Volume 4 Chapter 575: Hasut's Fiery Attack
A few hours later, Levi left Paradise with Elegy and others. Although there were some twists and turns in the process, the final result made him very satisfied.
The ruler of Paradise, the lion-headed envoy, Prince Talishid, did not accept Bahamut's request.
This is related to what Levi said to Duke Lucan and others, but it is not the decisive factor, because Prince Talishid had already noticed that something was wrong with Bahamut.
The emergence of the Cyric Sutra not only drove Cyric himself crazy, but also caused certain beings to gradually raise more doubts about many suspicious points in the past. Prince Talishid was one of them.
In addition, demons and other alien evil forces have become increasingly rampant in the main world recently, and many mortals have turned to the Gaidin clan for help. There is no need for them to take the risk of being bound to Bahamut.
Most importantly, he really didn't want to get involved in matters between gods and faith.
If he sends the Gadin clan to help Bahamut win faith on a large scale, is it possible that other gods will make similar requests?
If he agrees, it will surely attract more gods in an endless stream.
If he refused, he might offend these gods.
He had no intention of agreeing to the other party from the beginning. The advice of Duke Lucan and the Heir of the Wind only strengthened his conviction. So even though he spent most of the day, Bahamut's messenger could only return disappointed in the end.
Of course, Duke Lucan did not expose Levi's existence to Bahamut's messenger. He was not that stupid.
After formally receiving Levi, Prince Talishid also gave a positive response to Levi's requests.
But compared to the Queen of Stars, he is a little more conservative. He can give Levi some knowledge first, and the other part requires Levi to be deified first, and then he can give it all to Levi.
At the same time, he said meaningfully that if Levi wanted to condense the divinity related to light and holiness, he might not need the Gaiding Clan to provide these things.
Levi is unable to accurately judge what the other party means for the time being, but he guesses that it is most likely related to his last stop - Mount Paradise. After all, the Celestial Mystic is blessed by Mount Paradise, not Paradise or the Star King's Court.
Then Bahamut can also give Levi what he prayed for but failed to get. In the future, the Gaidingtian people are willing to serve Levi's worshipful priests.
As a price, Levi needs to speak up for them when certain gods bully the Gaidingtian clan.
As Prince Talishid said this, he was gritting his teeth. Obviously, this kind of thing had happened in the past, probably more than once.
Levi didn't know who the other party was referring to, but he agreed without hesitation.
It's just a statement. If I can't even guarantee this, how can I have the face to interact with the Gaiding Celestial Clan in the future?
Afterwards, Levi also formally met with the rulers of the Gaiding Clan, the current Five Lords of Gaiding.
They are Boya, the bear-headed divine messenger known as Mother Bear, Sasia, the Duchess of the Sky from the Pengyu Messenger clan, and Valhalla, the Duchess of the Wilderness, the mad horse messenger who is the descendant of Lord Huiwen but better than his teacher.
The above three are relatively strong. Basically, their direct combat effectiveness is better than that of the Messenger, Messenger of Mercy and Ascetic among the Seven Paragons of the Ark.
Next is the Wolf Patrolman - Tracker - Kellys, who has a very good relationship with Duke Lucan and fights in almost the same way. He is relatively weaker, even weaker than Duke Lucan, a typical legendary goalkeeper, and probably cannot even beat the Messenger.
Finally, there is the Duke of Horns, Manas, from the Antler Clan.
According to Duke Lucan, the Duke of Horn was selected just a few years ago. His predecessor went crazy for some unknown reason and suddenly resigned, resulting in Prince Talishid urgently picking a replacement.
This means that the Duke of Horns is not only the weakest among the Five Dukes of Gadin, but even if the Airi Tian Clan and the Seven Paragons of Yakong are included, he is still the weakest. He is currently only level 20 and is not even a legendary.
Therefore, in the recent raids of the Gaiding Clan on the Abyss or the Nine Hells, they had not taken him with them at all, because in those two evil places, the strength of the Gaiding Clan would be greatly affected, and there would be too many beings that could kill the Duke of Horns.
Of course, when in Paradise, due to the blessing of Paradise, the Duke of Horns has a full chance of defeating ordinary demigods. This is the home ground of their Gaiding Clan.
Before leaving, Levi privately told Duke that he would regularly provide some meat as food to the Gaiding people as an extra gesture of goodwill. This made Duke Lucan feel very satisfied, and he repeatedly sighed that it was worth making friends with Levi.
Many members of the Gaidingtian clan, who were modeled after ferocious beasts, would inevitably have some desire for meat, but there were basically no ordinary animals in the Paradise, while the nearby Beast Garden was full of intelligent animals. Even for the sake of the other party, it was impossible for the Gaidingtian clan to engage in animal husbandry on a large scale.
This resulted in many members of the Gaidingtian tribe wanting to eat meat but being unable to obtain enough meat, and could only occasionally eat some fish to satisfy their hunger. Therefore, Levi's behavior now was like providing timely help.
After returning to Fear Rock, Levi was not in a hurry to go to Heaven Mountain. It was not because it was getting late, but because the knowledge given by Prince Talishid was also a large amount of memory, which caused Levi's brain capacity to be truly insufficient.
If the same thing happened to Subkong Seventh Model, his brain would most likely explode due to being overwhelmed, and he would need to transfer this knowledge into the memory crystal first.
Fortunately, although memory crystals are relatively expensive, they are not particularly rare, and gods with knowledge-related portfolios have basically invented similar things.
In this way, Levi spent a few more days.
During this period, Levi had been paying close attention to the reaction of the Egyptian gods. After all, he had really broken into the other party's forbidden area and was caught red-handed by Bast.
But the other party did not react at all, not even a symbolic protest, which was completely beyond Levi's expectations.
Finally, it was through asking Seleket's friends within the Egyptian pantheon that Levi learned that something strange had happened within the Egyptian pantheon again.
It seemed that Set's son had been born, but some unknown accident occurred, so that the banquet originally held for celebration ended in a bad mood. Even now the relationship between Osiris and Set is quite tense.
It’s just that the relevant gods are very secretive about this, and Seleket’s friend is originally a marginal figure within the Egyptian pantheon, so he doesn’t have the ability to find out the truth for the time being.
But despite this, Levi has become more and more certain of his guess that it is very likely that Osiris really cheated on Set and was discovered by Set.
In this case, Levi felt that he needed to speed up even more, because he couldn't be sure how long Seth would continue to endure.
Just when Levi was planning to keep up the good work and continue to deal with Paradise Mountain, two pieces of news that came one after another forced him to change his original plan.
First of all, after this period of investigation, the Harper successfully discovered the whereabouts of Jedreg the Strong.
He has now become the chief of a new tribe called the Iron Tribe, which was rebuilt by the greenskins after the war. He is surrounded by a dozen heroic units from races such as goblins, greenskins and trolls.
More importantly, the Harpists detected divine characteristics in him, and after careful observation, they were now almost certain that he was most likely the Son of God.
But they couldn't figure out which green god it was. That was beyond their ability.
They could only roughly speculate based on the strength, personality, fighting style, etc. displayed by the opponent, and it might be the Greenskin God - Gruumsh, or the Greenskin God of War - Inav, or the God of Strength and Foolishness - Bagchu.
The growth rate and talent of the Son of God are undoubtedly extremely amazing. Jedreg the Strong is a new-age hero that emerged after the entire greenskin race just experienced a devastating defeat. The greenskin side will definitely invest more resources in him.
If Jedreg the Strong is given more time, it is not impossible for him to grow into a legendary hero. If Levi wants to deal with him again, it will not be so easy, because the green-skinned gods will definitely keep their eyes on him by then.
But the opponent is not a legend yet. As long as he moves fast enough and kills the opponent instantly, Levi feels he can still escape unscathed.
However, to be on the safe side, he first went to the temple of the Girl of Misfortune and offered some sacrifices to her.
The power of the Girl of Doom has played a big role in many fights against powerful enemies in the past, which almost makes her one of the goddesses who knows Levi the most besides Lilith and Seleket.
After all, every time Levi used the supply of the Maiden of Doom, he was directly seeking help from the goddess.
Although she is the goddess of the chaotic evil camp, she is really picky when it comes to the way she treats Levi.
Of course, Levi now has some speculations. If the Girl of Doom had not established a relationship with him so early, it would probably be the Goddess of Luck who came to find him. There must be some hidden qualities in him.
Perhaps the Girl of Misfortune treats herself this way because she thinks that weakening the enemy is to strengthen herself.
But no matter what, this time when there is a possibility that he may need to rely on the other party's strength to deal with a green-skinned chosen one, Levi feels that it is still necessary to communicate with the other party, otherwise if the other party chooses to ignore him at the critical moment, it will delay important matters.
Then he heard the Girl of Mirth say very domineeringly that she didn't care about the green-skinned gods at all, and she only had one enemy, and that was the goddess of luck.
As for the second piece of news, it is about the Chaos Dwarves.
Previously, Levi killed the Chaos Dwarf hero Ironhand Yatgot who came to him on his own initiative. For the time being, no one has taken revenge on him, but Ironhand is also the oldest, most powerful and highest-ranking demon warlock among the existing Chaos Dwarves.
His death triggered a series of chain reactions.
Many Chaos Dwarves began to fight for his legacy, towns, armies, and other treasures.
Due to the recent frequent invasions of the main world by various kinds of demons, the Chaos Dwarves, who are best at enslaving and transforming demons, have also received a lot of reinforcement in terms of their military strength, so the scale of this war is bound to be considerable.
This is nothing in itself, as other factions would be happy to see the Chaos Dwarves fighting among themselves.
But the gap between the multiple Legendary Chaos Dwarves was not that big to begin with. After fighting a few rounds and finding no clear winner, they temporarily stopped.
They were not fools. They knew that infighting would only give other enemies an advantage, so later on, it was unknown which Chaos Dwarf was the first to suggest a change of approach.
For example, declaring war on other countries to see who conquers the most territory, slaughters and captures the most enemies, and who is the most qualified to obtain the Iron Hand's legacy.
Once this proposal was put forward, it not only won the unanimous approval of the Chaos Dwarves, but also quickly gained the recognition of the god they believed in - Hasut.
As a typical evil god, Hasut was of course happy to see more killing and death, so he also gave the Chaos Dwarves more power and knowledge as a reward in advance.
This encouraged the Chaos Dwarves even more, so several Legendary Chaos Dwarves, with the Dark Land as the center, declared war in all directions, each of them found some powerful opponents, and many surrounding forces were forced into the war.
For example, the Butcher King who had just recaptured Silver Peak in the West, and the High King who was recuperating, these two dwarf forces were the first to be attacked by the Chaos Dwarves.
There is already a very deep hatred between Chaos Dwarves and Dwarves, and now is a good opportunity for revenge.
In the north, the famous Grimgor Ironhide was attacked, which makes sense because Ironhide was transformed and enslaved by the Chaos Dwarves.
After successfully escaping and establishing a foundation, this legendary greenskin has been wreaking havoc in the northern mountains, causing a lot of trouble for the Chaos Dwarves.
The material loss is secondary. The main reason is that as the strongest greenskin in the main world, Ironhide has an extremely special charm for all other greenskins.
Even the Greenskins and Goblins enslaved by the Chaos Dwarves, who are usually shackled not only by physical means but also by magic, demonic powers and many other means, find it difficult to resist the call of the Ironhide.
Especially when Ironhide activates WAAAGH, this special ability will be further strengthened, which means that after a battle, it is entirely possible that the number of Ironhide's troops will increase instead of decrease.
Now that the Chaos Dwarves and Ironhide have met, it is like thunder and lightning striking the earth, and they will not stop until the ground is covered with blood.
In the east, the Golden Tooth Tyrant, Greysu, was approached.
Previously, they were fighting for territory and could not reach a consensus on the attitude towards the Zhendan Empire, so a total of four ogre legends started a melee in the mountains, and there were many more other ogres who actively or passively participated.
In the end, because everyone suffered heavy losses, and with the influence of demons and other alien evils, the ogres temporarily ceased fighting.
As a result, the Gold-Tooth Tyrant was visited by the Chaos Dwarves again. The situation is probably not optimistic.
As for the South, two major forces were involved in the battle.
One is the ratmen from the Grinning Clan, but they had been completely defeated by Levi in the Battle of Eight Peaks Mountain. The two legends, Doomclaw and Feartail, were killed one after another. The Grinning Clan, known as the sixth clan of ratmen, has never recovered since then. In this large-scale regional war, they are basically just a bonus to the Chaos Dwarves.
Another target, of course, is the colony currently governed by Princess Elandra.
Many Chaos Dwarves led a large army from the north to the south and launched an invasion of the colonies. The system also issued a special announcement for this, calling it "Hasuth's wrathful flames are about to sweep across the world."
Although the colony is fully capable of resisting the opponent's attack with its current strength, Princess Elandra is not satisfied with just that.
This was her brother's first battle after he was deified, and also her first battle after taking over the colony. She wanted to win beautifully to show the other forces around her, so she wanted Levi to help .
And she seriously suspected that this might be a test from Hasut.
After almost all gods are deified, there will be some beings who come to test their true colors to see if there is any opportunity to take advantage. Hasut may be the first one.
In order to avoid more trouble in the future, Princess Elandra decided to launch the strongest counterattack against the Chaos Dwarves and completely dispel their idea.
It was impossible for Levi to refuse such a request, both morally and logically.
He was also very curious, because Hasut's previous behavior did not seem like that of a real god at all.
There have also been recent rumors that the Chaos Dwarves are doing business with the Norsemen and even with the many evil sects that believe in the Four Chaos Gods.
There are probably three ways for the Norsemen and other northern barbarians to go south.
One is to take the sea route, which allows large-scale invasions of the coasts of the Sigmar Empire and the Kingdom of Knights. The Norse pirates who arrived at the Island of Albion and the continent of Lustria, or even plundered the world, all chose this route.
But because the Norsemen were extremely short of supplies and had poor shipbuilding technology, even without fighting, the wind and waves on the sea and the monsters in the sea could take their lives.
If 10 people go out to sea, it is considered good if only one of them comes back after half a year.
The second route is to go south to Kislev, or to the empire's northernmost province, Nordland.
The third way is to attack the Chaos Dwarfs' fortress - Uzkulak, but it is built between two mountains, which is basically a terrain where one man can block the passage of ten thousand men.
With the combined firepower of the Chaos Dwarves, their massive minion army, and the enslaved Demons, no Norscan has ever been able to succeed. Instead, the Chaos Dwarves would see this as a good opportunity to capture slaves.
But recently the Chaos Dwarves seemed to have suddenly changed their attitude. Levi felt that there must be something hidden, and it was necessary to deal with the Chaos Dwarves and conduct further investigation.
Donna, Alyssa and others were asked to cooperate and prepare the army to support Duke Elandra. Levi took Elegy, Cindy, Mortidi and others to the place agreed with the Harpist.
Penthesilea was rarely absent this time, because after such a long period of purification, the Amazons who had been cursed for fighting against the divine evil - the Firstborn were finally all liberated.
At this critical moment, Levi certainly couldn't let Penthesilea follow him around. Their relationship was no longer just that of an employer or creditor, but also that of a friend.
So in addition to giving the other party a holiday, Levi also asked Sonia to transport a lot of supplies from Fear Rock as gifts.
When they first met, the strength of the two sisters Sonia and Sefa might have been almost the same, but now Sefa has become a powerful Jade Phoenix Mage, and Sonia's role has become less and less due to the characteristics of her profession.
In addition, as she gradually focused her energy on revitalizing the family and developing vampire killers and demon killers, Levi simply transferred Sonia to a new position and asked her to handle some logistical matters.
Of course, this is only temporary. In fact, Sonia has another wish. That is, after Lucia, the Vampire Queen and the Blood Tsarine settle down in their new base, she wants to lead a team to monitor them nearby.
Let's see if the vampires under Lucia's command are really as law-abiding as mentioned before, and will only draw the necessary blood from the prisoners, robbers and other evil camps to a limited extent.
Levi also decided to satisfy the other party. He has always believed that only by doing what he likes can he unleash his greatest potential.
After everything was ready, Levi went to meet the Harper's liaison.
After arriving at the destination, Levi discovered that the other party was actually a greenskin. Even though the members of the Harpists came from many races from all over the world, he really didn't expect that they could recruit greenskins to join.
Levi could only sigh that the Harper's brainwashing ability was really strong. Even the greenskins, who were generally warlike and used their hands more than their brains, could willingly betray their own race. Moreover, the Harper actually dared to use him in such an important situation.
At the same time, Levi also became more interested in the current leader of the Harpers, Arias Dragonthorn, whom he had met once before.
Although Vander Dragonthorn is the founder of the Harpers, he is basically a gigolo. Even though he has become a god and his power has been greatly enhanced, Levi does not think that he can make such great progress in wisdom and in how to control people's hearts. This is most likely the power of his daughter herself.
But that's for later, now they have only one goal, and that is to ambush Jedreg the Strong!
Gruumsh has a lot of priesthood and domains, not counting the greenskins and evil that are useless to Levi. If he can get one of the war, power, conquest and survival, it will be worth it.
When he was free, Levi also inquired about the news a little. The greenskin named Thrall did not hide much about it.
He said in a deep voice: "Because I think the greenskins should not continue to be hostile to humans, dwarves, elves and other races. It is not conducive to our development.
"Although Jedreg the Strong has only been the chief for a short time, he has already fully demonstrated his bloodthirstiness and cruelty. I even saw him slaughtering young cubs of other races for fun. I cannot tolerate this."
"If he does that, our enemies can do the same, so I took the initiative to propose to participate in this matter."
Massacres are tolerable. In war, they are inevitable in order to completely destroy the enemy's resistance.
But he could not accept the slaughter of the cubs who had no will and power to resist just for fun.
After a slight pause, Thrall continued, "And compared to the dwarves and others, we have more important enemies to pay attention to right now - the Four Chaos Gods!"
After saying this, Levi immediately looked at him with admiration. He was indeed a rare greenskin who possessed true wisdom.
But in this way, Thrall would basically be betraying his race and gods. Once discovered, he would naturally be wanted and hunted. Without the help of gods, even if he succeeded for a while, how far could he go in the end?
As if seeing Levi's doubts, Thrall smiled bitterly and said, "I am a hybrid of human and greenskin. I was raised by humans since I was a child, but my adoptive parents were killed by greenskins. I have been confused more than once, but I finally decided to stand firm in my beliefs."
Levi nodded to show his understanding. In this way, everything would be natural.
"However, your philosophy is more in line with the Moon Girl."
The Moon Girl - Sullen tries to make humans live in peace with the neutral or good beastmen. She also likes to persuade the evil beastmen to be good, so she has a strong conflict with Mala.
"Maybe, but I would rather start from scratch and carve out my own path. Doesn't that sound stupid and naive?"
Levi couldn't help but sigh for a moment. Regardless of success or failure, the other party was indeed worthy of a higher regard.
“But if there are only ideals but no power, everything is just empty talk.”
It is impossible to kill all the greenskins, but if the other side could really be replaced by a ruler like Thrall, it might not be a bad thing for other races such as the elves and dwarves. However, the possibility of Thrall's success is very slim.
Thrall could not help but remain silent. As a magician who had received human education and changed his job to become a shaman, how could he not understand these things? But he really had no choice.
However, every mortal must have some dreams of his or her own. No matter whether or not he or she can succeed in the end, as long as he or she has truly tried his or her best, he or she has not let himself or herself down.
