I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 275: Mutation, deterioration, and infection!

Triceratops 'Storm' open deck - aft deck area.

The Storm's open deck is divided into four areas, and the deck heights of each area are different. Going from one area of ​​the open deck to another requires going up and down stairs.

The rear deck area belongs to the combat command area. At its rear end, that is, below the rear deck area, is the steering wheel. On both sides of the steering wheel are the captain's room and the rooms of his deputies and assistants.

Behind the steering wheel is a large corridor, and further in are the dining room and office cabins.

Many crew members were running on the rear deck, and the steering wheel on the deck had lost control and was spinning wildly. The crew members were desperately trying to control the steering wheel in various ways, but with little success.

It seems that some magic centers in the lower cabin have malfunctioned, and the crew can no longer control the ship using the steering wheel.

Under a strange force, the large ship was heading towards the foggy area on the distant sea surface. A few miles away, a huge foggy area could be seen. The fog on the sea was like a thousand-foot cliff, extremely oppressive.

This fog is very special, a random, low-intensity mysterious area that randomly changes location every few years to decades.

Fog is usually not dangerous, but it can be dangerous. Once you enter the fog, it is almost impossible to communicate with the outside world. In addition, once a ship enters the fog, it is difficult to locate itself.

So once you enter the fog, it is very easy to get lost. It is common for ships to be trapped in it for decades and not be discovered until the fog clears.

This fog suddenly appeared a few days ago. The crew on the Triceratops Storm predicted the appearance of the fog, so they docked here in advance.

After the fog appeared last night, Captain Dagmar took a dozen elite wizards and a group of sirens to explore the fog.

On the one hand, they wanted to confirm the route in the fog to prevent the ship from getting lost after entering.

On the one hand, they need to confirm whether there are any sea monsters on the route. They don’t need to waste time dealing with these sea monsters, just leave a magic mark on them.

At that time, if there are sea monsters blocking the way, the magic cannons on the Storm can directly kill them according to the guidance of the magic marks.

So, Dagmar is not on board now.

If the Storm went deeper into the fog at this time, it would be a huge challenge for Dagmar and his men to locate their ship.

Even with the Sirens' help, it would be difficult to accurately locate the ship's new coordinates. If they wanted to return to the ship at that time, they would have to rely on luck.

As the ship got closer and closer to the fog, the deck became a mess.

——"Damn it, damn it! Something seems to be pulling on the boat!"

——"Silk, it's silk! There's silk on the boat!"

There seemed to be a lot of almost imperceptible filaments on the big ship. When everyone was running on the deck, they could even feel the filaments scratching their clothes and emitting various static electricity.

This situation is particularly evident on the towering wind element sail, where the furry silk threads are pulling the ship into the fog.

But the strange thing is that these threads did not come from the depths of the fog. One end of them was stuck to various corners of the ship, and the other end was floating in the air.

Southerners lack curiosity. Even the so-called "wizards" in the South rarely observe various creatures.

They didn't know that spiders could fly, and they didn't know that when spiders relied on their webs to fly to another big tree, they didn't need to hang the silk on that big tree.

The spider only needs to stick its butt out and release some silk. The power of the elements will help the spider do the rest.

The ship is now a giant spider.

The mist is the big tree it is flying towards now.

The crew members were praying madly to the god of wind element, and in the midst of these prayers, the wind spirits responded to their call.

Countless wind element particles condensed on 72 huge element sails, trying to inflate the sails and lead the ship to sneak in another direction.

But instead of swelling in another direction, these sails swelled in the direction of the fog under the pull of the spider silk!

The sails were billowing towards the fog, and the rudder under the ship was pointing towards the fog.

The entire ship was speeding against the wind towards the fog.

Squeak, creak, creak, creak
The big ship made a harsh noise as the spider silk and the wind pulled it.

It wants to go into the fog, its owner lets it go into the fog!
Further in the large corridor behind the wheel, there is an office area.

Many of the crew members stood here, facing a large mirror on the wall.

But the reflection in the mirror was not of this room, but of the 'bottom cabin' below the lowest deck of the ship.

This bottom hold is located directly below the slave cabin, where the ship's magic center, ballast, and part of the cargo hold are located.

You can see that some crew members are fighting against some strange crawling things here.

There were more and more of those things, and they were covering the bottom cabin with spider webs.

The three-headed snake crew resisted while frantically destroying the magic center.

These crew members are great!

They weren't strictly speaking Three-Headed Hydra pirates. Rather, they were members of the Hydra group, crew members of the Storm. But they were also knights of the Hydra Order and missionaries of the United Church of the Gods of Light and Shadow.

Unlike most islanders, they have an extraordinary will. Even though they know they are going to die, they still fight desperately.

They could have escaped more than ten minutes ago, but they stayed here and destroyed the magic center!

They believed that if they destroyed the magic center, the ship would not be controlled by the prisoners.

Therefore, although he himself would die, the believers of the church and the brothers and sisters in the order would have a chance to survive.

That's right. As long as this ship isn't controlled by prisoners, we can wait for Saint Dagmar's return. As soon as His Excellency Dagmar returns, the Sea God's will will return here to protect His children.

By then, all dark wizards will perish!
Soon, the last knight of the Hydra Order died in the lower cabin while praying. The evil black wizards crawled over and tied him up in a spider web.

The crew members in front of the mirror closed their eyes, lowered their heads, and prayed in grief and anger.

The sacrifices of my brothers and sisters were meaningless.

The ship has now been completely contaminated by the dark wizards. Without the support of the magic center, it is struggling to move towards the fog!
The dark wizards never had control over, nor were they interested in controlling, the magic center!
They didn't even use any magic to steer the ship!

This ship is moving on its own!
The second mate said angrily, "Impossible! This doesn't make sense! The rudder under the ship must have been fixed by the spider web! Carl, we should send a team of Nagas to check it out!"

First mate Carl said grimly, "My dear brother, I sent three teams of Nagas before I arrived. I don't know what's under the ship, but after they went deep into the water, we lost contact."

The second mate slammed his fist on the table. "How do they have so many men? What kind of dark magic is this?! What the hell have they summoned?!"

First mate Carl shook his head.

At this moment, several nearby three-headed snake crew members suddenly let out a terrified scream.

Carl and the second mate looked over there and found that the scarecrow in the hands of a three-headed snake crew member suddenly came to life.

This was a monk from the Order of the Hydra, a unique order granted special permission by the Vatican to study Eastern magic. So, while the members of this order may call themselves monks and often use prayers to summon elementals, they are actually wizards.

The three-headed snake wizard just now was using the scarecrow in his hand to cast a standard black magic - in the southern territory, all curses are classified as black magic.

Therefore, any spell cast by using a scarecrow, a puppet, or something like that is definitely black magic.

The three-headed snake wizards have the hair of all the prisoners in their hands. In theory, these prisoners are wearing the shackles of original sin, so they can kill any prisoner if they want.

Just now, the three-headed snake wizard was secretly doing this. But after the evil curse was cast, not only did the cursed person not die, but the little scarecrow in the three-headed snake wizard's hand came back to life!
The scarecrow underwent a strange transformation in the blink of an eye. It actually bit him, and then its joints began to twist. It crawled onto his body like a spider, and madly spun silk to weave a web on his face.

It looked as if a spider had caught a butterfly and was planning to wrap it up and have a delicious meal.

After the crew member was bitten, his entire hand was swollen and bone spurs like spider limbs were growing on it.

It seemed to be a toxin with terrible pollution. The pollution was terrible, and the toxin was deadly. In just a few moments, the crew's faces began to turn green.

The people around were horrified and immediately tried to help, but the strange little thing was not affected by any magic! At this moment, a shout came from the crowd.

——"Lord! I beg you to bind this evil wolf!"

It was Carl, the first mate. He held a Hydra Bible in his hands, and as he prayed, a dark light shone from it. Then, like a snake, the light bit the little spider scarecrow and pulled it into the book.

There was a rustle. Carl flipped the pages, and another cry. Then, the spider webs on the crew member's head disappeared. The poison on his hand stopped spreading, and the swelling slowly subsided.

After a moment, the crewman's face returned to normal, though a little pale. He staggered a few steps, and the people around him hurriedly supported him and fed him the medicine.

Carl walked over to check, and after making sure that his brother was out of danger, he began to flip through the Bible with a gloomy face.

On one page of the Hydra Bible, a lifelike image of a small straw spider was crawling around inside, trying to get out of the page but unable to do so.

After the little spider entered the book, a lot of words appeared on the pages.

The second mate came over and asked with a grim expression, "Such a small thing is so troublesome? What the hell is this thing?"

After Karl looked through it for a while, he said, “It’s a person.”

The second mate was stunned: "People?"

Carl closed the book and said solemnly: "Yes, it is a human, but it is no longer.

To be more precise, it is the people who 'dive'. They are the bottom creatures.

They were once human, but they kept sinking into the dark magic rituals from the East.

They dived too deep and have already synchronized with the lower world, becoming followers of some evil god.

Ordinary monks of the order were unable to use the holy fire, were not devout enough, and lacked divine grace, so they could not touch the lower world.

If you can't touch it, you can't hit it. That's why the crew members say those monsters are unkillable."

First mate Carl was obviously a monk with a 'clergy'. The moves he used were also divine arts.

But if there were an Eastern wizard here, they would definitely call him a charlatan and sneer at him, because the magic he wielded was clearly 'mystical magic'.

Moreover, it is the kind of mysterious magic that the 'Black Abyss Wizards' and 'Twilight Wizards' despise the most - the same trick used by the 'Original Dry Blood Wizard' using the power of the Dry Blood Baron. This power comes from God, not like the Twilight Wizards and the Black Abyss Wizards, where the mysterious magic in their hands comes from their own magic power!

Strictly speaking, what Carl was using was divine magic, because this power came from the gods.

Strictly speaking, the mysterious magic of the Black Abyss wizards is not divine magic, because this power comes from the wizards' research into the truth and from the wizards themselves.

Essentially, the wizards of the Eastern Territory were on the path to godhood, so the magic they wielded was truly divine! The magical power they gathered within their bodies through their glimpse into the truth was truly divine power!
They are gods! A group of gods on the road to becoming gods!

Of course, in the eyes of southerners, they are not gods, because gods require faith. However, not only do they not need others to believe in them, but they believe that relying on external forces such as faith to become gods is not the right way.

Therefore, wizards will never be recognized by God.

Therefore, all wizards who walked on the path of truth were regarded by the Southern Church as heretics and demons who had stolen the power that should only belong to the gods.

The second mate said, "Those damned black wizards had such perfect timing! There must be a traitor among us! Most of the 'Hydra priests' have been taken away by Captain Dagmar. You are the only one left on board now."
What should we do, Karl? We must deal with them before Lord Dagmar comes back, otherwise the sea god will be angry! "

Carl sneered, "Oh, you still don't understand the situation? According to the current situation, by the time Lord Dagmar returns, this ship will be finished!"
We have to find a way to get the adults back early, we have to find a way to delay time!"

The second mate and the surrounding upper-level crew members were shocked when they heard this.

An assistant captain (considered a deputy captain, but there were several) said, "Is that really that exaggerated, Carl? There are only about two hundred prisoners, all wearing sin shackles. They just spin silk, so can't we just trap them? We just need to use the power of the sea of ​​fog to create a sea god's labyrinth on the ship, and they will be trapped and die in the maze forever."

Carl shook his head and said, "You are not from the Order and have never come into contact with anything from the East. You underestimate the black magic of the East!

This is no ordinary Eastbound magic.

I smell the breath of twilight. This is pure ancient twilight magic! It is a magic based on the research and transformation of Heracari theology!

When Twilight was mentioned, everyone's expression changed slightly.

In fact, Roland was using serious Black Abyss magic.

Because the 'Shepherdess's Song' comes from the 'Shepherdess of the Black Blood' - this is the path of truth with the core of the Abyss, more precisely, it is the 'Heraka Magic' of the Abyss faction.

Moreover, the 'Song of the Shepherdess' has nothing to do with the Bloody Baron, so the 'Squeaking' is the real 'Black Abyss Heraca Magic'.

However, the Southern Territory was very behind in terms of information, and they had always held an arrogant attitude towards the Eastern Territory, to the point where their thinking was still stuck in the past three hundred years.

And more than three hundred years ago, there was no Black Abyss at all, because at that time Black Abyss and Twilight were one and the same, and had not yet split from Twilight.

Therefore, what Carl said was not wrong. He could indeed tell what faction of magic this was.

I'm afraid most wizards can't figure out what "The Shepherdess's Song" is.

I'm afraid it will be regarded as a hymn to Helaka.

But this priest Carl (serving as the first mate on the ship) saw that its core is 'ancient twilight magic (black abyss magic)', which is incredible!

Carl continued, "It seems that the East has stolen the power of the goddess Heraka. This is simply blasphemy!"

Roland and his companions weren't using the power of the goddess Heraclea at all; they were using the power of the Path of Truth. But in the eyes of the South, all wizards who took the Path of Truth were thieves.

They believe that truth is God and that truth magic can only be used by God.

But tens of thousands of years ago, wizards had already discovered that truth was not the exclusive property of God, but a law of nature.

The three-headed snakes were very angry because in their view, the shepherdess Heracles was the god of supreme goodness, a pure and good god who sacrificed herself to guard the Styx and cleanse sinful souls.

Unlike the local Hades gods of the underworld—normal Hades gods are somewhat evil—Heraka, the shepherdess who later entered the River Styx, is pure and kind.

Before He fell from heaven into the River Styx, He was perfect and pure!

Therefore, they didn't think Heraclea was an evil god at all. They also didn't imagine that Roland and his group's black magic came from their research on the goddess Heraclea.

Everyone discussed countermeasures.

Carl said something like this: "The crew can't kill these monsters, but we can find a way to exile them. They come from the lower world, so we just need to exile them back."

Carl laid out his plan.

If there was a wizard from the East standing in this office, he would definitely take out his magic notebook in a hurry and write down all the plans that Carl mentioned in the combat meeting.

Because this is obviously a kind of mysterious magic, it is worth studying.

However, if there really was a wizard in the East who wrote down all of this, he would end up cursing and tearing up what he had written.

Because Carl used a cheat!
He is a priest, he uses the power of God!
He planned to use the Divine Runes to draw a Magic Circle, invoking the Divine Grace to exile the deeply polluted prisoners and bring these traitors, who had become completely subhuman, back to the lower world.

It seems that Carl is fighting with the wizards in the East.

But in fact, it was Carl who represented the god behind the scenes to fight against the wizards of the East Territory!

After the three-headed snakes discussed the plan, their morale was high.

This plan can definitely exile all the prisoners.

If the prisoners really take the bait, there will be no matter how many of them come!
If all the prisoners were lured into the trap, the riot could be quelled without waiting for the return of 'Hydra Saint Dagmar'!

Roland and his companions' understanding of the southern world and the methods of the priests were obviously still far behind.

The Southern priests clearly lack knowledge about the Eastern Territory wizards, especially the Twilight (Withered Blood) and Black Abyss wizards.

(End of this chapter)