Chapter 353: The New King of Pendor
Soon after, the battlefield gradually calmed down.
The women of the Prophet's Legion, whether they were Doombringers or recruits of the Prophet's Legion, had been killed until only a few were left.
They still protected Medea, holding axes and spears to face the warriors surrounding them from all directions.
"Le Ang, why do you have to kill them all..."
Midya looked at the approaching troops and began to loudly provoke: "Don't you think too many of your men have died?"
Many people did die in the battle.
The Griffin Knights lost over a hundred men, the Griffin Claws also lost over a hundred female warriors, the Horn Summoning Rangers, the Silver Hand - each unit suffered nearly 30% losses, and only the Dusk Knights suffered relatively few casualties.
"Since such a price has been paid, we must kill them all..."
Le Ang did not show up, and the situation seemed to be under control, but Le Ang was now more wary of Media.
"But what can you do to me? You can't kill me... and you should know what an immortal enemy means to you."
Medea said this through gritted teeth, then took out a sword and tried to stab his jaw again.
But just as she took out her sword, Leon threw the ebony sword in his hand and accurately cut off Media's wrist from more than ten meters away, and the dagger fell to the ground.
"Maybe I can't kill you, so don't even think about dying!"
Then, a large group of people rushed over, and Midya was also wrapped up like a dumpling...
The three prophets should need to let their own souls leave their bodies before they can transfer to other bodies. Therefore, every time they transfer bodies, they must first let the current body die - but what if it cannot die?
The reason why Leon was able to come to this conclusion was because he saw the little princess Denise on the battlefield.
The body of a ten-year-old girl is not suitable for fighting, especially not for the fighting style of the Three Prophets who like to use long-handled swords.
Moreover, the Three Prophets had always liked to use tall bodies before - they had cultivated so many doom-bringers using drugs and the skin of young girls, and they were all tall and beautiful women.
But Circe used the child's body and never changed it. Why?
Most likely, this was to prevent the little Princess Denise from dying - that is to say, after the three prophets occupied someone else's body, if they wanted to leave that body, they could only do so by letting that body die.
After death, the soul will leave the body. Li Ang has experienced this himself. Of course, he didn't die completely several times. His consciousness was half-leaving the body, but his soul was still there...
After all, Denise was the heir to the throne who was to compete with Amy, so even though the little girl's body was not suitable for fighting, Cersei never replaced it with another body to prevent the little girl from dying.
At the same time, the ground was full of corpses, but the three prophets did not escape by using the corpses. Does this mean that the three prophets cannot be resurrected using the corpses?
Otherwise, why didn't Medea use the corpse as a disguise before being completely trapped?
Of course, Media would not do this when the griffins existed, otherwise she would be found by the griffins.
At the same time, Wendy can probably ban magic in a small area just like Althea.
But the battlefield was so large, and Wendy was not always with Mediah, so Mediah had many opportunities.
Especially when the griffin just disappeared, when Media was stabbed by Wendy, she retreated into the crowd to avoid Wendy - but why didn't she take the opportunity to commit suicide and escape using the corpse on the battlefield?
If she had hidden among the corpses, no one would have been able to find her...
For example, hiding in the body of a fallen Griffin Knight or female explorer.
After carefully thinking about Media's various behaviors, Leon realized that the three prophets could not be resurrected using corpses, they could only occupy the souls of living people!
Medea had always occupied the bodies of living people before. Even the remains of the dying Oswood were still a living person after all - they could not control the undead.
Moreover, they probably cannot devour other people's souls, they can only seduce or expel!
It was she who banished Oswood's soul to the abyss, instead of destroying it directly...
After all, they are just messengers of the Dark Goddess. According to Kavala, even the Dark Goddess herself can only expel the evil spirits, so the three prophets are naturally weaker.
Li Ang now has some understanding of the so-called soul.
Perhaps, 'spirit' and 'soul' should be two separate things, just like the Celestial Empire also distinguishes between soul and spirit.
The spirit is consciousness. A person who has lost his spirit is just an empty shell without self-awareness. Whoever controls the spirit can control the body.
But the soul is the life soul, the driving force of the body. The soul must remain in the body, otherwise the body is just a lump of immobile flesh.
The three prophets cannot use a corpse that has lost its soul.
Because they are spirits without souls, they must rely on the souls of others to make their bodies move .
Therefore, they can only expel the spirit of a person while he is still alive and use magic to preserve his soul so that they can control this unconscious body.
If the spirit was not expelled successfully, like what happened to Roland's female apprentice Ilano, then the prophet's spirit would have to leave the body - that is to say, it was not that Medea let Ilano go, but that she simply could not deal with Ilano, otherwise she would not have been able to negotiate with Leon!
This should also be the reason why the Three Prophets were unable to control the Fallen Ones they created - the Three Prophets would first let their followers die, and those followers would become Fallen Ones at the moment of death, which was completely different from Aigrim's way.
Aigrim directly transforms living people into Fallen Ones, but those who died in battle will not be transformed by it.
This is because Aigram can directly devour the spirits of living people. In other words, it can attract and control people's consciousness by creating strong desires, and thereby control the bodies of those fallen people - those bodies are alive and all retain their souls, but their spirits are devoured by Aigram and their consciousness is forcibly controlled.
The three prophets are unable to devour spirits, which means they do not have the ability to control consciousness. They can only kill people to make their souls leave their bodies, and then recall their souls to turn them into fallen people.
——Their sacrificial texts are indeed used to call back souls. It is not an evil spell in itself, but a real divine spell that is supposed to be used to save lives!
But since the spirits are not under the control of the Three Prophets, those fallen ones are completely unconscious walking corpses and cannot be controlled.
Similarly, Aigram was able to come out of the abyss because he obtained a body that retained his soul - the heretic beggars used living people for sacrifice, and the sacrificial process should be similar to when Aigram was taking care of Oswood. This was what the abyss demons deliberately lured those fools to do.
The three prophets have the ability to recall souls, but cannot control spirits.
Aigram can control spirits, but he doesn't have the magic to call back souls...
But something was not right—Anna must have escaped using Ulrich's body. There was no other possibility...
If the three prophets cannot resurrect using corpses, then who was the 'Ulric' they met on the way?
Ulrich must be a pure corpse, without spirit or soul! And he has been buried for so long, he must be a ghost!
Who is driving him?
Could it be that Anna is more special?
Or... Anna did not use Ulrich's body to escape, and she got help from others at that time?
But Sarleon was able to help Anna escape at that time...
Could it be Kavala?
Only Kavala has the ability to control the undead - he admitted personally that Maltis was the body he prepared, and the Legion of Terror was a pure legion of undead, a group of rotten corpses.
But why did Kavala do this?
Plus this ring…it’s Kavala’s ring!
Leon took off the High King's ring. The griffin on the ring was lifelike, and the circle of small words surrounding the griffin was extremely clear - "This is the will of the High King."
Kavala, what exactly is this 'will' of yours?
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The battle was over, but all those who had fought in it remained in the village of Kwen.
All of Leon's old friends gathered together and watched the lord whom they hadn't seen for more than a year.
Godric also touched Leon's body and pinched various parts of his body, and only felt relieved when he was sure that Leon was not missing any parts.
"Leon, you probably don't know that Amy went crazy during your absence... I even thought she would become another mad king! Fortunately, you are back... It's time for you to take care of her."
Godric took off the Hand of the King badge on his chest and planned to pin it on Leon's chest.
"Wait... Lord Godric, you can't do this..."
Leofric suddenly stopped Godric.
"What? You are against Li Ang becoming prime minister? He has the qualifications!"
Godric was a little surprised.
"It's not a question of qualifications... but rather, someone who can use the ring of the High King of Pendor should not be the Hand of the King of Sarleon..."
After Leofric finished speaking, he exchanged glances with Dallion, then suddenly knelt on one knee in front of Leon and raised his sword above his head: "Your Majesty! Griffin Knight Leofric swears allegiance to you! Please witness our glory!"
Dallion also knelt on one knee at the same time: "Griffin Knight Dallion..."
"Griffin Knight Azrael..."
"Griffin Knight..."
All members of the Griffin Knights made the same move.
They will follow the new king of Pendor.
Leon was stunned for a moment, looked at the ring on his hand, took the swords from the griffin knights somewhat awkwardly, and accepted their allegiance .
He was somewhat conflicted, not knowing whether he should tell these people about the late King Kavala...
If I tell them this now, will they doubt their lives?
The founder of the Kingdom of Pendor, the creator of the Griffin Knights, and the ancestor of this body, has now become a terrible demon. Can the Griffin Knights accept this?
Moreover, if this happens at this time, Godric will definitely be very unhappy!
Although he was once very dissatisfied with the Mad King, his daughter Amy is now the queen of the Sarleon Kingdom!
Indeed, Godric's face was livid: "Leofric! You are committing treason...Leon! Do you know what you are doing?"
"Lord Godric, I have not committed treason... You may not know that Amy is probably no longer the queen of Sarleon because King Ulric has returned to Sarleon!"
Leofric turned around and explained to Godric very seriously.
Godric was shocked: "Ulric? He's still alive?!"
"No, he must be dead... I saw him when I withdrew from Haringosburg... He looked like a dead man! His whole face was blue-gray!"
Leofric shook his head. "I know that it must be the Three Prophets or some other evil spirit that has taken over his body... But he is the Sarleon King after all. Amy's throne came from him. Regardless of whether he is a fake or not, as long as he comes back, Amy will no longer be able to call herself the queen."
That's true. Although this kind of thing has never happened before, Amy inherited the throne from Ulrich normally. She didn't depose the old ruler and establish a new one. She can't deny Ulrich's legitimacy.
Even though they knew it was possessed by another soul, that person was indeed Ulrich himself...
"I saw Ulrich, too... I thought it was Anna, the other prophetess. But now, I'm not so sure who it was..."
Leon also mentioned the undead army that he and Bao Daisi saw together.
Alina has told him the original plan of the three prophets, and Leon is now becoming more and more uneasy.
Being able to control the undead spirit of Ulric, and using Ulric's body to return to Sarleon, he became the king of Sarleon directly - this was definitely not what the three prophets had originally thought...
These three prophets probably just wanted to destroy the Forbidden Magic Tower. They tried to occupy Amy's body and keep Princess Denise. Whether from the nature of women or from their actions, the three prophets would never let Ulrich's body return to the throne!
Only Kavala can do this!
But how did he come back?
Leon glanced at the ring on his hand again, then thought about Dallion's actions...
Dallion had taken the ring to throw the Gate of the Abyss into the Deer Heart Lake, and Kavala probably came out from the bottom of the lake...
It is estimated that he used the remains of the body that Aigrim used before - Ulric has no magic power, but Kavala can drive the corpse!
At that time, the little dragon's wings fanned out a strong wind in the temple. Althea must have hidden outside the temple. Without Althea's magic-suppressing ability, Kavala most likely ran away at that time!
Thinking of this, Leon suddenly put the ring to his lips and whispered softly: "Your Majesty Kavala, you should know where I am and can hear me, right?"
The ring didn't respond, but there was a sound in Li Ang's ears...
"Boy, you are smarter than I thought... But unfortunately, you are just an evil spirit from another world who has stolen the body of my descendant! I must get rid of you! Humph..."
This time, Kavala's voice was not peaceful at all, it sounded as sharp as a knife.
Li Ang closed his eyes and sighed deeply.
It seems that Kavala knows that he is not the original owner of this body...
Moreover, in his eyes, I am an 'evil spirit from another world'...
In fact, it is not wrong to say so. Leon is probably like Aigram or the three prophets. He occupied the body of Leon who had just lost his spirit body, and even used his soul...
For a moment, Li Ang even felt like he was the villain...
But, I don’t really want to occupy the body of your offspring... I’m a victim too!
If I knew how to get out of this, I would have gone back to China long ago. Who the hell would want to stay in Pand with no cell phones and no delicious food?
Li Ang took off the ring, but after thinking about it, he put it on again.
Kavala will definitely be able to find Leon through his own ring, but Leon also needs to use this ring to contact Kavala - for Leon, being able to talk to the enemy may give him more opportunities...
Moreover, he must be the 'New King of Pendor', otherwise, how can he fight against the real King of Pendor?
