36. Benedictas. The new servant of the Lord
Benedictas walked on the barren land of the Feared Wasteland, and he could feel that in the ground beneath his feet, there was a strange power flowing slowly, and although that power was not the same as the power of the ancient gods he used on the outside, it was the same on the inside.
They are all derivatives, variants, or weakening of the extremely corrosive power of the Void.
The cultist was escorted by a team of heavily armed mantis soldiers with several of his closest henchmen, and according to the previous mantis demon sergeant, they would be sent to Karaxivis to be questioned by the mantis demon's venerable elders in the mantis demon's inheritance sanctuary.
This should be a good thing, because it means that Benedictas has passed the most dangerous stage in the process of contact with the mysterious mantis demon, and now as long as he can find a way to convince the mantis demon elders to approve of him, then he is only one last step away from the "ultimate secret" he is chasing.
But it wasn't a reassuring thing for anyone else, especially when walking with Benedictas under the dim skies of the Dreaded Wasteland, which was a terrible experience for even the true cultists.
This world, which was transformed tens of thousands of years ago, is very suitable for the survival of mantis demons, but this means that this place is not suitable for humans or other flesh and blood creatures, and those cultists who follow Benedictas raise their heads from time to time and look at the strange sky above them with frightened eyes, it is a sky that is completely infected by evil energy.
It was a dark, pale, sickly, corrupt, viscous, disgusting, misshapen light covering the sky, and in the curtain of that sky, it was like a point of light that swirled inward, swallowing up all the light around it, and like the kiss of a giant beast with sharp teeth open in the sky, looking at the eyes of the sky as if it were looking straight into the abyss.
And when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you...
Several of the mentally unstable cultists were already shivering, and they didn't dare to look at the sky of the Feared Wasteland anymore, so they turned their gaze to the ground, and as they got closer and closer to the area where the mantis demon lived, in the strange buildings near the Kepa tree, those strange and strange creatures gathered on both sides of the group.
Those with strange and frightened compound eyes, flapping their wings, swarms of mantis demons in the sky, holding insect limb type decapitation knives, those domesticated by mantis demons, huge chariot-like scorpions covered with strange amber all over their bodies, and some of them are very similar to the brain worms of the people who pull the worms, but the forelimbs are extremely developed, and the whole looks like a giant war insect like a unicorn fairy that has been magnified more than ten times.
These insects may have the same origin as the insects, but just from the superficial order, it can be distinguished that these insects called the mantis demon are more advanced than the civilization of the insects, although they worship the ancient gods like the insects, but they have not completely destroyed the internal order of their own population because of this worship, and it can even be said that the social form of this civilization of the insects is more advanced than the barbarians of the centaurs...
When the brutal nature is harnessed by evil wisdom, and has fertility far beyond that of other races, and has been selected and reincarnated for tens of thousands of years for a "great and noble" goal, the mantis demon is definitely one of the most terrifying species in Azeroth.
"Be decent..."
As he followed the mantis guard down the hill to Karaxives, Benedictas stretched out his hand to straighten his robes, and looked back at his frightened subordinates, a flash of displeasure on his face, and he said in a deep voice:
"I'm going to meet our masked brothers, you have to stay here, learn the language of the mantis demon as quickly as possible, and integrate into their civilization and society, this is extremely important to me, I believe that you can do it, you will not let me down, right?"
The cultists in front of Benedictas look at me, I look at you, and none of them stood up to express their dissent, which means that they accepted Benedictas's orders, which made the dark bishop very satisfied.
It's not that he's unaware of the nature of his followers, but he doesn't care.
In the past few years, he has led them to live on a small island in the South China Sea, relying on evil magic and some controlled Chira worms, Benedictas has formed a small pirate group, he let his men plunder and enjoy themselves, until the fog of Pandaria is opened, he immediately took his pirate group to Pandaria to "make a fortune", just like other pirates in the South China Sea.
However, at the moment of landing from the Dreaded Wasteland, Benedictas turned indifferent and gave the more than 300 pirates who followed him as "gifts" to his mantis "friends", thus obtaining the "kindness" of the mantis.
Just this kind of understatement of cruelty is enough to dispel the "careful thoughts" of his subordinates, to be honest, Benedictas doesn't need these cultists, but he can't stay with the mantis demon all the time, and when he uses the power of the mantis demon to get the dark heart of Ashaji, he still has to return to the civilized world, where he spreads the glory of the destruction and depravity of the ancient gods.
And at that time, these cultists who have followed him through all the roads will come in handy, but if those unlucky ghosts unfortunately die here, in fact, the problem... It's not big.
Throwing his followers into a pile of omnivorous bug monsters, Benedictas followed a mantis general who was noticeably stronger and more powerful than the average mantis demon, and wandered into the mountain sanctuary known as Karaxives.
"Karaxi" is the chill of the "priests" in the mantis demon civilization, and Karaksieves refers to the "place where the priests meet", in this bug civilization, the ruling class is occupied by the empress of the mantis demon and the council of Calaxi, which assists the empress to command the group, which are complementary to each other, but they are mutually counterbalanced.
Because according to the tradition of the mantis demon, the term of office of each empress cannot exceed 3000 years, no matter how good the empress is or how bad she is, when the time of 3000 years comes, she must abdicate the throne and give way to the younger empress, this is to keep the mantis demon population young, but the problem is that power is such a thing as not only affecting mortals, but also affecting insects.
Since the mantis demon migrated to the Wasteland of Fear for more than 10,000 years, the contradictions between the Great Empress and the Council of Karaksi have almost never subsided, but most of the time, the Empress will complete the transition smoothly, but in tens of thousands of years, there are still a few "conflicts", and without exception, those few empresses who set off a rebellion and tried to bury the "rotten" Council of Karaksi will eventually be killed by the elite forces of the Council on her great throne.
Yes, the reason why Karaxives has been able to survive for tens of thousands of years is not only because of the extraordinary wisdom of these mantis elders, but also because the deadliest and most powerful legendary warriors of the entire mantis demon population are in the hands of the council...
So to be precise, the 11th elder of the mantis demon of Karakseves is the real helmsman of this civilization from ancient times to the present, and as for the supreme empress, it is just a symbol of the mantis demon empire, nothing more.
"Salute to you, great and near-eternal Elder of the Alien Race."
Benedictas stood in the center of the circle of sacred places paved with golden amber, and bowed respectfully to the huge mantis demon elder in front of him, with his back to him.
In front of his eyes, it was a huge mantis demon with a height of more than 6 meters, this extremely huge body, because the years of life were too long, which caused the mantis demon's originally slender and powerful body to become huge, but the gigantic is not a good thing for the mantis demon, which means that the agile combat posture they are proud of will disappear completely, however, considering that these elders do not rely on force to eat, so this is nothing.
Benedictas's greeting didn't interrupt the mantis elder's movements, it stood in front of a large, rounded, golden and gentle amber monument, and used its worm-like hands to continuously emit strange sound waves to fine-tune the vibration frequency of the amber monument in front of it, and it seemed to be using this strange thing to transmit some message to some other being.
Mantis demons rely on sound waves to communicate, a mysterious knowledge that no one but them can understand.
The elder did not answer Benedictas's greeting, looking arrogant, but Benedictas was not angry or ashamed, on the contrary, he quietly maintained that respectful posture, until nearly ten minutes later, the huge mantis demon elder finished his debugging, it was like a twilight old man, it turned around tremblingly, and looked at the flesh and blood creature in front of him with its bug-like compound eyes.
It let out a low insect chirp, and then spoke slowly in that ancient, obscure language:
"Great and eternal? No, no, no, this word can only be used to describe the Supreme Venerable Mantis Demon... The Supreme Lord, who alone is worthy of these words of praise... Under the dark glory of the gods, no one can be eternal, you and I... Neither. ”
"Give me an explanation, fellow travelers from afar, I smell another kind of power from you, and the Ancient Venerable, disgusted by this smell... Explain, if you still want to keep your life. ”
As soon as the mantis demon elder's words fell, several mantis demon generals guarding the amber of the holy land drew their hideous amber weapons in unison, as long as Benedictas didn't say a word right, his life would be completely withered here, and they were also believers in the ancient gods, and these mantis demons would definitely have a way to stifle the escape of their souls.
"I did serve another ancient god."
Facing the mantis demons around him, Benedicta said calmly:
"At the end of the Great Desert of Silisus, I fought against the Order with the Zerg Empire I pulled, however, we failed, the ancient god Cthun died, and he failed to complete his mission, and in the memories left by Cthun, I saw the existence of the "Juggernaut", and I also learned of the existence of the mantis demon... That's why I've been waiting outside the fog for years, and now, I'm finally here. ”
Benedictas leaned over again, and said sincerely:
"I want to be the new servant of the Most Sovereign, and to give everything I have to the great restoration of the Lord..."
"Most of all, I brought news about the remains of the Juggernaut, and in Cthun's memories, I saw with my own eyes the servants of the Titans dip the Juggernaut's still-beating heart into a pool of water that shone with a blue light... I know the water is there, and I'm here for this. ”
"Oh?"
Benedictas's sworn words made the mantis demon elder in front of him show a hint of surprise, and the huge elder waved his hand, and the other mantis demon generals retreated respectfully to the side.
"It's strange..."
The elder whispered in a bug-like voice:
"I can feel your confidence, which shows that you really know some secrets that even we don't know... Well, but that's a good thing. ”
"We mantis demons are an ancient race, and you, weak flesh creatures, are like children who have just learned to walk, but you have a role to play in the great plan of the Master... The Ancient Venerable One we believe in is great, but it is also terrifying when it comes to anger, it consumes hope, it invites despair, it breathes in courage, it breathes out fear. ”
The Mantis Demon Elder turned around and continued to fine-tune the Amber Monument in front of it, and it whispered:
"When the usurper known as the Titan arrived, the Ancient Venerable was devastated, and its last breath of fear turned into a lingering shadow, but the shadow that enveloped the world was nothing compared to its former glory..."
"I don't trust you to give you this warning, the new servant of the master, the gods that the outside world believes in will no longer be gods, once the Ancient Venerable returns, the Mantis Demon will once again follow it as its most loyal family and share its glory, and I believe that the wise among you will do the same, just like you."
"But you have to contribute, I won't give you precious faith because of your words, outsiders, the next hundred years of reincarnation of the mantis demon is just around the corner, and whether you have the honor to join it depends on how much power you can dedicate to us... The Grand Empress Shakohir has spoken out against the majesty of the Calaksi Council, and the Empress who has fallen into madness needs to be punished. ”
"Go ahead, awaken the ancient heroes for us, and let us see what you are capable of, if you do well enough..."
"Karaksives, I'm willing to give you a chance to try... Only once! ”
A gleam flashed in Benedictias' eyes, and he replied softly:
"That's enough!"
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