Chaos Crown

Chapter 91, The Witch and the Snakeman
A pyramid made of huge stone blocks stands in front of Aaron. Its architecture has the earliest Sarukh style, that is, simple and simple, with almost no other decorations except for a holy emblem of a cosmic snake.

There is a long road in front of the pyramid, the middle of the road is very clean and tidy, and there are some stone statues on both sides.

The image of each stone statue is different, but Aaron quickly discovered the pattern on the stone statues.

The outermost stone statue is the most typical human appearance. A naked human male and human female kneel on the ground. From the perspective of sculpture alone, except for the weathering of the outer layer, they should be relatively pure human beings.

The second row of stone statues kneeling in the face of the pyramid has changed. These two stone statues still look human, but the difference can be seen in subtleties-scales have grown on both sides of their shoulders.

The changes in the third row of stone statues are more obvious, with scales, snake-like eyes, forked tongues and fangs of poisonous snakes.

In the fourth row of stone statues, the symbol of human beings is further lost, with snake arms replacing human arms, and snake tails replacing human feet.

The fifth row has a snake head and a human body, and the sixth row has a snake head and a snake tail, leaving only a humanoid torso with arms.

Their previous movements were also different. The outermost humans knelt on their knees, as humble as ants.

The snake man in the middle knelt on one knee, like a servant waiting for orders.

The snake people after the fifth row stood on the ground, just bowing their heads slightly to express their obedience, like vassals with status and status.

Until the seventh row, a creature that was obviously different from the snakeman appeared. Although they looked similar, they were obviously more gorgeous and noble. They wore robes dotted with precious stones, a golden crown on their foreheads, and exquisite eyeballs. Rubies are embedded in them, and they stand, obviously having a higher status.

The stone statue ends here. What stands at the gate of the pyramid is no longer a stone statue, but a giant snake statue encircling the world carved from a giant jade stone.

Although Aaron had never seen the giant snake statue, he knew from his past knowledge that this thing was probably the "Universal Giant Serpent" worshiped by the Sarukh witch gnat and the Snakeman Empire.

Then by analogy, the stone statue from the outside to the inside represents the process of "evolution".

Aaron started thinking and analyzing.

The outermost human beings are the lowest and most useless symbols, they are not even worthy of servants.

Slightly mutated human beings who mutate towards the snake people are the most humble servants, and they are only fit to serve other snake people as the lowest existence among the snake people.

The snake-headed or snake-tailed snake statues that have initially mutated have begun to have weapons, and their status is obviously higher. Facing the pyramid, they just knelt on one knee and waited for orders like soldiers.

In the end, the fully mutated snake people had a higher status, and they no longer bowed down, but simply bowed down.

Is this the evolution understood by the snake people?

Abandoning the human body step by step, abandoning humanity step by step, and finally climbing the ladder, transforming themselves into snake creatures, and gradually approaching the god they believe in—the cosmic snake.

So, the snake man in the seventh row is probably the legendary Sarukh witch?
Ordinary people are so eager for power and desire to become stronger. Some people choose to work hard to strengthen their bodies, some people choose to master skills to reach the pinnacle, and some people choose to explore the magic field to get in touch with the origin of the world.

All roads lead to Rome, but some people's roads are destined to be extremely difficult. For example, legendary warriors live decades longer than ordinary people, and most of their skills are knives.

Some people's paths are much easier. For example, Charlotte, the sorcerer, is born with a spark of divinity as a spiritual warlock, and her life span can be compared with that of the Seven Sisters of the Northland and Elminster.

Similarly, some people choose to give up, to worship, to pray, to transform themselves into other creatures, in order to obtain the mercy and bestowal of higher beings.

Snake people are such a race. They are a race created by the Sarukh witch-boa. They are formed by combining human genes and witch-boa genes. But they still maintain this kind of fanatical worship. They regard humanity and the human body as a symbol of inferiority, and they scramble to transform themselves into snakes.

The closer to the image of the Sarukh witch, the giant snake of the universe, the higher the status, and the more human-like, the lower the status.

Aaron found it difficult to evaluate the behavior.

This reminded him of the rituals of Chaos believers. In the process of believing in Chaos, every Chaos believer is a process of abandoning humanity and the human body. They regard mutation as a blessing, madness as power, and ascending demons as the ultimate reward. , From the most ordinary Chaos Warrior, to Chaos Warrior, Chaos Champion, Chaos Chosen One, Chaos Great Lord to the ultimate Demon Prince, it is a model of a person's humanity and body completely mutating into a subspace creature.

The four gods of chaos are always so generous, always so generous in rewards.

Onlookers may find this behavior of the snake people ridiculous, but any question must consider the background of its time - in that ancient era, human beings were still drinking blood, and the Sarukh witches were the ruling race of the mainland, an interstellar civilization , for the snake people at that time, it was the greatest honor to be the servant of the wu 虺, and at that time the wu 虺 did represent the most advanced civilization and the most powerful force.

In this case, it is a matter of course for snake people to worship witches, which is the lead of several eras.

At any time, the exchange of culture, technology, and ideas can bring about progress. At that time, the witches were several times ahead in all aspects. Perhaps for the snake people, their creators were gods.

Is it wrong to worship God, imitate God, and become God?

But Aaron doesn't want to abandon humanity, nor does he want to abandon his human body. He wants to be a god with the priesthood of chaos, but also wants to maintain his feelings of joy, anger, sorrow and fear as a human being.

This is doomed that he must resist in cooperation with the four gods of chaos, and cooperate in resistance.

He warned himself that he must never summon the clones of the four gods of chaos again.

Summoning the incarnation of Slaanesh this time, he has already managed to arouse Slaanesh's competitive spirit to the extreme, but he still paid a very painful price. He is not sure whether his human and emotional functions will be completely invalidated if he does it again.

Don't do that kind of thing!

"Hateful snake man."

While Aaron was thinking, the female vagrant Eleonora was checking the traps. She spent nearly half an hour, and after making sure that the traps in the pyramid had been eliminated, she came to the two dwarf corpses : "Hey, Lord Salian, look at this."

"What did you find?" In the darkness, relying on his dark vision magic, Aaron came to the corpses of the two dwarves.

The performance of the corpses is very strange. On the one hand, they are very "new", obviously they have just died not long ago, and on the other hand, they are very "old", and some places have decayed to expose the bones.

"It's a trap!" Elunora played with the dagger in her hand, and a dagger infused with blue venom was flipping like a butterfly in her hand: "These two dwarves want to climb to the side of Sarukh. On the statues of witches, buckle their ruby-studded eyes."

"The snake people probably thought that there would be greedy people to steal the gemstones on the stone statues, so they arranged magic traps on the gemstones." The female wanderer was a little cautious: "It's the petrification curse and the acid trap!"

"When a creature touches the gem, the curse of petrification will be triggered, and then strong acid will be ejected from the mouth of the stone statue." The female wanderer pointed to the dwarf's half-melted head: "This is how these two dwarves died. "

Acid trap, one of the most dangerous traps in low-level adventures, because strong acid can not only cause huge damage in an instant, but also form continuous corrosive damage and offset the effects of various potions and healing spells.

The most famous of them is the troll that Aaron and others have encountered. The troll's super powerful regeneration ability allows it to heal quickly after receiving a lot of damage. At this time, the way for adventurers is to use fire or strong acid damage, because in the Taking both types of damage disables the troll's regeneration ability.

The early adventurers were most afraid of this. Only warriors or barbarians with extraordinary physiques could rely on their physique attributes to forcibly save themselves, which is why some legendary barbarians dared to bathe in magma.

Among the second-ring magic, the one that interests Aaron the most is "Ma Youfu's Acid Arrow", but unfortunately he just can't learn it.

A disabled Power of Nurgle makes Aaron immune to poison, but not acid.

Looking at the ruby ​​eyes on the statue of the witch, Aaron knew that it was worth more than 2000 gold lion coins. Looking at the expression of the female wanderer eager to try, Aaron shook his head: "What's on the dwarf?"

"Nothing." The female vagrant was obviously a veteran at handling corpses, and she took out a handful of coins from the dwarf.

There were almost a dozen golden dragon coins and dozens of silver coins. These coins were minted in Waterdeep City. Obviously these two dwarves came from Waterdeep City.

In addition, the dwarves only have a few small rune stones on their bodies, which are symbols to prove their identity, a scroll with an incomprehensible language written in dwarf language, and a magic missile scroll, worth 30 gold coins.

"You take it." Aaron said to the female wanderer, he is really not very interested in these miscellaneous things now, and the two parties are now in a cooperative state, and Eleonora is a mixed person, it is appropriate Favor and a friendly attitude can allow her to recognize herself and avoid betrayal.

Mixed people are not as everyone imagines, they betray when they say betrayal, they have no sense of order or morality, so the relationship between the two parties is good or bad, and whether the other party approves of you directly determines the future.

To put it simply, whether the three views are compatible or not, buddies are iron or not.

If the taste is right, the gangster will stand with you even if he is an enemy of the world. If it doesn't match his eyes, the gangster will just say "repay it in the next life" and then smile to see you die.

Elunora is a quasi-master-level wanderer, and Aaron doesn't know how Samir met her and how he persuaded her. Elunora didn't talk about the reward, only that Aaron owed her A favor, and came with a full set of equipment.

It can only be said that the Harper League has always been very good at shaking people to help.

Whether it is the Zhentalin Society, the Red Robe Mages, the Church of Shar, the Lady of the Night, or the Cult of the Dragon Witch, there are cases where the Harper is beaten all over the place, but the Harper is always able to shake a powerful ally to turn defeat into victory.

"What a generous man." Elunora didn't refuse, and the wanderer didn't seem to be very interested in wealth. She stuffed the coins into her pocket casually, and made a joke: "Hey, tell me , when you were dealing with trolls in the forest, it would be great if you had this strong acid, hahaha~"

Aaron stopped in his tracks suddenly, and his pupils shrank suddenly at a place that the female wanderer didn't see. After shaking continuously for more than a second, they slowly opened up.

He understood the origin of this female wanderer.

"What's wrong?" Eleonora didn't see Aaron's expression.

"It's okay." Aaron shook his head calmly. He came to the entrance of the pyramid with his hands behind his back, staring at the statue of the giant snake in the universe: "Be careful, give me some time."

"Good~"

Aaron stood in front of the Colossal Serpent Statue for a full 10 minutes. He stared at the statue without saying a word.

The power of Tzeentch shot out sparks, along Aaron's eyes and cast towards the idol.

After an incomparably long time, there is still an extremely weak ray of divine power that has fallen into a deep sleep on the statue.

that's enough!
10 minute later.

"Okay." Aaron signaled Eleonora to do it.

The Son of Chaos headed straight for the gate of the back pyramid.

"Hey, are you crazy?" The female wanderer couldn't help screaming when she saw this scene: "There is a mechanism at the door!"

"Oh." Aaron smiled lightly.

What you want is the organ!

As he approached the entrance of the pyramid, the eyes of the huge snake head statue above the gate immediately glowed red.

"Hiss~ hiss hiss~ hiss~"

A sharp hiss came out of the Son of Chaos' throat, his eyes turned blood red, and a phantom of a giant snake revolving around the universe appeared from behind Aaron and turned.

Fantasy was reflected in the red eyes of the snake head statue, listening to the hissing sound, it responded:
"Welcome back, Master."

"咚~咚咚咚~" The mechanism sounded, the pyramid gate was activated, and Aaron stepped into the tower with his hands behind his back.

The female wanderer watching the scene behind him was dumbfounded.

Snakes... Parseltongue?

　Watch the last dance of the club king!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)