While flying upwards, Xia De did not forget to find a mask from a pile of small toys in his pocket and put it on his face. However, because he was flying too fast, he almost dropped the mask into the sea.
"oh!"
The tattoo finally jumped out of the water, raindrops hit Xia De's face, and Xia De also jumped up in the surging waves. He spit out the water in his mouth while holding the fishing rod tightly with both hands.
Looking around, the huge decayed corpse appeared right in front of him. The upper body was naked, with only the waist exposed above the water. The stench of rot and blood rushed into his nose, and the moment he saw the corpse, the fear almost made Xia De let go of the fishing rod.
And in the distance, the buildings of the old underwater temple surrounding the mermaid and above the huge waves could finally be seen clearly.
The stone buildings were strangely tall, and the spiral buildings that violated normal rules revealed the weirdness of deep-sea civilization. The broken ancient runes on the buildings shone dimly under the dim sky, and large groups of skeletons were distributed on the edges of the broken buildings, emitting a phosphorescent glow under the dim sky, which was strange and frightening.
The more I looked at the buildings, the more I could hear a rhythmic, rhythmic, and even wild ethereal singing voice. The voice was completely unaffected by the sound of rain and sea tides, like a girl's soft singing, and a bit like a hymn in a wild temple.
Ancient, bizarre, terrifying, primitive and spiral, these are the words that naturally came to Shad's mind after seeing the temple complex.
And in the complex of buildings surrounding the huge corpse, at the heart position in front of the corpse, in the doors and windows of the underwater temple that seemed to be carved directly out of the rocky hill, Shad actually saw fire.
He saw the dark golden fire, and the flickering light was so intense that he could feel the heat just by looking at it.
"This is... ... "
He stared wide-eyed in the rain, this familiar feeling seemed to be calling him. The desire intensified by the flesh and blood of desire was urging Xia De to touch it, to get it.
"It is indeed..."
The temple complex that appeared above the waves and moved with the mermaid boulder was not an illusion or a projection, but a terrifying spatial influence caused by the power of the huge corpse. It created an abnormal spatial zone around the corpse and brought the ancient fish-man temple that had coexisted with the corpse for a long time out of the old fish-man city under the sea.
The high-level warlocks of the church are fighting with a few murloc ring warlocks of the Scarlet Cult around the temple of the Old Temple. The latter have been preparing for the ritual for many years. In addition to the cult's own ring warlocks, there are even human ring warlocks helping them. But even though the murlocs can be strengthened around the temple, they are still suppressed by the church.
As the waves moved forward, more and more murlocs emerged from the sea, but were soon killed by the ring magicians on the warships. Perhaps they had prepared for the sea return ceremony for many years, but it was unfortunate that they chose the day after the descent of the god Tobesk. The Orthodox Church would not make a mistake again. Now the ring magicians of the entire material world were paying attention to the result of Coldwater Harbor.
The professors of the academy were riding on a golden ship, literally gold, following the mermaid. Various strange spiritual lights flashed, producing effects on the huge floating corpse.
It wasn't that the professors wanted to defeat this corpse that had no self-awareness at all, but they were trying to soothe the corpse, so that it could return to calm and not attack Coldwater Harbor with waves.
The professors' efforts were quite effective, otherwise Xia De would not have to come up himself and could just stand on the shore and wait.
The power of the temple and the mermaid's corpse greatly interfered with the ring wizards' perception ability. In addition, everyone was fighting. When Shad flew over, no one noticed him in the sky.
But when Xia De looked up at the face of the giant mermaid's corpse, the pale face with its eyes tightly closed actually showed a strange expression. Before Xia De could react, the mermaid's eyes opened, and what Xia De saw in those eyes was a blood-red spiral.
A mouthful of blood spurted out and he quickly closed his eyes.
He was pulled into the temple in front of the corpse's heart, and fell heavily on the slippery and wet ground, rolling several times before stopping. Looking up again, the scene in front of him actually had some double images, and the interior of the stone building was full of strange fish-man statues. Terrible blasphemous runes and terrible prayers excerpted from nameless books were engraved on every flat stone surface.
In addition to Shade, there were seven or eight other people fighting at the entrance of the temple. Among them were the murloc ring sorcerers of the Scarlet Cult and the ring sorcerers of the Orthodox Church. The former gathered together and relied on the magic of the evil god to barely fight against the two ring sorcerers with eleven life rings emerging behind them. The scarlet light was like a cover over them, but every time they were attacked by the church's ring sorcerers, the scarlet light would become dimmer and the murlocs would become weaker, but they still had crazy looks on their faces.
They were hoping they could hold on until the huge waves engulfed the Coldwater Harbor, and by then everything would be irreversible.
"what are you up to?"
The eleventh-ring warlock with the holy emblem of the sun on his chest couldn't help but ask Shad who fell into the temple. Shad didn't say anything. He tightened the fishing line in his hand, feeling the direction the tattoo wanted to go, carefully bypassed the fighting group of people, and chose the second one on the right among the eight entrances in the temple vestibule. Then he ran along the corridor covered with seabed silt and ran deeper into the temple.
Neither side of the battle tried to stop him.
There seemed to be more people in the temple than outside. As they ran forward quickly, sounds of explosions, cursing, and rustling footsteps came from all around.
The top of his head and his feet seemed to be shaking, and the sound of huge waves came from all directions. At the end of the corridor was a small prayer hall, with bones piled up in the mud and human heads used as candle bases. Xia De ignored it, still holding the fishing rod, and moved forward under the guidance of the tattooed man.
The further forward you go, the more terrifying the scenery you can see. On the stone walls on both sides of the corridor, there are scenes of ancient mermaid sacrifices. There are more and more corpses under your feet, and the shapes are getting more and more terrifying. In addition to some fish remains in the mud, there are even fresh human corpses.
Xia De could feel his heart beating violently. It was not fear, but anticipation, anticipation for what was waiting for him ahead.
"However, this corridor is very similar to the one I saw in a historical truth (the Fifth Epoch Witch War)."
They are just very similar, which means that they may have been built in the same era.