Sea God?
The term felt both familiar and strange to Theus. He knew about the Sea God Church and had even heard rumors of the Sea God Temple, but the Sea God? Did such a deity truly exist?
Wait. If the Sea God existed, why had the Sea God Church been removed from the five great churches?
More importantly, how did Monica know all this?
The Sea God's thousand years of Pollution in the ocean gave Theus a faintly ominous suspicion.
"When I was consumed by Pollution that time, it was actually the Sea God's remnant body trying to merge with me. I was in the Abyssal Trench then—the Abyssal Trench..." Monica gave a bitter laugh. "The Abyssal Trench is actually the entrance to the Sea God Temple."
The Sea God Temple—Theus had heard that term before. How strange. It was called the Sea God Church, the Sea God Temple, yet he had never once felt the urge to investigate the "Sea God." Even the people who had told him about them had completely overlooked this point, as though Sea God Church were merely an utterly ordinary name.
Thinking back on it now, all he felt was a chill down his spine. What was this? Suppressed memories? No, it had to be something more advanced than that. It was as if his ability to comprehend had been severed; whenever he saw that name, he simply could not form any related associations.
And—
"Monica, do you know? I've actually been in Castel all this time. I only occasionally come to this corpse through certain special methods." Theus stared into her eyes. "You... you still remember your people, don't you?"
"Of course I do. Sister Ash acts cool all day and doesn't like talking. Sister Nini is really petty. Whenever Sister Una