Cecil Palace, in a special room.
This guest room is furnished unusually. There is no normal bed and bedding in the room. A large pool half buried in the center of the room occupies the position of the bed. Next to the pool is a large wooden barrel, which contains The white and delicate granules, around this weird pool and wooden barrel, are normal tables, chairs, furniture, and daily things.
The eerie layout of the rooms gives the impression that someone built a swimming pool in their bedroom.
Betty, who was wearing a black and white maid dress, was standing by the pool. She held a long-handled wooden spoon in her hand, scooped out some white particles from the wooden bucket beside her, sprinkled them into the pool and stirred them carefully.
Suddenly, there were strange ripples in the water in the pool, and then the ripples quickly enlarged, as if a storm suddenly broke out in a windless room, and the pool water rolled up layers of waves. Those turbulent water splashes continued to condense, gradually forming a female body with a coquettish snake tail and long blue hair in the center of the pool.
Betty maintained the movement of holding the ladle tightly, blinked her eyes and looked at the figure emerging from the pool, and waited until the figure was completely solidified before she let out a small exclamation, and then bowed vigorously: "Miss Till, afternoon good!"
Tyre, who successfully completed the resurrection, supported himself with his tail and raised his upper body in the water: "Little Betty! Is Gawain here?"
"Master... ah, Your Majesty is in the study," Betty thought for a while, and corrected her address belatedly, "There are no guests over there now."
"Oh, okay, I have something to look for him - you get busy first, I'm leaving!"
Till crawled out of the pool while talking quickly, but stopped when she was about to arch towards the door. The siren lady noticed the wooden spoon in Betty's hand and stirred it with the tip of her tail. After feeling the water in the pool, he waved his hand: "I put less salt, it's not salty enough, add more..."
While speaking, she quickly arched towards the door, and soon disappeared in front of Betty.
Things might have happened a little too fast, and it took Betty a while to react. She looked at the direction Tyr left, then looked down at the wooden spoon in her hand and the salt bucket at her feet, bent down to pick up the bucket, and started rattling. Pour the salt into the water…
Tire quickly arched into Gawain's study room, and the commotion caused Gawain who was reading a book to raise his head.
Seeing Tyre who suddenly appeared at the door, Gawain was taken aback for a moment, and then he couldn't help but said with a weird expression: "Just now someone reported that you suddenly jumped from the tallest magic net central tower outside the city. When it fell, it fell into pieces, and it was all over the ground—is this your newly invented quick home skill?"
"What do you mean by jumping off? I fell off because my tail was frozen..." Till waved his hands vigorously, but then he looked thoughtful, "Hey, but what you said makes sense, it's so cold God, if I happen to go out, it seems that I can go back soon if I just die outside... Oh no, I didn't come to tell you this!"
"No matter what you say, put the tail in first." Gawain glanced at the long tail behind Tyre—the Siren lady was almost at his desk, but the second half of the tail was still in the room. Outside the door, he was swaying restlessly in the corridor, "Block the road outside, and someone will step on you when you come and go."
"Oh, oh," Tire agreed, curling his tail back into the room, and closed the door with the tip of his tail. She nodded to Gawain after coiling herself up very ladylikely, "I just talked to Anta Wayne Correspondence, I know something that may interest you."
"Can it arouse my interest?" Gao Wen was stunned for a moment, thinking about the intersection between himself and the Siren Kingdom far away across the endless sea, he couldn't help laughing and made a joke, "In the depths of the endless sea I am afraid that the things that can arouse my interest, besides the mutation of the Storm Lord, is that the children of the storm are all self-defeating."
Tyre nodded: "Yes."
Gao Wen: "... huh?"
"There may indeed be something wrong with the Son of the Storm, but we haven't figured out what's going on," Tire seemed not to notice the wonderful expression on Gawain's face, and just continued, "What happened two days ago?" A group of strange amphibious intelligent creatures suddenly appeared on the "Sunshine Beach" on the west side of the Io continent. Hathaway, the great witch of the deep sea, named them "Naga". Now, our queen suspects that those "Naga" 'Probably mutated from the Son of the Storm..."
Gao Wen: "... huh?"
"Some marks of the Son of the Storm were found on those 'Naga', and some Naga were still wearing the robe of the Son of the Storm." Till added.
"Wait a minute, I need to take it easy." Gao Wen rubbed his forehead, never expecting that this deep-sea salted fish would suddenly bring him so much explosive news—this deep-sea visitor seems to be best at doing things that make him This thing that traversers are dumbfounded, whether it is her sudden death every now and then or the occasional deep sea intelligence, she can always do this with ease.
If Gawain always shocked the world with his advanced vision, then Tire obviously came here specifically to shock Gawain.
After soothing his spirit, he exhaled and looked at Tyr: "Okay, let's go one by one, let's talk about 'Naga' first, how they appeared, and then discuss the children of the storm..."
Tire didn't hide anything, because the anecdotes that happened at sea are not secret here, so she immediately told the news she heard in detail.
"... They should have dived from the bottom of the sea to the continent of Io at night. We have monitoring devices in Antavien and several major towns, but those 'Naga' seem to have bypassed the monitoring devices by accident. dead end...
"Those naga look strange, a bit like a mixture of humans, sea snakes, and sea fish, or juvenile sea monsters with a messy transformation technology. The big witch preliminarily guessed that they were the result of human mutation, but they couldn't find out the reason, and couldn't see the curse. Remnants of...
"...they all seemed excited, as happy as they came home after coming to Io continent, but they didn't attack any of the siren sisters - in fact they showed extraordinary closeness and obedience to the siren - of course , when they were a little calmer and able to communicate easily. Most of the Naga who had just arrived on the beach were in a state where it was difficult to communicate.
"...According to the self-reports of the few Naga who calmed down and were able to talk, they went on a 'pilgrimage' to the continent of Io because they heard the 'call of Eva'. I don't know how I mutated into that appearance...
"The Grand Witch said that over time, some naga may become more conscious and recover more memories, but nothing is certain..."
As Till spoke, he raised his hand and summoned a water polo. The water polo twisted in the air and gradually condensed into a lifelike "water sculpture". The appearance of the creatures of Ka".
It seems that Tire's communication with the Kraken Kingdom through the resonance of the global magic field can not only transmit sound, but also transmit images—the image of Naga should be transmitted to her from there.
It would be great if we could crack the technology that the sea monsters use the magic ripples to establish communication across the endless sea...
Some divergent thoughts flashed through Gao Wen's mind for a moment, and then his attention fell on the water sculpture in midair.
The image of Naga is even weirder than he imagined. It has scales and fins, webs and gills, and has all kinds of distinctive characteristics of amphibians, but it still maintains a considerable degree of human half-body and facial posture. Impress every witness.
Looking at the clear fins and the long tail between the sea snake and the sea fish presented on the water sculpture, Gawain exhaled softly: "Very obvious deep sea features..."
Tyr nodded: "Yes, they have mutated enough to be able to adapt to living in the deep sea - the sons of the storm were not. Although those humans are very good at ocean-related spells, they still have to settle on land."
Gao Wen frowned: "Isn't it 100% sure that these Naga are mutated from the Son of the Storm?"
"Actually, in my opinion, the evidence is quite obvious, but the Grand Witch is a scholar. She and her deep sea witches pay attention to rigor. It is said that they have not found the key evidence that the son of the storm mutated into a Naga, nor observed The specific process of mutation, so no conclusion can be drawn for a while.”
"Then let's assume that the Naga is indeed a mutation from the Son of the Storm," Gao Wen said casually, "You just said that some Naga who calmed down claimed to enter the Kraken Domain for pilgrimage?"
"yes."
"You also mentioned 'Eva's call'..." Gawain frowned, "I heard you mention the word 'Eva' occasionally, but what does 'Eva's call' mean?"
"First of all, let's talk about Eva. This is a term for our sea monsters. It is used to refer to the common consciousness of all sea monsters on a planet," Tire said while choosing the words, trying to make Gawain more understandable. It's easy to understand the concept, "You may think she is the 'god' of the siren, but you know, we don't believe in any specific god, this Eva... you just think of it as the will of the siren group. But according to our theory, Eva's group will should be a virtual and conceptual product. She exists in an invisible way and acts on our race in an abstract way. In theory, there should be no "Eva's call" 'This kind of stuff...'
"But a group of crazy cultists said that they heard the 'Eva's call', and they may even have unimaginable mutations because of this call, because of this call, they went to the domain of the sea monster to make a pilgrimage," Gawain said with an expression It became serious a little bit, "It shouldn't exist out of thin air, should it?"
"...Yeah, I think so too, the Queen and the Great Witch probably think the same way," Tyr frowned in distress, "But why don't we sirens feel the so-called 'Eva' at all?" call'?"
Gawain looked at the visitor from the deep sea in front of him, but he was quickly compiling various information and clues in his mind.
The first thing that should be paid attention to is the identity of those sons of the storm before they became the so-called "Naga".
They are crazy cultists.
Their actions are closely related to "gods".
Whether they want to disobey the gods like the Doom Society, or want to please the gods like normal cultists, their actions are all based on "god" as the starting point.
So, what does "Eva's Call"... have to do with God? In other words, what does the sea monster group represented by Eva have to do with God
In an instant, a lot of irrelevant words such as food chain, storm lord sashimi, hungry salted fish, food and eaters popped up in Gao Wen's mind.
He couldn't help tapping his forehead, and after collecting the words that were running around in his head, everything came down to one point: the sea monster ate the God of Storms.
As a traveler who has read all the stories in his previous life, and as a satellite spirit with rich observation experience, a vague answer soon surfaced in his heart.
This answer seems horrifying, bizarre, and unbelievable, but it conforms to the logic of this world.
The god position seems to be usurpable.
The fact that all things die will dare to create a fake god is enough to show that the position of the so-called god is not as indestructible as mortals imagine.
Gawain couldn't help but cast a strange look at Tyre.
Tire was taken aback by the weird sight, and the tip of his tail stood up and shook: "Hey, what did you think of?"
"You sea monsters... how many people do you have? Uh, or something like a fish mouth..."
Till thought for a while: "A few million, we are controlling the population size."
The corner of Gao Wen's mouth trembled.
If the situation is really as he imagined, if it is true that these deep-sea salted fish usurped the position of the Lord of Storms unknowingly, then this picture is really a bit weird.
Was it the Kraken with a population of several million that took over the God of the Lord of Storms, or the Eva who was similar to a concept
If it is the former, then what kind of state is a "New Lord of Storms" who needs several million people to be considered a "god"
if the latter one…
So, will the conceptualized Eva become the materialized Lord of the Storm? Where will this newborn god appear, the real world? The world of water elements? Or the mysterious and distant God Realm? He... Will it still be the group will of the Krakens
In any case, there may be the secrets of the gods hidden in it, the mystery of their birth and destruction.
With his mind running at high speed, Gawain looked at Tyre, and Tyre returned a puzzled look, while still fiddling with the tip of his tail boredly.
This is really the God of Harmony of the Deep Sea...
(Mom!!)