Chapter 491 Viscendra (1/2)
Chapter 491 Viscendra
[BONUS]
On the path ahead, Ren saw a sure crafted from stone, its face and body concealed by a dark robe As he approached, the statue began rated a whisper emanated from underneath its deep cowl:
"A price e ahead,
Pay too much, and you'll be dead,
After the war, it paints the lands,
Let your offering fill uess, then he had to offer blood on its hands
Ren would offer beast blood, but since he was in a hurry, he nicked hie while he offered it to the idol's cupped hands until it was filled with a pint of blood The idol crumbled to dust, before he passed safely
If players had proceeded past the statue without paying its toll, it would grate:
"What is not given freely is taken with force What could have been a trickle noill pour"
The idol would then curse the players and they would suffer necrotic da their HP for the next few hours And since it was a curse, it couldn't be easily cured And not even his [Monarch Sovereignty] could stop a curse
A s opened up before Ren as if the trees had bent away in reverence In thewas a hut made from stones, branches, and moss; a rabbit roasts on a spit over a small ca another rabbit with a small blade
"Don't be scared now, I don't bitewellnot unless I really like you," she said in a sultry voice "Come, take a seat, and tell me why you're here"
Ren used [Probe] on her before he even thought of co closer
[Viscendra the Vile is a diabolical dark elf who crafted hexes and offered dark boons at terrible costs As devious as she was beautiful, Viscendra's greatest joy was to watch aspiring adventurers squirains
In the same way that she always seemed to knohat a person craves, Viscendra and her hut tended to shohenever and wherever her services were ht stumble upon her in the depths of a dark forest, just outside a dragon's den, or in the seediest district of a large city
Webs of lies and deceit oven into Viscendra's life from early childhood Born to a noble drow house in the Dark Below, she spent her first decades of training to becoh she often disregarded and even flouted the strict hierarchy of her Goddess, Viscendra showed great aptitude, especially for the darker aspects of divine ic Equipped with both immense talent and a ravenous appetite for power, she eventually dared to escape the stifling confined of drow society and made her way to the surface world
Some believed Viscendra still worshi+ps the Spider Queen, playing her own role in the Goddess's dark sche an intricate web of chaos Others speculate that she had achieved her new h a pact with a wicked fiend Whatever that case was, Viscendra now offered her dark services to anyone naïve and desperate enough to seek her out
Viscendra is driven by an insatiable appetite for pleasure – and nothing pleased her e of other people's desperation to teains Equipped with a sharp tongue and an even sharper wit, Viscendra had a knack for sensing what others desire – and which offers they would find it ie – several centuries by most accounts – behind a youthful s her physical charms to tempt potential customers<novelsnext></novelsnext>