By now, Fang Zheng had more or less figured out what the Dark Elves wanted him to do.
Clearly, these black-skinned elves intended to have him hold off the sea serpent while they handled something else behind the scenes. After observing the sea serpent for a while, Fang Zheng had also understood what was going on. It obviously possessed a certain degree of divine power, but that did not mean it was some god. On the contrary, as a god himself, Fang Zheng could tell that the sea serpent possessed divine power only because it had been "tainted" by it.
The power of gods was quite formidable, of course, depending on the circumstances. Generally speaking, however, divine power changed many things. The sea serpent's situation was much like those animals in ancient Chinese mythological novels that spent countless years near some immortal, Buddha, or divine artifact, were influenced by it, gained intelligence, became spirits, and attained the Dao.
Unfortunately, the Main World had no concept of becoming a spirit and attaining the Dao. This sea serpent had merely become something akin to a "Divine Beast" because it possessed a trace of divine power.
Perhaps that was precisely why it had become an object of worship for these Naga.
From the Goddess of Order, Fang Zheng had learned that her status within her own race had not actually been very high. Strictly speaking, the Goddess of Order had been equivalent to a full-fledged researcher at a national research institute. Her work at the time had been to preserve the ecological species of civilizations from various planets. When the waves of Chaos erupted, she had hurriedly fled her race's star system aboard her spacecraft, along with the species she had preserved.
The Goddess of Order's ship had already carried members of several