The sun is high

To some extent, there are still similarities between today's Van En and the world ruled by many lost gods and their families.

This is especially true for those beings who are accustomed to acting in accordance with power and instinct.

To this day, Xiuge still doesn't know much about the internal power and existence of the Dark Abyss Palace, but through the many memory fragments from the messengers in the mirror and the palace hounds, he already knows that those who live in the Dark Abyss and The terrifying creatures outside the palace actually adhere to a set of simple and simple survival rules.

This coincides with those of the Brahma family members who follow other ancient gods.

Most of the time, these dependents with different shapes and greatly different abilities are like participants in a huge natural arena, constantly performing with their amazing vitality and fanatical and primitive emotions. A drama of life and death.

Perhaps the action logic of the hound from the Dark Abyss Palace is different from that of these families, but as a ruthless and efficient hunter, it can also obtain maximum pleasure and satisfaction from killing and hunting.

And this characteristic of it has been fully exposed in its past performance and its recent life-and-death fight with the Dark Abyss Spider.

Even during the rest of the first two nights, Shuge could hear the unconscious roar of this terrifying beast whose nature was further unleashed in his sleep.

It is eager to fight, eager to pursue new prey, eager to find the right place and time to release its excess energy and desire to kill.

Now the palace hound's wish was granted.

Although ships with constant turbulence in the sea are not the most ideal hunting places, and the constantly falling icy waves can easily cause discomfort, the moment they come into close contact with these deep-sea visitors, the ferocious giant dogs that are stalkers of the dark abyss become Already got the exact answer.

Through the magical connection with the palace hound, Shuge learned that it was now certain that these strange groups that launched a surprise attack on the Windless One's fleet were the remnants of a certain sea god in the past era.

"Hunt them...avoid the ship's occupants as much as possible."

Shuge was well aware of the difficulty of these enemies and the brutal nature of the palace hound. Therefore, he neither forcibly controlled its actions nor issued an order similar to "protect other crew members". Instead, he allowed it to focus more on the situation in front of it. fighting.

As for whether other people will be injured in the process, it can only depend on their own luck.

At the moment of receiving the clear command, the steel-like sharp limbs immediately extended from the back of the palace hound towards the surroundings. They looked like parts of large machines in the workshop, as precise and cold as the parts.

The heavy mist of the Dark Abyss is constantly swirling and surging around these limbs. Any blood or pieces of flesh that touch this mist, whether they come from mutated fish or dead crew members, will be swallowed up in an instant.

"Bang!"

As these limbs banged hard on the gunboat deck, the huge and slender figure of the hound immediately disappeared. The next moment, it suddenly rushed out from the shadow blind spot at the other end of the deck, its mouth with extremely exaggerated proportions opened. It has reached its limit, and the target it is preparing to gnaw is a slightly smaller beast that is deformed from some large pelagic fish.

A strong feeling of satisfaction poured into Xiuge's brain as the sharp teeth closed.

With the palace hound's perception and power, Shuge can completely resonate with its emotions when it successfully hunts its target.

In that clean bite, he could even restore in his mind every detail of the Dark Abyss Mist gnawing away at those swollen pieces of flesh and wiping away the vitality contained in them.

For those soldiers and commanders who were in the gunboat cabin and were tremblingly observing the situation on the deck through the windows, the scene before their eyes was even more terrifying and bizarre.

Their hearts were beating violently, their breathing was rapid, their clothes were soaked with cold sweat, and the new firearms they held in their hands were trembling slightly.

These ordinary people could not see clearly what was happening on the deck outside.

The moment the palace hound jumped out of the crack, the deep fog quickly escaped onto the deck of the gunboat. This black fog may not be as deadly as the real dark abyss magic, but it can be extremely effective in covering ordinary people. The vision of living beings.

Faced with such a situation, the soldiers could only hear waves of low, terrifying roars, while the mages with magical powers and the ability to sense successfully sensed the turbulence and terror deep in the fog.

There, something was going on fiercely fighting and killing.

Although this perception was very vague, the sense of terror conveyed by it allowed the mages to promptly remind the other soldiers on the gunboat - if you want to save your own life, don't walk onto the deck easily!

If they could see through the fog, they would definitely feel grateful for the judgment and decision they made.

Because after successfully tearing open two giant fish that tried to board the gunboat, the hound that tasted the "color of life" and the traces of "community consciousness" in the prey completely aroused its own nature, and in this state, Even Shuge can't completely restrain and control it.

The limbs and strength of the Dark Abyss Spider have given the Hound a completely different way of action. If in the past it was an ambusher with unpredictable movements, now it can flexibly operate in the shadows and frontal battlefields. shuttle.

With these terrifyingly hard and powerful claws, the palace hound can crawl freely in complex environments and use them to pierce and tear the target's flesh and blood. When necessary, they can even overlap with each other. In one place, he blocks and neutralizes the opponent's counterattack for the hound.

At first, the hound obviously had not fully adapted to the new structure of its body, but as the killing continued, the two completely different styles of action began to merge rapidly.

Just ten seconds ago, a giant fish in the community that had been severely damaged tried to abandon the deck and return to the water to seek shelter. However, before it could dive into the sea, a dark abyss crack appeared out of thin air in the air above, and then, The claws as sharp as sharp knives stabbed directly from the crack, accurately penetrating the remaining sarcoma on the giant fish.

The power of the dark abyss was like a deadly toxin that was poured into the piece of meat filled with the will of the community and the color of life in the blink of an eye. Just like the previous few times, all the pillars supporting the life of the giant fish were instantly destroyed. , and all valuable existences in it, whether it is strength, will or memory fragments, are plundered and absorbed by the hound at this moment.

But then, these special community lifeforms once again showed their changeable and strange characteristics.

When the hound, which had once again completed its pursuit, cut through the fog and reached the other end of the gunboat deck, what it encountered was not a ferocious, deformed sea beast.

Many flexible tentacles that Shuge had never seen before suddenly stretched out from under the sea. There were a large number of suckers growing on their surfaces. With these suckers, the tentacles clung to the side of the gunboat and began to Moving quickly towards the gunboat deck.

And those who control these tentacles are not some difficult sea beasts, but human-sized "meat balls" that have been transformed by the will of the community.

These meat balls are essentially countless fish with highly proliferated flesh - their bodies are filled with wanton growth of flesh and tissue. Although they still retain some basic fish characteristics, those torn scales and fish The fins looked insignificant in front of the twisted mass of flesh.

The sharp chelicerae easily cut off the tentacles attached to the deck and the edge of the gunboat. However, these ferocious-looking strange fish did not stop their actions. The tentacles growing from their backs were still sucking with suction cups. gunboat and worked hard to get these meatballs onto the deck.

And when the palace hound destroyed a few deformed fish that luckily reached the deck, a large amount of blood immediately sprayed out.

Different from the previous blood that was easily submerged by the mist of the dark abyss, this time, Xiuge felt a richer vitality in it. It seemed that the concentration of the color of life in this blood was completely different from before.

Not only that, when the blood flowed out, Shuge also received an extremely strong and clear feeling of disgust from the palace hound.

In these bloods, there seems to be an existence that can resist and eliminate the power of the Dark Abyss, and make the creations of the Dark Abyss Palace feel disgusted. This is not the first time that this situation has occurred, but what is different from before is that this time, the will of the community There is an obvious hope that these powers can be used to delay the actions of the palace hounds and achieve some new goals.

Similar scenes also occurred on other ships such as the Windless One.

Xiuge, who was staying on the deck of the Windless One, discovered that the sea beasts that had been repelled by the ship's firepower and emergency protection rituals had returned. Regardless of the damage, they continued to throw some tiny swollen individuals towards the ship. These individuals Either it will be smashed into a pulp by the protective magic, or it will be crushed by the quick-reacting soldiers after falling on the deck, but the blood flowing out of it looks extremely bright and dazzling.

Another swollen strange fish was thrown up. Of course, it was smashed into a ball of broken flesh and blood during the ongoing protection ritual, but this time, a considerable part of the blood containing psychedelic colors successfully passed through. The magic shock gap in the protective ritual.

With quick eyesight and quick hands, Xiuge summoned his mage's hand and accurately caught some blood in mid-air.

And when these pieces of flesh and blood with a special luster were brought to Xiuge, he immediately noticed something strange in them.

Those flashing colors naturally represent the color of life controlled by the will of the community, but now, these "color of life" forces are obviously in an extremely restless state, they are like pieces of extremely unstable magic. Crystal-like, constantly radiating outward.

This special state caused their power to be consumed at an alarming rate. In just a few seconds, the power in these flesh and blood was completely exhausted. During this process, Xiuge noticed that the protective ritual on the ship was constantly flashing. , which means that their power has caused certain interference and damage to those ritual sites that have an isolation effect...

"Crack!"

There was another crisp sound, and Xiuge quickly turned his head. This time, he saw half of the incomplete and deformed sea bouncing on the deck. Although it exploded into minced meat under the pressure of the ceremony venue in the next second, it was hidden in the sea. The power inside it swept through the surrounding people and objects at an extremely fast speed, and then dissipated invisible in the vibration of the ceremony venue.

At this moment, Xiuge finally became aware of the group's intentions.

Their behavior looks like suicide or pointless harassment and attack, but in fact, what they are doing is exploration.

The forces that are constantly dissipating in the fleet are basically invisible "eyes", which are the means and bridge they use to observe, learn and understand these creations of the Vanen civilization.

Amidst the cheers of the surrounding soldiers for successfully resisting the monster attack, Xiuge's expression darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye. He realized that his understanding of the will of the community was still too lacking.

The battle that took place tonight was the first real collision between these ancient ocean creations and the new era land civilization.

The community obviously underestimated the current Vann civilization.

Those complex consciousnesses probably never expected that in today's world, those humble and failed ethnic groups in the past could actually master so many terrifying and terrifying powers.

And everyone, including Xiuge, also underestimated these invisible beings that could transform the bodies of sea beasts.

They are hidden dangers that are truly intelligent and able to think, learn and grow quickly.

In front of them, the incomplete heirs who once destroyed the city of Salem looked so stupid and naive.

After realizing that they could not achieve the expected goals with their current strength and tactics, the terrorist groups lurking under the sea immediately changed their strategies. They gave up attacking and killing the crew members of these ships, and instead began to test and observe these ships. Ships and the various weapons and magic they carry.

In order to achieve this, they even give up and sacrifice part of their power, and use the gaps between their collapse and dissipation to obtain more information.

On the gunboat on the other side, the ferocious palace hound opened strange cracks in the black fog and nimbly got into it.

On the deck of the gunboat, blood filled with psychedelic colors was flowing slowly. The power in this blood had completely collapsed under the influence of the mist of the dark abyss, but Xiuge knew that before those powers completely disappeared, the ship Many details on the gunboat have been incorporated into the vast memory bank of the ocean community with the spread of the "Color of Life".

After mastering this important information, what changes will the power that once controlled most of Van En under the name of Charron make?

Xiuge couldn't explain clearly either.

Sorry, I've been crazy playing Baldur's Gate 3 these past two days.

No sense of time at all, and no sense of the passage of time

The last time I did this was when I played Divinity Original Sin 2...

People are dizzy ORZ