The Whispering Verses Chapter 368: Damp chapel

Actually, the wind does not mean anything. After all, in this world where mysticism exists, perhaps the fish people are using thaumaturgy to create sea breeze to enhance the atmosphere of the ceremony.

Because he knew that there must be many fishmen and ring warlocks behind the hole in the wall, Shade did not even dare to stretch his head to look behind. Instead, he cautiously pressed against the wall, trying to listen to the sounds behind.

For a long time, only whispers continued to come. He could barely distinguish the voice of praying to the evil **** [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral]. The voices were mixed together, and at least ten people were praying at different speeds at the same time.

Unfortunately, the invisible [Bordeaux Candle] was consumed in the last operation. Shade, who didn't dare to stretch his head to see easily, thought of using thaumaturgy [Echoes of the Past] to listen.

There is no one in the wine cellar all year round. The only people who spoke here within 48 hours were probably people from the Scarlet Secret Cult.

The thaumaturgy was indeed successful, but the content of the conversation that Shade heard among the cultists was that they scolded the Zhengshen Church for being so despicable, placed a team of ring warlocks at the banquet in advance, and discussed with each other about sea transportation. After the return ceremony, the fish people took over the beautiful life of the underwater cold water port city.

The two people who spoke even had an in-depth discussion on how to make seaweed special meals.

Xia De listened patiently and finally heard a different voice:

"Chief Priest, the two humans are here."

The guy who spoke made a purring sound from time to time in his throat. He was obviously a fishman.

Then the sound of footsteps came, and the two sides met at the hole in the wall, where Shade was standing now.

"Good evening, friends of the Scarlet Esoteric Cult."

The voice sounded familiar.

"Human, don't be so polite, can our transaction continue?"

This should be the priest of the Scarlet Secret Cult who presides over the ceremony here.

"Of course, the church's sudden pursuit left us with nowhere to hide and we could only find a way to leave Coldwater Port as soon as possible."

This is the companion with a somewhat familiar voice:

"I originally wanted to coerce Ms. Aurora to get us a ship to the New World, but I didn't expect that there was a ring warlock from the Zhengshen Church beside her. The deal is still valid, and the [Blood Spirit School] will provide you with nourishing fishmen Flesh and blood technology, you help us leave the cold water port and provide the poet-level relic [Fish Training Ring] that allows intelligent creatures to master human language.”

A group of people walked into the hole.

Shad realized that the somewhat familiar voice turned out to be Darkness.

"The chosen one actually got mixed up with the fish people..."

Generally speaking, there is a high probability that the place where the chosen one is will be in trouble, and when the first chosen one, Iluna, met the cultists, it directly caused the evil **** to descend on Tobesk.

Although the most serious outcome of the Coldwater Port incident was that the city was submerged by a tsunami, Shade was still a little uneasy thinking that the chosen one was here.

"Go back now and find Miss Aurora to come up, which will delay at least twenty minutes. And now there is not much time before sunrise. There is no need to notify the witch, otherwise I will not have time to get the fish. People’s information. So, let me see what they are going to do.”

While I was still thinking about how I could safely enter the hole behind the wall, I didn't expect the sound of footsteps to be heard again. But this time it was not the sound of the past, but the sound of the present. Someone was walking out from inside the hole.

Shad hurriedly hid next to the shelf where the wine barrels were placed, and then saw a man wearing a gray robe and a hood coming out.

The reason why we were able to tell that this was a man was because he looked around and actually stood next to the wall.

Shad imagined Ms. Aurora's expression when she knew a man was peeing in her wine cellar, then took off the ring on her hand and silently controlled the silver mist to float towards the man.

When the mist completely enveloped him, Shade glanced around furtively, then raised his sword with both hands, bent over and walked in on tiptoes.

About ten seconds later, Shade, with a little blood on his body, wore a man's robe and dispersed the silver mist around him.

The face of the corpse at its feet showed the appearance of an incomplete fish-man, which meant that its status in the Scarlet Secret Cult was not high.

Suffering from nausea, Shade smeared the slippery mucus on its face onto his own face. Afterwards, he worriedly smeared the mucus on his clothes, then folded the body as hard as he could, used the canvas on the shelf to turn it into a toy and stuffed it into his pocket.

After doing all this, he stood on tiptoes slightly to make himself look as tall as the man just now, then put on his hood, lowered his head and walked behind the hole.

Obviously the wine cellar was very dry, but as soon as the body entered behind the hole, the humid air caused Shade's breathing rate to change.

He has never been to such a humid place, and the moisture in the air seems to condense into water droplets and fall to the ground in the next second. Only a real body of water could be more humid than this. Shade couldn't figure out how this kind of humidity would appear under natural circumstances.

Hiding his head under his hood, Shade walked forward quickly with his head lowered. The destination was clear, because many people dressed the same as him were sitting in front.

In front of me is a space made of light gray damp masonry with disgusting moss on the walls. The area is not large, about two-thirds of the entire floor of Shade's house.

There is a layer of pitch-black water underfoot, and the room is illuminated with luminous moss on the walls, candles, and densely packed luminous beads on the dome above. Under the water is a pitted ground, with long rows of stone seats placed on the ground. Every once in a while, a small square hole is dug out of the wall. I don’t know what it is for. .

There were some blurred patterns on the light gray stone walls and the dome overhead. Looking around carefully, Shade was very sure that this should be a small church.

Based on the conversation overheard by the professors a few hours ago, behind the hole in the wall should be a secret religious gathering place established by the murlocs before the Aurora family bought the manor.

Understanding this, Shade stopped looking around and walked forward faster, joining a dozen people in gray robes who were sitting on the seats in front of the damp chapel. He chose to sit behind everyone rather than move forward to see more.

These gray robes are also very interesting. There is no pattern on the surface, but the hem of the robe seems to have been torn. Everyone here wears robes like this, which is a unique style of clothing decoration.

After Shade sat down, he finally had a chance to see the front of the damp chapel. There was no idol placed there, only a holy symbol that seemed to be made of bone. The holy symbol was in the shape of a spiral, and in the center of the spiral was the symbol of a fish head and a human body.

In front of the Holy Emblem, three equally obese old men, holding books and with severely alienated faces, were quietly whispering prayers to the evil **** [Lord of the Scarlet Spiral].

Xia De thought there were dozens of people whispering outside, but he didn't expect there were only three.

The book they were holding was the "Mystery of the Ocean" that Shade had seen in Mr. Jude's safe. However, the three books that appeared this time were all made of leather materials, and they seemed to record the evil knowledge of the cult.

Looking to the side...

"Huh?"

Xia De immediately lowered his head, because the person in front of him suddenly turned his head, and then looked at his companion behind him in confusion. Under the hood was the face of a half-fish man. After his eyes stayed on Shade for a few seconds, he twitched his nose and sniffed, then turned around and said nothing.

In addition to the disgusting mucus, the smell of [Drowning Murloc Scales] on Shade also made the cultists regard him as a companion. From this point of view, although this scale exposed Shade in front of the witch, it helped him in the damp chapel, so it was not useless if it was specially borrowed from Dorothy.

Xia De continued to observe carefully. The three fat murlocs holding books were standing at a higher position, so there was no water under their feet. Traces of concentric semicircles could be seen spreading outward with the murloc in the middle as the center of the circle. The black ink stains left blasphemous runes in the shape of seahorses on the ground. Shade tried to interpret them and found that they were not only a praise to the evil god, but also a praise to the ocean and death.

What he could see was only part of the ceremony, and he thought there were more traces of the ceremony in this small church.

"However, if there is any book that records the story of fish-men, it is "The Mystery of the Ocean"...Mr. Jude's may not be the complete version, but the one here must be the complete version. ”

Not taking away Mr. Jude's book last time is not considered a mistake by Shade, because Mr. Jude's book must not have complete information on returning the sea, otherwise the church would have to wait until the murlocs in the old street were wiped out. , you should be able to find a way to crack the ritual immediately.

My eyes continued to look around. There were only three murlocs praying in a low voice standing in the damp chapel. And among the people sitting in the long rows of seats, in addition to a dozen grey-robed murlocs, there were two other murlocs wearing The guy whose face is hard to see in the black robe must be a ring warlock from the church. He wears clothes of different colors for easy identification.

The only two people not wearing robes sat on the far left side of the first row of church seats. Shade recognized Darkness's back at a glance, and the person next to him must also be a member of the [Blood Spirit School].

"Besides me, there are four ring warlocks here. If we really have to fight, I can't defeat them even with the witch's ring..."

The right hand carefully retracted into the robe and touched the steam bomb hanging on the waist. Although Lecia didn't say what model it was, it would be hard for the Ring Warlocks to know if it exploded in this kind of underground space. Those murlocs with strong resilience would definitely be doomed.

"It would be great if I knew a spell like [Corpse Explosion]."

Thinking of the two corpses in his pocket again, Shade suddenly had an idea.