Witch Monastery

Her mother, the elderly merman priest Pulu Pulupin, still spoke calmly, but now she was clearly in a dilemma: "Yes... yes, you should have seen it just now, she has all the characteristics of marine life. If she is not the great 'Mother of the Sea' who embraces and creates everything, who else can be it?"

So the young female fishman nodded slightly, then raised her hand and slapped herself hard -

Snapped--!

A clear voice sounded, and she continued to mutter to herself, her tone excited and full of regret: "I am so stupid, really, how could I believe in the evil 'Father of the Deep'!"

She took a deep breath, then stood up and said enthusiastically: "From now on, I will be the most loyal follower of the 'Mother of the Sea'!"

"Oh, mother, there is something wrong with the image of 'Mother of the Sea' on our altar. We should change it to the correct image immediately! We must use new materials to reshape the image of Mother of the Sea!"

The old fish-man priestess' heart skipped a beat, and a strong bad premonition came to her mind. However, she no longer had any reason to refuse: "Uh, well, I think..."

But she forgot that at this moment, there were still many fishmen who once believed in "Father of the Deep" kneeling there. But rather than being believers of "Father of the Deep", they were just followers of this young fishmen priestess. Seeing her change of attitude, they followed suit and shouted: "Yes, we should change the image of 'Mother of the Sea'!"

"What I said before was wrong! That's why I started to doubt the 'Mother of the Sea'!"

"It's not our fault, and this mistake should be corrected now!"

They shouted, and the fishmen's shouts merged into one. Plupulupin could no longer refute them, and murmured, "Oh, yes, the image of the 'Mother of the Sea' should be changed..."

As she said this, she couldn't help but worry: If the appearance of the 'Mother of the Sea' was tampered with, would the real 'Mother of the Sea' be angry?

She didn't know, but surrounded by a group of fishmen, she had to follow her daughter to the altar on the other side.

Without mentioning what happened here, on the other side, after Kasha and others arrived at the lakeside, a beam of light came over. Along with it, there was a crisp voice: "Why are you here? Didn't you find Hannie's family?"

That was Celine's voice, she was now standing on the bow of a small boat, waving at them.

"Yeah!" Kasha also waved, then took Hanny over, her tone a little depressed, "We have asked everyone, but the earliest trace of Hanny's family was found a week ago. It is very likely that they are not here now."

"There was no other way, so I had to bring her back."

Hanni nodded, then lowered her head, her tone equally low: "I'm afraid that in Mother's eyes, I have been killed by those orcs."

Celine frowned slightly when she heard this and glanced at Hanni, her eyes full of suspicion.

But in the end, she suppressed these emotions and smiled: "Don't worry, it's okay to take care of her for a while.

, the priest will definitely make this decision."

Kasha and Hanni breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. Then, the moon elf came to Celine excitedly and said, "I saw you in the mouth of that sea monster just now. Was that a play directed and performed by the priest and Miss Celine?"

Hearing this, Xilin immediately covered her mouth and laughed softly: "You saw me? Oh, that's really embarrassing..."

At the back, Heidi also came out of the cabin. She happened to hear what they were saying and suddenly felt a little shy: "Was my performance just now okay? Can it make people feel that I am an angry and crazy goddess?"

Kaisa's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly: "It's a great performance, very oppressive! Wow, at first I didn't know it was you, I thought it was really a sea monster, I almost wanted to draw my weapon and fly up to fight!"

Hanni nodded at the side. "Yeah, when I first heard your voice, I thought a sea monster had eaten you and was imitating your voice. Wow, I almost cried!"

Heidi covered her face and said shyly, "Don't say it. I'm embarrassed."

Kasha and Hanni came up to her and asked curiously, "But, by the way, why did you guys act like that just now? Did you discover something incredible?"

Hanni stroked her chin and suddenly looked up: "Is that guy's evil beliefs going to create a new evil god, so we have to nip them in the bud?"

She said this with a serious expression, and then she was eager to try: "How about just mapping out the entire fishman village to prevent future troubles?"

At the side, Shapiro said: "Whether it is the so-called 'Father of the Deep' or the 'Mother of the Sea', none of the beliefs of these Kuo-Toa fishmen point to real gods. They are all fake evil gods."

He didn't say it explicitly, but his tone was murderous, as if he wanted to kill all the fish people in this village.

Seeing this, Celine's expression was somewhat helpless: "Put that aside, we shouldn't interfere too much in the internal affairs of these fishmen."

As she spoke, her tone became stern: "Hanni, if you want, you can let the dark elves do this kind of work after you find your mother. Anyway, we will not do this kind of thing."

Hanni shrank her head: "Hey hey."

"Don't make wild guesses. It's not that complicated." Heidi continued, "It's just that a mother can't control her rebellious daughter, so she asked us to help her act out a play."

She then told the three of them the whole story, and concluded, "Anyway, if we spend an afternoon performing a magic show, we can save eight thousand gold coins for the ship fare. Why not do it?"

Kasha nodded in agreement, while Hanni had a look of frustration on her face: "So that's how it is. I thought there were some more far-sighted considerations..."

Kasa tapped her little head: "What are you thinking about? We surface people don't have so many thoughts when doing good things!"

Hanni smiled, and Heidi did not continue to delve into this topic. She said, "Now that we are back, let's go back and rest. Shapiro, how is your purchase of materials going? When can we prepare the magic circle?"

Shapiro then started chatting with her about his purchases, and the group separated and went to rest. Hanni was still with Kasa, and suddenly curled her lips, tugged at Kasa, and said in Elvish: "Speaking of which, why don't you take this opportunity to spread faith here and let these fishmen believe in your Lord?"

Kaisa blinked: "Ah? Uh... probably because you are busy doing more important things. But asking the Kuo Tao fishmen to believe in the Moon God or the Goddess of Life... how could you think of such a thing?"

When Kassa thought of the temple of the Moon Goddess or the Goddess of Life, which was filled with big-headed Kou-Toa fishmen wearing nun uniforms or priest uniforms, with serious faces, holding various religious scriptures and reading them seriously, Kassa felt that the scene was extremely weird.

Hanni curled her lips and said, "Because they are valuable. They are Kuo-Toa fishmen, born fanatics."

"Just now I was wondering if Sister Heidi deliberately appeared in that manner in order to make these fishmen turn their faith to her and become the god they worship."

She said this with a slightly aggrieved tone, and Kasha's expression suddenly became more confused: "Wait, can you still do this?"

Hanni looked at her strangely: "Huh? You don't know?"

Kassa looked embarrassed: "Ah... I am a surface person after all, I don't understand these races in the dark region..."

Hanni didn't keep the secret and said honestly: "That's right, the Kou Tao fish people are mentally incomplete and need spiritual support. So they need to find a spiritual support and believe in it fanatically, no matter who the other person is or whether he exists or not..."

"This makes them all born fanatics. People who need faith tend to take advantage of them, disguise themselves as gods, and then use their fanatical faith to get their hands on the seat of gods - although their fate will not be very good in the end."

Chapter 578: The Demon Prince's Altar

Kasha nodded. She had heard of this situation. Some people were anxious about their own power, so they tried to create a religion to deceive some people into believing in them. As a result, as a humanoid creature, their own strength and spirit were

God is not enough to support this belief, so in the end he fell into madness, and the religion became a complete cult, waiting to be wiped out.

As for faith, it is better not to touch it before you have reached the demigod level of strength without the help of external things. Of course, there are always some people who think they are geniuses and special cases who can control this power, but they end up losing miserably.

"Of course, because nothing good will come of it in the end, fewer people have dared to do this over the years." Hanni continued, "In recent years, only the truly evil beings dare to do this. For example, some Abyss Lords like to seduce these Kou Tao fishmen, make them believe in them, sacrifice to them, and finally summon them to the real world or something like that."

Kassa summoned her giant sword, and then whispered to the demon Elanod in her heart: "Is that so?"

To this, the devil's answer was naturally affirmative: "Of course, I have seen this kind of routine too many times."

Kasha nodded, and then she listened to Hanni in front of her and said: "I just thought that Sister Heidi had plans in this regard. After all, aren't you believers of the Goddess of Life? I thought you also wanted to guide these fishmen to believe in the Goddess of Life."

Kasha shook her head: "No, whether they are believers of the Moon God or the Goddess of Life, they will do things and preach openly, and will not bother to hide their purpose."

She said this and then laughed: "Besides, this incident has nothing to do with Miss Heidi. It was not Miss Heidi who appeared in front of them at that time, but the strange sea monster she disguised herself as."

"Let's not talk about Pru... As long as the old priest knows the truth, even if those stupid fishmen were really deceived, they are worshiping that sea monster, which has nothing to do with Miss Heidi, right!"

Hanni was stunned for a moment, then scratched her head: "That's right, that's the truth... Oh, it seems that I worry too much."

Kasa touched her little head and said, "You are too worried. Why don't you take this opportunity to find a book and copy a few spells into it."

"There will be many difficulties in the journey ahead, you have to give yourself some self-protection skills, little one!"

Hanni smiled and put the matter behind her, no longer worrying. However, they didn't know that Heidi was not a humanoid creature at all. Her essence was the same as many of the Old Ones and the Outer Gods. She was a distorted life born from loopholes in the rules of the material world, and she was fundamentally different from them.

And that ferocious sea monster is actually her most original and true appearance!

Now, so many fanatics are madly worshipping a witch. No one knows what the result will be in the end...

What was Hawthorne doing at this time?

He was standing behind the altar of "Father of the Deep", looking at the new purification points recorded in the system.

Just as Kassadin had suspected before, the warm white light that lit up on the altar was actually the power of purification he used to cover the entire altar, putting on a show for the little fishman.

However, after the altar collapsed, he did not leave immediately, but hid here for a while, ready to wait until the mother and daughter had finished their intimacy before leaving.

When he was bored, he opened his system and took a look. Then, his expression became solemn involuntarily.

Because he discovered that purifying the altar actually brought him unexpected benefits.

Purify Demogorgon's Altar: +18000 points.

Looking at this, he couldn't help but grit his teeth.

Damn it, this isn't even a new belief imagined by that crazy female merman, there's actually a huge conspiracy behind it!

Unexpectedly, this so-called "Father of the Deep" is actually the strongest demon in the Abyss, the lord of the abyss who occupies three layers of the world, and the only demon prince Demo Gaogen!

Although he knew that each of these Abyss Lords were dishonest and that every day they were thinking about how to run into the material world to reap the souls that should have belonged to the gods, he could not help but grit his teeth when he encountered a conspiracy woven by another Abyss Lord.

Fortunately, fortunately, this thing was still in its infancy and was extinguished by me. And because these fishmen didn't seem to know the true form of Demo Gaogen and didn't really communicate with it, so the fact that I ruined this matter probably wouldn't be known to the Demon Prince.

If we really wait until that ignorant female merman completes the sacrificial ritual and summons the two-headed baboon to the material world, not only this village, but also the nearby small town will be destroyed!

Even Demo Gaogen likes water. When the time comes, he will dive into the dark lake, manage for ten days or half a month, and then come out with a group of two-headed mutant creatures and weird demons...

Thinking about how close this place was to his own territory, Hawthorne couldn't help but feel a tingling sensation on his scalp.

Fortunately, fortunately, these things did not happen. I lost a huge amount of purification points in vain, and the subsequent tasks will be much smoother.

But thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling worried.

Indeed, in a place like the Underdark, chaos and madness can easily breed. For example, even though these Kuo-Toa fishmen already had a fairly good faith in the "Mother of the Sea", they were still taken advantage of by Demo Gorgon...

His heart inevitably

I am worried that in the future, how many more long-established lords of the abyss will find ways to enter the material world and reap people's power.

Alas, I hope they will come a little later, and wait until I have enough strength, so that they can come and give me experience - after all, in the later stages of the game, the gap in this thing is really ridiculously large.

He thought about this, and then calmed down. Outside the altar, the fishmen shouted words that Hawthorne could not understand, and then rushed towards another altar.

Seeing that these fishmen had also left, Hawthorne stood up, quietly avoided the sight of these fishmen, and ran towards the boat.

When he got here, he was surprised to find that Kasha, Hanni and Shapiro had also returned. After a brief conversation and knowing the whole story, just as Celine had expected at the beginning, he immediately agreed to let Hanni stay with them and gave her a spell book to give her the ability to cast spells.

In response, Hanny looked very grateful and repeatedly stated that she knew many spells and would definitely become the best support for the team in the future.

Hawthorne did not have high expectations for this. Since the fishmen were now busy with their beliefs, he was too lazy to stay here any longer - the fishy smell here was really almost tolerable to him - so he untied the anchor and asked Heidi to cast a spell to control the waves, pushing the boat slowly away from here and heading towards the dock of the town in the distance.

They have wasted too long here, and now it's time to leave and deal with some really important things.

The pier of the Fishman Village was not far from the pier of the new small market. Although they did not have sailors, under the power of Heidi's magic, the ship quickly arrived at the pier of the town and docked safely.

Hawthorne then sent a message to Die, who said that the map had been drawn. He then informed her of the location, and soon, the figures of the Memory Witch and the Eye Demon Lotun appeared in the distance and rushed over here together.

Hawthorne waved to them, and seeing the boat he was on, the floating Eye Demon slowly came over with a surprised expression: "You bought such a small boat? How many people can it hold?"

"Well... fifteen people." Hawthorne glanced behind him and then said, "I think that's enough, what do you think?"

Lotun sneered, "I don't think that's enough. Why, are you going to let these charming girls be sailors and row the boats with oars?"

There is almost no wind in the Underdark. There may be some wind in a few wind vents, but generally speaking, this underground world is calm everywhere, and there is no wind strong enough to propel ships - so all the boats on the Dark Lake are paddle boats, and if you want to go a little faster, you need a lot of people to row together.

Hawthorne shook his head and said, "We don't need people to row the boat, we can just use magic to propel it. You don't have to worry about that. Oh, and we don't need you to provide sailors."

Lotun looked at him in surprise. "Wow... what a waste. But I remind you that this journey is long. If you run out of mana and delay the progress, don't blame me for not making myself clear."

Hawthorne smiled and nodded: "Of course not."

The Eye Demon breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, then when do we set off?"

Hawthorne turned his head and looked at Die: "No hurry, um... we still have some things to prepare. Wait for two more days. Oh, if everything goes well, one day should be enough."

All the materials Shapiro needs to draw the magic circle are ready. He needs to first test Sulfaro's true state and position, feel the enemy's current situation, and then set out to fight the enemy.

Chapter 579: Sulfaro's Location

In a small town, in a hidden cave.

With Die's help and observation, Shapiro drew a magic circle in a secret room to connect with Sulfaro.

The process of constructing this magic circle was extremely complicated, but fortunately, he had done this kind of thing many times, so Shapiro was quite skilled in it. It took him less than a day to complete the construction of the magic circle, and now it was time to test Sulfaro.

Hawthorne summoned his double-headed sword, and Kassa summoned the giant sword that contained Elanord. The two of them were in the next room of the secret room, using the line that the butterfly had added to the magic circle, preparing to spy on Sulfaro's situation.

After everything was ready, Shapiro took a deep breath, lit incense on the magic circle, and then silently recited the spell to activate the power of the magic circle.

The scarlet pattern of the magic circle lit up slightly, illuminating the dark chamber even more strangely. The smoke from the incense condensed in the air, trying to form a human figure.

However, for a long time, it remained in the shape of a huge sphere and did not form any shape.

Shapiro's heart was lifted, and a drop of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He couldn't help but start to wonder if his acting skills were not that good last time, and the ancestor saw some flaws...

He couldn't help but feel suspicious, after all, he was doing something shameful, deceiving someone who was much more powerful than himself. He stood there, waiting silently, almost pausing even to breathe, waiting for the other party's response.

Finally, about ten minutes later, just when Shapiro thought that the contact had failed and he would have to wait for another opportunity, the huge smoke suddenly formed a slender female figure, and then, Sulfaro's familiar voice rang out: "Huh...Shapiro...

Luo, do you have something to talk to me about?"

Her voice also sounded a little tired, as if she had been doing some strenuous exercise before and was now a little out of breath.

Shapiro breathed a sigh of relief, then knelt down and said, "Yes, ancestor, I have something to ask you."