Feeling the prompt on the panel, Dick did not look back, but turned his gaze to the obscure and inexplicable coral reef with flowing runes in front of him, thinking to himself, "Finally found it."
He took advantage of the fact that Blood of Madness was still going on, and like a swordfish, he quickly penetrated into a dark cave two people wide in the coral reef.
Inside the cave is another channel filled with lake water. The stone walls on both sides are carved with fine carvings, which are mysterious and ancient.
"Is this another relic of the elves?" At this time, he could feel that the oxygen in his lungs was about to be exhausted, and his body began to feel suffocated.
The passage was winding, rugged, and extremely long. Dick's eyes gradually turned black, and his consciousness began to become a little blurry.
Although he knew there might be other monsters ahead, he couldn't care less about them at this time.
His feet formed a seal, and two Mind Shockwave burst out from the soles of his feet. The huge impact sent his boots flying far away.
Driven by Mind Shockwave, Dick turned into a very fast red water flow and went upstream.
After three or four breaths, he finally reached the end of the passage.
What appeared in front of him was a steel door with mysterious runes. In this underwater world, this door was brand new, without a trace of rust.
Dick exhausted the last oxygen in his lungs, the muscles in his hands tightened, and the veins popped out, and he used all his strength to open the door.
Then, he jumped and entered the door.
Surprisingly, there was no lake water inside.
Dick gasped for air and closed the door on his own to prevent the lake water from flowing back.
At this time, [Blood of Madness] has been passively closed due to the end of the duration.
After his breathing calmed down a bit, he began to carefully look at the interior of the ruins.
The interior space is extremely wide, and the surrounding stone walls are embedded with energy stones that emit light, illuminating the entire space like a dream.
The ground is engraved with obscure and complicated runes, and the texture of the runes is flowing slowly, seeming to contain some kind of powerful power.
Directly in front, a huge stone platform stood there, with shells, incense candles and other peaceful items placed on it. There were also several corpses of fishermen lying on top of it. Their clothes had all been removed, and their bodies were covered with dark and inexplicable blood-colored textures.
This seemed to be some kind of sacrificial ceremony, and the scent of ambergris could be faintly heard from it.
There are some strange-shaped stone statues around the stone platform. Their upper bodies are like human beings, and their lower bodies are either stone tails or snake tails.
The prototypes of these stone statues are not terrestrial creatures.
Some of the stone statues Dick can barely be distinguished:
The two-meter-tall creature with two wings on its back, no legs and a long tail is Siren. This monster often appears in the seas of the southern countries.
This kind of monster has a nice face and likes to hide its lower body under the sea and pretend to be a drowning woman to attract the attention of sailors.
Only when they are close will they burst out and launch a fatal attack.
He had no idea about the five-meter-tall Monster in front of him, who was shaped like a dragon's head, had gnarled muscles, held a bident, and had a thick snake-like tail wrapped around his lower body.
Dick walked slowly to the stone platform and carefully inspected the corpses laid out on the platform.
His brows furrowed tighter and tighter. The wrists of these corpses all had traces of being scratched by wild beasts' claws, while the necks were neatly cut open by sharp weapons, and the wounds were extremely smooth.
"As expected." Dick lowered his voice and muttered to himself,
"There must be other people behind these Drowner. They brought these victims here. It seems that a strange ritual is going on here."
Just as Dick was concentrating on searching for clues, his keen ears moved slightly and he instantly captured the subtle sound of breaking through the air from behind him.
He reacted very quickly, turned around suddenly, and jumped sideways to avoid it. At the same time, the sword in his hand slashed vertically from top to bottom.
"Buzz--"
The sword blade cut through the air, making a buzzing sound, and the strong air flow rolled up all the shells on the platform. The shells were like broken beads, and splashed into bright debris on the bluestone floor tiles.
Ahead, transparent ripples with the smell of seaweed twisted in the air.
When the water pattern slowly disappeared, the person who attacked Dick disappeared without a trace again.
"Invisible?"
Dick thought to himself, concentrated instantly, and turned on Witcher Senses.
He held his breath and turned on Second Witcher Senses again.
In an instant, a red halo of uncertain brightness and darkness was slowly approaching him quietly.
Dick stood quietly on the spot. When the halo came within the attack range, he struck out with a fierce blow.
I saw a guy with purple skin and wrinkles on his face, with a look of extreme astonishment on his face.
The dagger held in the monster's left hand missed the hit, but its reaction was equally quick. Almost at the same moment, a water curtain appeared on the staff in its right hand.
When the sword blade penetrated the water curtain, strange foam appeared, as if it had penetrated into the body of a gelatinous jellyfish.
"You actually have such ability?" The monster's voice was as hoarse as a poisonous snake spitting a message.
Monster, who looked like an old man, slammed his staff into the ground, and a stream of water instantly formed under his feet, lifting it to the top of a huge stone statue next to him.
At this moment, its whole body was trembling violently, not because of fear, but because the almost crazy Flames was burning in its eyes.
Dick carefully looked at the old man-looking Monster in front of him.
It was naked from the waist up, covered with blue-grey silver sheets, and the thick snake tail at the waist slapped the stone statue nervously, splashing water with a fishy smell.
"What kind of monster are you?"
"Hahaha!" Monster let out a burst of harsh laughter, "You land worms call you a monster? It doesn't hurt to tell you, I am the high priest from Deep-Sea World!"
"Deep-Sea World? How come I have never heard of such a world?"
"That's because you are ignorant!" the high priest responded disdainfully, "This world is not only limited to you humans, but also to us underwater creatures! 70% of the entire continent is covered by sea water, so we deep-sea creatures are the real masters of this continent!"
"Oh?"
Dick Seeing that the so-called high priest had no intention of attacking for the time being, he also took the opportunity to adjust his breath and continued to ask tentatively,
"Then why are you here?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the deep-sea creature in front of him who claimed to be the high priest suddenly felt like a rooster with his neck strangled, and his purple face suddenly turned blue.
It twitched nervously, and its voice was sharp and harsh. "Despicable human beings, don't ask if you shouldn't ask!"
But soon, it looked sideways at Dick, as if a superior king was rewarding his ministers.
"But anyway, you are about to become my sacrifice. The fact that you can kill the subordinates I summon at random means that you are a good sacrifice."
Before you die, I can satisfy your curiosity."
Dick raised his chin slightly, signaling it to continue speaking, and received a cold snort in response.
"Medusa, why are you imprisoning me here? I am not wrong! Siren Royal Family is so incompetent! Deep-Sea World needs change!"
The high priest opened his arms and roared at the top of his lungs, as if he was venting his anger.
After a while, it suddenly stopped trembling, its webbed fingers brushed the coral inlaid on the staff, and its voice suddenly became sticky,
"Fortunately, three days ago, the magic elements in the mainland's air changed drastically, and the place where I was imprisoned was inadvertently teleported here from the subspace.
Now, I just want to explore the environment here.
But this damn fresh water makes me itchy all over!
I can't get out!
I don't even dare to go out!"
"Why are you killing these ordinary people when you can't get out?" Dick's sword tip trembled slightly and pointed at the corpse. With his peripheral vision always focused on the opponent's staff, he asked,
"Their deaths won't help you get out, right?"
"Hehehehehe..."
The high priest let out a sinister laugh, "Although you humans are all trash, the materials contained in the corpse are very useful.
I want to create!
I want to make it!
I want to transform this environment into a hometown suitable for my survival!
The torture of living in fresh water is truly inhumane!
Who can endure the mist in the air without a trace of salt?"
As he spoke, the high priest's sharp claws suddenly scratched his arm, and the scales were scraped with a harsh sound, bringing up a string of blue blood beads.
Blue blood continued to gush out from the wound, falling drop by drop on the head of the stone statue below, and the eyes of the dragon-headed stone statue turned a strange blue.