In fact, the wind does not mean anything. After all, in this world where mysticism exists, maybe the fish people are using thaumaturgy to create sea breeze to enhance the atmosphere of the ceremony.
Because he knew that there must be many murlocs and ring warlocks behind the hole in the wall, Shade didn't even dare to stretch his head to look behind. Instead, he cautiously pressed against the wall, trying to listen to the sounds behind.
For a long time, only whispers continued to come. He could barely distinguish the sound of praying to the evil god [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral]. The sounds were mixed together, and at least ten people were praying at different speeds at the same time.
Unfortunately, the invisible [Bordeaux Candle] was used up in the last operation. Shade, who did not dare to easily stretch his head to see, thought of using the thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past] to listen.
There is no one in the wine cellar all year round. The only people who spoke here within 48 hours were probably people from the Scarlet Secret Cult.
The thaumaturgy was indeed successful, but the content of the conversation that Shade heard from the cultists was that they scolded the Zhengshen Church for being so despicable, placed a team of ring warlocks at the banquet in advance, and discussed the sea return ceremony with each other.
, the fish people occupy the beautiful life of the underwater cold water port city.
The two people talking even had an in-depth discussion on how to make seaweed special meals.
Xia De listened patiently and finally heard a different voice:
"Priest, the two humans are here."
The guy who was talking made grunting sounds from time to time in his throat. He was obviously a fish-man.
Then the sound of footsteps came, and the two sides met at the hole in the wall, where Shade was standing now.
"Good evening, friends of the Scarlet Esoteric Cult."
The voice sounded somewhat familiar.
"Human, don't be so polite. Can our transaction continue?"
This should be the priest of the Scarlet Secret Cult who presides over the ceremony here.
"Of course, the church's sudden pursuit left us with nowhere to hide. We could only find a way to leave Coldwater Port as soon as possible."
This is the companion with the somewhat familiar voice:
"I originally wanted to coerce Ms. Aurora to get us a ship to the New World, but I didn't expect that there was a ring warlock from the Righteous God Church beside her. The deal is still valid, and the [Blood Spirit School] provides you with the technology to nourish the flesh and blood of fishmen.
, you help us leave the cold water port and provide the poet-level relic [Fish Training Ring] that allows intelligent creatures to master human language."
A group of people walked into the hole.
Shade realized that the somewhat familiar voice turned out to be Darkness.
"The chosen one actually got mixed up with the fish people..."
Generally speaking, there is a high probability that there will be trouble in the place where the chosen one is, and when the first chosen one, Iluna, met the cultists, it directly caused the evil god to descend on Tobesk.
Although the most serious outcome of the incident at Coldwater Port was that the city was submerged by a tsunami, Shade was still a little uneasy thinking that the chosen one was here.
"Now go back and find Miss Aurora. It will take at least another twenty minutes. And now there is not much time before sunrise. There is no need to inform the witch, otherwise I will not have time to get the fishman's information.
.So, I still have to see what they are going to do.”
When I was still thinking about how I could safely enter the hole behind the wall, I didn't expect that the sound of footsteps came again. But this time it was not the sound of the past, but the sound of the present. Someone was walking through the hole.
Go inside out.
Shade hurriedly hid next to the shelf where the wine barrels were placed, and then saw a man wearing a gray robe and a hood coming out.
The reason why we were able to tell that this was a man was because he looked around and actually stood next to the wall.
Shade imagined Ms. Aurora's expression when she knew a man was peeing in her wine cellar, then took off the ring on her hand and silently controlled the silver mist to float towards the man.
When the mist completely enveloped him, Shade glanced around furtively, then raised his sword in both hands, bent over and walked in on tiptoes.
After about ten seconds, Shade, with a little blood on his body, wore a man's robe and dispersed the silver mist around him.
The face of the corpse at its feet showed the appearance of an incomplete fish-man, which meant that its status in the Scarlet Secret Cult was not high.
Holding back his nausea, Shade smeared the slippery mucus on its face onto his own face. Then, he worriedly smeared the mucus on his clothes, then folded the body as hard as he could, and covered it with the canvas on the shelf.
Turn it into a toy and stuff it into your pocket.
After doing all this, he stood on tiptoes slightly to make himself look as tall as the man just now, then put on his hood, lowered his head and walked behind the hole.
The wine cellar was obviously very dry, but as soon as his body entered the hole, the humid air caused Shade's breathing rate to change.
He has never been to such a humid place. The moisture in the air seems to condense into water droplets and fall to the ground in the next second. Only a real body of water can be more humid than this. Shade can't think of anything natural.
In this case, how does this humidity appear?
Hiding his head under his hood, Shade lowered his head and walked quickly forward. The destination was clear, because many people wearing the same clothes as him were sitting in front.
In front of me is a space built of light gray damp masonry with disgusting moss on the walls. The area is not large, about two-thirds of the entire floor of Shade's house.
There is a layer of black water under the feet, and the room is illuminated by luminous moss on the walls, candles, and densely packed luminous beads on the high dome. Under the water is a pitted ground, with pieces of stone placed on the ground.
There are long rows of seats, and there are small square holes cut out in the wall at regular intervals. I don’t know what they are used for.
There were some blurred patterns on the light gray stone walls and the dome overhead. Looking around carefully, Shade was very sure that this should be a small church.
Based on the conversation of the professors that was overheard a few hours ago, behind the hole in the wall should be a secret religious gathering place established by the murlocs before the Aurora family bought the manor.
Understanding this, Shade stopped looking around and walked forward faster, joining a dozen people in gray robes who were sitting on the seats in front of the damp chapel. He chose to sit next to everyone.
Behind, there is no moving forward to see more things.
These gray robes are also very interesting. There is no pattern on the surface, but the hem of the robe looks like it has been torn. Everyone here wears robes like this. This is a strange clothing decoration style.
After Shade sat down, he finally had the opportunity to see the front of the damp chapel. There was no statue of God there, only a holy emblem that seemed to be made of bone. The holy emblem was in the shape of a spiral, and in the center of the spiral was a fish-headed human figure.
symbol.
In front of the Holy Emblem, three equally obese old men, holding books and with severely alienated faces, were quietly whispering prayers to the evil god [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral].
Shade thought there were dozens of people whispering outside, but he didn't expect there were only three.
The book they were holding was the "Mystery of the Sea" that Shade had seen in Mr. Jude's safe. However, the three books that appeared this time were all made of leather materials, and they looked like they recorded cults.
knowledge of evil.
Looking to the side...
"Um?"
Shade immediately lowered his head, because the person in front of him suddenly turned his head, and then looked at his companion behind him in confusion. Under the hood was the face of a half-fish man. After his eyes stayed on Shade for a few seconds, he twitched his nose and sniffed.
Sniffed, then turned around and said nothing.
In addition to the disgusting mucus, the smell of the [Drowning Murloc Scales] on Shade also made the cultists regard him as a companion. From this point of view, although the scales exposed Shade in front of the witch, it did not
It helped him in the damp chapel, so borrowing it from Dorothy was not considered useless.
Shade continued to observe carefully. The three fat fishmen holding books were standing at a higher position, so there was no water under their feet. Traces of concentric semicircles could be seen spreading outward with the middle fishman as the center. Black ink marks were left on the ground.
There was a blasphemous rune in the shape of a seahorse. Shade tried to interpret it and found that it was not only a praise to the evil god, but also a praise to the ocean and death.
What he could see was only part of the ceremony, and he thought there were more traces of the ceremony in this small church.
"However, if there is any book that records the story of fish-men, then the book "Mystery of the Ocean"...Mr. Jude's may not be the complete version, but the one here must be the complete version."
Not taking away Mr. Jude's book last time is not Xia De's mistake, because Mr. Jude's book must not have complete information on the return of the sea, otherwise the church should have immediately wiped out the fishmen in the old street.
You can find a way to break the ritual.
He continued to look around. There were only three fishmen standing in the damp chapel praying in low voices. Besides the dozen or so fishmen in gray robes, there were two people sitting in the long row of seats wearing black robes and watching.
The guy with an unclear face must be a ring warlock from the church. He wears clothes of different colors for easy identification.
The only two people not wearing robes were sitting on the far left side of the first row of seats in the church. Shade recognized the back of Darkness at a glance, and the person next to him was presumably a member of the [Blood Spirit School]
.
"Besides me, there are four ring warlocks here. If we really have to fight, I can't defeat them even with the witch's ring..."
Her right hand carefully retracted into her robe and touched the steam bomb hanging on her waist. Although Lecia didn't say what model it was, it was hard for ring magicians to say when it exploded in this kind of underground space. Those only had strong recovery power.
The murlocs are definitely doomed.
"It would be great if I knew a spell like [Corpse Explosion]."
Thinking of the two corpses in his pocket again, Shade suddenly had an idea.