Crown of Chaos

Both Be'la'ak and Graz'zt had their own news channels.

Of course, Billak and Graz'zt knew about the previous Hades War and the Moon Sea War. They didn't know that Aaron had secretly become a god. It was just that his phantom power was not revealed, but the three crowns fell into Aaron's hands. Both Bilak and Grazt have already learned this news.

Among them, Bilak knew a little more. He learned from the god of thieves, Mask, and Cyric, who hid in the Noisy Tunnel to heal his injuries. For Aaron, the Pantheon Pole Star Camp held a special meeting of the High Gods.

The final vote ratio was 6:4, and the High Council of Gods passed the decision to bestow the crown of slaying on Aaron.

Afterwards, the god AO appeared.

So has Aaron become a god?

The answer is, not sure.

According to past experience, if a mortal refuses to accept the appointment of AO after disturbing AO, then he must die.

Aaron neither succeeded in becoming a god nor died, which seemed very strange to Billak.

So Beelak made a judgment - Aaron has not yet become a god in the true sense. He has probably become a demigod or a hero god. This time, he is coming to join forces with Eilistraee to usurp Rose's [Chaos] priesthood.

Hum~

Billak has been declared a god. Although he is the weakest among the weak gods and the seat closest to the door in the pantheon, the true god is the true god! Why should Aaron compete with him in the abyss?

In the bottomless abyss, there have been more than thousands of large-scale battles in the past dynasties. It is difficult to say the right and wrong, the success of the king and the defeat of the bandit.

But all the abyss overlords have noticed that it is the bloody battle in the abyss that determines the rise and fall of generations of demon princes.

No matter how you put it, this battle is between me, a true god, three major categories of divine power, and countless demon armies in the abyss, against Aaron's small coalition of mortal drow forces.

The advantage is mine!

Be'lakor, both arrogantly and cautiously, decided that he needed to win more allies.

For example, the kobold god and the goblin god.

Force Rose out first! Seize her priesthood and become the true overlord of the abyss!

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The end of the year 1368 in the valley calendar.

More than five months have passed since the Battle of the Moon Sea. The Baenre family was finally unable to conceal their huge losses in the Battle of the Moon Sea. After repeated suppression, the family gradually lost control of Menzoberranzan. control.

Lolth never responded to any prayers and refused to grant any magic to the priests. This caused the dominance of the Baenre family to be greatly weakened. Then other drow families began to get ready to take action. Rumors continued to spread that the Bare family had lost their power. With Rose's favor, the Spider Queen is implying that the position of spider mistress is occupied by those with strong soldiers and horses.

Lolth has always encouraged internal fighting among the dark elves. Any alliance between drow is initially based on the premise that it will break down after a period of time. All peace negotiations are only temporary. As long as there is an imbalance of power, the contract will be immediately terminated. torn apart.

The Spider Queen encourages treachery.

This time, however, the problem was different.

Although people in the realm generally think that the Underdark is the territory of the drow, in fact the population of drow elves only occupies a very small minority in the Underdark. Even in the city of Menzoberranzan, the number of drow elves cannot account for the city's population. Half, only about one-third.

There are even fewer other drow cities. In some remote cities in the Underdark, the population of drow elves is only one-fifth to one-tenth.

One of the reasons for this is that Lolth loves and encourages internal fighting. The drow are either betraying or planning to betray all day long. Because of this environment, most of the drow elves are fighting elites as long as they can survive to adulthood. And they have some skills in survival in the wild, but this also results in the population of drow elves always being unable to increase. After the surface elves collectively retreated to Yongju Island, there are still several million people, plus a bunch of "bastards" and "bastards" in the country. Hybrids can easily break through eight figures. Although drow also have a long lifespan, their population is sparse, and their average lifespan is less than half that of elves (most surface elves can live to be more than 800 years old, while the average age of drow is less than 400 years old) .

So what is the remaining population of Drow City?

In short, slaves.

Half to two-thirds of the population of an average drow city are slaves. All unskilled labor positions in drow cities are filled by slaves, so the slave trade is a prosperous business. Slaves are not only captured, but raised, or purchased from human slave traders in Calishan, Sel, and Galloping Steppe, and from orc traders in the North.

The drow do not view slaves as valuable commodities, but as cheap and easily replaceable tools, which allows them to brutally treat and exploit these slaves. Generally speaking, a slave is not allowed to look a drow in the eye or bear a weapon without permission (this rule is mostly enforced if the slave is a gladiator of some kind).

Drow slaves cover a wide variety of religions, including but not limited to bugbears, goblins, kobolds, gnolls, demons, dwarves, elves, the drow themselves (families that failed in the civil war), giants, spirits, and tauren. , orcs, lycanthropes, etc.

Of course, there are very few creatures that can become allies of the drow, such as gray dwarves, mind flayers, Kuo-toa fishmen, beholders, abyss demons, etc.

Normally, the drow are at the top of the social food chain, and nothing happens in peacetime.

But now, the entire underdark area is in chaos.

The strength of the Baenre family has been greatly reduced, and they no longer have enough power to suppress other drow families. Without Rose's suppression and divine magic, problems such as lack of control caused by the small number of drow elves will be magnified as if under a microscope. Countless times.

This is the first time lost contact since Spider Queen Rose led the drow into the Underdark!

All the priests of Lolth have fallen into extreme passivity. The most they can rely on has become the male drow in the family. These beings have only had a slightly higher status than slaves in the past ten thousand years!

And under this situation, a huge riot is brewing.

The Underdark, the Underground City, Chid.

A group of more than a hundred gray dwarf slaves were working in the furnace. Unfortunately, the gray dwarves failed in the war. This group of prisoners of war became slaves of the drow elves. Their relatives did not want to pay enough ransom, so this group of The fate of the gray dwarves was sealed.

The leader is Enrique Steel Shadow, the prince of the Deep Kingdom, the last remaining kingdom of the gray dwarves in the Underdark. Of course, he knows that his family will not pay a high ransom for him. His father has always questioned his support for Ra. Dougal's faith, and his brother wished he would die soon.

No one will pay a ransom for him.

The only chance is when his father dies. Enrique may get a small sum from his father's huge inheritance. Zall may get the money and then give him his freedom, or he may not.

Poor thing.

Enrique laughed at himself that even if he was free, the drow would take away all his money. A free man needs to spend money on everything in a drow city. Maybe the money would be enough for him to buy a suit. New equipment? Then what? The Drow Matron will require him to pay various fees. The Church of Lolth has the right to levy arbitrary taxes on every foreigner, including drow males, and leaving the drow city alone is tantamount to seeking death.

This is the drow, this is the Underdark, and we will never stop until every drop of your blood and sweat is squeezed out.

What about the gray dwarf kingdom?

Totally consistent!

Enrique knew that if he went back, his father and brothers would be as vicious as the drow!

After thinking for a while, the whip was thrown directly on Enrique's back. The thin coarse cloth was ripped open, the skin and flesh were torn, and blood spurted out.

"Hey! Dwarf, concentrate!" the drow overseer yelled: "Don't think this is your palace in the depths. Set up your seat! Otherwise, I will mount your scalp on my shield!"

One characteristic of gray dwarves is that they have a strong ability to endure. The drow overseers can punish them boldly without worrying about accidentally killing a slave and being punished by the mistress.

In comparison, humans are considered "undurable" things.

"Prince, watch what you are doing! Don't be distracted!" Several loyal Deep Guards, now slaves, said quickly.

Enrique was thrown to the ground like a piece of garbage, with the black stone roof of the Underdark and the fluorescent mushrooms in the distance staring at him.

"Enrique, my prince." At this moment, a familiar word suddenly sounded in the ear of the gray dwarf prince: "Does it look familiar? Such scenes happen everywhere in the Underdark. You, are not Walking alone.”

This voice!

Prince Enrique only felt a nameless rage burning from his chest, like the flames in a furnace.

"Radugue!!! You incompetent guy, I used to respect you so much, but when I was questioned by my father, where were you? When I fought with the drow, where were you? When I became a slave , where are you?"

Prince Enrique said angrily: "Help me quickly! If you don't show your power, then don't blame me for choosing to go to hell. At least the devil keeps his word!"

"Oh, what a pity, Enrique, you will lose me if you do this." The words of Ladugue, the gray dwarf god, were full of inexplicable humor: "If you continue like this, you will only become the next one whose head will be inlaid. Memento on Drow Armor.”

"Unless you can make the most important decision in your life."

"You...you are not Ladugue, who are you?" Prince Enrique quickly realized something was wrong. The God of Gray Dwarfs, like Gray Dwarves, is a practical and rationalist, cunning and cruel in nature, but believes in laws and rules. , he doesn’t have any sense of humor and doesn’t like intense killing and confrontation.

"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is, can you prove to me that you have enough strength and courage to pursue freedom?"

The gray dwarf prince paused for a few seconds. Being an extremely rationalist and pragmatist, Enrique thought to himself why not? What could be worse than being a slave to the drow?

"Okay, I can listen to you, but what can you give me?"

There was a flash of light above the head, which was a bit dazzling.

The gray dwarves who were working as slaves to the drow were stunned for a moment.

The next second, the golden light rain falling from the top of the Underdark covered all the drow overseers, and precise bombing wiped out all the guards including the bugbear spiders!

Only balls of burning ashes were left on the ground.

This wasn't over yet, white beams of light fell around the gray dwarves, and incredible airdrops fell in piles!

Prince Enrique was ecstatic: "This is, this is the Moradin series! La... By the gods, have our damn relatives changed their gender?"

"Believe in me, call me, desire me..." Ladugue's voice kept whispering: "Become my chosen one, roam the dark areas in my name, and observe subspace life forms full of alien tastes. Spread managed democracy throughout the Underdark!”

The cheers of the gray dwarves could not cover up this sound. The slaves were in ecstasy and took weapons and equipment in the airdrop that automatically opened after landing. Soon a gray dwarf army of a hundred people was assembled.

Prince Enrique was still hesitant, so he held Moradin's big sausage in his arms like a newborn baby.

Happiness came too suddenly, and the gray dwarf's reason told him that all gifts from fate were secretly priced.

"Oh, that's right." The being snapped his fingers: "After working hard all day, I am tired and hungry. If I can have a few glasses of warm beer at this time, I will look like a gray dwarf, right? I understand you. ,My prince."

As soon as he finished speaking, twelve rays of golden light fell. Twelve barrels of brand new, unopened dwarf dark beer fell to the ground, raising dust into the sky. However, the barrels were intact and the wine was still warm.

Smelling the familiar smell of alcohol, Enrique couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He noticed that almost all the gray dwarf slaves were looking at him, with uncontrollable desire in their eyes.

Reason told him that he could only allow these compatriots to drink as much as they wanted. He would not and could not have a second choice.

"Okay! I'll do it with you!" Prince Enrique was heartbroken.

If you have weapons, you are your father, if you have beer, you are your mother!

"Very good, very good. Now let me enlighten you about all the gray dwarf slave factories nearby. Let me enlighten you on how to call me for more material assistance and divine orbital strikes."

Aaron continued to whisper: "From today on, you will have a new name."

"Chaos Dwarves."

In December 1368 of the Vale Calendar, the great rebellion in the Underdark broke out.