Chaos Crown

Chapter 102, The Gift of the Spider Queen Rose

Nestia's speed was very fast, very fast. Her white hair and white skin moved as fast as a gray dwarf's silver bullet in the night. After getting the horse at the appointed place, she did not stop for a moment and crossed Cormyr. The mountains and forests arrived at a secret location in the northern part of the Cape of Storms Mountain Range at an extremely fast speed.

A completely deserted elven relic. It used to be a palace of the ancient elven empire. It was built in a high mountain far away from Arabel City. This building is very magnificent and ancient, but the former external palace structure has all collapsed, leaving Only some narrow corridors, passages and caves in the interior of the mountain remain.

In the long years of Cormyr, this elven ruin has been visited countless times by tens of thousands of adventurers. As early as hundreds of years ago, everyone recognized that every brick, every stone pillar, and every wall here has been destroyed. Searched again, no more foolish adventurers try their luck here.

Nestia stepped into the elven ruins. She walked quickly through many corridors and narrow tunnels, and finally arrived at the temporary foothold of the Baenry family in Cormyr.

Thousands of years old tapestries hang on the walls, woven entirely by magic.These scrolls depict portraits of drow matrons who died thousands of years ago, yet their descendants walk the corridors with awe and reverence.

For the culture of drow, every mistress’ position is a bloody history of power and strategy. Rose, the spider queen, encourages cruelty, fear, and hedonism. Revenge and betrayal are all admirable behaviors for Rose.

However, drow is different from the orcs who use killing as a game in the chaotic chicken eating contest all day long. The murder and cruel behavior of drow elves are often carried out in secret. Drow has a set of rules and order on the surface, and murder can happen In a private bathroom and admired by others for its ingenious planning, but if it happens on the street in full view, it will still be punished publicly.

Nestia stepped into the foothold carefully. She used her own magic to open the special barrier. She carefully checked the foothold, even though it was already 200 meters away from the entrance, even though every person in the dark foothold The details were exactly the same as in her memory, and she didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.
Every drow is a potential enemy, and every drow is likely to take the eggs in her hands as their own. As long as they are not exposed to the public, killing people and taking goods is not only a shame for drows, but an honor symbol.

She knew what the Zombie's Egg meant to her, and what it meant to the Spider Queen, and she was always on the lookout for unparalleled vigilance. Nestia could sleep in the royal hotel in Suzall, surrounded by guards. , but in her own family's foothold, she will instead raise the highest level of vigilance, and she is always ready to face any form of attack.

After confirming again that there was really no one in the pitch-black foothold, Nestia began to lock the door.

She locked the outermost wooden door first, and then locked a heavy stone door.

After being active in the surface world for a long time, Nestia's dark vision ability was slightly weakened. After confirming that the two doors were locked, she pressed the switch on the wall and immediately took a fighting stance.

The wall unscrewed to reveal the inner chamber inside, which was a hiding place created during the elves empire, and the elves always like to leave a secret passage in the mansion in case of accidents.

The construction workers at that time had planned that when protected by this very strong gate, the people in the room could use this escape channel to slip out of the palace.

Nestia remained disdainful of cowardly thoughts, but understood their choice.

Due to the small number of drow elves, Rose, the Queen of Spiders, does not encourage large-scale wars and bloody conflicts. Fights between families often feature a small number of assassinations and scheming battles as the main theme. Eliminate all members of the opponent's entire family in one battle. As long as there is a fish that slips through the net, the survivors can ask Rose's priest to "handle justice", and all the drow in the entire city will immediately turn to attack those who have not been wiped out. family.

The air became more suffocating and musty.The road also became darker and darker, and Nestia continued until she entered a deeper room. In this room, there was a spider icon carved from black rock, a large brazier, The front and back of the icon are covered with rich black velvet cloth, flanked by statues of large purple spiders.

The same as usual, locked the door again, Nestia looked at the cruel spider icon, suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, smiled and lit the brazier, added the special Baen Rui family incense into it, knelt down, and put the snake god The egg was placed in front of the spider idol.

Immediately the air became terribly cold, a twisted and mad will noticed the sacrifice, and a unique creature—a demon with a body like a melting candle and an eye in the middle—answered Nestia's call , it first stared at Nestia full of malice, and the words it spit out were all venomous curses, but when it saw the egg of the snake god placed on the altar, the demon spun in the air in surprise .

Waxmelt, the angel of the Spider Queen, and the moody demon, it is said that they were all priests of the Spider Queen.

The flame in the brazier became vigorous, and a will came.

"What is this? Look, what is this? Nestia, daughter of the Baen Rui family, my dear, what have you offered me?" A distorted, vicious voice full of joy sounded, carved from obsidian On the spider statue: "Head up!"

Only then did Nestia raise her head, and the swordsong beauty tried her best to look humble and show her loyalty: "Congratulations, my lord!"

A glamorous drow female elf wearing a purple-black robe inlaid with countless precious platinum gemstones appeared in front of Nestia. He was ten feet tall, and greedily and contentedly picked up the tribute of the believers , she has a pair of scarlet eyes, although she is smiling, but this smile will only bring fear and fear deep in the soul of mortals.

Standing out of proportion to Nestia, who was only five feet four inches tall, she looked like a grown-up at child's play, her robes covered in dozens of gemstones, black enamel, and platinum gold. Spider-patterned, hideous runes glinted on her sleeves, but the gleam of deadly magic was nothing compared to the twisted, maddened gleam in her eyes.

Nestia looked at this scene, and as usual, she felt a bone-chilling chill and shuddered.

Rose, the Spider Queen, personally sent her avatar to the mortal world, which shows how much she attaches importance to the Egg of the Zombie.

"Congratulations, my lord!" The hostess's time is precious, and Nestia immediately repeated: "I have successfully obtained the egg of the snake god, and I will dedicate it to you."

"Idiot!" Rose was playing with the Zombie's egg, and his voice was suddenly cold and piercing: "This is not a perfect egg! There is something missing inside! The embryonic snake is dead!"

"The subordinate is incompetent." Nestia was sweating, and she immediately kowtowed to beg Rose's forgiveness.

The Spider Queen is an extremely moody goddess. When He is displeased, all you can do is to pray for His forgiveness. Any excuses and doubts will speed up your own death.

"Seth? Trash! Nothing but sleep. When Seth is stealing his faith, the only thing he can do is sleep." The spider queen threw the egg up contemptuously: "Fortunately, what I need is still there." Inside the egg, this works for me, works, well done, Nestia!"

Rose's anger turned to joy so quickly that Nestia immediately bowed her head: "I will do anything for you, as I have always done, my lord!"

"Very good." The Spider Queen put away the eggs in satisfaction: "What else? You should have something to tell me, right?"

"I... I met a human being, he may be... the Son of God, he is very unusual."

"unusual?"

"He is a powerful spellcaster and a rare fighter. In some respects, I even feel that his power is...somewhat close to yours."

"Does he have elven blood in him? For example, Corellon or that bitch Sehanie, who was a mortal bastard?"

"No."

"Then it might just be the heir left by Bane or Baal. If that's the case, then he is not worthy of our concern whether it is good or bad. Nestia, you are wasting my time."

"But the blood of God flowing from his body is really extraordinary. My lord, he is tall and has an extraordinary appearance. He is not only a powerful spellcaster, but also a courageous fighter. In time..."

"In time, will he be as useful as you?" Rose asked impatiently.

"Yes, my lord, I doubt I will be his match anytime soon." Nestia was still trying.

Sure enough, Rose began to be a little interested: "To make you pay attention so much, he must be very powerful."

"Yes, my lord, I am amazed at the strength he displayed."

"Did he show any signs of Bane's or Baal's awakening?"

"Not yet, my lord, but I think he is better than the one our Banrui family has contacted, in all aspects, in every sense." Nestia finally revealed her purpose: "So..."

"I see, you like him." Rose's eyes were distorted and vicious, she grinned ferociously, and picked up Nestia's chin with sharp fingers, the Spider Queen seemed very excited, she discovered a novel thing .

"Yes." Every time, every time, Nestia would be terrified by her mistress' insight. She knew deeply that she wanted to rule the entire underground world, the demons of the bottomless abyss, and those who would never be restless. Mistresses of God, it is impossible without extraordinary insight.

From any point of view, in any sense, it is impossible for drow to escape Rose's control, which is why the dark girl always fails. He doesn't understand how powerful his mother is.

The only thing Nestia can do when facing the Spider Queen is to be honest.

Too many drow have tasted the Spider Queen's punishment for clever deceit, death being the lesser of them all, and worse fates awaiting them.

"You are excellent, Nestia, I agree to your proposal." Rose laughed twistedly and viciously, and before Nestia had decided whether to laugh with the mistress, the Spider Queen He lowered his head suddenly, his scarlet eyes revealed a killing intent: "But, have you become weak?"

"Never, my lord." The female drow said almost begging for mercy as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Remember, loyalty is your only value." Rose, the Spider Queen, gave Nestia the reward she deserved: "The reward is your loyalty."

A matriarchal scepter that symbolized Lolth's authority fell down. This long scepter looked like it was made of silver spiders and was surrounded by twisted dim light. The length of the scepter was covered with a fist-sized Lolse logo : A female elf with a swollen spider head.

This scepter contains five powerful magic spells, which are updated every day.

And it symbolizes Rose's trust and authority.

From this day on, any mistress of the Baenre family is no longer qualified to order Nestia, not even the first mistress of the Baenre family, Kunshiel-Baenre.

From this day on, Nestia who owns this scepter will be able to trample on all drow laws and confiscate the property of any male drow. No matter what she decides, it is considered to be approved by Rose. Silk's teachings will do.

In addition, the powerful blessing of divinity from the Spider Queen has been applied to her body, and Nestia has gained more powerful spell-like abilities. After receiving the blessing of Lolth, she can now use darkness and dancing lights without limit , and gained the permanent ability to see through invisibility.

Her strength was directly promoted to the high master level by Rose.

The avatar of the Spider Queen disappeared in place.

Nestia was not very happy, she held the mistress scepter that Rose had given her, looked at her pale skin, touched her silver-white hair, her eyes wavered one after another.

She wasn't sure if it was her.

She still vaguely remembers that before she received the family training, her skin should be dark jade-colored like other drows, the freckles from the past have completely disappeared, and there should still be a few scars on her face, especially under the eyes There was a shallow crater, but she couldn't remember whose fingernails made it.

Ever since she was beautiful, she was chosen to be the drow who was going to move on the surface, she was forced to accept the baptism of many kinds of magic and divine arts, her black jade-colored skin disappeared, and it became permanently pale. , the scars on her face—whether it was honor or humiliation—were washed away, because her surface cousins ​​valued appearance more than any race, and any blemishes were not allowed.

Over the past ten years, she has changed countless identities. She was a wood elf in the highest forest for a while, a snow elf in the Northland for a while, a moon elf who returned to the country from other crystal wall systems to settle down, and sometimes became a The sun elf of Yongju Island, her identity is fake, her hair color and eye color are stolen, she keeps in mind new identities one after another, remembers their lives, remembers their characters, learns from their The way of speaking, but only forgetting his own.

If Xiaocaiji hadn't asked this time, she would have almost lost her name. Her memory was distorted by being stuffed with too much content. She felt like she was having one dream after another. In , she has many identities, but she is not Nestia Baenre. Since she started activities on the surface, that female drow has only existed in memory.

It was Aaron who brought her back to herself for a while, remembering the person Nestia Baenre.

Nestia smiled derisively, and she couldn't help thinking of Suzall's little chicken again, recalling his voice and smile.

In Jiansong Beauty's mind, she suddenly felt that it would be great if she was really the sun elf Aponia, the envoy from Yongju Island, Cormyr's honored guest, and Xiaocaiji's sister, so she could stay with him openly and aboveboard. , this is not bad, staying with him makes me very happy.

Happy... Do I really have the right to be happy?

The hostess was right, I've grown weak!
Nestia laughed at herself. For more than ten years, she stayed on the surface world for a long time, far away from Menzoberranzan, the Underdark, and the cruel life of the drow. She wandered in many parts of the kingdom disguised as Many people, she gradually got used to not having to be wary of everyone, not having to carry dozens of weapons on her body at any time, not worrying about possible backstabs and assassinations at any time, and she could even meditate with peace of mind in some high-end hotels.

What frightened her even more was that Nestia found herself longing for the life of the surface races, even though these surface races were cowardly, weak, naive, stupid, and disgustingly moral compared to the drow.

She found that she enjoyed the time on the surface, a life without so many lies, deceit, betrayal, and intrigue. She enjoyed being respected by others instead of putting a knife on each other's neck to force the other party to submit. She liked listening to those harps The story of the hands - put your own interests in the end, sacrifice yourself for the peace of the country's grand epic.

Even her own cousins, Nestia found that they didn't seem so hateful, they were arrogant, hypocritical, arrogant, and stubborn, but isn't the drow the same?And compared to the cruel Underdark, her cousins' bustling city life, harmonious neighbors, relatives and friends, and peaceful trade are more attractive to her.

There are also many idiots among the cousins. These idiots are brave enough to show their useless sympathy, lofty ideals, or lofty pursuits, even at the expense of their lives. Nestia used to despise this kind of behavior, but she gradually realized that, As stupid as they are, hopelessly incorrigible, the Cousins ​​fare better than the self-serving Drow.

They deserve more respect than their fellow countrymen who will do anything to advance their status.

If only I was really Alponia!Nestia had this idea again, her face was flushed and she rubbed her long legs slightly, recalling the scene of the little rookie's big hot hands "playing the piano" on her body, Elder sister Elf would not tell her younger brother: she was Almost pissed on him.

Unfortunately, all this is just a beautiful fantasy, just like the dance in the dark night.

The white-skinned drow sighed sadly. She knew that as a member of the Baen Rui family, she knew better than anyone else the power of Rose, the Spider Queen, and she knew Rose's control over the drow better than anyone else. Er, she had no chance of escaping Rose's grasp, never.

Even if she wanted to give up this life, she couldn't do it, absolutely impossible.

She can only do one last thing for Aaron Salian, through Rose to make the Banrui family give up an assassination plan.

Yes, she came to Cormyr with three missions.

The first task is to dedicate the box of black soul gems containing the souls of compatriots to the spider queen Rose.

The second task is to get the egg of the snake god Seth for Rose.

And the third mission is the assassination mission requested by the trade partner of the Banrui family. The target of the assassination is Cormyr's regent Princess Alice Sale!
"This is the last thing my sister can do for you, Xiao Caiji."

Nestia lowered her head. Thinking of this, Swordsong Beauty finally couldn't control herself. She suddenly knelt down on the long steps while leaving the secret room, and hammered the ancient and deserted steps with her fists, repeatedly, I can't help myself, like crazy.

As long as she leaves this place, she will become someone else again.

"So, who am I?"

"Who the hell am I!!"

　Updated, after watching two games for more than 6 hours, I really vomited.

　　I'm going to bed
　　
　
(End of this chapter)