Whispering Verse

In fact, the wind does not mean anything. After all, in this world where mysticism exists, maybe the fish people are using thaumaturgy to create sea breeze to enhance the atmosphere of the ceremony.

Because he knew that there must be many fishmen and ring warlocks behind the hole in the wall, Shade didn't even dare to stretch his head to look behind. Instead, he cautiously pressed against the wall, trying to listen to the sounds behind.

For a long time, only whispers continued to come. He could barely distinguish the voice of praying to the evil god [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral]. The voices were mixed together, and at least ten people were praying at different speeds at the same time.

Unfortunately, the invisible [Bordeaux Candle] was consumed in the last operation. Shade, who didn't dare to stretch his head to see easily, thought of using thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past] to listen.

There is no one in the wine cellar all year round. The only people who spoke here within 48 hours were probably people from the Scarlet Secret Cult.

The thaumaturgy was indeed successful, but the content of the conversation that Shade heard among the cultists was that they scolded the Zhengshen Church for being so despicable, placed a team of ring warlocks at the banquet in advance, and discussed the sea return ceremony with each other. , fish people occupy the beautiful life of the underwater cold water port city.

The two people talking even had an in-depth discussion on how to make seaweed special meals.

Shade listened patiently and finally heard a different voice:

"Priest, the two humans are here."

The guy who was talking made grunting sounds from time to time in his throat. He was obviously a fish-man.

Then the sound of footsteps came, and the two sides met at the hole in the wall, where Shade was standing now.

"Good evening, friends of the Scarlet Esoteric Cult."

The voice sounded somewhat familiar.

"Human, don't be so polite. Can our transaction continue?"

This should be the priest of the Scarlet Secret Cult who presides over the ceremony here.

"Of course, the church's sudden pursuit left us with nowhere to hide. We could only find a way to leave Coldwater Port as soon as possible."

This is the companion with a somewhat familiar voice:

"I originally wanted to coerce Ms. Aurora to get us a ship to the New World, but I didn't expect that she would have a ring warlock from the Church of the Righteous God with her. The deal is still valid, and the [Blood Spirit School] will provide you with the technology to nourish the flesh of the fishmen. , you help us leave the cold water port and provide the poet-level relic [Fish Training Ring] that allows intelligent creatures to master human language."

A group of people walked into the hole.

Shade realized that the somewhat familiar voice turned out to be Darkness.

"The chosen one actually got mixed up with the fish people..."

Generally speaking, there is a high probability that there will be trouble in the place where the chosen one is, and the first chosen one, Iluna, when she met the cultists, directly caused the evil god to descend on Tobesk.

Although the most serious outcome of the incident at Coldwater Port was that the city was submerged by a tsunami, Shade was still a little uneasy thinking that the chosen one was here.

"Now go back and find Miss Aurora. It will take at least another twenty minutes. And now there is not much time before sunrise. There is no need to inform the witch, otherwise I will not have time to get the fishman's information. .So, I still have to see what they are going to do.”

While I was still thinking about how I could safely enter the hole behind the wall, I didn't expect the sound of footsteps to be heard again. But this time it was not the sound of the past, but the sound of the present. Someone was walking out from inside the hole.

Shade hurriedly hid next to the shelf where the wine barrels were placed, and then saw a man wearing a gray robe and a hood coming out.

The reason why we were able to tell that this was a man was because he looked around and actually stood next to the wall.

Shade imagined Ms. Aurora's expression when she knew a man was peeing in her wine cellar. Then he took off the ring on her hand and silently controlled the silver mist to float towards the man.

When the mist completely enveloped him, Shade glanced around furtively, then raised his sword in both hands, bent over and walked in on tiptoes.

About ten seconds later, Shade, with a little blood on his body, wore a man's robe and dispersed the silver mist around him.

The corpse at its feet had an incomplete fish-man's face, which meant that its status in the Scarlet Secret Cult was not high.

Holding back his nausea, Shade smeared the slippery mucus on its face onto his own face. Afterwards, he worriedly smeared the mucus on his clothes, then folded the body as hard as he could, used the canvas on the shelf to turn it into a toy and stuffed it into his pocket.

After doing all this, he stood on tiptoes slightly to make himself look as tall as the man just now, then put on his hood, lowered his head and walked behind the hole.

The wine cellar was obviously very dry, but as soon as his body entered the hole, the humid air caused Shade's breathing rate to change.

He had never been to such a humid place, and the moisture in the air seemed to condense into water droplets and fall to the ground in the next second. Only a real body of water could be more humid than this. Shade couldn't figure out how this kind of humidity would appear under natural circumstances.

Hiding his head under his hood, Shade walked forward quickly with his head lowered. The destination was clear, because many people dressed the same as him were sitting in front.

In front of me is a space made of light gray damp masonry with disgusting moss on the walls. The area is not large, about two-thirds of the entire floor of Shade's house.

There is a layer of jet-black water underfoot, and the room is illuminated with luminous moss on the walls, candles, and densely packed luminous beads in the dome above. Under the water is a pitted ground, with long rows of stone seats placed on the ground. Every once in a while, a small square hole is dug out of the wall. I don’t know what it is for. .

There were some blurred patterns on the light gray stone walls and the dome overhead. Looking around carefully, Shade was very sure that this should be a small church.

Combined with the conversation of the professors that was overheard a few hours ago, behind the hole in the wall should be a secret religious gathering place established by the murlocs before the Aurora family bought the manor.

Understanding this, Shade no longer looked around, but quickened his pace and walked forward, joining a dozen people in gray robes who were sitting on the seats in front of the damp chapel. He chose to sit behind everyone instead of moving forward to see more.

These gray robes are also very interesting. There is no pattern on the surface, but the hem of the robes looks like they have been torn. Everyone here wears robes like this, which is a unique style of clothing decoration.

After Shade sat down, he finally had a chance to see the front of the damp chapel. There was no idol placed there, only a holy symbol that seemed to be made of bone. The holy symbol was in the shape of a spiral, and in the center of the spiral was the symbol of a fish head and a human body.

In front of the Holy Emblem, three equally obese old men, holding books and with severely alienated faces, were quietly whispering prayers to the evil god [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral].

Shade thought there were dozens of people whispering outside, but he didn't expect there were only three.

The book they were holding was the "Mystery of the Ocean" that Shade had seen in Mr. Jude's safe. However, the three books that appeared this time were all made of leather materials, and they seemed to record the evil knowledge of the cult.

Looking to the side...

"Um?"

Shade immediately lowered his head, because the person in front of him suddenly turned his head, and then looked at his companion behind him in confusion. Under the hood was the face of a half-fish man. After his eyes stayed on Shade for a few seconds, he twitched his nose and sniffed, then turned around and said nothing.

In addition to the disgusting mucus, the smell of [Drowning Murloc Scales] on Shade also made the cultists regard him as a companion. From this point of view, although this scale exposed Shade in front of the witch, it helped him in the damp chapel, so it was not useless if it was specially borrowed from Dorothy.

Shade continued to observe carefully. The three fat murlocs holding books were standing at a higher position, so there was no water under their feet. Traces of concentric semicircles could be seen spreading outward with the murloc in the middle as the center of the circle. The black ink stains left blasphemous runes in the shape of seahorses on the ground. Shade tried to interpret them and found that they were not only a praise to the evil god, but also a praise to the ocean and death.

What he could see was only part of the ceremony, and he thought there were more traces of the ceremony in this small church.

"However, if there is any book that records the story of fish-men, then the book "Mystery of the Ocean"...Mr. Jude's may not be the complete version, but the one here must be the complete version."

Not taking away Mr. Jude's book last time is not considered a mistake by Shade, because Mr. Jude's book must not have complete information on returning the sea. Otherwise, the church should have immediately wiped out the fishmen in the old street. You can find a way to break the ritual.

He continued to look around. There were only three murlocs praying in a low voice standing in the damp chapel. In addition to a dozen or so grey-robed murlocs sitting in the long rows of seats, there were two other murlocs wearing black robes. The guy with an unclear face must be a ring warlock from the church. He wears clothes of different colors for easy identification.

The only two people not wearing robes were sitting on the far left side of the first row of church seats. Shade recognized Darkness's back at a glance, and the person next to him must also be a member of the [Blood Spirit School].

"Besides me, there are four ring warlocks here. If we really have to fight, I won't be able to defeat them even with the witch's ring..."

His right hand carefully retracted into his robe and touched the steam bomb hanging on his waist. Although Lecia didn't say what model it was, it would be hard for the Ring Warlocks to know if it exploded in this kind of underground space. Those murlocs with strong resilience would definitely be doomed.

"It would be great if I knew a spell like [Corpse Explosion]."

Thinking of the two corpses in his pocket again, Shade suddenly had an idea.