Green Monster Epic

Chapter 888: Attention

The 422nd layer of the bottomless abyss was covered with clumps of weeds that pointed straight to the sky, growing strongly on the barren land.

The weeds stretched endlessly, forming a grassland that seemed to have no end. Besides these, no other plants could survive in this land filled with cold and corrosive power.

On the grassland, packs of gnolls often roamed, keeping a safe distance from each other. However, when one of the gnoll packs caught sight of a thorned wanderer or a dodder vine, which rarely survived on this grassland, they would quickly take action. Other gnolls, noticing this from afar, would also become restless, following the tracks and slowly approaching.

A war for prey and survival was about to begin.

Rumble!

A terrifying, loud sound came from afar. On the distant horizon, a huge and magnificent palace appeared as a phantom, slowly moving forward.

Snap! Snap!

"Have you not eaten??"

"Still dare to slack off??"

The slender thorny whips were swung around by the gnoll and Tariq demon overseers, making crisp sounds in the air, further causing the countless slaves of various colors in front of them to reflexively tremble.

The reason why the massive and magnificent fortress palace could move was all thanks to this group of powerful slaves captured by the Gnoll Lord Yeenoghu over countless years of conquest. These were once powerful figures who roamed the land and were awe-inspiring, but now they were pitiful ghosts bound by cold iron chains, dragging Yeenoghu's massive palace around his territory without rest.

"...Damn it, what kind of power is that!!"

The master of the 422nd layer of the bottomless abyss was currently roaring in his palace. Until now, he had not figured out how his divine will was driven back into his body by that weak human who could be crushed with a single finger.

It was not easy to find a priest who could bear his divine mind and voluntarily sacrifice himself, giving him the opportunity to personally descend into the material world. However, before he could enjoy the wonderful taste, he was unprepared, even defenseless, and was banished back. To the great Gnoll Lord, this was like spitting in his face. Although it did not cause much damage, it was the greatest humiliation to the Gnoll Lord.

"I want to know what kind of power that human used! I will make him pay the price for what he has done!!"

"Yes, your subordinate will go and do it!!"

In the empty palace, dozens of gnoll and Tariq demon lords bowed their heads, trembling under Yeenoghu's boundless anger, and no one dared to make any big moves.

"Also!! By the way, investigate that Bugbear leader. Perhaps in the future, he will also have a place in my slave army!!"

Although enraged, this trip to the material world was not without gain. Yeenoghu had discovered an interesting fellow who was trying to walk the same path as him.

After a brief contest, the Bugbear's strength was also recognized by Yeenoghu. Therefore, the Gnoll Lord, who liked to collect powerful slaves as the driving force for his magnificent palace, had the evil interest of subduing him.

"...Forget it, I'll send someone to take a look myself!"

The tyrannical aura on the Gnoll Lord suddenly subsided, his blood-red pupils were covered by his eyelids, and his majestic body sank into the throne soaked in bones and blood. His divine mind seemed to temporarily leave his body.

The scene changed. In a remote valley in the Ferman world, a secret cave where gnolls gathered was holding a sacrifice to please the gods.

The gnoll tribe leader, a middle-aged red-haired gnoll priest with a missing pupil, held a fresh, bloody heart in his hands, chanting devoutly.

"...Guardian of the Gnolls, brave and mighty ruler of the battlefield, your humble believer begs you to have mercy and guide us."

Buzz!!

The blood of hundreds of corpses of various races kneeling on the ground was merging together, turning into a trickle that extended to the base of the gnoll statue carefully crafted from obsidian, mithril, and jewelry on the altar in front.

As the words of the one-eyed gnoll priest rose and fell, the obsidian statue in front of him gradually had subtle and mysterious fluctuations. The blood in the gradually pooling blood pool disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if there was a big-bellied creature at the bottom of the pool greedily sucking blood.

Seeing this strange scene, the one-eyed priest and the two hundred gnolls surrounding him were not surprised but delighted. The priest held the heart high and knelt on all fours, respectfully placing the heart into the blood pool.

After leaving the body, the heart that would no longer beat actually trembled slowly again after entering the blood pool, until it beat rhythmically in the blood pool like a normal heart.

Vigorous vitality and power slowly flowed into the obsidian statue. When there was no drop of blood left in the blood pool, the pupils inlaid with precious cat's eye stones in the obsidian statue suddenly shot out an eerie red light, which happened to shoot into the empty pupil of the one-eyed priest.

"...My follower, I am very satisfied with today's sacrifice, so I bestow upon you an Eye of True Sight..."

"...Also, I have a difficult task to entrust to you. You need to go to the Greenwood Tribe in the Cartol Mountains in the northern wilderness of Mansha to observe the information of a human and his leader."

Two lifelike faces appeared in the one-eyed priest's mind, and then were deeply imprinted into his consciousness.

"Serving the Lord is the greatest honor of your humble believer. I will definitely not fail the Lord's trust!"

"Looking forward to your performance, my child!!"

The always irritable Gnoll Lord seemed to have a much smaller temper when facing his followers in the material world. At least in the eyes of the priest in front of him, the other party's tone was majestic and powerful, giving him a surge of enthusiasm and impulse upon hearing it.

"The Greenwood Tribe of the Cartol Mountains, is it?"

The consciousness of the worshiped god had already disappeared from his mind. Now, the red-haired gnoll priest was still thinking about the task assigned to him by the main god.

The size of their tribe was not large, hidden in the border between the two major human kingdoms. Although they had heard of the Mansha Wilderness, they knew nothing about the Bugbear leader mentioned by the main god.

While he was thinking, his left pupil, which had been empty for many years, was regrowing an eyeball under the nourishment of a mysterious force, quickly restoring his vision that he had been looking forward to for many years.

The color of the newborn eyeball's pupil was completely different from the other eyeball. The intact right eye was flawless amber, while the newborn eyeball was a strange blood red. Looking at the surrounding tribe members, the other party felt a sense of nakedness that his body and mind were seen through.

"Jie Jie!"

The gnoll priest was in a great mood, looking at the different world with his newborn eyes, while a kind smile hung on the corner of his mouth as he spoke loudly to the gnoll tribe members below.

"The great Lord God is very happy with the gifts you sent to Him, and has also felt your devout faith in Him!"

"The Lord has mercy!"

"Let us pray to the Lord again, thanking Him for His protection..."

The gnoll priest once again stirred with bewitching words, a pair of newly reborn eyes revealing an eerie red glow.

"...Lord of Eternal Existence, may Your..."

A chorus of devout gnoll voices echoed through the dim cave, the braziers scattered in every corner flickering in response to the prayer, further darkening the cave's atmosphere.

As the two hundred-plus gnolls prayed with their eyes closed, the gnoll priest, leading the prayer, had somehow grasped the oak staff in his hand and slowly began to cast a spell.

A dark divine spell quickly took shape, a faint black mist undulating through the cave, seeping into the gnolls' mouths and noses with each breath.

Huff! Huff!!

The gnolls' breathing grew increasingly rapid, some struggling to open their eyes, the rationality in the depths of their turbid pupils slowly dissipating, replaced by negative emotions such as brutality and bloodlust.

"Roar!!"

When the first gnoll, unable to restrain himself, pounced on the nearest comrade, everything was already decided.

More blood flowed into the blood pool, and the gnoll priest, who had just received the god's grace, seemed non-existent, the gnolls in a frenzy of slaughter ignoring him, as he coldly watched the brutal scene, his eyes filled with intense desire and greed.

"Kill! Slaughter is the most delicious food to please my Lord!"

The pair of pupils in the obsidian sculpture flickered again with an eerie crimson glow, then transformed into a line of blood, shining upon the gnoll priest, and surging power began to surge within his body.

Although he still didn't know the specific location of the target he was looking for, since he was going to travel far into the Mansa Wilderness, away from his homeland, the gnolls he had gathered would naturally not be taken along.

In a tribe without cohesion, without his own bloodline or trustworthy subordinates, the gnoll priest, likely never to return, would not waste them, cruelly using them as sacrifices to his divine master.

Now it seemed that the divine grace bestowed by the divine master was affirmation of his actions, and as the vast power gradually merged into his body, his strength steadily rose to the half-step legendary level, perhaps next time he could truly advance to legendary if he could please Yeenoghu again.

After completing all of this, the gnoll priest placed his hand on the obsidian statue, and then the human-sized statue disappeared before his eyes, obviously stored in his dimensional equipment.

Boom!!

The gnoll priest had just stepped out of the cave when a huge explosion sounded inside. The stronghold he had spent countless efforts and resources to build had now completely disappeared, and this border area had lost a brutal hunting team.

In the last remaining city of the Hoazia Federation, the Spider Queen's temple, which was not particularly grand, was somewhat deserted, because not only had a large number of drow warriors died in this war, but also the clergy who served the Spider Queen had suffered heavy casualties.

Gaining a foothold and growing in the Spider Queen's temple was never easy. As children, they had to go through a cruel elimination mechanism, staining their hands with the blood of countless partners who grew up together. As adults, they had to constantly face the schemes and calculations of their colleagues, while trying to remove the obstacles in front of them.

Although this cruel training mechanism ensured that the drow clergy members who ultimately survived and grew up were almost without exception strong, it also meant that the number of clergy members serving the Spider Queen was small.

But who told them that the Spider Queen Lolth they believed in was such a capricious, sinister, and vicious being! To please Her, they naturally had to cater to Her preferences and come up with novel and brutal acts of abuse, or design perfect conspiracies...

".Ah! Ah~"

Sighs like whispers rose and fell in the temple, and a closer look revealed a scene of intense licentiousness unfolding. Naked, dark bodies intertwined and stretched across the empty hall, the scene of which viewers could imagine for themselves.

It was unknown how long the intense carnal struggle lasted, but from time to time, exhausted drow were dragged out, and new drow with faces of sacred devotion walked in.

Buzz!!!

In the extravagant and dissolute space, a pink mist slowly dissipated, seemingly appearing out of thin air from the bodies indulging in the empty hall, and then flew towards the Spider Queen's statue in the hall like swallows returning to their nests.

The appearance of the pink mist made the scene even more intense, and a group of drow, who were originally exhausted, suddenly seemed to have strength from nowhere, and once again burst out with powerful motivation to do that certain exercise, and for a time, soft waves of sound rose and fell, and anyone who heard it would inevitably have a reaction.

But there was one graceful drow female who looked indifferent, and brazenly surveyed the scene of eroticism before her, and from time to time she would cast some divine spells to cheer them on, helping them along.

This licentious gathering was orchestrated by the Dark Saintess Ashley, whose purpose was to create opportunities for suitable drow in the Federation to mate, with a few more chances of pregnancy in the goddess's blessing, and on the other hand, to please the Mother Goddess through this large-scale event.

".My eyes."

Ashley had not thought that this not-so-small banquet of pleasure would really attract the Mother Goddess's attention, after all, this kind of uninspired mating gathering had always existed, and had almost become a tribal custom.

But when the Spider Queen's soft, deep, and unfathomable voice sounded in her mind, Ashley's delicate and cold face suddenly became devout and respectful.

"Holy peace to the Mother Goddess!"

"I have something to entrust to you."

"It is my honor to serve the Mother Goddess."

"That Greenwild Goblin leader is walking a path that goes hand in hand with Me, and I want you to establish a close relationship with him."

"Mother Goddess, your meaning..."

"If there is an opportunity, I want you to bewitch him, control him, I want to know his progress, his teachings..."

".Yes, Your subordinate understands!"

The Drow Matrons had already guessed Allen's path forward, and had also reported this matter to the Spider Queen, but after they reported it, the Spider Queen did not pay too much attention: in the countless planes where Her tentacles extended, there were not a few similar powerhouses, but very few could actually touch the boundary of the gods.

It was not until the Spider Queen's divine sense arose by chance and descended into this abandoned drow branch, and after a brief face-to-face contact with Allen, that He became quite interested in Allen.

Although it was only a brief contact, the Spider Queen, with Her powerful divine power, seemed to be able to see the potential of this bear goblin more clearly than many existences native to Faerûn.

And because She saw the other party's potential, the Spider Queen finally began to pay attention to him, and that was why, in the festival activity created by Ashley, She once again descended Her divine sense into the material plane, communicated with Ashley, and issued a mission.