Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 11 The Book of the Black Sea
Based on the extraordinary knowledge in William's memory, Li Nanke tried to interpret the Breath of the Lake at a deeper level.

It was not until Reinhold reminded him that he came back to his senses: "Okay, didn't you say you could understand the words in this heretical scripture?"

He raised his eyebrows, picked up the book, walked out of the secret room, sat on the bench in the hall and began to translate silently line by line.

William's strengths are not in physical skills, firearms, or weapon combat, but in knowledge and cultural subjects.

In order to get more credits, he graduated from the monastery and entered the church, where he took many cultural knowledge courses, and this ancient cuneiform code was one of them.

However, because of this, his proficiency in this ancient code was only enough to pass the monastery examination.

This made the translation of the Black Sea Book particularly difficult. For some complex words, one had to guess their meanings to barely understand them...

Reinhold did not urge him. He leaned on the bench in the corner, took out a ladies' badge engraved with a bright red rose from his arms, and rubbed it carefully with his hands. His eyes were blank, and no one knew what he was thinking.

The more Li Nanke translated, the gloomier his eyes became, but he hid his emotions very well and did not show them.

Because according to the records in the Book of the Black Sea, there is a very likely... an evil god hidden in the town!
Several centuries ago, a merchant ship encountered a catastrophic storm at sea. The ship was shaking under the impact of huge waves and could be swallowed by the sea at any time.

Faced with increasingly fierce winds and waves, the merchants, sailors and chaplains on board the ship all seemed insignificant in the face of such a horrific natural disaster and could only pray silently in despair.

As expected, a huge wave overturned the merchant ship and the sea swallowed up everyone.

The sea surface is as black as ink, with turbulent waves. Beneath the sea surface, there should also be undercurrents surging, dark and terrifying. There is no possibility of survival for those who fall into the sea.

But what the people who sank into the sea saw was not suffocating darkness, but colorful and dreamy lights and shadows.

That is the dazzling light reflected from the fish scales, those are the elegant and moving mermaids.

They are the Sea-lovers, and they are surrounding the great 'Orphanus'.

Orphans controls the ocean and dominates the abyss. When he is angry, violent hurricanes and violent tsunamis will be caused. When he is happy, the sea is calm and countless fish will jump out of the sea and dance happily.

The Sea-lovers followed the oracle of Orphanus, embraced the people who fell into the sea, and sent them to the coastal land.

Those who survived the disaster were all grateful.

Eventually, merchants led people to build settlements along the coast, and the priests on board taught people to build churches for Orfanas and to believe in him forever...

Seeing this, Li Nanke has vaguely guessed what the content of the subsequent key nodes or the final nodes will be.

He clenched his fists tightly, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. When he opened his eyes again, the gloomy look in his eyes was gone.

Li Nanke spoke up to wake up the man in the corner who was lost in thought: "Sir, I understand now. Those indigenous heretics are called 'Sea Devoted Ones'."

He concealed the existence of "Orphanus" and only said that the people who survived the shipwreck believed that they were favored by the sea, and thus developed a primitive worship of the sea, and the "Septent" was the totem of faith.

"..."

"The long-term worship may have given the totem extraordinary power, and the townspeople became like this because they absorbed the extraordinary power in the wrong way."

"From the scriptures, the degree to which the Sea-Favored Ones absorb supernatural powers is different, which causes different degrees of physical deformation. There are ordinary Sea-Favored Ones, and there are also higher-level Sea-Favored Ones. The latter are more powerful but their number is extremely small."

"I think if we can seize some opportunities, we can escape from this town."

Reinhold said: "Chance...what other chances are there?" "Our only chance to escape from the town is in the central square."

"Sir, I will do everything in my power to help you retrieve Lady Liliana's body, for she is your lover and also my teacher."

The shadow of the pointed winged hat covered the man's face, making it hard to see his expression. A hoarse voice rang out: "I don't trust you. Don't try any tricks."

"I saw clearly the scene where you shot Bei Anqi in the knee. She was also Liliana's student. People like you...would not be willing to risk your life to bury your teacher's body."

Li Nanke understood that these were all Reinhold's hypocritical excuses, and in fact he just didn't want to go.

If Liliana had not died but was trapped in the central square, Lord Dawn Bear would most likely risk his life to rescue her. However, there was only a charred corpse left in the town square. Although he was sad, there was no need for him to take the risk of endangering his life for a corpse... unless there was sufficient profit to motivate him!
"Your Excellency, please do not question Ms. Liliana's judgment. The teacher must have her reasons for choosing me as her student."

Li Nanke pointed to his head and said, "How many monsters are lurking in the central square of the town? Where are they hiding? What weapons are they holding? I remember it clearly..."

He told all the information about the town square, even that there was a high-level Sea Follower hiding there, and that there were intact thermite rifles and stun rifles.

"A large part of the reason why the teacher sacrificed himself was because he wanted to protect the monk apprentices from escaping, so I will always remember the teacher's kindness."

"Now I'm telling you everything I know. Although it's still far from enough to repay the teacher's kindness, it makes me feel better."

After saying that, Li Nanke sat down on the bench, looking like it was up to you to go or not.

When Reinhold heard that there was a high-level sea-follower in the central square, his eyes flickered, but after knowing that there were high-powered firearms left by Liliana there, he tried his best to suppress his emotions, but his breathing was still a little heavy.

After he lost a leg, those two powerful guns might be his only means of escaping the town.

Reinhold glanced at him with a complicated look and said in a deep voice: "You come with me."

Li Nanke pretended to be surprised and asked back: "Sir, you don't mind me betraying my companions, aren't you worried that I will stab you in the back?"

Are you kidding? I'm even more worried about leaving you here!

You said that those high-level sea followers are no different from ordinary monsters when they are dormant. Although their physical characteristics were described in detail, God knows whether this information is fabricated or not.

Even if you don't have any ulterior motives, those sea followers all look similar. If he makes a mistake in identifying them, he may lose his life.

"I see you're a good shot."

Reinhold took a deep breath, glanced at the revolver in the apprentice's armpit holster, and threw out several full-moon-shaped magazines.

Each full-moon-shaped magazine contains six rounds of 0.455 pistol ammunition, and the three magazines total 18 rounds of bullets. Using this magazine, the bullets arranged in a circle can be quickly loaded into the revolving cylinder, making it very quick to change and load bullets during combat.

He stood up with the help of his cane, his expression solemn: "So, you have to go with me!"

Li Nanke took the bullet, held the gun in his left hand, raised the bloody saw blade in his right hand, and said simply: "I am willing to serve you."

"Follow me closely, don't hold me back... If you fall behind, don't expect me to come back and save you!"

Reinhold crushed the broken arc spray gun with one foot, carried the chain saw axe, leaned on the cane, still did not turn the hinges, and forced open the iron door of the church with fierce force.

Outside the door is a never-ending cold rain... and many wandering heretical monsters!

(End of this chapter)