Chapter 323 Ebb and Forgiveness
The fishman who was knocked to the ground by the hammer went into a brief blank in his brain. He looked at Wu Chang with his sunken eyes and cursed:

“Damn it! I, Dagang, curse you and that bitch! You keep blaspheming the sea. My Lord will make you regret it.”

Wu Chang stopped the hammer in his hand that was about to hit it again and asked curiously, “Which bitch?”

The fishman who called himself Dagang spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fangs and said vaguely:
“Of course it’s the master above your Ogri people’s heads.”

Wu Chang raised his eyebrows, “Are you talking about the Great Virgin Mary?”

Dagang snorted coldly, and his body expanded again, growing to five meters in height. He used his throat and chest to resonate and uttered a low, ancient cry.

As Dagang’s cry spread, the Briver Islanders present hugged themselves in pain. Their bodies were torn through the coarse cloth, and along the torn seams, scales could be seen growing rapidly on their bodies.

Seeing this, Wu Chang did not knock the coral hammer into Dagang’s mouth to forcibly interrupt the fishman’s chanting, but stood aside and let the other party perform.

Now is not his turn.

Just as the murloc curse in the islanders’ bodies was completely detonated and transformed into murlocs, a light golden light spread out in all directions starting from Irene.

The cathedral, which was originally damp and cold and dyed a dark blue hue by water vapor, regained its color under the light.

Wherever the light passed, the accumulated water on the ground and walls evaporated instantly, the dim candlelight suddenly became stronger, and the faded glazed windows shone again.

The light shone on the townspeople, and their trembling in pain stopped immediately, and their wrinkled faces slowly relaxed.

The townspeople were in the freezing winter sea one moment, and lying on the spring lawn, basking in the warm sunshine the next.

The scales on their bodies melted away in the light, and the slits on their necks and protruding eyes returned to normal.

The only person left on the field was Dagan, lying on the ground, still in his murloc form.

Dagang’s shouting did not stop, but no one in the field would respond to him and change even if he shouted at the top of his lungs.

Under the angry gazes of the islanders, Dagang was like an action movie teacher without a partner, and even his own shouting felt boring.

He symbolically ended with a sub-bass and then closed his mouth in embarrassment.

Wu Chang asked from the side: “Are you done shouting?”

Dagang nodded.

Wu Chang swung the coral hammer and smashed Dagang’s head into the ground again.

“That’s really ugly.”

Dagang shouted unwillingly: “Who are you?!”

He had recognized Irene before. In his impression, Irene was just a puppet of the Mother Mother, a failure, and at most a demigod.

But just now, Irene had easily purified the curse of him, a genuine god, and his power level was obviously higher than hers.

This was beyond his comprehension.

In addition to Irene, the boy with the hammer was also particularly abnormal. He did not feel that the other party used divine power, but was able to hurt his divine body with just his flesh.

This was not the world he was familiar with. He felt that after lurking in the deep sea for too long, he had a generation gap with the outside world.

Faced with Dagang’s questioning, Wu Chang remained silent and just kept swinging the hammer.

He was too lazy to even use the Mamba Elbow to deal with the small fry in front of him. Brute force and the Blasphemer were enough to smash him into a fish ball.

Dagang was getting very anxious after being hit. If Wu Chang continued to hit him like this, he would be hit to death sooner or later.

“Do you think that by removing my curse, you can make this island safe? I am the messenger of my Lord. If you attack me, it would be disrespectful to my Lord! You will suffer a disaster from the deep sea!”

Briver Cathedral is located in the center of the island, far away from the sea. The church is made of heavy stone and is very soundproof.

But at this moment, everyone heard the sound of waves hitting the rocks and the heavy footsteps of something leaving the sea and heading towards the land.

Around the coastline of Brivu Island, tall fishmen over three meters tall rode the black waves to the shore. They grasped sharp blades made of shells, with bloodthirsty light in their eyes.

If the living believers cannot accept it all, they will be turned into blood sacrifices.

They have received orders from the gods to kill all living things on the island and then sink the island completely into the deep sea.

The first group of fishmen to land on the island from Briver Wharf were led by an exceptionally powerful individual.

His name was Ernst. In the era of three-masted sailing ships, he was a great pirate who roamed the seas.

As a young man, he encountered storms and tsunamis more than once, and no matter how crazy the situation was, he was able to steer his boat out of danger.

When he once again returned to the underground tavern in Freeport and shouted “The sea can’t kill me!”, he thought he had conquered the ocean.

Until he met the merman during a treasure hunt.

In front of the murloc, he, who had rich experience in naval warfare, looked as immature as a rookie.

Any murloc is stronger, better at swimming, and more brutal than him.

Twenty mermen overturned his fleet, and ten ships and more than a thousand men were left in that sea forever.

Watching the mermen sacrifice nine ships and leaving no one alive, Ernst and his men chose to surrender, join the mermen clan, and believe in the great existence under the deep sea together.

Under the power of the Lord, he and his men were transformed into murlocs.

Although the Lord meant for him to remain quiet for the time being and not make too much noise, he has been secretly attacking ships at sea over the years, constantly devouring lives and strengthening himself.

He began to grow strong, stronger than any fish-man.

The fishmen who once crushed him like children playing in the sea, he could now defeat with just one hand.

Apart from the murloc leader, Dagan, the god of the deep sea, he is already the strongest among the murlocs.

He has seen too much in the deep sea and challenged various deep-sea races. Now he can confidently say that he has conquered the ocean.

If the lord and leader is the god of the sea, then he is the king of the sea.

Now, the king of the ocean is returning to land to let those landlubbers experience the same nightmare he experienced in the past.

He really enjoyed this feeling. As someone who had been caught in the rain before, he had to take down the umbrellas of all passers-by.

Ernst landed at the Briver Wharf with more than thirty of his most trusted men, who were also the most powerful among the fishmen.

The sea followed them, and wherever they passed, they were swallowed up by the black sea.

When they kill all the rebels on the island and transform the survivors into murlocs, Briv Island will sink completely.

Ernst crossed the pier and actually stood on Brever Island.

He shook his body, and the sea water flowed down his scales, forming a pool of water under his feet.

The next moment, his feet were empty and he fell into the sea.

After ruling out the possibility that he had stepped on the ground and fallen into the sea, he quickly realized that someone was using sea water to deal with him.

Ernst almost laughed out loud when he noticed this. What a joke! Didn’t the other party know that he was a merman?

Apart from the Lord’s chamber, he had entered even the deepest trenches. What seas had he not seen? Entering the water was like returning home.

But before long, he realized something was wrong. He had never seen the sea in front of him before.

This place is filled with the purest darkness.

The fishman’s eyes have a special structure that allows them to see the bottom of the sea where even light cannot penetrate, but they cannot perceive anything in this sea area.

Not only vision, but also hearing, smell and touch are being lost.

It is called a sea area, but it looks more like a mass of nothingness.

What made him even more panicked was that after the sounds in his ears gradually disappeared, he began to hear sounds coming from inside his body.

He could hear his own heart beating, his blood flowing, and the sound of gases moving through his body when he breathed.

Finally, he heard his own mind talking.

The sounds became more and more dense, louder and more and more difficult to understand.

Before his own brain drove him mad, he realized that he had never conquered the sea and that he was still far from being able to defeat the enemy that had trapped him in this sea.

The gap was even more exaggerated than when he first encountered the merfolk when he was still a human.

“Sir, spare my life, I am willing to surrender!”

“I’ll do anything as long as I can survive!”

This is what pirates are like. It is not shameful to surrender, but it is shameful to die.

Everyone has failures. Even the famous legendary pirate kings have failed. Many of them were captured and enslaved, or were almost hanged on the gallows by the navy.

The reason they became legends was not because of how strong they were or how much experience they had at sea, but because they were able to survive failure.

What responded to Ernst was endless silence and darkness.

Just when he had given up and was ready to listen to the voice in his head and end his life, he suddenly felt a pain in his mouth, followed by a strong force that pulled him to move quickly.

When he came to his senses, he had already left the dark sea and returned to Briv Island.

There was a fishhook hanging from the corner of his mouth. He looked along the fishing line on the fishhook and saw a strong man with a fishing rod walking towards him. Wu Changzhen said coldly: “If you want to live, don’t resist and open your consciousness.”

Ernst was very familiar with this routine and did as he was told without any hesitation.

When letting go, he reminded her: “A mark has already been placed in my mind. If you place another mark on me, the effect may be weakened.”

Wu Chang paused for a moment after hearing this. A few seconds later, a ray of light shot out from the cathedral and entered Ernst’s mind.

The mark carved by Dagang was immediately purified by Irene.

Wu Chang then took out the mind resonance and engraved his mark in Ernst’s mind.

Having the black and purple pearl is not safe. Who knows if the evil god will cancel the black and purple pearl’s access rights after discovering Dagang’s death? The safest way is to find a fish traitor as an insider.

With Ernst here, there is no problem finding the deep sea city.

He waved his hand to signal Ernst to leave, go to the sea to wait, and then fish out the dead fishmen in the Blind Abyss one by one and devour their vitality.

After all, the Quiet Town is just a C-level copy, and the natives are still too weak.

Thirty-five powerful murlocs, each of which can only provide 1.5 strength, allowing the true self to stack the strength attribute to 216.

Although the quality is a bit poor, the quantity is sufficient.

My true self entered the Sea Giant transformation, becoming a 400-meter-tall sea monster and began hunting around the coastline of Brever Island.

Five minutes later, he swallowed the anger of the last murloc that landed, looked at the pitiful value that only increased by 0.2, and shook his head in disgust.

Relying on a large amount of supply, the fish people increased his strength to 300 points, but if he went any higher, he would be restricted by the barrier of the wasteland.

Eating this level of trash is not enough for him to accumulate strength.

He smacked his lips and decided to go eat something big.

The big guy who was targeted at this moment seemed to have all his strength drained out and collapsed to the ground.

Dagang’s wide-open dead fish eyes were filled with disbelief.

The sound of the waves in the cathedral was dying down, the tide was going out.

He had not retreated yet, but the tide had receded, which meant that his Lord had given up on him.

Looking at Dagang, whose face looked as pale as death, Wu Chang guessed what had happened.

What Poseidon said was right, the evil god’s wreckage was indeed very cowardly, and he would try his best to avoid anything that involved risk.

But even such a cowardly remnant of the evil god chose to take the initiative to attack. This abnormality further proved that there was something wrong with him.

Wu Chang looked at Dagang and asked, “Your master doesn’t seem to want to take you away. How about we discuss it? You tell me about His background and I’ll help you take Him away. I’ll be quick, and maybe you two can have a companion on your journey to the underworld.”

Dagang was different from Ernst. He did not choose to surrender. Instead, he gathered all his strength and wanted to fight to the death.

“The Lord didn’t give up on me. He was afraid of you and that bitch, so he couldn’t show up for the sake of the overall situation. I was caught by you because of my arrogance. I failed the Lord’s expectations!”

“It was me who ruined the Lord’s plan. Then I can only deal with you and relieve my Lord’s worries as much as possible!”

Wu Chang was stunned when he heard this. It was the first time he saw someone who could PUA himself to this extent.

Seeing Dagang gathering his divine power and about to attack him, he couldn’t help but let out a sigh.

Since he’s relatively weak, you’re planning to use him as a breakthrough point, right?

Boy, no one can break through in front of me.

“Man!”

He swung out the Mamba Iron Elbow just before Dagang’s power was fully condensed. This elbow not only carried the power of the blasphemer, but also a divine thunder blessed with 256 points of power.

With one elbow strike, not only did it interrupt Dagang’s spellcasting and chanting, but the divinity in Dagang’s body also acted like the best conductive material, allowing the divine thunder to be transmitted to every part of his body in an instant.

A bolt of divine lightning cooked Dagang to about three-quarters done.

In front of Wu Chang, the low-level native gods in the Wilderness dungeon are easier to control than those ordinary bosses who have no divinity but only numbers and mechanisms.

He elbowed Dagang once, and while Dagang didn’t respond, he elbowed him twice more in a row, then used the space teleportation array to teleport the medium-rare Dagang to my true self.

Half a minute later, Shingo retracted his fist and swallowed Dagang’s anger in one gulp.

Strength +42.

The native divine vegetables in the wilderness are a bit tasteless, but their nutritional value is not ambiguous at all.

Wu Chang was still immersed in the feeling of increasing strength and blood pumping in his muscles when he saw a bright red light overflowing from Dagang’s body and flying towards the sea.

He only had time to confirm that it was a resentful thought, and had no time to see the scene in the resentful thought clearly.

Dagang had some resentment, but he did not hold it against Wu Chang, the man who killed him. Looking at Wu Chang’s innate holy body of an ox or horse when he was alive, he did not want to hold any resentment against his master.

Could it be that Dagang’s resentment is attached to the Virgin Mary?
Inside the cathedral, as the death threat from Dagan and the murlocs dissipated, the murloc curse in the islanders’ bodies was cleared, and their faith in Irene flourished again.

Looking at Irene, who folded her wings and slowly fell, Morena said blankly:
“You are Saint Irene?”

Irene smiled and said, “I am Irene, but I am no longer a saint of the church.”

Morena shook her head and was about to kneel down, trembling all over. “It doesn’t matter. Thank you for coming to save us. Thank you for hearing our prayers.”

Before Morena knelt down, Irene stepped forward and hugged her. Irene’s action was just like the Virgin Mary hugging the lost lamb in the stained glass window.

Irene hugged Morena and whispered:

“I should thank you. Thank you for protecting me with your life.”

Hearing this, Morena’s defense broke down. The guilt and self-blame that had accumulated over this period of time burst out, causing her to burst into tears, repeating “I’m sorry” while crying.

Inspired by Morena, the islanders knelt on the ground spontaneously and confessed to Irene as if they were worshipping a god.

For the islanders of Brever, before they met Irene, they had no beliefs, just as they had no concept of good and evil.

Whether it is believing in the strong, believing in the Ogri state religion, or believing in the perception sect, it is just the request of others.

Although the town’s most magnificent building is the Anglican cathedral, faith is nothing more than a sideshow for the islanders.

After Irene’s arrival, the islanders began to break free from the control of Earl Jermaine. They began to understand what is right and what is wrong, and truly understood virtue and kindness.

They began to want to get rid of the resentment of the past and exchange labor and work for wealth rather than killing and looting.

The changes of the islanders came from Irene, and their faith has always been in Irene, not the Virgin Mary.

What they had done to Irene was like killing their own faith with their own hands. Even if they tried to save it afterwards, they were always filled with guilt.

When they were not sure whether Irene had been resurrected, but there was only a possibility, they were willing to believe that possibility was true and immediately sent a letter to Irene.

They are willing to accept unwelcome outsiders just for the sake of the saint, and provide help to the newcomers just because of an unsubstantiated piece of news about the saint.

They were even willing to withstand the death threats from the murlocs and continue to maintain the last bit of faith for the sake of Irene, who had never forgiven them.

These are all to atone for their sins and to fill the void that is missing in their hearts.

It was not until this moment, when they were sure that Irene had been resurrected and was willing to forgive their sins, listen to their prayers and return to the town of Briffr, that the hollowed-out places in their hearts began to gradually grow flesh.

Under this condition, the islanders’ faith in Irene was highly solidified, and everyone became the most devout fanatic.

The roots of the Miracle Tree, which originally had difficulty taking root, pierced directly into the square outside the cathedral. The roots grew into a large tree on their own, completely stabilizing the plane of the quiet town in the kingdom of God.

With the comfort of the Miracle Tree and Irene, everyone gradually calmed down and came out of their near-collapse of repentance.

Irene brought everyone to the square and formally declared that they had been forgiven for their past sins, so that they would not have to be trapped in the past but could look to the future.

Seeing that the situation was under control and Wu Chang’s transformation pills had just expired, he, Sean, the 22nd town councilor of Briver Town, walked towards Morena with a smile.

The letter of introduction agreeing to him becoming a town councilor was signed by three people, Harrison, Morena and Marty. Now only Morena is alive.

The two were old acquaintances, and he planned to take this opportunity to ask Morena what had happened in the town during this period.

“Sheriff Morena, do you remember me?”

Morena turned to look at Wu Chang. She was so shocked by Irene’s appearance that she ignored Wu Chang’s existence.

Looking back now, Wu Chang actually killed Dagang, who left the islanders helpless, without relying on Irene. She had mistakenly thought that the other party was going to be a traitor and wanted to attack him.

“Sorry, I misunderstood you just now…” She opened her mouth to apologize first, but when she saw Wu Chang’s familiar face after his change, she seemed to remember something.

“You’re Sean?”

Wu Chang smiled and said, “It’s me.”

It’s good to have acquaintances, so that you can remember their existence and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Morena said happily: “After you left my house that night, you disappeared in the town. I looked for you for a long time but couldn’t find you. I thought you died in the incident at the Earl’s manor that day. I didn’t expect that you were still alive and became so strong.”

Wu Chang: …

Erin:?
(End of this chapter)