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The moment they returned to the island, Hobert couldn't help but feel grateful that he was already an angel when exploring the third elven ruin. If he were only a demigod, he would have been affected by that unknown mental attack, turning him and Alger into a transportation team delivering Beyonder characteristics and Sealed Artifacts.
However, the instant their feet touched the ground, Hobert and Alger stepped on an extraordinary trap. Not only did they fall into the pit, but they were also bound by ropes that flew at them.
Trapped in a pit more than a person high, Alger's eyes gradually cleared: "This… how could there be an extraordinary trap here?"
"Hahaha! I've caught two big fish!" From outside the trap, a robust male voice suddenly shouted in Intis.
Hobert didn't immediately break free from the trap. Instead, he 'altered' the refraction path of light, allowing him to see the scene outside.
A middle-aged man with a face full of beard and unkempt hair was walking towards the trap. He was wearing a worn-out sailor's uniform, vaguely identifiable as Intis style.
The middle-aged man arrived at the edge of the trap: "Look, it's a pretty boy. His flesh must be…"
Hobert smiled slightly, using his 'Charm' ability.
"…Oh my god, isn't this… that… what's his name?" The middle-aged man's expression immediately changed. He looked at Hobert as if he were facing a close friend he could talk to about anything: "What are you doing here? My god, it must have been more than a decade since we last met, right?
"Oh, great Aklo be above! I never thought I'd see you again in this lifetime! Come on up, come on up!"
The middle-aged man reached out to pull them, but Hobert and Alger had already instantly appeared outside the trap, easily breaking free from the ropes.
Hobert also smiled and said, "Long time no see."
Alger roughly knew the abilities of the 'Lawyer' pathway, but he didn't expect that at the angel level, the 'distortion' or 'alteration' influence on the target would be as continuous and lasting as 'hypnosis'.
He knew the 'Emperor' intended to extract some information from this middle-aged man, so he stood quietly to the side.
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I knew this trap couldn't hold you. Have you had lunch yet? I have the most delicious human meat from the Berserk Sea. Would you like to try some?"
"No, thank you." Hobert frowned and asked, "Why do you emphasize the Berserk Sea?"
The middle-aged man said, "The nobles of the Northern Continent also love to eat it! We caught a noble once, and he was very knowledgeable about how to eat it. We learned a lot."
Alger looked at Hobert with some surprise. Hobert felt like he was about to throw up: "Not… not every noble likes that."
He jumped to the next topic: "You are the cannibals on this island?"
"What cannibals?" The middle-aged man looked around in horror: "Is this island so dangerous?"
Hobert was taken aback: "Then what were you referring to when you said 'delicious'?"
"Oh." The middle-aged man seemed to understand Hobert's meaning: "We are different from those barbarians. We cook different parts in the most reasonable way and enjoy the feeling of taste buds exploding."
At this point, Hobert noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the other party's spirit body, so he quietly mobilized a little power from the 'Nation of Disorder' to secretly protect himself and Alger.
He then asked: "Are you a crew member of the Intis Republic?"
"Yes!"
"Then why are you here?"
"I…" The middle-aged man suddenly looked blank: "I forgot…"
But then he said: "Our captain must know. I'll take you to see the captain and let him answer your questions."
Hobert nodded: "Alright, please lead the way."
While the middle-aged man was leading the way, Hobert quietly slipped Alger a piece of 'Order Crystal' and 'altered' the direction of sound transmission, using a voice that only the two of them could hear: "As long as you inject spirituality, it can form a very high-level shield."
Alger nodded and put away the black crystal.
Hobert continued to ask the middle-aged man in front: "Who is the 'Aklo' you mentioned earlier?"
The middle-aged man suddenly stopped, turned his head, and said to Hobert word by word with a ferocious expression: "It is, the great, Aklo!"
Hobert followed suit: "The great Aklo, is he… is he your god? Is that right?"
The middle-aged man's expression immediately softened: "Yes, she is the great 'Mother of Sea Monsters'! She also provides us with a constant stream of power, keeping our spirits in a full state."
After speaking, he continued to lead the way: "She is the greatest god! No god can compare to the great Aklo…"
Hobert looked at Alger behind him, using his eyes to ask if he had heard of this god.
Alger thought for a moment before shaking his head, indicating that he had never heard of it.
The middle-aged man continued to babble: "The surrounding sea monsters are all her children, and they all obey her orders, driving passenger ships to this island.
"We are the blessed of this great god, capturing those crew members and passengers, killing or raising the men, eating their flesh, and strengthening our bodies. Let the women get pregnant under the scarlet moonlight and sacrifice those newborn children to the great god…"
Hobert frowned again. These people were not only cannibals but also cultists of an evil god!
Then he thought: Why does the so-called Aklo call herself the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' instead of the 'God of Sea Monsters'?
Could it be that a female sea monster devoured that Beyonder characteristic at the demigod level? But thinking of the trident trap before, he vaguely felt that things were not so simple.
In the middle-aged man's incessant narration, Hobert and Alger followed him to a gathering place on the hillside.
This was a small village with a dozen simple thatched huts and two huge cages. One cage contained a dozen men with blank expressions.
The other, larger cage, with a shed to shelter from the wind and rain, held one or two hundred women. Most of them were pregnant, and a few women held newborn babies in their arms, showing concern for their children and revealing their most ferocious side to their guards.
Outside the two cages were several people dressed similarly to the middle-aged man who led the way, greeting him, but they seemed to completely ignore Hobert and Alger who followed behind.
The middle-aged man explained as he led Hobert and Alger through the thatched huts: "Not long ago, a passenger ship was driven here by the sea monsters and ran aground near the coast.
"There are still dozens of passengers hiding in a corner of this island. Most people have gone to catch them."
In his explanation, the three arrived at an open space.
This island was in the tropics, and surrounded by tropical forests, so suddenly having such an open space seemed very abrupt.
In the center of the open space was a very thick tree. It had a red canopy, making Hobert feel like it was ready to attack at any moment.
The middle-aged sailor walking in front said: "Captain, I have two good friends who want to ask you some questions."
"You fool, you've been used by them!" The red-crowned tree slowly 'turned around', revealing the scene on the other side.
There was a cavity in the trunk, magically forming the shape of a chair. On the chair was a person with dry, shriveled skin, like tree bark.
The clothes on this person's body were already very tattered, and two small branches grew out of two holes.
He seemed to only have an upper body, growing together with the wooden chair from the abdomen.
Hobert raised his hand and 'tampered' with the surrounding atmospheric pressure. The middle-aged man who had led them here was instantly compressed into a sphere in horror and burst, scattering blood and flesh all over the ground.
Alger quietly watched this scene, put his hand in his pocket, pinched the 'Order Crystal' that Hobert had given him, and was ready to inject spirituality into it at any time.
Hobert looked at the captain: "Perhaps we should have a good chat."
"It seems that someone has finally come to end this damned nightmare!" The captain sized up Hobert with scarlet eyes, seemingly sensing that this was an angel, and his tone was a little relieved.
"You still have reason? Not bad! Not bad." Hobert praised noncommittally, then asked: "You used to be crew members of the Intis Republic?"
"Yes."
"About sixty years ago…"
Hobert thought he had misheard: "Sixty years ago?"
"Yes, sixty years ago!" The captain said: "For some special reason, we have gained an amazing lifespan."
Hobert said "Oh" and signaled him to continue.
"About sixty years ago, our warship was attacked by the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' in the nearby waters."
The captain continued, "After my crew and I fell into the sea, a voice suddenly asked us if we were still willing to breathe freely?"
"Gentlemen, I don't know if you've ever experienced the feeling of suffocation, but in that situation, even the person with the strongest willpower would answer 'yes'."
Alger, behind Hobert, nodded slightly.
He had used suffocation to force confessions more than once, and it was indeed easy to break a person's psychological defenses.
"We also knew that regaining the freedom to breathe would definitely come at a price, but we had no other choice."
The captain said very calmly, "So we became puppets of the 'Mother of Sea Monsters', trying to provide Her with fresh life constantly."
"At first, the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' wanted strong adults, but later She demanded that we provide newborn babies!"
"Of course, we also received some benefits, such as living longer."
"But we had to believe in the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'. Under the influence of this god, the crew members all became fond of the taste of human flesh, and their minds gradually became abnormal."
The other party seemed very willing to recount these events, so he explained them very clearly.
Hobert nodded thoughtfully, then looked at the captain's condition: "Why are you growing together with a tree?"
"When the ship sank, I was accidentally locked by an iron chain, and then torn in two by the repeated pulling of the ship."
The captain suddenly showed a bitter expression:
"At that time, the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' promised to prolong my life, but I didn't expect it would be prolonged in this way."
"After being injured, I remember my intestines flowing out.
Now I don't even know what's inside my stomach."
The captain took a deep breath: "Look at me now, do I still look like a person?
"And I've had enough of the smell of rotting human bodies.
After I finish answering your questions, please kill me!"
As he spoke, the ground suddenly began to squirm, and thick tree roots emerged from the ground like giant snakes.
Beneath these roots, rotting corpses hung from the root hairs.
Some of these corpses were just beginning to rot, emitting a strange white color, while others had rotted until only bones remained.
"Ugh ~" Alger, who usually looked ruthless, turned his head away and spat.
Suddenly, the mouths of those corpses on the roots opened together, each spraying out a plume of dark green smoke.
"Hahaha ~" Amid the captain's strange laughter, these smokes rushed towards Hobert and Alger.
Alger didn't have time to spit anymore and quickly injected his spirituality into the "Order Crystal", and a black shield quickly enveloped him.
Hobert smiled slightly, waved his hand, and these dark green mists were suddenly pulled and driven by the force of nature, stuffing them into the mouth of the captain who was laughing strangely.
The captain quickly closed his mouth, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't close his mouth.
This was because Hobert had "tampered" with the force exerted by the muscles in his mouth, so that this part of the force was like a spinning gear, not playing any role.
When all the dark green gas had poured into the captain's mouth, the red canopy of the tree turned dark green.
The captain supported his upper body with his arms, breathing heavily for a while, and then asked with a painful expression and a hoarse voice: "How did you realize that I was lying to you?"
Hobert sneered: "Related to a wild god...no, an evil god.
Your own state is so strange, how could you still have the sanity of a normal person?"
After hearing this, the captain grinned hideously: "You think you've won?
No, no, no, those mists can contaminate you with just one glance, even angels are no exception!"
Hobert asked: "Is this why the Intis Republic hasn't come to deal with you all this time?
Because they might be subjected to unknown corruption?"
"Yes..."
But the captain immediately realized something was wrong: "You...why..."
"Why haven't I been corrupted, right?"
Hobert smiled and said: "Because a god has been protecting my spirit body!"
After noticing that the spirit body of the middle-aged man leading the way was not quite normal, He secretly protected the spiritual bodies of himself and Alger with the power of the "Nation of Disorder".
Because basically all unknown corruption starts from the spirit body, and Hobert is basically immune to corruption that starts from the physical body or the spirit body, or has a solution.
As Hobert spoke, he reached out as if grabbing in the air, and a bone-white cane appeared in his hand, which was the "0-73" Death Domain.
Under His control, the corpses that had begun to rot under those roots seemed to suddenly come alive, and began to gnaw on the tree roots.
"Ah ~" The captain let out a scream, and the roots slammed hard on the ground, trying to crush the rotting corpses that were causing him pain.
However, Hobert used the "Death Domain" to strengthen those corpses, and the more the roots slammed, the more fiercely they tore.
Soon some hard bark was torn off, and some disgusting yellow liquid flowed out.
Hobert asked coldly: "Can we have a good talk now?"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
The captain immediately said: "But, but you can't kill me!"
Hobert nodded: "Okay, I won't kill you, but I will kill your subordinates."
"No problem!"
The captain nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely answer your questions seriously!"
Hobert raised his hand slightly, and the corpses still hugged the roots tightly, but stopped tearing.
He asked: "What exactly is the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'?"
"It is, it is a sea demon!"
The captain took a breath before saying: "It should be a sea demon.
"I am only responsible for providing Her with 5 babies every month.
I don't know what She is specifically.
It looks like it should be a sea demon."
Hobert pointed to his roots and asked: "Where did this corruption come from?"
"It was bestowed upon me by the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'," the captain quickly replied, "I don't know where it came from, I only know that this corruption is very powerful, and scared away even the Intis Republic's high-level investigation team."
Hobert pressed: "What does the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' want the children for?"
"I don't know either, really don't know!"
The captain replied while thinking: "But I noticed that the 'Mother of Sea Monsters' seems to like these children very much.
"Once I vaguely heard Her talking to the babies, just like...just like a child's mother talking to her own children.
"And, and She has repeatedly asked us to treat these children's mothers well."
Hobert frowned, having some bad associations.
He asked again: "How do you contact the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'?"
"Pray to Her, or you can see Her during the sacrifice."
The captain replied: "The honorific name is, the King of the Sea Demons on the Sea..."
"When is the next sacrifice?"
Hobert interrupted the other party from reciting the honorific name.
"Tonight."
"What is the process of the sacrifice?"
"Put five babies on the altar, then light the dried seaweed that the god likes, everyone leaves the altar, and at nine o'clock in the evening, the god will take away the babies under the night."
Hobert nodded and began to question another matter: "Not far from this island, the trident trap, was it set up by the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'?"
"I, I don't know."
The captain said a little flustered.
Hobert looked at Alger: "Do you have any questions?"
Alger pondered for a moment and asked the captain: "Why haven't we heard of the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'?"
It would be understandable if "The Emperor" didn't know, but he, a professional pirate and part-time member of the Storm Church, had never heard of this wild god, which was a bit strange.
You should know that the Storm Church pays close attention to the wild gods at sea, especially this kind of wild god who is obviously on the "Sailor" pathway, and will definitely regard it as an important target of attention.
But the entire Storm Church has no records of the "Mother of Sea Monsters", which is a bit strange.
Theoretically speaking, although this area is a colony of the Intis Republic and does not belong to the missionary area of the Storm Church, it will definitely announce the information about this wild god to its members, and try to let members like Alger inquire about the news of this wild god.
The captain thought for a moment before saying: "Maybe, maybe it's because She's relatively low-key?"
Alger shook his head slightly, not satisfied with this answer.
Then he asked: "Have your crew members also been corrupted?"
The captain was very clear about this, so he quickly said: "No, they are only affected by Her because they often pray to the 'Mother of Sea Monsters'."
Alger nodded: "I have no more questions."
Hobert said "Oh," then reached out as if pulling a crown with rust and bloodstains from the void.
He glanced at the captain, and the great tree immediately burst into white flames.
"Ah~" the captain cried miserably, saying in a shrill voice, "You're breaking your promise! You said you wouldn't kill me!"
"You lackey of an evil god! Don't ruin my reputation!" Hobert said sternly, "I clearly said I was going to burn you to death, not kill you!"
The captain wanted to say something, but he had already fallen out of the tree hole and quickly burned to ashes in the white flames.
In just two or three seconds, the entire tree, along with the corpses on its roots, was burned to ashes.
Finally, only the dark red Beyonder characteristic wrapped in dark green liquid remained. Only then did Hobert extinguish the white flames and immediately return the "Conqueror" Beyonder characteristic to the "Nation of Disorder."
Then, Hobert sealed the corrupted Beyonder characteristic with the "Order Crystal" and, seeing that there was no risk of leakage, put the Beyonder characteristic into the "Nation of Disorder."
Hobert pondered for a moment before saying to Alger, "Dealing with the 'Mother of the Sea Monsters' next will be very dangerous, so you should not participate.
After things are over, if there is a Beyonder characteristic of the 'Sailor' pathway at the demigod level, I will give you a copy of the 'Catastrophe High Priest' Characteristic, and all other spoils will belong to me."
Alger nodded repeatedly, "Okay!"
He also realized the danger of this exploration, so he had no intention of being brave.
The two of them returned to the cages where the men and women had been imprisoned separately. The guards from before had disappeared without a trace.
If it weren't for the two Beyonder characteristics next to the cages, and some dust, Alger would have thought they had escaped.
The people in the cages cried out to Hobert and Alger for help. Hobert had Alger stay there while he entered the spirit world and left.
Ten minutes later, Hobert returned with several Beyonders. Some of them carried a door, quickly setting up a "Traveler's Door."
Immediately afterward, more than a dozen Beyonders arrived, and then a team of soldiers with real guns and ammunition, as well as many doctors and nurses, came out of the "Traveler's Door."
When the doctors began to examine the bodies of the people in the cages, they realized they had been rescued. Many people, especially the men, burst into tears.
They had seen many of their companions being slaughtered like cattle and sheep. If it weren't for the rescue by Hobert and the others, they would have met the same fate sooner or later.
During their initial examination, because it was lunchtime, the other members of the "Cannibal Tribe" returned one after another and were captured and killed by the official Beyonders.
After confirming that everyone was okay, and Hobert also confirmed that they had not been corrupted, he gave them two choices: either return to the Intis Republic, or go to Longtail Island to live.
Hobert left these matters to his subordinates. He went to the altar by the sea to take a look, and in the direction of the sea, he could see some traces of giant beasts passing by.
Hobert deduced that the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" should have some tentacles with a fishy, smelly mucus, and it was very large.
After making the most basic judgment, Hobert looked at the altar again: it was best to wait for the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" to come to the altar before suddenly attacking.
Then five children are needed as bait!
Hobert glanced at the papaya tree not far away. There were many ripe papayas, exuding a burst of fragrance.
With a wave of his hand, he "distorted" the positions of the five large papayas, instantly making the five papayas appear neatly on the altar.
Then Hobert "tampered" with the shapes of the five papayas, turning them into the shapes of babies, looking lifelike and basically able to pass off as real.
Finally, Hobert also injected spirituality into them and caused a little "chaos" in the spirituality around the altar to confuse the other party's inspiration.
From a mystical point of view, they also have the characteristics of life. Unless you directly come into contact with them, it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the false.
Next is to wait for the prey.
Waiting is an indispensable part of the hunting process. Hobert did not go to busy himself with other things, and waited patiently for the night to fall.
In the unhurried sound of the waves, Hobert's heart became more and more peaceful. He calmly watched the sun set and calmly watched the moon rise.
The hazy moonlight shrouded everything around, looking somewhat unreal.
Hobert quietly wrapped himself in a "Wall of Spirituality" under the moonlight, shielding all his aura.
At this time, he was so calm that he had no murderous intent on his body, as if he had merged with the bushes.
At this moment, a woman's head with blue hair emerged from the offshore waters. Her face had fine scales and a kind expression, with a superimposed beauty of femininity and beastliness.
As more and more of her emerged from the sea, Hobert saw a sea monster with the upper body of a human woman, but the lower abdomen was covered with smooth tentacles.
She was huge. Even her upper body was more like a female giant, which seemed incompatible with her kind expression.
The "Mother of the Sea Monsters" came out of the sea while saying in a doting tone: "Look, these five little darlings are sleeping so soundly. Come to mother, how about mother takes you to play in the seabed."
Just as the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" was about to go ashore, she suddenly stopped, smelling with her nose with some doubt, as if she had noticed something was wrong.
Hobert knew that he could not wait any longer. As long as this kind of prey with keen inspiration noticed something was wrong, they would choose to escape at any time.
He did not move, but continuously used "Distort!", "Tamper!", and "Magnify!" in the bushes.
He first "distorted" the sea water, making it seem as if the sea water suddenly had life, tightly entangling the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" who was about to escape.
Immediately afterward, Hobert "tampered" with the temperature of the sea water, causing it to freeze immediately, and finally "magnified" the hardness of the ice, as well as the previous "tampering" of the temperature, causing the temperature to instantly become lower.
In an instant, a large area of the surrounding sea was completely frozen, and the frost spread all the way to the shore. The "Mother of the Sea Monsters" was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture, and many tropical plants were also frozen.
Hobert knew that this kind of freezing could only temporarily trap the "Mother of the Sea Monsters", but could not kill it, so he "distorted" and "tampered" with the surrounding air. The air was quickly concentrated together, forming an air gun with a huge impact, piercing towards the "Mother of the Sea Monsters", preparing to cut her in half.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew from the sea, turning into invisible wind blades, slowing down the impact of the "air gun", but the air gun "pinched" out by Hobert still pierced a big hole in the "Mother of the Sea Monsters".
"Magnify!" Hobert immediately "magnified" the opponent's injury. The "Mother of the Sea Monsters" instantly became sluggish, and the hole in her body expanded, becoming an injury that made her life precarious.
Crack ~
At this time, two huge lightning bolts struck Hobert and the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" respectively. Hobert raised his hand slightly, and the two lightning bolts suddenly crossed together, turning into a spherical shape emitting a grim light, and immediately floated towards the "Mother of the Sea Monsters".
Hobert didn't know why the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" wanted to strike him with lightning, but this attack, which he formed with "ball lightning" as inspiration, would instantly burn the fat, inorganic matter, etc. in the living body, causing internal combustion, and could burn the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" to ashes within a few seconds.
The still frozen "Mother of the Sea Monsters" seemed to realize the power of the "electric ball" in front of her, and her frozen eyes were filled with fear.
In the next instant, she seemed to have made some decision, causing a large amount of dark green gas to gush out from the wound. The "Mother of the Sea Monsters" quickly shrank, like a deflated balloon.
Hobert did not dare to be careless and immediately "distorted" his position, appearing in mid-air.
Although he can now resist part of the corruption of the Outer Deities, it basically refers to indirect corruption. These dark green gases are closer to direct corruption, so he still has to be careful.
In mid-air, Hobert saw the "Mother of the Sea Monsters", who had shrunk a lot and become about the size of a normal person, finally escaped the encirclement of the ice and crossed into the sea.
Hobert once again took out the "0-73" Death Domain from the "Nation of Disorder", preparing to attack the spirit body of the "Mother of the Sea Monsters".
But the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" instantly disappeared in the water. Hobert's spirituality could not sense her whereabouts either. In the sea, it was the domain of the "Sailor".
Hobert smiled slightly, came to the beach in front of the altar, broke off a section of her frozen tentacles, and quickly sensed the location of the "Mother of the Sea Monsters" using the ability of "Connection".
He immediately pursued using the method of "distorting" space, quickly reaching a deep-sea area.
Hobert landed on the sea surface, glanced into the water, but couldn't see anything.
He suspected that the elven ruins, with their special protection, should be on the seabed at this location.
So, he once again "distorted" space and swiftly entered the sea.
Hobert was still surrounded by air, effectively isolating the seawater.
From the outside, it looked as if Hobert was riding in a giant bubble as he descended.
In just two or three seconds, Hobert had already descended into a pitch-black depth devoid of any signs of life.
However, Hobert's "connection" ability indicated that the "Mother of Sea Monsters" was still below.
Hobert cautiously slowed his descent, wary of possible traps.
Suddenly, a faint blue light appeared in the darkness.
At the same time, some massive figures seemed to be hovering around the bubble.
Hobert used his spiritual perception and decided that the time was right.
He took out the "Sun Scepter," and suddenly, a small sun seemed to appear at the bottom of the sea.
The intense sunlight dispelled all the darkness.
Bathed in the holy light, Hobert saw many gigantic sea monsters around the bubble.
They were writhing in pain under the sunlight, quickly swimming away.
This was precisely the effect Hobert wanted to achieve by using the "Sun Scepter" at this moment.
The holy light attacked the sea monsters' spiritual bodies and visually shocked them in the dark environment, causing many of them to faint directly, while the rest immediately fled.
Hobert didn't give chase because he was also stunned by the scene before him.
He saw a massive statue at the bottom of the sea, so large that it filled his vision, slowly rising.
The statue was in the image of a woman, with a kind smile and a serene expression, making one feel no desire to use any force in its presence.
This statue was the largest artificially modified object Hobert had seen since coming to this world.
The shock in Hobert's heart came from the depths of his being, from the fear and awe of giant objects.
Taking a deep breath, he quickly adjusted his state and sighed again: 'Fortunately, I came to explore these ruins after becoming an angel.
If I were a demigod, merely seeing this statue would have been enough to be corrupted to some extent.'
The statue continued to rise slowly.
Hobert saw a mark between the statue's eyebrows emitting a fused blue light.
The shape of the mark was somewhat like a trident!
This was the trap that Hobert and Alger had encountered before!
Fortunately, Hobert had quickly taken Alger away.
Otherwise, if they had been sucked into the seabed, Alger would have been 80 to 90 percent likely to be corrupted by this giant statue.
While Hobert was thinking about how to deal with the statue, he sensed some changes in the surrounding spirituality, as if his body could undergo a mutation at any moment.
At this point, Hobert was certain that the "Mother of Sea Monsters" had indeed been influenced by the "Mother Goddess of Depravity."
The image of a mother, the need for infants, and the mutation of surrounding creatures all seemed to correspond to the related authorities of this Outer God.
Hobert didn't immediately respond because the statue's power was quite limited and couldn't cause him too much damage.
With a wave of his hand, the buoyancy around the statue decreased, and the gravity increased.
The statue, which was already rising slowly, stopped there, unmoving.
Hobert pondered for a moment and took out the "0-71" Disaster Porcelain Doll from the "Nation of Disorder," causing an earthquake in the surrounding sea area.
The surrounding seawater shook slightly.
The power of the earthquake had already reached here and would continue to spread upwards, forming a tsunami on the surface.
However, Hobert "tampered" with the power of the tsunami and the earthquake, immediately turning these forces into compression and tearing against the statue.
The giant statue was instantly crushed into several sections, gradually disintegrating in the seawater.
Hobert wasn't careless at all, keeping a close eye on the statue.
He saw its collapsing mouth suddenly move, revealing a bizarre smile.
The light between its eyebrows suddenly became brighter, but soon, like a light bulb that had been overused, it instantly went out in the next second.
Hobert frowned.
This smile made him feel that the statue couldn't have been destroyed so easily.
To be safe, he summoned the power of the "Nation of Disorder," forming a black shield, ready to observe further.
As soon as the black shield formed, the "Disaster Porcelain Doll" in Hobert's hand suddenly jumped up: "Hehehe! Are you ready to become a sea monster?"
Hobert quickly resealed the "Disaster Porcelain Doll" with the "Order Crystal."
Then, he discovered that, without him knowing, webbing had grown between his fingers.
Immediately after, he noticed that the outside of the black shield seemed to be covered with a layer of white film.
The film was slowly wriggling as if it were alive, as if searching for a way to attack Hobert.
However, the black shield completely isolated them, not giving them any chance.
This should be the attack from when the statue collapsed.
Hobert guessed that it seemed to be able to transform him into a sea monster.
If it were another angel, such an attack might have had some impact, and it might even have allowed the "Mother Goddess of Depravity" to locate them and carry out further influence and corruption.
But Hobert didn't need to worry about such an attack because the power that the "Mother Goddess of Depravity" could invest in the real world was very limited.
Such an attack was not difficult for him to deal with.
Because the black shield could isolate all extraordinary power, even Hobert's extraordinary attacks would be sealed inside, so he first removed the shield.
The moment the shield disappeared, Hobert "distorted" his position, appearing outside the white film.
Those films immediately "swam" towards Hobert.
Hobert waved his hand, using the power of "Chaos" to make the film lose its direction of attack, only spinning around in a certain sea area.
Then, Hobert put the sealed "Disaster Porcelain Doll" back into the "Nation of Disorder" and took out the "0-76" Death God Sword from it, setting the film ablaze with white flames.
Although it was in the seawater, it didn't prevent the burning of these white flames.
They were not only scorching those films but also burning the seawater!
Hobert descended a certain distance further, setting the sinking giant statue on fire.
Whoosh~
In the dark underwater, eerie white flames darted around, illuminating the entire seabed.
The sea monsters in the surrounding sea area were swimming around, as if wanting to come and put out the fire, but obviously, they were very clear that they couldn't put out this fire with their abilities at all, so they could only hover around.
Hobert saw from afar that there was indeed an ancient ruin in the deeper seabed, as well as dense sea monster nests.
After the film was burned to ashes and the statue was burned to lime and immediately pulverized under the watering of the seawater, Hobert put away the "Death God Sword" and continued to descend.
Two seconds later, Hobert arrived at the ancient ruins.
This was indeed an elven ruin, but it had collapsed quite severely, and there wasn't a single complete building.
Only around a coral throne was there an underwater space like a bubble.
The "Mother of Sea Monsters" was sitting powerlessly on the throne, staring intently at Hobert.
Hobert first "gifted" the mutation on his body to her.
Just as he was about to attack, the surrounding sea monsters swam over, wanting to rescue the "Mother of Sea Monsters."
But the "Mother of Sea Monsters" shouted with tears in her eyes: "Children, leave here, you are no match for him!
Go to the Misty Sea, to more remote places, start your new lives, survival is the most important thing!'"
The sea monsters suddenly paused, hesitated for a second or two, and then left amid cries of sorrow.
Hobert said to the "Mother of Sea Monsters": "I will not hunt down those sea monsters, but you must die.
This is also what I hate most about the 'Mother Goddess of Depravity,' she always uses the maternal instincts of creatures to achieve her sinister purposes.'"
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