"Elisa, your tongue style is unusual... this accent doesn't sound like someone from the Pande Continent. Are you from the Amara Continent?"
Of course, the lord saw the forked tongue and heard her distinctive accent. It seemed that Elisa belonged to a special category even within Snake Worship Cult.
So even though time was running out now, he still planned to ask clearly.
Elisa looks very much like she comes from Snake Worship Cult headquarters. Maybe she can bring some information or inspiration.
"You guessed my accent right, hiss... I was a Snake Worship Cult priestess... note the 'once'! They told me I was born in the Bacchus Empire, but all my memories are... in Divine Cult li. Hiss... I have apostatized and will never join again. I saw your subordinates fighting Divine Cult, and now the sect is chasing me, so I must find a powerful leader to follow. There are always hisses when there are more people... the more powerful.!"
Elisa is really awkward when he speaks, and he makes a hissing sound from time to time, which is very uncomfortable to hear.
It's obvious that she has been taught to speak like this since she was a child, and she doesn't seem to think there is anything wrong with speaking like this...
Moreover, it will be more difficult to speak after the tip of the tongue is divided into two halves. It seems that it will be difficult for her to change this speaking style in her life.
"Divine Cult... heh... apostasy? You are the priestess of the Amara Continent Snake Worship Cult temple? Why did you break away from Snake Worship Cult?"
The lord noticed the wording of Elisa--Divine Cult.
"I really shouldn't poison my competitors. If I knew in advance that I would be tragically exiled to the Pande Continent, hiss... But the kind Goddess would know that I did this just to make the people who follow the true God live a better life... hiss!"
Elisa's words were a little jumpy, but people could still understand her. It seemed that she had used some dishonorable means in the competition among the priestesses within Snake Worship Cult.
"Merciful Goddess? Wait... what are you competing with those so-called competitors you mentioned?"
The lord was a little surprised. He realized that this former priestess probably had a very high status in Amara's Snake Worship Cult base camp!
Moreover, Elisa's so-called apostasy was probably just a rebellion against the current Snake Worship Cult ruler - she still believed in Aziz Dahaka and called him the benevolent Goddess...
"All the priestesses want to be the messengers of Goddess. Only High Priest can convey the will of Goddess... hiss... but now Divine Cult is completely deceived by the incompetent people who weave lies! Hiss...Divine Cult is no longer a beautiful paradise, Divine Kingdom is wailing everywhere!"
Elisa is completely undisguised. It seems that her long-term life in the temple has made her very independent in communicating with others - she doesn't care at all whether others can understand or not.
This is the expression of the magicians.
But Elisa obviously didn't realize that his way of speaking was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
The living environment in childhood has a deep-rooted impact on people.
No wonder Risadiran wants the lord himself to communicate with her. It is estimated that Risadiran would have a hard time understanding Elisa's jumping and vague way of speaking...
But the lord did understand something.
"Amara Continent's Snake Worship Cult... what happened?"
Li Ang Listening to Elisa's words, it is estimated that the huge power Amara Continent Snake Worship Cult has built may have some serious problems.
"Hiss... famine!"
Elisa sighed sadly.
"So... this time Snake Worship Cult suddenly launched a large-scale attack on Pande, was it actually because of the famine in the Amara Continent?"
Li Ang's understanding ability is indeed better than most people. Although Elisa's speech was unclear, he still understood it.
"Hiss... the current temple will not act according to Goddess's will at all... hiss, Divine Cult is no longer Divine Cult of Goddess!"
Elisa nodded and continued to talk briefly and jumpyly about some of the inside information she knew about Snake Worship Cult.
A few minutes later, the lord took a deep look at Elisa, then looked back in the direction of Imperial Port. He understood what was going on.
Elisa is a priestess trained by Snake Worship Cult since childhood. She has been living in the Snake Worship Cult temple of the Amara Continent.
This is the headquarters of Snake Worship Cult, and it is also the place where God's will is conveyed to Snake Worship Cult disciples everywhere.
Snake Worship Cult will snatch baby girls from various places, especially young noble girls, and send them to temples to be trained as priestesses. This is no secret.
Many nobles also joined Snake Worship Cult because their children were abducted.
Although it is a cult, the identity recognition between nobles and civilians is still deeply rooted among the believers. Now, it has become Snake Worship Cult's standard process to abduct little noble girls and train them into priestesses.
Snake Worship Cult believes that only pure girls can become the carrier of Az Dahaka - this is also consistent with the darkness Goddess Eredar.
In order to ensure the 'purity' of the priestesses, all priestesses will continue to drink special poisons from childhood.
This poison will make their appearance extremely coquettish and prevent them from contracting most diseases including Red Death, but it will also make their whole bodies full of poison, and their kisses will be fatal to ordinary people.
It is precisely because they have been taking drugs since childhood that their lifespans are very short, and they often die without illness in their thirties.
As for the split tongue - this is a ritual when becoming a priestess, cutting the tip of the tongue in half, which represents their identity in Snake Worship Cult.
This mark on the tongue is a trivial matter, it only causes an accent when speaking, but the poison all over the body means that they will never be able to get love from a man or a woman, so when they grow up, these female priests can only focus on fighting for power.
In the special environment of the temple, many female priests learned to fight and fight in their teens. Lies and deception were their daily lives.
Like Elisa, there are many priestesses who grew up in temples. Due to the basic transportation of this era, most of the priestesses have never left the vicinity of the temple. They can learn to fight for power in the temple full of lies, but they do not understand how to govern a huge religious country.
The power of Snake Worship Cult was originally concentrated on the first High Priest. High Priest's identity was very mysterious. He always wore a mask. No one knew what he looked like or who he was.
This High Priest only ruled Snake Worship Cult for a few decades.
But in the past few decades, Snake Worship Cult developed from scratch into a huge force, and then gradually completely destroyed the powerful Old Bacchus Empire of the Amara Continent, established a religious state that encompassed the entire Amara Continent, and forced Maritin Empire, which had split from the first empire of Bax, to surrender. It was extremely glorious for a time.
Obviously, this High Priest is a very capable ruler, even if his method is a bit special.
In the era when High Priest ruled Snake Worship Cult, the priestesses were just messengers used to spread messages around and servants used to serve High Priest. Generally speaking, their role was similar to that of eunuchs in certain feudal dynasties.
But after the death of High Priest, everything changed.
This High Priest died suddenly. He left no will and no time to prepare for his death.
So, after a clumsy fight with no teacher, a female priest came to the position.
After that, the temple of Snake Worship Cult became a gathering place for conspiracies. The priestesses suddenly had new goals. Generations of priestesses began to take rights that did not originally belong to them.
From an aristocratic baby girl to a temple priestess, and then to High Priest, this seems to have become a conventional path to superiority, and under the influence of the ancient Bacchus Empire Senate parliamentary system, another parliamentary system was formed - a parliament composed of female priests.
In view of their short life span, they even introduced a general election system with four-year elections...
But the problem is, girls who have been trafficked since childhood and then grew up in the Snake Worship Cult temple and have almost never seen the outside world, what can they understand?
They can't even control an army - they don't understand that.
It's just that most Snake Worship Cult disciples will indeed respect the instructions of the temple, and the council formed by the priests is indeed the highest authority.
But because the members of this nondescript power structure have been taking drugs since they were young, not only are they unable to contact the opposite sex, they cannot even make friends. In addition, they have never seen the world... most of the female priests have a bit of a perverted personality.
Therefore, under the rule of generations of priests, Snake Worship Cult, which had almost ruled the entire Amara Continent a hundred and fifty years ago, made almost no progress in the following more than a hundred years.
Not only that, it also allowed the descendants of the Old Bacchus Empire who had been conquered to re-establish Ash Descendants Empire on the ruins. Now, Ash Descendants Empire can even fight Snake Worship Cult vigorously...
On the contrary, the Snake Worship Cult disciples who were previously sent to the Pande Continent gradually formed a climate in the new Bacchus Empire.
But the priestesses still regard going to the Pande Continent as a kind of exile, and they can still only see the temple...
For hundreds of years, the rulers have not understood how to govern. Under this situation, Snake Worship Cult has not been destroyed. It can only be said that this is the innate advantage of religious power... At least the brainwashing ability is indeed strong, and the MLM-style acquisition of believers is still continuing, although it continues to get worse.
And in the land ruled by Snake Worship Cult, the lives of the believers are getting worse and worse.
Snake Worship Cult decree prohibits eating meat and does not allow drinking alcohol.
Originally this was the standard set by the first generation High Priest - he said it was Oracle.
But according to the understanding of the lord, this was probably specially requested by High Priest when he first subverted Amara Continent, in order to make up for the sequelae of the war caused by joining Snake Worship Cult and destroying the ancient empire.
Not eating meat or drinking alcohol can help more land and resources be used to grow food and vegetables.
After experiencing non-stop chaos and war, Amara Continent was probably all destroyed by the war. This standard requirement for food can actually feed more people.
But those priestesses who later won the power obviously did not understand the reason. They just blindly asked not to be allowed-because they were taught that meat and wine are harmful and cannot be eaten since they were young...
If it is just not allowed to eat meat, then it is actually not a big problem. After all, Amara Continent is the original place of origin of these artifacts, potatoes and corn, and potatoes can supply most nutrients to the human body.
But the problem is that the priestesses don't know how to encourage farming... they don't even have the concept.
Among the things they can come into contact with, the more attractive ones are obviously those wars and conquests - the conquest of the ancient empire, the conquest of Gato, the conquest of Maritin, the conquest of Pendor, the conquest of everything...
So they kept launching wars without thinking about the life and death of the believers - anyway, they were supplied with a large amount of fruits and vegetables every day in the temple, and most of them didn't even understand that these foods had to be grown!
As a result, after hundreds of years of continuous "conquest", Amara Continent, which was originally extremely wealthy, became desolate.
Almost none of the believers are engaged in farming and animal husbandry. They have countless gold and silver treasures, weapons and equipment inherited from the ancient Bacchus Empire. However, even the believers can hardly feed the huge Amara Continent.
In today's Amara Continent, Snake Worship Cult territory, there is no decent farming and animal husbandry... everything is only considered for fighting.
People in the ancient empire who were good at farming were all thinking about how to become Snake Worship Cult warriors and improve their status so that they could have enough to eat.
The ancient Gatu people, which was good at animal husbandry, was almost completely destroyed, leaving only a group of slaves raising war horses.
Maritin Empire, which was originally a developed fishery, has become a warship production base...
Snake Worship Cult is actually very rich. They have acquired huge amounts of wealth through continuous conquests, but this wealth has not been used in the lives of the believers.
Almost all resources have been turned into weapons and equipment, or used to decorate temples - the priestesses are very obsessed with all kinds of decorations. Today, Snake Worship Cult even the grassroots warriors wear valuable Viper gear. Just the complicated patterns on the armor cost a huge amount of money.
But those patterns are actually purely decorative, just to be more similar to vipers - this is the aesthetics of the priestesses.
The original propaganda of 'rebuilding a beautiful kingdom of heaven' was only superficial. The temple of Snake Worship Cult was decorated into a magnificent and magnificent castle, but the believers could not even eat.
But this situation of not having enough food makes the believers even more warlike - they are quite willing to invade other places, such as Pande Continent.
This kind of cult country will always make believers poor and trapped, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
After all, poor people are more willing to die for the gods.
And Elisa is probably the smartest among the priestesses.
She went to some ports to pass on the "will of Goddess" and saw the poor low-level believers. She wanted to gain power to change this situation.
However, she has little experience in strategizing, so she naively thought that by poisoning other priestesses, she would be able to rise to power...
After a failed poisoning operation, she was exiled to the Pande Continent - this was not because High Priest, who was in power, was magnanimous in not killing her, but to strengthen his control.
The logic of the current High Priest is actually not complicated - it is a fact that Elisa murdered other priestesses, so she claimed that Elisa failed in her rebellion and fled Amara with a large number of troops to the Pande Continent.
This is because the priestesses have never really been able to control the army. This High Priest wants to use this method to make these expeditionary forces completely controlled by herself instead of being subordinate to the Priest Council.
Of course, no matter success or failure, Elisa would never be able to return to the temple alive, as a team of Snake Worship Cult warriors kept staring at her.