The Magic Empire for 20,000 years

Chapter 241 I Don't Want to Deal with the Mad God

"What are these hideous creatures? Some kind of abyssal monster?"

The dwarven high priest Bag immediately raised his giant hammer, cast a divine buff on his ally, and prepared to fight:
"Don't think that just because you look scary, the dwarf warriors will be afraid of you!"

On this continent, Eye Demons are quite rare, and not many people know about them.

The fighting forces of other races also reacted one after another.

The ancient silver dragon, Lady Frost and Snow, soared into the sky, took a deep breath, and gathered icy breath in her mouth.

Princess Lia and the other spellcasters chanted incantations, preparing to strike first and join forces to suppress the largest and most terrifying bewitching demon—the Great Matriarch.

Seeing that everyone was about to engage in battle with the High Priestess, the Goddess of the Eyes, Elian was startled and immediately called out to them:
"Wait a moment!"

"Don't fight that monster."

—Erian did not speak directly, but instead sent the message rapidly through the [Mind Link] to avoid being heard by the High Priestess.

Everyone was immediately stunned.

Why not take action?
This terrifying creature, like a monster that has stepped out of a nightmare, is clearly an enemy, isn't it?

Despite not understanding the reason, everyone followed the orders in the mind channel and did not launch an attack on the monster from the abyss.

An eerie silence fell over the area surrounding the blood-red abyss rift.

At this moment, the High Mother and the other Eye Demons flew out from the abyss rift and also saw the allied forces surrounding them.

The Great Mistress, this ugly, enormous bewitching demon, rolled her eyes several times, surveying the humans, dwarves, elves, and gnomes outside, as well as the enormous silver dragon in the sky.

After observing for a while and finding that these creatures had no intention of attacking her, the Great Matriarch shook her eye socket (which seemed to be equivalent to the eye demon's "hand"), signaling the eye demons behind her to follow, completely ignoring the allied forces, and flew directly eastward.

Hundreds of bewitching creatures, including many "Nest Mother Eyes" specifically designed for rapid reproduction, followed the Great Mother's avatar and gradually moved away from the abyssal rift.

No battle took place.

Everyone held their breath, watching the ugly creatures fly away from overhead, motionless.

"Wow, what are these creatures? They look so scary!" Duncan Flashstone, the most timid dwarf mage, muttered on the mind channel.

"I don't understand, why can't we fight them? Aren't these giant eyeballs monsters from the abyss? They look like blasphemous creatures and should be purified in the name of Moradin!" the dwarf high priest complained in the mind channel.

As the First Lady led over a hundred bewitching demons, they flew further and further away, breaking out of the allied forces' encirclement and passing over Elian's head...

Elian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Thankfully, we avoided a battle...

He explained to the coalition forces via the Mind Channel:

"The one that just flew over was an incarnation of a powerful deity."

"Goddess of the Eye Demon, Great Matriarch!"

"Following behind her were her creations, deformed monsters called the Eye Demons."

"These strange creatures can emit eye-shaped rays with different magical effects. Even ordinary individuals are high-level magical beings."

"In normal conversations, try not to mention the name of the Great Matriarch. You should have heard that the true God can sense when his name is mentioned."

"Although most of the time, because so many people mention the name of God, the gods will overlook this matter, it is still better to be on the safe side."

"After all, the Great Matriarch is a chaotic, evil, capricious, and extremely paranoid mad goddess."

"Unless absolutely necessary, don't mess with this madman!"

As the First Mistress flew further and further away, Elianan breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully, a fight didn't break out...

A powerful and mad god, no one in the multiverse would want to provoke him!
Other deities have various concerns when they intervene in mortal affairs.

For example, they fear other pantheons, or they worry that forcibly descending into the material plane will incur the malice of the material plane's will and bring them weakness.

However, the High Priestess of the Bewitching God, a being with the blood of an outlandish god from a distant land, and who was paranoid and insane from birth, has an unpredictable behavior pattern. She might fly into a rage at the slightest threat, and there's even a chance she'd risk everything to descend into the material plane in her true form, using her terrifying divine power to annihilate the Elven Royal Court and Eldoron!

Of course, if the situation truly escalates to that point, the gods of Sidrian will certainly intervene. But that would mean the situation is completely out of control…

Seeing that the High Priestess and the hundreds of bewitching demons behind her had flown several hundred meters away, Elian's heart finally settled down, and the allied forces also relaxed.

"Who would have thought that this deformed monster was actually an incarnation of a true god?"

"Or is it a being at the level of a main god in a pantheon?"

Bagh, a priest of Moradin, was most familiar with the power of the gods and was astonished.

Divine power represents the pinnacle of deityhood. It's a level typically possessed only by the principal gods of major pantheons such as the orc pantheon, giant pantheon, and dwarf pantheon.

Even among the gods of Sidrian, hailed as the strongest pantheon at present, only Corellon possesses true divine power. According to the original history, it wasn't until after the Aros rebellion, when the three goddesses, including Sahani Moonbow, merged, that Avandor gained a second powerful deity.

Just then, the First Mistress, who was halfway through her flight, suddenly stopped.

This capricious and deformed deity suddenly turned its head and looked curiously at the allied forces gathered at the rift in the abyss.

She seemed puzzled as to why multiple races from different material planes would gather together, especially at the rift in the abyss.

The next moment, the First Mistress laughed, revealing a gaping maw, and raised the eye sockets around her, pointing them towards the allied forces.

"Oh no, she's changed her mind."

"Defense!"

El-Erian's voice echoed in the minds of the allied forces.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The next moment, beams of light of different colors shot out from each of the Great Mistress's eyeballs.

Petrification, dissociation, instant death, mind control, terror, slowing down...

Multicolored magical rays with different effects shot towards the allied forces.

Walls of rock, ice, or force fields rose out of thin air, space distorted, and invisible doors absorbed the rays...

Elion and several legendary spellcasters hastily joined forces to block the High Matriarch's first wave of attacks.

"What's wrong with this monster? It was about to fly away, so why did it suddenly turn around?"

The dwarven high priest Bagg looked at the beam of light shooting overhead and roared.

"There's nothing we can do; the First Mistress is just that kind of chaotic, crazy, capricious, and utterly unpredictable goddess!"

Elian said through gritted teeth, feeling helpless.

I really don't want to deal with mentally ill people!

Seeing that everyone's rhythm had been disrupted by her surprise attack and they were scrambling to defend themselves, the First Mistress chuckled. The Central Lord's eyes were filled with excitement, and his hideous, blood-red maw opened even wider.

The other eye demons around this divine incarnation also turned around and raised their eye sockets.

Thousands of eyes were fixed on the direction of the allied forces, and colorful magical energy gathered within them.

The eye-wave rays are about to be fired simultaneously!

The combined power of hundreds or thousands of magical rays fired at once would be absolutely terrifying!
El-Erian's expression darkened slightly as he rapidly considered various options.

It seems a major war is inevitable?

What should I do next?
Are there any roundabout ways?
The allied forces will inevitably suffer heavy losses in their confrontation with the battle avatar of the Great Mistress!

Even if everyone joined forces and managed to defeat this avatar of the Eye Demon, it would still be tantamount to angering this powerful true god...

At that point, the development of the situation will be unpredictable...

(End of this chapter)