Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

This is the sacrificial site, the place where the Sea King is selected, and the place where the Sea God grants the Sea King authority. She is now conducting a selection ceremony - of course, theoretically she should not be here, there must be something wrong, and, besides, the Sea God is no longer here, so there will be no test anyway, so this space is just a lonely, useless space, and everyone who enters here can only see an empty Sea God Temple.

The reason this place still exists is simply because the power of the Temple of Poseidon still exists.

In other words, since it is a selection, you can leave here by just giving up.

For example, he could wait until others starved to death, exhausted themselves, went mad, or committed suicide, which would take a very long time. Alternatively, he could injure himself, as long as the injury was severe enough that the will of the Sea God Temple would deem him ineligible to compete for the throne of Sea King.

Of course, Tricia has other ways, such as forcibly breaking through the space - Tricia is confident that she can do it. Although her strength is not enough to compete with the Temple of Poseidon, it is more than enough for the projection of this space. It's just that she needs some time to find the space gap of the Temple of Poseidon. Otherwise, even if she gets out, she won't be able to find the anchor point of the original world, and it will be troublesome to get lost in the void.

Tricia roughly observed the spatial structure here, but she was not in a hurry to go out.

She still had something unresolved, so she didn't plan to leave here so soon.

Because the key point of this incident lies in the mermaid girl captured by the vampires. After repeated observations, Tricia was certain that she had purer atavistic blood than any other sea creature she had ever seen, and her blood responded to the ancient power of the sea god in the sea breeze.

At the same time, Tate also hides an object that exudes an ancient atmosphere.

Tricia couldn't confirm what it was. The breath was extremely weak, so weak that if she hadn't searched and checked it bit by bit through her subconscious memory, Tricia wouldn't have been able to find it. It was like a dead object like a stone. The reason why Tricia noticed it was because when the sea breeze blew, the thing absorbed a trace of the power from the sea breeze.

And everyone is summoned, which is what happens in the next moment.

It is hard not to wonder if there is some connection between them. Tricia guessed that it was the combination of the mermaid girl's blood and the mysterious ancient artifact that reopened the sacrificial site that had not been opened for many years.

But the problem lies here - the sea god is no longer there, leaving only the will of the temple with partial authority. Sacrifice has lost its meaning. There will be no next sea god to test those who come here, and no new sea king will be born. Those who come here will get nothing. In this case, why did Tate do this?

In other words, what was the purpose of the person behind Tate doing all this? It couldn't be that he came to the Temple of Poseidon specifically to visit it.

Tricia didn't believe that someone who had deliberately promoted all these coincidences would have such leisure and elegance.

She extended her magical vision to cover almost half of the temple, observing carefully, hoping to find other breakthroughs, but after a long time, she found nothing. As a guardian blessed by the World Tree and the only master of esoteric magic after the Secret Meeting of the Magic Path, Tricia's strength is unquestionable, but facing the true power of the gods, even if it is just a will, she is still a little stretched.

That is the gap in life level. If Tricia is given enough time to prepare, she is confident that she can compete, but not now.

Just as Tricia was hesitating whether to leave, an unusual power fluctuation came from the direction of the Temple of Poseidon - it was an ancient and deep breath. In Tricia's magical vision, the breath was extremely weak, as if it was about to die at any time, but it was so eye-catching, like an old general, even though his body was old, his soul was still very sharp.

The breath was very strange, and it was surprisingly similar to the breath of the Temple of Poseidon, but the feeling it gave people was completely different from the majestic and vicissitudes of life of Poseidon, which was as majestic as the sea. It was anxious and violent, making people feel irritated involuntarily.

"what is this?"

Tricia frowned, feeling vaguely uneasy.

She approached the temple, but at that moment, the aura in the temple suddenly surged - as if it had come alive.

At this moment, the entire Poseidon Temple began to tremble. In Tricia's magical vision, a vortex appeared at the center of the Poseidon Temple, a bottomless black hole. It expanded and grew at an astonishing speed, swallowing up the seawater and light. The seawater was merely a manifestation of the temple's power. In reality, it was devouring the wisp of ownerless will left within the temple by the Poseidon God—the power of the Poseidon Temple.

"It's the antiquity that Tate brought!"

Tricia guessed the answer immediately. Without hesitation, she urged the sea water to lift her up and quickly enter the Temple of Poseidon.

“Offended!”

Tricia pushed out with one palm, and mysterious magic patterns emerged from her palm, spreading out in an instant and covering the entire Temple of Poseidon. The complex patterns shimmered with silver light. If someone looked from a distance, they would find that those intricate magic arrays were attached to every corner of the temple, and the shimmering light intertwined with each other, combining like earth veins.

This is an extension of esoteric magic. Its original purpose was to strengthen and borrow the power of the earth veins for the caster to use. It is similar to the three major magic circles under the ground of Dammas. Tricia once used this method to fight the devil, and now she uses a kind of transformation.

Tricia turned into a wisp of firefly and merged into the silver lines of the magic circle. The light spot flashed out at a speed invisible to the naked eye. The next moment, Tricia's figure flashed in the center of the temple, which was also the core of the temple - the throne hall.

An ancient and lonely throne stood on the steps. The owner of the throne had not been here for tens of thousands of years.

The throne is not the ruler of the temple, but the power of the temple converges here and then flows in all directions.

However, at this moment, an incredible scene was happening on the throne - it was an irregularly shaped dark passage, a black hole without any light, but Tricia saw a heart in it through her magical vision, a dry heart, but the dry heart that looked like stone was beating, beating vigorously, and the tremendous power of the Temple of Poseidon was pumped into it as it contracted and expanded. It seemed to have become the heart of the temple, and all the "blood" of the temple was injected into it. Every time it beat, the flesh and blood became fuller and stronger. It seemed as if it was about to come alive, and Tricia seemed to hear the deafening heartbeat.

What surprised Tricia even more was that the power of the temple did not resist being swallowed by the heart at all, and the will of the entire temple was indifferent to this.

It was as if, tacit consent, or as if the heart could inherently control the power of the temple.

The deep sea wails.

It greedily absorbed endlessly, and what was even more terrifying was that blood vessels, meridians, muscles, bones, and piece after piece of biological tissue began to grow with the heart as the center. The heart was actually growing into a complete individual!

Tricia didn't know what it was, but she knew it was not a good thing and couldn't be allowed to continue growing.

Without hesitation, Tricia lifted it up with one hand, and dazzling rays of light ignited in her hand, and then she threw it out suddenly.

However, the ball of light was instantly crushed by the madly surging power of the temple, and was finally taken down by the heart, leaving only a not very deep wound. The wound oozed a lot of blood, but healed visibly with the naked eye.

"No, this temple is resisting me..."

The temple seemed to be preventing Tricia from destroying the heart. Moreover, there was no magic in the air and the power of the earth veins for Tricia to use here. Even the blessing of the World Tree was isolated. At this time, Tricia could not use her full strength.

Realizing this, Tricia took a deep breath, clasped her hands together, and then separated them.

"town!"

She gave a clear shout, and the huge silver magic circle that covered the entire temple with her as the center suddenly shrank. A tremendous force completely different from the power of the sea god suddenly spread out, and one concentric circular magic circle after another rose from under Tricia's feet, reflecting her solemn profile.

The temple was resisting her, so she sealed it as well. She was no match for the temple, but this was just a projection of the temple's will.

The magic circle expanded to its limit, and the heart suddenly contracted, beating a beat slower.

Then, dozens of seals and Tricia's palm fell at the same time. The black hole made a harsh buzzing sound and kept shaking, but it still fell into decline and was then directly sealed by Tricia.

The world fell silent, and the dark passage seemed to slowly close as it had no power to maintain it.

"crow!"

Tricia held the magic circle in her hands and shouted. A black crow feather fell from her hair, transforming her into a pitch-black crow. The crow sprang out at breakneck speed, diving into the black passage a split second before it closed. Then, the previously closed black hole slowly expanded again.

At this moment, on the other side, Tate looked at the heart that suddenly stopped beating in front of him, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"What happened? Why did it stop?"

Following the mysterious man's instructions, he entered the temple and placed the heart on the throne. He watched with his own eyes as the heart absorbed water like a sponge, expanding. From its dry state, it quickly began to grow flesh and blood, beating and coming to life. It wasn't long before the heart drained all the energy from the space he was in. Then, space began to collapse from the heart's location, creating a pitch-black hole. From the hole, a large amount of seawater gushed out, which it consumed.

But after sucking a little, it suddenly stopped moving, and the growing flesh and blood also stopped wriggling.

Tate swallowed, momentarily unsure what to do. He longed to get closer, but he worried it might come alive again—even as a vampire marquis, he was terrified of this strange creature, especially its terrifying power. Only then did he realize he might have stepped into a wrestling arena he had no right to enter. In this arena, both sides were incredibly powerful, and he was reduced to being an ant. To survive, he could only pray he didn't get crushed to death.

However, his expectations were dashed.

The dark passage had no support and was rapidly collapsing and closing, but at this moment, it suddenly stopped closing and instead opened up a little bit. Then, Tate, who was confused, saw a tall and slender figure walking out of the passage. She had black hair and black eyes, and her beautiful face was gloomy as water. A black crow was perched on her shoulder.

"bad!"

Tate turned around and fled without saying a word, but before he took a step, he suddenly realized that there was no way forward - the road in front of him had collapsed into nothingness at some point, and the originally huge space was now just a small place for him to stand.

A crow flew over and dug its sharp claws into Tate's chest. He was pinned to the ground, in excruciating pain.

Tricia didn't even look at him. She maintained the magic circle with her hands, suppressing and observing the strange heart. The flesh and bones around the heart had already taken shape. It looked like a mermaid?

Tricia looked at the space in front of her that was collapsing inch by inch for some unknown reason, and her brows slowly furrowed.

What's going on? Why is space collapsing for no apparent reason?

At this moment, my heart trembled.

boom.

Before Tricia could react, dull bangs followed one after another, one, two, accompanied by the vibration of space collapse - one dark passage after another was formed.

"The Sea God Temple is actually suppressing my power?"

Feeling the immense pressure coming from all around, Tricia couldn't help but be surprised.

Even she couldn't suppress her heart and fight against the entire Sea God Temple at the same time - but the Sea God Temple didn't seem to regard her as an enemy. They just suppressed her without any intention of hurting her.

But this was enough to free the strange heart from Tricia's hands.

It used the new channel to start absorbing the power of the Sea Temple in other spaces. Tricia knew that if she continued to stay here, she could only hold on to her heart for a moment, which was of no use. She had to leave here. Only outside could she be at her peak. Only after going out could she ask those sea creatures about the situation. Maybe those mermaids happened to know something.

Besides, there's Elsa outside.

"We must leave here immediately and find a solution from outside."

Tricia glanced sideways through the black passages and saw an identical Poseidon Temple on the other side. Clearly, the summoned were assigned to separate, independent spaces. With a single glance, Tricia found all of Tate's vampires and Becky, but not the mermaid with Tate.

She pursed her lips, and the crow flew into one of the passages. After a while, it picked up the confused Becky by the back of her collar and threw her in front of Tricia.

Becky was the one who followed Aisha, so Tricia naturally wouldn't leave her here.

"Hold on tight."

Tricia clenched her hand and grabbed Becky with an invisible hand. Magic circles rose one after another under Tricia's feet, breaking a space crack. However, the moment she took a step, the space suddenly collapsed and twisted. An unprecedented feeling of weightlessness swept over Tricia and Becky. The space anchor point that should have appeared did not appear. Tricia lost control of the magic circle in an instant, and she could not mobilize the magic power in her body. She was about to fall into the turbulence of space.

A pair of soft yet powerful hands grasped Tricia and Becky. Suddenly, their vision shifted. Tricia and Becky, one on each side, leaned against Elsa's arms. They exchanged glances, then looked up at Elsa. Suddenly, an eerie silence descended. Becky was still bewildered. She felt as if she had suddenly wandered through a maze of space, constantly being transported back and forth.

It was only then that Tricia noticed that there was a familiar person following Elsa, the mermaid girl.

"What a coincidence," Aisha put Becky and Tricia down, "After I entered the temple, the space began to collapse. When I got here, I saw you two almost falling into the void turbulence, so I pulled you over."

Aisha said it calmly, and only Tricia immediately understood what was going on.

No wonder, this is the reason why the space collapsed when Tate wanted to escape. This is not surprising. Elsa is a complete insulator of magic. Space magic is useless and it will shatter if it is touched. It is better to say that those projected spaces did not collapse the moment they came into contact with Elsa. It can be said that it can be said to be a very stable space magic.

She and Becky just happened to run into Elsa who had arrived here when they were leaving the projection space. After entering the temple, Elsa crushed all the spatial projections that overlapped with this place with one step at a time, and the coordinates anchored by Tricia were no exception - so, at that moment her magic lost control, and as she got closer to Elsa, all the strength in her body disappeared without a trace.

It was indeed a coincidence, if Elsa hadn't been here, she would have been in trouble - oh no, if Elsa hadn't been here her magic wouldn't have gone wrong at all.

Tricia looked at Elsa with resentment in her beautiful eyes, then turned to the mermaid girl beside her.

The mermaid girl bit her lips indignantly, looking so aggrieved that she was about to cry. Oh no, she was already crying.

"What's going on with you guys?"

"It's a long story..."

Elsa rarely showed a trace of helplessness and glanced at the mermaid girl beside her. The girl turned her head away with a look of grievance, and moved her fish tail away awkwardly, looking like a child who had been bullied but was unwilling to accept it.

In fact, Elsa had been outside the temple ten minutes ago, but she finally stepped into the throne hall now.

During this period, some things happened.

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539. It’s Just a Disease (7K2)

Ten minutes ago, Elsa arrived in front of the Temple of Poseidon.

Aisha stopped for a moment, marveling at the beautiful scenery and the grandeur of the temple while observing the temple itself.

"Elsa, there are probably dozens of projection spaces here. I feel like Tricia and Becky are in there. If we destroy them forcibly, we might hurt them. How about letting me take a look first?"

Adele said.

Her advice was what made Aisha stop.

Although Adele, who calls herself the Star God, is only a desolate god with incomplete authority, she at least possesses the power to walk in the void. When she approached the Temple of Poseidon, she realized that this place was unusual. With her power, it might be a bit difficult to directly break the spatial rules of the Temple of Poseidon, but it was not difficult to just sneak into the void to take a look. After all, the power left here was not the Poseidon himself, and Adele had full confidence.

"Okay, go check it out, as soon as possible, I'll wait for you here."

"Okay! I will definitely live up to your trust!"

Before Elsa finished her words, a buzzing sound came from the black sword where Adele resided. Adele's figure emerged from the sword and disappeared into the void the next moment.

Seeing this, she simply turned around and looked at the sea creatures chasing her from above the canyon - there were more sea creatures here than before. At first, there were only a few mermaid warriors, and later the mermaid girl brought more warriors, and now, the sea above Elsa's head seemed like an entire marine life expo.

The most eye-catching sight was a massive black whale, as massive as a ship. Its skin was covered in bumps and sharp spikes, leaving no doubt what a sight it would be if it collided with a merchant ship. It slowly swung its broad tail, its massive body simply hovering there, creating a powerful sense of oppression. There were five of these whales.

The whale made a dull, long but ethereal sound, and visible ripples spread around it and spread throughout the entire seabed. It was like a song or a language. I'm afraid that unique sound could be captured thousands of kilometers away.

This may be the reason why these sea creatures were able to gather here quickly. The sea creatures should also have their own unique way of transmitting information.

In addition, there are sea snakes with fins, giant octopuses hidden in the dark deep sea, abnormally sized sea turtles, huge humanoid fish with ferocious faces, spider-like long-legged creatures, and strange gelatinous creatures holding harpoons... tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of sea creatures appeared in the sea above the temple, surrounding the place tightly. Looking up, one can only see sea creatures of various shapes.

Among them, the ones with the most human characteristics are only the mermaid and a humanoid creature with pink hair. Like the mermaid, she is a rare sea creature that wears clothes. Her body and hair look slightly transparent, showing characteristics similar to jellyfish.

In a broad sense, the sea people are a very complex and numerous collection of marine intelligent races, and among them, the mermaids, whose blood is somewhat similar to that of the sea god, are the most noble. The mermaids are the absolute superiors here. Now that there are unusual movements in the Temple of the Sea God, all the races have responded from afar and sent reinforcements.

But even so, facing Elsa who was alone, the sea clan's mighty reinforcements did not move rashly. They waited for the order from the leader.

The leader was the mermaid girl from before.

"Powerful outsider, we can talk."

The mermaid girl called out to Elsa, but did not approach her on her own initiative. Like other sea creatures, they were full of awe for the temple. Otherwise, they would not even set foot in the deep sea where the temple was located - just like when Elsa came, there was no one there.

"What to talk about?"

Elsa was not in a hurry either, she was still waiting for news from Adele.

The mermaid girl slowly twisted her waist and swung her tail. She left the sea clan army and swam towards Elsa alone.

"Hello, powerful and beautiful outsider." The girl came to Elsa, put her scimitar weapon back to her waist, her fish tail dragged behind her in a graceful arc, and she performed a strange salute to Elsa, raised her head, and looked into Elsa's eyes.