Author: Half-wounded but not broken

The Crow Queen, Lady of Crows. A very secretive deity.

The description of her in most books is vague, and many scholars even doubt whether such a goddess really exists.

According to the description in the book, the Crow Queen was once an elf warlock. She once tried to use the people's worship of herself to make herself a god.

But being worshiped by others does not mean you can become a god. The Crow Queen also needs divine power and godhead.

Moreover, a mere weak divine power cannot satisfy the Crow Queen. She arrogantly believes that since she wants to be promoted to a god, she must become a powerful divine power.

To this end, she plundered countless souls like a demon and used them as materials to build a bridge, trying to cross the long river of souls to gain divine power from the void and the realms of other gods.

But before she could accomplish all this, she failed.

Because the disaster that the ancient elves called a great disaster has come.

The violent fluctuations instantly destroyed the unformed Soul Bridge and everything about the ancient elves.

At the last moment when the Soul Bridge collapsed, the Crow Queen used her remaining power to protect her people, and took a group of ancient elves to the Shadow Plane for refuge.

These refugees are now the shadow spirits.

As I said before, you cannot play with souls. Even the most blasphemous necromancy books will warn you in bold and red fonts. This is a taboo that must not be touched.

Of course, the arrogant ancient elves would not pay attention to this, and the Crow Queen paid the price for it.

Her existence will surely perish. This is not a simple death, but a complete erasure of all information about her existence. No one will remember her, and all her achievements as an elf will disappear. Even her own memory will be lost.

has begun to gradually disappear.

But the Crow Queen is a very strong elf, and she found a way to maintain herself before disappearing completely.

She used the stolen godhead and the characteristics of the shadow plane to create a void self, and stored all her memories in the memory palace where the void self lived.

This operation is similar to a person dying, but uploading his consciousness to the cloud, waiting for the time to come back to life, which is quite cyberpunk.

The real Crow Queen has died at this time, but the individual she created has become a god, trying her best to protect her own memory from being erased, and also trying her best to protect the remnants of the ancient elves and survive in the desolate place of the Shadow Plane.

Go down.

It is difficult to say whether the current Crow Queen has no self-awareness and only knows how to act according to the orders left by the real Crow Queen. She will not respond to anyone's prayers except the Shadow Spirit. Everything that is known about her is unknown.

It is limited to bold adventurers who dare to go to the Raven Queen's realm, as well as the oral accounts of travelers in the shadow plane.

Scholars speculate that the Raven Queen is a god with the priesthood of death, because the Raven Queen's followers who are occasionally encountered use the abilities of the death realm.

In addition, she should have the priesthood of cold or winter. It is said that the place where the Raven Queen lives is an icy valley called Lysena in the Shadow Plane. In addition to stones and ice, there is only the blizzard that never dissipates.

These priesthoods should be the powers that the Crow Queen snatched from other gods. As for who they snatched them from, it is impossible to record them because they are too old.

Perrenli only knew this about the Crow Queen, and even this knowledge could only be said to be guesses and interpretations of scattered words. At the very least, he didn't know what faction the Crow Queen belonged to.

Having the Death Priesthood does not mean that she is evil. In fact, most of the gods with the Death Priesthood are neutral, such as Pharasma, Lady of the Grave.

Therefore, it is impossible to judge Elena through the simple and crude judgment method of "the priests of the evil god are all dogecoins, and the priests of the good god are all good people".

"Modra was once a priest of the temple, and also my superior and teacher."

Elena's calm tone was as if she was talking about someone else's affairs:

"But he left the temple because he was tempted by the huge benefits, so I was implicated. The goddess took away my eyes as punishment and ordered me to hunt for Mordra forever, even to the end of the world."

"What did he do?"

"He beguiled his compatriots and broke away from the Crow Queen's faith..."

"No, I mean..."

Pei Renli thought about his words:

"What did he steal from the temple?"

Apostates are not too rare. Priests of good gods may be corrupted, and priests of evil gods may be good. When there are differences between one's own ideals and beliefs and the gods they believe in, this will indeed happen.

But to have someone with the stigmata and a high status in the church chase him to the end of the world is not the treatment that ordinary apostates receive.

In other words, Perrenli felt that Mordra had taken something important from the Crow Queen's temple, which made the cold and machine-like Crow Queen become furious.

"Sacred objects, secrets, vital information, etc. You can imagine."

Elena neither denied nor explained, but continued:

"But please understand, no matter what he did, I only want the result of his death, and nothing else is among my needs."

Then Elena looked at Varela:

"The sins he committed cannot be forgiven. I believe Miss Paladin will agree."

For Varela, it is of course the best to capture him alive, so that he can be thrown into court together with the evidence of Mordra's crime, receive a fair trial, and carry out the death penalty under the constraints of the law.

But nothing in this world can be done according to the rules. If there is a chance to get rid of Mordra, Varela will not hesitate to wield the weapon.

"I have no conflict with you. We have a common enemy and I hope to unite."

Elena reiterated her opinion. At this time, everyone heard a vague roar, but before they could check the direction of the sound source, the room and even the entire hotel began to shake, and dust accumulated on the simple beams.

The whole house was shaken, and the only thought in my mind was 'there was an earthquake'.

However, the shock came and disappeared quickly, and returned to normal in less than two or three seconds.

Elena was still very calm. She dusted off her robe and said:

"Modra is using the lava here to corrupt magical creatures and sell them as commodities to evil spirits. Earthquakes are common here."

This is just a small episode. The creatures in Forge City have long been accustomed to earthquakes every now and then.

Pei Renli patted the dust on his hair and said:

“What can you offer if we work together?”

"Everything you need."

Elena said:

"I have some informants around Modra. There is news that he is hiding in Forge City. I know his location and how to find him."

"But you didn't have the power to get rid of him?"

"Unfortunately, yes. Although Mordra no longer has magical powers, he is a very talented mage in his own right, and he is heavily protected by guards. I need you, especially you."

Her eyes covered with black cloth seemed to be staring at Pei Renli:

"A powerful mage and chosen one, I think enough to fight Mordra"

Elena always thought that Perrenli was a chosen one because her eyes saw something different from normal vision.

Having a stigmata does not mean that you are a chosen person, because the stigmatization is just a recognition from the gods to mortals, and it is also a gift. The elect may not have a stigmata (although most of them do), but the chosen ones have the power given by God.

Perrenli possesses the stigmata of the Grave Lady, and his divine power comes from the Dark Demon King, which is equivalent to a spliced ​​product. But in the eyes of outsiders who don't know the inside story, he is naturally no different from the elect.

Pei Renli didn't bother to correct the outsiders' names. He communicated with his companions with his eyes.

Varela obviously agrees with the cooperation, but she still has to be careful that Elena has other demands. After all, the shadow plane is still the most mysterious shadow spirit, and some of them cannot be completely trusted.

Anna didn't care, saying that Perrenli made his own decision. As for Eve...

Pei Renli understood immediately and asked immediately:

"How much do you know about that tower?"

"You should have already asked around in the city, right? Then I don't know more than you do."

Elena still said in an indistinguishable tone:

"But I know that Mordra is very interested in that tower. He always believes that there is mysterious magical knowledge in it. If you are also interested in that tower, cooperating with me is the best choice."

"Please let me hear the reason."

"After more than ten years of hard work, Modra has opened the tower. According to the informant's information, he has only the highest level left unopened. So in the past few years, he has been living in that tower and thinking about it every day.

How to open the door to the highest level, even when discussing business, is usually done in a high tower."

As for why I couldn’t open the top level...

Pei Renli suddenly thought of the brass key in Eve's hand.

Damn, it's really connected.

"Tell us this, aren't you afraid that we will leave you and go to the tower by ourselves?"

"I believe you will not make such an irrational choice. After all, as long as you get near that tower, you will immediately understand that it is impossible to break through."

Modra has a large number of subordinates, whether they are strong or not is another matter, but Perenli is not strong enough to truly ignore the number of people.

Moreover, forcing one's way in is tantamount to alerting the enemy.

Since Modra can escape pursuit and is no longer a piece of fish, it will be very troublesome when the time comes.

"So, you have an idea?"

"Of course, my informant provided a secret passage that allowed us to enter the tower without attracting any attention, but the information is limited to the bottom floor of the tower, and we can only rely on ourselves to continue going up."

Pei Renli knocked on the table repeatedly:
To be continued...