Shadow Covenant

Chapter 77 "The Call of the Deep Sea"

In a small cave.

"Aren't the jokes funny enough?"

Woody looked at the monk girl who looked much worse than before, and he was already approaching while she was in a daze.

The cave gets narrower and narrower as it goes further into the interior. In fact, it can't accommodate many people.

He put down his long sword, sat next to the monk girl, and sat on the ground directly against the uneven rock wall, speaking earnestly.

"Or do you think you can turn into a shark on the beach and bite me to death..."

"……you?!"

Looking at Angelina's suspicious eyes, Woody sighed helplessly.

"Am I that stupid in your mind? Can't even guess what your real identity is now?"

"It was bitten off by a shark!"

Woody pointed to her severed left hand.

"Also, you should have snatched this long sword from the blood-headed pirate! Otherwise, why would the sword of the Orson family be in your hands?"

Ignoring the girl's movement to cover the severed hand with her robe, Woody drew out the mithril rapier stuck in the sand again.

There is a line of inconspicuous Elvish language inside the gleaming rapier sword guard - "Orson".

This was what he had been contemplating in the dining room that morning.

"It should be the group of sharks you controlled that didn't attack me that night! That megalodon was you? Otherwise, why did you say sorry to me..."

"If you still say no, then I will turn around and leave now!"

Angelina listened to Woody's almost affirmative tone and wanted to refute, but in the end she silently lowered her eyelids and whispered helplessly.

"Yes...you are right..."

"I'm a monster, I can't kill you, I can only be incompetent and furious..."

"He's a coward who only knows how to avoid..."

The monk girl pursed her lips, her eyes were painfully tangled, and her tone became lower and lower.

But just when she thought Woody was going to continue to mock her.

What came to her ears was not the almost indifferent and paranoid question of the young man, but a warmth like a winter stove, refreshing.

"But none of this is your fault, is it?"

"Did you want to become a megalodon yourself?"

Facing the gentle voice, the girl subconsciously shook her head.

"That's right, it's not your fault, what are you afraid of? What are you resisting?"

Seeing that Angelina finally got on the road, Woody sighed deeply in his heart. Every time he communicated with this group of lycanthrope natives infected with "Deep Sea Calling", it took a while to enlighten them before they could return to Ability to communicate with normal people.

"I……"

Angelina was speechless.

"Don't talk, I just ask you to nod or shake your head."

Woody looked at the monk girl in front of him, knowing that she had calmed down completely, so he didn't have too much nonsense.

"You know how the mutation on your body came about, I guess the news you got was veterinary disease, right?"

Angelina nodded.

"And the reason you panic is just because you find that you can't control your body when you're crazy. Animal nature is greater than human nature, right?"

This time the girl nodded more forcefully.

"You really want to control, but you find that you just can't restrain yourself. You want to go into the ocean. It feels like coming home when you enter the sea, right?"

"How do you..."

Angelina finally couldn't help it this time, she wanted to know why the boy in front of her could easily express her feelings.

As the tavern owner said, "beast disease", although the same full moon transformation, in fact, it still doesn't match her feeling.

But veterinary disease was the only disease that could describe her current physical condition, so she subconsciously thought it was veterinary disease.

"How do I know so clearly, right?"

"Because I've seen other people get it with my own eyes."

Of course Woody would not tell her that after the golden year, many aborigines and players were infected with this disease.

This is just the beginning, and there will be more in the future.

In his memory, this series of events can be triggered as long as the player character is on the coast or in the archipelago.

Because this is the god worshiped by the sahuagin, the god of the sea and hunting, Sekola made a curse. At that time, creatures affected by this disease could be seen from the sea of ​​floating ice in the north to the sea of ​​falling stars in the south.

This vicious, vicious, and eternally hungry giant shark god wanders in Bator Hell all year round, driving his followers in countless seas to plunder, slaughter, and rule all sea areas.

And in order to appreciate the gillless species also joining his army to please him, "Deep Sea Calling" came into being.

All sea creatures blessed by his divine power will attack humanoid creatures with a curse called "Deep Sea Calling".

Because as long as they are bitten by sea beasts in the sea, the curse of "Deep Sea Calling" will transform the injured into a lycanthropy with the ability to transform.

Sea wolves, sharks, orcas, and even mosasaurs all carry curses.

However, most of the latter three end up becoming sea beasts forever, indulging in the desire to kill and prey.

After all, in the Druid's advanced "Shaper", if you want to transform into a mosasaurus, you must have a perception attribute of at least 30 points or more.

The deformed shark has a minimum of 18 points, in order to restrain the brutality and madness flowing in the blood of the body, and suppress the animal nature.

Like most players, under the attack of sea wolves, it is very good not to be affected by animal nature.

However, there are still lucky ones who have mastered the power brought by the curse. The pirate king "Giant Shark" Locke who will accept the legendary pirate treasure map in the future as mentioned before is a man cursed by the call of the deep sea. The aborigines, the giant shark form makes him invincible in the ocean.

And the reason why the monk girl in front of her was not completely devoured by the beast of the megalodon was most likely because of her extraordinary perception attribute, which allowed her to control part of her humanity from being obliterated by the beast.

But without help, the ocean would be her true home.

Become a "permanent drowner".

At most a few more transformations, or two or three fierce battles, as long as she doesn't find a suitable method, she will sink completely and surrender to the animal nature that is gradually sprouting in her body.

The human nature and animal nature in the body are not evenly matched, and one side will always end in defeat.

……

"Then... can this disease be cured?"

"I heard from the tavern uncle that there is a cure for it as long as you go to Gemu Town, but I didn't expect to meet pirates..."

Although Angelina's tone was low, there was a little anger in her eyes.

But it dimmed in the next second, because Woody shook his head and said affirmatively.

"It can't be cured, unless you kill the god who spread the curse, or your soul will belong to him after death."

"As for the Gorm town you mentioned, there is indeed an abandoned altar of the Lady of the Moon, who protects all kind lycanthropes. If you are a lycanthropist, you can indeed master the ability to transform freely there. "

Among the saints, if you choose the lycanthropy race to start, you will be born in the town of Gorm. Woody remembers that there is an abandoned lair of a bronze dragon on the coast behind the town. As long as you defeat a few drowned undead in the water, you can get a certain probability. A magical wonder.

"However, you are not a lycanthropy, but a professional cursed by the call of the deep sea, so the blessing of the moon lady to the lycanthropy has no effect on you..."

Woody's words were like the final declaration of the trial, directly making Angelina feel as if she had already stepped onto the execution platform, and her heart was ashamed.

However, only listening to Woody's words changed.

"However, although this curse cannot be cured, it can be controlled."

Her hair was almost hanging down to the ground, the girl suddenly raised her head, as if resurgent, her gloomy eyes brightened instantly, her only right hand stepped forward without hesitation and tightly grasped the boy's sleeve, begging.

"Help me! Anything you want me to do!"

(End of this chapter)