BXBX NOVEL Chapter 208 208 - Plans
After a morning full of sex and lust, both Yvraine and Samiel went to take a shower before they proceeded to talk about the Advancement Quests of the 10th Floor. Right now, they essentially obtain some semi-safe place of operation from where they could travel to the deserts of Sikarra and then back.
Not to mention, this shelter proved to be immune against the Arrakian sandworms below a certain stage of the Legendary Level. When they were in the underground layers of the shelter, Samiel read it was designed to resist even Intermediate Level Legendary sandworms for some time, so it could be considered one of the most secure ones.
Considering the fact of what they were researching here and storing, it was only understandable that it would be secured very well. Hopefully, this shelter was located in a position good enough, so they didn't have to travel very far from it in their search for Divine Altars of other Gods for Samiel to destroy.
"So, where do we start?"
Yvraine asked as they sat behind the table on comfortable chairs after a good shower as they were looking at maps of the outskirts of the deserts of Sikarra.
"Currently, according to my calculations were are in the part of the desert which is considered as the weakest one. From the information I gathered, several Divine Altars should be dedicated to some Gods here. The first one should be God of Kobolds who is the Lesser God; then there are two Divine Altars dedicated to some Lesser Gods of Blood Pantheon and some Divine Altars dedicated to the Evil Gods, mainly to the Lesser Gods and one Intermediate God."
Samiel explained as he primarily went for the Divine Altars of the weaker Gods. Lesser Gods were the weakest of the Gods, but that meant that each of them could blow up the entire Lower World, which would be like destroying the entire Solar System, which is also protected by a very strong protective barrier.
Yet, as they were Lesser Gods, they couldn't efficiently meddle in the Material Plane as they were not strong enough, and thus, their Divine Altars were essentially the prime target for Samiel.
"That could be a good start; we can use some of the captured worshippers to find out about the locations of the Divine Altars of Spider Queen, Eilistraee and Kiaransalee. Though Spider Queen's Divine Altar would be protected very well and there would be possibly even some Gold-Tiers protecting it."
Yvraine commented because this could indeed be a problem, but nothing that couldn't be handled with enough planning. Spider Queen Lolth was Greater God, her power was extremely frightening and she could easily meddle in the Material Plane, not to mention, Samiel already became some sort of her target after he banished her Avatar on the 3rd Floor of the Tower.
"Should we go for the Divine Altar of the God of Kobolds? It should be approximately seven hours of travel... though it would be prudent to make preparations before traveling through the scorching hot sun of Sikarra."
Samiel, this time planned to prepare for traveling through the desert properly because he didn't wish to be knocked out unconscious out of the heat and scorching sun. Naturally, Yvraine would be making her own preparations to block the connection with the anguished nature spirit of the 10h Floor of the Tower.
"The God of Kobolds is a suitable choice because his worshippers are mainly Kobolds across the Material Plane; he is not a very strong God and his presence in other realms aside from Faerun is abysmal."
Yvraine agreed with his proposition because he indeed chose the easiest target to start with and they could gather a lot of information. Not to mention, Kobolds were weak; typically for many of them, the cap was Gold-Tier, while the ones who would be here should be maximally Bronze-Tier and even that is a serious overestimation.
God of Kobolds was gathering most of his strongest, if not all of his strongest, across the Material Plane, directly in the Faerun, which was the Higher DImensional World with the presence of an entire bunch of Pantheons.
Not to mention as the God of Kobolds was Lesser God, his ability to give blessings to his follower or in any other way intervene in the Material Plane were not that high. Fortunately, this also left a great window of opportunity for them to attack his Divine Altar.
"What about the Vampire Gods and the Evil Gods?"
Yvraine pressed for the further topic because, according to Samiel, there were other Gods's worshippers who were building Divine Altars for their Gods.
"Lesser God Mokug who is Evil Ogre God, apparently a newly ascended who is attempting to get worshippers from the Green Gods, considering the fact that he was originally Ogre before he became God. About the Blood Gods that have their worshippers build their Divine Altars here, according to information, they should be too Lesser Gods. Also, the last Divine Altar in our vicinity is the Divine Altar dedicated to the Intermediate God of unknown origin, which was concluded based on the number of worshippers and their individual power, which were singed to have a conflict with the worshippers of the Vampire Gods."
Samiel explained because for Samiel, the destruction of the Divine Altars of the God of Kobolds or the Vampire were would actually not really matter in regard to the completion of the Unique Mission about the Destruction of the Divine Altars because the Blood Pantheon was more like Neutral to that of Outer Gods, while the God of Kobolds was in fact too insignificant to be considered as something more than a nuisance.
Naturally, the Evil Gods were a different case because they were the primary competitors of the Outer Gods of Azathoth's Court, so that would be productive to hunt down their DIvine Altars and kill their worshippers; even better, if he managed to find more of home or Altars of Daemon Cultists to the Daemons.
"Then we can depart..."
Samiel stated as Yvraine went to carry out the ritualistic sacrifice towards the Goddess Eluria, who was Chief of Pantheon of the Seldarine Pantheon, to obtain protection from the anguished nature spirit of the 10th Floor, while Samiel was doing how own ones to protect himself from the scorching heat of the deserts of Sikarra.
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After two hours, they departed from the Vault-76 as the enormous C-Grade Alloy Vaultdoors closed behind them and they started walking through the dark tunnels of the underground entrance towards the Vault-76.
The Doom-Tex Corporation chose to build this Vault in the underground cave, so it took both of them some time to reach the exit, as they finally sensed the scorching heat of the Sikarra, hitting them with the full force as the sun was high in the sky and being hot as always.
"This place is really shit..."
Samiel cursed as they entered the dune while, at the same time, they stepped their foot onto the endless oceans of sand; he cast several motion-absorbing spells onto his feet, with Yvraine doing the same thing with her own method.
They were doing this not to attract the attention of the Arrakian sandworm, who were very sensitive to any vibration waves that could relatively effortlessly traverse through the dune and attract the sandworm.
And thus, they started their arduous journey towards the approximate location where the Divine Altars of the Gods were built, in the most outer part of the continent, in the place known as Bone Mountains, because it was apparently named after one of the Holy Legendary Level Arrakian sandworms was killed there by the Korias Empire and it skeleton decomposed into the mountain range, terraforming it into ghastly and cursed place.
This made the Bone Mountains the prime locations for many of the unsavory elements who were building there their settlements, villages, communities and it especially lured there countless cultists and fanatical worshippers of Gods and Transcendents that were not welcomed in more "civilized" society.
Not even Yvraine was thrilled that they were going there, but if he could predict something, he knew that it would be there where they would regroup together with the Dharzhug and Juulius and probably even the felines because, in the entire area here, there was absolutely nothing, no point of interest which would serve as the meeting place.
"Reinforce the motion-absorbing spell every half hour to be sure that it is performing at 150%... we can't risk any possibility of attracting the sandworm here."
Samiel said as Yvraine nodded in agreement as they traveled through the oceans of sand. Fortunately, due to Samiel having Level 4 Transcendental Ability Architect, one of the passive abilities of it was the Eidetic Memory, so there was no possibility of them being lost or not finding their way back to the Vault-76.
Normally, this would be the case because getting lost in the deserts of Sikarra was an easy feat and would require almost nothing. Usually, nine out of ten people who entered the dunes of Sikarra would get lost and die from the combination of exhaustion, heat, sun and lack of basic necessities.
This was noted to happen even to Legendaries who were trapped in the central areas of the continent where they couldn't even properly teleport away due to disturbance of the energy done by the Legendary Level Arrakian sandworms who were preying on the Legendary Professionals who were unlucky enough to enter their territory.
"We are nearing the Bone Mountains... only two more hours."
Samiel stated when they were already near their targetted destination, which were the Bone Mountains of the outskirts on the 10th Floor of the Tower. Fortunately, this time, they were much better prepared for the journey and traversing through the Sikarra.
Yvraine did her got Divine Protection from the Goddess Eluria, which blocked her connection to the anguished nature spirits that were lingering here and also blessed her to be immune towards the scorching sun and heat of the desert, while Samiel was using a thin layer of the Void as his means of protection from the heat and sun.
"Good... thanks to the Divine Protection, I don't even feel the weather of this dammed place and the sun is doing me nothing."
Samiel nodded because indeed, the Divine Protections were powerful things. Samiel was too using one, though not in the true sense; he only sacrificed a few thousand souls to Azathoth for his God to create him a Void membrane around his body that would activate every time he stepped foot onto the desert of the 10th Floor.
"We have only a small part of the distance between the Bone Mountains and us... when we arrive, we can start searching for the targets."
Samiel stated as they continued advancing towards the Bone Mountains.