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Chapter 324: A Place of Contestation
Wu Chang looked at Morena expressionlessly, not knowing whether this woman did it on purpose or accidentally.

Was he talking to the other party to remind her that he was a town councilor, or a town councilor recommended by her personally? Who made her remember this?
Anyway, nothing had happened between him and Morena, which made him confident. He was not afraid of the topic and explained it naturally.

"Seeing that I appeared with the Saint Lady today, I'm sure everyone has guessed something."

"The real reason I came to Briver was not because I was assigned by the Ogri Post Office, but to rescue the Saint and revive her. Due to the existence of Earl Jermaine, I am not sure whether you can trust me, so I have concealed something. I hope you can understand."

"Soon after entering the island, I discovered that the key to resurrecting the Saint was the seven deadly sins that Count Jermaine had placed on the island. The seven deadly sins originated from everyone controlled by Jermaine."

Having said that, Wu Chang looked at Morena, his eyes calm but slightly apologetic.

"In order to get in touch with the seven deadly sins, I must get in touch with everyone on the island and use you as a medium to reach the core of the original sin. For example, that night, I was near Sheriff Morena's house and I sensed one of the original sins."

"I am not alone. The accident that sent you away was done by my companion. He saw evidence of the original sin of jealousy in the bishop's body. It was the elimination of the original sin of jealousy that caused the bishop's spontaneous combustion."

After hearing this, Morena fell into a brief thought, and then suddenly said:

"I see. So the abnormalities that occurred in the town during that period were actually caused by you and your companions?"

Circle is back!

Wu Changjian saw Morena and believed that everything was his careful arrangement. He let out a long sigh and said:
"Not only us, but also Professor Ebert. With his help, we successfully entered the Earl's manor, destroyed Earl Jermaine's conspiracy, and completely resurrected Irene."

Because of Morena's shocking speech at the beginning, Irene subconsciously observed the relationship between Morena and Wu Chang.

She found that the attitude of the two people getting along with each other was no different from that of ordinary people. After hearing Wu Chang's explanation, she realized that she had misunderstood before.

She put aside the inexplicable emotions in her heart and followed Wu Chang and said:
"It is because of Sean's bravery and resourcefulness that I was able to rise from the ashes and take this opportunity to become a god."

In front of everyone, she stared at Wu Chang.

Only she knew how much Wu Chang did for her during that time.

Wu Chang broke through the seven spaces of original sin for her, defeated Count Jermaine who was almost becoming a god, and rescued her from the control of the Mother Mary, thus completing her soul.

Those things are far from as simple as Wu Chang said in just a few words.

She couldn't tell everyone what Wu Chang had done, but she wanted Wu Chang to be respected by everyone instead of being treated as her vassal.

"He gave me a new life. He is very important to me. His words represent my will."

The islanders had already looked at Wu Chang differently after hearing what he said.

No matter what his purpose was in coming to the island and what he did on the island, the fact that he saved the saint and gave them a chance to atone for their sins meant that everything he did was right.

At this moment, coupled with the fact that the saint valued him so much and regarded him as the god's representative on earth, the islanders treated him with even more respect.

Wu Chang looked at Irene with a smile. He sensed Irene's feelings. If possible, he wanted to give Irene a hug right now, but in order to maintain Irene's image as a goddess, he could only force himself to hold back.

Seeing that the great crisis brought by Morena had been resolved, he turned the topic back on track and continued to say to Morena:

"The situation was extremely urgent. After the Saint Lady was resurrected, we needed to immediately go to a higher plane to stabilize our divinity, so we left without saying goodbye. I didn't expect that so many changes would happen on the island during our absence."

"Sheriff Morena, can you tell me what happened on the island during this period?"

When talking about what happened on the island, Morena formally became a capable female sheriff and told Wu Chang and Irene what happened after they left.

At the same time, Wu Changzhen called Ernst, who had surrendered, and asked him about the actions of the fishmen during this period.

Through the descriptions from both the islanders' and the fishmen's perspectives, what happened on Briv Island slowly unfolded before him.

When Wu Chang and Irene returned to the town of Briff, it was the murlocs who posed a threat to the island, but the original cause of everything was the Orgrimmar State Religion.

The time goes back to the third day after the Quiet Town dungeon ended. The islanders were still immersed in the drastic changes and had not yet recovered. The steam fleet of the Orgrim Kingdom came to Brever Island with great momentum.

The neatly-organized fleet that arrived was huge, and it looked like it was about to go to war. One part of the fleet was the kingdom's elite navy, and the other part was the Anglican Knights led by Archbishop Gilman.

Elite soldiers, who outnumbered the total number of islanders, flooded into the island and easily took control of the town.

The soldiers detained all the islanders and searched the island for any trace of Irene and Wu Chang.

Hearing this, Wu Chang was able to imagine the motives behind the actions of the Kingdom of Ogri.

It must be that he integrated the Great Mother into the remains of the saint, and used the Great Mother to bring Irene back to life, which was too against the will of Heaven. The Great Mother was so angry that she ordered the Orgrimmar Ecclesiarchy to send troops to attack Briver.

Wu Chang is very familiar with Archbishop Gilman who is leading the team. He is the most powerful archbishop in the state religion and has a high probability of becoming the next Pope. He is behind all the bad things in the Quiet Town dungeon.

Including but not limited to labeling Ebert a heretic and forcing him to join the artificial god plan by intimidation and bribery. During the implementation of the plan, he tried many times to force the fusion of the Mother Mother and Irene.

Even the prop letter that Wu Chang used to trigger the hidden side quest was written by Archbishop Gilman. His purpose was to confirm Count Jermaine's progress with Ebert and to reap the rewards through the "Blessing of the Virgin Mary" necklace.

Since Archbishop Gilman was mobilized, the projection of the Virgin Mary was most likely also involved in the action.

In order to deal with Wu Chang and the resurrected Irene, the Orgrimskirkja Church was well prepared, but Wu Chang had already left the plane with Irene, and even if the projection of the Grand Virgin Mary arrived, no trace of them could be found.

But what he didn't expect was that although Archbishop Gilman did not find him and Irene, they made greater discoveries in the seaside lighthouse and the ruins of the Earl's manor.

Morena was not sure what they had discovered specifically, but when she eavesdropped on the conversation of the members of the Anglican Knights, she vaguely heard something about an underground alchemy laboratory and that the Archbishop had ordered it to be emptied.

Morena and the others did not know what was inside the alchemy laboratory. They only knew that on the day those hidden facilities were exposed, the entire Briver Island and the surrounding waters were completely blocked.

Not only that, all islanders were ordered to move away.

Archbishop Gilman gave everyone one night and required that all islanders must evacuate the island and move to a designated location under the control of the navy by the next morning, otherwise they would be regarded as heretics and escorted back to the inland as prisoners.

Faced with the strength of Archbishop Gilman, the islanders were completely unable to resist and could only hold their noses and prepare to evacuate.

They were forced to hand over the island, but some were unwilling to do so.

On the night that the church told everyone to pack their bags, Cliff, who supplied fresh fish to the townspeople, tried to escape from the island in the dark, but was discovered by members of the Anglican Knights guarding the island.

During the battle, Cliff transformed into a merman, and relying on his thick skin and flesh, he broke through the blockade of the Knights, jumped into the sea, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Less than half an hour after Cliff escaped, the tide rose at Brever Island.

A large number of murlocs rushed to the island and fought with the members of the Knights.

The battlefield is not only on the island, but also in the sea.

Most of the old sailors who have sailed on the sea have heard a rumor that if you see a monster with a fish head and a human body on the deck at night, it is best to prepare life jackets and lifeboats immediately, because this is a sign of a shipwreck.

This legend has continued from the sailing ship era to the current steamship era because destroying ships is the talent of the mermen.

They could always find the weakest point of a ship and sink a large ship at very little cost.

Even steamships made of steel are no exception.

That night, Dagan led the murlocs to attack the fleet of the Orgrim Kingdom.

More than ten huge steel warships sank in the surrounding waters, and all the navy ships that fell into the water became sacrifices of blood sacrifice at the hands of the fishmen, and no one escaped.

The battle was extremely brutal, but when Wu Chang asked Ernst why the murlocs attacked the Ogri Kingdom fleet, Ernst replied that he didn't know.

Dagang did not tell them the reason, but only said that it was a command from the Lord.

But Ernst and the others didn't care about the reason, just like when he received the order to attack Briver Island tonight, he didn't ask why. He didn't care about the reason, nor did he care whether it was right or wrong, he just knew that he had to kill.

The battle lasted until four in the morning and ended with the complete defeat of the Kingdom of Orgrim.

If Archbishop Gilman had not used his special abilities to temporarily force Dagon back, buying time for the Kingdom Knights and the remaining navy to retreat, all the people in the Ogri Nations would have died that night.

After expelling Archbishop Gilman and his entourage, the merpeople did not kill the islanders. Instead, they triggered the merman curse in the islanders' bodies and left Briver.

Before leaving, Dagon even sent Cliff as a messenger to reassure everyone and tell them not to worry about the threat from Gilman.

Cliff left them a sea Bible and told them that the time would come, the Lord would wake up, and the world would belong to the sea people.

From that night on, the roar of artillery fire could often be heard in the waters around Briver Island.

That was the sound of the fishmen fighting the navy and the Knights of the Ecclesiarchy.

However, no matter how the Orgrim Kingdom fought back, they could not break through the murloc tribe and were blocked outside the sea, unable to advance an inch.

Later, Cliff would return to the island every now and then to preach to everyone, telling them how great the Lord is, how small the land is compared to the ocean, and how magnificent the city under the deep sea is.

In addition to preaching, he proudly mentioned more than once that Dagun, the God of Murlocs, was able to make the Kingdom of Orgrimmar helpless with his own strength.

Dagang even reached the mainland of the Kingdom of Ogri, causing huge waves that submerged three coastal cities.

The merfolk regarded the people of Briv Island as half of their own people, and believed that only merfolk could accept merfolk, so they did not push them too hard at first.

Until a few days ago, when Dagang attacked the Kingdom of Ogri, he overturned a steamship. The King of Ogri's most beloved son was returning from studying abroad and happened to be sitting in that steamship.

This drove King Ogri crazy and put enormous pressure on the state religion. For the sake of faith, the state religion had to show its true strength.

According to Ernst, it was the Mother Mother who took action through the Kingdom of God on Earth.

Both sides suffered heavy losses. Dagang tore apart the projection of the temporary arrival of the Virgin Mary and was also seriously injured.

Dagan, whose divine power was severely depleted and in urgent need of recuperation, originally wanted to come to Briver to replenish some power of faith. However, when he entered the island, he found that after so many years of missionary work, no power of faith had been cultivated here.

When Dagang arrived at Mayor Harrison's house and found the Deep Sea Bible praising the Lord, which was used by Harrison to pad the statue of Irene, Dagang was completely shocked.

From that day on, Briver was under the high-pressure control of Dagang, who forced the islanders to complete the faith conversion within a limited time, otherwise he would show no mercy.

As the sinner who desecrated the Deep Sea Bible, Harrison was singled out first.

Dagon sewed the Deep Sea Bible onto Harrison's skin and demanded that Harrison personally smash the statue of Irene outside the cathedral, or he would die.

Harrison responded by painfully ripping the Deep Sea Bible off his skin, tearing it to pieces, and then spitting on it.

After Dagon killed Harrison, Morena, who had the highest status in the town, became the acting mayor, and Dagon passed on the request he made to Harrison to Morena.

Smash the statue, or die.

Then came the scene that Wu Chang and Irene saw when they entered the town of Briver.

After listening to Morena's description, Irene showed compassion. She used holy light to lift Harrison's body out of the church and buried it under the tree of miracles.

Compared to Irene, Wu Chang focuses more on the intelligence itself.

The reason why Dagang had not paid special attention to Brever Island before was because he had been trying to stop the Kingdom of Ogri, or more precisely, to stop the state religion from taking over Brever Island.

When he found that the Lord of the Deep Sea was neglected, he showed no mercy to the residents of Briv Island. Even when they were controlled by Wu Chang, he was willing to massacre all the islanders to force Wu Chang to stop.

This shows that the importance of Brevers Island lies in the island, not the islanders.

This can be proved by the fact that after Archbishop Gilman blocked Brevers Island, he immediately chose to drive away all the islanders.

In other words, there must be some secret hidden in Briv Island itself that has attracted the attention of the Lord of the Deep Sea and the Mother Mary, who are willing to start a war to seize it.

The Lord of the Deep Sea should have known the secret of Briver Island a long time ago, and the Grand Virgin Mary should have discovered it through the Earl's Manor, the seaside lighthouse and Ebert's Cottage as Morena said.

These places happen to be related to Count Jermaine and his plan to create an artificial god.

This reminded Wu Chang of the information about Count Jermaine. Jermaine was the first to realize that sea routes were the future of the kingdom and was also the first to invest in maritime business.

He values ​​the sea far more than any other noble in the Kingdom of Ogri.

But when it came to fighting, he did not choose to join the navy; when it came to trade, when he was granted a fief, he did not choose a more popular port, but chose Briver Island.

Perhaps he has been secretly cooperating with the forces in the deep sea since a long time ago.

Count Jermaine previously used the golden flying fish to infect the islanders with the fish-man curse and control the islanders through their fish addiction.

Wu Chang eats the golden flying fish and transforms into a marine clan member. The sea god tells him that the marine blood in his body is of the same origin as the remains of the evil god. At that time, he had doubted how Count Jermaine got the golden flying fish that had the aura of the evil god's remains.

If the two had always been working together, it would all make sense.

Count Jermaine cooperated with the deep-sea forces, but Ebert, who helped Jermaine complete the artificial god plan, knew almost nothing about it. He neither told the church nor expressed his resentment.

It seems that Earl Jermaine is extremely ambitious. Perhaps the artificial god is not his real plan, but just the starting point of his plan.

For deeper preparation, one needs to become a god before starting.

Unfortunately, this great plan was ruined by Wu Chang before he could take the crucial first step.

Wu Chang looked at Harrison who was being buried and the miracle tree behind him.

The miracle tree took root here, representing that Breaver Island has become part of the large kingdom of Eileen.

Wu Chang not only destroyed Count Jermaine's plan, but also used Jermaine's plan to make Irene an artificial god. Now even the territory that Jermaine had been thinking about and the islanders in the territory have become his possession.

This is not a kind of NTR.

After sorting out the causes and consequences of what happened on Briver Island, Wu Chang turned his thoughts from the past back to the present.

Based on the existing intelligence, there are now two problems that need to be resolved.

The first is what secrets are hidden on the Island of Brivu. The moment the Grand Virgin Mary discovers them, this place must be completely blocked off, so that the fishmen who have been hiding in the deep sea will show up for Brivu Island and go to war with the Kingdom of Ogri.

When he first entered Briver Island, he searched the Earl's manor and found that there was nothing valuable left. He thought it was done by the islanders, but now it seems that everything was packed up and taken away by Archbishop Gilman.

If he wanted to know the secrets of the island, he would probably have to ask the Lord of the Sea or Archbishop Gilman.

The second question comes from the fishmen.

From the description of the merman Ernst, we can learn that the existence of the merman clan is to make up for the weaknesses of the Lord of the Deep Sea, and they are born with the talent to destroy ships.

It was with this talent that they were able to keep the Ogri Kingdom's fleet out of the Briver Sea and prevent it from advancing an inch.

But now, due to Dagan's request, all the murlocs who were confronting the Ogri fleet came to Brief Island and were wiped out by him again.

Then, the Orgrim fleet, which has gone crazy because of the death of the prince, will arrive in Briver soon after discovering that the murlocs have disappeared.

I was just wondering where to borrow a boat to crash into the wreckage of the evil god, and now there is a boat for you.

(End of this chapter)