Shadow Covenant

Chapter 68 "Be Careful"

This is the subconscious reaction that Woody's visual nerve feeds back to the brain.

He was a little confused. Although Woody had always believed in his senses, he had never seen this noble girl from the Mel family in his memory.

And it hasn't been long since he came to this world, and he has seen only a handful of people.

But where does the sense of familiarity come from?
However, with the rapid screening of memories, the elimination method soon came to the people and events experienced in the night before the harvest festival, and one of the creatures corresponded to the girl in front of him.

This is……

The spider drow that night.

Therefore, Verando, who was still angry at Woody and looked at others without blinking, found that her cousin's face was heavy.

……

There are many ways to create "Spider Drow".

Among them, the most famous transformation method is through the ex-wife of the elf god Corellon, who left the elf god system and degenerated into a demon lord of the bottomless abyss. The curse of divine power created by "Rose", the queen of spiders with many titles in "Weaver".

——"Rose's Curse"

The cursed creature will change from a creature to another poor life form in a few seconds.

——"Spider Drow."

This is also the best way for him to show his divine power to believers.

It is said that Rose will occasionally choose a "concerned" believer to play a game: she will let the believer complete a task with a certain degree of difficulty.

If the task is successful, the believer will be richly rewarded, but if it fails, the price is to meet the vicious curse of Lolth and become a spider elf.

In the previous life, after leaving Asenland, many players accidentally entered the dark area of ​​the main material plane "Terra", and encountered believers of this god many times. A curse for the slithering drow.

All high-ranking priests who believe in Rose can release this curse, which seems to be a seven-ring magic.

If the physique is not high enough, and there is no advantage in magic resistance, and the underground adventure encounters Rose's high-level priest, the end will be miserable.

After all, no one wants to start fighting, and their core output personnel will unknowingly become a "spider drow." At that time, how could they rely on stacking physique to resist hard, or rely on magic shields to avoid this god? At that time, it also became the primary problem faced by the player team who planned to enter the Underdark Region.

……

As for how Asenland's spider drow was formed, Woody had heard about it in his previous life.

It seems to be a transformation potion made by mixing the special toxin secreted by the descendants of the demigod "Spider Queen" Korsust and the special herbs of the Underdark, which can transform drow or humanoids into giant spiders. Spider drow.

Among the large number of dependents led by Korsust in the previous life, there was an army composed entirely of spider drow, most of which were spider drow mutated from drow elves.

By the way... this incident also reminded Woody that he hadn't been able to figure out the matter about the spider drow yesterday.

That is, the spider elves transformed from drows have a pair of sharp fangs, which are the characteristics of underground creatures.

On the other hand, if it is a biologically transformed creature on the surface, it does not have fangs.

Woody can still vividly remember the roar of the female spider drow a few days ago, and its mouth...has no fangs.

Moreover, Woody vaguely remembered that in the early days of the game, in the Southern Principality area, the drow elves had obtained a magical disguise similar to a shapeshifter by relying on some kind of strange thing.

It successfully invaded several human cities, not only stealing high positions and occupying dove's nests, but also directly covering the entire city in spider webs.

Woody remembers that two years later there would be a human city where more than 70.00% of the nobles had been replaced by drow in disguise.

At that time, it was very strange for players to do missions, because most of the missions issued by the nobles or trade unions in that city at that time were assassination missions to provoke other human countries or spy on the military situation.

But the few human cities that Woody remembered at the time were all some distance away from Palermo, why here...

But the facts are in front of my eyes, looking at the dignified and elegant noble girl Jenferne not far away, her face is more and more similar to the outline of the spider drow that day, and why those drows are going to go to war to arrest a group of drows. There is a reason for the spider drow who only runs away.

After all, if you want to get the information you want from a human being, the quickest way is to turn him into your kind.

Clerics of Korsust will keep him secret, as they say.

That is.

——"In the web of fate woven by endless spider threads, every offspring of Kosuster is my partner, and they will tell me everything I want to know, and they will tell me everything I want to know. "

……

"Are you all right, cousin?"

Seeing that Jennifer has left and the streets at the gate of the noble district have returned to their previous order, Woody's face is still calm, which makes Verando, who was originally happy to go out, a little strange.

"It's okay, I just thought of something."

Woody dealt with it vaguely, and telling Verando was useless, it would only increase the risk out of thin air, but just now he had thought of the best helper to deal with this incident.

Temple District.

Happiness Square is already crowded with people because of the "Harvest Festival".

Weilando seems to be like a fish jumping out of the river, bouncing around and trying hard to watch the open-air musical drama held by the Temple of Life in front of her.

It is said that in addition to the temple saintess coming out tonight, there are also senior priests of the temple who will pray for the blessing of the goddess.

According to residents who have experienced it in the past, accepting the blessing can not only restore the body to its former health, but also make people feel peaceful, as if they have been gently kissed by a goddess.

But Woody knows that this is just an illusion given by the most common zero-ring magic "gift" that can bestow temporary health on the target.

Moreover, if the priest casts spells near the temple he believes in, it will greatly benefit the magic, not only strengthening the effect of the magic, but also prolonging the time.

Coupled with the influence of the extraordinary specialty "Blessing All Beings" of the high-level priest of the temple, the magic that can only be released on a single target can affect all targets in an area.

Somewhat similar to the mage's metamagic feat "Spell Expansion."

It was Wuditi's idea to come to the temple area to observe, but Verando found that her cousin didn't seem to be interested in festival performances and celebrations at all. Even the beautiful saint of the temple just passed by and left once in the middle.

Although she didn't know why Woody did this, she obviously felt that her cousin had something to hide from her.

So, after Woody came back, seeing the smile on his face, she finally couldn't help asking.

"Cousin, what happened tonight, ever since you met Jenny, I think something is wrong with you!"

"If you want to get to know her, I can help you spread the word, so you don't have to hide it like this."

Verando spoke openly, but her small eyes would look at Woody's face from time to time, as if she was afraid that Woody was really interested in Jenny.

"Nothing, I just did a good person and good deed, and I feel comfortable from the bottom of my heart. Don't think too much about it."

The relaxed Woody answered frankly, and smoothly smoothed the curly blond hair of the noble girl who took off her top hat.

……

That night, the staff of the temples of the three gods cleaned up the prayer boxes of believers on a daily basis, and put some letters that conformed to the regulations on the high priest's workbench. After the old temple attendant who was in charge of sorting the letters opened them.

A slip of paper with crooked handwriting fell out.

It says.

"Be careful of Mel, Jenny, drow."

　I originally wanted to post the two chapters at the same time, but the timing failed. There should be more in the evening. I will work harder~.

　　By the way, some recommendations and monthly tickets, oh, don't worry, I will never be a eunuch.

　　The last book is not as good as this one with 170W words.

　　This book still has a clear outline, but writing transitions is sometimes really tormenting, and I will definitely be able to finish the book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)