"I am right, Deka."
"I let go at that time, and I cursed you in the end. I really thought that I would fall and become the monster in the legend."
"But I still...I was convinced at the last minute that I couldn't do it."
"Even if you betrayed me...I don't want you to lie to me...I always believe you can do it."
"You're not a corruptor?"
Deka narrowed his eyes, and surprise finally revealed in his words.
Not a corrupter, not an evil spirit?
So how did she do it?
She survived that kind of injury and even displayed this kind of ability... She can actually control the lava in the earth veins?
That’s right—the young detective did mention to him that this might be a case of “possession.”
But it's not like he hasn't seen the power of "spiritual possession".
To put it simply, spirit possession means that the spiritual power has become powerful enough to leave the body and attach itself to other objects, thus conducting precise control over a long distance.
Legend has it that Grace, the strongest man in Sara today, can stretch out an extremely large spiritual net to cover the entire Wayne Port... This is already horrifying, and it is the end and extreme of the extraordinary powers he has ever heard of.
But even such a person, even when Grest was at his strongest and in the best condition, could not do this.
How could he believe... that this was purely a force from "nature"?
"I told you long ago that those myths and legends are not just fiction."
Dai Lin smiled.
Desca's pupils contracted slightly.
As she said these words, the huge hole in the female knight's chest actually began to heal on its own.
Flesh filaments and buds grew out, entangled with each other and recombined. Soon, in just a few blinks of an eye, the horrible wound was completely repaired, and there was no trace of the original tragedy at all.
“I fell into the abyss—and found and confirmed the answer I had been seeking.”
Dai Lin began to walk towards Deka, and his voice sounded like he was chanting a poem.
"The origin of life... the basis of all things..."
“It is the beginning of everything, the beginning of all things.”
"It is reborn from destruction, its roots are the past and its branches are the future."
"impossible……"
As if realizing something, Deka's body began to tremble.
"That's impossible... that's just a myth..."
"It is not a myth, Descartes."
The female knight had come in front of Deka. She leaned close to his ear and breathed softly into his ear.
“I found it, and it gave me new life.”
"Just as it did to the first human beings eons ago."
"...like the life you call the 'Ancient God'."
Chapter 59 The Beginning of Life Part 2
After fleeing all the way out of the town and arriving at a higher hill, Hitzfeld and the others stood together and looked at the beach. They could see thick smoke rising everywhere below.
Without exception, all of the smoke was pitch black. It looked very thick, swirling and rolling, and you could vaguely see some jumping orange light in it.
The town could only let the smoke and dust wreak havoc. If this continued for a few hours, the place would become a ruin.
"What on earth does she want to do?" Lu Xier half-knelt on the ground, hugged the neck of the Snow Dog regardless of whether it was willing or not, and murmured: "She didn't do anything during the evacuation... Then why did she do this... wake up the volcano?"
The current situation... the underwater volcano that has been dormant for many years has definitely been awakened. If the situation is allowed to continue, not only will the beach be submerged by magma, but the entire Pushen crater and even the settlements in the surrounding areas of the crater will suffer.
The area affected by an ordinary volcanic eruption is far beyond the scope of the volcano itself. This is because in addition to the invasion of magma, high temperature and other disasters, there is also a deadly threat called volcanic ash.
In the most extreme cases, the ash will be so dense that it will look like snow. Anyone who dares to go out at that time will basically lose his lungs as long as he still needs to breathe.
Not to mention that the Puthen Crater is so vast and huge.
If its main body is fully activated and starts to erupt completely, it will definitely be a super disaster. It may even threaten the Xinze Diocese and the entire southern coast of Sara will be in disaster.
This is not something that a spirit can do.
Xia Yibing squinted at the thick smoke.
This is more like a power from the last era, from those mythical characters, those forces that can fight against gods.
"Fortunately, the townspeople have been relocated." Bill said thankfully, then turned to look at Hitzfeld and asked her, "Have you planned what to do next...?"
Hitzfeld looked gloomy and said nothing.
Of course she had a backup plan. Many of those surface ships carried naval guns. In theory, even if they could deal with ten or a hundred gold-level ships, let alone one, they would not be able to defeat the strong ships and cannons.
But now it seems that these methods are ineffective against Dai Lin.
She can reactivate the underwater volcano, so is she really hiding... her own trump card under the beach?
What would it be?
Is it her or the tree of life that Bricher had been searching for?
Or was there, as they had initially suspected, a giant monster there? … Was the body she was revealing now—the body named “Dalin Blue”—just an incarnation of the giant monster?
These are all unknown, and Dai Lin obviously won't tell her these details. They will have to guess next, and no one can bear the consequences of guessing wrong.
"Xia." She looked at the woman without giving up. "From the files you read, did the cult really not conduct any in-depth investigations here?"
"It depends on how deep we go." Xia Yibing replied, "Brichel is a golden seed after all, even if it's just in name. If a seed goes missing here, they will definitely send someone to investigate."
"And I told you the results of the investigation before." She spread out one hand and shook her head at her: "...If they had made any discoveries, Deka wouldn't have come here for so many years."
That means that so far, except Brichel - that is, Dailin himself, no one else knows what is hidden under the beach.
Hitzfeld frowned in thought.
Knight Descartes probably didn't know this either, otherwise he would have had countless time and opportunities to explore the cave over the years.
But he didn't, he was simply afraid of the undead of Brichel, which means that he thought the environment of the beach was not capable of posing a threat.
In other words, when he and Brichel dived into the underwater cave, he gained almost nothing.
This problem is very serious.
In her expectation, Dai Lin was not even the most difficult character.
What is the most difficult thing? It is the deep-sea monsters that are likely to be transformed from humans by her.
When exploring the cape alone, they had already encountered man-eating giant starfish and giant fang-toothed eels. Everyone present at the scene was an expert, but if Ms. Feti had not used the monster's habits to rescue them, a giant eel would have overturned the fleet.
Not to mention other deep-sea species that may exist... giant tentacles, poisonous jellyfish, sea snakes, and perhaps even creatures like the 'silky shark' that became extinct long ago in history.
Thinking of this, she shuddered and suddenly realized that those who stayed behind had actually been forced into a desperate situation.
If the lava is allowed to spread, the beach will sink.
When the time comes, seawater will flow back in and the entire crater will become a giant natural reservoir.
Moreover, the water inside was still boiling hot, mixed with bubbling high temperatures of magma.
Even in this high-temperature water area, countless monsters live densely.
With only the ships that were dispatched, they had no hope of escape.
The only conceivable solution is to kill Dai Lin.
Kill Dailin - and her possible original body, stop the underwater volcano from erupting completely, or at least slow down its eruption rate.
But now Daelin's strength is beyond expectations, and because of Knight Descas' concealment, the cult has not paid too much attention to the beach over the years and has never conducted in-depth investigations on the seabed, resulting in her current lack of intelligence.
If they want to find out Dai Lin's true form and why she mutated from a human, they will have to go down again.
But how is it possible now...
The magma was surging, and the temperature of the nearby seawater must have been rising rapidly. It would be impossible for a person to even get close by diving, not to mention that she lacked intelligence support and had no idea what she would face after going down.
"If only...when I was dreaming...I could swim faster."
The girl's tone was full of regret.
"In my dream, from the chapel to the sea cliff, she should have caught up with me hiding in a school of fish."
"If I could dive down earlier, get to the deepest point earlier, maybe I could..."
But there is no point in saying this now.
The soul-guiding incense has all been used up.
She used the last incense-making materials she could collect to make a pungent "sniffing bomb" and distributed it to everyone to guard against possible sea monster attacks.
She no longer had any way to enter that "dream within a dream" again.
Unless there is another ingredient for making incense——
"Are these enough?"
A snakeskin bag the size of a water bottle was suddenly handed to the girl.
It's Lil Hill.
The red-haired nurse didn't know where she took out the bag from. Seeing that everyone was staring at her, she scratched her face and said, "Well... you told me to keep an eye on her, so I almost guessed it... There are a lot of medicinal herbs hidden in her room... I asked Lily to steal some while she was away, but I don't know if it will be useful..."
"Wang?"
When the Shelesi dog heard his name in her words, he immediately stood up from his half-lying position, with his ears erect and a confused look on his face.
Hitzfeld didn't have the heart to care about anything else... She snatched the snakeskin bag, opened it and carefully checked what medicinal herbs were stored inside.
"Black mud root grass, ginkgo petals, fern root powder of poisonous sword dragon, krait skin molting powder, main stem mud of Bobo grass..."
Every time she counted out one, her expression brightened: "...nineteen kinds of ingredients, not a single one less, and all in standard quantities!"
"It's her... She also knows how to make soul-guiding incense!!"
Now we have the materials, but the remaining problem is the lack of means to prepare the medicine solution.
"on board--"
Xia Yibing reminded immediately.
"The ship is just south of the beach... It should only take about ten minutes to get there from here..."
Hitzfeld was about to run over there with the bag in his arms.
But she was stopped halfway through her run. She looked back blankly and saw the woman with a ponytail with a serious face.
"Is there a way to change the concentration of the potion and split it into two parts?"
"After all, you left me behind last time."
"I don't want to do it again."
Chapter 60 The Beginning of Life Part 3
After nearly a quarter of an hour, a group of people hurried to the southern beach and found the boat they came on in a small harbor with reefs.
This ship is the one that Hitzfeld has been staying on since she was rescued from the bottom of the sea. Later, she asked people to send all the perfume-making tools in the town to her. Now these things are stored in the cabin and are in good condition.
"Go find some fresh water." After entering the cabin, she tied her hair into a ponytail to prevent it from falling and interfering with the preparation process. At the same time, she instructed others, "Bill, go find some weapons on the ship. We have to be careful. The dangers may not be limited to earthquakes and lava."
What else could be dangerous?
Bill was stunned, and then he suddenly realized that the girl was talking about the lurking sea monsters.
"..." He felt a little regretful. When he was first transferred to this job, he thought he was here for vacation. He never expected things would develop like this. He would not be able to live in peace no matter where he hid.
"There's not enough time... Do you need my help?" Seeing the girl washing her hands and carefully cleaning any stains that might remain between her nails, Xia Yibing also came over and saw her pick up a small ball of cotton, dip it in the alcohol bottle, and scrub her hands a second time to clean the bacteria.
"No hurry." Hitzfeld turned around and smiled at her.
"She chased us away but the chapel didn't collapse... and the magma didn't erupt on a large scale. I guess she has something to say to Knight Desca alone."
