I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Chapter 276 There is a spider in the belly of the boat, and the boat is also a spider!
Sea of ​​fog, unknown area.

A dilapidated ship covered with spider webs floated quietly on the sea, drifting with the current.

The waves in this area are obviously smaller, like a pool of stagnant water.

Beautiful fluorescent lights flickered on the sea surface, and in the distance there were many scattered fluorescent lights slowly gathering here.

Those seemed to be ribbon jellyfish, which gathered near the big ship, entangled together hand in hand.

There were so many of them that they covered a large area of ​​the sea like a big net, so that there were no waves nearby.

The dilapidated ship was like a dozing spider, lying quietly in the center of its web, waiting for its prey to approach.

Just like that strange ghost ship, there are many strange sounds inside it.

It was a beautiful and melodious piece of music, but it was also mixed with heart-wrenching wails and laughter.

Three full days have passed since the three-headed snakes' combat meeting.

During these three days, the ship was not quiet.

The three-headed snakes clearly had an absolute advantage in numbers, but they did not choose to fight the prisoners head-on. Instead, they activated the restrictions on each cabin and locked every hatch leading to the deck.

Behind each hatch, there is a group of three-headed snakes and Nagas. Their number is often only twenty or thirty, but in this narrow cabin, they are able to hold their own.

Often the battle begins before the prisoners break into the cabin.

Those Nagas were using their singing to influence the cabin outside the door, and what they were singing was called "The Labyrinth of the Sea God".

This kind of song cannot affect those weird things, but it affects the ship.

This sea of ​​fog is actually a mysterious maze area.

Ships can get lost at sea, and people staying in the cabins can often get lost on the ship as well!

The Poseidon's Labyrinth combined with this mysterious area has a miraculous effect.

As long as the singing continues, the cabin outside the door will become like a maze, and people in the maze will not be able to find the right way.

There are many sirens singing in every cabin, and the singing penetrates every cabin and throughout the entire ship!

Therefore, when a person in the maze opens a door, he will find that what is in front of him is not a small cabin, but a huge maze with pieces connected to each other!

But the maze is unravelling.

The people on duty in the various cabins soon discovered that this duty was tantamount to suicide!

This is a very demoralizing thing, but those Nagas who are slaves often have a more tenacious fighting will than the three-headed snake crew.

Rather than calling them Nagas, they are better called "sinners" because according to the doctrines they believe in, they are sinful from the moment they are born.

Therefore, they were born as slaves and had to spend their entire lives atonement for their sins.

Most Nagas accept this teaching.

During this battle, many Nagas wanted to die, because the Lord's shepherd, the high priest Karl, told them that they were facing the Lord's enemy, a wolf that harmed the pack.

Believers know that they are going to be blessed!

They will defend the Lord's honor in this battle, will redeem themselves in death, and will go to the kingdom of Poseidon after death and return to His warm embrace.

To wash away sins and become the Lord's sheep again - this is the lifelong pursuit of all sinners.

As a priest, Karl strictly abided by the church law and did not do the things that the devil did to trick people. He was always open-hearted to the Lord's believers, and treated even the sinners with sincerity.

So he wasn't lying.

This is a chance for believers to atone for their sins. Carl sees the figures of every loyal and brave believer in his stead as the god.

The sinners' actions redeem their sins. After their death, the sea god will show special mercy and embrace their souls just like he extradited normal believers.

But these believers did not wait for such an opportunity.

Often the battle begins before the hold is breached.

The Nagas are using sound to create the sea god's labyrinth. Their singing echoes in the labyrinth, but there is also another kind of singing in the labyrinth, and this singing is also affecting people outside the labyrinth.

Everyone on the ship could hear the strange singing!

Often, when the hatch was opened, no one was outside. The cabin was covered in spider webs and filled with strange, crawling creatures. Their scales suggested they were once sirens.

They no longer have the chance to return to the arms of the sea god, or rather, they have already been embraced by another sea god.

Because they have been diving deeper and deeper into the strange lower world, and are embraced by the indescribable things in the deep sea.

Just as Carl had said, they had dived too deep, synced with the lower world, and had become part of it. No one knew where they were, and unless they obtained the anchor from the master of the black magic ritual, no one could find them and pull them back.

Unless the sea god comes personally, no one can save these poor people.

The dark wizards did not break into the cabins one by one. They just wandered aimlessly in the labyrinth of Poseidon, crawling, weaving webs and singing happily.

All the cabins on the ship were not breached one by one.

They collapse on their own.

Therefore, the sirens and wizards who preside over the Poseidon Labyrinth can all hear the singing!
This is very strange, because the Sea God's Labyrinth is a completely isolated and independent inner world. The three-headed snakes outside can never hear the people singing in the labyrinth!
But they could hear the singing!
So, on the second day, some people started to go crazy.

On the third day, which was today, the madness could no longer be contained, and as the singing faded, Poseidon's Labyrinth ceased to exist.

Therefore, all the cabins on the ship were not breached one by one, but were opened simultaneously on the last day!
Not all those who were responsible for blocking the road were finished.

Because, in his grief, Carl summoned those who had bravely fought against the demons. He had them leave and return to the open deck, allowing the three-headed snake to retain some of its strength.

There was singing here too! But it was very quiet. It seemed as if some force on the deck was suppressing the sound.

The deck was now in a state of panic. The crew and the escorting Nagas totaled over 800 people, four times more than the number of prisoners.

Carl had previously sent more than 600 people down, but only more than 100 came back.

Now, they only had 300 people left, but they were going to join the next battle. Even stranger was that these three-headed snake wizards had received a variety of cold weapons—hammers, scepters, long swords, and muskets—instead of magic wands.

It looked like they were planning to engage in close combat next.

But among these three hundred people, more than half are crazy!

They seemed to see something in that lower world.

No one could hear what they were whispering, but when the captain's assistants checked the men's belongings, they found a bloody log from a dead crew member.

When Carl went to the deck below to bring the crew back, a crew member who had performed a self-dissection grabbed Carl's clothes tightly and handed him the diary.

It records what this crew member encountered during those three days. [.There's no way the sound could have come from within the maze. There's only one possibility: the person singing is right next to us, our companions are singing!]

Spiders, they're all spiders! We eat and sleep together.

Starting from the second day, the handwriting gradually became sloppy, and by the time of the following paragraph, the words looked like they were written by a spider!

Don't blame me, blame that damn James! I have to kill them. I've warned him, but he still secretly sings while I sleep!
They are all in the same group, they are all deceiving me!
They said that everyone took turns to rest, and that when I was resting, more than half of the people were awake and that James didn't sing.

They teamed up to deceive me!

They deserve to die, they all deserve to die! 】

【.I was wrong. I deserve to die. I killed my brothers and sisters in the order!
Not them, because they don't have spiders in their stomachs.

It's not me either, because there's no spider in my stomach.

It's a boat!

Because only boats have spiders in their bellies!

Haha, that’s right, let me hand over my discovery to the acting captain. It’s the ship, it’s the ship that’s singing!

It's the boat that's singing, it's always singing!
There is a small spider in the human stomach, so the human becomes a big spider.

There are little spiders in the belly of the boat, so it's also a big spider!
It's a spider!

It is the biggest spider!!!]

After reading these logs, the second mate's face looked extremely ugly.

Just as he had said before, it was impossible for anyone to break through the three-headed hydra's sea god maze on this foggy sea.

Under normal circumstances, the prisoners would never be able to get out in their lifetime!

What's more, those lunatics haven't even removed the shackles of original sin!

But the maze collapsed after only three days!
I don't know what method those dark wizards used. Their voices penetrated the maze, and the maze collapsed from the inside!
The three-headed snakes had even conducted experiments before, or they had used mirrors to observe the situation inside the maze. The dark wizards in different mazes could not hear each other's singing!
This confirmed the three-headed snakes' previous judgment - the Black Hymn did not penetrate the maze and reach the ears of the crew members.

Moreover, from observation, those dark wizards did nothing.

They were just wandering around in the maze, as if they were chanting the Black Hymn to the maze, not to the people outside the maze.

But the people outside are gradually going crazy!
Even they, who spent most of their time on deck, began to hear the singing!

This is extremely illogical, and the various phenomena on the ship are contradictory!

The second mate even began to think that the crew member's logbook was fine.

Indeed, if we discard all unreasonable contradictions, this is the only answer left.

One is that there is a traitor among them, who is secretly singing that strange black hymn in a way that no one has noticed!
One is that the person who was singing secretly was actually himself.

Of course, it could also be this ship.

"damned."

The second mate looked at the contents of the diary and said to his companions with a pale face: "Could it be that I, I have gone crazy? Karl, did I secretly sing in the middle of the night?"

Karl was wiping the blood off his body. Without even looking up, he said, "Do you want to open your stomach and take a look?"

The second mate shook his head fiercely and said, "I was wrong, Carl. You're right, I shouldn't have thought about it anymore. It's crazy in itself to speculate about the logic of dark magic like Jem."

Carl wiped the blood off his body, raised his head, and looked very sad and angry.

He said, "My good friend, all the black magics of the East are logical, because their core is based on the Path of Truth.

Perhaps there is a traitor among us, or perhaps one of us has gone mad. There must be an explanation."

At this time, an assistant captain came over, his eyes red, and said, "Carl, the cargo that was supposed to be sent to the 'Order of the Hospitallers' has been unpacked and distributed to everyone. This time, they've lost a lot of money."

"Okay." Carl nodded and looked at the deck in the distance.

There, sporadic strange figures have already crawled out.

Karl's eyes flashed with anger and revenge. He said, "I will find an explanation for everyone, and I will find it soon. When we drive these demons back to the abyss of the lower world, I will personally ask the dark wizard for the answer!"

The war is about to start.

The three-headed snakes fought a desperate battle and erupted with unparalleled fighting power.

Carl, the southern 'Wizard', did not use any offensive magic, but instead rushed to the front line like a knight, holding a war hammer in one hand and the heavy Hydra Bible in the other.

He wielded his war hammer and Bible while chanting hymns loudly.

Those mutated dark wizards struck by warhammers or Bibles would burst into ablaze with holy flames. The flames burned directly into the very essence, and those dark wizards who had already descended deep into the depths would slowly die under the burning of the holy flames after being struck!

Some of the mutated dark wizards actually regained their sanity at the last moment of burning out, and shouted out words like "holy magic".

The word magic angered Carl. These damn dark wizards were willing to blaspheme their own gods before their time!

The three-headed snakes (pirates and naga) who fought alongside Carl also gave up magic and used their weapons.

Hammers, scepters, long swords, muskets. These weapons that originally seemed ordinary actually revealed divine patterns and carried divine damage amid the crowd's hymns.

Although the damage of this flame is very low, with 1-3 units of damage depending on the piety of faith, it can still harm these mutated dark wizards.

These weapons did not seem ordinary; they were all goods destined for a certain temple of the church.

At a glance, all the crew members were able to use these weapons to ignite the Holy Fire, and it seemed that everyone had faith. This meant that there were no traitors among them.

Carl's battle song strengthened people's willpower, and at the same time, the hymn also gave everyone a strange deep blue light.

This light is like a blessing from the sea, which greatly increases their resistance and makes them difficult to be contaminated and mutated.

Under Carl's leadership, the three-headed snakes actually drove the mutated dark wizards back below the deck several times.

But as the battle spread, more and more mutated dark wizards came up.

The three-headed snakes had to retreat from one deck to another.

The battle became more and more intense, and there were more and more mutated dark wizards on the deck. Many of them had completely turned into spiders.

Brush brush brush.
Suddenly, countless spider webs flew overhead, entangling the second mate and a group of main forces around him who were at the front line.

They hurriedly used the weapons burning with holy fire to cut off a batch of spider silk, but more and more spider silk flew in the sky!

The second mate looked up in horror and saw that the 72 large sails were already covered with people!
"Carl! Don't wait!" the second mate shouted.

(End of this chapter)