Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

Adele explained very quickly, fearing that Elsa would misunderstand.

"I see?"

Elsa suddenly felt her eyes were opened. Simply put, crossbreeding was prevalent within the sea tribe. The direct result of crossbreeding was that the clan system existed in name only, management was chaotic, and even the entire family lineage was a mess. Age was hardly an obstacle to mating here.

They do this not because they like mating, but simply to screen their bloodline.

Elsa couldn't help but mutter in her heart: Are we playing this way to gamble for SSR cards?

"I really misunderstood you," Aisha touched the black sword. "Next time, I'll give you a drop of blood as compensation. Let's get to the point."

"Great."

Adele immediately forgot the pain, cleared her throat, and continued seriously.

"He said that because of disturbing anomalies in the temple, the clan leader ordered them all to go to the temple to investigate. He is a famous warrior in his clan."

Is he really famous? Aisha couldn't help but look at the leading murloc, Kadkalus.

It might be impolite to say this, but judging by Elsa's perception, this so-called renowned warrior couldn't even defeat Brammut, the Guild Master of Weilin Town. He probably wouldn't last a single blow against Charlie or Becky. A warrior from just one clan didn't seem that strong. Could it be that Kadcalus's clan was just a small, insignificant one among the sea creatures?

"On the way to the temple, I noticed the ocean currents were reversed and undercurrents were surging, so I came over and saw you, a foreigner. This place is close to the temple's holy ground, so I will regard you as an enemy for entering the holy ground. And then..."

From Adele's words, Elsa finally understood the whole story.

"What a coincidence, you're going to the temple too," Aisha smiled, "Me too."

Adele forced Elsa's words into the other party's consciousness. Kalus was horrified, and then he resolutely blocked Elsa's way.

"Outsiders are not allowed to enter our sacred land! Especially you pagans!"

"pagan?"

"It refers to those who serve the goddess, that is, the people of the church." Adele explained, seeming a little confused. "That's not right. The Sea God and the Goddess don't have a deep blood feud... Why do I feel like they all hate the church so much..."

Hate the church?

No wonder, Elsa suddenly remembered that when she saw the female mermaid at the port, she kept staring at Elsa. She didn't feel anything at the time, but now when she thinks about it, that look was full of hatred, right?

"Have you seen any other humans besides me?" Elsa didn't dwell on this question and continued to ask about Tricia and Becky.

Cadcalus cried angrily.

"Damn human! As long as I'm here, don't even think about desecrating my sacred land. I'll kill you!" Adele imitated Kadcalus's tone and yelled, then added calmly, "He hasn't seen it."

Not surprising.

Adele continued, "But the Sea God Temple will summon anyone who enters the Sea Clan's territory. The Temple's will will not let go of those malicious invaders—this is the will left by the Sea God before he left, protecting the Sea Clan."

"Has he been summoned to the temple?"

Elsa has a target, the Temple of Poseidon.

She asked a few more simple questions, gaining a better understanding of the sea tribe and the Poseidon Temple. Of course, Kadkalus refused to answer a single word. He stared at Elsa defiantly, as if he would never betray his tribe even if he died. The other mermen admired his bravery immensely. This did not tarnish their reputation as warriors, but they had no idea that Adele could read minds.

From the information she got from them, Elsa noticed something surprising: the Temple of Poseidon had actually been silent for many years. The storm in the Far North Sea could be controlled to a certain extent, but unfortunately, controlling the storm required the secret treasure of the sea people, which was a pearl. However, the holy object that symbolized the authority of Poseidon was lost decades ago during the Demon King War - and it was the Church at that time that lost it.

At the beginning, the King of Mermaids, also His Majesty the Sea Emperor, handed over the treasures of the sea clan to the then Holy See and lent them to the Holy See for use. This was a great trust. However, not long after, the Demon War suddenly broke out. The Demon King led his army to attack the Holy City, and the holy objects were lost.

The Sea King believed that the Pope had not fulfilled his obligation to keep the holy object. He also suspected that the holy object was not lost, but was hidden by the Pope under the pretext of the invasion of demons.

Because in the decades that followed, the holy relic never appeared, as if it had vanished from this world—if the demons had taken it, why hadn't they recovered it after the demon army's defeat? It's important to remember that the main force that defeated the demon army was humanity, and the Vatican is the leader of the human race. Is there some hidden conspiracy here?

As a result, the sea people broke with the Church.

This is why these mermaids hate Elsa so much. In their history, the Holy See is undoubtedly a complete villain.

“I’ve never heard of this story.”

Even the old priest never mentioned it.

But Elsa didn't care. Although she had no intention of making enemies with these mermaids, she would not stop because of the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See.

"Let's go to their temple."

Elsa's gaze pierced through the dark sea water and stared at the underwater canyon in front of her. There was a strong smell of magic there, and deep below was the temple.

"Damned pagans, don't even think about crossing over to me..."

When Kadkalus saw that Aisha had accurately found the location of their holy land, he was immediately furious. He no longer cared about the difference in strength. He raised his arms and led a group of warriors to attack Aisha.

Elsa raised her hand and struck Kadkalus, sending him to his knees in the seabed mud and unconscious. They were simply fulfilling their duty to protect their sacred land. Elsa had no grudge against them, so she didn't resort to harsh action. But the other merpeople, seeing this, were furious and, one after another, raised their weapons and attacked Elsa.

At this moment, a loud shout came from the front.

"Stop it all!"

Elsa turned to see a female mermaid leading dozens of figures, swiftly approaching on the current. The leading mermaid had a graceful figure, her long, wavy, aquamarine hair swaying in the water. Her clear, azure eyes glared furiously at Elsa. Her cheeks bore a slight bruise, yet it didn't detract from her appearance. Elsa had seen this face before. It was the mermaid she'd seen at the harbor, but back then, she'd been tightly wrapped in a robe. Now, clutching two beautiful scimitars, her tail swung as she stood commandingly, the image of a dashing female warrior.

Behind her, there were several sea warriors wearing scale armor, holding weapons, and with various characteristics of marine creatures on their bodies. Each of them stared at Elsa with a bad look on their faces.

And in the deeper sea farther away, dense swarms of sea creatures are swimming towards this side at high speed.

"You outsiders, please leave immediately!"

She quickly glanced at the fallen Kadekalus, then looked at Aisha and issued a warning in a cold tone.

Only then did Aisha notice that she was actually speaking in the common language of humans.

"I came to find my friends. They seem to have been summoned by the temple." Aisha said, looking at the mermaid girl.

"leave!"

The mermaid girl repeated.

Elsa had long noticed the mermaid girl's abnormally rapid heartbeat. The girl's muscles were unnaturally tense, her pupils trembled from time to time, and the speed of blood flow and the rise and fall of her chest were telling Elsa that although the mermaid girl had a condescending attitude, she was actually afraid of Elsa in her heart.

It was understandable that an enemy could ignore the power of the Sea God that they relied on and directly invade their holy land - the power gap between the two sides was too great, there was no way to fight, so they could only pretend to be tough.

"I remember that you were also summoned by the Sea Temple just now. Why are you here? Where are my friends?"

At that time, only Elsa and the city guards protected by Elsa were not affected by the power of the sea god. The rest of the people disappeared without a trace, including the mermaid in front of them.

"She's a member of the Sea Tribe, so she was able to leave the temple freely—she hasn't met Tricia and Becky." Adele's voice suddenly entered Elsa's mind. "She came here looking for reinforcements. Those behind her are... It seems something unusual is happening at the Sea Temple. Someone has used her bloodline to break into the depths of the temple."

"Oh? Is there anything else?"

Elsa had long felt that this matter was a little unusual. Now that she had come to this point, she was almost certain that all this had something to do with Tate - the mermaid girl had originally fallen into Tate's hands, and Tate would not have gone to the trouble to capture her for no reason. So, the answer was obvious.

But there is no way Tate can do this.

And...what was Tate's intention in entering the depths of the temple?

At this moment, the mermaid swallowed, her chest heaving, and she seemed to be gathering all her strength to shout loudly:

"Cunning pagans! You used despicable means to steal the holy relics from our tribe, and now you use such dirty means to put pressure on us? You will never covet our holy land! The power of protection left to us by the gods will never pass you by! We will never welcome you! I say again, please leave!"

"I won't leave until I see them, and you can't stop me."

Aisha said.

The girl bit her lip and forced a hum. She glanced behind her and saw more and more sea creatures gathering from afar. Then she looked at Aisha and said loudly:

"So what? If we all come together, you can't kill us all!"

When the girl said this, she was afraid in her heart, but she had to say this, because they really did not have the power to stop Elsa, so they could only threaten her - although they broke with the Church, they actually knew very well that the Church serving the goddess would never kill the sea people who were descendants of the sea people, and the nun's uniform on Elsa was the only way to restrict Elsa now.

Aisha didn't expect her to say that and was stunned for a moment.

Then turned around and left.

With just one step, the mud and sand on the seabed were blown up like a storm sweeping across the desert. The seabed collapsed instantly, and the water pressure suddenly increased several times. Then a shock wave visible to the naked eye erupted. Under the force that Elsa intentionally controlled, it did not produce a strong killing power, but the turbid sea water had blocked the vision of all the sea creatures.

"Oh no! She's gone!"

"Cunning pagan! She must be heading for the temple. Let's chase her!"

The sea creatures came in a mighty force, and chased in a mighty force towards the temple, but at this time Elsa had already arrived in front of the temple.

The temple lies at the deepest part of an underwater canyon. Initially narrow, it widens as one descends, reaching a depth of perhaps over 30,000 meters below the surface. Within this abyss lies the temple. As one approaches the temple, the once pitch-black sea begins to glow with a faint aquamarine light. The suffocating pressure of the water seems to vanish, and the barren seafloor becomes vibrantly vibrant around the temple—endless expanses of beautiful coral reefs, a myriad of fish, shells, shrimp, and countless other marine animals swimming leisurely.

It seems that you can see all the creatures in the ocean here.

Everything here is out of tune with the desolate and dark seabed, like a huge underwater aquarium with no boundaries.

And in the middle of this magnificent and beautiful aquarium stands a magnificent palace.

That is the Temple of Poseidon.

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[I'm correcting a writing error in Chapter 535. I was a bit distracted after staying up late, and I wrote "Brand" instead of "Randall," the mermaid who appeared in Chapter 516. I even got her gender wrong. She should be female. I've corrected it now. Sorry, sorry (get off the seat).]

538. Throne and Withered Heart (7K1)

All around was the inky black deep sea. There was no trace of any living creature except himself. He could not see anything outside the Temple of Poseidon, nor could he feel the existence of air. He did not need to breathe, and he had no sense of smell or temperature, nor the touch of sea water. Time seemed to have ceased to exist here, and space was chaotic. No matter which way he walked, he could not leave.

All that existed here was the magnificent yet gloomy Temple of Poseidon, and the dull sound of flowing seawater, like the whisper of the abyss.

If someone with a weaker will came here, they would probably be terrified by the deep sea as deep as a huge mouth, or even driven crazy by the dark deep sea.

But Tricia knew that there was nothing dangerous in the deep darkness, but rather a space barrier.

There are no traps here, nor any other creatures that could pose a danger.

There is only the Temple of Poseidon.

Tricia has been here for some time. She started from clarifying the current situation to analyzing and speculating, entered the interior of the Temple of Poseidon, observed the ancient murals and texts, and finally returned to the starting point, standing in front of the temple and fell into deep thought.

She didn't move at all, her eyes were empty, and others might think she was in a daze, but in fact she was using sophisticated mental magic to manipulate her subconscious mind and forcibly read her subconscious memories.

The so-called subconscious memory is classified as a transition between the soul and the body in the theory of esoteric magic. The soul is the carrier of memory, and the body is the reader and recorder of memory. A scene is perceived, recorded by the human body, and finally preserved as the memory of the soul. In this process, the body will instinctively filter out a large amount of complex and trivial information, otherwise the huge amount of information will be too much for the soul to handle.

These filtered parts will form a large number of fragmented memory fragments, which are discarded or stored in a corner and forgotten as time goes by.

Ultimately, only a portion of it is effectively recorded and becomes memory.

Subconscious memory is a collection of unrecorded fragments. The closer a memory is to the subconscious, the more vague it is, while the deeper it is into the soul, the more profound it is. Generally speaking, people can only selectively pick up fragmented memories bit by bit through repeated training and imprint them into their souls.

And this magic is to force the soul power into the subconscious memory.

This is a very difficult and dangerous magic to master, because the soul cannot directly step into the subconscious memory area, and this is equivalent to forcibly breaking the instinctive limitations of the human body. Once this is forcibly done, the redundant memory fragments will dissolve into the soul and will immediately bring great pressure to the soul. If the soul is not strong enough, it will be driven crazy in an instant. Moreover, the boundary between the soul and the body will become blurred, which is equivalent to exposing the most fundamental soul of life to the real world without any defense, and if you are not careful, it will cause irreversible and terrible consequences.

Even Tricia rarely uses this magic on her own initiative, but now that it concerns the God of the Sea, she has to use some extraordinary means.

Tricia was observing her memories, starting at the harbor.

The memories in the subconscious memory are very complicated, but very detailed, down to what is seen, heard, felt and thought - everything is in great detail in the memory, even the position and shape of each falling snowflake are completely restored. Tricia can observe the changes in everyone's expression and movements when the storm surges, and capture the energy changes at any position.

The huge amount of information gave Tricia a splitting headache, so she only lasted less than ten minutes before ending the magic. Her empty eyes showed some spirit again, but with a hint of deep fatigue, and the curse of the devil in her body also showed signs of uneasiness.

"Luckily, I'm with Aisha tonight, otherwise I wouldn't be able to handle it..."

Tricia took a deep breath, sat down to rest, and looked up again at the mountain-like Temple of Poseidon in front of her.

In this short time, she has already gained something.

What can be confirmed is that—

First, Elsa likely hadn't been summoned by the Sea God. Tricia could see that the sea breeze couldn't even reach Elsa, and couldn't even set foot in Bolmo City because of Elsa's presence. This was undoubtedly good news, proving that innocent people wouldn't be harmed. It also proved that Elsa's unruly constitution was capable of directly defying the power of the gods. Does this mean that Elsa's power isn't simply surpassing that of a demon general or even a demon king? Of course, it also meant that Elsa would definitely find a way to save her and Becky.

Secondly, based on the extensive text and murals within the temple, and combined with analysis of the current situation, Tricia speculated that this place wasn't a true Poseidon Temple, but rather a "sacrificial ground" where the sea people, in ancient times, performed rituals to worship the Poseidon and passed down the title of Sea Emperor. Or, in other words, a "red carpet for audiences with the Poseidon." Everything here was a projection, serving as a bridge between the Poseidon and the sea people. In the distant Age of the Gods, the Poseidon would set tests to select a member of his tribe worthy of inheriting some of his power to become the Sea Emperor, ruling the seas and handling the complex affairs of the sea people on his behalf.

Unlike the naturally intelligent humans, the long-lived forest elves, and the ancient powerful dragons, the sea people are weak. Their unique racial talents allow them to live on the seabed, but the rich magic elements in the deep sea suppress their possibility of growing into powerful beings. Their martial arts are inherently insufficient, and their fertility is greatly reduced. The number of their people is small, so the race has difficulty expanding, and they can only flee when they encounter other races.

Fortunately, they were protected by the sea god.

Once granted the power of authority by the Sea God, the Sea Emperor will directly possess the power to move mountains and overturn seas.

The powers wielded by the later-famous heroes and saints were essentially the same as the divine authority held by the Sea Emperor at the time. Both were powers bestowed directly by the gods, serving as the gods' messengers on earth. The selection of heroes and saints required "talent," a test of both character and bloodline, and this was true for the Sea Emperor as well.

The difference is that the legacy of the brave and the saint still exists. The brave sword will select the successor, and the goddess will designate through divine decree.

However, looking back at the sea clan, the "Sea Emperor" had already cut off its inheritance in a practical sense - after the disappearance of the Sea God, the sacrifice itself had become a mere name. Later, the Sea Emperor spontaneously elected by the sea clan was only the emperor of the clan in name only, and did not possess any of the authority and divine power of the Sea Emperor.

It is no secret that the sea people respect bloodline, but few people explore why they do so.

In fact, this is also a helpless move.

The sea people now only have the first and last connection with the Sea God: blood.

Later generations of Sea Emperors tried their best to select clansmen with excellent bloodlines for mating, just to maintain the bloodline of the sea clan. The sea clan is complex and not as pure as humans, and their reproductive capacity is far less than that of humans. After a long time since the end of the Age of Gods, the bloodline of the sea clan has been alienated from generation to generation. If nothing is done, their bloodline will definitely change completely. In that case, the Temple of Poseidon will no longer grant them any protection. Once that time comes, the weak sea clan will lose their holy land, which is also their safest fortress, and become rootless duckweed wandering in the vast ocean. Their future will become an unknown.

In fact, at this point, Tricia has already thought of a solution to the current situation.