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Part 2 The Blue Storm Twelfth Sulla Past and Present

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    Simon wanted to hide away, but he found that his body was completely unresponsive.  Not only that, he raised his right hand uncontrollably, squeezed it into his mouth arrogantly, and held his tongue tightly, as if he wanted to tear it out alive.

    Even if the smuggler captain wanted to ask for help at this time, he had no choice.  The adventurer had used his psychic powers to take away control of his body, and the most he could do now was roll his eyes.

    Even at this time, he did not give up the idea of ??struggling.  He kept glancing at the female adventurer mage with his eyes, and he could already see that the psychic in front of him did not seem to be an easy talker, and that woman still had some hope.  Moreover, the psion seemed to take her offer seriously.

    The hand controlled by psychic energy seemed to suddenly become extremely powerful, tightly grasping Simon's tongue, and then pulled hard.  The latter only felt the taste of rust in his mouth, and the base of his tongue was bleeding.

    "That's enough, our good captain should have learned his lesson." Seemingly moved by the begging for mercy in Simon's eyes, the Coral Witch suggested that the Psion stop.  "The mute can indeed steer the ship, but he cannot command the sailors."

    ¡°You heard how he dragged us into trouble earlier,¡± Mohadi said.  "I understand that you do not support indiscriminate violence, but sometimes only tough measures can be effective for certain people."

    "Is this Muhadir speaking, or is the Prime Warlock speaking?" Sadiri said to the Psychic Warlock.  "In my opinion, your statement is very close to Rajat's style. Think about it carefully and recall how you dealt with this situation before you were infected by the mental demon seed of the Taichu Warlock. If you make your own decision, it really  You yourself, will you still do this?"

    "Rajat is a great enemy, but it doesn't mean that all his actions are wrong, or that all his ways must be avoidable." The psychic warlock hesitated, but still did not stop his spiritual power.  "But I have to keep my word."

    "Let me point out" Coral Witch had no intention of giving up her persuasion.  "We are on Captain Simon's smuggling ship."

    "you mean?"

    "This is his boat. We have eaten the food and water he provided before." Satiri continued.  "This means we are his guests, doesn't it? We shouldn't hurt him. This is not what guests do."

    Muhadi looked at the smuggler captain in front of him. The latter held his tongue in a ridiculous posture and pulled it out with force.  "I'll give you a suspended sentence this time." The psychic said to Simon, and then unlocked his psychic powers.

    The smuggler captain fell heavily to the ground, "You will never regret this!" Before he could catch his breath, he assured the psychic while rubbing his chest.

    Mohadi ignored him and walked towards the fainted Templar leader.  Following his footsteps, sailors scurried out of the way, as if avoiding some kind of walking plague.  One of them probably panicked too much and stumbled and fell on the deck. His face suddenly turned white, as if he thought the psion would eat him.

    Mohadi walked up to the Templar leader who fell on the deck and pushed his unconscious body away with his feet to prevent the molten metal from flowing onto him.  If you look closely, you will see that he does look a bit like his mother, but there is almost no trace of elf blood.

    "You know this Templar." The Coral Witch's voice came from behind him.  She walked lightly, but the psion felt her approach, and an indescribable fragrance hit her.

    "You have the talent to be a psychic. I do know it through his bloodline." Mohadi frowned, and then said: "Deirdre's son, you may remember her as Abel, the Witch King of Ram City.  Rachili¡¯s daughter later followed Fahd.¡±

    "Your in-law? But he doesn't seem to have elven blood." Satiri also felt a little strange.  "What do you think is going on?"

    "This is exactly what I want to find out. I can read minds with my spiritual power, but it was not convenient to forcefully enter his brain just now, so as not to leave any permanent trauma." Mohadi said.  "While you're unconscious now is the time."

    Then he concentrated.

    It is not easy to review a person's memory. A large number of trivial memory fragments are often meaningful only to the owner himself, and there are many parts that make people feel disgusted or disgusted.  Muhadi quickly ignored the irrelevant parts and looked for what he needed.

    The name of this Templar is Muawiya, Muawiya bin Fahd bin Abiad. He is indeed the son of the elf Fahd and Deirdre, the daughter of the Witch King.  But in him, the blood of the Witch King seemed to have the upper hand, and it was almost impossible to see the blood of the elves.

    In PsionIn my memory, the Witch King Abelela Chili is the one who hates non-human races the most among the disciples of the Taichu Warlock. Ram City¡¯s attitude towards non-human races is between complete annihilation and temporary tolerance.  Perhaps the Witch-King transformed herself so that her descendants would remain purely human?  Or is it a side effect of the dragon transformation spell?

    Muhadi is a little strange. Since he is Fahd's son, why did he go to work for the Witch King Malik?

    The psychic continued to explore deeply, and slowly figured out the reasons behind this, and also figured out many things that happened to Atas during his absence.

    Even in the years when Mohadi was still active among the believers, the bond between the believers was not strong.  First Cause is a youth faith, with most of its followers converting as adults.  Among them are tribal warriors from the Scorpion tribe and other nomads - they were the first group to convert and therefore think highly of themselves.  In addition to these, there are also civilians from the city of Tire, exiles from the city of Ram, merchants walking in the desert, and mysterious psychics from Atki These people prefer to settle down, and are not special to the nomads.  rapport.

    In addition, there is the Witch King Malik.  The real reason why he was willing to surrender to the First Cause was unknown even to the Psion himself.

    When Mohadi disappeared, divisions ensued.  His de facto wife, the self-proclaimed Chief of the Faithful and Khan of the Khans, Fatima, led the majority of the nomadic warriors to continue the invasion of Mistalla.  They swept from the Mistara River Basin with blood and fire, burning, killing and looting all the way along the sacred river of the locals. All the cities along the way were conquered and destroyed, and their people were reduced to slaves.

    Since the Revolution of Tyr, slavery has been eradicated from the region by the Coral Witch and her colleagues.  Although the tribesmen around Tire did not agree with it, they still reluctantly accepted this approach.  What surprised Muhadi was how quickly the ancient traditions were restored after the jihadi army united by all the tribes entered Mistalla.  The only difference is that this time they no longer enslave each other, but target the heretics.

    Fatima sent envoys to the states of Mistara, claiming to "immediately convert to the only true God and recognize Muhadi as his spokesperson, otherwise he will be completely destroyed."  Most of the earth kings rejected this arrogant request, so the Attas army continued southward after capturing and massacring the city of Delhi.

    The army advanced all the way, burning fields, farms and towns, restoring the grassland to its original wild state.  Starhebense sent druids and psions to fight side by side. The Misthara troops and Kshatriya warriors were routed and retreated.

    When the "City of Waterfalls" Jaisal, the capital of Orissa, was captured, all the men in the city were beheaded and their bodies were thrown into the holy river considered sacred by the Misthara people.  This vast river, said to be self-cleaning and capable of washing the soul, emitted the stench of corpses for three months.  Women and children were taken into slavery.  Three-quarters of the captives died while traveling to the slave markets on the edge of the northern desert.  The ruler of Orissa, Rajputtapa, was the only man whose body was not thrown into the holy river. His head was preserved, the bones and flesh were removed, and it was made into a wine cup for human use.

    Fatima then led a surprise attack on the neighboring Andhra Pradesh. The rulers here were timid and cowardly. When thick black smoke rose from the north, they only dared to close the city gates tightly and not send a single soldier to rescue.  But even so, the incredible mobility displayed by Athas's nomadic army still caught them off guard.  The city of Andhra was burned to the ground and turned into ruins. Fatima personally renamed the ruins Kali Kamai - "City of Weeping Children".

    She never lives in one place - like those lowly kneeling people, her tent is the palace and the saddle is the throne.  Facing the military genius of Fatima, the cruelty and prowess of the nomadic warriors of Athas, and the combined power of the druids, psions, and blasphemer mages of the Starhbeans, the Mistral cities were destroyed one after another.  A place toppled, destroyed, where proud towers stood, leaving only ashes and ruins.  When attacking Qina, the defenders launched a desperate charge after running out of ammunition and food, but did not injure the elven horse archers who came and went like the wind at all.  Taking advantage of the vast local forests, the blasphemer mages squandered their spells extravagantly. It is said that the place still has the shadows left on the stones when the defenders were evaporated.

    Finally, Mistara became the first world to be conquered, and its inhabitants must either submit or be destroyed, just as Fatima had warned.  Some indigenous people welcome the new masters. Most of them belong to the lowest stratum of the Misthara caste system, as coolies of Shudras and lifelong mothers of the state as Dalits.  But more people hated the conqueror deeply, especially after she ordered the annihilation of all Brahmins on the planet.  Since then, some people have also called Fatima the Iron Khan, or Iron Khan, depending on which side you stand on.

    larger conquests? As a starting point, using Mistala's rich resources hundreds of times that of Athas, more magic ships were built, and missionaries serving as psions spared no effort to transform the people in the conquered areas, even the mental demon species.  They are all used as common psychic powers on a large scale.

    Even the colorful native species of Mystara have been weaponized, and the druids of the Starhspense have used them to create terrifying new monsters.  The elegant and mysterious hydra was twisted and evolved into a cruel and bloodthirsty hydra, and the Garuda bird with huge white wings metamorphosed into the dangerous and fast wings of death.

    Even the Githyanki lent a helping hand, as when their capital on the Astral Plane was destroyed, the vast Githyanki empire fell apart and split into many smaller nations that had no control over each other.  There are also many Githyanki who are thought to be lawless pirates or mercenaries seeking only profit, and some of them are hired by the Athas.  Their knowledge of the multiverse's lanes and pilot skills are considered extremely valuable.

    Driven by both interests and beliefs, a thousand magic ships set sail and flew to all nearby habitable worlds.  More and more tribes are leaving the vast and harsh deserts of Athas for green lands.  Each one became more resilient than the last and soon established a series of smaller colonial worlds.

    Merchants and scholars from Tire, as well as the druids of the Starhespense sect, also went to the new world.  However, the tribal people often choose backward and weak worlds as their goals, while these people prefer developed and prosperous planets, where they trade and preach in more peaceful ways.

    In the beginning, the two groups of people cooperated with each other to jointly expand new frontiers.  But gradually, the disputes became larger and larger until they became difficult to reconcile.

    Chief Qadi, Fahd, the supreme judge of the First Cause, does not agree with the restoration of slavery, but his idea is not supported by the majority of chiefs and warriors.  His half-sister Fatima was particularly dissatisfied with the fact that the judges liked to interfere in everything, so she proposed the idea of ??playing knife dancing with him.

    Atas warriors will not shrink from challenges, otherwise they will be looked down upon for the rest of their lives, so Fahd did not refuse.  The two threw machetes at each other, catching each other's and throwing them back, and it was Fahd who was defeated first, when his sister's machete chopped off one of his fingers.

    And this was just the trigger. In Mistalla, Fahd married his second wife, the widow of a local minor noble.  And from then on, he began to adopt a more tolerant attitude towards the native peoples of the conquered lands.  Fahd encouraged the Attas to learn their language, appreciate their culture, and try to intermarry with them.  He believes this will help eliminate resistance and make Athas grow stronger in the long run.

    But this made Fatima even more disgusted. She was disgusted with Fahd living in a stone house every day like a kneeling citizen, and began to learn to appreciate the melodious music and abstract paintings instead of the way of the sword.  "Thousands of years ago, the elves before the Evolution War were like this. As a result, they paid the price of their own death and the destruction of their country." Fatima commented.  "Do you want our people to repeat the same mistakes?!"

    Finally one day, Fatima personally pulled out the tongue of Fahd's second wife, "because her slanderous words had poisoned the chief magistrate" and this was necessary "to prevent her from spreading lies and blasphemous remarks again."  She also gouged out the poor woman's eyes and nose so that "everyone could see what a monster she was."  She also ordered that the bronze and iron idols worshiped by the Mistara people be melted down and made into arrowheads and swords.

    This incident finally caused a rupture between the two, and Fahd left Mistalla in anger to live in a remote world recently conquered.  It was there that his son Muawiya was attracted by the promise made by the Witch King Malik and joined the latter's camp.

    Mohadi terminated his memory browsing, and the information revealed made him a little upset.  The divisions among believers were deeper than he had previously known, and the changes in Fatima worried him.

    The psion thought for a while, this was just a memory extracted from an opponent of Fatima, and it was inevitably subjective and biased.  And psychics all know that human memory is not a reliable medium. It can be easily tampered with, distorted, erased, or created out of nothing.  Sometimes, a few simple hints can make people remember things that do not exist out of thin air, and believe them firmly.  The false memory experiment of the ancient great psychic Loftus has strongly proved this point.

    He must go and meet with Fatima in person to see what is going on.  Muhadi thought, and then he came into contact with his powers.  The unconscious Templar leader Muawiya groaned unconsciously and continued to be unconscious.

    Seeing the psion standing up, Satiri stepped forward and asked: "Find something useful?"Got the information?  "

    Muhadi nodded and began to explain to the female mage: "Things are more difficult than I expected"

    The Coral Witch listened carefully, nodding from time to time or raising her own questions appropriately.  Muhadi explained patiently, suddenly feeling the danger approaching, he instinctively displayed his superpower and summoned a protective shield.

    The sudden flying arrows effortlessly tore through the protective shield summoned by Mohadi and approached quickly.  At the same time, another flying arrow flew straight towards Satiri.

    The Coral Witch instantly stopped time. Although everything around her suddenly fell into a state of stillness, the two flying arrows remained unmoved.  This is undoubtedly a very powerful magical artifact to be immune to the effects of the time stopping spell.  In the past, the blasphemer mages of Athas would not create such items at all, because the life force that would be consumed was too huge.  But things are obviously different now. There are countless new worlds of life energy waiting for them to squander.

    With quick eyesight and quick hands, Muhadi reached out and grabbed the flying arrow flying towards him.  A powerful electric current immediately burst out from the flying arrow, making him feel dizzy.  The psychic immediately displayed another power, changing his body's metabolism, so that he was not on guard against being infected by the poison smeared on the flying arrow.

    The second flying arrow hit the Coral Witch's white forehead, immediately triggering the protective spell she had prepared.  The flying arrow fell to the ground helplessly after losing all its kinetic energy.

    At the same time, the launcher of the two flying arrows, a Templar who had just fainted on the ground, had already jumped up.  He jumped back, closing the distance between him and the psion, and a portal appeared just where he landed.

    "I'm sorry." The assassin disguised as a Templar said, his voice was not loud, but everyone present heard this clearly.

    The assassin disappeared into the portal, and then the portal quickly shrank until it closed.  Before it closed completely, the third flying arrow flew out of the rapidly shrinking portal.

    A shocking explosion occurred immediately, and the target was not the Psion or the Coral Witch, but the light sail and main rudder of this magical ship
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