Chapter 587, The City of World Desire
Following the rainbow bridge created by Aaron, the Chaos Dwarves first attacked Menzoberranzan. They used the pig-rushing tactic. Regardless of the many drow warriors who were still defending the city walls, they rushed directly into the city and attacked the family fortress of the drow family first. The broad-bladed muskets and lava axes of the Purgatory Guards killed the drow on sight.
The first wave of Chaos Dwarves who rushed into Menzoberranzan was about 7,000 people. This wave of offensive did not produce much results, but it made the drow families, who were already suspicious and disunited, panic. The mistresses ordered their respective armies to withdraw to the main castle for the final defense.
And this retreat ushered in a total collapse of the city wall defense line.
The Eilistraee Giant God Soldiers continued to ravage the drow defenders on the city wall, and Cormier's army had already entered Menzoberranzan along the rainbow bridge.
"Rose has been silent, this city belongs to us!" Aaron's unique [Taboo-Quadruple Existence] voice echoed in the Cormyr army: "Cormyr people, follow me!"
"Follow the Protector, follow the Protector!" Riding on a half-griffin, Alicesel wore the dragon crown and held the king's sword, and the queen of Cormyr followed in.
Without Rose, there are actually gods guarding the city of Menzoberranzan.
The warrior patron saint Selventum was ordered by Rose to guard the temple of Menzoberranzan.
Selventum, the warrior god of the Underdark, is a cruel god with a heart full of hatred. Fighting and destruction are the only two things he cares about. His heart is filled with deep hatred for all living things-including Rose. He only feels pleasure when he appreciates skilled and deadly fighting skills.
The warrior patron saints of the Underdark have almost no independent church system, and they mainly serve as the military force of the Church of Lolth. Due to Lolth's ban, Selvetarm cannot be worshipped as a god, and can only enjoy a position on the side of the Spider Queen's temple as Lolth's loyal guardian to receive offerings.
This god is the unfortunate product of Velen and Zandila (one of the aspects of Sharess), the sons of Corellon and Elohine (that is, before Lolth's fall). He once had a friendship with Eilistraee and his camp was once shaken to goodness, but in the end Selvetarm was conquered by Lolth's conspiracy and power, and became Lolth's loyal guard from then on.
Before the arrival of Eilistraee's Giant Warrior, Selvetarm once thought about whether to descend his avatar to assist in the defense of Menzoberranzan. However, before the Giant Warrior appeared, it was meaningless for Selvetarm to descend his avatar, because the solidity of Menzoberranzan was enough to hold out for more than a year even if a million surface people came.
After the Giant God Soldier appeared, it was meaningless for Xiwentham to send down his avatar. With only weak divine power, he could not defeat the Giant God Soldier in front of him even if he sent out his avatar!
When intelligence came from other places that six deep dragon lords were also approaching Menzoberranzan under the leadership of a demigod dragon lich, Xiwentham knew that the situation was over.
The warrior patron of the Chaos Evil camp decisively decided to preserve its strength.
Moreover, Xiwentham had a bad premonition.
Rose was silent. He knew about this.
But the other gods of the Underdark pantheon were also silent. Except for Eilistraee, Rose's son Velen, the god of vengeance, Qiyyyyar, the goddess of undead vengeance, and Ghaunadaur, the god of slime monsters, did not respond. They neither came to support nor took advantage of the fire.
Very very very weird, brother.
Seeing the wonderful situation, the gray dwarf god Ladugu immediately possessed the gray dwarf high priest and cast a divine spell to blow up part of the city wall, then let the city wall be built on the moat and rushed into the city.
The god of the derro dwarves, Diylinka, directly used his divine power to create a hillside and let the derro dwarves rush in.
The orc god king Gruumsh howled and signaled the orcs to rush directly, and he would use the orcs' bones and blood to build another rainbow bridge on the moat.
The mind flayers teleported into the city one after another, and then used the psychic tunnel to send their slave army into the city of Menzoberranzan in batches.
At this moment, even if Rose suddenly returned, it was powerless to save the situation. The City of World Desire finally fell in the siege, and the wealth accumulated by this city for thousands of years was completely exposed to several major forces.
According to the previous agreement, Aaron gave several drow family areas with lower rankings to other besieging forces. As for the main temple areas of the leading Baenre family and Rose, they were occupied by the Cormier people themselves.
Most of the other forces were mixed evil people. They were not the kind of people who liked to abide by the agreement, but seeing that the giant soldiers of Eilistraee were so brave, most of them decided to abide by the promises made to Aaron, well, temporarily.
At this time, the pearl of the Underdark had been exposed to Aaron.
In the field of vision, beyond the city wall, like a basin, the terrain was deep, spanning several kilometers, with a depth of nearly a thousand meters, and the city area that could not be seen at a glance was the city of Menzoberranzan.
The magnificent city area made the "country people" of Cormier blinded and dazzled as soon as they broke through the defense line.
Maybe the Underdark gives people a feeling that it is very dark here, very dark, and you can't see your hand in front of you.
But at least this is not the case with the city of Menzoberranzan. This city is built in a large hole basin behind the city wall. The entire city is carved out of calcite, shining with blue, green, and purple light in the dark, making the city as bright as day.
The high-rise castles emitting fluorescence and phosphorescence turned the Kailazhu Plain into a steel forest. The supreme Baenre family and the Temple of Lolth are located here, arrogantly and ruthlessly showing their supreme power. Several large families around them guard the Temple of Lolth and barely squeeze into the core circle of power.
The noble families in the West Wall area are much inferior to those in the Kailazhu Plain. Only those with lower castles and darker lights are planning how to replace the families on Kailazhu. In the Bondel area, the small families there have risen in countless bloody storms, and they are planning to replace the residents of the West Wall area.
As for the rest of the area, most of them are slaves or drow men of the lowest status. The environment they live in is truly dark.
But there is light in their eyes!
Even the oldest drow can't remember what Arvandor and the surface world looked like before the fall. In the thousands of years since they came to the Underdark, the drow decorated their cities according to the aesthetics of Lolth, lit up the basins, and used graceful arcs and protruding sharp corners to show the shapes of spiders and spider webs, announcing their worship and awe of Lolth.
There are also some satellite cities near Menzoberranzan, such as the magic academy Britch.
And this is the main attack point of the Mind Flayer Legion.
The area that Aaron divided for himself was naturally the Baenre family and the main temple of Rose. The treasure house of the Baenre family and the treasure house of the Church of Rose were here. There were treasures collected by the drow in the name of Rose for thousands of years, and there were many unknown treasures from ancient times to the present.
For example, the clothes that Nesstia had received from Rose before were made by Corellon for her when she was Elohine.
History, hegemony, wealth, glory, today, the pearl of the Underdark is finally going to be taken by Aaron!
At this time, the Baenre family was still fighting desperately. Many drow warriors and drow priestesses loyal to the Baenre family blocked the block with their lives, but without the support of Rose's magic, facing the charge of the half-griffin knight and the purple dragon knight, these drow warriors could only resist the footsteps of the Cormier people for a short time.
Of course, the Baenre family also had some hidden treasures. More than 300 elite spider drow had just fought their way out when they were swept by the lasers of the Eilistraee Giant Warriors. Only one in ten survived. Aaron's Slaanesh Pain Wheel shot a legendary warrior. Prince Pleasure mercilessly took away the souls of the drow, leaving their empty bodies. The flames of Tzeentch exploded everywhere, and the fire demons and fear demons danced in the air.
In the air, Miss Charlotte sat on "King Aaron" and used the Karthus Magic Box to fight against Gonff-Benre. Charlotte was naturally far inferior to Gonff-Benre in terms of magic and skills, but Charlotte did not need to win, she just had to not lose.
And the eldest lady, who had the dual blessing of the power of the saints of Amaunator and the power of Aaron, did a good job in completing the task, not to mention that the chief wizard of the royal family, Fangda Hester, also joined the battle and turned himself into a bronze dragon.
Gump Baenre was unable to provide sufficient support, and the peak combat power of the drow men was forced into a tug-of-war. Without the blessing of divine magic, the matrons headed by Trill Baenre were at best just skilled master-level warriors. Facing the cavalry charge led by Alicesel herself, they could not resist at all.
Nesstia and the followers of Eilistraee also rushed into the battlefield, killing the priestess of Lolth mercilessly.
They fought all the way to the gate of the Baenre family's castle, and the Cormier people finally encountered some decent resistance.
The ancient black widow spider guardians were dispatched.
These behemoths, which were as big as a bunker, had shells harder than steel, and had sharp teeth with super magic resistance that could bite everything. They were the last trump cards that the Baenre family had awakened after sacrificing the lives of many priestesses.
Then, these trump cards were punched away by the Eilistraee Giant Warriors.
Aaron smiled and released a large-scale divine spell. The seven-meter-diameter Fist of Khorne fell from the sky and punched a black widow spider into the ground. Then, the Fist of Khorne began to rotate rapidly, causing sparks to fly from the contact between the spider's shell and the fist. The giant spider's head and shell burst, and large streams of juice splashed out from the gap of the fist. The eight legs of the giant spider trembled and struggled wildly, but this legendary beast was like a black currant fruit thrown into a juicer, and finally turned into a ball of mud.
Nurgle's Five Blessings hit another giant spider. The giant spider's extremely strong shell could not resist the corrosion of the fat grandfather. The black blood mixed with rotten pus announced the defeat of the black widow giant spider, which was highly expected, in the smoking flesh and blood.
The invaders set fire and slaughtered the drow wantonly, spreading destruction and killing to the entire city.
"Rose, great spider queen, supreme lord, where have you been?" The matrons of the Baenre family knelt in front of the spider queen's shrine, weeping and bleeding. In order to get Rose to respond, they even dug out the hearts of some male members, put them on their chests, and prayed for Rose to respond.
Naturally, Rose remained silent.
Outside, Aaron's army began to attack the castle gate.
Spider matron Trill-Benre had heard the sound of the battering ram hitting the gate. Just when she thought that the gate of her family was unlikely to be broken by the simple battering ram, she was frightened by a loud noise in an instant. She turned her head through the thick fog to see what fell on the matron's hall.
There was only a pile of smoking stones, nothing, but she knew it fell from the street above.
Chaos Hell Cannon?
Or?
Trill-Banre habitually wanted to use divine magic, but the end of the empty divine magic link told her that she had lost her divine magic ability for a long time.
Another shot, the ground shook.
Trill-Banre habitually continued to chant the name of Rose, she closed her eyes, and prayed that her mistress would find a way to solve all this.
She would!
This was just a silhouette in the entire city of Menzoberranzan, and the female drow still believed.
But the male drow had collapsed.
These main forces guarding the city, the backbone of the mistress and the priestess who lost their divine magic, finally realized that they were fighting a war that was doomed to fail.
They were defeated.
The male drow gave up further resistance, leaving only the female drow who screamed and cursed them. In the chaos, the male drow began to break through and leave this desperate battlefield.
Under the siege from all sides, breaking through would have been a ridiculous decision. If it were any other surface city, then breaking through would have been impossible.
But Menzoberranzan is an underground city. This city was originally built on the rocks of the Underdark. There are hundreds of secret passages under the city, and there are even more secret passages that are unknown to the public. Male drows are used to doing dirty work. They escaped from the tunnels in groups and ran away.
Gonfu Baenre in the sky also noticed this scene.
The archmage and the warrior patron saint Selventum made a unanimous judgment.
The situation is over.
Wonderful.
Gonfu Baenre thought so, and he even had time to laugh. He glanced coldly at the besieged Baenre family castle, thinking that this is what his sister said, "Everything is under Rose's control"?
It's really ridiculous.
Sending a burning cloud spell to repel King Aaron, Gonfu Baenre suddenly found that due to the huge amount of spells and wars, there was undoubtedly enough energy gathered together, and found that the huge wave of energy rushed back to a huge, hot and dazzling chaotic energy gathering in the sky above Menzoberranzan.
A thought fluttered anxiously in Gromph's subconscious.
If this is the case... If this is the case, he might just have time to complete a spell.
Fortunately, he didn't need materials to cast this spell.
Gromph shouted the spell as fast as he could, he couldn't afford to mispronounce it, and in this moment, he linked the Abyss and the Underdark.
Super-alien dimensional link!
This spell exhausted all of Gromph's magic power, and he fell from the sky, satisfied.
The Abyss answered him.
A series of thunderous rumbles sounded, and above Menzoberranzan, the dimensional wall cracked, a huge shadow filled the crack, and the sound of flapping wings filled the eardrums, which was terrifying.
Three figures emerged from the cracks, three muscular male bodies fell from the sky like artistic stone sculptures.
Be'lak, the god of ambition and shadow!
Marked King of the Mark!
Six-fingered Graz'zt!
The moment Bilak's dark and muscular body appeared, he could not wait to loudly announce to Aaron.
"Aaron!"
"I have been deified!!!!"
"Kneel down before your god!"