The violently shaking ground indicated that the altar was about to collapse.
Shade recited the spell again in the language of the merfolk, and the golden pearl flew out from the blood. There was no blood on its surface. The slightly sticky scarlet liquid gathered under the pearl along a smooth arc, and after converging into a large droplet, it fell into the altar splashing with blood.
"I need you to help me now."
Xia De stared at the pearl emitting golden light and said in his heart:
"Just like at the blood feast at Lakeview Manor."
The ground of the temple collapsed completely, and the surging blood-red waves roared. But the walls and the corridors outside the temple were not affected at all. The only level ground in the temple was the high platform at the deepest part where the altar was placed.
The golden pearls on the blood and the Shade in front of the altar, two golden light sources, were so strange in this extremely dangerous scene. The golden embers floated around, and behind the dim sky above, the beams of light seemed to cover the high platform.
She chuckled:
Stranger, seek my help, do you know what you should say now
Xia De looked at the pearl in front of him, and the pearl was reflected in his eyes:
"Of course I do."
So, let's get started.
The murmurs sounded like singing.
"You are me..."
With his right hand facing upward, he stretched his hand under the pearl and lifted it upward. His palm felt a clear repulsive force, and even a faint black holy emblem representing the evil god appeared on his palm.
... ... I am you.
However, in the narrow gap between Xia De's palm and the pearl, a transparent woman's palm connected to Xia De's wrist and slowly emerged. Her transparent silver palm held up the pearl, and Xia De's hand held up her hand.
"Oh~"
He closed his eyes and moaned softly, then took a miraculous breath, and as his chest rose and fell, the golden sheen on Shad's body became brighter.
He turned slowly, and the pearl on his right hand radiated light like the sun.
The intoxicating color made Shad's eyes stop for a moment, but then he looked up at the collapsed temple in front of him.
The sea water had surged up from below, and the disappearing zenith also allowed him to see the entire dim yellow sky.
Although the temple collapsed, the sea return ceremony was still not over. Feeling the power as strong as the sun in his palm, Shade thought that he might be able to do something.
I thought you would choose to store this pearl in the God's gift box and use it when needed.
Although her silver transparent palm was touching Xia De's palm, Xia De could not feel the touch or temperature at all. When Xia De first saw her arm at Lake View Manor, he was in a semi-comatose state. Now he could see her palm clearly, but it was so unreal.
The sound still came from my ears.
Compared to the golden light that seemed to be jumping flames around him, the silver light on his hand was so faint. It was as if Shade had grown long silver hair, or as if a silver figure was lingering behind him.
"You don't absorb it immediately after you get it, waiting for someone to steal it, right?"
Xia De asked in his heart. Although the probability of being stolen was very low, he would never take any risks at this time:
"However, after absorbing the divinity, the power that overflowed from the divinity for ten minutes cannot be wasted. Although the church has almost won, I think I can still do something else."
As the stranger breathed slowly, the golden sheen on the pearls clung to his arms and spread across his body like a chain. The golden spots on his body became stronger, dyeing the life ring that automatically appeared behind him into a dazzling pure gold.
So what are you going to do
She chuckled in my ear.
"I've been running around with the fishing rod for so long, I should be able to catch a fish, right?"
Xia De asked with a smile in his heart, then closed his eyes and sighed:
“I feel the power.”
The beating frequency of her heart gradually became consistent with the vibration frequency of the pearl in her hand. Her voice was very gentle, and she was always by Xia De's side:
The spiral of the fish's tail symbolizes the original murlocs and the original secrets of the abyss. In the old deep-sea temple, the Scarlet God once slept here.
You have listened to the story of the old god "Lord of the Scarlet Spiral", and you have learned one of the blasphemies of the old god "Lord of the Scarlet Spiral".
You gain the spell of walking on water.
"The god of the drowned allowed me to breathe underwater, while the god of aquatic creatures gave me the ability to walk on the water. The old gods of this world are really interesting~"
The golden pearl in his hand gradually faded, and Xia De opened his eyes, and the dark golden light in his eyes slowly subsided.
The battle around the giant mermaid corpse and the temple ruins continued. Whether it was under the water or on the platform around the ruins, the battle between the church's ring warlocks and the Scarlet Cult was coming to an end. The cultist ring warlocks were suppressed by the church almost from the beginning. Although humans did not have the upper hand in the battle in the water, the appearance of some strange marine creatures reversed the disadvantage of the church.
First, the temple in front of the heart of the huge corpse collapsed, and then the oppressive golden light rushed into the sky.
"Space Stabilization Aura!"
Although the low voice could not suppress the raging waves, it still reached the ears of the high-level warlock with keen senses.
Shade stood on the crumbling altar in front of the heart. With the blessing of a little divine power that overflowed from absorbing divinity, invisible ripples spread out in all directions with him as the center. The old ruins that appeared from the bottom of the sea due to the anomaly in space began to collapse as a whole.
This represents the remains of these ancient fishmen being driven back into the deep sea abyss.
Shade turned the pearl in his hand, which had shrunk by one third in volume, into a toy and put it in his pocket. He then left the altar carrying the fishing rod, stepped on the sea water that was surging from under the collapsed floor, and walked out along the disappearing corridor.
As Shade walked, the ruins crumbled and disappeared faster. Scarlet seawater gushed out from the ground under the ruins, engulfing pieces of building debris. At this time, both the ring warlocks of the Orthodox Church and the remaining forces of the Scarlet Esoteric Cult all evacuated outside the ruins.
The walls on both sides of the corridor collapsed, and Shade could see the fishmen looming in the tide, trying to attack the Orthodox Church ring sorcerers who gathered together and were about to leave. But as the ethereal sound of the conch sounded, beautiful creatures with human bodies and fish tails actually jumped out from the deep sea, saving the human ring sorcerers who fell into the water and hunting down the remaining ugly fishmen.
This is a real mermaid, with a real female upper body covered with shells and water plants, and a beautiful fish tail below, beating the waves in the scarlet sea to help them move.
"Mermaids and murlocs are mortal enemies, so it's not surprising that they show up at this time... Tifa said that mermaids are a secret of the Witch Council, and she can't talk too much about them... Local rumors say that the Aurora family has a relationship with mermaids... So that's why Miss Aurora was able to summon the alien race of mermaids, so the council sent her to Coldwater Harbor."
This is the witch's secret. The third seat of the council, Xiwei Aurora, a descendant of the ancient ring warlock family, does have the most ancient contract with the mermaid population.
Xia De thought to himself, seeing that the ring magicians of the Orthodox Church had left the collapsed ruins, and the entire ruins had collapsed and sunk into the water. He threw away the frog legs in the surging waves and jumped up suddenly.
With divinity overflowing, the power of the spell made him fly from the last stone slab of the ruins to the top of the giant mermaid's corpse.
“Stop him!”
The sound of strange language gurgling came from the far shore, which meant that the high-ranking priests of the Scarlet Secret Cult were talking. The sound passed through the rain curtain and reached Shade's ears. The next moment, the giant mermaid corpse, which was originally just following its instinct and moving towards the Coldwater Port in the waves, actually stretched out its right hand from underwater and suddenly grasped Shade in the air.
Even without the strange power in his heart, the huge hand still looked like a mountain falling from the sky, revealing white bones in the rotting flesh. Seawater fell from the sky, and dead fish bodies, seaweed, stones, and more seabed garbage rushed towards Shade.
The Rhodes card of Sun 1 flew out of Shade's hand and stopped in the air. Shade stepped on the Rhodes card with his right foot and pushed hard. With the help of the spell to enhance his jumping ability, he changed direction in the air and avoided the huge palm that closed.
However, Shade was able to dodge the palm, but the Rhodes card in the air was directly caught in the palm of the mermaid. But this also meant that the fishhook that had already pierced the sun 1 was also caught by the mermaid.
“Bait.”
The fishing line was automatically tightening, as if the fishing rod was also jumping for joy. Although this clerical-level relic Soul Fishing Rod could not gain anything from a soulless corpse, it did catch something good.
Shade's body fell, but black chains sprang out from both sleeves at the same time, intertwining and entwining the fishing line, and quickly climbed upwards. When Shade landed lightly on the red wave that was still rolling forward, the chains of sin had already tightly wrapped around the mermaid's palm, ensuring that it could not let go of the hook.
Under the dim sky, the dim sun was behind the clouds, making the black chain seem to connect the sky and the blood-red ocean.
In this doomsday-like scene, the mermen, mermaids and ring wizards in the sea all looked here and saw Shad, who was like a black dot on the crest of the tide, holding a fishing rod in one hand and tightening the fishing line with the other.
The ruins appeared here because of the power of space, and they can be expelled with the space stabilization aura. But the mermaid corpse actually swam from the deep sea to the coast of Coldwater Harbor. If you want to stop it, you can only hurt it.
As for what the church's original plan was, Shade didn't care. He just didn't want to waste the overflowing power of divinity.
He was exerting his strength, transforming the little bit of power that overflowed from his divinity into the purest physical strength:
"Hey!"
Following Shad's low roar, he gritted his teeth and raised the fishing rod high above his head. At this moment, the fishing rod stretched, the fishing line tightened, and the chain of sin retracted.
Amidst the rumbling sound, in the red waves following the surging waves, the mermaid's right arm stretched towards the sky, and then the whole body moved forward, and then slowly upwards, with the part below the shoulders gradually emerging from the water.
He was actually pulled up from the bottom of the sea by Shade. The huge body below the shoulders was completely lifted into the air, almost blocking out all the light in the entire ocean. Below the shoulders, the lower half of the giant corpse was actually covered with tiny scarlet tentacles that were spiraling and wriggling.
At this moment, the corpse finally broke free from the chains and fish hooks, and with the prayers of the cultists on the shore, the corpse absorbed the last strength of the sea return ceremony. It opened its eyes towards Shade below, and its two rotten hands grabbed the ocean.
But it was too late. Xia De looked up at the horrible corpse in the air, and his two hands drew cross-shaped light marks above his head:
"Moonlight Slash!"
A huge cross of light flew up into the sky, pierced through the corpse, and left a cross-shaped hole in the strange yellow clouds.
The body seemed to be still in mid-air, and then the broken pieces fell into the sea.
This was the first time that Xia De used the Silver Moon Slash in this way. Perhaps there was still more room for development of this magical skill.
"The Godcaller of Tobesk has regained his full strength!"
People stared at this scene in amazement. Bright yellow sunlight appeared in the dim sky. The sunlight finally shone onto the ocean from the traces of moonlight. Because the clouds were in the shape of a cross, the light projected down was also reflected in the sea in the shape of a cross. At the intersection of the cross was Shade, waving his fishing rod.
There were explosions under the sea. This was the base of the large-scale sea return ceremony. It was damaged because the core of the ceremony was destroyed. As the power of the ceremony faded, although the towering waves continued to hit the cold water port, they became weaker and weaker. Until the old lighthouses standing on the sea cliffs lit up, the light finally calmed the tide and the anger of the sea.
The scarlet color on the sea surface faded and was slowly diluted. The bodies that had been sacrificed on the seafloor also floated up. The tide faded the red color, and at the same time, the giant corpse that seemed to melt into the water also disappeared.
It was 8:50 in the morning, still early in the morning. The strangely colored clouds had dispersed, and the clear sky had reappeared. It was going to be a nice day today.
Feeling that he could not open his eyes, Shade dived into the water again with the falling tide. He pinched the badge on his chest with his right hand, and with his keen senses overflowing with divinity, he finally found the traces of the witch and the enemy.
On the surging red waves, Ivan Darkness, whose body has returned to normal, is riding a shabby wooden boat with seaweed entangled around its rudder, heading towards the shore at an astonishing speed.
Behind him, Miss Sylvie Aurora ran on the waves, and a group of strange creatures with human bodies and fish tails gathered under the sea around her, giving her the power to control the ocean.
Most of the mermaids were fighting the mermen in the sea, while a few followed the witch and helped her catch up with Darkness who was riding on the relic boat.
Although the faded red waves were still surging, the two people who were heading towards the shore were not affected at all. They both saw the amazing scene behind them just now, but neither of them had any intention of stopping.