They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 414 Windfall from Heaven
Everyone has their own thoughts and beliefs, which may be the reason for the conflict.

A thousand people see a thousand different suns, and it's impossible for Lia to change everyone's mind. He even began to wonder if his actions and thinking were correct.

There is no absolute truth...

The ship had already entered the open sea. He focused his gaze on the sea surface. The boundless deep blue was so vast and limitless. Seagulls darted around the ship's steam, avoiding the tangible white smoke, and taking the opportunity to dive into the water to catch fish.

Not long after, a tentacle carrying a tuna approached him. Ria instinctively turned his head and, unsurprisingly, saw Captain Delos staring at him.

"I always feel like you're worried, as if you're carrying a lot of burdens. Young man, don't think so much, too many burdens will crush you."

Delos said this, then moved the tuna closer to Ria: "Would you like some fish? It was just caught and is very fresh."

Did you know that this fish could fetch an astronomical price inland, but here, you can eat as much as you want, until you're stuffed and nobody will bother you?

Ria declined his offer, but the next second, Delos pulled out a cutting board and knife from somewhere, placed the tuna on the cutting board and cleanly butchered it, separating all the meat parts into thin slices, and then introduced it.

"This is the lower abdomen, this is the middle abdomen, this is the upper abdomen. Just add some soy sauce and wasabi, and you can start eating."

Then Ia saw him take out many plates and arrange the sliced ​​fish: "Would you like some squid?"

"Where did this squid come from...?"

Before Ria could finish speaking, the captain placed one of his tentacles on the cutting board and sliced ​​it into thin, transparent pieces, sprinkling mustard on the slices while they were still wriggling.

"Doesn't it hurt?"

"How could it not hurt? I'm in so much pain I've turned white, didn't you see? But sometimes I just love this kind of thing. Being able to eat squid anytime is heaven—otherwise, why do you think I would willingly become a squid?"
Anyway, these tentacles will grow back on their own soon.

"Would you like to try some?"

Delos invited Ria to try some fresh seafood again, but before he could do anything, Little Swarth ran up to his head, opened his mouth, swallowed a piece of squid, and then "thud" fell to the ground and rolled a few times, his feathers popping up from his feet to his head.

It was clearly choked by the wasabi.

However, little Schwarz quite liked the feeling, staring longingly at the tube of wasabi, and then received a whole tuna head and a tube of wasabi as a gift.

It happily flapped its wings and squeezed mustard into its mouth with its front paws, only to choke and immediately corrode a large hole in the metal of the deck.

Delos looked at the younger generation like a kind old man: "It's alright, it's alright, the child likes it, play as much as he wants."

The horizontal and vertical decks were not his concern.

Not long after, Ria took a piece of fish and started eating it. To her surprise, she found that it tasted pretty good, though it seemed somewhat familiar.

He thought for a moment and finally remembered how to describe it.

This stuff probably tastes a bit like chewing a big chunk of lard.

Delos himself ate most of the tuna and his own entire tentacle, and exclaimed, "Squid is still the best. Praise be to the Lord of the Gale and the Abyss."

Ria: "Do the people here all believe in the abyss?"

"That's right, the abyss will protect every ship that sails the seas."

Ria felt that the Abyss didn't seem to be the deity in charge of these things, but the next second, Delos asked Ria, "Why did you sound so strange when you mentioned the Abyss? Are you a follower of the Radiant Sun who opposes the Abyss lineage?"

"No, no, sir, I am a liberal."

What is freedom of religion?

“I firmly believe that faith is a freedom, and people can choose to believe, when to believe, and when not to believe in any deity.”

"What blasphemous words!" Delos's tentacles curled up. "So, are you even a believer in the Radiant Sun?"

"I'm not."

Ria answered truthfully that he had absolutely no goodwill towards the Radiant Sun. Anyone can say those nice words, and they love to hear them. Who knew that the Radiant Sun would actually take it seriously and insist on making him his follower?

It's no wonder, though. Ria had killed the sun's original retinue. If the sun didn't take action, it might find itself a lonely god the moment it truly awakens.

"Sometimes God cannot decide everything. If they were truly omnipotent, they would not all fall into a deep sleep."

There is still much we can do before they awaken.

After Ria finished speaking, he saw Delos fall silent. He casually threw the fish bones into the sea, benefiting the microorganisms and small fish and shrimp in the seawater.

"You're right. I didn't expect you to have such a high level of awareness. I'm very impressed with you. I'm going to take you to see a place later."

After Delos finished speaking, he returned to the cockpit, while Luria went to the deck to enjoy the breeze.

He idly looked up at the sky; thick clouds had already obscured half the sun and would soon swallow it completely.

"How should a curse caster perform their act? Is it simply a matter of cursing others?"

He conjured a clump of straw and wove it into the shape of a doll, the prototype of a voodoo doll. People would often make such a thing if they wanted to curse someone, putting another person's hair inside and then sticking silver needles into its surface.

Cursing through a medium is always more likely to succeed than verbally cursing someone.

"No, no, it's not that simple."

Ria handed the scarecrow to Little Swarth, who swallowed it whole.

“Back then, Bucklow once used the abilities of a curse master. He cast a curse using the souls of many ‘animals,’ and the medium in this was the soul.”

There was once a tribe that would gather its members around a tree and curse it in order to kill it. Before long, the tree would wither and die on its own.

A curse caster's ability is to make their words come true, but such an ability is always accompanied by limitations.

Now, Ria wonders if the prophecy of Judgment Day could also be considered a curse, since this curse stipulates a time period after which the curse will come true.

Cursed spellcasters and prophets are different in nature; cursed spellcasters can change the future, while prophets can predict the future.

If Ria could curse the gods to eternal slumber, there would be far fewer problems, but the chances of success are extremely low. Perhaps it would be better to start by cursing something simple.

After a moment's thought, a tentacle pulled a crab from the sea. Looking at the crab, Ria cursed it: "You will die in ten seconds."

Crab: "..." It bared its teeth and claws, looking full of energy, and even tried to pinch the hand of the enemy in front of it. It didn't look like it was going to die at all.

Ten seconds passed.

Just when Ria thought it might not succeed, a blade of grass sprouted from its head.

Then, it stopped moving.

Ria tried to open its shell and found that the crab meat inside was completely rotten and infested with fungi, and even the "grass" growing out was also fungi.

Ria's curse accelerated the growth of fungi in its body, causing the crab to die instantly.

"It was successful, but the meme remains unchanged."

Ria tried to curse the crab to turn it to stone again, but this time she failed, since the crab had already lost its soul and had become a completely lifeless thing.

Now he understood that inanimate objects could not be cursed.

"What a pity, but we can't waste dead crabs... We can trade them for some good seafood."

With that, Ria threw the crab infected with the fungus back into the sea. Not long after, an extraordinary creature surfaced and was pulled up by Ria.

This is an exceptionally large oarfish. It is a deep-sea fish and should not easily appear at the surface of the sea unless an earthquake is about to occur.

“Undersea earthquakes can easily trigger tsunamis, and these disasters are becoming more and more frequent. Judgment Day is very close.”

Ria tossed it to little Swarth, and just as he was about to look for something else to experiment with, a long, vertical plume of smoke appeared on the distant sea, accompanied by an orange-red glow.

It seems that something is on fire.

Upon seeing this, the ship that Ria was on changed course and headed towards the fire. Many crew members also came out of the cabins and stood on the deck to look in that direction.

"It looks like a ship ran aground. Judging by its size, the ship was quite large."

"The large ship ran aground?"

After observing for a moment, Ria did indeed see a small reef in the distance. The oil spill from the ship had turned the sea black, and the crimson fire gave it a new color.

The wrecked giant ship is sinking into the sea at a visible speed, and the closer you get, the more terrifying the raging fire becomes.

But faced with such raging fire, the crew members were not afraid at all. Instead, they wondered what good things the captain would be able to plunder from the giant ship this time.

"Look at the sign, that ship doesn't belong to Endeleus."

"Is it a ship from a neighboring country?"

"Yes, and it's a passenger ship. Look, the smoke is coming out of the windows. You can guess that most of the people inside have been suffocated by the smoke. Those who think they can save themselves will choose to jump into the sea, but that will only lead to their own demise."

"Where are their lifeboats? Have they finished running?"

Thirteen minutes later, the Delos finally approached the passenger ship, and Delos quickly climbed out of the cockpit. He only took one look and determined that it was probably more than just a passenger ship.

"Judging from the direction it's facing, it's coming from the southwest and heading to Enderles, so we're very likely to find a considerable number of slaves on this ship."

But you know, besides slaves, that region also produces spices, gold, and silver. We just need to see what we can take with us before the ship sinks.”

With that, Delos jumped into the sea, his body instantly becoming enormous. He summoned a torrential rain, then approached the ship and used his tentacles to entwine the entire vessel, preventing it from sinking any further.

As soon as Ria reached out his hand towards the oil, the oil floating on the sea surface vanished completely.

Everyone was overjoyed. They waited until the thick smoke had mostly dissipated and only a few embers remained before rushing aboard the ship to search for anything they could take with them.

Ria followed them onto the ship. The deck was covered in water stains, and it was raining heavily, making it a rather uncomfortable environment.

The mast was broken and blackened by the fire. The passenger ship's flag was burned and rolled into a pile of black, unidentified objects. Ria even found a body whose bones had been crushed by the falling mast.

"My God! The abyss above!!!"

Suddenly, he heard someone shout from the direction of the cabin. Ria rushed over and was choked by thick smoke and dust, coughing a few times. The air was filled with a damp and foul smell.

He saw the "warehouse" where slaves were piled up. Yes, it was piled up. Those poor people whose faces he couldn't see were locked in narrow cages, just like rows of parcel lockers, which reminded Liya of a hospital morgue.

The hospital's freezers are this big too, but the environment here is nowhere near as comfortable as it is there.

In one corner was a wooden bucket containing what appeared to be vomit mixed with water—this was their food. Further away in another corner was a covered bucket containing their excrement.

The ground was covered in garbage; it was not a place where a living person could stay for long.

“What a pity for so many slaves.” Ria heard the crew member beside him lament, and then said to Ria, “A slave was bought for twenty svales locally, and sold for three silver coins back in Endlers. A strong one could sell for ten silver coins. Now they’ve all been burned to death. How much money will we lose?”

"I don't know, I've always been bad at math."

Ria didn't want to answer those questions; it went against his conscience.

Even now, after being twisted by the supernatural and gradually losing his humanity, Ria has never admired such things, unless the target is someone he simply can't stand.

The shady businessman's mindset would make him heartbroken over the lost property, but his human nature would make him feel anger and regret, which is a truly awkward thought process.

Soon, some more crew members discovered chests filled with gold and silver jewelry. They opened the chests and swarmed among the rare minerals, marveling at how long they could make a fortune at sea.

“Diamonds?” Ria looked at the thing a sailor was showing off to him and was immediately surprised: “You actually recognize it? I didn’t even recognize it as a diamond. I thought it was a piece of crystal ore.”

"My God, so many diamonds, all sold to those super-rich millionaires and their lovers, how much money must they have made!"

"Actually, diamonds themselves have no value; their value is created through packaging." Riako explained some things about diamonds, but the person in front of him was already completely immersed in the joy of owning a diamond, holding it and jumping for joy.

"Maybe I should find a young and beautiful wife, retire early, and then travel the world."

The sailors were dreaming of their wonderful future, but Ria ignored them and continued to examine the rooms to see if she had missed anything.

When he encounters a door that is difficult to open, he will simply force it open, so he did not encounter any obstacles along the way.

(End of this chapter)