Witch Monastery

Kasa was startled: "Well... after all, they are your people, and you are just a child. It shouldn't be a problem for them to give you a ride home, right?"

However, Hanni quickly shook her head like a rattle: "Because I am also a dark elf, I know how my people treat people like me who are in trouble!"

"So, in short, you absolutely cannot send me to the hands of other dark elves! I would rather go back to the surface with you and endure the sunlight than leave with my fellow elves!"

Kassa: "...You really don't trust your own people..."

On the side, Shapiro snorted coldly: "The dark elves know their peers better than us surface people.

What is the virtue of the race?

Hanni glanced at Shapiro and felt that this man was really irritating. But she decided to ignore him and held Kasha's hand, tears in her eyes: "I know you are good people, so please continue to help me, okay?"

Kasha held her forehead with her hand, feeling somewhat helpless: "Okay, then I'll take you to see Father Hawthorne and see what he thinks. Well, given his personality, as long as you're not too naughty and obedient, he probably won't deliberately drive you away."

Hannie smiled, hugged her, and put her face close to hers: "Yeah!"

Kasha smiled, and her mood gradually improved. She also hugged Hanni, and after they hugged each other for a while, she stood up from the ground, held her hand, and turned to look at Shapiro: "Have you finished shopping?"

Shapiro nodded, so Kasa decided: "Then let's go to the west and take a look at the fishman village, and help the priest to find out what kind of ship to buy!"

Hanni nodded, and Shapiro had no objection. The three of them headed west, walked out of the town, and headed towards the fishman village.

Chapter 575 “Father of the Deep” is coming?

Kasha, Hanni and Shapiro headed west of the town. The fishman village was not far away, but without Celine's light, Kasha was not used to the dim environment with only luminous mushrooms as the light, so she walked carefully and had difficulty.

Shapiro didn't have to worry about this. Although Sulfaro had deceived him, he was still generous in giving him power.

Apart from anything else, at least she gave him powerful absolute darkness vision, so that even in the current environment, let alone the magical darkness created by the "Darkness Art", he could see everything as clearly as in the daytime.

He then confidently walked in front, taking big strides to clear the way. However, due to Hawthorne's request, he had to stop a few steps, frowning and waiting for the two people behind to catch up, his eyes full of disgust.

But in terms of time, the three of them were not in a hurry, so they maintained a steady pace and slowly moved towards the village.

However, not long after they left, they saw a group of Kuo-toa wearing tattered scale armor, striding along the road in the distance. Behind them were several dwarves tied with ropes, who were obviously the slaves they had just captured.

Seeing this scene, Kassa frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable. But considering that this was the Underdark, the place where evil races gathered as described in the textbooks, and that they also had other tasks on this trip, she suppressed her disgust, pretended not to see it, and continued on.

However, when she saw them, the murlocs also noticed their tracks. Seeing that they were all surface creatures wearing luxurious clothes and that they were accompanied by a dark elf, the murlocs immediately surrounded them. The leader, who looked somewhat feminine, blocked Kasa and asked in a stern voice, "Who are you?"

She actually knew the common language of the surface. As she spoke, her round eyes glanced at Hannie. It was obvious that this dark elf was the source of her vigilance.

Hanni pouted, a little angry. The other party obviously thought that she couldn't understand the common language on the surface, but unfortunately, the magical effect of "knowing languages" still existed, and she could fully understand what the other party was saying, which made her very angry.

"We are guests from the surface." Kasa straightened her collar, a little nervous, but still said in a serious tone, "We are here to buy a boat. Are you a member of the fishman village that sells boats?"

The repulsion and vigilance in the fishman's eyes receded a little, and then he slightly raised his huge fish head, with an expression that seemed a little proud: "The one standing in front of you is the only chosen one of the great 'Father of the Deep', the future mistress of Slobdo, the most powerful Kuo-Toa priestess in the Underdark, Blob Brupin!"

"Bro... Brupin..." Kasa repeated the strange pronunciation of the merman's name with great difficulty. Then, she leaned close to Hanni's ear and whispered in Elvish: "What's wrong with this person? Why did she give herself such a long list of titles?"

Hanni shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe she is not well-educated and thinks that doing this will make her sound more impressive."

Kaisa nodded, and then couldn't help but complain: "Why is this fishman's name so weird? It feels like blowing bubbles."

Hanni patiently explained, "This is the rule of the fish people. They name themselves according to the pronunciation of the first string of bubbles they spit out after they are born, and then add a syllable given by the god they believe in at the end. Ah, it's very sloppy, but this is the Kuo Tao fish people."

Kassa thought that although they were all human beings, the differences between them were really outrageous.

But she didn't mean to get entangled with this inexplicable female fishman, and said bluntly: "I'm here to find someone to buy a boat. There should be a white-haired human man with two human women. They are all from the surface and came here to buy a boat."

"We came to them, we brought money and picked with them."

The fishman immediately looked at Kassa with suspicion: "I have never heard of such a person. He may be in the village now, but..."

She looked Kasa and Hanni up and down, and then said in a deep voice: "Surface people, why are you with a dark elf?

Together?"

It seems that the reputation of the dark elves here is really bad.

But even so, Kasa was a little angry. She was about to ask if this had anything to do with you, but at this moment, a fishman suddenly ran over from a distance, shouting in the common language of the underground: "Hey!"

"Hey! Blobuluping!" The fishman who rushed over gasped and shouted tremblingly, "The great 'Father of the Deep' has appeared!"

As he spoke, he was panting more and more. The circulatory system of the fish-men was more like that of fish. They had gills, which allowed them to breathe underwater and adapt to activities in the water, but they did not have sweat glands or anything like that. When they were soaking in the water, the low temperature of the water was enough to satisfy their need to dissipate heat.

Therefore, they are not well adapted to strenuous exercise on the ground. If they run just a few steps, they will lose only one tenth of their strength due to the excessive heat.

Here, hearing the fishman's cry, the young female fishman's eyes lit up: "Father of the Deep! Father of the Deep has arrived!"

"The blood sacrifice will soon be ready. Deep Father, oh, Deep Father, he must come to reward my piety!"

She yelled wildly, causing Kasha and Hanni to look at each other in bewilderment. They had come here to look for someone, but before they found her, they had seen each other go crazy more than once or twice.

This was not the end. She then saw that the fishman seemed to have forgotten about them and ran forward. The two elves were helpless. Kasa pulled Shapiro's sleeve and continued to move forward.

Shapiro narrowed his eyes and hurried to catch up. The fishman village was not far away, and the three of them soon entered it. Enduring the disgusting fishy smell here, he looked around the fishman village, and then said to himself: "If it really doesn't work, we can take some necessary measures."

Hanni's eyes lit up as she ran. She turned her head back and said to him with a smile, "For example? Kill everyone here?"

Kasa reached out and tapped her head gently: "What nonsense! How can you stab someone in the back if the deal fails?"

Hanni covered her head and smiled playfully, looking like she didn't know she was wrong. Shapiro raised the corner of his mouth, his smile slightly cruel: "It depends on whether these guys know what's good for them..."

As they were talking, the group followed the female murloc and ran all the way to the bottom of the huge altar. The air here was filled not only with a huge fishy smell, but also with a strong, nauseating smell of blood. At least Kassa frowned frequently and felt very uncomfortable.

She raised her head and stood on tiptoe to look upwards. Fortunately, the top of the altar was not flat, so she saw that the jars on it were filled with various thick bloods.

This immediately made her mood even worse. She started to suspect that this was actually a cult site and that killing them would be getting rid of harm to the people.

Then, she saw that the fishman Bulubuluping didn't even dare to step onto the altar. She walked to the bottom of the altar and knelt down hurriedly, muttering strange syllables in a trembling voice: "Oh, great father of the deep! Thank you for responding to my call. Please guide the fishman tribe forward and bring us true salvation!"

She shouted frantically, and it seemed that her shouting really worked. A warm white light suddenly lit up on the altar, soft and full of holy meaning, as if responding to the fishman's devout prayer.

In the back, Hanni was shocked: "Oh my god, her prayers can't really work, right? Can we witness the birth of an evil god today?"

Shapiro reached out and touched his sickle: "If that's the case, then I don't mind killing a newborn young evil spirit!"

Hanni glanced at him and said, "Wow, you are so confident? That's the new evil god!"

Shapiro curled his lips and said, "In terms of combat power, most of the evil creatures born from the worship of the Kuo-Toa fishmen may be inferior to a spellcaster who has mastered a sixth-ring spell."

"The only time a legendary spellcaster appeared was the fuse that caused the Kou Tao fishmen to completely withdraw from the surface world. You should know this, right?"

Hanni chuckled and said, "I didn't expect you to know all this. You're really knowledgeable. I give you a thumbs up, hehe!"

Shapiro snorted coldly and said nothing. Kasha did not speak from beginning to end. She stared at the bright white light on the altar in front of her, and felt that it looked familiar.

hiss……

When Father Hawthorne went to the sewers of Port Liber to purify the demonic pollution, was this the same white light that lit up?

Chapter 576 “Mother of the Sea” is Heidi?

This……

Unconsciously, a bold idea popped up in Kasa's mind.

No way, could it be that Father Hawthorne is behind this?

She didn't know what was going on, so she just watched quietly and saw the young female merman priest kneeling on the ground, kowtowed and crawled forward a step, kowtowed and crawled forward a step, and finally she crawled up to the altar step by step.

And as she moved forward, the warm white light grew brighter, as if the more devout she was, the stronger the power of the so-called "Father of the Deep".

In other directions, the other Kou Tao fishmen who believed in "Father of the Deep" also ran over, looking at this unprecedented warm white light, feeling the holy breath and the warmth to the soul, and then they knelt on the ground one by one, shedding tears and muttering.

He muttered to himself, calling out "Father Deep" while repeating his own name.

Kasa looked around and found that there were more than a hundred people rushing over, and many more were coming, and the number of people kneeling on the ground praying was increasing.

Her expression was a little complicated, because this village had only about a thousand people at most, and so many fish people believed in this, which made her suddenly agree with Hanni's idea...

Before she could figure out a solution, the young female merman priest gradually climbed to the top of the altar.

The warm white light then enveloped her body. A satisfied expression appeared on the ugly fish face of the female merman, and she let out a long sigh: "Ah - I can feel that my power is evolving -!"

In the distance, Hanni, who had been observing, blinked: "No, this doesn't look like a proper cult scene..."

She said, holding her stomach: "Although it seems very rude, why do I feel a little funny..."

Shapiro still frowned: "Don't relax. No matter how funny the scene of cultists worshipping their evil gods is, it will eventually turn into a result that will horrify you."

"Cheer up, there might be a fierce battle later!"

Kasa did not comment on this. Her thoughts now were the same as Hanny's. If all this was really a farce led by Hawthorne, she wondered what expression this fishman would have later?

However, at this moment, a majestic female voice suddenly shouted in the distance: "How outrageous!"

The three of them turned their heads at once, and they all recognized the owner of that voice.

It's Heidi's voice!

They turned their heads and were somewhat shocked to find that in the distance, in the direction of the dim dark lake, a huge creature suddenly emerged from the water, causing a large splash of water.

It floated in the air, and then flew all the way over here. Everyone saw its appearance clearly, and then everyone felt that they had suffered a wave of spiritual pollution!

What a terrifying creature it was. It looked like a squid, but its head had a ferocious spiral mouth like a lamprey.

Each of its tentacle has a bulge like a toad's back, and some places have rows of ferocious teeth like sharks, which makes it convenient for it to cut the enemy clean while entangling it!

The majestic magic power lifted its body, and then the terrible monster continued to speak in Heidi's voice: "What a filthy and evil belief, it should be ruthlessly destroyed and purified by divine power!"

Then, it swung one of its tentacles downward, and a huge amount of icy water appeared out of nowhere, rushing onto the altar in front of it, knocking over all the cauldrons and barrels filled with all kinds of strange blood, and then flushing them clean again, without stopping.

As if afraid of this suddenly angry monster, the purifying white light belonging to the "Father of the Deep" on the altar quickly disappeared, leaving only the wet Blobuluping kneeling on the altar in a daze, like a drowned fish!

On the ground, Hanni suddenly covered her mouth and said, "Wow, it's a sea monster! Heidi was eaten by it!"

Kasha was shocked and looked at Hanni: "Huh?"

Hanni nodded repeatedly. "Yes, haven't you learned that? After eating people, sea monsters can disguise themselves as their voices to deceive their relatives!"

"Sister Heidi must have been eaten by that sea monster. It will definitely change into Sister Heidi's appearance to deceive us. We must not be fooled by it!"

Kasha immediately became suspicious. Shapiro looked helpless and said, "What fairy tale is this? That's clearly Heidi's disguise using magic, right?"

Kasha was a little confused. Her limited knowledge made it impossible for her to tell what was true. Hanni laughed at the side: "No way. I've read a lot of books. How could I possibly lie to Sister Kasha?"

She smiled like this, and then, in the distance, an old Kouto fishman with a walking stick came over with a group of fishmen and knelt down to the ground facing the fishman in the sky: "Oh, great 'Mother of the Sea', please forgive my poor daughter's sins for the fact that we have served you devoutly for so many years!"

In the sky, a giant sea monster snorted coldly: "As the 'Mother of the Sea', I will naturally tolerate any of my believers. However, this altar must be destroyed!"

As it spoke, its spiral mouth opened, and then a thick beam of light fell from the sky and landed on the altar!

boom--!

The beam of light pierced through the altar's support points, and the entire altar collapsed and turned into a pile of rubble. The merman Buluobulu fell flat on his face among the rubble, his face ashen, as if his entire soul had been shattered once again.

"This is the punishment!" The sea monster roared again, "I will continue to sleep. If you do this again, I will never forgive you and will kill you all without leaving a single one alive!"

After saying that, it turned around and flew quickly towards the dark lake, falling into the lake without causing a ripple.

Seeing this, Hanni exclaimed: "Wow, what a decisive sea monster!"

Kasa blinked her eyes: "Is it really a sea monster? Did you see it just now? Sister Celine was hiding in that guy's mouth. The sun ray just now was emitted by her."

Hanni was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "I didn't see it. The light was too dazzling, so I closed my eyes."

Shapiro commented: "So it is obvious that this is a play directed and acted by Father Hawthorne himself.

That’s all, um…”

He looked around and said, "Let's wait. We'll probably have to find a way to end this scene later. It will probably take several hours before it can be stopped."

Kasha nodded: "That makes sense, but isn't it fun to wait and see what they will do next?"

She stood there in high spirits, taking out snacks from her dimensional bag and stuffing some into each of them, eating them with relish while looking forward.

Then, she saw the old fishman walk into the ruins of the altar, pull Blobrupin up from the ruins, and help her brush off the dust while saying something.

They were speaking in the underground common language, which Kasa could not understand, but fortunately she had Hanni as her translator: "The old fishman said: You saw it just now, in front of the powerful strength of the 'Mother of the Sea', the 'Father of the Deep' was completely defeated and did not even have a chance to fight back. This shows that... Wow, no, Kasa, I can't stand it anymore, this fishy smell is too bad, let's go quickly!"

She pinched her nose and made a bitter face. She really didn't want to stay here any longer. Kasha wanted to watch for a while longer, but seeing this, she could only nod regretfully: "Okay, let's go to the lake to find Miss Heidi and the others and ask what's going on."

"Oh, indeed, this smell is too bad..."

As she spoke, she pinched her nose, took Hanni's hand and turned away. They had already fully understood the nature of this farce, and it really didn't make any sense to stay here any longer.

Chapter 577: The Possibility of Heidi Becoming a God

At this time, in the ruins of the altar, under the constant comfort and persuasion of his mother, the young murloc priest gradually came back to his senses.

After being cleansed by the purifying power, she now feels that her mind is empty. Her previous paranoid and fanatical thoughts have dissipated, and only calmness and rationality remain.

Reflecting on what she had done in the past, at this moment, even she herself couldn't figure out why she had done those things before.

Thinking back to what had just happened, the creature that was flying in the air and yet could blend perfectly with the dark lake and could emit such powerful rays of light, the young fish-man priestess murmured to herself, "Mother, was that really the 'Mother of the Sea'?"