Volume 8: The Road to the Ancient Dragon Chapter 456: The Faith That Deceives Me
"Kaya, what exactly did you promise it!?" Sylvanas asked vigilantly.
She looked at the behemoth in front of her uneasily. The Storm Dragon exuded a terrifying aura all over its body. The terrible deterrence from the prehistoric beast and the power of the storm faintly surrounding it all made Sylvanas tremble slightly.
This terrifying dragon made her feel afraid. It was definitely not a power that a mortal should have.
She had come into contact with Prince Aidan at an alliance meeting before, but now, looking at this giant dragon with a wingspan of over 100 meters, she could not see any trace of Aidan at all.
Maybe the rumor is true! She suddenly thought that the real Prince Aidan had been killed long ago, and the current Aidan was just an evil dragon in disguise, lurking in the alliance, plotting an evil conspiracy. The words of the Storm Dragon at this time confirmed her guess.
Kaya Windrunner explained: "I promised to build a temple for it in the family territory and make the Storm Dragon the family faith of the Windrunner family."
"What! How can that be possible? My elves believe in the sun god."
Kaya had an indifferent expression, "Why not? Ten thousand years ago we still believed in Elune, the moon goddess. But later on, when faced with a crisis, we changed our beliefs. Our Windrunner family doesn't rely on divine magic, and we've never had a priest. We've been rangers for generations. There's no reward for believing in the sun god. We've believed for so many years but haven't even acquired a divine skill. I think changing our beliefs is not a bad idea.
At least we know the Storm Dragon, and he'll really help us if we're in trouble."
Sylvanas was a little amused and helpless after hearing Kaya's retort.
But if you think about it carefully, it cannot be said that it is completely unreasonable.
The High Elves - the former upper elves, were also one of the remnants of the Night Elf Empire ten thousand years ago. They still maintain the typical appearance of the Night Elves, with tall stature, strong physique, violet skin color, and believers in the Moon Goddess Elune.
However, since being exiled, the high elves lost the protection of the moon goddess Elune and the World Tree, and their bodies began to gradually degenerate. They became shorter, their skin color changed, and their lifespans were greatly shortened. The night elves, who originally lived in the forest, became weak due to long-term exposure to the sun.
It was in this situation that the leader of the High Elves, Dath'Remar Sunstrider, called on the High Elves who followed him to abandon their faith in Elune and instead choose the sun god Anther as their patron god.
It is not known whether this choice was due to the family name or because in the eyes of the world, the sun is bigger than the moon, so the high elves became believers of the sun god.
It is said that the ancient elves followed the path of the sun all the way eastward, arrived at the land of Quel'Thalas, and established the elven kingdom.
Dath'Remar Sunstrider became the first king, and even the royal family was called the Sun King.
However, the elves are magicians, and their belief in the gods is not that devout. Although they have a Sun Temple, priests, and have obtained divine powers bestowed by the Sun God, the Sun God priests do not have much power within the kingdom, and the real power is always in the hands of the wizards.
Even the Sun Royal Family has only a few priests. All of them are magicians and have inherited one or two sun god spells at most.
Kaya said, "Look, second sister. The last king's surname was Sun Chaser, so he chose to believe in the Sun God. Our family is called the Wind Walker Family. Doesn't this foreshadow our fate? I don't think there's anything wrong with believing in the Storm Dragon. Now that the Horde army is approaching and the Alliance is not coming to rescue us, staying here is just waiting to die. It's better to take the troops and fight with Aidan."
Sylvanas didn't know how to refute these words.
She pondered for a moment, then said with determination, "If you must do the temple's work, then do it. But as the Ranger General of Quel'Thalas, I must stand with my warriors at this time. The war is not over yet, Silvermoon City has not been breached, and Prince Kael'thas is still fighting. I can definitely lead my people to victory. Thank you for your help, great Storm Dragon King, but I still have my mission to complete. Please excuse me."
Seeing Sylvanas leaving stubbornly, Murphy was not very surprised. In history, it was basically Sylvanas who led the army to resist the Scourge. In several levels of the plot campaign, players controlled Arthas to fight against Sylvanas.
It can be said that he fought again and again after repeated failures, and fought until the very last moment.
The Sun Royal Family only appeared in the final defense of Silvermoon City, and then was wiped out by Arthas.
Instead, he began to admire this ranger general.
Hopefully her fate will be different this time.
But that wasn't his problem.
The Storm Dragon King lowered his vertical pupils and looked at Kaya.
Kaya said hurriedly: "Don't worry, the temple will definitely be built. At most, I will pay for it myself. Oh, I am afraid that I will go bankrupt now. It costs a lot of money to build a temple."
Murphy would not be fooled by this girl's complaints about being poor.
Aidan Deron (Storm Dragon King): "Don't cry to me about being poor, mortal. The Windrunner family's background is not much less valuable than the Sun Royal Family. Look at your rank and background, and your profession as a Ranger of Light. How could you be without money?
The Temple of the Storm Dragon must be built."
"Alright, alright, I didn't say I won't build it for you. I just complained a few words. Why are you so anxious? But Aidan, you don't have a priesthood or godhood, so why are you building a temple? Are you trying to seize the position of the God of Storms? Damn, if that's true, you'd be really awesome. If you really become a god, I'll be your favorite and promise to work for you wholeheartedly and serve you well."
Murphy really had no idea what to do with this girl. She drove too fast, even boys couldn't drive that fast.
"This is not something you should care about." After saying that, he flapped his wings and flew away.
While flying towards Alterac, Murphy studied the harvest this time.
I was busy showing off on the battlefield, and the enemy was closing in on me. I didn't even have time to touch the corpse. I don't know which bastard got the chance.
But I did earn a lot of faith points.
As expected, if you want to gain faith, you still have to show your divine power in plot events.
These days he carefully studied the belief system of this game, and combined with his own situation, he has gained a certain understanding of the Storm Dragon belief.
The Storm Dragon is a secondary divine creature, a bit like a demigod in the wilderness. It is still far inferior to the real gods. The biggest difference is that it cannot provide faith rewards to believers.
When an adventurer creates an account, he can choose one of the 12 main gods as his own belief. Believing in different gods will provide different benefit effects for the player.
For example, if you believe in the god of death, Naraku, the experience penalty after death will be reduced by 20%.
Believe in Anser, the sun god, and fight in a sunny day to increase your skill critical hit chance by 3%.
Believe in the goddess of life, Notina, and increase all life-restoring effects received by 5%...
For adventurers, it is a bit like a talent skill. It is very important to choose a suitable belief for different professions.
Among them, the professions with the greatest impact are still those of pastors and priests. The beliefs chosen by this type of profession will directly affect the types of divine arts they can obtain.
Although they are all priests, the priests of different gods have completely different skills and even different fighting styles.
For example, the priests of the god of war Odin can be immune to spellcasting penalties while wearing heavy armor, and have exclusive melee magic. When fighting, they can hold shields and hammers and charge into battle. They are completely incomparable to ordinary cloth priests.
The priest of the God of Light has a bunch of holy light skills with outstanding healing effects.
Priests of the Sun God can use the Sun's Fire, which is very effective in dispelling the undead.
This is just for adventurers, the impact on heroes is even greater, especially some hidden professions related to gods, which can only be unlocked by believing in specific gods.
But lesser divine creatures do not have the ability to grant priests divine powers.
Not only that, there is no reward for faith.
In other words, there is basically no benefit for players to believe in the Storm Dragon.
This is quite embarrassing.
Who would believe it if there is no benefit?
The only advantage is probably that belief in evil gods does not require prayers, and as long as it can cause fear, you can gain faith points.
Just like today, a storm raged and a lot of .
In addition, although it is of no value to adventurers, fortunately there are NPCs in this game.
For those farmers, civilians, and soldiers, praying is almost a subconscious reaction when facing a terrifying existence like the Storm Dragon.
Murphy can .
It's very vague, but the growth of faith points is visible to the naked eye.
If there are enough people praying at the same time, or the fear caused is strong enough, they can communicate directly with Murphy, pray for miracles, or even summon the Storm Dragon to come.
To achieve this effect, the simplest way is blood sacrifice, so that the fear of the sacrifice before death can attract the attention of the evil god.
Or hold large prayer events with hundreds or thousands of people praying together.
It is equivalent to spending money (faith points) to buy services.
In addition, different ways of praying will also affect the personality of the demigod.
If the Storm Dragon is always subjected to blood sacrifices and always responds to summons after the blood sacrifices, it will gradually become an evil god in the minds of believers.
On the contrary, you can also move closer to the good gods.
Murphy took a look at his faith points and found that it had reached 31,941 points.
It seems that I really need to participate more in the plot and show more of my strength. After this rampage, I have successfully moved closer to the direction of the evil god.
His affinity has also increased to 23%, which means that the faith points that can be mobilized are as high as more than 6,000 points.
It's time to create a large storm.
Not bad, not bad.
Come to think of it, he hasn’t used the talent points he gained after the advancement. How about choosing two talents related to faith?
The BOSS template is different from the hero template. It does not have any hero specialties or hero skills.
Instead, there are evolutionary routes and talent trees.
Every time a BOSS template is upgraded to a smaller level, you will gain 1 talent point and choose a BOSS talent.
Every time a BOSS template is upgraded to a higher level, it will have a choice of evolution direction and can evolve into a BOSS of different forms.
Originally, he had three talent trees, namely [Dragon Instinct], which mainly strengthened the basic abilities of the dragon race, such as melee combat, survival, and flying.
[Power of Domination] Strengthens the Dragon King's related talents.
[Storm Domain/Dragon Thunder Alienation] Talent tree, strengthens dragon thunder and storm abilities.
After obtaining the dragon incarnation skill, Murphy chose a lot of talents to strengthen dragon thunder in one go. Later, he focused on enhancing the power of dragon thunder, and later he chose talents to enhance flight and increase blood volume.
However, he had other ideas about the talent points this time. After advancing to the Disaster Dragon, among the newly unlocked talents, there appeared talents related to faith.
Since evolving into a Disaster Dragon, in addition to these three talent trees, there is now another talent tree - [Dragon Power].
This talent line is all about enhancing the power of miracles and strengthening the points of faith gained.
However, Murfei was hesitant about whether to click on this line. All his previous talents were focused on Dragon Thunder, followed by survivability and flying ability. If he clicked on it again now, he was afraid that it would not be enough.
Add something like this, don't ask to be a master of everything, just be good at one thing.
Or should I just stick to the Dragon and Thunder Talent path until the end?
While Murphy was thinking, the Alterac Mountains appeared before his eyes.
Occasionally, you can see groups of players exploring the snowy mountains.
As the Storm Dragon King flew over their heads, bringing with it a violent airflow, the players all felt a strong sense of oppression.
They also heard the system prompts.
[System prompt: You have encountered a secondary divine creature [Storm Dragon]. You can try to pray to it and may get a response. You can check the relevant information in the faith interface.]
There were actually a few people who were curious and used the basic action - praying.
Of course, nothing happened after praying, except that Murphy's faith points increased by a few points.
Murphy decided to put the issue aside for now.
Finally returned to Dragonsong Castle, and as soon as I landed, Knight Roland came to greet me.
"Master Aidan, you have a visitor."
"Visitor?"
When I changed back into human form and walked into the castle hall, I saw a blonde girl in a violet robe, curiously looking at the dragon-shaped decorations around her.
Jaina? What is this little girl doing here?
Murphy was a little puzzled, but the other party had already discovered it.
"Ah, Lord Aidan, it's great to see you again. My father asked me to give you his regards."
Jaina said this and curtseyed like a lady.
"Is His Majesty Dai Lin okay?"
He is in good health and is leading a fleet to wipe out the pirates in the south."
After a few pleasantries, Jaina directly stated the purpose of her visit.
"Prince Aidan, I have heard about your dragon-slaying deeds. I want to go and slay a dragon with you."
Murphy was stunned when he heard this. He was indeed ready to continue his dragon-slaying journey, but he had not yet decided which one to choose as the fourth ancient dragon. But this little girl wanted to hang out with him? What the hell.
"Why me?" Murphy couldn't understand. He had wanted to recruit Sylvanas as his subordinate before, but she ignored him. Now Jaina came up to him on her own initiative.
Jaina hesitated, she didn't know how to explain it - she couldn't just say, I always feel like we've met somewhere before.
"I have completed my studies in Dalaran. The academy requires each of us to take a one-year graduation trip, join an adventure team or serve as a military mage to improve practical experience. I don't want to be a mercenary in a tavern, so I came to find you."
What kind of reason is this...
"I don't have time to take care of the children. Sorry, I'm afraid I can't accompany you on this matter. If you want, you can stay in Dragonslayer Castle for a while, but I'm very busy with my affairs. Dragon slaying is a dangerous activity. I don't want His Majesty Dai Lin to worry."
"I'm strong." Jaina waved her staff.
"Do you have a title like Grand Mage, Grand Arcanist, Grand Magister, or something similar?"
Jaina shook her head. Of course she didn’t. If he had that status, would he still need a graduation trip?
"Sorry, I need experienced teammates."
Jaina may have amazing potential, but Murphy doesn't have time to wait for her to grow up. The action of slaying the dragon is imperative and there is not much time to waste.
Just after sending the angry Jaina away, Knight Roland walked in again.
"Master, you have another visitor."
Huh? Mo Fei thought, how come it's already one day.
"Who is it?"
"I don't know him - he's quite mysterious."
"Let him in."
A few minutes later, an old man in a gray cloak walked in, leaning on a staff. His gray hair hung down from the gap in his hood, and under the hood were a pair of vertical pupils unique to reptiles.
Angus (High Priest of the Dragon Cult): "Hello, Prince Aidan. We finally meet again."
