They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 58 Faith Cultivated from Prenatal Education

"Gurgle!" At this moment, thousands of tentacles merged into a fishhook-shaped spike, which pierced Daisy's gills, piercing through both gills and hanging high. After confirming that the other party had no ability to resist for a short time, Ria turned around and exposed the eye on the back of her neck.

“Miss Daisy, now we can talk quietly.”

"What do you want to do, you polluter!?"

As a female sea merman, Daisy does not have the ability to blink, so even if she wanted to close her eyes and ignore what she sees, she would find it difficult.

At this moment, its pupils trembled violently, and it roared as if its brain was being churned by a sharp blade, while Little Swarth held its gills tightly to prevent it from escaping.

“There’s more than one female merman here. Although I don’t need the whole merman, just a part of the merman’s body mucus, I still think it’s easier to get rid of you than to just take the mucus.”

Ria turned around and saw that Daisy had completely transformed into a gigantic fish-man, her body as if petrified, with countless eyes gathered above her.

Its own eyes were still fixed on Ria, filled with intense resentment and murderous intent, but eventually, these emotions were replaced by awe.

"Shouldn't we still be able to extract mucus in this situation?"

Ria turned around, walked to the sea monster's side, touched its scales, and then rubbed them between her two fingers, which became sticky and produced some white foam.

It seems like it's a good idea.

"But I'm still curious whether creatures affected by the eyes in this situation would still survive."

Lia never wanted to suppress his thirst for knowledge. The moment he thought of it, he began to observe the material in front of him. As a result, no matter from any angle, the material was no different from a softened stone statue.

"It's not clear at the moment, but I remember that when we were in Winstown, the 'statue' seemed to be able to move."

My ability allows me to trade with living matter, which means the fish-men are still alive.

Ria circled the fishman once, its extra eyes fixed on Ria without blinking.

"It's not that easy to die."

Lia leaned closer to one of the eyes, and the eye blinked, its transparent lens reflecting the young man's image.

"My disease can be transmitted to others through the eyes on my neck, but the germs transmitted will only make the other person look like this, which shows that the abnormality brought about by the eyes is a different kind of pollution than the pollution disease."

"Trading with this creature grants me faith, so could I try to completely corrupt this merman, turning it into something like a familiar?"

Thinking of this, Ria began to speak to the fishman: "How are you feeling now, Miss Daisy? Can you move?"

The fishman remained motionless.

Ria then instructed Little Swarth to place the fishman on the ground, which Little Swarth did. Then, Ria gave the fishman the same command he had just given.

Its webbed feet twitched slightly, then, to Riaxi's expectant gaze, remained still.

"Aww—" The mythical creature signaled to its host not to be discouraged, as it felt that the big, dumb guy on the other side simply couldn't understand human speech.

"Perhaps I'm not skilled enough to control the sea people right now, but giving up like this feels like a loss."

After thinking for a long time, Lia finally realized which aspects she had overlooked.

“The fish eggs inside the fishman’s belly are also living things. It’s true that we should start raising our family members from the womb.” He raised his cane and tapped the fishman’s belly, exchanging the departure of some of his companions for a larger living space for the remaining fish eggs.

Faced with such a request, they had no choice but to agree. So, Ria saw a string of fresh fish eggs on the ground, and these eggs, like their mother, had tiny eyes growing on their surface.

"I want you to become my followers and my retinue, and seize every opportunity to stop the adult fishmen."

After he finished speaking, the dark shadows in the fish eggs twitched slightly, as if they understood what Lia meant.

"Good boys."

After saying that, Ria found another excuse to "trick" all the remaining fish eggs in the supernatural creature's belly into taking them out and making them work for her.

After doing all that, he filled the empty bottles he had collected in his spare time with the slime from the scales of the sea merfolk—Lia would collect useful things from time to time, in other words, he would have Little Swarth pick up any empty bottles or cardboard he saw on the road.

Little Swarth couldn't understand his habit of picking up trash, but whatever his host did was right. He had seen his host use those scraps to exchange for coins with others, so whether it was managing the town's streets or recycling waste, Ria was perfect and impeccable.

In Ria's eyes, there is no such thing as waste; everything can be converted into wealth of equal or greater value.

If you don't fuss over trivial matters, your money will gradually increase.

"Remember, even a mosquito's leg is meat."

Ria gave little Swarth this instruction, and little Swarth nodded, deciding to start collecting the sexy long legs of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes from now on.

Fortunately, Ria didn't know what the mythical creature that was parasitizing her was thinking, otherwise she would definitely be angry.

He had just finished collecting the slime and handed the bottle and fish eggs to Little Swarth. As for the fishman, it was too huge and heavy, so Ria found a secluded corner and threw it next to the ditch. He then made a deal with the water-resistant sowbugs, mosquito larvae, and even maggots, exchanging the fishman's flesh for their faith.

The meat wouldn't be eaten up so quickly, and Ria felt she would probably return here, where it would be used for something else.

"There's no time to waste now; I need to find a place to start a fire immediately."

Ria didn't linger. Before the second fishman could discover the place, she ran out of the inn and wandered in the shadows of the hidden alleyways, watching the celebratory ceremony of the crowds on the town's streets.

The rain gradually stopped, but the phantom of the inverted ocean remained suspended in the sky, giving people a great sense of oppression, as if the seawater would completely and uncontrollably cover the land at any moment.

"There will always be places where fishmen dare not act recklessly."

The people walking in the town had turned into fish, and the fish turned back into people after the rain stopped, making it impossible to tell who was the disguised fish-man.

But everything these murlocs do is in order to revive the Lord of the Gale and the Abyss, and to take revenge on the Radiant Sun.

"Their actions are still somewhat restrained; they dare not run wild in the face of the bright, rising sun, and can only resort to these methods that gradually corrupt people's hearts."

Lia said thoughtfully, "The most dangerous place is the safest place. Perhaps going to church will bring unexpected benefits."

He made his decision about what to do next and turned to leave the alley. However, the next second, he saw at least five fishmen slowly approaching from the end of the alley.

With her rear blocked, Ria looked ahead and saw that a fishman carrying a long knife for killing fish had walked over at some point.

(End of this chapter)