They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 272 Mermaid
The mythical creature was still in an abnormal state. After observing the sand mound it had created, Ria did not rush to dig it out. Instead, she used the end of her cane to draw an abyss ritual circle on the sand beside her.

"Great gales, great abyss—"

After completing the ritual, Ria placed the wooden box containing the corpse of the White Mask Cultist on the ritual ground and opened those golden eyes.

The townspeople told him to throw the body into the sea, but Ria thought it was foolish and wasteful.

Handing the corpse over to the abyss is, in a sense, throwing it into the sea. As for natural disasters... natural disasters have absolutely nothing to do with throwing "witches" into the sea. That's just a group of people still immersed in numbness entertaining themselves.

Lia stood on the outer edge of the sacrificial array and threw a bunch of the corpses of extraordinary creatures he usually collected onto it. Accumulating corpses would come in handy someday, which was probably one of his few pleasures.

"Clatter, crash, crash -"

Soon, Ria had prepared the offerings. His expression was incredibly devout. He took a few steps back, closed his eyes, and began to recite the prayer of the abyss syllable by syllable.

"A nightmare resurrected from the depths of the extreme cold abyss"

In the endless dark sea,
The god of fertility, fallen to a place where no remains of bones exist.

The hurricane devoured all unclean life.

The abyss brings immortality.

Your loyal servants offer their greetings and await the moment of your true awakening and return, when all of Endreus will become your paradise.

"Supreme Sovereign, I beseech you to grant your servant revelation, and to instruct him on how to portray a werewolf."

After a round of flattery, Ria patiently waited for the result, silently counting down the seconds in his mind for a full fifteen seconds.

In the fifteenth second, the entire sky suddenly turned gray, and the arc of the waves became noticeably abnormal.

The sacrificial array on the ground emitted a light that cast a deep blue hue on Ria's figure, while the light in his golden eyes remained completely unaffected by the environment, retaining its original color as he coldly and listlessly gazed at everything before him.

This scene seemed inexplicably unsettling, but Ria felt a surge of joy, for it meant that the abyss was responding to her call.

He was right; the golden eyes on his body did indeed hold certain powers and responsibilities similar to "trade".

This ability can significantly increase his success rate when making sacrifices, but it doesn't yet allow him to make sacrifices even when there aren't enough offerings.

For example, if he only sacrificed the dead fish that was only half-eaten on the beach, the abyss would definitely not respond to him, and might even curse him.

However, Lia has never encountered such a situation before.

Compared to the radiant sunrise, the abyss's style is more changeable and tends to be extreme. At this moment, Ria saw a vortex-like black hole appear in the center of the sacrificial circle, melting all the offerings into water that seeped into the sacrificial circle.

Then, a faint murmur appeared in its center, seemingly trying to lure the sacrificer closer and then drag that person directly into endless darkness.

Lia skillfully took out red earplugs and put them in her ears.

Since his meme enhancement, the frequency of the random sounds he can hear has increased. The sounds that used to be so faint that they could be classified as auditory hallucinations or the sound of flowing water have now become so faint that they can no longer be ignored.

Those who associate with the extraordinary must pay an extremely high price while gaining power. Ria took off her monocle and wiped it clean, removing the water droplets splashed on it by the sacrificial array vortex.

Then, he put his glasses back on and patiently waited for the abyss's instructions.

The sounds around her had subsided considerably, but before long, Ria suddenly noticed that something was looking in their direction, and there was more than one.

He looked up and met the gaze of a group of "people." They were submerged in the sea not far away, with only their heads showing as they looked this way. Crimson dots of light flickered incessantly—their eyes.

Meanwhile, Ria's sacrifice was nearing its end. He saw words that looked like they had been handwritten gradually appearing on the beach, and the young man skillfully turned his back to them, using the eyes on his neck to decipher them.

【here】

Just a single word.

"here?"

Lia turned around and took off her red earplugs, in exchange for making a group of crabs on the beach dance.

The abyss's sacrificial array vanished rapidly, and Ria stepped onto the answer on the ground, walking steadily towards the sea.

The creatures that had been submerged in the sea were terrified when they saw him approaching and fled in panic. With a "whoosh," Ria heard the sound of a fish tail slapping against the surface of the sea.

The slender, silvery fish tail flashed past his sight, barely making a ripple on the sea.

"Looks like I'm having a lucky day. I'm actually going to see the legendary mermaid so soon."

An unexpected bonus.

Ria raised her hand to adjust the brim of her hat, recalling the scene of them looking in her direction just now.

Those creatures were indeed beautiful. Among the extraordinary beings that Ria had seen, their appearance ranked quite high. Moreover, without exception, these creatures all had the appearance of human females, and were women between the ages of ten and thirty.

There's a reason people like them, but even the most beautiful things are still supernatural beings. The way those supernatural beings looked at us just now wasn't out of curiosity, but rather as they were thinking about how to drag their prey into the sea and tear it to pieces.

Now that Ria is approaching, they have hidden themselves for some reason, and the eyes on the tentacles lurking in the shallow sea area have not found any trace of any mermaids, but they have found many bones buried in the sand.

These bones are not complete; the flesh and blood have been eaten away by fish and shrimp. There are complete leg bones, which are clearly not the skeleton of a mermaid.

These things are human, and the pelvis is exhibiting female characteristics.

Judging from the corpses the townspeople made him throw away, perhaps those bones came from the "witch" who was killed by the people.

"So the mermaids ate their flesh?"

Ria accepted a skull handed to her by a tentacle that extended from the sea surface. The skull appeared normal in every way and was indeed just an ordinary skull.

“There must be something special about this place. The abyss also indicates that this is a good place to portray werewolves, but I always feel that the time is not right yet, and ‘this place’ should be a general term, referring to the seaside.”

"..."

"Poor people, I hope you will not be born into this world again in your next life."

Lia sat on the beach, holding the gray skull in her hands. She then took out some pearls she had bought, pondered for a moment, and then used her tentacles to drill holes in the pearls one after another.

He then used fine thread and needles to string these items together, creating a complete pearl necklace.

"Consider it a gift; even in death, I hope you can all retain the pure white you yearn for."

As he spoke, he put the necklace on the skull.

(End of this chapter)