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Chapter 1433. Wow, Murphy the Dog is playing tricks again

According to what Verance said when he first met him in the Great Crypt of Baphomet, Mejva, one of the thirteen families of shadow elves, had fallen to the attack of Dusk about half a year before the outbreak of the Black Scourge.

It is said that it was a rehearsal, in which the biological researchers under the scholar were testing the combat effectiveness of the rat-men.

Facts have proved that evil scientists are a scourge in any world. They really have no sense of public morality or responsibility. Especially after the ratmen got out of control, these guys had no intention of making amends at all. They just threw the ratmen aside and no longer cared about them, and turned to study other more dangerous things.

But from the perspective of destructive power and madness, this group of nemesis scientists is indeed quite capable of causing trouble.

After the plan to breed ratmen failed, they came up with something as exaggerated as a locust plague, which makes people sigh that the abuse of technology is often the beginning of a disaster.

Let’s go back to the city of Megeva.

After occupying this place, the rat people did not cause any explosive invasion incidents. While other parts of the continent were experiencing various situations, the Eternal Rift maintained a relatively balanced situation for a long time.

The shadow elves launched a war to expel the ratmen but it ended in nothing. The ratmen also tried to invade the shadow elves' territory to get more food, but their offensive only lasted until they destroyed the main city of the family near the city of Mejewa. They couldn't even defend the city of the Pamu family that was destroyed. After a hearty meal, it was taken back by the shadow elves.

The territories of both sides are maintained near the underground caves leading to the depths of the rift from the city of Mejewa, which is basically equivalent to the Shadow Elves actually giving up the territory on the western exit of the Eternal Rift, which is roughly equivalent to almost one-seventh of the territory of the entire underground area of ​​the rift.

“If they must fight, the combined strength of the other Shadow Elves families can completely drive out the Skaven, but the struggles and conflicts between the families make it impossible for them to unite. Moreover, the land ravaged by the Skaven has been drained of its vitality, and the territories around the city of Mejwa have been abandoned and are no longer of any value.

This means that even if other families recaptured the city of Mejewa, they would not be able to gain any more benefits. The mistresses and their think tanks hated this kind of unprofitable thing.

Not to mention, they now have more troublesome things to deal with.

For example, the Lady of the Abyss no longer responded to the prayers of the Fate-Weaving Girls. This matter was originally tacitly concealed by the major families, but it soon could no longer be concealed.

You have to know that the deep-rooted belief in the Lady of the Abyss is the broadest foundation for the unity of the Shadow Elf society. Now that the Lady has given up her care for the Shadow Elves, it is tantamount to shaking the authority of the matrons and clergy from the grassroots level.

Conspiring and rebelling is the specialty of the Shadow Elves. Now that they have lost the favor of the Lady of the Abyss, even the men who have been oppressed for many years are beginning to stir under the instigation of certain guys.

Assassinations against high-ranking members of various families continued to occur one after another and intensified. It was under such circumstances that the matriarch of the Driol family was forced to publicly question whether the Abyss Sisterhood could come up with a solution, but was expelled as a result.

She herself was subjected to the punishment of spider transformation in the name of "disrespect for the gods", and her family city and people were eaten up by other greedy mistresses.

This incident itself shows the seriousness of the problem, not to mention the numerous external pressures that are constantly being exerted.”

On the way to the Mejwa Hive, Verance explained to Murphy the current confrontation in the Eternal Rift and the underlying reasons. She shook her head and said:
“The Eternal Rift is now a powder keg. No one knows when the spark that will finally blow up the existing system will appear, but the matriarch of the Deblia family, the most powerful of the thirteen families, is trying to turn the tide.

Lady Drusilla convened the other six matrons who were still in office in her own Shadow City to discuss important matters.

It is said that the Sisterhood of the Abyss was behind this incident, and the psychic tide of the Eternal Rift also suddenly appeared at that time. It is hard to say whether there were some deep-seated changes in the Shadow City. "

"Well, it looks like we've arrived at the right time."

Murphy nodded, on the road down to the city of Mejewa.

Riding a skeleton warhorse, he looked towards both sides of the road, admiring the scenery of the underground area. The most eye-catching things in the entire Eternal Rift underground area are naturally those stalactite columns that are tall or short, thick or thin, long or short. Those things are like the strata supporting the tops of the people, like stone pillars "holding up the sky".

Of course, most of the stone pillars are not so exaggeratedly high. According to Vilanser, the highest point of the cavity below the Eternal Rift can reach more than 300 meters. Such an exaggerated cavity cannot be supported by these stone pillars.

This bizarre terrain with a hollow interior is the result of a geological reaction to a digital torpedo explosion thousands of years ago.

But this cannot change the "favor" of the Shadow Elves living in the Eternal Rift for these stalactites. Most of their cities are built around the stone pillars, and they regard these natural "platforms" as part of the city. Even some mistresses' towers are built directly on the stone pillar platforms. This makes the large Shadow Elves cities like Deep Shadow City naturally divided into "upper and lower urban areas", which provides "physical isolation" for the residents in the city.

There are also elven psionicists who use these stone pillars as spellcasting props.

They would select a stone pillar of suitable length and inject spiritual energy into it, allowing the light ball to move up and down along the pillar. Each rise and fall of the light would be similar to the sunrise and sunset on the surface of the earth, and this would be used as the time scale for the Eternal Rift.

These stone pillars are definitely a wonderful landscape that can only be found in the Eternal Rift on the continent.

However, at this time, on both sides of the road where everyone was moving forward, those strange sword-shaped stalagmites were covered with executed skeletons. It should be the masterpiece of the ratmen. They made those skeletons into strange and barbaric shapes, as if warning the newcomers that they had entered the territory of the ratmen.

The vampire's life perception told Murphy that there were many ratmen moving around in the shadows around their army of a thousand people. However, apart from the ratmen, there were no other signs of life nearby.

It was not an exaggeration for Vilanser to say that the ratmen had drained the vitality of the earth. These guys who only knew how to eat and destroy had already eaten all life on the earth except themselves.

"Tell me about Madam Deborah."

Murphy withdrew his perception and said to Vilanser:

"I seem to have heard this name in Adele's mother's story. Her father was once asked to perform a duel to the death in front of the visiting Ms. Drusilla. The tragedy of Truman and Salifu was also shaped on that day.

Is this lady powerful?"

"She can no longer be described as a powerful person, Master Murphy."

Velance explained seriously:
"If the Shadow Elves are to have a queen, then no one except Matron Deberia can ascend the throne! Since the birth of the Shadow Elves, the Abyss Sisters have held the divine power, but the power of the secular matrons almost all comes from the Deberia family.

When we were still in the Elf Kingdom, the matriarch of the Deblia family was treating the Moon Elf Queen, Lady Elenia Galanold, as a sister, and the entire process of the Shadow Elves' rebellion against the Kingdom of Castia was also manipulated by the Deblia family.

Until now, no one knows why the mistress did not become the queen of the Shadow Elves, but the current social system of the Shadow Elves was shaped by her.

The current matriarch of the Deberia family, Ms. Drusilla, has inherited the authority of her ancestors. I only need to tell you one thing and you will understand her status in the shadow elf society. Among the seven remaining families in the Eternal Rift, the matriarchs of three families are her daughters!
The youngest one is only seventeen years old this year and has no management ability at all. He is a complete puppet. But even so, no one in his family dares to rebel!

That lady seized the power of the three families through a series of conspiracies and sent her daughter to be the mistress, thus making the three families the loyal vassals of the Deborah family. Therefore, Lady Drusilla was also honored as the 'Shadow Grandmother'.

She is the undisputed mistress of the Eternal Rift, but no one knows which man Lady Drusilla married to give birth to her three daughters. What we can be sure of is that her three daughters have the same father.

There are rumors that it is a mysterious man from outside the Eternal Rift.

This news has a certain degree of credibility.

Because more than a hundred years ago, when Ms. Drusilla was still young, she was not the legitimate heir of the Deberia family. She was just the youngest daughter of the previous matron, and was kidnapped and taken away from the Eternal Rift in the brutal struggle for family inheritance.

She disappeared for twenty years and no one knew where she went.

However, when she returned to the Eternal Rift, the then-powerful Deborah family, from the matriarch to the family directors, all died suddenly within three days. Several high-ranking priests of the Abyss Sisterhood who tried to stop her from taking over as matriarch were beheaded in broad daylight. The ruthless tactics and powerful strength they displayed shocked the entire shadow elf society.

As a result, she successfully regained control of the family and became the mistress, and in the spring of the following year, she gave birth to her eldest daughter.

Judging from the time, Ms. Drusilla was already pregnant when she returned to the Eternal Rift, so many people speculated that the lady was able to regain control of the family because of her man's support behind the scenes. However, as you know, praising a man's strength in the Eternal Rift is extremely politically incorrect, so only the Fateweaver girls have the courage to discuss this gossip in private. "

"Ok?"

Murphy frowned when he heard the gossip about the "Shadow Grandmother". At this moment, he had a strange feeling that he might know the mysterious lover of the Shadow Grandmother.

There was no evidence, but Murphy just felt that way.

"So, now all the authority figures in Shadow Elf society have gathered in Deep Shadow City?"

Trish asked, "Can you guess what they were discussing?"

"No need to guess, Your Excellency."

Weilanser pushed his glasses and said with disdain:

"It's nothing more than seeking unity in times of crisis, dealing with the locusts that are attacking the Eternal Rift from the Gray Desert, and working with the priests of the Abyss Sisterhood to discuss how to regain the favor of the Lady of the Abyss.

But little do they know that the Lady is no longer the evil deity she once was.

Now she is inclined towards order and has abandoned meaningless conspiracies, and has begun to shape a great force like the 'World Web'!

The only way out for my compatriots is to leave the shadows and step into the sunlight, but as the initiator of all chaos and darkness, the Abyss Sisterhood, which will never willingly give up power, has essentially stood on the opposite side of the lady.

I really hope that Lord Salifu can suddenly appear at the gathering place of those guys and kill the sources of chaos one by one with the sharp blade in his hand.

This will certainly bring chaos to the already shattered Shadow Elf society, but only by getting rid of those cancers can my compatriots get back on the right track of civilization."

"So, what is the attitude of the 'Granny Shadow' on this matter?"

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Adele asked a crucial question. She said:
"Which side does the most powerful woman in the Eternal Rift stand on? Is she a conservative or a progressive? Is she a follower or a rebel?"

"Uh, I can't answer that."

Velanthe sighed and said:

"No one knows the attitude of Grandmother Shadow. To be precise, judging from her ruling style over the past few decades, she is more like a neutral party. She almost never participates in the religious affairs of the Abyss Sisters. She just focuses on developing the strength of the family and vassal families, but she does not allow the Abyss Sisters to interfere too much in the affairs of the family.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that Ms. Drusilla is definitely not a believer. At least she is not pious.

Under the influence of this trend, the Deblia family became the least pious group in the Shadow Elf society, but by chance, they became the least affected family after the lady withdrew her attention from the Shadow Elves.

In addition, it is said that the Deborah family has been secretly carrying out some kind of "reform".

Especially in the past twenty years, the proportion of men who have emerged among the rulers of their families is much higher than that of other families. Therefore, many matrons secretly believe that Grandmother Shadow has betrayed the traditions of the Shadow Elves.

They believe that giving men more power will lead to the detriment of women's rights.

But the facts have proved that the male rulers promoted by the Shadow Ancestor lived up to her trust. Their positive work attitude and excellent work style are truly shocking.

Just a few days ago, the locusts launched an attack on Deep Shadow City, but those insects were wiped out by the shadow guards under the command of Shadow Grandmother before they could even get close to the edge towns of Deep Shadow City.

Therefore, even though the Shadow Elf matrons had a lot of complaints about Lady Drusilla, they had to stick to the Shadow Grandmother at this moment.

She is now the undisputed pillar of the Eternal Rift."

"Tsk tsk, it's true that small temples are full of demons and shallow ponds are full of turtles."

Murphy sarcastically said:

"It's just a small Eternal Rift, but what happened inside the four million Shadow Elves was really 'exciting'. Your intrigues are enough to make a 300-episode palace drama. But unfortunately, the current environment does not allow the Shadow Elves to continue to be self-contained.

You must return to the system of the entire continent, whether you like it or not.

That's what I'm here for.

Look, my vanguard is waiting for us ahead."

Murphy pointed to the corner of the road ahead. They had been walking downwards since entering the Eternal Rift, and were now about 150 meters below the horizon. The scenery underground in the Eternal Rift was also open to these people on the surface.

The young players were amazed by this, because under the rift there was actually an "underground plain".

Apart from the absence of the sky and the miraculous connection between the rock pillars supported by stalactites and the surface, this place looks no different from the hills outside. When you look up, you can see the luminous moss covering the rock formations above your head, which is like a starry sky at midnight, providing the necessary lighting for this underground area.

The strange terrain shaped by the stone pillars is also covered with various luminous plants.

Any plant here seems to glow.
Those strange spots of light mixed together and injected a more bizarre vitality into this area that should have been shrouded in darkness. However, even the ratmen who were not picky about meat and vegetables would not eat these luminous plants. This showed how terrible the toxins in these things were. No wonder the shadow elves were the race on the continent that was best at using toxins.

After all this time, this is their "regional advantage".

Right in front of the expedition, they could vaguely see a large city standing in the stalactite forest of the underground plain. Four large watchtowers were located on huge stone pillars surrounding the city, which looked like the four corners extending from the city wall. Outside the city, a huge stone pillar was carved into a full-body statue of Ms. Spider, and there was psychic embellishment that made the stone statue glow, which looked quite magical.

That is the city of Mejewa, one of the thirteen main cities of the thirteen shadow elf families.

It is the hometown of Vilanser and also half of Adele's hometown. Sister E looked out at the city where she was born with an expressionless face, but the intense emotions in her heart at this moment did not need to be described in words.

She finally came back here.

But she did not come alone, which was enough to give her the courage to face the past.

Just in front of the city of Mejewa, on a low stone pillar, the ratman leader Black Servant, holding the Staff of the Black God, was waiting there with his "elite" troops.

It was sent here by Murphy a few days ago to carry out a "big thing". Now seeing that Black Servant was not missing any limbs, it was known that this magical rat had actually reached some agreement with the rat warlord in the city of Megewa.

"Hail to you! Great Saint!"

Black Servant saw Murphy and his army of warriors from afar, and immediately went forward with several of his trusted ratmen to greet them. Murphy also jumped off his skeleton horse surrounded by the little players. He went forward and asked without wasting time:
"What's the situation in Mejwa?"

"Still the same."

Hei Pusen curled his lips in a very human way and said:

"The several warlords that Hei Pusen knew before have all been overthrown by their own people. Fortunately, the new warlords are just as stupid and evil as the previous ones.

They occupy different areas of the hive city, fighting for territory every day, and pay little attention to changes in the outside world. They don't know that the great Black God is about to be born. Black Servant Sen ventured into the city and talked to those warlords. They all hope to receive the power of the Black God, but they all doubt whether the power of the Black God really exists.

But the good news is that the barren hearts of the ratmen are in urgent need of care, so the warlords did not reject the proposal of the Black Servant, and they are willing to give us a chance to show them the great power of the Black God.

This is a great opportunity for you and Black Servant to integrate the Mejwa Hive, great saint.

Once those warlords are inspired by the Black God, even if it is only a temporary unity, the ratmen in the entire hive city will gather together, which will be enough to clear the entire Eternal Rift for you and the Army of Order! The ratman kingdom that Hei Pusen dreams of can also be established in this place blessed by the Black God. "

"Ah, very good!"

Murphy nodded with satisfaction, glanced at the anxious chef Star Soul Eagle in the crowd, and said:
"Then let us go into the city and announce the power of the Great Stomach Rat to the Nezumi!"

(End of this chapter)