Such a Sea Beast should have been discovered and attended to by the Church long ago, yet the Church had no intelligence about its existence.
Driven by the idea of studying this mysterious Sea Beast, the fleet dragged it back to the port.
However, they discovered nurous wounds on the Sea Beast caused by human artillery, muskets, and inflicted by Transcendents.
Judging by the healing progress, it had encountered humanity multiple tis over the decades.
Yet whether it was the experienced captains or the Church specialized in combating Sea Beasts, none had any mory of this beast, not even legends.
This made the Church even more astonished and thereby began their thorough investigation.
But even stranger events unfolded.
Inside the belly of the Sea Beast were a great number of bizarre Sea Beasts.
Simultaneously, there lie fragnts of ships and humans. Moreover, these individuals were still alive... and all had plunged into insanity.
This alerted and even terrified the local Church; they suppressed all the madn.
And among these people, so were actually mbers of the Church of the Sea Goddess.
So were knights of the Church, so were priests, and there was even a bishop!
The Church and the rchant fleets conducted an investigation and indeed, three months ago, a large ship escorted by the Church of the Sea Goddess had left a certain port. The passenger information was also recorded.
But there were only eight bishops in total in the Church of the Sea Goddess, and all stationed in their respective dioceses. There was no ninth!
Yet the bishop’s cloak of that bishop was indeed blessed with the Divinity of the Pope. This could not be faked.
Therefore, the local Church dispatched a fleet once more, sending the bishop to the Council of Bishops, wanting the Pope to personally discern the truth.
Now, watching the unfamiliar bishop’s frenzied howling, the female Pope fell into befuddlent.
She knew well the number of bishops in her Church, but indeed, the Divine protection cloaking the man before her was given by herself.
In addition, despite the madness, the bishop still maintained habitual prayer motions. These were the muscle mories built over many years, not likely a Disguise.
"What’s going on, could my mory have been tampered with?" After a few seconds of silence, the female Pope said to a priest beside her, "Visit the Church of Fertile Land and inquire of the Earth God. Whether He rembers how many bishops we have in the Church of the Sea Goddess."
The Earth God of the Church of Fertile Land is the only Demigod Divinity in this world. The upper echelons of various churches are all aware of Its existence.
Though a deity of another religion, all churches respect this Earth God imnsely, maintaining a cooperative relationship with each other.
"The bishops from the Church of the Earth God have already contacted us, saying there are eight!" The priest replied swiftly. Even the Demigod rembered only eight...
The female Pope furrowed her brows, then she asked the priest to bring out the world map.
Looking at her own vast dioceses, cities in the inland, the east coast of the continent, the islands along the way, cities on the west coast...
In fact, there were indeed eight dioceses... Eight dioceses, eight bishops...
Suddenly, the female Pope pointed to so cities on the west coast and said, "Who founded this diocese?"
"It was the bishop of Gu De. He managed the island territories and founded...." A bishop began to reply, but his expression beca puzzled: "But... but he."
"He swore an oath to the goddess to guard the sea lanes, vowing not to set foot on the mainland until piracy ceased. How then did he establish his diocese?" The female Pope looked solemn.
The bishop of Gu De, like her, was saved by the goddess. In gratitude, he swore a deadly oath to eradicate all pirates!
As a result, his diocese was rich in strength, frequently counter-attacking pirate camps.
"But our mories tell us...." said the bishops with grave faces.
"Our mories have problems, and even the mory of the great Earth God has issues!"
Afterward, the female Pope instructed the priest to gather all reports, letters, and records of Sea Beasts from every diocese.
Each month, all major dioceses would share their intelligence.
However, the reports related to the west coast from three months ago were composed of unfamiliar handwriting.
The most recent report stated: Praise the Sea Goddess, teacher, I have successfully found the legendary evil Sea Beast Kraya and am preparing to lead warships to hunt Kraya! I and Gu De will set off together to encircle and eradicate Kraya!
He calls the Matriarch his teacher? He is a disciple of the Matriarch?
The Matriarch could hardly believe it, staring in astonishnt at the crazed bishop.
"Three months ago, Gu De did make a move. He appeared in the western sea territory, but he just cleared out so pirate encampnts... You even chided him for bringing so many people to take down an encampnt, asking why he couldn’t go by himself?"
"I checked the Sea Beast records... Kraya... a Sea Beast guilty of monstrous cris. Ten years ago, it attacked a port city and fled after the Goddess severed its horns. It’s our top priority target for hunting. There are not many records because every believer should rember it vividly... even within the empire, there are high bounties on it."
"I found a letter, the bishop’s na is Lan Lou... and he is your disciple, my junior brother... He even asked for military funds, but in my mory, it was Gu De who asked for military funds."
"He truly is our bishop, yet we don’t have a single mory of him."
At this point, the Matriarch and the other bishops fell into a silence as still as death.
Their mories... had truly been altered!
This bishop, nonexistent in their mories, truly was their colleague!
That Sea Beast, too, was a notorious monster known to all, not so undiscovered creature!
Yet, so terrifying strength had erased all mories related to them! It even altered so mories, causing them to completely overlook the anomaly for three months.
The Matriarch silently watched the deranged bishop, finally speaking in a low voice: "Can he regain consciousness?"
"He... seems to have witnessed sothing extrely terrifying. It’s fundantally impossible to communicate with him." One bishop replied, "If the records are true, then he... has spent at least a month inside Kraya’s belly."
"And our mories regarding the Sea Beast Kraya have also been erased," another bishop added. "Even that one powerful Sea Beast that fled from the Goddess’s sword in the records has suffered the sa fate. I surmise sothing must have happened to this Sea Beast deep in the ocean..."
"The deep sea... Atlantis?" the Matriarch murmured.
Subsequently, she dismissed the priests and bishops, taking the crazed and unfamiliar Lan Lou for treatnt. Now, only from his mouth could they get accurate information.
After everyone had left, the Matriarch let out a sigh: "Your Excellency, you may co out now."
Li Changhe nodded slightly, deactivating the Optical Invisibility from the mainfra. Appearing before the Matriarch.
Seeing Li Changhe wearing the Great Wall Windbreaker.
A sense of relief washed over the Matriarch. She certainly recognized the Great Wall Windbreaker; it was what the Goddess had draped on her back then, telling her that anyone wearing the jacket could be trusted.
Previously, Li Changhe deliberately revealed his presence to notify her of his existence.
She had worried that he might have been a minion of the Evil God. Now, she was relieved.
"Are you a companion of the Goddess?" the Matriarch respectfully inquired.
Li Changhe nodded slightly.
"Has the Goddess already descended to the mortal realm?" The Matriarch’s eyes brightened.
"She will arrive soon, I... ca ahead to check in," Li Changhe replied.
"That would be good..." the Matriarch continued to ask: "Do you know the cause of this incident?"
Li Changhe nodded: "Yes, it involves the myth of Atlantis, which you are currently incapable of handling. Leave it to , and inform of all intelligence regarding Atlantis."
Having said that, Li Changhe paused, making the prayer gesture of the Church of the Ocean Goddess at his chest: "Praise the Ocean Goddess."
"Praise the Ocean Goddess..." the Matriarch devoutly responded.
And the mainfra, hidden by Optical Invisibility beside Li Changhe, replied.
"Great Master, this mission might be very dangerous. The danger level of Atlantis is skyrocketing!"
"To consu so many beings at once, and to erase the mories of a Demigod."
"In all of my records, only one terrifying weapon could achieve this."
"It’s the top-tier, rule-class weapon beside the Lincang Civilization, the Era of Destruction, the great weapon of havoc."
"An Aquatic Civilization, the Chaos Sea!"
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