The virtual game "World."
A group of Fanatical Believers made up of players was leveling in the wilderness, and Lü Zheng was one of them.
"Look, it's the sea!"
"The sea!" The player Lü Zheng stared at the boundless sea, fear showing on his face.
Lü Zheng had never achieved anything remarkable in his life. He liked studying odd things, such as battered parchment scrolls he picked up at antique markets, with strange machines and creatures drawn on them. He had an innate fear of the Deep Sea, along with an inexplicable yearning for it.
Perhaps it was heaven's will that he encountered the sea in the game.
Normally, he would never have wanted to come to the coast, but now that he had followed his party here, there was no turning back.
The party had a powerhouse who had participated in a Sacrifice Ritual last time and been chosen as a trusted follower by the great god. She was responsible for leading the party to new heights.
She still could not log directly into the game from the real world, but she had discovered that when she spoke in real life, she gave other people headaches.
"At the center of the sea, the sleeping god lies in eternal slumber. We must offer items to help our lord break the seal," the powerhouse told the party, pointing toward the ocean once more.
"But our levels are too low. The things in the sea will be hard to fight," Lü Zheng said.
"Yes, that's a problem." The powerhouse sank into thought.
The authorities had once sent teams into the ocean to grind wild monsters, but the players had not had Water Breathing.
Now that the mages had leveled up and learned Water Breathing, they could cast a breathing buff on their