I ascend to the throne of God with arcane magic.

Chapter 810 Artifact [Pastom’s Stomach Bag]

Underground city passage,

Li Si looked at Elisa, who had returned to her previous appearance.

Without Li Si's help, Elisa's consciousness has once again fallen into a deep sleep.

Rose's mental imprint still controls Alliesa's soul.

Elisa cannot recover from her puppet state until the mental imprint of the Spider Queen Lolth is completely removed.

However, Elisa was previously controlled by the Dark Elf matriarch Spin, but now she has become a puppet controlled by Li Si.

However, thanks to Li Si's careful planning, Elissa's change in condition did not attract Spin's attention.

She was even able to give orders to Elisa.

In other words, the highest authority over Elisa's legendary puppet is now held by Lolth, the Spider Queen.

However, since the Spider Queen Rose is located outside the Gaia world, she cannot control Elisa herself and can only hand over control to others.

Spence, who received the power granted by the Spider Queen Rose, is the second-in-command.

However, Spin's authority has been replaced by Lis.

However, to prevent his actions from being discovered by Spin and Rose the Spider Queen, Liss retained Spin's control.

This is equivalent to third-party access.

Although he can control Elisa, he can be canceled at any time by Li Si's orders.

Li Si has essentially succeeded in controlling a legendary dark elf puppet.

Although transforming into this kind of puppet will reduce one's strength to some extent, it is still quite good.

Especially under the current circumstances, Li Si was able to control Elisa to evade the Spider Queen Lolth's attention and enter the forbidden fortress of Donovan.
This can be considered an alternative approach.

Besides Elisa herself, the information Li Si obtained from Elisa was also of great importance to him.
Li Si could sense that the Spider Queen Rose took this matter very seriously.

His plan certainly includes more than just these elements.

Previously, the Church of the Gods severely damaged the small world of the evil god through the small world portal opened by the [Crystal of Phillips], which was one of the more glorious achievements in countless years.

However, at the same time, it also allowed those followers of evil gods to hide even more deeply.

Moreover, Li Si believed that given the behavior of those evil god followers, they certainly wouldn't obediently hide away and lick their wounds.

If we don't retaliate, we're not followers of an evil god!

At this time, the Dungeon Incident occurred again in the territory of the Pan-Continental Mage Association.

Li Si couldn't help but suspect that it might be a scheme by those evil gods and abyss lords.

The world's course has already changed because of him, and Li Si needs to be careful in dealing with any changes.

Of the intelligence reports just now, one piece in particular caught Li Si's attention.

That's the magical artifact that sealed this place off: Pastorm's Stomach!
Previously, when facing the dark elves, [The Sorrowful Monk] Bren had prepared to use spatial teleportation to leave this dungeon.

Although Bren, the "Spellcaster," has mastered spells such as teleportation, he is probably not particularly skilled at them.

Therefore, he did not sense any changes in the surrounding underground city space.

Because, although his spatial teleportation spell was successfully cast, the destination was not the place he specified, but was instead redirected to the depths of the forbidden fortress of Donovan.

Moreover, judging from its appearance, it seems to be a dangerous location that had been set up in advance.

Compared to [The Ascetic] Bren, Li Si is more skilled in spatial magic.

He had noticed this change in advance.

He tried to break through, but to no avail.

This was the first time Li Si had encountered such a special situation, and it was far more troublesome than any spatial blockade or spatial freezing.

Moreover, Li Si could sense that this spatial change was still ongoing and had not disappeared.

This kind of spatial distortion over a long period of time is truly bizarre.

Li Si guessed that perhaps only if Professor Stephens came in person could there be a breakthrough from within.

From Elisa's words, Li Si finally understood the reason for this change.

The incredible artifact: Pastorm's Stomach!
The giant Pastorm is an extremely rare and special monster found in the Endless Abyss.

Their bodies are somewhat similar to those of slimes, without a fixed form. They usually hide underground and devour anything in their surroundings.

It can devour sand, soil, ore, and even demons and lava.

We welcome all, regardless of whether it's meat or vegetables.

Pastorum has no wisdom; his only purpose in existence is to keep eating.

It doesn't have any special abilities, except for its extremely tenacious survival skills and environmental adaptability, and perhaps only its good appetite.

Therefore, the number of Pastorum giants in the Endless Abyss is quite small.

According to Elisa's understanding, this artifact, "Pastrum's Stomach," originated from Pastrum, a giant with the power of a demigod.

Pastorum himself was not powerful; in fact, he was considered one of the weaker ones in the Abyss.

That Pastorum is probably the only one since the birth of the Endless Abyss that has been able to become a demigod.

This demigod Pastorum's stomach also possesses extremely unique abilities; in addition to its incredibly strong defense, it can also control the space inside the stomach.

This artifact, Pastorum's Stomach, was not made by Lolth, the Spider Queen; she obtained it from elsewhere.

Elisa knew this so clearly because she had been assigned by Spin to guard this artifact.

The artifact is not something Spin can use at will; she cannot control it with her own power.

However, through a special method granted by the Spider Queen Rose, Spin is able to control the opening and closing of Pastorm's stomach.

The artifact [Pastrum's Stomach] possesses many unique powers, and controlling its internal space is only one of them.

Among the artifacts, [Pastrum's Stomach] is not considered particularly powerful.

It didn't have much effect on Lolth herself, which is why she placed this artifact in Donovan.

Because Spin himself is not a demigod and has not mastered divine power, he cannot carry Pastorm's stomach with him.

The artifact, Pastorm's Stomach, is stored at the heart of Donovan and is usually guarded by Haria, the legendary dark elf who is also controlled by Spin.

On one occasion, when Spin assigned Harya to do other things, Elisa took Harya's place guarding the artifact.

Therefore, Elisa knows so much about the location and power of this artifact.

Li Si was somewhat interested in this artifact, [Pastrum's Stomach]. On one hand, the artifact's unique control over space intrigued him.

If Li Si could obtain it, it would be of great reference value.

Li Si's research in spatial magic was already quite outstanding after he received the teachings of his teacher Stephens.

After obtaining the [Philips Crystal], Li Si successfully used it as a foundation to condense a spatial clone.

Their mastery of the laws governing the spatial domain has also advanced by leaps and bounds.

Even so, Li Si was powerless to change the space controlled by [Pastrum's Stomach].

This is certainly because, although the [Pastrum's Stomach] is not very useful for beings of divine rank, it is indeed superior to Li Si's current level.

It was also because of the special spatial application in this artifact that Li Si began to ponder.

On the other hand, if the problem of Pastorm's stomach cannot be solved, even if the Pancontinental Mage Association wants to attack the Dark Elves, it will be quite difficult.

Because Pastorm's Stomach's ability is not only effective internally, but also has a powerful effect externally.

Moreover, Li Si also had some clues about this.

If there's no way to deal with this artifact, Li Si will directly inform the Pan-Continental Mage Association or the Elf Kingdom and let them handle the matter.

However, based on the information provided by Elisa, it seems that Li Si may also have a chance to obtain this artifact.

Spencer's control over Pastorm's stomach is based on the power granted to him by Lolth, the Spider Queen.

This control method is likely similar to the method used to control legendary dark elves like Elisa.

In other words, it is very possible that Li Si could also use a similar method to usurp Spin's control over the artifact [Pastrum's Stomach].

After all, the Spider Queen Rose cannot personally control this artifact, which is Li Si's greatest advantage.

After all, neither the Spider Queen Lolth nor the Dark Elf Matron would have imagined that there would be a freak like Li Si.

Even though he's only a legend, he's already starting to dabble in the power of gods.

Although Li Si currently only controls the rudimentary form of Chaos Divine Power—the power of Chaos Faith—it cannot stop the sheer amount of Faith power that Li Si controls!

Moreover, while the Dark Elf matriarch Spin was quite powerful, that was about it.

Li Si could sense that Spin's strength was still some distance from the path to godhood.

If you're careful, it's not difficult to fool her.

Moreover, Spencer's attention should now be entirely focused on controlling Brun, the "Spellcaster".

For this reason, she is currently using [Pastrum's Stomach] to maintain the lockdown of this underground space.

However, even if [The Singer] Bren is defeated, it will still be very difficult to gain control over him.

Bren's spirit is quite strong; controlling a legendary mage is no easy task.

For Li Si, the biggest problem was still that Spider Queen, Rose.

Hopefully, through Elisa, they can avoid being noticed by this person as much as possible.

Anyway, let's go check out Donovan first!
Fortress Donovan,
The city, located underground, was shrouded in cold darkness, much like the despair that was forever suppressed in one's heart.

Although the city's streets were wide and grand, no one was walking on them.

Apart from the faint sound emanating from the underground waterfall outside the city, the entire city was as quiet as a graveyard.

Spiderweb-like patterns writhed on the obsidian wall, and Elisa's boots trod across the ground, crunching through the dust.

Her figure, shrouded in a cloak of shadow, sometimes twisted into liquid, sometimes condensed into mist, as she slowly moved forward into the shadows.

The spires lining the street resembled inverted daggers, their obsidian surfaces seemingly covered in dark bloodstains, gleaming with an oily sheen under the faint fluorescent light.

Every now and then, clear springs gush out from the cracks in the stones on both sides of the street, and streams that converge in the depressions on both sides of the ground meander forward.

The air was thick with the pungent, sweet smell of rotting corpses and rust, and Elisa frowned involuntarily.

As she passed a building with curtains hanging over its windows, she saw twelve sleeping bodies through the gaps in the curtains.

These dark elves had skin that gleamed with a cold, pearly light, and their necks were adorned with spider-claw-shaped metal collars, the tips of which were deeply embedded in the veins below their collarbones.

Their chests rose and fell extremely slowly at an abnormally low frequency as they lay on the bed, fast asleep with their eyes closed.

It looks like a corpse that has just died.

Li Si's spirit resides within Elisa's mind, observing the forbidden fortress of Donovan through Elisa's eyes.

The city is strangely eerie and doesn't resemble a city at all.

The dark elves sleeping in the buildings lining the street must be the dark elf warriors that Elisa mentioned.

The reason it is in a dormant state seems to be to maintain its state as much as possible.

Rather than being dark elf warriors, they were more like puppet armies of Lolth, the Spider Queen.

The Dark Elves are incredibly lucky to have such a racial deity.

Li Si sighed inwardly, then continued to control Elisa as she walked towards the central area of ​​Donovan City.

No one came out to stop Li Si along the way.

Li Si knew very well that this did not mean that Donovan was safe; it was only because of Elisa's special circumstances.

As a legendary figure among the dark elves, it's quite natural for her to appear in Donovan.

Therefore, the defensive and security arrangements in the city will basically be ineffective against Elisa.

At least until they get close to the core area, Li Si doesn't need to worry about any problems.

And the core area of ​​Donovan.
Li Si glanced at the distance ahead.

The tremors that used to occur intermittently in Donovan have not happened for some time now.

Was Brun, the "Scholar," defeated and captured by Spin and his men?
It was a building standing at the heart of Donovan, like the torn abdomen of a spider.

According to information obtained from Elisa, the name of this building is
Spiderheart Temple!

Eight pillars, resembling vertebrae, support the dome, each end of which is connected to a dense array of black spider legs.

The building's facade is covered with constantly writhing black spider webs, which are actually the embodiment of Lolth's divine power. Whenever a creature approaches, the webs will automatically condense into the form that creature fears most—perhaps a skinned human knight, or a monster parasitized by spider eggs.

Li Si could see that a giant spider egg with a diameter of thirty meters was hanging in the center of the temple dome. The eggshell had a translucent fleshy texture, and inside, countless curled-up infant-shaped magical beasts could be seen.

Their umbilical cords are connected to the Rose emblem at the top of the spider eggs, and each cord pulsates rhythmically, drawing mysterious power into the core of the spider eggs.

The power of Lolth, the Spider Queen, flowed through the building, and countless dark eyes appeared on the temple walls, observing the entire Donovan.

(End of this chapter)