hotmtlnovel BECMI Chapter 309 – Other Offers
BECMI Chapter 309 – Other Offers
” I stated calmly to the shocked and aghast Shaden elves below. I had no problem guiding the image to look down at the Royal Palace, whose supporters were glaring up at me in rage, so many of their plans destroyed by my words,
The stunned look on the faces of the king and his daughter, the Princess Eralatai, was almost comical.
I shifted my image from viewing the palace, whose people were doubtless seething in outrage, and turned it back to the city below.
I paused to let that sink into them. “
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“Commune
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Incontrovertible fact. It was not an opinion. It was absolute fact!
There would be no Shaden invasion of the surface!
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I gave them no chance whatsoever to disbelieve me. “
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I let them weigh on that and for the fanatics to accept and try to recover for a moment. More were urgently spiraling up to hit my Illusion, and failing utterly.
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Angry shouts that I was lying about this died in knife-edges to the brain. This was fact, not opinion!
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That sounded horrifying, of course, but… “
The shocked horror of the elves below was complete as they gasped.
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Probably the most horrified at this knowledge were the Priests of Gaebrel, staring up at me in mounting shock and utter lack of disbelief, because wouldn’t let them lie to themselves.
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My gaze turned directly to the priests, many of whom had fallen to their knees on the steps of the temple, staring up at me in disbelief.
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“THAT IS ENOUGH.”
A Light flared in the false twilight, imbued with Immortal Power, shining into the hearts of all of the Shaden here with the knowledge that this was Gaebrel, their Protector and Guide, who had never abandoned them, who had given them a code to live by, and whose tenets had ensured that the Shaden had lasted for four thousand years here in the Underdark!
Magic pushed and tore at the grand Illusion I’d woven… and then paused in shock when mortal magic held against the Immortal!
“ I responded coldly to this display of Immortal power.
A great black Skull appeared in the middle of the Light, and bit down.
The Light vanished, as did the awe, severed like a knife. Up in the artificial sky, the stunned elves could see the image of a shining character glowing from inside a great black Skull festooned with scarlet roses, something moving within as if He was struggling, but unable to get out!