Crown of Chaos

January 1369 in the valley calendar.

Rose still didn't respond, but the situation in the Underdark had reached an uncontrollable level.

Gromph Baenre, the chief mage of Menzoberranzan, a high-level legend who has almost come to an end, and the younger brother of Tril Baenre, the first matron of the ruling council of Menzoberranzan, he had to realize that at this time he Must meet his sister.

It has been nearly a year, and there has been no response from Rose, no news, and no more divine spells.

Rebellions in the Underdark have come and gone, never-ending. They started out as small cities, and then began to turn into large areas. Until recently, the flames of rebellion have begun to approach the core areas of drow rule.

The rumors could no longer be controlled. Two theories emerged in Menzoberranzan. The first was that Lolth had completely abandoned the drow and us. The Spider Queen no longer cared about Menzoberranzan. She had A new love.

Those who insisted on this statement were soon invited to tea by the drow warriors, and no one saw them again.

The second rumor is that Lolth is testing the people of Menzoberranzan. The Supreme Spider Queen has doubts about the piety of the drow, so she wants to use this method to test the loyalty of the drow and let them Prove your worth.

Gromph Baenre's loyalty to Lolth is unquestionable.

Lolth is a cruel and capricious goddess, and her priestesses hold a firm grip on her power, but she is the Spider Queen, and spiders are strong and resourceful predators—and survivors.

Gonf Baerre also regards himself as a spider. Spiders never forgive or beg for mercy. They weave webs, hunt, and live forever. The spider holy emblem has connotations. They represent power, and power It is what any drow pursues.

However, Lolth's blessing obviously does not extend to every drow.

While the matrons were plotting, when the matrons were mobilizing the army, Gonfu Banre could only stay in his mage tower and continue to do research. It was obvious that the matrons had lost their magic, and each of the former legends was now powerful. Not as good as an ordinary master mage, Gonfu Banre could only wait.

The reason is simple - he is not a woman.

In Menzoberranzan, Gromph Baenre is a high-level legendary archmage who has great strength and is relied on by his matrons. He lived a very comfortable life, enjoyed the most resource rations, and had a very high status. He was even trusted and was selected as the crucial councilor to serve their supreme Spider Queen.

Despite this, Gonf Baenre is still a man.

Therefore he must always be in second place, knowing full well that there may be more to it than that. He can command other families. Any high-level priestess he likes will be offered to him without hesitation, but he can never command a priestess from the Baenre family.

They asked and sometimes even took his advice, and they respected him.

He is a high-level legendary archmage, and his strength is very strong. Outside the family, he can instruct any family to work for him at will. However, within the Banre family, facing high-level female priests, he still Be bowed to the first mistress.

At this time, he still could only seek the approval of Mistress Banrui.

To this day, when the situation is so critical, when drow cities and Lolth's altars need the protection of male drow, Matron Baenre still keeps herself locked up in the safety of the fortress.

Gromph Baenre couldn't wait any longer and decided to be the wall breaker.

The city of Menzoberranzan was in turmoil. The armies were sent out one by one. After that, they lost contact. The news was intermittent. There were rumors that the gray dwarf uprising had corrupted more than a dozen cities and affected dozens of areas. Now the gray dwarf prince Enrique proclaims himself the King of Zal of the Chaos Dwarves. The number of gray dwarves under his command has reached 50,000, including more than 10,000 elite warriors.

There are also rumors that the surface races are closely preparing to intervene in the war in the Underdark, and the armies of the Cormyr Empire are ready to fight "to the other side of the world."

There is also news that the mind flayers, gray dwarves, derro dwarves, and kobold mountain giants have all betrayed the drow alliance.

The city has been emphasizing not to believe or spread rumors, waiting for Rose to reverse course.

But Gonf Baenre knows very well that these rumors are true!

If we don't take immediate action, if we don't immediately regroup the armies of all the Matron Houses, then the city of Menzoberranzan will face catastrophe!

At this time, all the matron families should abandon their past grudges and unite!

When Gonfu Banrui thought of this, he couldn't help but shake his head.

impossible.

Drow's nature is greedy and selfish. When a matron takes a fancy to a businessman's wealth, what they will do is never spend money to buy it. Instead, they will try to define the businessman as an "anti-Lose and anti-mother" foreigner. The forces imposed sanctions, confiscated their illegal gains and turned businessmen into slaves.

This is a highly involution society carefully designed by Rose. It is not born for unity.

Gonf Baenre waited for a while. Finally, he kicked away the drow guard, waved his staff and said that anyone who dared to stop me would end up being scorched, and finally entered the mistress's room as he wished.

Triel Baenre is praying in front of Lolth's altar. Perhaps for these spider matrons, instead of caring about all external affairs, it is better to pray to Lolth, because as long as Lolth responds, all threats will be eliminated overnight. disappear.

As Gonf Baenre entered the room, the beautiful Spider Mother said angrily: "You are wasting my time, brother, if you don't disturb me, the communication between me and the Spider Queen will be faster. "

"Very good, then has our Spider Queen responded to you?" Gonf Baenre said forcefully: "If not, can I take up some of your time? My sister?"

"Okay." Tril Baery glanced at Gromph Baery with some suspicion. She didn't know if it was because of Rose's silence. Gromph Baery seemed tougher than ever at this time. There was no reason for this. The question was an affront to her position as matron.

But at this time, Menzoberranzan needs Gonf Baenre to protect it.

The mistress could only suppress the anger in her heart and choose to temporarily believe in her brother's loyalty.

Well, for now.

"If you have anything to do, tell me."

"The situation is very bad. The gray dwarf prince has captured five of our cities one after another, and my disciple Ferien has also died in the battle." Gonfu Baerui told the whole story: "But these are not too important. In the end, The important thing is that our spies on the surface have detected news of the large-scale mobilization of the Cormyr Empire’s army. There is no doubt that our enemies are approaching quickly!”

"Our enemy? Who? Rose's Whip!" Sure enough, after hearing the news, the mistress couldn't sit still.

Aaron Salian, the drow nicknamed "Lolth's Whip", that is, this damn bastard was sent by Lolth to test us.

The Banre family had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Teswe, with less than 90 of their 3,000 people returning.

Since he was Lolth's oracle, no drow dared to question their mistress, so they gave Aaron the nickname "Lolth's Whip" to imply that Aaron was Lolth's way of testing their loyalty and loyalty. The whip of piety.

"I'm getting more and more worried now. With Rose's Whip's style, he is the one who is uniting everything behind the scenes. It is he who is secretly linking up different races and even different gods to besiege us!"

The First Matron was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "I understand, I will convene a political committee and summon all the troops in Menzoberranzan."

Having said this, Trier Banrui suddenly smiled mysteriously.

"Don't panic, my brother."

"Everything is under the control of my Lord Rose."

…………

Just as Menzoberranzan was mobilizing its army, the Cormyr Empire army led by Alice Thel personally also arrived in the Underdark.

Eleanor and Buyel did not come, because their good camp and light attributes were destined to be ineffective in the Underdark. Therefore, Aaron only asked Alyssa and Charlotte to participate in the battle against Menzoberranzan. war.

The Cormyr Empire was agitated. After hearing about this possible war, the entire empire fell into a crazy war frenzy.

Among them, Aaron's Salian shogunate army was not bad, because the shogunate army had already captured countless wealth for themselves in a series of previous wars. Many of them had already achieved success and no longer needed to prove themselves.

On the contrary, the old Cormyrs heard that Lord Protector Aaron finally had a place where we could be used. They were so excited that they could not be described in words. They all prepared their own weapons and rushed to join the Underdark Expeditionary Force. Alice Sel raised one to get ten, raised ten to get hundreds.

Aaron originally planned to recruit 7,000 people from Susar, but including a small number of elite shepherds, more than 20,000 people came.

In addition to the gray dwarves' 20,000 troops, the shield dwarves and gold dwarves' 3,000 troops, the kobold hobgoblin giant's 30,000 troops, and the mind flayer's slave army of more than 10,000.

The army besieging Menzoberranzan once again exceeded one hundred thousand.

The Underdark has rarely seen an army of such a huge scale.

Outside the city of Menzoberranzan, the coalition camp is located.

The Queen of Cormyr, Alice Searle, is sitting on the main throne in a military uniform. This time our princess is very excited.

She finally persuaded the Cormyr Kingdom Council to allow her to personally lead the army against all odds.

The reason is also very simple. Alice Searle emphasized that the Cormyr Empire has just merged. The Northern Cormyr shogunate led by Aaron has proven itself in countless wars, while the Southern Cormyr Kingdom has no outstanding achievements. If we don't take this opportunity to show the strength of the southern faction, then the Kingdom's parliamentary seats and the appointment of cabinet ministers will have to be compromised by the northern faction.

Or do you want to fight a civil war?

As soon as these words came out, the great nobles in the south jumped together and their attitude changed 180 degrees. All the nobles sent out their most elite troops.

Just to fight for a breath! For my own status under the new system!

The Purple Dragon Knights are even more elite, with 800 Purple Dragon Knights and the Grand Commander of the Purple Dragon Knights, Shavar, personally recruiting.

Alice Searle is now a married woman. She has long brilliant golden hair tied high on the back of her head. Her delicate and majestic face is lightly painted with powder. A pair of beautiful scarlet eyes swept down the steps. She wears silver knee-high heels. Iron boots stepped on the gorgeous red carpet, paired with dark red flesh-proof shiny velvet pantyhose - only she and Aaron knew that the queen's stockings were one piece.

"Where's Aaron?" Faced with many nobles and generals, Alice Serre was the first to ask the great dragon Egil.

"We captured a group of drow spies, including a member of the Baenre family. Aaron and others went to interrogate them." Egil put his hands on his hips. Dalonglong was young and didn't know what his opponent was: "Oh, yes Oh, by the way, Aaron asked us to tell you that after the city is broken, Dasuo will take three days!"

"Oh oh oh oh oh!" the Cormyrian exclaimed.

Sure enough, if you follow Aaron, you will have meat to eat!

The Zhentarim's hundreds of years of accumulation have not given us any meat. This time, the Menzoberranzan family's tens of thousands of years of accumulation finally wants us to take a share of the pie!

Long live the Queen! Long live the Protector!

"Hahahahahahahaha~" Hahalong laughed loudly, thinking that no matter how much you rob, you will give me 22%!

But.

Thinking of the maid outfit that Aaron stuffed for himself, Dalonglong's face flashed with a hint of red.

Look, since you share the wealth of Rose's treasure house with me, I can't wear it for you once.

Also, why is the name of this maid outfit so weird?

What does [Dragon Maid of Minato] mean? What is Minato City?

In short... let's take down the city first. Egil couldn't help but drool.

It's mine, it's all mine!

The wealth of Menzoberranzan belongs to me!

On the other side, Aaron, Nestia, and Viconia were watching a prisoner.

A captive from House Baenre. She looked very young. By drow's definition, she should still be underage. She was tied to a stake by the Chaos Dwarves and screamed in despair.

Originally, this was just an insignificant captive. According to the hatred of gray dwarves and surface people towards drow, it was already good to turn her into a slave.

However, her identity caught Nastia's attention.

She is a paladin.

Yes, it is very rare. This drow is a paladin, Rose's Oath of Vengeance paladin, and she is also a member of the Baenre family, and the two of them know each other.

"Nastia! Nastia!" The moment the Drow female paladin saw Nastia's appearance, the muscles on her face twisted and stirred uncontrollably, and she shouted with the loudest voice. : "You traitor, Spider curses you! Rose curses you!!!"

"Our Princess, please keep your voice down." Nestia couldn't stop laughing, and the dark elf sister motioned for Aaron to come and see her quickly: "Otherwise, I think there are several hobgoblins and derro dwarves who are willing to kiss Fangze~ Oh, Kobolds and bugbears will do too~"

"No! You can't do this, no!!!" Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the drow paladin's face showed a look of horror. Obviously, her experience was not enough.

"Someone, send her to King Enrique of Zar!" Nastia clapped her hands, and two shepherd soldiers stepped forward with a wicked smile: "Witness the diversity of species, except for demons Besides drow, will there be drow of goblin origin or dwarf origin? Hahahaha~"

"No, please! No!" The drow paladin looked really scared.

At this time, Aaron arrived, and his appearance made the drow paladin's expression change.

"Is it you?! Lolth's Whip?"

"ah?"

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