Mount & Blade War Chronicles
Chapter 356

Pendor's New King

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Soon after, the battlefield gradually became calm.

Prophet Legion Those women, whether they were Misfortune Bringer or Prophet Legion recruits, have been killed down to the last few.

They were still protecting Media, holding up their axes and spears to face the soldiers surrounding him from all directions.

"Li Ang, why do you need to kill everyone..."

Media looked at the approaching troops and began to shout loudly, "Don't you think too many of your men have died?"

Indeed, many people died in the battle.

Griffin Knights suffered over a hundred losses, and Griffin Claws also lost over a hundred female warriors. Horn Summon Ranger Corps, Silver Hand - each unit suffered losses of nearly 30%, and only Dusk Knight Order had fewer casualties.

"Since we have paid such a price, we must kill them all..."

Li Ang did not show up, and the situation seemed to be under control, but Li Ang was now more wary of Media.

"But what can you do to me? You can't kill me... and you should know what an eternal enemy means to you?"

Media said through gritted teeth, then took out a sword and tried to pierce his jaw again.

But just as she took out the sword, Li Ang threw out the Ebony Sword in her hand, accurately cutting off Media's wrist from a distance of more than ten meters, and the dagger fell to the ground.

"Maybe I can't kill you, so don't even think about dying!"

Then, a large group of people rushed forward, and Media was also wrapped into a rice dumpling...

Three Prophets It should be that their souls need to be separated from the body before they can be transferred to other bodies. Therefore, every time they transfer the body, the current body must die first - but what if it cannot die?

Li Ang was able to come to this conclusion because he saw that little Princess Denise on the battlefield.

The body of a ten-year-old girl is not suitable for fighting, especially Three Prophets, who likes to use a long-handled sword.

Moreover, Three Prophets has always liked to use tall bodies - they used drugs and girls' skin to cultivate so many Misfortune Bringer, and they are all tall and beautiful women.

But Cersi uses the body of a child, but it has never been changed. Why?

Most likely, this is to prevent Denise and little Princess from dying - that is to say, after Three Prophets takes over someone else's body, if he wants to escape from this body, he can only let this body die.

After death, the soul will leave the body. Li Ang has experienced it himself - of course, he did not die completely several times, and his consciousness was semi-separated from the body, but the soul is still there...

After all, Denise was the heir to the throne who was used to fight Amy, so even though the little girl's body was not suitable for fighting, Cersi never changed her body to prevent the little girl from dying.

At the same time, the ground was full of corpses, but Three Prophets did not use the corpses to escape. Does this mean that Three Prophets cannot be resurrected with corpses?

Otherwise, before Media was completely trapped, why didn't he use the corpse to disguise himself?

Of course Media would not do this when the griffon existed, and would be found by the griffon.

At the same time, Wendy can probably ban magic in a small area just like Althea.

But the battlefield is so big, Wendy has not always been by Media's side. Media originally had many opportunities.

Especially when the gryphon just disappeared, when Media was stabbed by Wendy, she retreated into the crowd to avoid Wendy - but why didn't she take the opportunity to commit suicide and use the corpse on the battlefield to escape?

If she had been hiding among the corpses, no one would have been able to find her...

For example, hiding in the corpse of Griffin Knight or the female explorer who died in battle.

After carefully recalling the various performances of Media, Li Ang realized that Three Prophets cannot be resurrected with corpses, they can only occupy the souls of living people!

Media has always occupied the body of a living person before, even if it is the remains of Oswood who is on the verge of death, it is still considered a living person - they cannot control the undead.

Moreover, they probably can't devour other people's souls, they can only seduce or expel them!

Oswood's soul was banished to the abyss by her, instead of being directly destroyed...

After all, they are just the messengers of Dark Goddess. According to what Kavala said, even Dark Goddess itself can only expel the evil spirits, and Three Prophets is naturally weaker.

Li Ang Now I probably understand a little bit about the so-called soul.

Perhaps, 'spirit' and 'soul' should be two separate things, just like Celestial Dynasty also separates soul and soul.

Spirit Body is consciousness. A person who has lost Spirit Body is an empty shell without self-awareness. Whoever controls the spirit can control this body.

But the soul is the life soul, the driving source of the body. The soul must stay in the body, otherwise the body will be just a lump of immovable flesh.

A corpse that has lost its life soul, Three Prophets, cannot be used.

Because they themselves are soulless Spirit Body, they must rely on the souls of others to make their bodies move.

Therefore, they can only expel the person Spirit Body while he is still alive and use magic to retain his soul to drive this unconscious body.

If Spirit Body is not expelled successfully, just like Roland's female apprentice Elano, then the prophet's Spirit Body can only leave that body-- In other words, it was not that Media let Elano go, but that she simply could not handle Elano, otherwise she would not have been able to negotiate with Li Ang!

This should be the reason why Three Prophets cannot control the Fallen One they create - Three Prophets first lets their followers die, and those followers will become Fallen One at the moment of death, which is completely different from Aigrem's method.

Aigrem directly transforms living people into Fallen One, but those who died in battle will not be transformed by it.

This is because Aigrem can directly devour the Spirit Body of living people, that is to say, it can attract and control people's consciousness by creating strong desires, and thereby control the bodies of those Fallen One - those bodies are all alive and all retain their souls, but Spirit Body is swallowed by Aigrem, and the consciousness is forcibly controlled.

Three Prophets cannot swallow Spirit Body, that is, it does not have the ability to control consciousness. They can only make people die and make their souls leave the body, and then recall their souls to make people become Fallen One.

--Their sacrificial inscriptions are indeed used to recall life souls. It is indeed not an evil spell in itself, but the real Divine Art, which was originally supposed to save lives!

But since Spirit Body is not under the control of Three Prophets, those Fallen One are completely unconscious walking zombies and cannot be controlled.

Similarly, Aigrem was able to come out of the abyss because he got a body that retained his life soul - heretic supplicants used human sacrifices, and the sacrificial process should be similar to when Aigrem took care of Oswood. This is what the abyss demons deliberately lured those idiots to do.

Three Prophets has the ability to recall the soul of life, but cannot control Spirit Body.

Aigrem can control Spirit Body, but it will not recall Divine Art's life soul...

But there is something wrong - Anna should have escaped through the body of Ulrich. There is no other possibility...

If Three Prophets cannot be resurrected with a corpse, then who was the 'Ulrich' that we met halfway?

Ulrich must be a pure corpse, with neither spirit nor soul! And it has been buried for so long, it is an undead!

Who is driving him?

Could it be said that Anna is more special?

Or...Anna didn't use Ulrich's body to escape, but she got help from others?

But at that time Lion City had the ability to help Anna escape...

Could it be Kavala?

Only Kavala has the ability to control the undead - he personally admitted that Maltis is the body he prepared, and Fear Legion is the pure undead army, a group of decaying corpses.

But why did Kavala do this?

Plus this ring... it's Kavala's ring!

Li Ang took off the Supreme King ring. The griffon on the ring was lifelike, and the small words surrounding the griffin were extremely clear - "This is Will of the Supreme King".

Kavala, what exactly is your 'will'?

The battle is over, but all those who participated in the battle still remain in Kewen Village.

Li Ang's old friends all gathered together to watch the Lord, whom they had not seen for more than a year.

Godric also moved his hands up and down, pinching various parts of Li Ang. He was relieved after making sure that Li Ang had no missing parts.

"Li Ang, you probably don't know that during your absence, Amy went crazy... I even thought she would turn into another Mad King! Fortunately, you are back... It's up to you to take care of her."

Godric took off the King's Hand badge on his chest and planned to pin it to Li Ang's chest.

"Wait...Lord Godric, you can't do this..."

Leofric suddenly blocked Godric.

"What? You object to Li Ang becoming Prime Minister? He has the qualifications!"

Godric is a little surprised.

"It's not a question of qualifications... but that a person who can use the Supreme King of Pendor ring should not become King's Hand of the Lionheart Kingdom..."

After Leofric finished speaking, he looked at Dalion, then suddenly knelt down on one knee in front of Li Ang and raised his sword above his head. "Your Majesty! Griffin Knight Leofric swears allegiance to you! Please witness our glory!"

Dalion also knelt down on one knee at the same time. "Griffin Knight Dalion..."

"Griffin Knight Azrael..."

"Griffin Knight..."

All members of Griffin Knights made the same move.

They want to follow the new king of Pendor.

Li Ang was stunned for a while, looked at the ring on his hand, took Griffin Knight's sword unnaturally, and accepted their allegiance.

He was a little conflicted. He didn't know whether he should tell these people about late king Kavala...

If they talk about it now, will they doubt their life?

The founder of Kingdom of Pendor, the founder of Griffin Knights, the ancestor of this body, has now become a terrible demon. Can Griffin Knights accept this?

Moreover, if this happens at this time, Godric will definitely be very dissatisfied!

Although he was once very dissatisfied with Mad King, his daughter Amy is now Lionheart Kingdom's Queen!

Indeed, Godric was already livid. "Leofric! You are treason...Li Ang! Do you know what you are doing?"

"Lord Godric, I am not treason... You may not know that Amy is probably no longer Queen of the Lionheart Kingdom, because King Ulrich has returned to Lion City!"

Leofric turned his head and explained to Godric seriously.

Godric was shocked. "Ulrich? He is still alive?!"

"No, he must be dead... I saw his appearance when I came back from Harlingosburg... He looked like a dead man! His whole face was blue-grey!"

Leofric shook his head. "I know it must be Three Prophets or some other evil spirit that has taken over his body... But he is Lion King after all, and the throne of Amy was passed down from him - whether he is a fake or not, but as long as he comes back, Amy can no longer call himself Queen."

This is true. Although this kind of thing has never happened before, Amy inherited the throne from Ulrich normally. It is not that the old king was abolished and a new king was established. We cannot deny the legitimacy of Ulrich.

Even though they knew it was occupied by another soul, that person was indeed Ulrich himself...

"I also saw Ulrich... Originally I thought it was Anna, another prophetess. But now, I'm not sure who it is..."

Li Ang also mentioned the undead army he saw with Baudess.

Alina has told him Three Prophets's original plan, and Li Ang is now increasingly uneasy.

Being able to drive Ulrich, the undead, and use Ulrich's body to return to Lion City, directly becoming the king of Lion Territory - this is definitely not Three Prophets's original idea...

These three prophets should just want to destroy Magic Suppression Tower. They are trying to occupy Amy's body and still retain Princess Denice. Whether it is from the nature of women or their behavior, Three Prophets cannot let the corpse of Ulrich return to the throne!

The only one who can do this is Kavala!

But, how did he come back?

Li Ang glanced at the ring on his hand again, and then thought about Dalion's actions...

Dalion took the ring and threw Abyssal Gate into Deerheart Lake. Kavala probably also came out of the bottom of the lake...

It is estimated that he came out of the broken body that Aigrem used before - Ulrich has no power, but Kavala can control the corpse!

At that time, the dragon's wings created a strong wind in the temple. Althea must have hid outside the temple. Without Althea's ability to suppress magic, Kavala probably ran away at that time!

Thinking of this, Li Ang suddenly put the ring to his mouth and whispered softly, "Kavala, Your Majesty, you should know where I am and can hear me, right?"

There was no response from the ring, but there was a sound in Li Ang's ear...

"Boy, you are smarter than I thought... But unfortunately, you are just an evil spirit from another world who stole the body of my descendant! I must get rid of you! Hmph..."

This time, Kavala's voice was not peaceful at all, it sounded as harsh as a knife.

Li Ang closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

It seems that Kavala knows that he is not the original owner of this body...

Moreover, in his eyes, he is an 'evil spirit from another world'...

In fact, it's not wrong to say that. Li Ang is probably the same as Aigrem or Three Prophets. It occupies the body of Leon who just lost Spirit Body. Even his life soul belongs to someone else...

Li Ang even felt as if he was the villain for a moment...

But, I don't want to take over the body of your offspring... I am also a victim!

If I knew how to escape, I would have gone back to the Celestial Dynasty. Who the hell wants to stay in Pande without a mobile phone or delicious food?

Li Ang took off the ring, but after thinking about it, he put it on again.

Kavala can definitely find Li Ang through his own ring, but Li Ang also needs to use this ring to contact Kavala - for Li Ang, if he can talk to the enemy, there may be more opportunities...

Moreover, he must be the 'new king of Pendor', otherwise, how can he fight against the real King of Pendor?

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