Witch Monastery

But this kind of interest made her a little uncomfortable. She couldn't help but think that her mother Willow would also call him master obediently in the future.

But we can talk about the future later. As for now, looking at Heidi's frightened expression, she comforted her, "Don't be afraid, Miss Heidi, it's just an illusion. Many illusions are like this, stimulating the most fearful things in the heart of the person being cast, so as to achieve the purpose of scaring the other party away."

"Don't worry, Father Hawthorne is a very reliable man. I can see that. He will never abandon you."

As she comforted him like this, she couldn't help but give Huo Sang another blank look, thinking to herself how aggrieved she was that she actually had to speak well of this man.

She snorted twice, as if to say that she had gotten you a bargain. Hawthorne noticed the change in her expression, smiled at her, thanked her, and then hugged Heidi tighter.

He tried to act like everything was fine, trying to reassure Heidi, but deep down, he couldn't help but worry.

Was what Heidi felt just now really just an illusion caused by the "fear technique"?

Although I really hope that things are that simple, I am afraid that the truth is not so...

While they were comforting each other, outside, the tritons cleared out the remaining Shahuamin.

The leader of the tritons, holding a pitch-black heavy sword and riding a sturdy adult dolphin, slowly approached them.

Hawthorne stared at the triton. To be fair, if one looks at it from the perspective of human aesthetics, just looking at his eyebrows and eyes, this fish man is quite in line with normal people's aesthetics: he has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose bridge, a round face, and a sturdy and strong body. Just carrying a big sword and riding on the back of a dolphin, he is intimidating without even being angry, and creates a sense of oppression that makes people dare not say much.

But unfortunately, no matter how good his facial features are, he is still a fishman who is completely different from humans. He has no hair, and his head, temples, and cheeks are covered with scales. He also has fins on his back and forearms, which makes him look quite strange, a completely different species from humans.

Chapter 825 Heidi's True Origin

The male snail-fishman slowly swam in front of Huo Sang and the others, and his voice was filled with undisguised surprise: "Did you kill that giant octopus with sixteen arms?"

Huo Sang looked at him and nodded gently, "It's me. We were just travelers passing through here. We just wanted to go into the water to cool off, but we didn't expect to be besieged by the Shahua fishmen. Fortunately, you all arrived in time to rescue us, otherwise I don't know what kind of trouble we would encounter next."

The fishman looked at him with shocked eyes: "

No, sir, you have the ability to kill that giant octopus with sixteen arms almost without any damage. Even if we didn't arrive, I think you would be able to resolve the crisis smoothly."

As he said this, he looked up and down at the injuries on Hawthorne's body, his expression becoming more and more awed.

Hawthorne smiled softly and said politely, "I have always admired the name of the Tritons. I know that it is your tribe that has been hunting evil in the deep sea, and that is why it has been able to protect this ocean in peace."

"It's just that I only admired it before, but I didn't have the chance to see it in person. Today, we are fortunate enough to see it with our own eyes, and we feel very gratified."

He complimented them like this. Although the tritons belonged to the lawful good camp and hunted the evil deep-sea crusaders in the ocean, they also had some arrogant problems, just like the elves.

When they deal with creatures on the ground, they like to tell them about the unknown achievements of the tritons in the deep sea, so that the creatures on the surface will respect them.

Although they do not intend that the creatures on land owe them anything, nor will they ask for any compensation, this arrogant attitude can easily make the relationship very strained.

Hawthorne, who knew all of this, naturally didn't need them to nag him. He could just make the matter clear first, and then he could skip these procedures and gain the favor of the triton people.

Of course, the premise of all this is that he is strong enough and has gained the respect of this triton.

Hearing this, the fishman in front of him smiled happily: "You have heard of us? As expected, a powerful landman like you is well-informed and completely different from those weak and ignorant people!"

Behind Hawthorne, Adele turned her head away guiltily, then slowly moved and hid behind him.

She knew nothing about tritons and was afraid of saying something wrong, so she tried to reduce her presence as much as possible in the hope that this guy would not notice her.

The two people in the conversation ignored her little action. The leader of the tritons in front of him said, while driving his dolphin slowly forward, he took the initiative to extend his right hand to Hawthorne and said: "I am Ulpian, the captain of the fourth squad of tritons. I am currently hunting down the descendants of the 'Mother of the Sea' and her evil followers."

"Sir, I hope that we can form an alliance with the heroes on land, just like the heroes of ancient times, and fight together against the Old Ones who are about to awaken. In the future, if you are harassed by the Sahuagin again, we will rush over immediately to provide support to you!"

He spoke sincerely, and Hawthorne's expression changed. Thinking about Heidi's abnormal condition just now, he also reached out his hand and shook his hand: "Nigel Hawthorne, I am a believer of the Goddess of Life. I am willing to conclude this covenant and fight against the threats in the deep sea together, but I'm sorry, I don't know much about the history you just mentioned."

"You just said that the ancient land heroes had made an alliance with you to fight against the Old Ones together? Can you give me a brief introduction to this history?"

He repeated these words to confirm, his heart pounding.

Although the ocean is huge, it is difficult for two completely different Old Ones to sleep in the same area. Therefore, the Old One mentioned by this triton, and the land hero of that ancient era...

Could it be the fallen prince?

"Yes." The burly triton leader named Ulbian nodded and explained, "Oh, it's normal that you don't know this history. The country of that hero was destroyed by the Old Ones long ago, and even he himself has become a dead spirit hated by the living."

"But even so, he did not give up on revenge. He went deep into the sea with his undead body and made a covenant with my ancestors who were also fighting against the Old Ones at the time. Then, together, he put the source of the disaster back into a deep sleep."

He said this, and then sighed: "The prince whose country was destroyed must complete his revenge even if he becomes a dead spirit. This is our first impression of the heroes on land. And after this great goal is achieved, he also said that after a thousand years, if the Old Ones return, he will appear again and join the war to seal it again."

"It's a pity that now, the Great Old One is about to awaken again, but he should have been sleeping in your land, and will never be able to return to the material world again."

His sigh made Hawthorne immediately certain that the land hero that Ulpian mentioned was the fallen prince he had killed with his own hands!

Likewise, the "Old Ones" that Ulpian is talking about now are the same ones who destroyed the prince's country back then!

It's a pity that a thousand years ago, the fallen prince could still pull up his dead subjects, turn them into undead, and have them participate in his war; but a thousand years later, he had to invade another country first and turn the subjects into undead, thus becoming the public enemy of the whole world and being attacked by everyone.

Hawthorne opened his mouth and finally sighed, hiding the ending of the fallen prince. He looked at the fishman in front of him, nodded seriously, and said, "This is indeed a sad story, but there is no need to be depressed. Although the Old Ones will continue to awaken, there will also be endless heroes willing to devote themselves to sealing them."

Ulpian laughed loudly, looking quite happy. Hawthorne also laughed, then looked at him with a faint look and asked:

"So the giant octopus with sixteen arms is its subordinate?"

Ulpian nodded: "He is His offspring, or we can say, His clone."

Hawthorne immediately understood that the relationship between the two was just like the relationship between the burrowing demons and the Great Old One Shude Meier: the former were the latter's offspring, replicas, body fragments, or his incarnations. In short, they were under the latter's absolute control and could perform some functions on his behalf.

"And now, the Old Ones are about to awaken, and their descendants awakened earlier than them - according to our observations, the earliest descendants may have awakened decades ago." Ulbian continued to explain, "Now, the Sahuagin, these crazy believers of the Old Ones, are hunting with these hungry descendants, on the one hand, feeding on human souls, and on the other hand, awakening other descendants who have not yet awakened."

Hawthorne came back to his senses a little, looking at the triton in front of him, he suddenly thought of something, and his heart couldn't help but tremble slightly.

He swallowed, stared at the triton in front of him, and said, "Then, how do we wake him up? Could it be that these different offsprings can sense each other?"

Behind him, Heidi suddenly realized what Hawthorne was thinking. In an instant, her face turned pale, she held his arm, and her body did not move.

She vaguely guessed her true origin and her rightful destination.

In front of him, Ulpian nodded and gave him the answer he least wanted to hear: "Indeed, the descendants of the Old Ones will be connected to each other. When they are close to each other, they will call each other to awaken each other's dormant memories and their loyalty to the Old Ones."

confirmed!

Hawthorne took a deep breath and had to give up all the luck in his heart. He suddenly recalled that on the day he killed the fallen prince, that guy called himself "the apostle of the deep sea". Why was Heidi's power growing at an extremely fast speed, but he could not find the source of the power!

And now, it was confirmed, everything was confirmed. Heidi was also one of the descendants of the Old One. The call she heard and the power she gained all came from that ancient god!

And now, He is getting closer and closer!

His heart was heavy, but facing Ulpian, he still forced a smile and said, "Thank you for telling me this. This way, we can keep in touch. Everyone has an unshirkable obligation to the Old Ones who will destroy the world!"

As he said this, he handed the latter a message stone of his own. After the latter accepted it, he said goodbye to him, rode on a dolphin and led the team away.

Hawthorne, with a heavy face, hugged Heidi, returned to the sea, and then rushed to their boat.

He said nothing and the atmosphere was quite solemn. Even Adele could sense his bad mood. She didn't dare to say a single extra word from beginning to end and was as silent as a cicada.

After a long time, Hawthorne finally hugged Heidi and whispered, "Don't worry, dear, no one can take you and me away."

Chapter 826: Ancient God Awakens

Deep in the ocean.

The tattered Lord of the Abyss, Orcus, was staggering on the seabed. His body was in tatters, his skull had several holes in it, his fat belly was burnt, and one of his deformed wings was torn off and has not grown back yet.

Even one of his two hairy legs was broken, so he now walked with a limp. He had long lost his former terror and majesty, and looked as miserable as a seriously injured tramp.

He really couldn't be so powerful, as Leila Silverhand was still chasing him. He was on the run all the time, and he couldn't even find a moment to breathe and recover from his disability.

This made it more and more angry, and its little rationality, which was already there, was now even less.

Leila Silverhand, just wait until I regain my strength and find an opportunity, then I will make you regret it forever!

It was filled with hatred and gritted its teeth, raging ruthlessly countless times, but it could not find any hope of turning the situation around.

But today, things seem to have changed.

"Ok?"

He continued forward, gradually coming to the side of a trench. Below, an astonishing force was emerging. The force made it tremble, but it seemed to have no master, surging chaotically and disorderly at the bottom of the bottomless trench, sleeping, as if it would never wake up.

It also seemed as if it was waiting for an opportunity, and as long as it was slightly ignited, it would cause an earth-shaking explosion.

Looking at the energy surging below, a bold idea suddenly arose in the confused mind of the Abyss Lord.

If I could control this power, wouldn't I be able to not only kill that hateful woman, but even go a step further?

Even if I fail, it's no problem. I will just go back to the bottomless abyss. It's impossible to be worse than it is now. No matter what I do, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, it's a win!

As it thought this viciously, an abominable smile appeared on its skull-like face.

Then, it leaped forward, and its fat body fell straight to the bottom of the trench like a heavy brick!

Oh, that great power, please obey my pull!

Countless crazy thoughts appeared in its mind, and then it opened its mouth and chanted

A hoarse and harsh spell. Invisible magical fluctuations surged in all directions with his body as the center, like a huge net, trying to wrap up the huge energy flow below and catch it all.

He chanted, expanding his greedy net larger and larger, almost covering the entire thousands-meter-long trench. After making sure that not a single bit of the energy below could escape, he opened his mouth and sucked as much as he could from below—

hum-

"kill!"

"We can't let him break the seal!"

"Stop him! Send him back!"

……

Loud shouts rang out, and many silver points of light like stars appeared in the darkness below. Tritons wearing mithril mail and riding dolphins rushed towards Orcus, trying to stop the monster with their own flesh and blood.

But unfortunately, they did not recognize who their enemy was, otherwise, they would not have acted so desperately.

Even though Orcus was seriously injured, as one of the most powerful Abyss Lords in the Abyss, his power was far beyond the reach of the triton sentinels guarding the seal. He silently chanted a spell, and a huge death and decay array appeared with him as the center. In the blink of an eye, it drained the vitality of the surrounding tritons, causing them to die in an instant.

No one could stop him anymore, and the terrible Lord of the Abyss continued to go down. He touched some threads of magic, which were the seals that put the power of the Old Ones into a quiet slumber. Even though a thousand years had passed, they were still working, barely maintaining the fragile balance of the great power at the bottom of the sea.

But unfortunately, Orcus completely ignored all of this, including the hard work of the tritons for thousands of years. He madly exerted his power, destroying all the already fragile sealing threads, and revealing all the great power below to himself.

call--

When he tasted the first sip of sweet power, he instantly felt his whole body trembling with excitement. The injuries he had suffered from Lyra Silverhand were almost completely healed instantly, and he was back to his prime in an instant!

Not only that, he also felt that his authority had been expanded, and everything in this sea area seemed to be under his control. He seemed not to be fighting in the away game of the material world, but as if he had returned to his own layer in the bottomless abyss. He could control everything around him, and he was a completely irrefutable god!

And he had absorbed less than one tenth of the huge energy below!

Great, this is my destiny. It seems that I can not only destroy the woman who is chasing me, but also kill her, transform her into my lich, and then take her staff and make it my new artifact!

I will surpass everything in the past, even surpass Rose, and become the undisputed strongest in the Abyss!

It thought frantically, arrogant and crazy thoughts growing in its mind one after another. It tried to suck a second mouthful of energy, but then, the loose and huge entity below began to fight back powerfully!

They also began to move restlessly, but not very fast, like a black worm dozens of kilometers long, wriggling slowly.

However, such a huge thing, even if it was wriggling, the noise it caused was enough to almost cause the entire trench to collapse!

Ocus didn't mind it, as the crazy lord of the abyss was filled with greed. He tried to suck in a second mouthful of energy, but then he discovered that the dark energy at the bottom of the trench began to fight back against his ignorant and crazy behavior.

Then, a thick tentacle several thousand meters long and as thick as a locomotive shot out from below!

The tentacles were covered with ferocious sharp blades like steel knives, like the steel knives on the shaft of a meat grinder, running at full speed, roaring, and pulling straight towards Ocas' body!

The Abyss Lord was stunned, and the light in his pupils began to flicker. He felt the danger and realized that he could not avoid this attack and his life was in danger!

Looks like I made a wrong bet...

Never mind, it's better than the original situation. At least, I just took a puff, so it's not a loss!

As it thought this, the next moment, the thick tentacles rolled over its body, just like a high-speed train smashing an insignificant human body, or like a roaring drill drilling through a palm-sized clod of earth.

Orcus's seemingly huge body was shattered into countless pieces, and his soul had nowhere to be released, so it was about to return to the bottomless abyss, to the world that belonged to it.

But at this moment, the huge entity below moved.

It woke up, when it shouldn't have. The huge thing moved upward, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed Orcus' soul!

Ocus' soul suddenly shuddered, and he suddenly realized a more horrible outcome than the destruction of his body. He roared wildly and tried to escape, but the terrifying black fog completely blocked all his escape routes in the next second, and then swallowed his soul!

Without even a second of resistance, at this moment, Orcus, the immortal demon lord who had roamed the bottomless abyss for thousands of years and whose evil name spread throughout the multiverse, fell completely!

The black mist chewed and absorbed Orcus' soul and the power that he had just stolen. Then, the black mist began to surge. He woke up and was hungry. Then, He wanted to recall all of His clones and descendants to use it to

We use the power we gain to fill our own emptiness.

Chapter 827 Heidi's Departure

On the ship, in Hawthorne's room, Heidi suddenly woke up from her sleep.

She turned over in bed, and beside her, Hawthorne and Cuibisi were still sleeping soundly. She sat alone on the bed, naked from the waist up, feeling her heart beating wildly, indescribable palpitations were happening, and even made her breath difficult.

She closed her eyes, trying to calm the restlessness in her heart. However, when she tried to calm down and empty her mind, endless whispers flooded into her mind, making it impossible for her to think: