The Ocean Lord Is Unusually Powerful

Late at night.

The sky was as gloomy as ink, and the bright moon that used to shine white light on the earth was blocked by layers of dark clouds.

At this time, the city of Trins had already fallen into silence and darkness. The streets were deserted, except for the sound of footsteps of soldiers patrolling at night as they passed by the streets.

Jon hid in the corner, the black linen robe on his body hiding him in the corner. He waited until a group of patrolling soldiers outside attacked, then he cautiously crossed the street with his feet, twisting and turning in the dark alley, and finally Arriving at a dirty door of an inconspicuous four-story building.

After looking around again to make sure there was no one, Jon reached out and knocked on the door gently according to a certain pattern.

Soon, a small window as big as a palm opened on the door, and a pair of vigilant eyes looked out.

Jon crossed his arms over his chest and whispered.

"Embrace the deep sea, embrace evolution, and thank the Lord for his gift."

There was a click.

The door was opened, and inside was a middle-aged man wearing a linen black robe. His face was rough skin caused by wind and rain, his back was slightly curved, and he had a pair of big hands full of thick calluses. His body exuded an indelible fishy smell. The smell indicates that he is a fisherman who makes a living by fishing.

After putting Jon in, the middle-aged man also crossed his arms and whispered.

"Embrace the deep sea, embrace evolution."

Under the dim light, you can see a few cyan scales growing on the middle-aged man's exposed neck, surrounded by a piece of gray skin.

The blue scales seemed to be alive and moving.

A look of envy suddenly appeared in Jon's eyes, which was proof that he had been rewarded by the priest and drank the water of the deep sea.

Rumor has it that this middle-aged man received a blessing after drinking deep sea water. Not only did he swim much faster, but he was also able to move underwater for more than an hour!

This allowed him to catch more fish, earn a lot more silver coins every month, and his life suddenly became much better.

Jon thought to himself that if he could get a reward from the priest and earn more silver coins, then maybe he could ask his wife to make an extra quilt so that the child could sleep warmer at night.

"Why did you arrive so late? It's almost a quarter of an hour late."

Jon cursed in a low voice: "I was delayed for some time on the road to avoid the patrolling soldiers. The patrol routes and frequency of those hawks and dogs seem to have changed."

The middle-aged man frowned. He was the one who brought Jon in. If the secrets of the church were exposed because of Jon, then he would also be punished by the priest.

His tone was solemn and his eyes were full of doubts, "Have they found you? Did they leave any traces?"

Jon shook his head quickly, "No, I was very careful along the way and was definitely not discovered, otherwise they would have chased me at this time!"

The middle-aged man thought for a while and it seemed that this was also the case. Then he felt relieved and continued: "The other brothers and sisters have arrived, and now you are the only one left."

Jon nodded and followed the middle-aged man toward the depths of the house.

The middle-aged man was walking and talking.

"Tonight is the church's semi-annual gathering, so the ceremony will be much more complicated, but what follows is that the priest will give more water from the deep sea, allowing more brothers and sisters to embrace evolution and share the grace bestowed by the Lord. .”

The tone gradually became a bit excited.

"Besides, I heard that the Bishop will attend this gathering!"

Jon was stunned for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Is it true? I heard that the Lord Bishop was conceived and grown in the ocean. He was noticed and blessed by the Lord very early and has great power?"

The middle-aged man laughed and said, "You haven't been a Christian for a long time, so you don't know much. Not only does the Bishop have the power to change everything, but he can also contact the Lord on a regular basis."

"So, if you want to get closer to the Lord and obtain the Lord's blessings, then the best way is to please the bishop. Maybe we will have a chance to see the majesty and appearance of the Lord."

The middle-aged man looked at Jon's expectant look and patted him on the shoulder, "As long as you sincerely worship the Lord and offer all your loyalty and faith, then sooner or later you will receive blessings, get closer to the Lord, and become the leader. A true believer."

Jon nodded quickly, but what he thought was that if he could receive the Lord's blessing, he would gain powerful power, and he could use this power to make his family's life better.

The two walked into a room deep inside. The middle-aged man groped on the ground and lifted up a piece of floor. Below was a staircase leading underground.

Jon got in with ease, reached the passage at the bottom, walked in by the light of the torches on the walls on both sides, and came to a rather spacious underground hall.

In addition to the one he came from, this underground hall has several passages, one of which leads directly to the sea, allowing him to leave quickly in case of danger.

Hundreds of believers in black robes, whose faces could not be seen clearly, had gathered in the underground hall. They were waiting in neat queues. There was no silence or movement in Noda's hall.

Jon watched this scene, his heart trembled, he lowered his steps and lined up at the back of the queue, and waited quietly.

Soon, the priest in silk black robe walked out of a passage and came to the front of the hall.

Jon raised his head slightly and looked. The priest had shared that the Lord had given more blessings. His neck was covered with cyan scales and his face was covered with gray skin. Compared to the middle-aged man who brought him into the religion, the priest The adults have more powerful power.

At first, when Jon first joined the religion, he thought the scales and gray were very strange and abnormal, but now he feels they have some beauty, as if that is what humans should become and how they should evolve.

As a fisherman, he has been dealing with the ocean for most of his life. He knows the dangers of the ocean, but he also knows that the ocean is a huge treasure house.

Before exploration and excavation, necessary evolution is indispensable.

Only by obtaining the gift of the Lord can those who are born at the bottom obtain enough capital to embrace the endless ocean.

The priest looked at the hundreds of believers in front of him and said in a hoarse voice.

"Thank you brothers and sisters for coming here and participating in this biannual gathering. I am deeply honored."

"But before the party starts, I need to tell you something that makes me feel regretful and angry. There is a traitor among us!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly became uproar and talked about it.

The priest looked at the crowd of believers who were either confused or angry, and slammed the cane in his hand.

The dull sound echoed in the hall, causing all believers to withdraw their voices.

"I can honestly say that our former brother and sister, Baron Bezos, who was also one of the five deacons in Trins City, betrayed us!"

"He took the initiative to tell the enemy about the type of poison the Lord Bishop gave us, and helped the enemy remove the poison!"

"Otherwise, the enemy would not be alive until now!"

Jon's heart was shaken, and his eyes were filled with confusion.

enemy?

Does this church he joins have enemies?

At this time, he heard a believer in the middle of the team ask.

"Master Priest, who is our enemy?"

The priest looked at him, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice.

"Our enemies are the nobles and the Valencia family that rule Reinhardt!"

As soon as these words came out, except for a few believers who had no strange expression on their faces, the rest were stunned.

Wait, aren’t we gathered together because we help each other, just to offer our faith to the Lord to gain strength?

Why did you suddenly jump to the point of being hostile to the noble lord?

Most of the believers present are poor residents. In this hierarchical world, civilians simply do not have the capital or ideas to resist the nobles who possess unlimited resources and absolute force.

They just want to gain strength and earn more money to support their families!

The priest couldn't help but twitch his lips when he saw the reactions of the believers.

Exposing the church's intentions so early was out of necessity. Baron Bezos was one of their five deacons in Tellings City. He was hunted down a few days ago for poisoning the Archduke of Valencia.

According to the initial plan, the toxins and tributes mixed with toxins given by the Bishop should be borne by Archduke Julius Reinhard. As long as Julius dies of poisoning, then the entire Reinhard There will be chaos, and then they can recruit believers on a large scale and fulfill the Lord's decree, without having to recruit believers in such a secretive manner.

This idea is very crude and simple, but it is also effective enough.

He knew the power of those toxins. Not only were they colorless and odorless and difficult to detect, but the poisoning could not be detected by ordinary means. As long as he drank it, he would probably die.

With the nobleman Baron Bezos paying tribute, Julius's wariness will be greatly reduced.

However, according to reports from believers in the palace, the tribute originally given to Julius was eaten by the Grand Duchess, causing the plan to fall short, and even Baron Bezos was caught.

He believed that Baron Bezos, who had been a member of the church for a long time and had been watched by the Lord, would not expose everything about the church, but the failure of the plan would inevitably cause their missionary activities in the city of Tellings to be greatly affected.

Then the pace will naturally speed up next.

The captured Baron Bezos will definitely not survive, so let's use him as a trigger to ignite the anger of the believers.

Seeing the performance of these believers, the priest was mentally prepared and said immediately.

"Yes, our enemies are those nobles who occupy a lot of resources and exploit us from above, especially the Valencia family that rules here!"

"We are ordinary civilians, and it is not easy to support our families, but we are exploited and humiliated by the nobles and their minions all the time, which makes our lives even worse!"

"Half of the money from the sales of the fish caught from the sea has to be divided as taxes, and the remaining half has to be stripped off by the rotten and despicable soldiers at the dock. In the end, we only have a pitiful half. A silver coin!"

"Is this fair!? Should we have to endure this?"

The priest's seductive words made many believers look angry.

"That's right, those soldiers at the dock always used their status to blackmail me. My one-year-old child starved to death because of this!"

"Those soldiers also protected the bullies, and my poor wife had no place to complain after being insulted!"

"Those nobles looked at us like animals."

Suddenly, in this closed and dark hall, "many" believers cried and complained about the evil deeds of the nobles and their minions. This anger and sadness infected other believers and reminded them of the injustice they had suffered. .

This made Jon look shaken. Images of him being bullied by nobles kept flashing through his mind, and he couldn't help but cursed, "Damn nobles!"

The priest looked at this scene with a look of satisfaction on his face.

Taking advantage of the believer's increasingly strong emotions, he spoke loudly.

“But the appearance of the Lord changed everything!”

"My Lord Bishop told me that the Lord is willing to give us enough gifts to give us the power to fight against the nobles!"

"As long as the brothers and sisters here can receive the blessing from the bishop himself!"

A squirming sound suddenly came from a connecting passage in front of the hall. A tall figure walked out amid the eager gazes of many believers.

However, his appearance made believers hold their breath.

The humanoid body is a ferocious and weird body, with pale bones exposed, blue-gray muscles mixed in between the bones, a pair of alienated hands with sharp blue-gray nails, and the head has long lost the human facial features, replaced by There are several horizontal strips of flesh, and there are organs like fish fins on the neck and various parts of the body.

The most chilling thing is that it has no legs, and its movement relies on a skirt made of tentacles and flesh wrapped around its waist. This time it is squirming in an intertwined manner.

The priest said in a hoarse voice: "This is a gift from the Lord. We should accept it sincerely and praise the Lord's generosity!"

"Is this the Bishop?"

"Oh my God, it's so disgusting and scary. I don't want to become such a monster."

Such an anti-human appearance made many believers immediately feel repelled, and their previously excited emotions calmed down in an instant.

"I don't want to gain power anymore, I want to quit the church."

A young believer who had just joined the religion wanted to leave, but as soon as he turned around and ran towards the passage, he was knocked to the ground - the priest's hand transformed into a tentacle, piercing the young believer's chest, and blood quickly flowed under the body. spread.

“There will be punishment for disobeying the will of the Lord.”

The strong smell of blood made other believers shiver physically and mentally, giving up the idea of ​​leaving.

Seeing this, the priest had a sneer on his face, turned around and saluted the monster - the bishop.

"Your Majesty, please purify these lost believers and let them become us and return to the embrace of the Lord and the deep sea!"

The bishop wriggled his tentacle skirt and came to the front. A big hole suddenly opened in his chest, and a small tentacle stretched out and pierced the body of the first believer.

I saw what kind of liquid was poured into it. The believer's face was distorted and he howled in pain. He saw numerous bumps bulging out of his body, his skin fell off, his face changed, and tentacles stretched out from the bumps.

In less than half a minute, the believer turned into a tentacled flesh and blood monster.

This horrifying scene made other believers tremble and couldn't help but want to escape. However, without exception, they were killed by the priest with tentacles and sent to the mutated tentacle monster to be eaten by it.

There was a kind look in the priest's eyes, "Eat, my brothers and sisters, and embrace evolution calmly. This is a gift from the Lord. We are destined to come to this world and fulfill the Lord's will."

While the cult-like transformation ceremony was going on in the underground hall, there was a sudden knock on the door of the house above.

The middle-aged man guarding the door leaned against the door warily and asked in a low voice.

"who is it?"

"Open the door! Telings City Guards!"