It is precisely because of Princess Chrissy's legendary experience and her rebellious life that Velen has many admirers in various countries around the world. Stories related to her are enduring and her reputation is comparable to that of the pirate Earl Drake.

Not bad at all.

However, Leo knew that Princess Chris had another identity, which was that of a witch, and her identity as a witch also made the rumors of the death of King Inge and the Duke of Buckingham a little more authentic.

At least in Sylvia's opinion, the possibility of this happening is over 90%.

Although Princess Chris is a witch, she is not a member of the Witches' Coven. The Witches' Coven does not know much about her, except that she is a witch with some special abilities.

According to the data, Princess Chris's abilities are not very strong on land, just about the same as those of ordinary witches, but at sea, she can possess power comparable to that of gods. As for the specific power, Sylvia is not sure.

Clearly, it is just a guess that it may be related to the ocean. After all, the bloodline of the Ying royal family has the blood of Poseidon. Even if a witch appears, it should not be able to escape the scope of the power of the blood.

While Leo was recalling the information related to Princess Chris in his mind, Sean on the side also quickly described his relationship with Princess Chris, or why he could recognize the half-mermaid so quickly.

The bishop is Princess Chrissy.

It turns out that during the two years Princess Chrissy was in Poseidon Church, Sean Donald, who was still young at the time, was one of her attendants. When Princess Chrissy died of illness, he was even among the clergy who offered her last prayers.

figure.

Although many years have passed, the image of Princess Chris still remains in his heart. After all, it was his first crush when he was just in love.

After hearing Sean's sentimental mention of his connection with Princess Chrissy, Leo unceremoniously pulled him back from those youthful memories and said: "Princess Chrissy back then has really changed."

do you died?"

Sean immediately replied: "Of course she is dead. Not only did the church conduct an examination, but the royal family also sent people to examine her. After confirming that she was dead, she was buried at sea according to her last wish."

Leo was stunned and confirmed: "Princess Chris's funeral was carried out in accordance with her own wishes?"

"Yes." Sean nodded and said: "Although Princess Chris has been expelled from the royal family, the royal family still planned to bury her in the royal cemetery, and the Poseidon Church also hopes to bury Princess Chris.

The two were in a stalemate over the burial according to the rituals of the Church of Love. In the end, Princess Chris's maid said that she had left a will after her death and recorded the burial method in her will, which ended the dispute."

Leo asked again: "What kind of examinations did the royal family and the church give to the people who conducted the death examination on Princess Chris?"

"Just a simple heartbeat test..." Sean answered quickly, but immediately stopped, and realized something, and said: "Sir Leo, do you mean that Princess Chrissy is not actually dead?"

"I don't know." Leo didn't give the other party a clear answer, but the meaning was self-evident. When Sean wanted to ask something else, he changed the subject and said: "What do you think now?

Since you and Princess Chris are old acquaintances, the half-mermaid bishop is probably Princess Chris, so you might be able to..."

"No." Sean shook his head and said: "I was just an insignificant little attendant at the time. There were more than a dozen attendants like me. I have no old acquaintance with Princess Chris. We are still

Let’s go to the temple as planned!”

After saying that, Sean seemed unwilling to continue the topic and walked towards the temple. Leo followed and continued on his way.

After walking for about a few hours, the two met again a group of people coming from the direction of the temple. This time the people and horses were slightly different in dress and race from the previous ones. This time the people and horses were mainly pure humans.

Even if there are mutations in fish characteristics on the body, the mutated parts are all recessive, and their mutations cannot be seen unless you look carefully.

Although these people also have the emblem of the Poseidon Church, they do not have the attire of church clergy. Instead, they all wear a suit of armor. The armor of the leader is slightly different from the others. On the chest of his armor

There is a sculpture of a Hydra on it, and each Hydra's eye is a gem. It seems to have no function, just like some kind of decoration.

However, if someone really regards it as a decoration, then that person is probably not far from death.

Because Leo, who was hiding in the dark, could clearly feel that there was an energy wave equivalent to an eighth-level psyker contained in the Hydra sculpture. Although he didn't know what the function of this energy was,

But it is very clear that if the other party knows how to release this energy, then any eighth-level psyker will be severely damaged by the performance of this energy, let alone those below eighth level.

Although the leading knight possesses a very powerful piece of rare armor, his strength seems to be much worse than that of the half-mermaid bishop who was suspected of being Princess Chris, because Leo was far away from the team at that time.

The man and horse were very close, and they also used the mental network to check his internal and external conditions, but even so, the other party still did not notice that there was a mysterious strong man spying on him where he passed, and his perception ability was worse than that of Princess Chris.

A lot.

"Are they from the Hydra family?" After Leo removed the hidden rune trap, Sean looked at the direction in which the team left and muttered to himself.

"What Hydra?" Leo asked.

Sean immediately explained to Leo that it turned out that those who left the inland sea and settled on land were not from the same blood family. In fact, there were three families in total who chose to leave the ocean, and these three families were all

Use powerful monsters in the sea as family emblems, such as the Hydra family that just passed by.

"What about you?" Leo asked, "Does your Donald family belong to that sea monster family?"

"Son of the Sea." Sean said: "It is recorded in our ancestors that people with the blood of the Donald family can summon deep-sea sea monsters through special sea-monster snails. People with purer bloodlines can summon more deep-sea sea monsters. It is said that our ancestors can summon three sea monsters."

Ten sea monsters of the deep.”

"What is the remaining family?" Leo asked again.

"Leviathan, the Devourer of Worlds." Sean thought for a while and said.

Leo was stunned and said, "Isn't Leviathan the incarnation of Poseidon?"

It is recorded in the classics of the Poseidon Church that Poseidon has two incarnations. These two incarnations control everything in the ocean for him when he is sleeping. One incarnation is the King of the Sea who has never appeared in the world of Velen, and the other is the Devouring World.

Leviathan.

It is said that Poseidon is in charge of countless ocean worlds. Only when those ocean worlds enter decline, Leviathan will be nurtured in that ocean world, swallow the entire world, and turn it into the crown jewel on Poseidon's head.

"It is the incarnation of Poseidon, but it is also a sea monster." Sean explained, and then added: "The Ying royal family seems to have the blood of Leviathan, and their ancestors are probably from this family."

After a short conversation, the two continued to move forward. On the way, they encountered several groups of cavalry heading deep into the Despair Mountains. The surrounding environment also became somewhat different as the number of cavalry encountered increased.

For example, the originally barren gravel ground is now covered with soil, moss has grown on the soil, and the original mountainous area has turned into a wetland. As the soil thickens, trees grow on the ground, but these trees are not very tall.

, the tallest one is less than ten meters, which is obviously much lower than the hundreds of meters of trees that can be seen everywhere in the world of Velen.

However, the branches and leaves of the trees here are very dense. A large number of disorderly tree trunks and branches have grown out. Together with the leaves and vines, they have blocked all the gaps between the trees. If you want to pass by here, you have to fly directly from the trees.

In the past, we either had to follow the path opened by the people here.

Obviously the other end of this forest should be where the Holy Mountain mentioned by Sean is. The races living around the Holy Mountain seem to regard this forest as a natural barrier to protect the monsters in the Despair Mountain. Leo can feel this.

The trees in a forest are not as simple as they appear on the surface. They are full of all kinds of hidden predators. Even the forest trees themselves may be a predator, just like some kind of community of life.

"How do we go now?" Standing on the hillside, Sean looked at the forest, and then at an obvious road through the forest in the distance.

"Take the road." Leo quickly gave the answer and said, "The forest is too dangerous. I may be able to walk through it smoothly, but you may have some difficulties."

Sean hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the obvious checkpoints on the road and asked, "What should I do there?"

"Let's go! Don't say anything later, just follow me." Leo didn't elaborate, he just gave simple instructions. After that, he walked down the hillside and walked towards the road over there.

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Sean followed closely. Now he had no choice but to trust Leo. After all, if it weren't for Leo, this sacrificial trip, which he thought wouldn't be too troublesome, might have just come to this place.

He was already dead when he entered the world. Now he can only rely on Leo and hope that what Leo promised can be done.

The two of them soon came to the road. The builder of this road obviously considered the convenience of the army's walking, so when building it, it was made as wide as possible. According to Leo's estimate, the width of the road is at least one hundred meters.

about.

The ground of the road is not a stone ground, but some bones that look like sea creatures. These bones were crushed and laid flat on the ground, and then compacted to form the current road surface.

Leo could easily feel a wave of energy from the bones on the pavement. Obviously, the people who built the roads did not just lay them for beauty, but more because the energy generated by these bones could inhibit the growth of the forest.

, and can also have some dispersing effect on the monsters in the Despair Mountains, because Leo did not find any small bugs that are often seen in the Despair Mountains on this road, even in the mountainous areas within the influence of the road energy.

There are no bugs either.

"What's wrong with you?" After the two of them walked on this road, Sean suddenly showed a strange expression on his face. Leo also noticed it and asked doubtfully.

"It's nothing, it's just... I feel very comfortable." Sean said with some confusion on his face: "It feels like I'm home."

Leo used the mental net to check Sean's condition, and found nothing abnormal about Sean. The only thing worth noting was the scales that appeared behind Sean's ears when he mutated before. The color of the scales seemed to be different.

It changed into a silvery white color with some golden patterns on the edge.

"Is there any problem?" Sean couldn't help but ask when he saw Leo frowning.

Leo explained: "It's nothing, it's just that the environment here can stimulate certain bloodlines in you. If you stay here for a long time, maybe you can become a true dependent of Poseidon."

After hearing Leo's words, Sean not only didn't show the slightest bit of joy, but actually looked a little ugly. Unlike the Ying royal family and other people who had some relationship with the royal bloodline, he never liked the so-called Poseidon bloodline. He preferred his own.

With human blood, he had also seen what those Poseidon Familia looked like, and those Poseidon Familia had become a nightmare in his heart, so it could be said that he was not interested at all in mutating into that kind of Familia, and was even extremely disgusted.

Leo didn't say anything and led Sean to continue walking along the road. Because there was no cover on the road, people walking on the road could be seen from a long distance away.

So the moment they walked on this bone road, Leo used spiritual energy to create an optical illusion around his body, hiding himself and Sean in the illusion, which allowed the two of them to walk all the way to the first

None of the checkpoints were discovered by the monitors on the checkpoints.

This checkpoint is not a pass-style checkpoint, but more like a beacon tower. A wooden wall and wooden door that seems to have no interception effect block the road. At both ends of the road, there are two towers with a height of five meters.

The sentry tower is more than ten meters tall, and next to the sentry tower is a beacon-style brazier.

At this moment, the gate of the sentry post is open. It seems to be to facilitate the entry and exit of the previous cavalry. Although there are guards on the sentry tower, there are no guards at the gate under the sentry tower. The people who were supposed to be responsible for guarding are staying not far away.

Playing a local board game outside the wooden house, they seemed to be very relaxed and not worried at all that the monsters in the Despair Mountains would rush here to attack them.

The guards here are basically all humans without mutations. They speak a brand new language. Although I can’t understand what they say, it can be seen from their gestures and expressions that they should have come from here before speaking.

The cavalry passed through and headed for the Mountains of Despair.

After Leo passed through the gate, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he continued to hide not far away through optical illusions. He listened to the conversations of those people, memorized their pronunciation and other details, and collected reference materials for himself to master this language soon.
Chapter completed!