What did you do with the dice?

Rusalka: System, turn on automatic pickup.

It’s a pity that the system doesn’t have this function, and what makes Rusalka regretful is that he can’t bring in the thrifty white cat that has this function.

It’s not that he didn’t want to take Phoenix with him, but Phoenix was afraid of water. She could take a bath but she really didn’t like the feeling of having her head submerged in water. Rusalka had just discovered this weakness.

Rusalka: (Haha, I actually found the weakness. This time the cat is doomed!)

Sanita suddenly became curious about his outrageous remarks: (So now you know, how do you want to exploit this weakness?)

Rusalka: (From now on, if I sleep in a large water tank filled with water, or if I jump directly into the moat, will she be unable to do anything to me?)

Sanita immediately suspected his brother was truly retarded. Phoenix was indeed powerless against the ocean, but could she also be powerless against a water tank and a three- or four-meter-shallow moat? A water tank would shatter if hit, and you'd have to pay for a replacement yourself. As for the moat, it depended on whether you closed your eyes first or the power of shadows fished it out for you first.

The Temple of Poseidon was built between the fourth and third floors of the south area. The appearance of the temple is not a traditional square building, but is carved out of stone into the image of a giant sea dragon lying and sleeping in the city.

The atmosphere of the birthday banquet also spread here. There were many decorations hanging on the back of the sea dragon today, and many plates of live fish food were placed there for sacrifice and blessing.

All visitors enter through the entrance of its huge open mouth. After passing the long "Revelation Corridor" at the beginning where the history and introduction of the sea god are carved, the slope will gradually rise. When you reach the open belly in the middle of the highest point, you will reach the "Group Statue Pavilion".

There are a lot of open rooms on both sides of the statue section, and each room is filled with various styles of Leviathan statues made by the folk and the official.

Some are realistic mermaids with more recognizable appearances, some are mermaids with a big tail, some are giant insects that look like Leviathan, or indescribable tentacle creatures. Although they look very different, they have one thing in common, that is, each statue is very large.

From this we can see that hugeness and majesty are the recognized characteristics of the sea god, but his original appearance seems to be a mystery to the sea people.

Near each statue, there were more or less some "evidence of Poseidon". Some of them looked like shells of living creatures, some were strange stones and weapons. Rusalka even saw a piece of wreckage of Estron's magic airship. It was probably that the sculptor picked it up and got inspired, so he enshrined it here as part of Poseidon's miracle.

There is a small box in front of all the statues for tourists to throw shell coins into. If you come across a statue you like and think it is the sea god himself, you can throw a white shell coin into it and pray that he will protect you and bring you good luck in the coming year.

Vishas seemed to come here often. She was like a qualified museum tour guide. Almost every time she passed by a statue, she would introduce its characteristics to Rusalka, making her feel as if she had returned to Earth and was visiting a wonderful marine museum.

However, she did not stay in the Group Statue Pavilion for long. Instead, she took Rusalka and walked slowly forward with the crowd. Soon they came to an area in the middle and back. That was the room where the staff lived. The front was not open to the public. After all, those statues and the like, including the shell box, had to be cleaned every day by someone, which was also part of the revenue.

There is also a donation box at the door of Esdi's church. It's not shabby to make a living by relying on faith.

At the tail area of ​​the building, the ground is obviously leading downwards again. Normal tourists will exit from the tail of this huge sea dragon building, thus completing the two-kilometer walking tour.

But this time, Vishas did not take Rusalka with her to walk with the crowd. Instead, she took him to a small passage on the side. After opening the door of the staff living area, she motioned him to come in quickly, then turned around and closed the door.

Feeling that she had finally played the role of landlord, Weishasi looked very proud and swung her legs and said to Rusalka, "This is the place where my uncle always brings me to worship. This is a secret passage used exclusively by our royal family."

"what is inside?"

"You'll know when you go see it~" She lowered her voice and put the fin to her mouth to cover the lower half of her face: "Shh, be quiet, don't disturb the sleeping god."

Rusalka nodded. He used to not believe that gods would care about him, but now that he had seen so many strange gods, he had to believe it.

Under her guidance, the two passed through a long and winding path illuminated by luminous pearls on both sides, and the light in front of them suddenly became clear.

What caught my eye was a row of statues. Unlike the statues outside, the statues here were all neatly arranged as mermaid statues. There were no boxes for collecting shells in front of them, they just stood there quietly.

Vishas chuckled and slid forward. Halfway through, she turned back and waved to Rusalka, signaling him to catch up quickly.

Rusalka couldn't slip away, so he could only switch from breaststroke to freestyle and try to accelerate with the wheel punch.

Weisha led him to a mermaid statue that looked very much like her and stopped before it, bowing slightly. "Mom, I'm here to see you. Are you doing well in God's kingdom?"

Rusalka looked up at the mermaid statue, which was also very huge and held a scepter in its hand. However, the image did not look majestic at all, but gave people a natural affinity.

Is this Vishas's mother, the previous owner of the Blessing of the Sea God, the Mermaid Queen Amelie of the Kingdom of Elegy?

Rusalka felt a little sad, so she imitated Vishas, ​​bowed slightly to the statue, and whispered, "Hello, I brought Vishas back safely."

Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, Weishas turned around and looked at him with a pair of big sapphire eyes filled with deep doubt: "This is just a statue of my mother. Why are you talking to a statue?"

The emotions were all brewing, but suddenly Weisha said this, leaving Rusalka really confused: "Didn't you say it to her first? I just want to resonate with you."

Weishas tilted her head, seemingly not sad at all. "I'm talking to myself. I'm about to meet Lord Leviasang, and I'm so nervous. Only in front of my mother's statue can I feel a little more at ease. I'm taking this opportunity to rehearse what I'll have Lord Leviasang convey. Lord Pearl Tear, do you want to prepare as well?"

Rusalka: (Brother, who can understand this? I was actually toyed with by a bad fish!)

Sanita: (Ugh. Ugh.)

I need to prepare a stupid speech. What's the point of talking to this sea god? Can he give me nine sea tails?

If this is really possible, Rusalka will immediately abandon her faith in the God of War and throw herself into the arms of the great Sea God. Long live Liviasan!

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However, what happened next was so miraculous that, in order to give the Sani Tower a more immersive and high-quality experience, Rusalka narrated it live in a private chat channel:

Besides, Vishas stepped on the Ruihu, faced the north current, and swam like flying to the door of the main hall of Liviasang, which was only accessible to the nobles of the sea. When she arrived at the door, she could only cry out in pain.

But I saw that the main hall had been locked and had several spells carved on it.

Weishas frowned, wondering, "What should I do?"

Rushaka understood, drew his sword, and pointed it at the door lock, advising, "How about the Holy Slash?"

Weishas hurriedly waved her arms like a butterfly flapping its wings, trying to persuade him to put down the sword, fearing that this blow would anger the gods and alarm the guard, which would be a big taboo.

Seeing that it was getting dark, she thought: "There is no place to stay, and it may not open until tomorrow morning. What should I do?"

She suddenly remembered: "There is a small side door behind the main hall. I can go in. Let's go there and take a look. After I finish my worship, I will take care of it."

The two walked along the wall for half a mile, and sure enough, there was a small window behind them that was only half-closed and hooked with a chain. Weisha quietly used the water flow to open the lock inside and got in, then closed the window. There was only a large stone next to it, which she picked up and leaned against the window.

It was magical inside, with a barrier spread out, but not a drop of water was touched. Behind the window was a storage room. When they quietly opened the door and entered the main hall, they saw a statue of a sixteen-armed sea god in golden armor, with his back to them.

Although she couldn't see the front, just looking at the sixteen arms made Rusalka drool with envy, thinking to herself: With this divine help, how could the previous nine-tailed beast still be worthy of my attention?

The kindness shown by Lord Zhan was forgotten, and he wished he could immediately become Lord Hai's disciple.

Looking at the two sides of the statue, there are two mermaids and a giant shark, with some tributes and jewelry decorations piled on the side. Looking around, there are no neighbors and no temple owner.

Rusalka placed his sword and shield on the ground, took off his hat, and shook out the water; it was already about half wet. Just as he was getting ready to go out, he heard a loud rustling noise outside. He jumped up and peered through the crack in the front door. He saw several figures moving around, and heard someone talking in front of him, as they tried to unlock the door with a patter of water.

Previously, Visas had taken him through the royal secret passage, but they didn't expect that by such a coincidence, someone actually bumped into them from the main path!

If we meet here, it won't be as easy to fool as the gatekeeper. Everyone is a mermaid with a name, and my name Zhu Lei will be exposed immediately.

Rusalka reacted quickly, raised her hand to cover Visha's mouth, made a gesture to silence her, and took her back to hide in the utility room door.

18 Sensing such terror, he quickly identified the sound as the scraping of two mermaids' feet, and it seemed that there was also a human stepping on the ground. After the three of them successfully opened the lock and broke the spell on it, causing the main door to sway from side to side and slowly open, the two put down the heavy coffin in their hands, and one of the mermaids ran to the small door at the back of the hall, and gently pushed the door with his hand as if to check, but was blocked by Rusalka and could not be pushed open.

The male mermaid nodded with satisfaction. "Those Naga mages were very efficient. They even locked this small door before leaving. I was worried they might have overlooked this place."

"Normally, it's never closed, and there's a window leading to the outside. His Majesty said there have been some recent movements of defectors, and that this place needs to be closely guarded. I figured if a thief familiar with this place wanted to get in, this would be their only way in. They probably locked it just to be on the safe side."

The other two checked around and found that everything was fine. It seemed that no one had entered through the main gate, so they returned to the main hall, bowed three times to the statue of Livia, placed some offerings, and then began to do their sneaky things.

One of the humans said, "Is this a good plan?"

The male mermaid who had come to inspect earlier responded, "Thanks to your diligence, both of you! When we return to the Elegy Imperial City, I'll report to His Majesty and guarantee you both high positions. Even if the conservative Siren family racks their brains, there's no way they can evade this!"

Another mermaid laughed and said, "The eldest princess has taken advantage of us this time. Your Majesty's worries will surely be cured!"

The first merman said, "That Naga mage, Weil, has repeatedly told the eldest princess, 'Your mother is gone, why not seek revenge?' But the eldest princess has been cowardly and unresponsive, and His Majesty has become increasingly concerned. His Majesty specifically sent our Shenyuan family to perform this task, but we didn't expect it to be complete now. With her mother Amelie's body here, and the cover of the Sea Temple ritual, we can conceal her identity and perform this resurrection technique."

The merman chuckled, "I spent years inquiring in Estron before I finally secretly invited this highly skilled mage. If the ruler of the country, the Supreme Arcane Mage, hadn't been so discerning and looked down upon me, how could I have discovered such a talent?"

The human said bitterly, "Never mind. This is a matter of the past. When this is done, I will personally slaughter the lackeys of the Mobius family."

But he paused, then said with a hint of worry, "I'm just worried that the eldest princess, with the mighty power of the Sea God, will see through this undead corpse-controlling technique and refuse to surrender her power."

The mermaid waved his hand. "Don't worry. As long as His Majesty is willing to stand by us, what's the harm in treating the dead as if they were alive? Those fools have never seen such wonderful magic. Moreover, they admire Amelie so much for sacrificing her life and expending most of her energy to cast the Water Mirror Boundary, saving most of the people in this city from the dragon flames. They worship her as a minor deity and are eager to see her resurrected. Who would dare to slander her resurrection as a fake? Under such public opinion, how could a weak fish like the eldest princess dare to go against the will of the people? She would have to submit obediently."

"Wonderful~"

As Rusalka listened to the three men, she thought to herself, "God have mercy on Vishas! If I hadn't sneaked in through the little door and eavesdropped, these three would have used necromancy to desecrate her mother's body, deceived the people with counterfeit goods, and forced her to give up her power!"

His heart was filled with rage, and he immediately drew his sword, kicked open the small door in front of him, and shouted at the two frightened fish:

"Where are you going, thief?"

Chapter 401 Princess Wei's Snowy Sea Temple (Part 2)

Necromancer, or to use Sanitita's more rigorous and professional spellcaster terminology, is a wizard who studies "necromancy spells" and is currently a very rare existence in this world.

The main reason is not that the spells of the Necromancer School are difficult to learn, but that in Snidili, where the faith of the Supreme Arcane Mage gathered almost most of the wizards in the world, there was a great wizard of the Necromancer School who committed an atrocity of "sneaking into the royal tomb" in order to study the corpses of "noble blood".

He even pried open the coffin of the founding emperor, not only dug up his ancestral grave, but also used necromancy to desecrate the bodies of so many founding heroes.

This directly led to the then powerful Mebius family's leaders becoming furious after learning about the incident. They immediately issued a nationwide order to include the necromancer school in the same category of "black magicians" as spellcasters who used demonic powers. They exiled meritorious necromancers and killed the unmeritorious ones on the spot.

In addition, the bards whose mouths were controlled by gold coins spread the evils of necromancy, causing necromancers to become rats crossing the street and everyone wanted to kill them. This led to the death and escape of this school, and eventually the decline of its population.

Such a nationwide purge would certainly be one in which the innocent would be killed rather than let off. If the ancestral tombs were blown up without any major revenge, how could the Mebius family establish their prestige and become king?

However, since some innocent people were affected, a group of necromancers held a grudge against this incident and hoped every day for the demise of Sneidi, who had expelled them in the past. They have been waiting until now. And this Emerson was one of the necromancers who was exiled to the United Kingdom of Humanity that year.

But later, the El Empire destroyed the United Kingdom of Humanity, and he was displaced to Estron, where he was discovered by a mermaid who had close private contact with humans and was responsible for smuggling.

It just so happened that at this time, the Kingdom of Elegy was divided into two factions. One faction was the pro-war faction headed by the newly crowned king, Nohat. The largest family supporting them was the Abyssal Beast Family. They advocated expansion towards the land, and the previous joint campaign against Esterlun was also promoted by them behind the scenes.

The other faction is the family faction that supports Poseidon and implements Amelie's belief in peace. They are the peace advocates, and the families headed by them are the Siren Family and the Melo Family. They control six of the Nine Departments and are a classic aristocratic family with three officials in four generations. They are well-rooted and stable. In fact, they privately complain about Nohat's illegitimate ascension to the throne. However, considering that Vishas fell into a long sleep after receiving the blessing of Poseidon, although her spirit body has thoughts, it is too naive to shoulder the responsibility of the country.

In addition, Nohat's management of the Elegy Empire was indeed good, so he had no choice but to maintain the status quo and could only compete with it secretly.

Their idea is to develop harmoniously with the creatures on the mainland, actively improve the domestic environment, and implement the sea god's peace ideas with the virtues of Amelie, who is famous all over the world, to attract submission from all directions.

Originally, the pro-war faction had the upper hand a few days ago, but the defeat in the battle against Esterlun allowed the pro-peace faction to regain the right to speak. Seeing that simple fighting was not good for the sea people, Nohat wanted to borrow the power of the sea god to melt the icebergs and let the sea flood the entire land, so as to conquer the world.

However, Vishas never handed over the power and blessing of the sea god, causing Nohat's plan to be stranded and he became frustrated.

So, under the advice of the chief Naga mage Weil, he made two preparations. The first was to forge Amelie's last words, tricking Vishas's spirit into looking for the "dragon slayer", letting her leave the sea and let Weil take her place, and openly use the power of faith to study her body sleeping under the stone tablet to see if he could obtain the power of the sea god.

On the other hand, he secretly inquired about the news of the "key to seal the demon gate" mentioned by Weir, hoping to use the power of demons to destroy the creatures on the continent, and use their high temperature and flame characteristics to make the world fall into the influence of burning and active fire elements, and then find a way to open the elemental plane to attract the fire elements to enter, causing the glaciers to melt, which can also achieve the effect he expected of letting the sea water flood the world.

Of course, faced with these peace advocates who were so difficult to deal with that they gave him a headache, the Abyss Family offered him a vicious plan: to govern from the root.

Since the peace advocates are determined to follow this dead person to the death because of Queen "Amelie"'s benevolence and self-sacrifice, then if there is a way to "resurrect" her and then control her to personally support the war, wouldn't it completely shatter the foundation of their ideology?

In this way, your Majesty's path to dominance will be unimpeded.

Nohat suddenly felt that this plan was good, but such blasphemous acts were against the principles of heaven. After all, Amelie had sacrificed herself for the country on the surface, and he was the only one who knew the truth in private. So even if he was anxious, he must not do it himself and had to pretend that he knew nothing about it.

So a young man from the "Yuan Beast" family said that he knew an old friend who had dealings with human black magicians and was willing to share the worries for His Majesty.

They secretly took advantage of the vacant guards and the information leaked by Nohat to steal the coffin containing Amelie's remains from the royal secret vault and transported it to a place with a special isolation barrier in front of the Temple of Poseidon that only nobles could enter. They then used Vishas's 160th birthday party to attract attention, making the peace faction focus their attention on the Grand Princess and paving the way for the excuse of Amelie's resurrection.

Of course, even the "Abyss" family didn't know that the current Vishas was actually Weir in disguise, but Nohat knew it, so he thought the plan was perfect. Weir only needed to cooperate and admit in person that "I received guidance and mercy from the sea god at my birthday party, and she personally appeared to resurrect my mother for me." Then the resurrection of "Amelie" would become an impeccable "truth."

Perhaps there was divine mercy in the dark, and the sea god could not bear to see this happen. In any case, after Rusalka gently told Vishas to "hide at the back, I will deal with it immediately", she jumped out of the door with a huge sword in her right hand and a shield in her left hand, and shouted.

As an outsider, he interrupted this plan that was almost successful.

The two fish and one man were startled when they saw a young blue-turtle man. They also saw that his eyes were wide open. Although he was fair and clean, he exuded a ferocious aura all over his body, like a demon who slaughtered tens of thousands of lives. In addition, he was guilty of his crime and was caught off guard in front of the statue of the sea god, so his momentum was immediately greatly reduced.

The two mermaids were trembling and wanted to leave first, but the door behind them had been locked by themselves for the sake of secrecy, cutting off their retreat for a while.

But Rusalka was merciless, without a word of nonsense, and even unwilling to answer questions like "Who are you?", and just rushed forward with sword in hand.

In a place that was clearly the Temple of the Sea God but had no water, he, a human being, was "like a fish in water". With a speed that seemed so flexible to them that it didn't look like fish fins, he rushed in front of them in the blink of an eye with just a light tap of his feet.

Rusalka raised her hand and stabbed the merman with a fierce sword, cutting his body in two with one stroke. Blood and filth were scattered all over the ground. The other two saw that there was no room for negotiation, so they also raised their hands to cast spells to attack.

The necromancer summoned several soul-like blue rays that collided directly with Rusalka's forehead. The latter glanced at the prompt in the lower right corner: [You are affected by Soul Shock. You are immune to mental restrictions and damage.]

He sneered in his heart, thinking that this little trick was nothing special. He raised his shield to block the water arrow shot from the left, then turned around and rushed to kill the mermaid again. He would kill all the wizards in the sea first and then start a civil war, slowly torturing this wizard.

But at this moment, the two halves of the corpse on the ground suddenly closed, and the resurrected man flew back with his teeth bared. While Rusalka was unable to react, he raised his hand and summoned a trident, stabbing it into the air at him, stirring up a blue triangular cone of water.

The water spike hit Rusalka's waist and was absorbed and disappeared.

Rusalka raised an eyebrow. This was the first time he had encountered someone who survived being chopped in half. It suddenly reminded him of this: "Mermaids are immortal?"

The merman was even more horrified than him: "What kind of precious armor is this? Even my Guanbo Spear can't pierce it. Who are you from?"

But Rusalka clearly didn't want to have a proper conversation. She started rambling, "I'm so pissed! I'm the only one constantly reviving, exhausting everyone else. How could I allow anyone to copy my builds? Did you pay me the copyright fees for your resurrection? Look at this, little thief!"

Sunitita was actually a little speechless when he heard this. What I mean is, is it possible that this mermaid is immortal and his surname is Mermaid?

But it didn't matter. Rusalka was not afraid of fighting three alone. These attacks didn't cause him much blood loss at all. It took him a long time to reduce his blood bar by a small amount. He was not used to such low-intensity battles, so he switched back to the Double Giant Weapon Master early, only attacking and not defending, and slashed at the merman with another sword.

The latter wanted to jump up to avoid it, but suddenly realized that this was not the sea and she could not swim flexibly in the air. The battlefield-hardened Rusalka seized this moment of stiffness and stabbed her in the abdomen with a sword. Then he mercilessly used the Four Rings Holy Slash to blow her body into pieces. He did not forget to finish off the corpse and stomped on her head without mercy.

At this time, the necromancer's attack and the merman's spear had already hit him, but the male mermaid's shot that hit Rusalka's back of the head felt like hitting a diamond and could not go any further. Rusalka turned around and slashed with a knife so fast and fierce that even though he had subconsciously retreated, it still cut his chest.

Holy light burst out from the wound and blew him into charcoal.

The remains of the two mermaids were squirming on the ground, trying to be pieced together, but Rusalka didn't give them a chance. He completely ignored the necromancer's methods and cut the pieces of flesh into pieces with his sword.

As Rusalka cut the meat, she privately chatted with Sanitta: "By order of the Grand Duke Pearl Tears, I want ten pounds of lean meat from this mermaid, cut into sauerkraut, without any fat on top. Wait, I want another ten pounds of all-fat, without any lean meat on top, cut into sauerkraut as well. I also want another ten pounds of fine cartilage, finely chopped into sauerkraut, without any meat on top."

There's no footage of the Sanita Tower, only Rusalka's retelling. The previous sentence was "I killed those two mermen instantly, and they actually wanted to revive," and the next sentence became this, which really made him embarrassed: (What's going on? They're selling meat in the middle of a fight?)