"Kalvetua"? That seemed to be the Sea God worshiped by the natives of the Rorsted Archipelago before colonization... Even now, many believers held that this god, who often appeared as a giant sea serpent, could protect them and keep their islands from being swallowed by earthquakes and tsunamis.
It had actually been born in the Third Epoch?! Even if that had been near the end of the epoch, the organization's books placed it more than 2,500 years ago... How had it lived that long?
Well, either its offspring had inherited its characteristics and name, or it had found some other way to extend its life...
Come to think of it, Yaluolan, the family's ancestor and one of the organization's "Pillars," had also lived for over two thousand years. Even though she had used the blood of a Sanguine Duke to become a Demigod, that age was astonishing. Most Sanguine never lived nearly that long.
With those thoughts in mind, Miss Leticia withdrew her contemplative gaze and entered the trial's second stage—"Will."
Meanwhile, Abner looked at the deep-sea monster at the end of the mural, the one that had been forcibly stuffed with the Prophet characteristic, and couldn't help feeling sorry for it.
He had recognized it as a supernatural creature, one as ancient as the Obninsk Sea Monsters raised by the Church of Storms, but far more intelligent.
It was called a "Saugust." Its crystallized blood and brain matter seemed to be main ingredients for Mid-Sequence Potions, though Abner didn't know which Pathway they belonged to.
Whatever its Pathway, being forced to absorb the Prophet characteristic might have propelled it to great heights in a single step, but the consequences were probably severe, even if a stroke of luck had allowed it to assimilate the characteristic fairly well.
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