Warhammer: Return of the Dragon

Chapter 412 Intersubjectivity

After a long march, Caledor's army came to the outskirts of Sky City, and the first thing they saw was a large number of foul-smelling ratman corpses.

These mountainous piles of corpses filled every corner, even with Lustria's powerful purification ability, they failed to completely dispel them.

After hearing the rumors, Pestilen had already given up on forcibly breaching the Sky City during this period, leaving only unrecovered corpses on the ground, so he retreated further south to plan the next attack.

Masnow, who heard the news that the legion came here, immediately appeared from the city, his tired face showed a little relaxation, the offensive of the rats made everyone a little numb, facing the bombing of various catapults all day long.

He, Damian, and Agrim have hacked and killed some rat trolls that ran out of nowhere.

Originally, the Prophet of the Snake God could also deal with these guys, but he seemed to have fallen into a state of silence, like a snake hibernating, staying at the top of the pyramid, watching everything happen.

Imrik, who understood the situation, nodded his understanding, handed over the control of the army to the champion warrior, and led the Flame Knight to the pyramid where Tehenhauin was.

Imrik, who came to the city, didn't pay attention to any movement, even if someone took the initiative to bow, he didn't care, and his eyes were fixed on the red-crested skink at the top of the central pyramid.

Many mysteries may be solved here, whether it is the abnormality of the body, or what is going on with Sotek.

The war against the rats seemed unimportant at this moment, and an inexplicable feeling appeared in Imrik's heart.

Can he feel a trace of sadness from Tehenhauin's figure?

It seems that this kind of emotion should not appear in the snake god prophet, and Imrik has no hesitation in expressing his veto. Any strong words can describe the snake god prophet, but only sorrow can't.

A group of people gradually came to the blood-covered pyramid, and the legion of the guardian snake god prophet did not stop them. Some red-crested skinks with red scales on their backs even offered to surrender to Imrik, lying on the ground to express their admiration.

Noticing this situation, Imrik came to the steps below the pyramid, turned over from Mortellius' back, and ordered Creon without looking back,

"You wait here."

"Yes." The loyal royal guard expressed his understanding, turned his body around, stood on the ground that had turned red, and watched every possible threat in his vision.

The boots stepped on the bloodstains on the steps, wiped them away step by step, and there was a heavy echo.

The pyramid gradually emitted a red mist, from the cracks in the walls, from the ancient sacred script carved on it, from the surrounding land, and from Imrik's body.

The snake god oracle noticed the seer, and just stood there waiting, watching the elf walk up the steps slowly.

Finally, the person whom the Snake God Prophet had been waiting for for a long time finally came before him. He had seen this scene hundreds of times in several years, but only this time it was so clear.

"You are finally here, the one who realizes Sotek." Tehenhauin stuck out his forked tongue, without any violent words, allowing Imrik to immediately attack the rats.There is also no reason why the anger has taken so long to come here, it is so plain that it is just a greeting.

But Imrik was not as calm as Tehenhauin, his eyes were surrounded by a thick layer of red light, and his whole body seemed to be shrouded in blood mist.

"Tell me everything you know! Especially about me and Sotek!"

Imrik gritted his teeth and suppressed his anger. The Snake God Prophet has done a lot of good things in the past few years. Since the third sacrifice was successfully sacrificed, he spent most of his time in Hesiota. Master Ma helped suppress the abnormality of the body.

Fearing that someone who didn't pay attention would be dominated by strong hatred, he ran to the southern Dalinhai alone to massacre the rats.

But who would have thought that Tehenhauin, who should know Sotek the best, shook his head and said what Imrik didn't want to hear the most,

"Believers cannot understand the gods, because everything is given by Sotek, how can I explain everything. Besides, is everything about Sotek that I said is true in your opinion? Yes, I know what I said is true, but in your cognition, you still have doubts."

The Snake God Prophet babbled a bunch of words like a big toad in person, not paying any attention to the bloodthirsty gaze of the elf in front of him who was already boiling with murderous intent.

Unexpectedly, Imrik immediately took a few steps forward, stretched out his hand and grabbed Tehenhauin's prophecy plaque as armor, and lifted it up.

"Are you playing me? If you don't even know what Sotek is, you will still persist in the 2000-year war with the Skaven in Lustria? Will you still use blood sacrifices to strengthen the power of the sect? Speeches of the seven offerings to bring Sotek down!"

Yes, Imrik's heart was full of anger, not from Tehenhauin, but from Sotek. Only by experiencing the hatred pervading in the blood mist would he understand how compelling it is.

If someone with a slightly weaker will is replaced, he will become a machine that only knows how to revenge and kill Skaven. It can be said that Tehenhauin's various actions are turning himself into a revenge machine!
Facing the scarlet gaze, the Snake God Prophet poked his head out to meet him, and looked at Imrik with the same animal pupils, his tone remained mysterious before,

"I am waiting for the arrival of Sotek. To me, Sotek symbolizes blood oath and revenge, the hope of the eldest son of the Old Sage, and the god who will kill all the rats."

"But to you, Sotek will never have this meaning. If I tell you that Sotek is the God of Blood Oath and Vengeance, it is just a conceptual deception."

"Your position is different from mine, and your understanding of Sotek will be different. What exactly is Sotek, you need to find the answer yourself!"

Imrik stared at the snake god prophet, and he could immediately cut off his neck and stop these nonsense, yes, this is not a difficult task, it is as simple as squeezing a mouse to death.

But the premise of all this is that what he said was nonsense, even more unreliable than the big plan that Master Ma was talking about.

But as a well-educated prince, Imrik could understand what Tehenhauin wanted to say. According to the different cognitions of each individual, the understanding of concepts would also be biased.

Not to mention that my thinking mode is very different from Tehenhauin's. The Sotek explained by him may be two different concepts from what I think.

If you want to eliminate the differences between the subjects, you may have to let the old saints try.

And it is extremely stupid to define a god. Ordinary people often only understand its extension, but know nothing about its connotation.

Even if it is possible to understand a little bit, understanding it with the ability of ordinary people can only be proved with pathetic rationality, and there is a high probability that it will be wrong.

"Tell me about the sixth and seventh sacrifices." Imrik let go of his palm, since he couldn't find the answer from Tehenhauin, he let himself do it.

"The sixth sacrifice, Negrich, the suzerain of the Pestilen rats!" Tehenhauin raised the plaque on his left hand, motioning Imrik to look at the content on it.

Imrik, who was enlightened by Master Ma, could understand the content on the plaque. The sixth sacrifice was indeed Negrich, but only the seventh one was blank.

After appeasing some of the anger in my heart, I asked Tehenhauin,
"the seventh."

The Snake God Prophet did not answer immediately, walked alone to the northwest of the pyramid, stared at the dense rainforest for a long time, and said slowly,

"Itaza, the seventh sacrifice is in Itaza."

(End of this chapter)