As soon as the words left his mouth, the curse of the Mother of Sea Monsters was triggered.
Sizzle …
The flesh on Huggins' body began to squirm as if it was transforming into some kind of huge alien limb. The eight whiskers under his chin turned into real octopus tentacles and wrapped around his neck.
Under the curse of the demigod "Mother of Sea Monsters", the powerful banished prisoner who had been invincible a moment ago was no different from an ordinary person.
Although his face was red in the blink of an eye, Huggins was still laughing. He opened his throat and roared.
"The traitors are you disgusting reptiles! The great Goddess of the Black Sea, Hipponoa, your favored ones are here to welcome your return! "
When the Goddess of the Black Sea ruled the sea, the so-called "Mother of the Sea Monsters," who had yet to become a demigod, could only be her subjects. It was not until three hundred years ago that Hipponoa was sealed, which gave Erketo the opportunity to counterattack.
Strictly speaking, the new king who ruled the sea was a traitor to the old king!
As soon as he finished speaking, the waves of the Black Sea around them, or rather, as far as their eyes could see, instantly calmed down. The sea became smoother than a mirror.
One second, two seconds, three seconds …
Suddenly, everyone who could see the sea felt a chill run down their spine.
Cluck cluck cluck … Cluck cluck cluck …
Elvin could clearly hear the teeth chattering of the people around him due to fear. However, even he was not much better than the others.
Because from the high ground with a good view, they could clearly see the sea.
At the bottom of the sea, a huge eye had quietly opened. Everyone could see the coldness and ruthlessness in the depths of the dark blue pupil. At the same time, it seemed like a storm was brewing!
How big was the eye? It was boundless …
It had completely broken the human's understanding. What kind of creature would have such an eye? And the goddess that Huggins was calling? Hipponoa?
"Cluck cluck cluck … The tributary of fate will eventually meet the main stream. Cluck cluck … The eye of the storm will open in the waves of the Black Sea. The heart will decide the ownership of the crown!"
Looking back, Milan was trying her best to hold back her chattering teeth as she spoke those words.
A thought flashed through his mind as Elvin recalled this sentence.
Milan had once mentioned before she followed him to the military that it was said to be a warning from the School of Prophecy to their members. It was also a prophecy personally made by the Eye of Omniscience!
Before the scene in front of them happened, they would not have been able to decipher it even if they cracked their brains. However, in this situation, they could easily connect the dots.
"Then whose heart? Whose crown? A pirate king, a king, or … "
Elvin and the others did not have to wait for long before Huggins gave them the answer.
Plop —
The sapphire in his hand fell into the water. Even Tiinkut, who was close at hand, could not stop him in time. Or rather, after the gigantic eye appeared, he no longer had the ability to stop it.
"Damn it!"
At this time, Theon Kut, who had realized who the new master of the Black Sea was after Huggins betrayed the goddess, had a gloomy look on his face. He could only watch as the Heart of the Sea of the Black Sea fell into the sea.
Then, as if it was fake, it melted and dissipated in the water in the blink of an eye. To be more precise, it was absorbed and digested by the existence under the water.
Tiinkut, the son of the Sea God, the Tideherder, who was at the peak of Transcendent Rank-4, closed his eyes weakly.
"It's over!"
Was the goddess' greatest enemy, the Sea Witch, Hipponoa going to be unsealed today in front of him, a loyal believer of the goddess?
Wasn't the original intention of obtaining the Heart of the Sea for a long time to stop the Sea Witch's revival forever and then increase the goddess' own power?
He had put in so much effort in the beginning and even sent himself as the last insurance measure. Yet, he was just going to watch someone else take advantage of him?
Who would have thought that Huggins had surrendered to the goddess' enemy so early on? No, perhaps he had been working with the Brotherhood from the beginning just for this day?
But … he might still have a chance!
The Sea Witch had been sealed for three hundred years.
Perhaps this short period of time was nothing to the gods, but to the mortals, it was the change of more than ten generations. How many people still remembered the Black Sea Goddess, Hipponoa?
Even the Raging Waves Church, where the Black Sea Goddess was struggling at death's door, was completely razed to the ground by him!
Without enough faith as an anchor point, not only would it greatly delay the goddess' escape, but it would also cause her power to be at a low point for a long time.
As long as the Sea Witch's revival was delayed a little longer, the goddess, who had sensed that something was wrong, would be able to arrive in time and harvest the Sea Witch directly!
The moment the gem entered the water, the phantom of the giant eye at the bottom of the sea had completely disappeared.
It was replaced by …
The lead clouds in the sky spread out in circles with the sea as the center, like a huge whirlpool in the sky.
Whoosh …
The waves in the sea began to rise again, rising and falling as if there was a behemoth struggling in another dimension beneath the surface of the water.
But no matter how the waves rose and fell, they maintained the limit of four meters. They could not break through!
Other than that, the sea level slowly rose. Waves of black seawater poured into the Leiden River through the estuary.
Although the waves were not big, they were moving faster than the previous tsunami.
In a short time, they had flowed through every city in the Leiden Valley.
"It's here!"
Seeing the waves that were going against the current …
The elite pirates, who had been deployed in the twenty or so cities large and small in the Leiden Valley a few months in advance, looked at each other and drew their daggers, cutting off the little fingers of their left hands without any hesitation.
Crack …
The bright red blood with a hint of strange black light dripped into the waves, as if the seawater had been dyed black and red.
Then, they knelt on the shore devoutly and shouted the holy name of Hipponoa!
Although …
After three hundred years, very few people on the Black Sea coast still remembered the meaning of this.
In fact, this was the initiation ceremony of the Raging Waves Church, which was once a subordinate of the Goddess of the Black Sea. Cutting off the left little finger also meant cutting off the past and paying for the sins that humans had once committed against the Goddess!
Of course, if they had planned this in advance just for such a small occasion, they would have underestimated the Pirate King.
Before the hundreds of elite pirates entered the Leiden Valley, every one of them had been planted with a curse.
Through a few months of lurking, eating, drinking, living, and breathing with the local residents, they had formed a subtle mystical connection with the land and the river to a certain extent.
They could also use this connection to use some mysterious spells that might not be very powerful but were very useful.
Soon …
After experiencing a tsunami attack, most of the survivors had gathered in high places. Someone looked at the strange waves rolling past and suddenly spoke.
"Hipponoa … E …"
Then, more and more people spoke.
Even in the cities with weak defenses, the small species that Huggins had sent to interfere with the garrison were still wreaking havoc around them, but they still could not affect them.
In the upper reaches of the Leiden River, in the cities that were not hit by the tsunami …
In addition to carrying out the same operation, the elite pirates also scattered countless notes in the streets and alleys in the city. They also took advantage of the chaos to draw many graffiti on the walls.
Every medium was cast with a spell of the same origin through their blood. As long as they saw it, they would involuntarily read the name on it, regardless of whether the witness was literate or illiterate.
Soon, the city was filled with the calls of "Hipponoa … E … E … E …".
Then, this scene began to spread like a virus. There was only one voice in the entire Leiden Valley at this time.
There were many emotions in the calls, some were worship, some were fear, some were hatred … but all these strong emotions had only one effect, which was to provide Hipponoa with the best anchor point in the modern world!
Even Niske City, which was located at the mouth of the sea and more than half of it was destroyed by the tsunami, was no exception.
At this time, the survivors who had escaped the disaster by hiding in the cathedral had begun to act spontaneously, searching for survivors and various supplies in the ruins of the city.
Among them, the former first mate of the whaling ship, Faith and the gambler Pips, as companions who knew very little about this land, had to support each other even though they had experienced terrible things together in the past.
When the seawater changed, they also noticed the abnormality at the first moment.
And unlike the others, the two of them had personally experienced the irresistible power of this goddess before this!
"Hipponoa … E … E …"
Watching the surging tide, Faith seemed to have seen the true face of God. The gloominess that had been gathering on his face disappeared without a trace, and slowly, it even seemed to be radiating light.
And besides the holy name, he also saw something else from the waves.
"Extraordinary Class: Raging Waves Priest (Clergy).
Prerequisite: At least three years of sailing experience.
Ritual: 1. Cut off the left little finger, atoning to God as a human … "
In an instant.
Some strange and mysterious knowledge swarmed into the spirituality of mortals through an inexplicable connection. Although he never knew what an Extraordinaire was, he did not understand the consequences of doing so.
But he knew that if he did so, God would be happy …
At this time, Faith's state was like the Stockholm effect. He, who had lost everything because of the curse of the goddess in the Adriatic Sea, should have hated Hipponoa, who had caused all this.
But now, it had turned into infinite worship for Her great power, from one extreme to the other.
Beside him, the gambler Pips had already knelt to the black sea, and like the others, piously called out the holy name of "Hipponoa"!
Without hesitation, or rather impatience, Faith picked up a sharp piece of gravel from the collapsed building beside him with red eyes and ran to the shore as fast as he could, stepping on the reef under his feet.
* Crack! *
He fiercely knocked off the little finger of his left hand.
* Drip … Drip … *
But he did not seem to feel any pain. Instead, he seemed to have obtained great satisfaction.
He knelt on the ground, dripping blood into the waves, and kept chanting the holy name of the goddess of the black sea as if he was floating in the air. "Hipponoa … E …"
He was more pious than anyone else!
Blood dripped down, and the ritual seemed to have finally reached a critical point because of this existence who had accidentally turned from a non-believer to a pious believer.
* Crack! *
Although it was soft, it sounded like the sound of a lock falling through the sea.
Raging waves suddenly rose in the black sea, and there was a loud rumble!
In another dark world under the surface of the sea, an indescribable great figure finally broke free from the shackles of three hundred years and slowly floated up to return to the material world!
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