctuaries of humanoids .This time, led by the saint of Ibrando, the subterranean lizardmen were much bolder. They followed the saint and attacked several human villages without hesitation, and aimed at Aymanla tonight.

The civilization of the subterranean lizardmen is still in the primitive stone age. As a minority race that is not strong, they have no experience in attacking fixed human settlements. In this regard, even goblins can look down on them without any pressure.When the subterranean lizardman rushed close to Aymanla's wall, he first threw a wave of bone-pointed javelins aimlessly into the wall. This reckless behavior not only did not cause any human casualties, but killed many allies by mistake— —Sand lizard.

Then these wild beasts from the ground waved their stone hammers and frantically knocked on the gate of the village entrance - a row of wooden doors made of thick tree trunks.This made Ibrando who rushed over so angry that he almost shot the group of stupid reptiles to death first. According to the method of breaking the door of the underground lizardmen, even if they knocked until dawn, they would never be able to break through Aymanla's wooden door.

Seeing Ibrando's arrival, the lizard people beat more cheerfully, and there was even a rhythmic rhythm in it-"Bang bang, bang bang bang, bang bang, bang bang bang bang".Ibrando resisted the urge to slap these stupid future believers to death, roared and drove away the lizardmen in front of the door, and with his palm that could tear apart rocks, he easily tore Aymanla apart. wooden door.

Ibrando trampled the heavy wooden door into pieces in a demonstrative manner, turned around and roared loudly, venting his majesty to his lizard men.However, a whispered dragon language from an underground lizard man next to him (the lizard man uses dragon language as a conversation language) made him almost bite off his tongue: "Aha! Our song of praying to the gods really works, Great Lara Ollie (an evil deity worshiped by most lizardfolk who looks like a cross between a toad and a lizard) has helped the puppets open up their food caves."

(End of this chapter)