Chapter 75: The Chaos of Ice and Snow! First Update
2015-10-05
Author: Floating Tower (诸生浮屠)
The bright moonlight gradually returned.
However, that brilliance seemed a bit hollow. Soren suddenly felt a powerful divine power disturbance coming from a certain place in Arendelle. This drew his attention, and he gently leaped onto the rooftop, then quickly approached ahead. As the distance gradually closed, Soren discovered that the source of the divine power disturbance was actually the Royal Palace of Arendelle. A powerful force erupted from the stargazing platform beside the palace.
“Could it be the Princess?”
A trace of doubt arose in Soren’s heart, and he directly cast the flight spell and rushed over.
After all.
The Princess still maintained an alliance with him, and such a divine power disturbance definitely indicated that something was amiss.
“Hehe!”
A strange light laughter sounded.
Just as Soren approached the Royal Palace of Arendelle, the Princess noticed his presence. An avatar made of ice and snow materialized, glancing at Soren with a hint of suspicion and asking, “Is it you?”
There was another person present.
The Royal Palace of Arendelle was surrounded by powerful security magic laid down by the Princess, as her enemies were formidable.
The Whip Maiden’s elect.
Soren recognized the alluring drow priestess holding a long whip at a glance; her identity was far too recognizable. That peculiar long whip could only be used by the elect of three deities: one was the priestess of the Spider Queen, one was a devotee of the Succubus Queen, and the last was the elect of the Whip Maiden.
The Princess had always been in opposition to the Winter Maiden, and the Whip Maiden happened to have a close relationship with the Winter Maiden.
That was how the last conflict arose.
“You dare come here?”
The Princess’s expression was as cold as frost, her eyes filled with murderous intent as she stared at the drow priestess before her, and with a wave of her hand, the area was engulfed in ice and snow.
— “Ice Prison!”
A crisp laughter rang out, the Whip Maiden’s priestess vanished from her spot and reappeared a hundred meters away.
She looked at Soren warily. Then she playfully stated, “It seems you have had quite a bit going on during this time. I’m here just to inform you that the Winter Maiden has returned from the astral realm and will visit you soon.”
“Hehe!”
“I won’t disturb you any longer! I’m leaving now!”
Accompanied by a flash of spell light, the Whip Maiden’s priestess disappeared from the spot; she was also afraid of the Princess, or else she wouldn’t have left so decisively.
The Winter Maiden?
The Princess couldn’t help but slightly furrow her brows. She thought of the deity she had banished to the astral realm.
Why did the Whip Maiden’s elect have to tell her this?
Wasn’t she allied with the Winter Maiden? These two evil deities had once served the Lord of Storms, a powerful deity worshipped in the Amazon region. Later, due to the Lord of Storms stealing the Winter Maiden’s divine power, this fragile pantheon relationship broke apart, and the deities under the Lord of Storms began to turn away, while the Winter Maiden formed an alliance with the Whip Maiden.
Winter Maiden, Whip Maiden, God of Hunt, Ocean Goddess, Lord of Storms.
These five deities once belonged to the same pantheon. The first four deities ranged from weak to medium divine power and had all served the Lord of Storms for some time.
Their alliance was intriguing.
On one hand, they maintained cooperation; on the other hand, they also schemed against one another. The evil faction liked it this way.
The Whip Maiden had once been a member of the Dark Gods, serving alongside the Poison Lady the former God of Slaughter. This was the bloodline source of the Son of Slaughter, but ever since the God of Slaughter died during the last turbulent year, both of these goddesses gradually submitted to the power of the Lady of the Night. However, after the return of the Tyrant God, the Whip Maiden’s loyalty to the Lady of the Night began to waver. Then things got interesting. The Tyrant God fell during the Arcane Empire era, replaced by the bloodline source of the Demon Son of Fear, the Demon God of Fear. The patron of the Whip Maiden changed again and became a subordinate deity of the Lord of Storms.
The Lord of Storms seized the Winter Maiden’s power. The entire pantheon collapsed once more.
The Ocean Goddess rose powerfully to become a deity of strong divine power. The Whip Maiden, Winter Maiden, and God of Hunt formed an alliance, and this situation continued until now.
The relationships among the gods have always been this way; the positions of evil faction deities are almost solely related to interests.
Soren’s mind quickly ran through various memories.
In the next moment.
He realized one thing. The Chaos of Ice and Snow was about to erupt.
Saint’s Cataclysm.
When this unprecedented tumult erupts, the chaos will not be confined to just one or two places. Soren remembered that when he crossed the Icewind Valley to the Frozen Kingdom, he learned that the Chaos of Ice and Snow would erupt, which is why he decided to head to the Overseas Islands.
Now the Winter Maiden had returned.
The Whip Maiden’s elect appeared in Arendelle, and all signs indicated that the Chaos of Ice and Snow was likely brewing.
Winter Maiden, Whip Maiden, God of Hunt.
In one moment!
All the clues in Soren’s mind suddenly connected. He instantly became aware of one situation: if he could eliminate the God of Hunt and disrupt the schemes of the Winter Maiden and Whip Maiden.
Could it be that the Chaos of Ice and Snow would not erupt?
If the Chaos of Ice and Snow did not erupt, then the northern kingdoms centered around Arendelle would not plunge into war; historically, this place was also a disaster area during the Saint’s Cataclysm. If the Princess did not mysteriously disappear, the trajectory of history would have deviated, and to some extent, the turmoil of the Saint’s Cataclysm would have been significantly reduced by Soren.
For the first time!
This was the first time Soren felt that he could change the future. Although he could not interfere with the trajectories of deities of medium divine power and above, if he could eliminate these weak-tier deities’ alliances, then the trajectory of the Saint’s Cataclysm would already be deviating.
“What are you doing here?”
The Princess looked at Soren with a complicated expression. On one hand, she was very resistant to Soren’s overly close relationship with Princess Anna, but on the other hand, she had to admit that Soren’s growth and rise were indeed astonishing.
He had been just an ordinary adventurer back then.
Yet now he had actually attained the divine status of True God using the Half-Elf and Wanderer divine professions. Although both still hold a superior position over him, from a status point of view, Soren’s identity as a True God was far greater than hers. If it weren’t for the eruption of the Saint’s Cataclysm, with Soren’s powers as a True God switching to divine form would surpass the strength of the Princess.
Soren had always felt a great pressure from the Princess for some reason, so he looked at her and said slowly, “I have prepared a gift for you. I also have matters to discuss with you.”
………………
Icewind Valley, Northern Region.
As dawn approached, suddenly a nearby forest in the south began to wither, as if afflicted by a plague of plants. One by one, the towering trees rotted from their roots, and the yellowing leaves fell. The green plants all withered away, and in just a moment, the entire forest had completely died, with a decayed stench permeating the air of the forest. (To be continued ~^~)
