Wizard: This witcher is not doing his job

Chapter 73 The Invitation of the Goddess of the Lake

After all the murlocs at the scene fled, Wayne couldn't maintain his tense state any longer, and he half-kneeled on the ground somewhat limply, and the body under the armor also sent out painful signals.

Although the injury-for-life attack just now had amazing lethality and high efficiency, which allowed him to avoid the siege of the murlocs, it also left him with more than a dozen bruises and abrasions on his body. The high-intensity battle in just ten minutes almost consumed most of his physical strength.

Wayne half-kneeled on the ground, panting lightly. After about 5 minutes, his body recovered a little under the action of the swallow medicine.

He stood up and walked towards the blood pool altar in the depths of the cave. When he passed the corpse of a special murloc, he did not forget to put the strange staff forged from an unknown metal into his storage bag.

In the blood pool, those weird-looking octopuses were still rolling in the blood. The six hostages were sitting in the blood pool, leaning on wooden stakes, still not regaining consciousness.

Wayne stepped forward to check their pulse and breath. Although they were weak, they were still alive.

However, when he observed their faces, Wayne was a little horrified to find that many small octopus tentacles grew out of the jaws of these hostages at some point.

Although it hadn't grown to twenty or thirty centimeters like that special half murloc, both the bones and the flesh seemed to have undergone permanent changes because of this weird ritual.

This kind of weird thing made Wayne very worried, and he couldn't help but think of horror movie plots such as evil gods descending and looking for flesh.

Perhaps like the aliens, there are already heirs of evil gods conceived in the bodies of these hostages, waiting for the time to break out when the time is ripe.

He stretched out his hand and pulled Fitz, the smallest land spirit, out of the pool of blood, rolled his eyelids, his pupils were dilated, and he was unconscious.

Then put this little guy into the cold water in the puddle beside him, letting the cold liquid cover his body, but unfortunately there was still no sign of waking up.

Seeing this scene, Wayne was also a little distressed. Although the murlocs in the cave may have escaped, if they want to leave the cave, they must go through the underwater passage that is hundreds of meters long.

Wayne could still get through there himself with the harpy bird amulet, but trying to get through with a few comatose, completely immobile people was just a dream.

And these hostages haven't died yet, so it doesn't seem appropriate to leave them here to fend for themselves.

Wayne had no choice but to look for other exits in the cave. Unfortunately, after searching for half an hour, he couldn't find the exit. Instead, he found a lot of pearls and corals as trophies to make up for the loss of his alchemy bombs.

And the hostages were still unable to wake up, which made Wayne quite entangled.

Just when he didn't know how to act and was in a dilemma, accompanied by three small footsteps, a familiar voice suddenly entered his ears:

"Wayne, are you okay?"

"I brought my father and mother to find you."

Hearing the sound, Wayne turned his head and saw three little earth spirits of different heights, wearing simple fur clothing, purple skin, walking towards him.

The little guy Lala followed anxiously behind the two obviously older little earth spirits, looking around with unease.

After seeing Wayne, his eyes lit up immediately, and he wanted to run over excitedly, but was held back by another female little earth spirit.

After seeing Lala, Wayne smiled and nodded towards her, then looked at the other two older little earth spirits.

Although the little earth spirits looked similar in appearance, the two little earth spirits who stood in front of Lala had a kind of calmness like elders.

The male little earth spirit is obviously not young anymore, not only is it about 1.2 meters tall, but also has a black and white beard growing on its chin.

He was holding a wand made of unknown animal bones in his hand. Seeing Wayne looking over, he nodded politely to Wayne, and responded:
"Mr. Wayne, thank you for taking care of my daughter Lala, and thank you for the adventure you took to save my son Fitz."

"My name is Cruz, and I'm the father of Lala and Fitz."

"I heard that demon hunters must receive corresponding rewards for entrusting them. After this incident, I will definitely pay you a satisfactory reward."

After saying this, he looked back at his wife and daughter who were anxious, then looked at Wayne again, paused for a second, and asked:
"Depending on the situation, you have already defeated the murloc priest here. I wonder how my child Fitz is doing now?"

Wayne nodded to Cruz, pointed to the blood pool altar behind, and said truthfully:
"Mr. Cruz, I don't know the specific situation."

"When I arrived here, including your son Fitz, a total of six hostages were tied up in the Blood Pool Altar."

"They are performing an evil ritual."

"Although I killed the murlocs here, I don't know their knowledge, and I can't wake up your son."

"However, no matter what, it's best to take these people out of the cave first. This is the territory of the murlocs. If you stay here for too long, you might be attacked by those murlocs."

Hearing this, Cruz looked at the direction Wayne was pointing at, and his expression returned to anxiety. He nodded at Wayne, said nothing more, and immediately took his wife and Lala, trotting towards the location of the blood pool.

To Wayne's surprise, this little male land spirit, Cruz, was actually quite a powerful spellcaster.

Although he couldn't wake up his son Fitz and several others, he was able to use magic spells, levitation and underwater breathing to solve the difficulty that Wayne couldn't take them out of the water before.

However, after all, there were still too many people who needed to be rescued. Wayne protected their safety all the way, and it took more than an hour to escort the Xiaodiling family and the five hostages who had not yet awakened to the location of the Fisherman King.

For this reason, he had to drag his tired body and fought with a group of wild wolves.

On the way, Lala told him that when the little guy was waiting outside the cave, her parents noticed something was wrong when they returned home, so they rushed over from home and found her, and the next scene happened.

When he arrived near the boat, the Fisherman King was still sitting on the rock, with the corpses of several water ghosts lying beside him.

Seeing such a large group of people coming, he turned his head to look at his own boat again, before he could say anything.

Angela, Lala's mother who had been taking care of her son in the team, suddenly walked to the shore, took out a green leaf from her clothes, and blew a melody out of her mouth.

Tens of seconds later, a huge sea turtle with a body length of seven or eight meters suddenly crawled out from the bottom of the lake.

After seeing the giant sea turtle, Lala clapped her hands excitedly, and said to Wayne:
"This is my mother's friend, Uncle Mandu. Unexpectedly, he also came to Lake Vizima."

After the giant sea turtle climbed ashore, he talked to Angela in a language of an unknown race, then crawled down and let Lala's father, Cruz, transfer the six people, including Fitz, to his back.

After finishing all this, Cruz looked back at Wayne, casting spells for such a long time, so that the little earth spirit mage's face was full of exhaustion, he nodded to the witcher, and asked:
"Mr. Wayne, I must bring my child home as soon as possible, and use the power of the Goddess Altar to relieve him of the curse."

"As for the other five people, I have no ability to rescue them. I can only temporarily transport them back to the vicinity of the Marsh Village and return them to human hands."

"Excuse me, is this okay?"

Regarding this way of handling, Wayne also nodded helplessly. No one knew how to solve the evil god's ritual, and it was kind enough to save them from the murloc's lair.

As for the fate of these people in the future, whether they can wake up and survive, it can only depend on their own luck.

And when they discussed the countermeasures and were about to leave Black Tern Island, the Fisherman King who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Mr. Wayne, Lala, and the cursed Fitz."

"The goddess invites you and hopes that I will take you to meet her."

Wayne was taken aback when he heard the words. He didn't expect that the legendary goddess of the lake would invite him to meet tonight. Cruz, who was still full of sadness, immediately showed excitement and joy when he heard that the goddess wanted to see his daughter and son, and said:

"Great, if the Lady Goddess is willing to bestow her favor, my son Fitz will definitely be safe and sound."

Seeing that Wayne didn't agree immediately, the little earth spirit mage Cruz thought he was worried about something, or didn't know who the goddess of the lake was, so he persuaded him:

"Mr. Wayne, the Lady of the Lake is a kind and great god who has been protecting this lake for thousands of years."

"It is precisely because of the protection of the goddess that this lake has not become the lair of the followers of the evil god Dagon."

"You destroyed the ritual of the evil god Dagan today and defeated his followers. The goddess will definitely reward you for this incident."

Wayne wasn't afraid that the Goddess of the Lake would have any plots against him, but he was just thinking about the Goddess' intentions. Seeing that the Fisherman King was still looking at him with questioning eyes, he nodded and agreed to the invitation.

This is a kind and upright god, and he won't suffer when he sees him.

Ding! [Save Little Earth Spirit Fizz] has been completed.

Reward: 48 experience points, one expert-level treasure chest.

(Thank you, Silver Spear and Iron Sword, Beidangyun, very important, turn to the left..., 20180622175609275, wait for the rewards from a few big guys, okay.)
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