Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

"She resisted the summons of the gods. The Sea God will not let her go easily. The Sea God's will that remains in the temple will not allow anyone to challenge her majesty."

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536. Mermaid Under the Sea (4K8)

Aschero had not expected this.

In her imagination, even if the Sea God is not bloodthirsty, the powerful summons of the gods will definitely make Elsa suffer and force Elsa to use her full strength, so that she can have a concrete understanding of Elsa's power. Only in this way can she formulate targeted plans against Elsa. Intelligence is a very critical factor in the confrontation between strong people like them. Even if Elsa is very strong, as long as they take every step carefully and grasp her weaknesses, there will always be a way to deal with it.

but……

Aschero stared at the blazing white light that penetrated the sky and the sea and redrawn the skyline. On the surging sea surface, there was wind and fire, roaring thunder and hailstones. The boiling waves and water dragons had not yet stretched their bodies before they exploded in the light and were penetrated by the strong light. The beam of light tore through the dark sky and the dark ocean, and re-divided the skyline.

The scene was incredibly impressive, just like the terrifying miracle of the blow that had pierced the Undead General a few months earlier at the Dammas Cemetery. The scene he had witnessed through the Image Stone was now being repeated in the Poseidon's realm.

However, the difference between the Undead Demon General and the Sea God—how could it be possible to compare them?

"How can it be!"

Aschero asked in disbelief in his heart.

The Sea God's true form no longer existed in this sea. This was no secret, just like the other gods who once roamed this continent. Everyone knew that the Age of Gods had long since passed. Even the World Tree, the final miracle of the Age of Gods, had withered. All that remained was a wisp of Sea God's will, dependent on the temple. It was a masterless will, a will without a will.

But even so - the reason why gods are gods is that even though they have been silent for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, a trace of their will still makes the vast northern sea area surrounded by storms all day long. Not even the Church, not even the saint blessed by the goddess, can set foot there.

Gods and mortals are like the sun and fireflies! Even if this is just the will of the Sea God, it is destined to transcend all things in the world.

Only gods can fight against gods.

What's more, the stormy sea in this season is the most dangerous time of the year - with the arrival of the Far North cold wave, the storms in the Far North sea absorb the magic brought by the cold wave and expand, and the stormy sea in the cold winter reaches its peak.

But why is Elsa safe and sound?

This doesn't make sense.

Obviously, even someone as powerful as the arcane sage Tricia could not disobey the call of the sea god and disappeared in the tide, but why was Elsa still there? Elsa even stepped into the sea alone and suppressed the fierce storm so that it could no longer form... It was a one-sided suppression, the explosion was like a huge sunset rising from the sea, the fire wheel sank, and the entire sea level evaporated into a huge gap.

"The Sea God will not allow anyone to challenge her majesty."

Aschelo's dry voice was torn apart by the sea breeze. She tried to remain calm, but her heart was filled with intense uneasiness, and her eyebrows were twitching - looking at the figure in the storm, it was hard to tell which side was the challenger.

She knew that things would not go smoothly, because she could not control the will of the temple. Simply awakening the temple at the right time was already her limit.

But she never thought that the power of the temple would be unilaterally suppressed by Elsa.

The commotion at the Storm Sea was immense. Countless ships wailed beneath the heaving waves. The howling of the storm startled the sleeping residents, and the already well-prepared City Lord's Mansion rushed out in full force. But now, things had progressed beyond their control. Fortunately, the storm at sea did not reach the port of Bolmo. The fierce hurricane and waves dissipated as soon as they stepped onto the dock. There seemed to be an invisible wall separating land and sea, and the tens-meter-high waves could not even penetrate an inch.

In the distant western continent, the Holy Kingdom - Pope Ishtar Rand Wilmot anxiously rushed to the Temple of the Goddess as soon as possible. The birth of the Temple of the Sea God was undoubtedly a major event that could not be ignored. Moreover, this time the Goddess did not even send down any warning decrees. This abnormality made Wilmot feel very uneasy. He had to ask the Goddess for a new decree as soon as possible.

Deep within the sacred and solemn Temple of the Goddess, Saint Inksha knelt solemnly beneath the statue of the Goddess, offering a final prayer before nightfall. The vast distance between the Eastern and Western continents separated them. While it was the still and quiet of dawn in the Northern Kingdom, it was nightfall in the Vatican.

"Inksha," Wilmot suppressed his anxiety under the goddess's gaze, "Did the goddess give any revelation?"

"I'm sorry... I still can't seem to get the goddess's attention..."

Inksa lowered her head guiltily, feeling complicated.

She didn't know why, but some time ago, she suddenly couldn't receive the Goddess's will anymore. This made her fall into deep self-doubt. She wondered if she had failed to fulfill her duties as a Saint, and therefore had been abandoned by the Goddess. But this didn't explain the source of her current powerful strength. She knew it was indeed the divine blessing that only a Saint could possess. If there was anything strange, it was that the originally friendly blessing of the Holy Light had now become a powerful physical strength, even several levels stronger than her original self.

Wilmot naturally knew about Inksa's situation and sighed slightly. He didn't know the reason why Inksa was in this situation, which made him, a Pope, helpless.

And... the day for the canonization of the Holy Nun and the Holy Virgin will soon arrive. How can the ceremony go on like this?

Wilmot took a deep breath and soothed her, "It's okay, Inksha. This is clearly a test from the Goddess for you and for us. Saints of all generations have grown through repeated trials and tribulations of adversity, but the test you've received is special. Especially in times like these, you must remain true to your heart. You are our Saint, and no one can change that."

At this time, the solemn goddess statue was still gazing at them.

The young woman in the void saw all this through the goddess statue, her eyes widening involuntarily—she hadn't imposed any tests! Rather, she was wondering why her own Saint had lost all contact with her. The last time she sat for a long time, waiting for the Saint to pray, and when Inksha remained silent, she realized something was wrong.

This time, she finally lowered her eyes through the statue, but what she saw was such a bizarre scene, which made her feel extremely depressed.

"Damn it! Who is plotting against me and even taking away my Saint? Don't let me find you!"

She pumped her fists fiercely, gritted her teeth, and then deflated.

"But... this is bad... The Saint can't receive my divine decree. What should I do next? Without the Saint, the connection between the Holy See and me will be severed..."

At this time, outside the temple, Cardinal Rigato came quickly, followed by several cardinals and monks from the Observation Center.

Everyone had a solemn look on their faces. They had suddenly learned of the unusual movements in the Storm Sea, and therefore gathered here.

There is no doubt that tonight is a sleepless night for them.

In the distant Elf Forest, beneath the withered branches of the World Tree, the priests all opened their eyes and looked towards the Far North Sea.

In the imperial capital, the lights in the Queen's bedroom were still brightly lit late at night. Stikia, wearing a luxurious red robe, was bent over her desk, writing. She frowned as she pondered the folds of the book, but her thoughts were interrupted by hurried footsteps.

"Your Majesty!" The hurried approaching figure was none other than her personal bodyguard and secretary. "There's been some unusual activity in the Stormy Seas. It seems the Sea God Temple has appeared..."

Stikia's frown deepened.

"Poseidon Temple?"

Beneath the Stormy Sea lay the remains of Poseidon's Temple. This was no secret, for it was the sacred ground of the sea race. However, the Temple's discovery compelled Stikia to take it seriously. Since its demise during the Age of Gods, the Temple had only announced its presence through storms, never taking any other action. What was going on this time? What had happened in the Stormy Sea?

"Also, according to news from the North Country, Sister Elsa Faris and the Master of Mystic Sage appear to be in the storm..."

Before the secretary could finish her words, Stikia stopped writing. She suddenly raised her eyebrows and asked, "How is Elsa?"

"No, I don't know... The North Country still doesn't have any specific information..."

"Mobilize the forces and investigate!" Stikia stood up, her red velvet robe falling from her shoulders. "I want the details immediately."

The unusual movements in the Storm Sea can be regarded as an event that is powerful enough to shake up the world situation. Such is the weight of the gods.

At this time, Elsa stood on the sea, and with one punch, she stirred up a tsunami of a hundred meters across the entire sea. The storm that had stood in the sea for tens of thousands of years had now died down. Every time a tornado rose from the sea, it would be immediately crushed by Elsa's punch. After several times, the tornado seemed to have finally run out of power, and only the rolling waves were still stubbornly hitting Elsa.

"As the guardian of the World Tree, your friend will definitely be fine. You don't have to worry. She is very powerful and can protect herself."

Adele's confident voice came from the Black Sword.

"What about Becky?"

"She has your blood in her."

"My blood is so useful?"

"This is etiquette between gods—of course, you're being very rude now. She invited you, but you refused to go, and you turned around and lashed out at her. She's already angry."

Adele looked calm and composed, completely different from her panicked look just now - it was not her fault, she was indeed afraid at first, after all, the other party was the God of the Sea, even if it was only the will of the temple, but when she saw that Elsa could move freely in the domain of the God of the Sea, she naturally was not afraid anymore.

"Is that so?" Adele's words reassured Elsa a little. "As long as they're okay, that's fine. But no matter what, we should find a way to find the temple and rescue them."

Elsa was seriously considering whether to just punch through the sea, but she was worried about accidentally hurting Tricia and Becky who were missing.

"But, speaking of which, Elsa, why can you stand on the sea?"

Adele suddenly poked her head out curiously and looked at the soles of Elsa's feet. A large amount of water vapor gathered at the soles of Elsa's feet, and the water ripples around her were shaking violently, which looked particularly strange.

"That shouldn't be difficult to do, right? Even a novice magician should be able to stay on the surface of the water."

Elsa stared at the deep sea with burning eyes, feeling the obscure breath flowing beneath the seabed, and answered Adele's question - the waves were pulled by a force, and the source of that force was deeper in this sea.

"But, they use magic to condense ice blocks to stand on, or use magic to support them, right? What are you doing? I didn't see you use magic."

"Just shake your feet vigorously and you'll be able to step on the water."

"Ah?" Adele was stunned and shocked.

"Okay, I found it—Adele, I'll lend it to you."

Elsa raised her eyes slightly, drew out the black sword, and slashed down with the sword amid Adele's scream.

The power was attenuated and converged by the black sword, making it easier to control. The magic element was compressed and vibrated at high speed on the blade, drawing a dazzling crescent moon. The buzzing sound tore through the waves, forming a vacuum zone, splitting the bottomless sea surface into two. The deep sea was exposed in Elsa's eyes, like a deep-sea canyon thousands of meters long, but this canyon was closing rapidly.

Elsa tapped her feet, stepped on the closing waves, and suddenly exerted force, running straight down into the deep sea "canyon".

From a distance, it looked like she was surfing, but she was heading towards the bottom of the canyon.

Fifty meters, one hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters below the sea surface.

Elsa ran wildly all the way and instantly reached the deepest part under the sea. Only then did the waves on both sides finally close in.

"Alas!?"

Adele screamed, and Elsa grabbed her and slashed with the sword again. The canyon of sea water had just closed when a vacuum bubble several thousand meters long was cut out.

Elsa continued to descend.

For Elsa, swimming is naturally not as fast as running, and this is the fastest way for her to dive.

boom.

Finally, Elsa stepped onto the moist seabed mud. The shockwaves peeled away the sand and rocks, and the seabed seemed to sink several meters. The next moment, the vacuum bubble closed, and the seawater rushed in from all sides, drowning Elsa. Elsa didn't need to breathe deliberately. She pursed her lips, calmly found her direction, and walked forward on the dark seabed.

Adele was so shocked that she didn't know whether to speak or not.

She had never seen Elsa "dive" like this before. From the sea surface to here, it was at least ten thousand meters deep. Looking up, it was pitch black. Moreover, the concentration of magic elements in the stormy sea increased exponentially as one went deeper into the seabed, and the resistance and pressure were even more so. As a result, Elsa "ran" down in the time it took to breathe - even if the sea god himself came, he wouldn't be so fast.

In other words, most people would either swim down slowly or use space magic to teleport down like Tricia. This is the normal approach, right?

Adele suddenly had an illusion: without Tricia's guidance of "normal people", Elsa started to mess around on her own.

Keng——

At that moment, a gleaming silver spear pierced Elsa's shoulder. A sharp buzzing sound could be heard even through the water. The vacuum bubbles vibrated on its surface, undeniably the immense force of the blow. But Elsa remained motionless, staring to her side. It was pitch black there, but in her eyes, she saw a sturdy creature, half human, half fish, with hair as dark as the sea and eyes as azure as blue.

The weapon in its hand looked like a fine product that had been hammered and polished. It was wearing clothes whose material could not be seen. The skin of its cheeks, shoulders, and arms was covered with a large number of patterns.

The creature looked at the halberd in his hand in great horror, then looked up at Elsa who was not hurt at all, and found that Elsa was also looking at him. Facing those golden eyes, he felt that his scales were about to explode.

The sneak attack failed!

He yelled, making a sound Elsa couldn't understand.

In fact, Elsa had discovered him a long time ago, and not just this one. These half-human, half-fish creatures have surrounded Elsa since she set foot on the seabed. Elsa pretended not to see them. First, she didn't care, and second, Elsa needed to question them - Elsa had also seen a mermaid girl in the team of vampires. Obviously, these creatures living on the seabed are the same kind as that girl. In that case, this sea area is their habitat, they are the sea people, and the sea god is the god they worship.

The mermaid stared at Elsa and felt something was wrong. He turned around and tried to escape, but he couldn't pull out his halberd. Then he found that Elsa had already grabbed his weapon.

"Can you speak human language? Can you understand what I say? What are you?"

Elsa spoke without spitting out any bubbles, but simply used the vibrations caused by her throat muscles to make sounds.

But the other party obviously didn't understand what she was saying. The mermaid pushed the weapon towards Elsa with all her strength, then decisively threw it away and turned to flee. In the ocean, these mermaids had an absolute advantage, at least in terms of swimming speed, which was unmatched by humans.

Keng.

Elsa raised one hand and broke the halberd with her bare hands. She took a step forward and slapped the merman, creating a bubble. The sturdy mermaid was slapped to the ground in the mud before he could react. Elsa turned around and looked around, which immediately scared all the other mermaids who were about to rush forward.

They held their weapons tightly, and although they surrounded Elsa, they did not dare to move.

They knew they couldn't win because the one lying in the mud was already the most powerful warrior in their tribe.

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537. The Past of the Holy See and the Sea People (4K1)

The leading mermaid was the strong male mermaid who attacked Elsa. He picked up the half-broken spear, half of his face was swollen, and he looked quite embarrassed. Facing Elsa's gaze, he looked back with his head held high, speaking words that Elsa could not understand.

“￥%＆*＆＃@…”

Although I couldn't understand what he was saying, it was obvious that he was extremely angry in the tone of his voice.

Elsa discovered that when mermaids spoke, their jaws would sometimes rise and fall. They didn't have gills, but there were some differences from humans. Of course, this was more reflected in the way they vocalized.

The other mermaids stood by nervously, holding their weapons. They all looked timid, but still stood in a row behind the leading mermaid, staring at Elsa with their eyes wide open, as if they would never back down even if they had to turn themselves into a wall and sacrifice themselves.

It's worth to admire.

But it has nothing to do with Elsa.

Adele stayed in the Black Sword, leisurely translating the merfolk's words to Elsa. Adele didn't understand the language of the seafolk of this era, but she didn't need to understand; she could just use her mind-reading skills. Elsa discovered that this was perhaps Adele's most useful episode yet. Adele's mind-reading skills allowed her to not only read a person's true thoughts, but also forcefully instill Elsa's meaning into their heads, making it easy for her to communicate across languages ​​with these seafolk merfolk who didn't speak the same language.

"He said their tribe was the Cadcalus Sphinx, the Brave Warriors, the Guardians of the Sea..."

Adele said a lot of random nouns, and Elsa gave her a slap on the face.

"Don't cause trouble."

"I didn't cause any trouble, that's what he said..." Adele complained. "The Sea Clan attaches great importance to the nobility of bloodlines, so there are often chaotic and intertwined relationships between the clans in their tribe. Their names have become extremely complicated because of this. They often incorporate the names of their main and side clans to facilitate bloodline tracing. This way, after discovering a superior bloodline, it is easier to further purify it..."